Cutting down on administrative costs in the U.S. healthcare industry has become a major focus over the last several years, with billions of dollars in savings to be had from automation and centralizing claims records.

Several issues with AI can “make people suspicious” of the technology when applied to healthcare, according to the Consumer Technology Association.

Hospitals and health systems are facing an uphill battle for the foreseeable future when it comes to getting their finances back on track from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new findings from Kaufman Hall. 

Oscar Health, the technology-based health insurer co-founded by Josh Kushner, is preparing to launch an initial public offering.

International Business Machines Corp. is looking into dealing its AI-pioneering Watson Health unit so the parent can move more nimbly into cloud computing, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

An Israeli AI startup has been cleared to market COVID-detecting voice analysis software in Europe, according to No Camels.

Healthcare mergers and acquisition activity fell 13% in 2020, reflecting a significantly subdued economy due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

An AI startup’s virtual-patient technology is good enough at teaching empathy to clinicians that it’s already in use at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the National Health Service in Britain and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.