Digital health is entering a more mature phase in 2026 as consolidation accelerates through targeted M&A, driven by the need for scale, artificial intelligence and pressure from payers, investors say.

Included Health is launching an alternative health plan centered on primary care, AI support, price transparency and easier navigation.

Providers’ rapid adoption of AI is pushing payers to accelerate their own use of administrative AI tools, with health plans looking for ways to keep pace and manage the growing complexity of claims ...

Three-quarters of the nation’s healthcare providers and payers say they have increased their IT spending over the past year, according to a report released Tuesday by Bain & Company and KLAS Research.

Epic’s lawsuit against Health Gorilla is less about one alleged data misuse scheme and more about a deeper fault line in healthcare interoperability: data can move faster than the rules governing it.

As the mental health crisis in the U.S. grows, mental health professionals are increasingly struggling due to workforce shortages. More than half of therapists report having feelings of burnout. And ...

As OpenAI and Anthropic move deeper into healthcare, experts say AI chatbots are becoming the new front door to medicine. This shift is shaking things up for some health tech startups, redefining the ...

A rare, inherited endocrine disorder whose standard treatments are steroids that introduce a wide range of side effects now has a new FDA-approved therapy, a non-steroidal Neurocrine Biosciences drug ...

GSK is expanding its prospects in hepatology, paying $1.2 billion to acquire a drug that goes after a clinically validated liver target but with a dosing advantage that could give it a competitive ...

Less than one-fifth of U.S. adults know the cost of their healthcare products and services prior to receiving them, according to the results of a new Gallup poll. The results were released this month ...

Spend a few minutes with someone in EMS, fire service, or healthcare, and you’ll likely hear some version of the same concerns: call volumes increasing, crews stretched thin, and many of the systems ...

Kaiser Permanente announced a significant AI partnership this week aimed at enhancing value-based care. The West Coast-based health system is deploying Innovaccer’s healthcare AI platform and ...