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Cohere Health Snags $90M to Automate the Much-Maligned Prior Authorization Process

2 days ago | medcitynews.com | Katie Adams

Cohere Health closed a Series C $90 million funding round on Wednesday, taking its total funding to date to $200 million. The Boston-based company, which was founded in 2019, aims to fix the inefficiencies and administrative burden associated with the traditional prior authorization process. By streamlining this process, Cohere seeks to decrease treatment delays and reduce healthcare providers’ workload, said CEO Siva Namasivayam.
What Hospitals Have Learned About Change Management in Digital Health

3 days ago | medcitynews.com | Katie Adams

Hospitals are under pressure to undergo a digital transformation — but success in this arena requires more than just shiny new tools. It demands cultural readiness, frontline buy-in and a clear-eyed view of what success looks like. On Monday during a panel at the Reuters Digital Health conference in Nashville, health system executives shared what they’ve learned about navigating change when implementing new technology.
UPMC Enterprises, Redesign Health Launch New Startup for Chronic Pain Patients

4 days ago | medcitynews.com | Katie Adams

UPMC Enterprises and Redesign Health launched a new startup on Monday that seeks to improve chronic pain management. The startup, named Glimmer Health, is partnering with primary care providers to help them treat ongoing pain in a way that is more personalized and holistic. This announcement marks the second time that UPMC Enterprises — the innovation and commercialization arm of UPMC — and Redesign — a company that creates healthcare startups — have jointly spun out a new venture.
How One Health System Drove Revenue Gains with Ambient Listening

5 days ago | medcitynews.com | Katie Adams

For the past couple of years, clinicians have been singing the praises of generative AI-powered clinical documentation tools, saying that these models give them hours back into their day. Industry leaders agree that these tools are effective for reducing administrative burden among clinical staff, but they’re still figuring out if ambient AI has a financial ROI.
Priority Health Taps Ayble Health to Address GI Disorders

1 week ago | medcitynews.com | Marissa Plescia

Priority Health, a nonprofit health plan, is teaming up with Ayble Health to provide digestive health support to its members, the companies announced on Wednesday. Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Priority Health has more than 1.3 million members. Starting June 1, Priority Health members with a MyPriority HMO or employer health plan will be able to receive virtual gastrointestinal (GI) care through Ayble Health for various conditions like irritable bowel syndrome, constipation or hemorrhoids.
FDA Approves First At-Home Cervical Cancer Test

1 week ago | medcitynews.com | Katie Adams

On Friday, a San Francisco-based startup received FDA approval for the first-ever at-home cervical cancer test. The company, named Teal Health, was founded in 2020 and has raised $23 million. The startup has developed an at-home cervical cancer screening kit, which seeks to give patients an alternative to the in-office pap smear.
Accelerated FDA Approval Makes Verastem Drug the First Therapy for Rare Type of Ovarian Cancer

1 week ago | medcitynews.com | Frank Vinluan

A rare type of ovarian cancer that grows slowly and responds poorly to chemotherapy now has its first FDA-approved treatment, a combination drug developed by Verastem Oncology to address a pathway that drives tumor progression. The approval announced Thursday covers the treatment of low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSOC) driven by a KRAS mutation in adults who have received one prior systemic therapy.
Withings, Babyscripts Team Up to Tackle Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

1 week ago | medcitynews.com | Marissa Plescia

Withings Health Solutions and Babyscripts announced a partnership Thursday that aims to address hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, which are among the leading causes of maternal mortality. This includes preeclampsia, which is high blood pressure that develops during pregnancy or after. Washington, D.C.-based Babyscripts offers a virtual maternity care program that includes perinatal education, remote patient monitoring and mental health assessments.
Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Is Plummeting. How Can It Be Repaired?

1 week ago | medcitynews.com | Katie Adams

Americans’ trust in the overall healthcare system is dwindling — but experts believe it can be rebuilt. Public trust in the U.S. healthcare system fell from 71.5% in 2020 to 40.1% in 2024, according to recent research from Johns Hopkins University.
Startup HAYA Hauls In $65M to Shed Light on the Dark Genome With a Lead Drug for Heart Failure

1 week ago | medcitynews.com | Frank Vinluan

Many drugs available and in development work by targeting proteins, an approach that comes with limitations. For one, proteins are not the root cause of disease, said Samir Ounzain, co-founder and CEO of HAYA Therapeutics. The driver of disease is the response of cells to their environment. Regulation of this response happens in a part of the genome once overlooked and even dismissed by many scientists as junk.