Agentic AI company Hyro has now raised a total of $95 million. Its agents, which automate call center workflows, are used by health systems including Intermountain Healthcare, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Hackensack Meridian Health, Baptist Health and Sutter Health.

AI-powered platforms can collect data sets from disparate sources and check them for quality, duplication, relevance, and more. These platforms can then create even more extensive, understandable findings to help healthcare professionals make decisions. 

Diagnosing PFAS can be challenging, but establishing a thorough symptom history along with specific IgE blood testing can build a fuller picture of patients’ allergic triggers and sensitizations, helping clinicians develop accurate, tailored treatment recommendations and ultimately improve their patients’ quality of life.

Providence and Humana launched a new initiative to standardize and streamline data exchange between payers and providers. The program leverages FHIR-based APIs to create a scalable, real-time system that can be replicated across other healthcare organizations nationwide.

Knownwell's $25 million in funding was led by CVS Health Ventures and included participation from MassMutual Catalyst Fund, Intermountain Ventures, a16z Bio + Health and Flare Capital Partners.

Guideline directed care pathways are a way to shift from transactional PA, where each service requires separate approval, to an episode-of-care model.

The way forward isn’t bigger models. It’s smaller, smarter ones. Small Language Models (SLMs) are designed to do what LLMs can’t: learn from enterprise data and focus on specific problems.

Health care professionals can learn more about the top-rated ABA therapy providers in New Hampshire to understand where their patients can get help from industry leaders.

Marlow Hernandez, the founder and former CEO of Cano Health, is facing a jury trial this week over allegations that he fraudulently enriched himself and his family while managing the senior-focused primary care company. Cano filed for bankruptcy last year — an event many industry experts attributed to Hernandez’ poor governance.

Withings Health Solutions added Ilant Health to its Obesity Care Network and shared best practices to improve patient monitoring, engagement and outcomes.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals’ Astria Therapeutics acquisition brings navenibart, a drug in Phase 3 testing for the rare disease hereditary angioedema. The injectable antibody has the potential to match the efficacy of the blockbuster Takeda Pharmaceutical drug that currently dominates the market, but with less burdensome dosing that could encourage HAE patients to switch.

Clinging to our old models is equivalent to waiting for failure. We need to embrace the tools, team structures, and delivery models that this ongoing crisis demands.

Ideas floated by the Trump Administration and Democrats in Congress aim to expand access to fertility treatment as an essential health benefit. But an influx of patients could collide with an already-brittle system of 430,000 annual cycles, 5,000 embryologists, and long-overdue lab upgrades.

With life expectancy rising again post-pandemic, Americans increasingly are turning to senior communities.

The move toward value-based care is inevitable and in-home care must not be left behind. To realize the full potential, here are a few key shifts that must happen.

Instead of taking a blind-trust approach to automation, consider a humans-in-the-loop strategy.

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CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said that Medicaid’s rapid spending growth is unsustainable and criticized state financing tactics that let providers and governments “game” the system for extra federal funds. He said CMS is shifting its fraud strategy to follow the flow of money rather than just individual offenders in an effort to ensure health dollars are used for legitimate care.

Here are some of the top online health insurance options worth exploring — each designed to simplify coverage decisions while meeting California’s high standards for accessibility and compliance.

Outpatient facilities and microhospitals improve care access, but as patients receive care across more places, data becomes more fragmented, requiring an adapted approach to non-interventional research

Simplifying these labor-intensive and iterative processes through automation enables providers to spend more time on direct patient care instead of hunting through charts and sitting on hold with insurance companies.

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers in California and Hawaii have gone on strike, demanding safer staffing levels and higher pay. The dispute underscores growing tensions in healthcare labor as unions raise concerns about patient safety, ongoing burnout and ever-increasing pay for executives.

With AI automating routine workflows behind the scenes, intelligent systems let healthcare professionals devote themselves fully to face-to-face care, while listening closely and applying their expertise.