Mayo Clinic is looking to give promising medtech startups a seriously running start. Toward that end, the august institution has launched the new Mayo Venture Partner program. 

Walmart is highlighting food and products eligible for purchase using Medicare Advantage supplemental funds through its app, while also using AI to algorithmically help enrollees build diet-appropriate shopping lists.

Rishi Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil, a cardiologist who also specializes in healthcare policy, spoke to Cardiovascular Business about the good, the bad and the unknown when it comes to private equity's role in cardiology.

The Digital Medicine Society has partnered with organizations such as Duke University and Google Fitbit to leverage wearable technology and smartphone data in reducing opioid relapse and overdose deaths. As the pilot study gets underway, HealthExec speaks with Candice Taguibao, associate program director at the Digital Medicine Society, to learn more about the initiative.

Like remoras hitching a ride on a shark, private businesses are capitalizing on President Trump’s AI-aggressive trip to the Middle East. 

Citing evidence from documents and interviews, the Guardian released an exposé accusing UnitedHealth of directly influencing the day-to-day operations of some 2,000 nursing homes, resulting in patients not receiving necessary emergency care.

Here’s a big thing to watch for in the wake of the President’s flashy Middle East tour: the AI “acceleration partnership” between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates. 

John Simon, MD, is a big advocate for these elective exams, but the American College of Radiology and some members of the specialty oppose this practice.