Katie Adams is MedCity News' associate editor. Her area of coverage focuses mainly on providers, healthcare technology, medical devices and regulatory matters. Previously, she worked as a healthcare technology editor at Becker’s Hospital Review. Adams is a DePaul University alum, and she lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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NYU Langone Health is partnering with Isaac Health to launch a specialist-led virtual care model aimed at reducing long waits for memory care. The partnership will test whether telehealth can expand access without sacrificing quality as demand for neurologists continues to outpace supply.
OpenEvidence’s $12 billion valuation reflects investor confidence in its bottom-up, doctor-first model. It has driven rapid adoption, with more than 757,000 clinicians using the startup’s free AI medical search tool regularly. That scale is paired with targeted pharmaceutical advertising that’s already pushed the company past a $100 million revenue run rate.
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HHS is scrapping its proposed 340B rebate pilot after hospitals sued to stop it. Providers say the plan would have created cash flow problems and administrative burdens that threatened safety-net care.
Epic’s rollout of a built-in AI charting tool is intensifying competition in the already crowded ambient AI scribe market, forcing standalone vendors to sharpen their differentiation in an Epic-dominated health system landscape.
Virtual women’s health provider Midi Health has reached unicorn status after raising a $100 million Series D, with investors backing its insurance-covered, direct-to-consumer model. The company is positioning itself as a long-term, virtual “hospital without walls” designed to meet women’s health needs across midlife and beyond.
As providers continue to adopt AI in droves, payers are under pressure to modernize their own administrative operations. Alaffia Health says its clinically grounded AI platform can help health plans reduce waste and risk, a bet investors backed this week with a $55 million Series B funding round.
The Digital Medicine Society (DiME) launched a new set of FDA-aligned digital measures to standardize how outcomes are tracked in pediatric rare disease trials. The framework aims to make trials faster and more efficient, giving researchers and drugmakers a practical roadmap for developing new therapies for children who often have no effective treatment options.
Premise Health and Crossover Health are merging to create a nearly $2 billion company. The partners plan to scale advanced primary care — an integrated bundle of primary care, behavioral health, pharmacy services and care navigation — for large self-insured employers.
January has seen a slew of executive hires, promotions and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For instance, Aidoc, Suki and Particle Health named new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Takeda, Trinity Health and Horizon BCBS New Jersey.
Epic’s lawsuit against Health Gorilla is less about one alleged data misuse scheme and more about a deeper fault line in healthcare interoperability: data can move faster than the rules governing it. Experts say this problem could force the industry to redefine the boundaries of access, accountability and trust in data sharing.
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Climatic, a new wellness startup, emerged from stealth with a $10 million seed round for the non-prescription inhalant it’s developing, which is designed to support daily lung health. The company aims to create a new category of preventive lung care, mainly for athletes and health-conscious consumers.
Investors at Breyer Capital think 2026 could mark a turning point in digital health, as logistics become as important as scientific innovation. They highlighted three key trends shaping the market: shifting biotech constraints from biology to delivery, bottom-up product adoption by clinicians, and a wave of consolidation among AI startups.
Endeavor Health is studying Exact Sciences’ Cancerguard blood test to help see if multi-cancer detection should be deployed widely across hospitals. The five-year study aims to fill gaps in real-world evidence on how these tests perform and how they fit into routine healthcare.
As OpenAI and Anthropic move deeper into healthcare, experts say AI chatbots are becoming the new front door to medicine. This shift is shaking things up for some health tech startups, redefining the patient-provider relationship, and intensifying debates over safety, privacy and accountability.
About 31,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers plan to launch an open-ended strike over staffing shortages, wages and care access issues — potentially affecting dozens of hospitals and hundreds of clinics in California and Hawaii. While Kaiser blames unions for stalled negotiations, workers say the conflict reflects deeper concerns about patient safety, burnout and health systems’ shifting priorities.