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| Aug 13, 2026 | One in Five Adults Withholds Health Problems From Doctors; AI Chatbots May Unlock Disclosure | By Otis D. Sheehan
Published: Aug 13 2026, 2:59 PM EDT
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| Aug 10, 2026 | Borrowers trust AI more than they trust you | Last month, Claude (AI) told me to get to an emergency room immediately. It wasn’t the first time the two of us had an “emergency” on our hands. This time it was a dissected artery in my neck. In reality, I’d probably just slept wrong.
So n... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | How many Americans can afford high-quality healthcare? A new poll finds the number has fallen | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Twannetta Weaver felt like she made the responsible choice when she enrolled in a high-deductible health insurance plan through her emplo... |
| May 20, 2026 | Surescripts Expands Prior Authorization Automation: Slashing Prescription Approval Times as New CMS Interoperability Rules Loom
Surescripts Expands Prior Authorization Automation: Slashing Prescription Approval Times as New CMS Interoperability Rules Loom | What You Should Know
Surescripts has expanded its Prior Authorization Automation solution, increasing the number of enabled clinicians by 50% since December 2025 to reach 68,000 prescribers across 42 major health systems.
Automated prior au... |
| Apr 30, 2026 | AHA and West Health launch national accelerator to scale technology-enabled patient care solutions | The AHA and the West Health Institute April 29 announced a new three-year initiative to help hospitals and health systems operationalize and scale proven technologies across care environments to improve patient outcomes and support care tea... |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Millions of Americans are talking to AI about health, and some are dangerously skipping real doctors | Google used to be the go-to service for people who wanted to learn about their health conditions. The tide has been slowly shifting with more and more users turning to AI for their health-related queries.
According to new research from the ... |
| Oct 30, 2024 | NEW COMPARISON: U.S. Drugs 2x to 9x Pricier than Canada | US v Canada Drug Prices 2024.10
While American Access to Affordable Medication Stands at New Low of 55%, Brand-name Prescription Drug Prices Are 50% to 90% Less Expensive from Canada
Millions of Americans, who’ve found themselves up against... |
| Oct 29, 2024 | National Politics | Voters fret high medical bills are being ignored by presidential rivals | Two in 3 U.S. adults in a recent nationwide poll by West Health and Gallup said they’re concerned a major health event would land them in debt. A similar share said health care isn’t getting enough attention in the campaign.
To better under... |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Americans spend more on health care than any other nation. Yet almost half can't afford care. | Protest outside UnitedHealthcare headquarters ends in arrests
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Americans spend more money on health care on a per capita basis than people in any other developed nation, yet... |
| Jun 5, 2024 |
Gallup survey shows deep discomfort among Americans about retirement | Only 15 percent of U.S. adults believe the nation will be able to adequately care for its aging population, and nearly three-quarters (73%) of adults under the age of 65 are concerned that the Medicare program may not exist by the time they... |
| May 17, 2024 | America is hurtling toward a gray trap | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
It's little surprise that America is rapidly getting older — but now that we're at the brink of that demographic shift's major consequences, we're still completely unprepared.
Why ... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | THE TELEDENTISTS IS DESIGNATED AS A LEADER IN AGE-INCLUSIVE TELEHEALTH DELIVERY | The TeleDentists
The TeleDentists is the top, nationwide, teledental company in the United States.
Dental-Medical Integration
Joining over 50 health systems, advocates, and philanthropy leaders across the nation, The TeleDentists pledges co... |
| Dec 1, 2022 | The Sorry State of American Healthcare | Photo by Markus Frieauff on Unsplash
American healthcare is failing.
This isn’t just a personal opinion; it is the finding of a deep survey just released by Gallup and West Health.
On all the key measures, Americans graded the health sys... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Medicare is going to cap patients’ spending on drugs. But there’s no such limit for hospital or doctor bills | By 2025, people on Medicare who take expensive medications will feel significant financial relief: They will not have to pay more than $2,000 in a year for all of their drugs.
But the 35 million people who are enrolled in the traditional Me... |
| Oct 3, 2022 | See the 11-slide pitch deck that Lyfegen used to win over investors on its approach to lower drug costs | Lyfegen CEO Girisha Fernando. Lyfegen This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Exorbitantly high prices can prevent patients from accessing lifesaving drugs.
Lyfegen hopes to solve... |
| Dec 17, 2020 | VaxMap shows how far you’ll have to drive to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot | The VaxMap displays how far people have to drive to get to a COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
Image: University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and the West Health Policy Center
State officials need to consider mobile vaccination clinics to ma... |
| Dec 16, 2019 | New drug development: ‘It’s the ecosystem, stupid’ | A trio of biopharma observers recently published in STAT an analysis relevant to the ongoing drug pricing debate in Washington. The response has not been pretty. In short, the authors suggest that since two reviewed pharmaceutical companies... |
| Aug 13, 2019 | Loveland Health Care Financing Startup Closes $1.75M Round | As the cost of health care rises, Americans are increasingly faced with difficult decisions related to their medical bills.
For those that choose to move forward with the sometimes expensive care, loans are often the only path forward. In t... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | Nonprofit generic drugmaker run by hospital groups opens for business | “We are creating a public asset with a mission to ensure that essential generic medications are accessible and affordable,” VanTrieste said in a statement. “The fact that a third of the country’s hospitals have either expressed interest or ... |
| Jan 10, 2017 | Meals on Wheels tries to help keep seniors out of hospitals | After putting the food away, Kelly chatted with Case about his experience as a folk musician. As they talked in his living room, Case, CEO of San Diego County’s Meals on Wheels program, glanced around for hazards that could cause Kelly to f... |
| Oct 26, 2016 | ENGAGE: 5 takeaways from MedCity’s patient engagement conference | Many things stood out for me from this year’s event including the widespread acceptance of the value of engagement, expansion of participants across the healthcare ecosystem, diversity of the speakers and participants, the personalization o... |
| Jul 7, 2015 | West Health CEO retiring; here’s what he’s accomplished | Valeriani, formerly a Johnson & Johnson executive, joined West Health in September 2012. His last day will be Sept. 4. Lyford has been part of West Health since its establishment in 2009, and she also was on the founding team of the Wes... |
| Jun 2, 2015 | 5 powerful speeches that changed medicine for the better | This post is sponsored by MedCity ENGAGE.
Healthcare today is about new ideas, new players, new approaches and new tech. But in the past few years only a handful of visionaries have delivered to clearly outline where all this “new” is going... |
| Feb 3, 2015 | West Health CEO on what kinds of healthcare cost-lowering startups he’s after | Valeriani says West Health’s more mission-driven than typical venture capital firms – that “the calculus to evaluate the effectiveness of our fund isn’t solely financial.” Returns are fed back into the West Health endowment, which funds the... |
| Jan 6, 2015 | Implantable continuous glucose monitor moves closer to market with $12M Series C | Continuous glucose monitors are in hot demand from diabetics: Even the most diligent finger sticking doesn’t give patients a complete picture of how their blood sugar peaks and valleys. But current models of CGMs involve an externally-worn ... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | Improving medical errors by making interoperability a reality | Share your thoughts in the comments below, or send your story about medical errors and interoperability to [email protected].
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| Dec 3, 2014 | Do we need a National Patient Safety Board? | Share your thoughts in the comments below, or send your story about medical errors and interoperability to [email protected].
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Joe Smith: Yo... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | Why closed HIT systems are going the way of the dinosaur (and how to avoid extinction) | So why don’t systems and devices communicate with each other? It’s not a question of innovation. In fact, there is no technological reason that our medical devices and systems cannot communicate with each other. The largest obstacle to an i... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Two AirStrip customers take part in $25M fundraise to move into home health market | Gary and Mary West Health Investment Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Wellcome Trust led the investment round. Leerink Partners also took part in the financing.
Update In a phone interview with MedCity News, Portela said this year it has been ram... |
| May 15, 2014 | Analysis: More transparency (especially for employers & docs) could save healthcare $100B | 1. Require private health plans to provide personalized out-of-pocket expense information to members
One study last year found that 98 percent of health plans say they offer cost calculator tools, but only 2 percent of members use them. Par... |
| Mar 27, 2014 | An interactive physical therapy tool attracts $7.5M from West Health Fund | The investment in the San Diego-based company, is designed to help the company ramp up its engineering, product development and customer support teams. It will also help finance additional research studies.
A research study with the Center ... |
| Feb 13, 2014 | Would value-based insurance be a viable alternative for people with chronic conditions? | Healthcare reform is encouraging a lot of experimentation with health insurance, particularly as payers try to reduce healthcare costs, particularly among patients with chronic conditions. A new study led by West Health Policy Center, with ... |
| Oct 10, 2013 | No catheter, no cuff: FDA clears Sotera Wireless’ continuous noninvasive blood pressure technology | The ViSi Mobile System, a wrist-worn monitor that measures vital signs and is designed to be used in ambulatory, non-ICU clinical settings, and was FDA-cleared in 2012. The company also boasts partnerships with Intermountain Health and Refl... |
| Oct 30, 2012 | HIT firm raises $4.25M to develop Kinect game that could be prescribed for rehab | The concept of prescribing software programs isn’t a new one. New York-based Happtique has been recruiting for a prescription apps pilot program that includes physical therapy as well as areas such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and pers... |
| Sep 14, 2012 | GlySens Receives Investment from the West Health Investment Fund | GlySens, a San Diego, CA-based company that is developing an implantable, long-term continuous glucose monitoring sensor, has received an investment from the West Health Investment Fund.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
Co-f... |
| Sep 12, 2012 | RxAnte Raises Series A Financing | RxAnte, Inc., a McLean, VA-based health care improvement company providing a new and innovative approach for improving medication adherence, has raised a Series A financing.
The round – whose amount was not disclosed – was led by Aberdare V... |
| Implantable continuous glucose monitor moves closer to market with $12M Series C | San Diego startup GlySens says its implantable continuous glucose monitor is in the homestretch: It has a few more developmental tweaks to finish on its diabetes-tracking device, and just closed a $12 million Series C that’ll help get it ma... |
| 5 powerful speeches that changed medicine for the better | This post is sponsored by MedCity ENGAGE.
Healthcare today is about new ideas, new players, new approaches and new tech. But in the past few years only a handful of visionaries have delivered to clearly outline where all this “new” is going... |
| Why closed HIT systems are going the way of the dinosaur (and how to avoid extinction) | When I became the chief executive of West Health after 34 years at Johnson & Johnson, I asked my new colleagues why any company would give up the competitive advantage of a proprietary system. Having served as J&J’s worldwide chairm... |
| No catheter, no cuff: FDA clears Sotera Wireless’ continuous noninvasive blood pressure technology | No more catheter, no more cuff for monitoring patient vital signs? Sotera Wireless announced the FDA has given 510(k) clearance to its continuous non-invasive blood pressure (cNIBP) technology, a new feature of its ViSi Mobile patient monit... |
| Would value-based insurance be a viable alternative for people with chronic conditions? | Healthcare reform is encouraging a lot of experimentation with health insurance, particularly as payers try to reduce healthcare costs, particularly among patients with chronic conditions. A new study led by West Health Policy Center, with ... |
| Meals on Wheels tries to help keep seniors out of hospitals | Debbie Case, CEO of the Meals on Wheels San Diego County, delivers lunch and dinner to 75-year-old David Kelly. Kelly lost his sight about two years ago and reluctantly gave up cooking.
Debbie Case held an insulated bag with two packaged me... |
| Analysis: More transparency (especially for employers & docs) could save healthcare $100B | Although the need for healthcare price transparency for consumers seems to get the most attention, cost information will likely have a bigger financial impact when it’s made accessible to other stakeholders, like clinicians and employers.
S... |
| Do we need a National Patient Safety Board? | To mark the anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s watershed report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” the West Health Institute’s West Wire blog is running a series of interviews between its chief science and medical of... |
| HIT firm raises $4.25M to develop Kinect game that could be prescribed for rehab | A healthcare IT startup is developing physical rehabilitation software that could be prescribed by doctors or physical therapists.
Reflexion Health has raised $4.25 million from the West Health Investment Fund for its Rehabilitation Tracker... |
| An interactive physical therapy tool attracts $7.5M from West Health Fund | Digital health startup Reflexion Health wants to make prescribed physical therapy more engaging and easier for patients recovering from surgery with reduced mobility. It secured $7.5 million in Series A funding from West Health Institute’s ... |
| Majority wants Medicare to be able to negotiate drug prices | As Congress debates cutting prescription drug costs, a poll released Tuesday found the vast majority of adults — regardless of their political party or age — support letting the federal government negotiate drug prices for Medicare benefici... |
| ENGAGE: 5 takeaways from MedCity’s patient engagement conference | From left to right Sunnie Southern, Viable Synergy; Juliet Preston, reporter, MedCity News; Emily Washcovick, manager of business outreach, Yelp; Jennifer Balanky, manager of digital content, Sharp HealthCare
I have attended MedCity’s annua... |
| Improving medical errors by making interoperability a reality | To mark the anniversary of the Institute of Medicine’s watershed report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” the West Health Institute’s West Wire blog is running a series of interviews between its chief science and medical of... |
| Nonprofit generic drugmaker run by hospital groups opens for business | A coalition of hospital groups made good on its plan to set up a nonprofit generic drugmaker Thursday.
Civica Rx has been formally established as a nonprofit organization headquartered in Utah. Seven health organizations representing 500 ho... |
| West Health CEO on what kinds of healthcare cost-lowering startups he’s after | The West Health Investment Fund is way more mission-driven than your standard VC, or so says CEO Nick Valeriani. The fund cherrypicks startups aimed at lowering the costs of healthcare, he says – and while financial gains are great, it’s mo... |
| Two AirStrip customers take part in $25M fundraise to move into home health market | Updated AirStrip, a mobile health company that makes clinical data accessible on smartphones and other mobile devices, has raised $25 million in strategic capital, according to a company statement. The funding will help the company move int... |
| West Health CEO retiring; here’s what he’s accomplished | Nick Valeriani will retire as CEO of West Health later this summer, the organization announced Tuesday. He will be replaced by current COO Shelley Lyford, who also is president and CEO the Gary and Mary West Foundation, the entity that spon... |
