Consumers get a more high-tech experience from their Chick-fil-A app than they do from most health system mobile apps, and it’s a major dissatisfier, even when the quality of care is strong. It’s one reason why mobile strategy has moved center stage as table stakes for meeting health system’s business goals, including around consumer loyalty and engagement.
But delivering the types of mobile experiences healthcare consumers crave takes more than launching a health system app. That’s
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Zorro Secures $20M for AI-Powered Benefits Adminstration Platform
What You Should Know:
- Zorro, a next-generation benefits administration platform using advanced technology to reshape how America’s workers plan for and purchase healthcare secures $20M in Series A funding led by Entrée Capital, with participation from existing investors 10D and Pitango.
- The company is pioneering the use of Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA) combined with an AI-driven platform to move employers away from traditional one-size-fits-all
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LucyRx and Personify Health Partner to Offer Integrated GLP-1 and Weight Management Solution for Employers
What You Should Know:
- LucyRx, an independent, next-generation pharmacy benefits manager (PBM), and Personify Health®, the company making healthier easier announced a strategic partnership to offer employers a more personalized, clinically grounded approach to GLP-1 medication management and weight care.
- The strategic collaboration will deliver an integrated solution that combines pharmacy benefit strategy with personalized support, including GLP-1-trained coaches and
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Emory Healthcare Invests $10M in Guidehealth to Advance AI-Driven Care
What You Should Know:
- Guidehealth, an AI-driven healthcare technology and services company, today announced a $10M strategic investment from Emory Healthcare.
- The funding is aimed at accelerating Guidehealth’s next phase of growth and strengthens both organizations' commitment to transforming patient care, advancing disease prevention, and expanding access to high-quality, value-based healthcare. The collaboration builds on an existing relationship between the two organizations,
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Lieber Institute and AWS Collaborate to Optimize Drug Discovery for Brain Disorders
What You Should Know:
- The Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) is expanding its technology capabilities on Amazon Web Services (AWS), migrating its IT infrastructure to fully utilize AWS generative AI and compute services to advance its research.
- A recipient of the 2024 AWS IMAGINE Grant, the Institute plans to develop a new tool called GRAPE that combines generative and predictive AI to find new, more effective treatments for brain disorders such as
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The Future of RCM: Ensemble Deploys Cohere’s Agentic AI for Hospitals
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- Ensemble, a leading provider of end-to-end revenue cycle management (RCM), has partnered with Cohere, a security-first enterprise AI company, to introduce the first fully integrated agentic AI platform for revenue cycle orchestration in healthcare.
- This collaboration merges Ensemble’s decade-long RCM expertise with Cohere’s enterprise-grade AI infrastructure to deliver faster, smarter, and more secure financial operations for hospitals and health
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Boehringer Ingelheim and Eko Health Partner to Bring AI-Powered Heart Disease Detection to Veterinary Medicine
What You Should Know:
- Boehringer Ingelheim, a global leader in animal health, and Eko Health, a pioneer in applying artificial intelligence (AI) for early disease detection, have announced a strategic collaboration. The partnership aims to enhance the early detection and diagnosis of heart disease in dogs by combining Boehringer's expertise in canine cardiology with Eko Health's powerful AI algorithms and digital stethoscopes.
- The collaboration will leverage Eko Health's
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From Raw Records to Real-Time Insights: Climbing Pharma’s Real-World Data Maturity Curve
Real-world data (RWD) has become the pharmaceutical industry's most promising yet challenging frontier. While companies have long recognized its potential to complement clinical trials and deepen patient outcome insights, many still struggle to fully realize its value.
We’ve seen firsthand, from early discovery to market authorization to post-launch evidence generation, that extracting meaningful value from RWD requires more than just data acquisition. It demands a consistent, scalable, and
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Wisp Appoints Jennifer Peña as Chief Medical Officer
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- Wisp, the largest pure-play women's telehealth company in the U.S., today announced the appointment of Jennifer Peña, MD, as the company’s Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Peña will play a crucial role in driving Wisp’s commitment to being the one-stop shop for all women’s health needs as the company continues to scale new and existing offerings for its more than 1.5 million customers.
- As CMO, Dr. Peña will spearhead Wisp’s clinical strategy, quality, and safety
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Wysa Launches AI-Powered Chatbot to Streamline Mental Health Patient Intake
What You Should Know:
- Wysa, the global leader in AI-guided mental health support, today announced the U.S. launch of Wysa Gateway, an AI-powered chatbot designed to streamline how therapy providers and health plans facilitate patient access to care.
- The platform uses a conversational AI to automate clinical screenings, providing a faster, more accurate, and personalized pathway into therapy.
- Developed to meet the rising demand for mental health services, Wysa Gateway
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