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Healthcare investment firm Patient Square Capital aims to raise more than $6 billion for its second fund focused on healthcare services, according to PitchBook.

Sherri Hess, vice president and chief nursing informatics officer of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, said the organization has provided more than 100,000 iPhones to its clinicians.

Transcarent, a $2.2 billion healthcare startup backed by health systems, is developing an artificial intelligence chatbot to help patients answer healthcare questions, Forbes reported May 15.

Digital fitness platforms are moving way beyond step-counting and heart rate monitoring. Today, these platforms are beginning to affect multiple facets of an individual's health — from integration with fitness centers to becoming a requirement for reimbursement of popular GLP-1…

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Biotech company Cue Health is enacting a new cost-cutting strategy that will lead to the termination of 230 employees, constituting 49% of its workforce, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has created a generative artificial intelligence app, CS Connect, that can interact with patients and ask them questions, the Los Angeles Business Journal reported April 29. 

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