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Gen Z Wants to Use Smartphones to Pay Their Doctors
February 04, 2026

From virtual doctor visits to scheduling apps and health trackers, consumers are steadily integrating technology into how they manage healthcare. However, adoption is unfolding unevenly across age groups, creating what the PYMNTS Intelligence report “Clicks, Care & Copays—How Each Generation Navigates Digital Healthcare” described as...

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Boomers Have More Patience Than Gen Z With Healthcare Payments Frictions
January 29, 2026

Digital healthcare is expanding fast, but the people most eager for it are also the ones most likely to get stuck when it’s time to pay. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Clicks, Care & Copays—How Each Generation Navigates Digital Healthcare” found a widening expectations gap across...

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Tandem Technology to Raise $100 Million for Prescription Automation
January 26, 2026

HealthTech startup Tandem Technology achieved a valuation of $1 billion, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 26). The company, which aims to use artificial intelligence to ease the process of writing and getting prescriptions, is raising $100 million in a funding round, according to the report,...

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Johnson & Johnson Says Product Launches, Regulatory Approvals Drive Growth
January 21, 2026

Johnson & Johnson’s MedTech segment saw its worldwide operational sales grow 5.4% year over year in 2025, reaching about $33.8 billion, the company said in a Wednesday (Jan. 21) earnings release. The segment slightly outpaced the healthcare solution provider’s other segment, Innovative Medicine, whose worldwide...

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OpenEvidence Raises $250 Million for Medical Insights AI Platform
January 21, 2026

Medical-focused artificial intelligence (AI) startup OpenEvidence has reportedly raised $250 million in new funding. The round values the company—dubbed the “ChatGPT for doctors”—at $12 billion, company officials told CNBC Wednesday (Jan. 21). OpenEvidence, founded in 2022, offers a chatbot for doctors, with AI models trained...

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44% of Consumers Hit a Wall When Paying Medical Bills
January 15, 2026

Healthcare’s digital transformation is no longer defined by whether patients will use virtual tools, but by how well the rest of the system keeps up when the visit ends and the bill arrives. That was the central tension running through PYMNTS Intelligence’s June Generational Pulse...

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AI and Embedded Finance Are New Medicine for Healthcare Supply Chains
January 14, 2026

Healthcare procurement is dull by design. Buy what’s needed, stock a little extra, pay the bills later, repeat. Cost control meant negotiating harder with suppliers, not rethinking the system itself. It isn’t glamorous, but it works and was designed for continuity. After all, if supplies...

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How Healthcare Innovation Starts With Regulation and Ends With Integration
January 13, 2026

Innovation in U.S. healthcare is often narrated as a story of disruption. Think: bold startups, cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and innovative technology. But that narrative, while appealing, obscures a more accurate and more useful truth. In healthcare, innovation rarely begins with disruption. Instead, it begins,...

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WEX and Health-E Commerce Team to Ease HSA and FSA Reimbursements
January 12, 2026

Consumer health and wellness online retailer Health-E Commerce has launched a partnership with WEX. This collaboration will integrate the company’s FSA Store (flexible spending account) and HSA Store (health savings account) offerings into the WEX benefits portal, the companies said in a Monday (Jan. 12)...