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Consumer / Employer, Startups, Health Tech

Why Pure DTC Doesn’t Work in Healthcare, Per Muse Capital

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12 Senate Democrats Unveil Plan to Cut Costs, Expand Coverage

In a recent letter, Senate Democrats proposed lowering healthcare costs, expanding coverage and cracking down on insurance company practices.

By Marissa Plescia

BioPharma, Pharma

Why Novartis Is Paying $2B for a Cancer Drug That Hits the Same Target as One of Its Own Products

Novartis already markets the PI3Kα inhibitor Piqray for breast cancer, but acquiring a Synnovation Therapeutics subsidiary brings an early clinical program that the pharma company claims could be best in the class of next-generation therapies for the target. Competitors include Eli Lilly, Relay Therapeutics, and OnKure Therapeutics.

By Frank Vinluan

MedCity Influencers

Imaging Interoperability Offers a Lifeline to Rural Hospitals and the Patients Depending on Them

Typically, rural hospitals operate as “islands,” where a patient might receive an initial scan at a community health facility, see a specialist at a regional medical center, and return home for follow-up care. In this scenario, it’s common for their medical images to become trapped in three different systems.

By Jordan Bazinsky

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MedCity Influencers, Patient Engagement

Why GI Providers Should Care About That “Health Hack”

Patients want to explore more holistic options and are becoming more educated and interested in their own health. However, this trend of growing trust in unchecked online health advice often introduces more risk to patients than help.

By Nicola Wodlinger

Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Health Tech, Providers, Pharmacy

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The Saga of Utah’s Rx Refill Bot: A Bold Bet on AI & Researchers Who Cried Foul

Utah is piloting an AI system developed by Doctronic to autonomously handle routine prescription refills, aiming to reduce delays and boost medication adherence. But a report from Mindgard AI claiming that there are vulnerabilities in the company’s chatbot underscores the broader challenge regulators and developers face in ensuring healthcare AI systems remain safe and reliable in real-world use.

By Katie Adams

How Artera is Using Agentic AI to Humanize Patient Care

Artera President Tom McIntyre talks about the practical application of AI in healthcare.

By Artera and MedCity News

Policy

NYU Stern Report Urges Regulation of Private Equity in Healthcare

An NYU Stern report links private equity in healthcare to worse outcomes and higher bankruptcy risk, calling for reforms and stronger oversight.

By Marissa Plescia

MedCity Influencers

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What Happens When Patients Ask AI First?

Patients who better understand their conditions often ask more informed questions and participate more actively in shared decision-making. But fluency is not the same as reliability.

By David Talby

MedCity Influencers

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A Once in a Generation Opportunity to Reimagine Rural Health

Leaders must resist the urge to replicate urban models that do not translate well to rural contexts. Instead, they should design solutions that are built for rural communities, grounded in local insight and enabled by scalable capabilities.

By Kristin Ficery

Beyond Analytics: How Sellers Dorsey is Hard-Coding Value into Medicaid Policy [Video]

How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.

By Sellers Dorsey and MedCity News

Artificial Intelligence

How to Boost Trust in Tech? 4 Perspectives from SXSW

Here are four perspectives from providers, patients, life science executives and healthcare technologists about ways to boost trust at a time of rapid AI deployments.

By Arundhati Parmar

Hospitals, Payers, Providers

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Why Providence Wants to Sell Its Health Plan

Providence announced its intent to sell its health plan, exiting the “payvider” model as rising costs and operational complexity weigh on smaller regional insurers. The move reflects a broader trend of health systems refocusing on core care delivery and exploring partnerships instead of running insurance themselves.

By Katie Adams

The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices

Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.

By Michael Blackman, MD, MBA Chief Medical Officer, Greenway Health®

Health Tech

Lantern Secures $30M to Fuel Growth Across Employers and Health Plans

Lantern's $30 million raise was led by Morgan Health, a JPMorganChase business unit focused on employer-sponsored healthcare, as well as Echo Health Ventures, a strategic investment platform that invests on behalf of multiple Blues health plans.

By Marissa Plescia

MedCity Influencers

AI, Discernment, and the Discipline of Access to Healthcare

The systems getting value from AI aren’t doing more, they’re choosing better. Instead of chasing ten initiatives, they align around the few levers that actually move the enterprise.

By Jake McCarley

MedCity Influencers

Ending the Voicemail Bottleneck: How Voice AI Is Transforming Patient Access

Beyond simply recording or transcribing messages to lower call volumes, truly autonomous voice AI puts patients in the driver’s seat of their own healthcare. It processes patient requests and information immediately and integrates actionable insights into the EHR, speeding next steps for clinicians and patients.

By David Dyke

Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Health Tech

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Inside One VC’s Litmus Test for Investable Healthcare AI Startups

Katie Jacobs Stanton, founder of Moxxie Ventures, shared some details of how she and her team evaluate healthcare AI startups. She stressed the need for founders with deep industry expertise, differentiated products and realistic distribution strategies.

By Katie Adams

Health Tech

How PreSeed Is Tackling the Sperm Donor Shortage

A new startup called PreSeed Fertility launched on Thursday. The company is a recruitment and matching platform for sperm donors.

By Marissa Plescia

MedCity Influencers

Behavior Changes Happen Outside the Exam Room, But Validation of Lifestyle Medicine Programs Cannot

If CMS and private payers are serious about whole-person health, reimbursement structures must align with the workforce actually delivering that care. Payment pathways should recognize the value of the broader care team and enable the seamless integration of their expertise with the objective data generated through connected devices and programs like RPM.

By Dr. Lucienne Marie Ide

MedCity Influencers

When Oral Health Joins the Care Team

By strengthening the connection between dentists and physicians, we can enable real-time care coordination, ensure patients get follow-up when needed and help teams spot risk factors earlier.

By Daniel Croley