As they navigate complex times, health insurers have their eye on two important financial indicators. And both are moving in the wrong direction. Costs are on the rise while Medicare Star Ratings are on the decline.
Separate but related, the two trends converge on the same idea: health plans need to enable higher quality care at a lower price.
If it sounds like a Herculean feat, that’s because it is. But some health plans are making it happen.
While some of the cost pressures—for
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Omega Healthcare Expands Microsoft Collaboration, Launches 20+ AI Solutions to Transform Revenue Cycle Management
What You Should Know:
- Omega Healthcare, a provider of technology-enabled Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) services, today announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft.
- Through the integration of Microsoft Azure's cutting-edge AI models via Azure AI Foundry and the company's proprietary Omega Digital Platform (ODP), Omega Healthcare has launched more than 20 generative and agentic AI solutions designed to enhance healthcare organizations' revenue cycle operations and
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Asepha Secures $4M Seed for AI-Powered Pharmacy Operations
What You Should Know:
- Asepha, a fast-growing startup leveraging AI agents for pharmacy automation, today announced the close of its $4 million Seed round, led by Glasswing Ventures and Core Innovation Capital.
- Panache, RedBud, and MGV also participated, with follow-on support from Ripple Ventures and Front Row Ventures.
Asepha Raises the Bar on AI-Driven Pharmacy Automation, Expands Nationwide Footprint
Asepha is redefining pharmacy operations with
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New AI Model Predicts Cancer Mutations from Routine Pathology Slides, Streamlining Treatment Decisions
What You Should Know:
- A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and collaborators, suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could significantly improve how doctors determine the best treatment for cancer patients by enhancing how tumor samples are analyzed in the lab.
- The compelling findings, published in the July 9 online edition of Nature Medicine, demonstrated that AI can accurately predict genetic
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Multimodal AI Will Power the Future of Remote Diagnostics and Virtual Hospitals
As a veteran of multiple healthcare startups, it’s hard not to become immune to claims of technological developments which will “revolutionize patient care”.
To be fair, revolutionary changes do exist. Telehealth for example, enabled by the combination of AI and cloud technology, has revolutionized the access patients have to robust diagnostic services. Yet, telehealth with its data fragmentation and current clinical diagnostic limitations, still has serious challenges
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Samsung to Launch AI-Powered Health Coach Beta in US
What You Should Know:
- Samsung Electronics Co. unveils its plans to roll out a beta version of an AI-powered health coach within its Samsung Health application in the US by the end of this year. This new digital assistant, in the form of a chatbot, will analyze users’ health data and assist them in incorporating their doctors’ prescriptions and medical advice into their daily routines.
- The initiative follows Samsung’s recent acquisition of Xealth, a US-based healthcare integration
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Ryght Partners w/ Emory Cancer Institute for AI-powered Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Ryght AI, a provider of real-time generative AI healthcare technology for clinical research, today announced that the prestigious Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has joined its unique Ryght Research Network.
- The global network creates an AI digital twin of every research site worldwide, allowing distinguished academic institutions like Winship to leverage Ryght's AI platform and applications to revolutionize clinical trial processes and
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Rush University System for Health Partners with Fabric to Launch AI-Powered On-Demand Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Fabric, a provider of care delivery and consumer experience announced a strategic partnership with Rush University System for Health, Chicago’s first healthcare institution. The collaboration will power Rush Connect and Rush Connect+, the academic health system’s new platform for on-demand and subscription-based digital-first access to care.
- Utilizing Fabric’s AI assistant and virtual care platform, Rush Connect aims to deliver faster and easier
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Health Equity 2.0 – Bridging Health Equity Gaps with AI Agents
Despite decades of panels, pledges, and policy proposals, healthcare inequity remains a systemic issue in day-to-day experience of the American healthcare consumer. The data is overwhelming - patients in lower-income ZIP codes have worse healthcare outcomes, people of lower socio-economic tiers are more likely to suffer from preventable conditions. Access to timely, quality care is still a privilege. Equity in healthcare is different from the equity discussion that’s playing out right now in
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Corti Launches Europe’s First Sovereign Healthcare AI Infrastructure
What You Should Know:
- Corti, an AI infrastructure provider for healthcare, announced the launch of its sovereign cloud capabilities that will enable Europe’s health systems to adopt advanced, real-time AI without compromising the region’s strict data privacy laws. The launch marks Corti as the first major healthcare AI company to engineer infrastructure specifically designed for regulated markets.
- With a projected global shortage of 10 million healthcare workers by 2030,
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