Utah is expanding its artificial intelligence sandbox with three healthcare pilots. At the same time, regulators are developing answers to questions about patient protection, such as who bears liability when an automated system causes harm, what evidence establishes its safety and where state experimentation meets...
Independent medical practices operate like small businesses, but the financial tools available to them rarely account for how healthcare works. Physicians must manage insurance reimbursements, medical supplies and operating expenses across disconnected systems, often while running lean. Treso, a startup building a financial operating system...
Employers know exactly what their health plan costs. What they usually don’t know is what it costs them when an employee needs care and doesn’t get it because a credit check got in the way of the bill. That happens more often than most benefits...
UnitedHealth Group is using artificial intelligence and streamlined digital tools to tackle rising consumer demand and long-standing operational bottlenecks across the healthcare ecosystem. Speaking during the company’s third-quarter earnings call Tuesday (Oct. 13), CEO Steve Hemsley stressed a company-wide effort to develop modern “agentic infrastructure” designed to care...
October 19, 2026
Independent medical practices operate like small businesses, but the financial tools available to them rarely account for how healthcare works. Physicians must manage insurance reimbursements, medical supplies and operating expenses across disconnected systems, often while running lean. Treso, a startup building a financial operating system for independent physician practices, wants to close that gap. It […]
October 19, 2026
Employers know exactly what their health plan costs. What they usually don’t know is what it costs them when an employee needs care and doesn’t get it because a credit...
September 24, 2026
Benefits teams can spend more than a week of staff time every month handling transactions that don’t move cleanly through the system. For a benefits program with 5,000 active accounts,...
September 21, 2026
Watch more: Digital Shift With Rutgers’ Dr. Amy Murtha It’s quite a time to launch a new medical school. First there are the standard issues of funding and partnerships. Second...
October 21, 2026
CareCredit, a solution from consumer financing company Synchrony, has launched an enhanced and rebranded installment loan product that helps consumers plan and pay for products and elective health and wellness expenses not covered by insurance, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) press release. This CareCredit Pay Later product is a one-time-use installment loan that offers fixed monthly […]
October 13, 2026
UnitedHealth Group is using artificial intelligence and streamlined digital tools to tackle rising consumer demand and long-standing operational bottlenecks across the healthcare ecosystem. Speaking during the company’s third-quarter earnings call Tuesday (Oct. 13),...
October 13, 2026
Regulatory approval of a new Johnson & Johnson tool opens a new category in surgical robotics, the MedTech company said in a presentation released Tuesday (Oct. 13) in conjunction with...
October 09, 2026
Vitalize raised $31 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence (AI)-native platform that helps health systems manage labor and capacity, the company...
