Health IT

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    Amwell wins military health contract extension

    However, the new deal excludes the telehealth vendor’s behavioral health and automated care programs, leading Amwell to cut its revenue guidance for the year following its second-quarter earnings.

    By • Aug. 7, 2025
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    Hinge Health beats Wall Street expectations on revenue in first public earnings

    The digital musculoskeletal care company hit the public markets in May, one of just a few digital health firms to complete an IPO in recent years.

    By • Aug. 6, 2025
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    Artificial intelligence

    Amid mounting interest and investment in the space, it's clear AI’s applications in healthcare will only continue to grow.

    By Healthcare Dive staff
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    Is your data AI-ready?

    AI-ready data is transforming radiology — see how smarter imaging starts with better data.

    Aug. 4, 2025
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    Trump administration finalizes health IT rule on prior authorization, electronic prescribing

    The regulation should enable workflow automation to limit paperwork burdens on providers, regulators said.

    By • Aug. 1, 2025
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    Teladoc beats Wall Street expectations in Q2 amid strategic revamp

    Still, the virtual care giant reported revenue and earnings decline at BetterHelp, Teladoc’s direct-to-consumer mental health segment that has faced challenges for several quarters.

    By • July 31, 2025
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    Trump administration launches health data sharing initiative

    More than 60 companies, including Amazon, Google, UnitedHealth and Epic, have pledged to participate in the initiative, which the CMS said would “deliver results” early next year.

    By • July 31, 2025
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    Health tech investment bolstered by AI in H1: report

    Venture capital investment across the healthcare sector slowed in the first half of the year, but investors are spending on health tech — especially artificial intelligence, according to a report by Silicon Valley Bank.

    By • July 29, 2025
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    How tech-enabled flexibility is reshaping pharmacy benefits

    Pharmacy benefits are evolving, modular models put you in charge.

    July 28, 2025
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    Trump administration releases AI adoption plan

    While the plan rarely mentions healthcare, it is one of the administration’s first steps to set federal policies, which experts say is important to safely deploy the technology in the sector. 

    By • July 25, 2025
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    Aidoc raises $150M for AI foundation model

    The technology, called CARE, is expected to allow for faster development of AI models that can cover more health conditions.

    By Elise Reuter • July 25, 2025
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    Telehealth groups urge DEA to issue plan on remote controlled substance prescriptions

    More than 200 organizations pressed the Drug Enforcement Administration to ensure a plan is in place by fall before flexibilities expire at the end of the year. 

    By • July 24, 2025
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    Democrat senators warn Medicaid cuts could worsen rural hospital cybersecurity

    Funding cuts enacted in the GOP’s massive tax law will push cash-strapped rural providers to deprioritize cyber preparedness, according to Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Warner.

    By • July 22, 2025
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    Risk management, legacy tech pose major cyber threats to healthcare firms, report finds

    Companies have improved their recovery processes and user controls but still lag in risk preparedness.

    By Eric Geller • July 16, 2025
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    Teladoc to launch employee assistance program

    Wellbound, which will be available for users in January, includes online therapy through the telehealth vendor’s BetterHelp unit as well as psychiatry and medication management services.

    By • July 15, 2025
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    Best Buy Health to lay off 161

    The job cuts come shortly after the retailer divested home care firm Current Health, which Best Buy acquired in 2021.

    By • July 11, 2025
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    Amazon’s Rowland Illing talks about AI’s shifting focus in medtech

    Amazon Web Services’ global chief medical officer said the healthcare industry is seeing an “absolute explosion” of generative AI use cases, with large models that can be adapted to a variety of tasks.

    By Elise Reuter • July 10, 2025
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    Samsung to acquire digital health firm Xealth

    The purchase of the Providence spinoff bolsters Samsung’s push to unify health data, including through wearables like the electronics giant’s Galaxy Watch line.

    By • July 10, 2025
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    AI startups boost digital health funding in H1: Rock Health

    Digital health companies that use AI as a core part of their offerings raised more money on average than companies that didn't in the first half of 2025.

    By • July 9, 2025
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    Deep Dive

    The Trump administration wants to onshore drug manufacturing. Technologists are answering the call.

    Looming threats to the pharmaceutical supply chain have brought fresh attention to onshoring. Experts say innovation is happening, but slowly.

    By • July 9, 2025
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    Who benefits from over-the-counter CGMs?

    Experts speaking at the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions supported making continuous glucose monitors more accessible, but debated their usefulness for adults without diabetes.

    By Elise Reuter • July 2, 2025
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    DOJ charges more than 300 in $14.6B healthcare fraud bust

    Matthew Galeotti, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, called the operation “the beginning of a new era of aggressive prosecution and data-driven prevention” of healthcare fraud.

    By • July 1, 2025
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    Best Buy divests home care firm Current Health

    Co-founder Christopher McGhee reacquired the company nearly four years after the electronics retailer purchased the home care business.

    By • June 26, 2025
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    Ohio attorney general approves Summa Health sale to General Catalyst

    Attorney General Dave Yost set 10 conditions to allow the deal to move forward, including increasing the purchase price and equity by $15 million each.

    By • June 23, 2025
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    Data breach at healthcare services firm Episource affects 5.4M

    The incident, one of the largest breaches reported to federal regulators this year, came after a cybercriminal accessed data on the company’s computer systems over the winter.

    By • June 20, 2025
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    UHS partners with Hippocratic AI to launch AI agents

    The health system is currently testing the agentic tool at two subsidiaries, with plans to roll out the technology at other locations in the future.

    By • June 17, 2025