Healthcare

Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals in allied health fields.

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Amazon Goes for a Drive; Walmart Leans Into Health and Wellness
Amazon Goes for a Drive; Walmart Leans Into Health and Wellness
January 09, 2025  |  Retail

Amazon and Walmart are each carving out new territories in response to consumer demands, but their approaches are quite different. Amazon is focusing on the...

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Hippocratic AI Debuts App Store for Health-Focused Agents
Hippocratic AI Debuts App Store for Health-Focused Agents
January 09, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare-focused firm Hippocratic AI debuted an app store for its artificial intelligence agents. The Healthcare AI Agent App Store lets clinicians craft AI agents to...

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Banning Medical Debt From Credit Reports May Have Unintended Consequences
Banning Medical Debt From Credit Reports May Have Unintended Consequences
January 08, 2025  |  Consumer Finance

The promise of eliminating medical debt from credit reports — per the finalized rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — is that consumers’...

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How Important Are Pharmacists in Getting Consumers to Use Traditional Drugstores?
How Important Are Pharmacists in Getting Consumers to Use Traditional Drugstores?
January 07, 2025  |  Retail

In the past decade, the U.S. has seen a dramatic decline in the number of drugstores, with nearly 30% of them disappearing from the retail...

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AI Medical Note-Taking Apps Enjoy Healthy Wave of Investment
AI Medical Note-Taking Apps Enjoy Healthy Wave of Investment
January 05, 2025  |  Healthcare

Last year was a good one for artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical note-taking apps. Investment in these apps doubled in 2024, the Financial Times (FT) reported...

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Paperless Progress Made in Healthcare as Flexible Financing Gains Traction
Paperless Progress Made in Healthcare as Flexible Financing Gains Traction
December 31, 2024  |  Healthcare

Transforming healthcare — in terms of payments efficiencies, so that providers get paid and patients are able to handle the financial responsibilities tied to getting...

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From Omnichannel to Open Banking: PYMNTS’ Most Quotable Quotes of 2024
From Omnichannel to Open Banking: PYMNTS’ Most Quotable Quotes of 2024
December 31, 2024  |  Connected Economy

Here at PYMNTS our main focus is exactly what the name says. But to our CEO Karen Webster’s credit, she saw that the digital shift...

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Carecode Raises $4.3 Million for AI-Powered Customer Service in Healthcare
Carecode Raises $4.3 Million for AI-Powered Customer Service in Healthcare
December 30, 2024  |  Healthcare

Brazilian startup Carecode has closed a pre-seed round to support the development of its service that uses conversational artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver customer service...

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PYMNTS 2024: Insights From Innovators, Retailers and Industry Trailblazers
PYMNTS 2024: Insights From Innovators, Retailers and Industry Trailblazers
December 26, 2024  |  Innovation

PYMNTS conducts thousands of interviews a year, some with the usual suspects of banks, card networks and FinTechs that define the financial services space, and...

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