The health-tech newsletter for insiders and operators

Roundup: AI Tensions, Longevity Hype, and the Deals Reshaping Healthcare

This week’s news and headlines unpacked, plus a Q&A with Jacquelyn Miller

Should patients have access to medical-grade AI?

Roundup: Are We Designing Connection or Escaping It? AI, Teens, and the Future of Being Human

Why revenue cycle is the first ‘smash hit’ application for AI

RCM is about to hit its fourth - and potentially final phase

The 9,600 Missed Diagnoses: How Geography Still Shapes Breast Cancer Outcomes

A new Milken Institute report finds that access to early detection in the U.S. still depends on your ZIP code — and that thousands of women are paying the price.

The Great Health Insurance Recalibration

From GLP-1 pricing to cash-pay care, the system is shifting toward a leaner, consumer-driven future — one that rewards those who rethink what insurance is for.

Roundup: In an Era of AI, Should We Train More Doctors?

This week’s news and headlines unpacked, plus a Q&A with Rushika Fernandopulle

The path to patient-facing AI? Follow Waymo’s lead

5 principles for patient-facing AI, according to top clinicians

How Cigna keeps beating the odds

It’s not a good moment to be a health insurer - unless you’re Cigna (at least for now)

Roundup: All the News You Missed from HLTH, Plus a Q&A on the Future of Health Payments

This white paper shows how insane the U.S. healthcare system is

A recently-published analysis shows that provider pricing in the commercial market is essentially random, and there’s no correlation to quality

Employers are driving change for insurance coverage

Practical solutions are coming and we explore 9 of them

Roundup: Dollars, Distribution, and the Deals Shaping Digital Health

More physicians go all-state, spending tilts to digital, and Four Questions with Jessie Beegle on the AI architecture and integrations that matter.