The 1842 Fund launched a new startup called Suvi Health, which is developing an ambient AI platform that records hospital bedside conversations and turns them into a shared task list for patients and families. The company will pilot the tool with Mayo Clinic starting next month. The post New Startup Launches to Close the Bedside…
A new survey finds that employers are moving away from the Big Three PBMs while prioritizing healthcare affordability and transparency. The post Report: Employers’ Use of Big Three PBMs Falls in 2026 appeared first on MedCity News.
Executives told investors that the company’s finances are in better shape and the market for deals is warming up. Q2 results were helped by a “broad-based” improvement in demand for nurses.
AI can streamline outdated workflows, but health systems need to rethink what’s necessary before automating it.
ECG Management Consultants’ Nathan McCarthy says smaller health systems tend to focus on things that they know will have a meaningful short-term ROI
Deerfield Management formed Boulevard Bio with scientific co-founders Georg Schett and Frank Nestle. The startup’s lead program is in early clinical development for an autoimmune kidney disorder, and could offer dosing advantages over a recently approved Vera Therapeutics medicine and a Vertex Pharmaceuticals drug currently under FDA review. The post Startup Boulevard Bio Launches With…
While organizations have invested heavily in expanding ambulatory networks, many are discovering that operational workflows have not evolved at the same pace. The result is a growing gap between demand and the systems designed to manage it. The post Ambulatory Growth Demands a New Operating Model appeared first on MedCity News.
Twelve health systems are coming together with Aidoc to co-design AI-enabled diagnostic workflows and measure their impact on safety, quality and speed to diagnosis
Thomas Zordani flew from his home in Denver to Phoenix for a consultation with a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, hoping to find out what could be done to treat his debilitating headaches after worrisome brain scan findings. When making the appointment, Zordani said, he’d been told the clinic was in his insurer’s network. Upon arrival, Zordani…
Dennis Schmidt started smoking as a teenager, when that was so unexceptional that his Catholic high school designated outdoor “senior smoking quarters,” where students in their final year could take cigarette breaks. He smoked a pack of menthols daily for nearly 40 years. As a registered nurse at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and…