Pediatric mental health startup Handspring picked up $19 million in Series B funding this week. The company aims to help reshape how children’s mental health care is delivered — mainly
UnitedHealthcare launched a Lifestyle Spending Account on Thursday that aims to give employers a flexible way to fund employees’ health needs. The Lifestyle Spending Account is integrated with UHC Store,
Advancements in interoperability and data sharing have helped more providers share more data than ever before. But these developments come with a new set of challenges hospitals need to solve,
IKS Health, a Dallas-based healthcare software company, completed its $557 million acquisition of TruBridge on Thursday. The deal, first announced in April, brings the Mobile, Alabama-based startup — which sells
An RNA therapy from partners Ionis Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca failed a pivotal study as a treatment for a type of cardiomyopathy that can progress to heart failure, dashing hopes of
A rare autoimmune disease affecting the kidneys has a new FDA approved treatment, a first-in-class Vera Therapeutics drug whose approach of hitting two targets sets it apart from the medicines
More than 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and roughly 450 home health workers walked off the job Wednesday, launching what union officials call the largest healthcare labor strike
As the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution (IDR) process has matured, discourse has abounded, with much of the narrative focused on whether providers are overusing the system to maximize
Patients across the world are increasingly seeking medical guidance from artificial intelligence systems. In a recent Times of India report, after multiple specialists failed to identify the cause of a
This month, the board of trustees for Williamson Health, a county-owned health system in Tennessee, voted unanimously to sell the organization to Ascension Saint Thomas, Ascension‘s Tennessee division. Ascension plans
