Healthcare news and trends

Sweatin’ to the Chatbot: Echelon Targets Consumers With Hyper-Personalized Fitness

March 25, 2025
Echelon, fitness, GenAI
Circular, Arculus and IT Lab Partner on Healthcare-Focused Blockchain Ecosystem
Blockchain // March 20, 2025

Circular Protocol, Arculus by CompoSecure and IT Lab said Thursday (March 20) that they plan to launch a blockchain-compliant ecosystem for healthcare providers in the U.S. market in the second quarter. The companies’ solution will integrate into clinical networks and serve as the secure passkey for recording,...

90% of Healthcare C-Suite Sees Positive Return From GenAI
Artificial Intelligence // March 18, 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transitioning from a futuristic concept to a tangible force reshaping the healthcare landscape. Buoyed by early successes, healthcare firms are aggressively increasing their investments in GenAI, particularly in areas like product innovation and customer service, signaling a shift in...

CZI’s Priscilla Chan on ‘Virtual Cells’ AI Models to Cure Diseases
Artificial Intelligence // March 14, 2025

The head of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) believes that artificial intelligence (AI) can accelerate medical research such that it would be possible within 10 to 20 years to stop a disease very early on in its tracks. AI can “put us in a world...

Athenahealth Expands AI Documentation Technology With Abridge Partnership
Healthcare // March 06, 2025

Athenahealth is partnering with Abridge to integrate the company’s enhanced note-taking technology into its platform for clinicians, as the market for ambient scribing is becoming more crowded. Abridge offers ambient note-taking, which is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology that listens to a patient and doctor...

Interviews & Exclusives
Sweatin’ to the Chatbot: Echelon Targets Consumers With Hyper-Personalized Fitness

March 25, 2025
Echelon Fitness is rolling out a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) assistant for the users of its fitness equipment that adds a unique personalization capability: You can “talk” to a chatbot to make changes to your custom workout plan. See too many 45-minute workouts in the schedule? Audibly tell the AI to swap those out with […]

90% of Healthcare C-Suite Sees Positive Return From GenAI

March 18, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transitioning from a futuristic concept to a tangible force reshaping the healthcare landscape. Buoyed by early successes, healthcare firms are aggressively increasing their investments...

This Healthcare CEO Has a New Prescription for Pediatric Care

March 04, 2025
In a healthcare landscape often dominated by discussions of senior care and chronic disease management, innovation is increasingly turning the spotlight to an often overlooked yet critical population: children. “In...

Healthcare CFOs May End Up in Sales; Here’s Why

February 17, 2025
Finance is the shared language all businesses speak — especially those engaged in commercial relationships. Against that backdrop, today’s healthcare chief financial officers (CFOs), once primarily responsible for managing budgets,...

Quick Reads
Circular, Arculus and IT Lab Partner on Healthcare-Focused Blockchain Ecosystem

March 20, 2025
Circular Protocol, Arculus by CompoSecure and IT Lab said Thursday (March 20) that they plan to launch a blockchain-compliant ecosystem for healthcare providers in the U.S. market in the second quarter. The companies’ solution will integrate into clinical networks and serve as the secure passkey for recording, managing and safeguarding healthcare data within facilities using the MedTech […]

Amazon-Owned One Medical CEO Trent Green to Move to NRC Health

March 05, 2025
The CEO of Amazon-owned One Medical, Trent Green, will leave that position to become CEO of National Research Corporation, a publicly traded provider of healthcare solutions doing business as NRC...

UnitedHealthcare to Reduce Benefits Unit Workforce While Adding Other Positions

February 19, 2025
UnitedHealthcare is reportedly looking to reduce the number of employees in its benefits unit through buyouts or layoffs. The company is offering some employees in the unit the option to...

Walgreens Continues Efforts to Divest Healthcare Clinic Chain VillageMD

February 12, 2025
Walgreens Boots Alliance-backed healthcare clinic chain VillageMD is reportedly working with advisers to explore a sale, restructuring or other options. This move comes after Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth said during...