Federal and state regulators are expanding their scrutiny of digital business practices by treating privacy violations and deceptive consumer practices as part of the same enforcement framework. The trend that could have implications for companies handling sensitive personal data well beyond the healthcare sector. The...
Digital health borrowed its growth playbook from consumer technology, landing patients fast and keeping them subscribed. In a legal complaint against Hims & Hers filed Wednesday (July 29), the Federal Trade Commission directly challenged that model. The FTC, joined by Utah and Los Angeles County...
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 of his Los Angeles home in September 2024 with just $20,000, no employees, and...
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...
September 01, 2026
Angelo Palivos built Petwealth after losing his own pet to an illness that a diagnostic lab couldn’t catch in time. That loss became the company’s founding premise. Veterinary care moves too slowly and too reactively, and pet owners are often waiting on lab results when speed matters most. Petwealth’s answer combines at-home molecular diagnostics with […]
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...
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...
January 01, 2026
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...
September 15, 2025
Doctronic raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to expand its services and grow the adoption of its artificial intelligence-native platform designed to deliver healthcare. The platform uses generative AI to deliver health guidance in minutes and provides access to licensed physicians via video visits, the company said in a Monday (Sept. 15) […]
August 04, 2025
Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly turning to telehealth platforms for direct-to-consumer drug sales. That’s according to a report Monday (Aug. 4) from Axios, which notes that this effort is happening as President Donald...
June 13, 2025
Amazon reportedly aims to boost its efforts in the healthcare field by simplifying the structure of its health business. The company is reorganizing Amazon Health Services into six units, CNBC reported Friday (June...
February 05, 2025
Virtual care company Teladoc Health is bolstering its at-home diagnostics capabilities by acquiring Catapult Health. The $65 million deal is designed to support Teladoc’s efforts to improve early detection of...
