Most people do not think about elder care until they have to. Then they find out how expensive it is, how hard to access, and how much of it falls on whoever is closest. Artificial intelligence agents are beginning to take on parts of that...
This week The Prompt Economy focuses on healthcare. It’s here that agentic AI is affecting payments, research, care protocols and the patient experience. It’s early days, but as you will see, progress is accelerating. So is identifying the pain points in healthcare and their solutions....
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...
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...
October 26, 2026
This week The Prompt Economy focuses on healthcare. It’s here that agentic AI is affecting payments, research, care protocols and the patient experience. It’s early days, but as you will see, progress is accelerating. So is identifying the pain points in healthcare and their solutions. Health insurers have invested heavily in technology, but work still […]
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...
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,...
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...
