Revenue Is a Misleading KPI in Healthcare
It usually tracks some version of value delivered, where more customers lead to more usage and more revenue. However, in healthcare, the blind pursuit of revenue can cause real harm.
It usually tracks some version of value delivered, where more customers lead to more usage and more revenue. However, in healthcare, the blind pursuit of revenue can cause real harm.
Cadence raised $100 million in Series C funding to scale its AI-powered chronic care platform, which monitors patients at home and adjusts their medications in real time. The startup, now valued at $1.23 billion, partners with health systems to treat patients with heart failure, hypertension and diabetes.
The Digital Medicine Society launched an initiative to help payers and virtual care providers avoid common contract implementation challenges.
Providing access to GLP-1s only solves part of the problem. In fact, without a broader approach, it may lead to new challenges alongside the ones it aims to address.
Through a new partnership, Teladoc Health's virtual services are now available on Walmart's Better Care Services platform.
How much of precision interventional psychiatry can actually happen remotely, and where does the model hit a wall? The answer is potentially more nuanced than the conventional framing suggests.
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The longer someone waits to seek help, the more their condition progresses, the harder it becomes to intervene, and the easier it becomes to keep waiting. Delay compounds. That's what makes it so dangerous, and so worth targeting directly.
The specialty access and capacity crisis demands more than incremental fixes. It requires expanding virtual access and fundamentally rethinking how specialty care can be delivered.
Virtual-first done well - fully integrated with the EHR, aligned with health system clinical and quality governance, capable of warm handoffs, and simple enough that patients don’t need instructions - creates genuine surprise. That surprise is the opportunity and the problem.
Telepsychiatry provider Talkiatry has raised a $210 million Series D round led by Perceptive Advisors, bringing its total funding to more than $400 million. CEO Robert Krayn said the company is focused on scaling its clinician-employed model and improving outcomes as competition intensifies across behavioral health and virtual care.
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.
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.
Virginia-based health system VHC Health teamed up with virtual physician practice HealthTap to expand access to on-demand care and keep patients within its care network. The collaboration aims to reduce care leakage while offering patients convenient, integrated virtual care backed by VHC’s in-person providers.
Deloitte’s 2026 Healthcare Outlook shows that while more than two-thirds of U.S. healthcare leaders expect to outperform competitors, rising policy uncertainty is pushing greater focus on digital care, AI and partnerships.
Bringing care to people where they are improves community health outcomes — we must operate with more urgency to shore up care resources in rural areas.