Pharmacy

Utah regulators have cleared Y Combinator-backed Legion Health to let its artificial intelligence (AI) renew certain psychiatric prescriptions without a doctor signing off each time, The Verge reported on Friday ...

Funding for digital healthcare startups has reached record levels for the first quarter of the year. That’s according to findings released Monday (April 6) by venture fund group Rock Health, which ...

One of the most promising sectors of The Prompt Economy is in healthcare. It’s a two-sided promise, with burned out doctors and clinicians on one side and consumers who need ...

It used to take large teams and years to build a billion-dollar company. Now just one AI-savvy founder can scale it solo. Matthew Gallagher launched Medvi, a GLP-1 telehealth startup, out ...

A health-focused startup founded by Spotify Co-founder Daniel Ek plans to open its first U.S. location as soon as this spring if it gets regulatory approval, Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 2). Neko Health offers full-body health ...

CVS Health plans to open about 20 smaller, pharmacy-only locations across the United States this year after opening its first one late last year. The company opened its first pharmacy-only CVS ...

Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the two companies that dominate the global market for GLP-1 weight loss and diabetes drugs, are each deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across different stages of ...

Pharmaceutical titan Eli Lilly wants to bring medications developed with AI to market. To that end, the company has struck a $2.75 billion deal, announced Sunday (March 29), with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine. The companies ...

Miami-based, GLP-1-focused digital healthcare startup eMed is now a $2 billion-plus company. The company announced that valuation Thursday (March 26) as it completed a $200 million Series A funding round. Led by ...

Adonis, an artificial intelligence (AI) orchestration platform for healthcare revenue cycle management, has raised $40 million. The Series C round, announced Wednesday (March 25), brings Adonis’ total funding to more than ...

Amazon expanded its Health AI agent from the One Medical app to Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app, and Perplexity launched Perplexity Health, a suite of personal health data connectors. The ...

The Prompt Economy is a tug of war lately, with both sides invested in a successful outcome for agentic technology. Pulling on one side are the security-minded tech executives insisting ...

Robots are coming to hospitals, but they are not there to replace surgeons. Instead, they observe, coordinate and carry loads, tasks that consume large amounts of clinical staff time and ...

Healthcare CFOs today are walking a tightening wire. System and network margins are under structural pressures, policy risk is rising across the industry and clouding long-term planning, all while the ...

Healthcare costs are hitting the youngest adults hardest, turning even routine care into a budget decision for Americans who, on paper, should need the least medical attention. That was the central ...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) make more accurate diagnoses than doctors? Microsoft reports its AI has begun to do just that as it moves into complex healthcare decisions. Last summer, Microsoft said ...

Young consumers in the United States are doing more than ever to stay afloat, but new data shows that effort alone is no longer restoring their sense of control. “Generations Under ...

Microsoft is continuing its push into the healthcare field with its new Copilot Health offering. The service is a separate space within the company’s Copilot artificial intelligence tool that can make ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly found itself being used by both parties in a nationwide healthcare dispute. One one side, Reuters reported Thursday (March 12), are healthcare systems turning to AI ...

Amazon began rolling out an agentic artificial intelligence health assistant in the United States on Tuesday (March 10). The company is now offering access to Health AI to customers on Amazon.com ...

Agentic AI is starting to look less like a future promise in healthcare and more like a practical answer to a familiar problem: too much staff time spent on paperwork, ...

Retail used to compete primarily on assortment, price and convenience. Increasingly, it competes on infrastructure and positioning. In a consumer environment defined by uncertainty driven by persistent inflation pressures, cautious spending ...

AWS has launched an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) solution designed to automate administrative tasks for healthcare providers. The new Amazon Connect Health handles patient verification, scheduling, medical histories, documentation and coding, the company ...

Critical infrastructure such as financial services, energy and healthcare is most likely to be targeted by Iranian cyberattacks, CSO reported Wednesday (March 4). While such attacks have not materialized so far ...

Walgreens has debuted what it calls the country’s first “hybrid pharmacy” program. The service, announced by the retailer last week, lets pharmacists divide their time between working in stores for part of the ...

The prescription experience has started to resemble other parts of digital commerce: shoppers want clear pricing, fewer handoffs and a quicker path from decision to fulfillment. That push toward self-service framed ...

Alipay’s artificial intelligence payment and health apps each have more than 100 million users, according to a Monday (Feb. 23) press release. AI adoption rose during the 2026 Chinese New Year, ...

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Michigan Medicine’s Dr. Marschall Runge Twelve months ago, Marschall Runge wasn’t a skeptic, exactly. But he wasn’t a true believer, either. He thought generative AI would ...

Across robotics, media production, healthcare administration, compliance and small-business front desks, startups raised capital by promising measurable output: robots on factory floors, video assets in production pipelines and prior authorizations ...

Drug development has grown too expensive and too slow to rely on manual workflows, as the cost of bringing a single therapy to market climbs into the billions and approval ...

Ant Group plans to offer artificial intelligence-powered health services to most of China’s 1.4 billion people within three years, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Feb. 10). The company, whose operations include digital payments ...

Amazon is enhancing its health-related offerings by expanding the geographic range of its same-day prescription delivery service and by launching a beta feature that helps patients understand their lab results. Amazon ...

Apple Inc. is scaling back plans for an AI-based health coach, a retreat that underscores the difficulty of turning health tracking into a paid service. The shift matters for Apple’s ...

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 ...

Lotus Health AI raised $35 million in a Series A funding round to increase the availability of its “AI doctor” that provides free, round-the-clock primary care. Together with a seed round, this ...

Health insurance company Humana launched Agent Assist, a new artificial intelligence-driven support tool developed with Google Cloud, according to a Tuesday (Feb. 3) press release. The tool is designed to help ...

Medical providers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to address claims denials, one of the most persistent and costly problems in healthcare in the United States. Denials delay reimbursement, force staff ...

Amazon and Walmart are battling on two of the largest, most habitual spending categories in the U.S. economy: grocery and healthcare. The two largest retailers in the U.S. are rethinking the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is seeking proposals for a multiyear initiative to spur the development and approval of agentic ...

Medical schools and teaching hospitals in the U.K. and U.S. are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated patients to train future doctors. The move trains students in communication, diagnosis and clinical reasoning, ...

The modern storefront is no longer a place; it’s a moment. Major retail leaders haven’t waited for shoppers to come knocking on their brick-and-mortar doors for over a decade, and ...

The Walmart Health Research Institute (WHRI) plans to open four research sites this spring, saying they will make it easier for people to participate in clinical trials. WHRI will launch the research sites ...

Amazon has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for its One Medical app. The agentic AI tool, announced Wednesday (Jan. 21), is designed to help with things like answering health questions, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

AI-driven longevity is redefining aging, with longer, healthier lives fueling more spending later in life. The result: inheritance happens later and looks very different.

The artificial intelligence (AI) race has moved from the laboratory to the clinic, marking a pivotal shift in how the digital economy’s most valuable data — health information — is ...

Anthropic has introduced a series of healthcare-focused integrations for its Claude AI model. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s “Claude for Healthcare” program, announced Sunday (Jan. 11), is a set of tools ...

Health and wellness providers who use Clover devices can now offer their patients CareCredit’s patient financing solution. The offering is enabled by an expanded integration of CareCredit parent company Synchrony with ...

Walmart has launched a digital destination designed to help customers access health and wellness services and products. The new Better Care Services offers access to third-party providers for urgent care and ...

Utah has launched a regulatory pilot program that allows an artificial intelligence (AI) system to renew certain routine prescriptions without a physician actively approving each refill, marking one of the ...

OpenAI has announced a dedicated experience in ChatGPT that is designed to help people understand and manage their health and wellness. The new ChatGPT Health is being made available to a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quietly become one of the most widely used entry points into the healthcare system. According to OpenAI’s January 2026 report, “AI as a Healthcare Ally,” more ...

America’s major hospital systems are becoming a testing ground for widespread artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. That’s according to a report Monday (Jan. 5) by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which notes ...

Healthcare is not typically filed under “payments innovation.” But across 2025, PYMNTS’ reporting treated the sector less like a purely clinical domain and more like a sprawling, regulated marketplace where the ...

For younger Americans, healthcare spending is becoming less about treating illness and more about managing financial risk at a stage of life when cash flow is thin and costs are ...

Health systems are turning to artificial intelligence as rising complexity and labor pressures demand faster, more reliable decisions. They use AI to predict hospital operations, scale intelligence across networks and personalize ...

When one thinks of fast payments, manufacturing isn’t the first sector to come to mind. It’s the same for simple payments and healthcare; or not meeting their customers’ needs and ...

The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has long centered on the vision of an autonomous diagnostic engine, a machine that sees disease where human eyes fail. Yet, the ...

Watch more: Need to Know: Luma’s Aditya Bansod For all the futuristic rhetoric surrounding healthcare innovation, the reality for most Americans remains largely analog. Appointment reminders still come by phone. Insurance authorizations ...

Software platforms serving education, healthcare and field services are adopting embedded payments at a pace that signals a shift in how these industries want to transact. The new angle in PYMNTS ...

CharmHealth added artificial intelligence-driven automation and integrated payment solutions to its medical billing platform, CharmBillerPro. The additions are part of a complete redesign of the platform, which aims to help medical ...

Healthcare-focused AI lab Voio has emerged from stealth $8.6 million in seed funding. The company announced the funding Thursday (Nov. 20), saying its initial focus is on constructing a “unified reading ...

Function Health, a startup focused on AI-centered health testing, has raised $298 million. “Function is redefining preventive healthcare by making comprehensive health insights accessible to everyone,” Redpoint Ventures, which led the ...

A surge in remote medical visits and health-tracking tools is reshaping how Americans navigate the healthcare system, yet the most striking finding in new research is not about telehealth adoption. ...

For much of its history, healthcare has presented a unique contrast in digital progress. While the sector leads in medical technology, healthcare billing and payments have frequently been slower to ...

For small business owners, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is about to become less affordable. As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Nov. 11), small business owners and their employees, as well as ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) startups raised billions in new funding this week, with investors allocating capital to companies embedding intelligence into core business operations across enterprise infrastructure, healthcare and payments. Enterprise AI ...

For decades, oncologists have worked with fragmented information. Imaging tests, biopsy results and clinical records often sit in separate databases, making it difficult to see how one piece of data ...

Healthcare organizations are moving from pilot projects to enterprise-scale deployment of artificial intelligence as hospitals automate high-volume workflows and expand digital capacity. Along with that expansion comes the possibility of improved ...

Consumers will soon be able to pick up single-dose vials of the weight loss drug Zepbound at Walmart pharmacies and pay the same price they would pay through the manufacturer’s ...

UnitedHealth Group says tech investments are key to its ongoing turnaround strategy. The insurer announced quarterly earnings Tuesday (Oct. 28) showing consolidated revenues of $113.2 billion, a 12% increase year over ...

Grubhub customers will soon be able to order goods from Instacart’s network of grocery stores and pharmacies within the Grubhub app or website. This capability will be enabled by a new ...

An artificial intelligence system from UnitedHealth Group has reportedly sped up prior authorization requests and reduced medical claims denials “meaningfully” during testing at Minneapolis-based hospital system Allina Health. The Optum Real ...

Every major shift in technology reshapes the foundations of trust. The rise of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) systems is doing so at unprecedented scale, transferring decision-making from people to algorithms. ...

Regions Bank has introduced treasury management services designed for clients in the healthcare sector. The new services, announced Monday (Oct. 20), are designed to help those clients automate, streamline and manage ...

CVS Pharmacy said it is now serving more than 9 million former Rite Aid and Bartell Drugs patients after completing its acquisition of select assets of the now-closed Rite Aid. Following ...

Google said its open-source Gemma AI model helped scientists identify a potential new biological pathway for cancer therapy, according to a release by Google. The company said the finding demonstrates ...

On the same day Philippe Aghion was named a Nobel laureate for economics Monday (Oct. 13), it’s worth revisiting a playbook he and two co-authors published in PYMNTS’ sister outlet, ...

A UnitedHealth Group affiliate plans to acquire a Boston-area primary care group called Acton Medical Associates, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Oct. 9), citing a notice posted by the Massachusetts Health Policy ...

Hospitals are facing unprecedented cost pressures and persistent staffing challenges, forcing a deeper look at where automation can make a measurable impact. The American Hospital Association’s “Cost of Caring” report ...

Amazon is bringing its pharmacy service to its medical practice. The tech giant is launching Amazon Pharmacy Kiosks, which will be placed in medical offices, allowing patients to pick up prescriptions immediately following ...

Anthropic and Deloitte have partnered to build artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that include compliance features to enable their deployment in regulated industries like financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and ...

If the outpouring of thought leadership is any indication of the urgency with which companies are advancing agentic AI, we’re about to see a Q4 that will require popcorn. But ...

Unlike other sectors where results aren’t always the deciding factor, AI in healthcare scales only on proof. In cancer diagnostics, adoption depends on consistent, concrete results that doctors trust, and ...

Generation Z is often portrayed as a disruptive force, reinventing money, work and consumption. Yet PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Gen Z Decoder Ring” report suggests something more subtle, and in some ways more ...

Prescription platform GoodRx has launched a brand medication savings solution with supermarket chain Kroger. RxSmartSave, announced Wednesday (Oct. 1), is now available at Kroger pharmacies in 35 states around the country, ...