5 Key Facts about Medicaid’s Share of National Health Spending
Medicaid, as the primary program providing comprehensive coverage of health care and long-term services and supports to about 80 million low-income people...
Medicare Advantage Enrollees Account for 25% of all Inpatient Hospital Days
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage has grown rapidly in recent years, with more than half of all eligible Medicare beneficiaries now...
UPMC flips operations from $313M loss to $349M gain in H1 2025
The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) continues to flip last year’s losses, reporting this week a $348.6 million operating...
Google unveils AI health coach for Fitbit—Health Tech Roundup
Fitbit app gets AI upgrade with personal health coach As fitness trackers get artificial intelligence updates, Google developed an AI-powered...
Immigration raids push patients into telehealth
Jacob Sweidan has seen his patients through the federal immigration raids of the 1990s, a sitting governor’s call to abolish...
Epic adds Ambience’s AI to its Toolbox program
Ambience, an artificial intelligence platform for documentation, coding and clinical workflow, has been added to Epic’s Toolbox program for ambient voice...
Ascension launches new institute to vet, deploy innovations
Ascension is taking a more intentional approach to innovations with a new unit dedicated to exploring, vetting and deploying tech...
HHS finalizes rule for prescription drug cost transparency
The health IT arm of the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule this week that federal leaders...
Oak HC/FT, a16z back Ambience’s $243M series C round
Ambient AI platform Ambience Healthcare banked $243 million in series C funding, marking one of the largest health tech raises...
Epic integrates AHA’s postpartum risk assessment toolkit
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and Epic are collaborating to offer a set of tools at the point of care...
