Walmart has launched Better Care Services, a digital platform designed to expand access to affordable healthcare services and wellness products. The platform connects customers with third-party providers for urgent care and behavioral health services, as well as LillyDirect, according to…
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Houston Methodist is among the investors in an $80 million funding round for ambient AI company Apella. The eight-hospital system joined the series B investment, which was led by venture capital firm HighlandX, after deploying the startup’s machine learning and…
New York City-based Mount Sinai’s Tisch Cancer Center has launched a new AI platform designed to help more cancer patients across its health system find and enroll in clinical trials. The platform, called PRISM, uses an oncology-specific large language model…
Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health has entered a strategic partnership with healthcare AI company Notable to deploy artificial intelligence tools aimed at reducing administrative burden and staffing strain across the health system. The nonprofit system, which serves Northern Virginia and…
Former American Medical Association President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Aidoc, a company that develops AI-based systems to analyze medical images and identify acute abnormalities. In this role, Dr. Ehrenfeld will support health systems as…
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Renton, Wash.-based Providence has sold its health IT consulting arm, Tegria Services Group, to healthcare-focused investment firm Altaris. The 51-hospital system launched the subsidiary in 2020, combining nine health tech investments into one. “We are proud of the value created…
Boston Children’s Hospital has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to create “clinical doppelgangers” to find patients with like conditions and boost treatment. Clinicians at the pediatric health system use large language models and AWS managed services to surface patients…
Chicago-based Rush University System for Health is collaborating with Amazon One Medical to expand access to primary and specialty care. The three-hospital system partnered with the tech giant’s hybrid primary care company Jan. 1 to coordinate care through One Medical’s…
New York City-based NYU Langone Health has partnered with BitGo Bank & Trust to enable cryptocurrency donations. The partnership allows NYU Langone to accept digital asset contributions through BitGo’s infrastructure, which includes regulated custody insured up to $250 million, according…
Neuralink plans to step up production of its brain implants and move to automated procedures in 2026, Elon Musk posted on X. Musk’s company has been placing the computer chips inside the brains of paralyzed patients as part of a…