GoodRx Expands Access to Eli Lilly and Company’s New Oral GLP-1, Foundayo™, and Zepbound® KwikPen® with Self-Pay Pricing at More...
GoodRx announced a partnership with Eli Lilly to offer the newly FDA‑approved oral GLP‑1 drug Foundayo (orforglipron) at a self‑pay price of $149 per month. The platform is also rolling out self‑pay pricing for Lilly’s injectable Zepbound (tirzepatide) KwikPen at $299 per month, available through more than 70,000 pharmacies nationwide. By providing transparent cash pricing, GoodRx aims to bypass insurance barriers and expand access to weight‑management therapies. The move reflects a broader industry shift toward direct‑to‑consumer drug distribution models.
CDRH Targets Hospital Readmissions with Home Device Innovation Challenge
The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) launched the Reducing Readmissions through Device Innovation for the Home Innovation Challenge to spur home‑based medical devices that can lower hospital readmissions. Nine devices will be chosen by Dec 4, 2026, and the...
Econet InfraCo Provides Rural Clinics with Free Solar Energy
Econet InfraCo, the infrastructure arm of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, is supplying free solar power to rural clinics located within five kilometres of its telecom base stations. The scheme, launched in 2025, taps existing tower infrastructure to run vaccine refrigerators and...
The Invisible Implementation: Why Healthcare IT Needs to Shift From Vendors to Partners
The article urges healthcare IT leaders to treat implementations as partnerships rather than vendor transactions. It stresses that successful rollouts begin weeks before the kickoff with detailed mapping of services, requirements, and dependencies. By using transparent roadmaps, parallel workstreams, and...
EClinicalWorks Launches Production Support for CMS ‘Kill the Clipboard’ Initiative
eClinicalWorks announced production support for the CMS “Kill the Clipboard” initiative, enabling paper‑less patient intake through QR‑code scanning with its eClinicalMobile app. When patients arrive, a secure QR code pulls verified medical records from interoperability networks and populates the EHR...
I Tried Ozempic. This Is What You Need to Know.
A dietitian purchased Ozempic through an online telehealth service by simply misrepresenting her medical history, exposing how lax verification enables easy access to GLP‑1 drugs. She kept the medication in her fridge, later self‑administered a 0.25 mg dose, and reflected on...
AI-Driven Precision Care Is the Fix for Our Health System’s Failures
Primary care physicians face chronic time constraints, often resorting to rushed exams and delayed specialist referrals that exacerbate patient outcomes. AI‑driven precision care tools act as intelligent clinical assistants, surfacing relevant chart data, suggesting differential diagnoses, and drafting evidence‑based treatment...
Mount Sinai Unveils Real-Time Intraocular Pressure Monitoring in Glaucoma Surgery
Mount Sinai researchers unveiled miDOC, a micro‑interventional device that continuously measures intraocular pressure, flow, outflow facility and ocular compliance during glaucoma surgery. In the first 20 first‑in‑human cases, surgeons accessed real‑time biometric feedback and could adjust their technique on the...
Laura Blair: Rethinking Hub Efficiency and the Role of AI in Patient Support
ConnectiveRx’s chief commercial officer Laura Blair says specialty‑pharma patient‑support hubs are under‑utilized, with only 10‑15% of eligible patients engaging. She attributes the gap to design and access flaws rather than technology, noting that cumbersome enrollment and regulatory hurdles deter usage....
Google Pledges $30 Million to Upgrade Gemini AI for Real‑time Mental‑health Support
Google announced a $30 million investment through its Google.org charity to add a one‑click crisis‑hotline module to Gemini, its AI assistant. The upgrade will surface immediate help resources when users show signs of distress and includes new safeguards for minors, marking...
Algorithm Drives Blood Pressure Control Across UC Health Centers
The University of California’s six academic medical centers deployed the UC Way Hypertension Medication Algorithm, raising blood‑pressure control from 68.5% to nearly 74% among roughly 90,000 patients. A two‑year BMJ Open Quality study showed the improvement translates to about 4,860 additional...
Neurofeedback Game AlphaRise Targets Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Ned Shoaei unveiled AlphaRise, a 2‑D brain‑computer interface game, at Cedars‑Sinai’s vMed conference. The game uses EEG feedback to classify five fatigue states and offers five‑minute sessions designed for people with multiple sclerosis. Early survey data suggest strong patient interest...
Blockchain For Impact Launches $50-M Innovation Platform for Medtech Ecosystem
Blockchain For Impact (BFI) has unveiled a $50 million Innovation Full Stack platform aimed at accelerating biomedical and MedTech development in India. The initiative, anchored by the Nailwal MedTech Acceleration Hub, offers early‑stage innovators access to prototyping facilities, engineering expertise, material‑science resources, and...
Sir Demis Hassabis Wants to Automate Drug Design
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reiterates his ambition to automate drug design using artificial intelligence. After AlphaFold earned the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein‑folding predictions, DeepMind is now channeling its expertise into generative models that can design therapeutic molecules...
Accelerating Into Fraud
MEDVi, a two‑person telehealth startup, is projected to generate $1.8 billion in 2026 by selling compounded GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs through the white‑labeled OpenLoop platform. The company relies heavily on AI‑generated marketing, virtual doctors, and automated customer service to drive sales. A...
How Texas Children’s Saved $14M with Zebra RFID Solutions: RFID Journal Case Study
Texas Children’s Hospital partnered with Zebra Technologies and Tecsys to install an RFID‑powered pharmacy system, replacing manual counts with real‑time tracking. The new workflow slashed medication tagging time from two minutes to seven seconds and lifted cabinet inventory accuracy to...
Why the New NHS Financial Year Must Fund Stability Today and Digital Maturity for Tomorrow
The NHS’s 2026/27 budget must adopt a dual‑track strategy that safeguards core clinical services while ring‑fencing funds for digital transformation. Richard Oswald of Exponential‑e argues that electronic records, interoperable platforms and secure infrastructure are no longer optional but essential for...
Why Cleveland Clinic Chose This AI Startup To Rewire Key Healthcare Operations
Cleveland Clinic has teamed with San Francisco AI startup Luminai to automate its complex referral workflow, a high‑volume administrative task that still relies on faxed documents. Luminai, fresh from a $38 million Series B that brings its total capital to about $60 million, is...
From Reactive to Proactive: Building the Digital Front Door for the NHS
In a video interview, Mark Ratnarajah, a paediatrician and UK Managing Director at Sword Intelligence, outlines how Agentic AI is being deployed as a digital front door for the NHS. The technology promises a 74% cut in delivery costs and...
AI Is Speeding up Time to Insight in Value-Based Care
AI is accelerating the time to insight for value‑based care contracts, according to Brian Overstreet, CEO of Arbital Health. Risk‑based agreements generate massive, complex data sets that traditionally require weeks of manual analysis. Arbital’s AI platform rapidly sifts through this...
This Experimental New Treatment May Revolutionize Cancer Care
Researchers have engineered a heat‑activated, graphene‑copper patch that functions like a band‑aid to treat early‑stage melanoma. In laboratory cultures the patch released copper ions that killed most melanoma cells, and a 10‑day mouse study showed a 97% reduction in lesions...
Guideways Launches AI Platform to Get Life-Changing Medical Devices to Patients Faster
Guideways has launched an agentic AI platform designed to streamline FDA approval for medical devices. The system deploys three specialized AI agents—FDA Sherpa, FDA Reviewer, and FDA Researcher—to guide teams from concept through submission, leveraging a curated knowledge base of...
When Surgeons Say ‘Wow’: A Game Changer for Orthopaedic Surgery
The SWASH+ NHS consortium has rolled out Sectra’s 3‑D orthopaedic planning software across five trusts, letting surgeons virtually reconstruct fractures before entering the operating theatre. The tool slashes multidisciplinary team (MDT) preparation time by up to 50% and accelerates pre‑operative...
Gen AI Shows Promise and Peril in Patient-Centered Care, New Review Finds
A new viewpoint in the Journal of Medical Internet Research reviews generative AI’s role in patient‑centered clinical decision support. Funded by AHRQ and led by NORC, the authors categorize four use‑case areas and outline six critical needs for safe integration....
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT Sets Out Digital Delivery Goals and Priorities for 2026/27
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust outlined its 2026/27 digital delivery roadmap, emphasizing data‑driven community health, home‑based technology, and staff productivity. The plan pivots on an electronic patient record, a federated data platform, and positioning the NHS App as...
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB Awards Contract for Digital MSK Self-Management
The Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) has awarded a two‑year, £206,692 (≈ $263,000) contract to getUBetter for a digital musculoskeletal (MSK) self‑management platform. The app, a Class 1 medical device certified by DTAC, will be embedded across...
Waters Expands Cervical Cancer Screening Access with At-Home HPV Test Approval
The U.S. FDA has cleared the Onclarity HPV Self‑Collection Kit and approved the BD Onclarity HPV Assay for at‑home cervical cancer screening. The kit detects every high‑risk HPV genotype, delivering both individual and pooled results, and is processed on the...
How to Use Real-World Data to Improve Drug Development, Starting with the Patient Journey
A new eBook from PurpleLab and MedCity News highlights how real‑world data (RWD) can expose hidden gaps in the non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patient journey, such as missed biomarker testing and transportation barriers. Recent state legislation now requires insurers...
Penn State Health’s DeFlitch & Hijjawi Say Past Lessons Can Help Guide Today’s AI Implementations
In this episode, Penn State Health’s Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Chris DeFlich and Associate CMIO Dr. Shadi Hijawi discuss how past experiences with electronic health record (EHR) implementation can inform today’s rapid rollout of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in...
View mRNA‑CRISPR as Molecular Surgery, Not Drugs
What if we started thinking of mRNA-CRISPR gene editing as molecular surgery, not as a pharmaceutical product? Excellent @nytimes guest essay ⤵️ https://t.co/S61XwNRVZF
Google Teams with Singapore’s AMILI to Launch $584 Personalized Nutrition App
Google and Singapore‑based microbiome startup AMILI announced the end‑April launch of AMILI Optimise, a mobile app that delivers personalized nutrition advice using gut‑microbiome analysis, continuous glucose monitoring and AI. The eight‑week program costs SGD 750 (US $584) or SGD 400 (US $312) during the...
Australian Startup Sonorus Deploys AI to Spot Rheumatic Heart Disease in Minutes
Sonorus, an Australian health‑tech startup, demonstrated an artificial‑intelligence algorithm at SXSW Sydney that can flag rheumatic heart disease from a brief audio recording of heart sounds. The low‑cost tool promises rapid, portable screening for communities where the disease remains prevalent,...
NHS Preps for ‘Large-Scale’ Microsoft Procurement with £50k Benchmarking Exercise
NHS England is commissioning IDC for a 20‑week, £46,000 (~$58,400) benchmarking project to map Microsoft software licensing and pricing. The exercise, running from 13 April to 31 August, is a preparatory step for a large‑scale procurement that could dwarf the current £775 million...
Grail’s $824 Liquid Biopsy Test Sparks Debate Over Accuracy and Cost
A first‑hand account of a $824 Galleri liquid‑biopsy screening test from Grail has ignited a fresh debate over the technology’s clinical value and price point. The test, which claims to detect more than 50 cancers, delivered a 51.5% overall detection...
Say Hello to Honey AI Chatbot — Your Friendly, Reliable Partner for Family Planning Support in English, Hausa, and Yoruba.
Data Science Nigeria, in partnership with DKT International, launched Honey Chatbot—a WhatsApp‑based AI assistant that provides confidential, 24/7 family planning, pregnancy prevention, and birth‑control information. The service supports English, Hausa, and Yoruba, targeting Nigeria’s diverse linguistic landscape. By leveraging conversational...
20 Future Czech HealthTech and MedTech Leaders
The Czech Republic’s healthtech and medtech sectors are shifting from fragmented early‑stage projects to profit‑focused, clinically validated businesses, positioning the country as a global contender. Despite a 7.7% drop in total startup investment to €540 million (≈$589 million) in 2025, the healthtech...
Breathing New Life Into Tubercolosis Treatment with Iinhalable Nanomedicine
Scientists at the University of Witwatersrand’s Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform have created an inhalable nanocarrier that can encapsulate all four first‑line tuberculosis drugs and release them directly in the lungs. The system bypasses the liver and bloodstream, aiming to...
Octopus-Shaped Nanomachine Reprograms ATP Flow to Starve Cancer Cells
Researchers unveiled an octopus‑shaped nanomachine, HSA‑ABC, that anchors to cancer cell membranes and uses an ATP‑sensing aptamer to trigger photodynamic therapy and rapid doxorubicin delivery. The device creates a self‑amplifying cycle: ATP binding activates a photosensitizer, damaging the membrane, which...
Astellas Exercises Option to License Dyno’s AAV Capsid for AI-Designed Gene Delivery
Astellas has exercised its option to license an AI‑engineered adeno‑associated virus (AAV) capsid from Dyno Therapeutics for skeletal muscle gene delivery, marking the first licensed asset from their 2021 partnership. The capsid, created using Dyno’s large‑scale in‑vivo data‑driven AI models,...
Temasek Trust's C3H Leads $1.2M Funding for Singaporean Healthtech Firm Injewelme
Temasek Trust’s Catalytic Capital for Climate and Health (C3H) led a US$1.2 million funding round for Singapore‑based health‑tech firm injewelme. The capital will accelerate deployment of the company’s DeepHealthVision (DHV) platform, which uses remote photoplethysmography and predictive AI to capture more...
Korea to Pilot AI-Driven Telemedicine in Indonesia
South Korea and Indonesia have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch AI‑driven teleconsultation pilots in Indonesia’s remote island communities. The partnership targets AI‑based primary healthcare, including public health, maternal‑child care, mental health, and digital wellness, with involvement from university...
Healthcare Must Be Vigilant to IoT’s Total Costs
Europe’s digital health market is projected to more than double by 2030, accelerating IoT adoption across hospitals, remote‑monitoring programs, and clinical‑trial sites. While IoT promises faster care pathways and richer data, many healthcare organisations underestimate the total cost of ownership,...
Anumana Secures the US FDA 510(k) Clearance for Its ECG-AI Algorithm to Detect Risk of Cardiac Amyloidosis Early
Anumana has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its ECG‑AI algorithm, a software‑as‑a‑medical‑device that screens for cardiac amyloidosis using routine 12‑lead electrocardiograms. The AI model, originally developed at the Mayo Clinic, identifies subtle waveform patterns invisible to clinicians, enabling early risk...
Kent Seeks AI Partner for Musculoskeletal Care
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is set to procure an AI‑driven digital physiotherapy service that will replace traditional musculoskeletal care pathways across the county. The selected UK supplier must provide a standalone, end‑to‑end clinical pathway, handling referral, triage, treatment...
NIHR Fund Leeds AI Expansion
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust will broaden its artificial‑intelligence capabilities after receiving a £1.5 million (≈$1.9 million) award from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The funding will finance a trial of an AI‑enabled handheld cardiac ultrasound device aimed at...
Red-Light Therapy: Breakthrough or Junk Science?
Red‑light therapy is attracting both scientific interest and commercial hype. Recent clinical studies have documented measurable improvements in peripheral neuropathy, retinal degeneration, and certain neurological disorders, leading some professional societies to endorse specific treatment protocols. At the same time, researchers...
Korea OKs First Gen AI-Powered CXR Reporting Tool
South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) granted Class III approval to Soombit.ai’s AIRead‑CXR, the nation’s first generative AI‑powered software for draft chest‑X‑ray reporting. The vision‑language model was trained on more than 14 million chest X‑ray studies and can identify...
AI-Enabled Smart Sensor Identifies Fatigue
Researchers at the National University of Singapore unveiled an AI‑enabled smart sensor that detects fatigue with 92% accuracy, a jump from 64% using conventional sensors. The metahydrogel‑based platform combines nanoparticle vibration damping and liquid filtering to deliver an ECG signal‑to‑noise...
Accenture Acquires Keepler Data Tech, Adding 240 AI Experts to Health‑Data Portfolio
Accenture has bought Spanish cloud‑native AI and data company Keepler Data Tech, bringing more than 240 Keepler professionals into its health‑data analytics practice. The terms were not disclosed, and Accenture’s stock fell 0.83% to $197.30 after the announcement. The deal...
Joint‑on‑Chip Multi‑Sensor Platforms Enable Real‑Time Disease Monitoring
Researchers led by Mantegazza have integrated optical, electrical, mechanical and biochemical sensors into joint‑on‑chip (JoC) platforms, moving beyond endpoint analyses to continuous, real‑time monitoring of disease dynamics. The breakthrough promises more accurate models of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and could...