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From AI and antitrust to drug pricing and vaccines, a wave of lawsuits could reshape healthcare policy and business. Fierce Healthcare looks at what's at stake and where the cases stand fiercehealthcare.com/special…

Healthcare's high-stakes courtroom battles

Healthcare is facing a wave of high-stakes litigation that could redefine drug pricing, insurance oversight, health technology competition, AI deployment, labor policy and public health regulation....

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Readily secures $11M series A to continue building out AI regulatory compliance platform bit.ly/4ysHG5Z

Readily secures $11M series A to continue building out AI regulatory compliance platform

Artificial intelligence compliance platform Readily

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Probably Genetic raises $12M to scale rare disease dataset, support drug discovery bit.ly/4s3ziYR

Probably Genetic raises $12M to scale rare disease dataset, support drug discovery

Probably Genetic, an AI platform powering the research, diagnosis and treatment of genetic diseases, has raised $12 million in series A funding, Fierce Healthcare has learned. | The company’s core...

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Allara raises $30M to expand virtual women's healthcare across the continuum bit.ly/4hY7Kj4

Allara raises $30M to expand virtual women's healthcare across the continuum

Allara, a virtual women’s health provider, has raised $30 million.  | Since its expansion nationwide last year, Allara has added urgent care visits, brought on more internal medicine providers and...

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AI, tech leaders are lobbying Trump health officials in a government-run chat room bit.ly/4i1DqUG

AI, tech leaders are lobbying Trump health officials in a government-run chat room

A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and othe |...

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Confido Health nabs $12.5M to scale agentic AI across PE-backed medical groups bit.ly/4yY1pvu

Confido Health nabs $12.5M to scale agentic AI across PE-backed medical groups

Confido Health is expanding beyond AI voice agents to build out an agentic AI operating system that can execute administrative workflows across a medical practice. | The company secured a $12.5...

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Epic teams up with Amazon Pharmacy, LillyDirect and Mark Cuban to launch prescription drug pricing tool bit.ly/4s9t3CP

Epic teams up with Amazon Pharmacy, Eli Lilly and Mark Cuban to launch prescription drug pricing...

Epic is partnering with Amazon Pharmacy, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs, Costco and Eli Lilly’s LillyDirect to develop a tool that lets clinicians and patients compare prescription drug prices. | Epic is...

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Thoreau-backed Ensemble, Penelope Health partner to bring payer policy intelligence into RCM bit.ly/3U40tGy

Thoreau-backed Ensemble, Penelope Health partner to bring payer policy intelligence into RCM

Two Thoreau-backed healthcare companies are partnering to bring real-time payer policy intelligence into revenue cycle workflows. | Two Thoreau-backed healthcare companies are partnering to bring...

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.@Google unveils new Fitbit Edge tracker as tech giant expands health monitoring ambitions bit.ly/4jpbrkm

Google unveils new Fitbit Edge tracker as tech giant expands health monitoring ambitions

Google on Monday debuted its second Fitbit tracker of the year, the Fitbit Edge, which sits between the screenless health tracker Fitbit Air and the more advanced Pixel Watch. | The new device also...

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.@AbridgeHQ, University of Texas System enter enterprise-wide agreement for expanded AI-enabled care bit.ly/4ioq0mY

Abridge, University of Texas System enter enterprise-wide agreement for expanded AI-enabled care

Abridge is expanding its clinical AI platform across the University of Texas System through an enterprise-wide agreement with UT REAL Health AI, building on a pilot that has grown significantly ove |...

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People with serious mental illness often face significant barriers to getting the care they need. This week on "Podnosis," we explore a new approach to treating serious mental illness that integrates mental and physical healthcare. bit.ly/4s3A4VL

Integrating care for people with serious mental illness

Serious mental illness (SMI) is challenging to address. | People with serious mental illness often face significant barriers to getting the care they need. In this week's episode of "Podnosis," we...

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.@Humana rebounds, @Aetna slips: Winners and losers in the 2027 MA star ratings bit.ly/4s3kiu1

Humana rebounds, Aetna slips: Winners and losers in the 2027 MA star ratings

Federal regulators released the hotly anticipated star ratings for the 2027 Medicare Advantage plan year. Winners and losers have emerged in the data. | Federal regulators released the hotly antici...

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Weekly Rundown: Nextech taps Assort Health, EliseAI for agentic AI; Elsevier rolls out clinical AI tool for nurses bit.ly/4imjIUV

Weekly Rundown: Nextech taps Assort Health, EliseAI for agentic AI; Elsevier rolls out clinical AI...

Stay up to date on the latest in health tech, digital health and health AI news with this weekly brief. Read below for news from the week of Oct. 5 to 9. | The latest news from Nextech, Assort...

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Elevance Health Foundation launched a prize program for patient safety initiatives. Here's why bit.ly/4jZEZFf

Elevance Health Foundation launched a prize program for patient safety initiatives. Here's why

The Elevance Health Foundation has launched a new prize program aimed at supporting solutions aimed at improving patient safety, with the first crop of winners targeting challenges like health lite |...

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Oracle Health data breach in 2025 compromised data of 20M people: report bit.ly/4yqY32T

Oracle Health data breach in 2025 compromised data of 20M people: report

A 2025 data breach of Oracle Health’s legacy Cerner system compromised personal information belonging to nearly 20 million people, Bloomberg

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As prior auth becomes an AI ‘arms race,’ Otter Health raises $8M for a different approach. The startup built an AI-powered real-time clinical quality platform for what it calls "smarter" utilization management bit.ly/4zziU4X

As prior auth becomes an AI ‘arms race,’ Otter Health raises $8M for a different approach

Prior authorization has long been a source of friction between payers and providers, and now, with algorithmic tools for claims reviews and LLMs for appeals, it's evolved into an AI "arms race" as |...

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Suki secures $90M in series E funding to accelerate growth, expand AI capabilities bit.ly/47EdSZf

Suki secures $90M in series E funding to accelerate growth, expand AI capabilities

Suki secured $90 million in series E funding to accelerate its growth and expand its artificial intelligence capabilities. | The funding announcement comes less than a week after the company launched...

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Big-ticket hospital deals are becoming the M&A story of 2026 bit.ly/4jiebzQ

Big-ticket hospital deals are becoming the M&A story of 2026

An ongoing procession of large-scale health system dealmaking continued through the third quarter and is becoming the dominant merger and acquisition trend for 2026, according to a recent report.&n |...

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.@Humana, BlackRock strike $2.8B deal to manage CenterWell clinics bit.ly/4s5SK7u

Humana, BlackRock strike $2.8B deal to manage CenterWell clinics

Humana will enter into a joint venture with investment firm BlackRock to manage and operate its CenterWell primary care clinics for seniors. | Humana will enter a joint venture with investment firm...

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.@HopkinsMedicine taps @OpenEvidence to bring AI into medical education, clinical care bit.ly/4z8mIup

Johns Hopkins Medicine taps OpenEvidence to bring AI into medical education, clinical care

Johns Hopkins Medicine is teaming up with OpenEvidence to advance the use of artificial intelligence in medical education and clinical care. | Johns Hopkins Medicine is teaming up with OpenEvidence...

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.@UnitedHealthGrp's financial turnaround continues to gain momentum, with progress at Optum Health once again in the spotlight during the third quarter. The healthcare giant reported $4.1 billion in profit in Q3 bit.ly/4yP3w4q

UnitedHealth Group execs detail continued improvements at Optum Health

UPDATED: Oct. 13 at 1:30 p.m. ET | Another round of healthcare industry earnings reports kicked off Tuesday morning, with UnitedHealth Group reporting $4.1 billion in profit for the third quarter.

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