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Digital Health Keeps Measuring Engagement While Ignoring Tolerability

AI Health Check: No Governance, No Trust

Will doctors or patients who are burned by one AI solution trust the next one they’re given? Probably not. That’s why every provider rolling out AI tools has to understand this risk and build governance into its development process.

By Luiz Cieslak

MedCity Influencers

The Silent Threat — Why Early Lymphedema Detection Matters for Breast Cancer Survivors

As breast cancer treatment continues to improve, our focus must expand beyond survival to encompass the quality of life during and after treatment.

By Dr. Steven Chen

BioPharma, Pharma

AstraZeneca, Daiichi Drug Approved as New First-Line Therapy for Tough Type of Breast Cancer

Datroway landed its third FDA approval in the past 18 months, this time as a treatment for triple negative breast cancer. The antibody drug conjugate was developed under a broad collaboration between Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca.

By Frank Vinluan

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BioPharma, Hospitals, Devices & Diagnostics, Health Tech, Providers

Precision Medicine’s Next Hurdle Isn’t Science — It’s Execution

A new UPMC report found that while most health systems now offer precision medicine programs, many still face challenges scaling them due to reimbursement, data integration and patient engagement issues. Health system leaders say the field’s future depends on embedding genomics into routine care, as well as proving its clinical and financial value.

By Katie Adams

MedCity Influencers

Maximizing Value vs. Minimizing Cost in Healthcare Purchasing

Is a private-label product really better once you factor in performance, durability, and everything it takes to support it? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. The job is knowing the difference.

By Jonathan Treiber

The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems

Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.

By Malvika Tarnekar, Director of Product Strategy, PrognoCIS by Bizmatics Inc

MedCity Influencers

What the Failure of Wearables Can Teach Us About AI

The takeaway from the current failure of wearables is that signal without synthesis doesn't change outcomes. If healthcare treats AI as just another way to collect or repackage data, it will repeat the same mistake.

By David Kirk

MedCity Influencers

Clinical Operations Burnout Is Undermining Patient Enrollment

When coordinators are buried in documentation, scheduling, and data reconciliation, patient engagement is the first thing to go. And when engagement drops, retention drops with it.

By Scott Chetham

MedCity Influencers

Smarter Engagement for Stronger Growth: How Payers Can Successfully Do More with Less

The defining capability of modern health plans is intelligent engagement with unified infrastructure.

By Steve Mongelli

MedCity Influencers

AI Is Becoming the Front Door to Healthcare — But Millions of Patients Can’t Get Through It

AI genuinely could reduce barriers, by making health information more conversational, more personalized, and easier to act on. But that only happens if the people building these tools decide, from day one, that accessibility isn’t optional.

By Mike Barton

MedCity Influencers

AI Made Healthcare Smarter – The Next Step is Making It Simpler

A newly diagnosed person experiences healthcare as a complicated maze of physicians, specialists, pharmacies, insurers, deductibles, formularies, prior authorizations, benefit explanations and coverage rules that rarely speak to one another and often contradict each other. Better AI can help.

By Sage Khanuja

The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices

Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.

By Michael Blackman, MD, MBA Chief Medical Officer, Greenway Health®

Hospitals

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Hospitals Take CVS to Court Over Alleged $250M 340B Scheme

Three health systems — Mount Sinai, Michigan Medicine and the University of Kansas Health System — are suing CVS Health, alleging its pharmacy benefit manager diverted roughly $250 million in savings from the 340B program through “spread pricing” between 2020 and 2025.

By Katie Adams

Pharma, Legal

Takeda Vows Appeal of $885M Jury Verdict in ‘Pay-for-Delay’ Antitrust Case

Pharmacies and wholesalers claimed Takeda Pharmaceutical delayed generic competition from entering the market, forcing them to overpay for a gastrointestinal drug. Takeda said the trial had “evidentiary and legal errors,” and the company will appeal the verdict.

By Frank Vinluan

Employee Benefits, Consumer / Employer

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What Trends Are Shaping the Dental and Vision Benefits Market?

Selective contracting, use of AI, networking volatility and interest in value-based care are some of the larger trends affecting the dental and vision benefits market.

By Arundhati Parmar

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Timing Meets Context: Aligning Patients and Providers with AI-Enabled Omnichannel Engagement

When awareness is timely, aligned, and delivered through trusted channels, such as EHR systems or digital media, it strengthens every step of the patient journey, especially understanding potential options such as ground-breaking clinical trials or targeted diagnostic testing.

By Aaron Noll

MedCity Influencers

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AI in Digital Health, From Early Detection to Responsible Deployment

When structured oversight meets practical innovation, the result is systems that are not only technically sound but actually usable.

By Avinash Maddineni

MedCity Influencers

Workforce of the Future: Supporting Frontline Heroes

As demand for long-term care rises, workforce stability is no longer just an operational concern. It is increasingly a direct measure of care quality itself. Organizations that fail to recognize this shift risk undermining both outcomes and access.

By Avi Philipson

Legal, Policy, Providers

Providers Sound Alarm After RFK Jr. Fires Top USPSTF Leaders

Healthcare providers and researchers are warning that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s firing of two USPSTF vice chairs could politicize one of the nation’s most influential preventive care panels.

By Katie Adams

Health Tech, Consumer / Employer

Will Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Wellness Appeal to Employers?

Employer advocates said Cost Plus Wellness could help spur more direct contracting and transparency in healthcare, though they questioned whether the model can scale and adequately measure provider quality and outcomes.

By Marissa Plescia