Artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming healthcare, including pharmacy operations, clinical workflows, and business processes. As adoption accelerates, it's essential to ensure that AI is implemented responsibly—especially given the sensitive nature of patient data and the complexities of care delivery. Success in this space requires a balance of high tech and high touch: robust human oversight and ethical governance. Here are four key steps to help healthcare and pharmacy
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Virtual Patients: How AI Simulation Is Revolutionizing Clinical Trials and Drug Development
The most consequential shift in modern medicine isn’t happening inside hospitals or biotech labs. It’s happening inside medical simulation labs / training centers.
Drug development has long been marked by high costs, inefficiency, and human trial-and-error. Indeed, the cost of developing a single therapeutic exceeds $2.6 billion according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. Much of this expense can be attributed to the clinical trial process.
Clinical trials are a
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Lovell and CalmiGo Partner to Provide Anxiety and PTSD Relief for Veterans
What You Should Know:
- Lovell Government Services and CalmiGo, a mental health platform for anxiety, PTSD, and panic attacks, have announced a new partnership to serve federal healthcare systems, including the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the Military Health System (MHS), and the Indian Health Service (IHS). Through this collaboration, Lovell Government Services will act as CalmiGo’s Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) vendor to provide the CalmiGo Plus
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Beyond Step Counts: How AI-Powered Gait Analysis is Unlocking a New Vital Sign in Healthcare
Gait—how we walk—provides powerful, often overlooked insights into our physical, cognitive, mental, and social health. It’s more than just movement; it serves as a window into our overall well-being, with impairments in gait and mobility linked to falls, cognitive decline, chronic conditions, and even mortality. While healthcare professionals have long studied these connections, there’s something universally intuitive about how we assess a person’s health just by watching them walk.
Though
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Medallion Raises $43M to Streamline Healthcare Provider Networks with AI
What You Should Know:
- Medallion, a provider of AI-powered provider network infrastructure, today announced it has raised $43M in new funding led by Acrew Capital, with participation from Washington Harbour Partners and returning investors including Sequoia Capital, GV, and Spark Capital. The funding brings the company’s total raised to $130M, reinforcing its mission to eliminate administrative waste and streamline healthcare operations.
- The company plans to automate thousands of
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Ambience Healthcare Launches Chart Chat, an AI Copilot for Epic EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Ambience Healthcare has announced the launch of Chart Chat, an AI copilot designed to integrate directly into Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system.
- Chart Chat is a first-of-its-kind tool that provides healthcare providers with context-aware clinical insights by combining patient chart data with trusted medical content from BMJ Best Practice and open AI technology.
- Chart Chat aims to combat the growing challenge of information overload for
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Teladoc Health Acquires Telecare to Strengthen Australian Presence
What You Should Know:
- Teladoc Health announced the acquisition of Telecare, an innovative Australian technology-enabled company specializing in virtual delivery of specialist and allied healthcare. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Under the terms of the acquisition, Telecare will continue to operate under its existing brand name and will be led by its current founders and management team. This approach ensures continuity for Telecare's existing
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Citizen Health Secures $30M to Pioneer AI-Powered Rare Disease Care
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- San Francisco-based Citizen Health, a platform empowering patients with rare and complex conditions, secures $30M in Series A funding led by 8VC, with participation from Transformation Capital and Headline, bringing the company's total funding to $44M since its launch in late 2023.
- The new capital will accelerate the development of the company’s flagship product, a personalized AI Advocate designed to help patients navigate their health journeys.
New
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Cardinal Health to Acquire Solaris Health for $1.9B to Expand Urology Focus
What You Should Know:
- US drug distributor Cardinal Health has signed a $1.9B agreement to acquire a majority stake in Solaris Health from Lee Equity Partners. The deal is aimed at expanding the Specialty Alliance, Cardinal Health's multi-specialty management services organization (MSO) platform.
- The acquisition will give Cardinal Health a stake of around 75% in Solaris Health. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of this year, pending customary closing
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Sleep Problems: How No-Contact Sensors Can Help Sleep Health
Sleep problems are getting worse around the world, with one recent scientific paper describing sleep problems as a ‘global epidemic’. Around a third of U.S. adults are not getting enough sleep every week, according to research by the CDC. Part of the blame lies with our device addiction, the report found, along with issues such as hectic modern lifestyles meaning that people do not go to bed at the same time every day. For physicians, understanding and dealing with such
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