MedCity News

Closing the Diagnostic Gap: Why Access to Allergy Care Isn’t Equal

Healthcare Privacy Leaders Look to AI to Improve Monitoring and Data Breach Investigations

At a recent symposium on privacy, experts discussed how AI supports a faster and oftentimes more insightful approach to data security, while identifying which privacy risks healthcare organizations must monitor.

By Jenna Congdon

Health Tech

Parakeet Health Secures $10M for Conversational Agentic Platform

The Series A round was led by Canvas Ventures, with participation from Blank Space Ventures, StoryHouse Ventures and HMC INQ.

By Marissa Plescia

Payers

Debunked Episode 30: ACCESS Tries to Succeed Where VBC Fails, AI, and UnitedHealth Gets the Last Week Tonight Treatment

Debunked Podcast co-hosts Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra discussed the merits of the CMS ACCESS Model (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) and how it can offer a path to advance value-based care goals.

By Stephanie Baum

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BioPharma, Pharma

Pfizer Pill’s Phase 3 Data in Vitiligo Pave Way for FDA, EMA Submissions

Pfizer’s Litfulo significantly improved skin pigment measures in two pivotal studies in vitiligo, results that were presented during the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology annual meeting. If Pfizer’s daily pill is approved, it would compete against an Incyte topical cream that is currently the only FDA-approved therapy for this autoimmune skin disorder.

By Frank Vinluan

MedCity Influencers

It’s Time We Reframe Healthcare Organizational Culture Using Behavioral Science

Data, behavioral insights, and experimentation can be used to understand how stress, motivation, and trust shape company culture. Positively changing company culture leads to direct improvements in patient health outcomes, clinician wellbeing, and company performance.

By Lisa Miller

Policy

AMA: PBM Market Concentration Is On the Rise

The AMA found that OptumRx, Express Scripts, CVS Caremark and Prime Therapeutics controlled 75% of the national PBM market in 2024.

By Marissa Plescia

BioPharma, Pharma

Sanofi Puts Up $1B to Expand Regeneron Alliance and Develop Next-Gen Dupixent

Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals will collaborate on four next-generation antibody drugs that could offer advantages over Dupixent, the blockbuster immunology drug spawned by their R&D alliance. The companies project these drugs will start reaching pivotal testing in 2029 — important because Dupixent faces patent expiration in 2031.

By Frank Vinluan

MedCity Influencers

The Real Gap in All of Us Isn’t Consent, It’s Conversion

Why more than 300,000 missing patient records reveal an engineering problem, not a policy one — and why that's good news.

By Adam Cohen

BioPharma, Pharma

FDA Looks to Bring New Scientific, Consumer Voices to Advisory Committees

The FDA is recruiting to fill vacancies on its advisory committees, informally known as adcomms. While these committees have met less frequently during the Trump administration, more meetings have been scheduled since former Commissioner Marty Makary left the agency in May.

By Frank Vinluan

MedCity Influencers

Why Pharma Companies Should Look To Social Media For Better Patient Insight

Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.

By Rohit Marwah

Health Tech

MedCity FemFwd: Opportunities in the Fertility Market

In this episode, we’re joined by Claire Love, PwC’s global health industries advisory leader. We discuss PwC’s recent report showing the opportunities in the fertility and reproductive health market.

By Marissa Plescia

Health Tech

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4 Notable Health Tech Funding Announcements in September

Health tech companies made several major funding announcements in September. Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds.

By Marissa Plescia

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AI’s Healthcare ‘Doomsday’? It May Be Less About Autonomy Than Trust

For one ICU physician and startup CMO, the more immediate danger isn’t an autonomous system taking over medicine and leaving human decision-making behind. It’s healthcare organizations harnessing AI primarily to increase efficiency while leaving healthcare providers even more mired in complexity and regulation.

By Jenna Congdon

MedCity Influencers

AI Won’t Fix Social Care, But Could It Help Us Finally Make It Work?

AI could play a meaningful role in advancing social care. Not by replacing people, but by helping them and organizations doing this work move faster, see patterns earlier, and coordinate more effectively.

By Mark Taylor

Consumer / Employer, Health Tech

Tiny Health Secures $33M to Expand Microbiome Testing

Tiny Health's Series B round was led by B Capital, with participation from Spero Ventures, The Venture City, Overwater Ventures, Black Opal Ventures, Denver Ventures, Pave Health Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Gaingels and Pari Passu Ventures.

By Marissa Plescia

Unite Us, Instacart Link Care Coordination and Grocery Benefits to Scale Food-as-Medicine

Unite Us and Instacart announced Tuesday that they are partnering to connect healthcare organizations’ care coordination efforts with grocery benefits, with the aim of making food-as-medicine programs easier to launch and operate at scale.

By Jenna Congdon

BioPharma, Pharma

AstraZeneca Places a $2B Bet on a Summit Therapeutics Cancer Drug

AstraZeneca’s equity investment in Summit Therapeutics comes with plans for clinical trial collaborations. The deal brings AstraZeneca into a growing group of pharmaceutical companies testing the pairing of antibody drug conjugates with PD-1/VEGF bispecific antibodies, a drug combination that could offer advantages in cancer treatment.

By Frank Vinluan

Devices & Diagnostics

MedCity Pivot Podcast: A Conversation With AliveCor’s Priya Abani

In this episode of the MedCity Pivot Podcast, CEO Priya Abani talks about the evolution of AliveCor, one of the earliest digital health companies.

By Arundhati Parmar