This week, Wheel rolled out a new AI-powered platform designed to provide patients with more holistic and seamless virtual care journeys. The platform, called Horizon, aims to help the startup’s customers rapidly scale virtual care programs to meet growing patient demand.

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The Supreme Court sided with the FDA and unanimously ruled to uphold access to abortion pill mifepristone. The decision quells worries about what it might look like if the Supreme Court sided with the physician group — many healthcare leaders feared that if the top court could overturn mifepristone’s FDA approval, the same could happen to other drugs.

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This month, Moon Surgical received FDA clearance for the commercial version of its Maestro surgical robot system. The system is designed to support surgeons and other operating room staff, specifically for the 18.8 million annual soft tissue surgical procedures not currently supported by available telerobotic systems.

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South Florida-based Mount Sinai Medical Center announced a new remote patient monitoring and chronic care management partnership with HealthSnap, a Miami-based virtual care management platform. The partnership is aimed at improving outcomes among the health system’s Medicare population.

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Stitch PEO — a startup built at Redesign Health — officially launched and announced that it has raised $8.75 million in seed funding. The company is a professional employer organization for independent medical practices, designed to improve recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and other human resources processes.

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Hospitals need to start thinking about ways to build patients’ trust in generative AI in order for the healthcare industry to fully harness the technology’s potential. They can do this through methods like having transparent conversations, asking for patients’ consent to use the tools and training models on internal data, experts said.

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Medical device company Zeto received clearance for its EEG brain monitoring system. The system includes a user-friendly, comfortable EEG headset designed to be easily operated by any medical professional with minimal training.

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When talking about increasing access, it’s essential to remember that there is a difference between making healthcare more accessible and simply increasing patients’ access to appointments, pointed out Lee Schwamm, chief digital health officer at Yale New Haven Health System. In this article, he explains three steps hospitals can take to actually boost accessibility.

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CoraVie Medical, a startup developing an implantable continuous blood pressure monitor, recently won the medical devices track of MedCity News’ INVEST Pitch Perfect contest. The pre-revenue company’s remote management solution monitors for the early detection of dangerous blood pressure levels to prevent crises that could lead to heart attack, stroke, kidney failure or death.

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Hospitals’ finances improved in April compared to both the month prior and the same time frame last year, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall. The report also noted that there is a widening gap between the highest- and lowest-performing organizations.

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The contest — which will include startup focusing on pediatric and teen behavioral health — will take place at Pegasus Park in Dallas on September 18. The deadline to submit applications is July 10, so apply today!

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As majorly disruptive cyberattacks continue to make headlines in the healthcare world, hospitals are prioritizing cybersecurity more than ever before. This piece explores reactions from five different health system executives about the recent attack on Ascension — as well as what they’re doing to prevent a similar fate at their own organization and how they want things to change going forward.

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In this month’s episode, Senior Reporter Katie Adams explored some executive moves and layoffs that recently occurred in the healthcare world. She also interviewed Courtney Fortner, who stepped into the CEO role at population health company Navvis this month.

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Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions, retirements and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.

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Plenful has completed a $17 million Series A funding round, bringing its total fundraising amount to date to more than $25 million. The startup offers a software platform that automates the manual and administrative tasks that burden pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

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Deb Muro, CIO of El Camino Health, explained some of the ways her health system is using technology to make nurses’ jobs easier — including software that flags patients who are at risk of adverse outcomes and a tool that helps frontline nurse managers better engage with their staff.

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Micky Tripathi, head of The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), thinks his office’s recent rule on AI transparency will spur greater adoption of AI tools in healthcare, as well as potentially drive higher quality AI-based products.

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Justin Brueck, vice president of innovation and research at Endeavor Health, shared three main reasons that technology pilots end up being unsuccessful at health systems.

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Allegheny Health Network rolled out a large language model designed exclusively for use by its staff members. You can think of the tool as the health system’s own version of Chat-GPT, said Ashis Barad, AHN’s chief digital and information officer.

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As the healthcare industry slowly moves toward value-based care, healthcare companies are thinking about taking on risk. During a panel at MedCity News’ INVEST conference, healthcare leaders shared some key ideas about how the industry is embracing risk in its contracts.

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During a fireside chat at MedCity News’ INVEST conference, Nitin Natarajan — deputy director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — shared some key ideas that people need to understand about the current state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. For instance, he reminded us that things won’t get better overnight, and that cybersecurity requires an all-hands-on deck approach.

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During a panel at MedCity News’ INVEST conference, venture capitalists shared some of their takes on today’s healthcare funding landscape — including their thoughts on AI and the industry’s slower investment pace.

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Centivo, a health plan that sells to self-funded employers, acquired virtual-first primary care startup Eden Health. With this acquisition, Centivo now serves more than 160 employers in all 50 states.

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Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute launched a new solution on its care platform to help patients who have AFib or are at risk of developing the condition. The program, which was developed with digital health startup Story Health, seeks to engage patients between clinic visits.

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Watershed Health closed a $13.6 million funding round this week. The New Orleans-based company seeks to improve care coordination by connecting providers of all types across the healthcare system.

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While adopting new technology is obviously a big part of healthcare innovation teams’ work, there are plenty of worthwhile initiatives that don’t involve advanced technologies, pointed out Dan Shoenthal, chief innovation officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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This year has been a messy one for virtual care companies, but that doesn’t mean that telehealth is dead, according to Eve Cunningham, Providence’s chief of virtual care and digital health. In her view, virtual care can definitely still be an important part of the care delivery model — but only if it is embedded into the greater healthcare delivery ecosystem.

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SmarterDx — an AI startup that provides clinical review and quality audits for medical claims — closed a $50 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $71 million.

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As more hospitals across the country shut down their maternity wards, a Sutter Health-owned hospital in Berkeley has taken proactive steps to ensure it can continue providing care for the pregnant people in its community. The hospital partnered with Millie, a Berkeley-based startup offering hybrid maternal care from midwives and doulas.

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Hospitals are seeking to offset their expenses any way they can, and some are taking a “two-sided green” approach — meaning pursuing renewable energy initiatives that will save money in the long run. These hospitals are on track to save millions, and some already have.

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