Fawad Butt and Missy Krasner started a new AI company which is building a big platform for both plans and providers in health care. PenguinAI has a cute name, but is serious about trying to provide an underlying platform that is going enable agents across the enterprise. They are health care only, as opposed to…
How does patient quality of life impact caregiving burden? Often this is determined using caregiver surveys. However, a paper by Jiao et al. (2025) aims to use a data based approach to help estimate caregiver burden. They The authors use data from the 2010-2018 Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). HRS data was selected because there…
By MIKE MAGEE For those prepared to take a deep breath and relax in the aftermath of the MAGA induced assault on the First Amendment that whipsawed Disney leadership last week as they abandoned and then rescued Jimmy Kimmel, be advised reproductive health access is at the top of the list when it comes to…
The government shutdown is drawing backlash from healthcare leaders over its potential to disrupt ACA subsidies, Medicare telehealth access and programs like SNAP. The post How Healthcare Leaders Are Reacting to the Government Shutdown appeared first on MedCity News.
Experts believe value-based care won’t ever reach scale unless fundamental barriers are addressed — including voluntary models, misaligned payer incentives, excessive metrics and weak employer engagement. The post What’s Standing in the Way of Healthcare Payment Reform? appeared first on MedCity News.
Nick Stengle will take over as the company is trimming its portfolio by nearly 100 properties. CFO Dawn Kussow said this week that factors are lining up to produce “durable, sustainable operational growth.”
Despite improvements, the U.S. still exhibits higher maternal mortality rates than most high-income countries, with significant racial disparities
MedCity News Editor in Chief Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra, managing partner of Health Innovation Pitch, also discussed whether bitcoin would play a greater role in healthcare deals and the Trump administration’s mixed messages on autism and Tylenol. The post Debunked Episode 20: A Look at H-1B Visas in Healthcare, M&A Deals for Bitcoin and…
Pfizer Ventures led the Series B financing of Cartography Biosciences, whose lead program addresses a promising target for colorectal cancer. The startup’s drugs come from platform technologies that analyze data from healthy cells and cancer cells to identify cancer-specific targets. The post Cartography Bio Corrals $67M to Bring Targeted Colorectal Cancer Drug Into the Clinic…
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