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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 3h
Hospitals’ Cost Containment Conundrum. In this webinar pharmacy leaders share how hospitals are using stewardship as a sustainability strategy to control costs and ease the load on pharmacists. [Sponsored by Inovalon] ow.ly/LmZZ50ZU8nl
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Hospitals’ Cost Containment Conundrum - MedCity News
In this webinar pharmacy leaders share how hospitals are using stewardship as a sustainability strategy to control costs and ease the load on pharmacists.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 11h
It’s Time We Reframe Healthcare Organizational Culture Using Behavioral Science medcitynews.com/2026/10/its-time-we…
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It’s Time We Reframe Healthcare Organizational Culture Using Behavioral Science
Data, behavioral insights, and experimentation can be used to understand how stress, motivation, and trust shape company culture. Positively changing company culture leads to direct improvements in patient health outcomes, clinician wellbeing, and company performance.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 12h
Translating clinical data into daily behavior change is the ultimate goal of remote care. As VP of Value-Based Care at Withings Health Solutions, Patrick Sheehan will share how to turn continuous monitoring into long-term patient engagement at INVEST Digital Health 2026. ow.ly/bW1c50ZTtFJ
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 01/10/2026
On MedCity FemFwd, Amanda Shafton of OB Hospitalist Group discussed the benefits of physician-midwifery collaboration. Access the full episode here: ow.ly/e3Al50ZTLof
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 01/10/2026
How do we bridge at-home biometric testing and clinical care? Meet Kelly Lacob, CEO of Xella Health. Kelly will be joining the panel: From Lab to Living Room at MedCity News' INVEST Digital Health event in Dallas. Get your pass for Pegasus Park: ow.ly/tGAX50ZTtip
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 01/10/2026
The Real Gap in All of Us Isn’t Consent, It’s Conversion medcitynews.com/2026/10/the-real-ga…
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The Real Gap in All of Us Isn’t Consent, It’s Conversion
Why more than 300,000 missing patient records reveal an engineering problem, not a policy one — and why that's good news.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 01/10/2026
On-demand healthcare is the new standard. CEO Travis Rush of Reperio Health redefines preventive care with at-home screening and instant results. Hear him at INVEST Digital Health on how virtual clinics reshape clinical strategy. Tickets: ow.ly/8g5m50ZTsFw
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 01/10/2026
AI Won’t Fix Social Care, But Could It Help Us Finally Make It Work? ow.ly/ipF050ZTsat
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 01/10/2026
Lilly Again Looks to China for New Drugs, Paying InnoCare $100M to Start R&D Pact medcitynews.com/2026/09/eli-lilly-i…
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Lilly Again Looks to China for New Drugs, Paying InnoCare $100M to Start R&D Pact - MedCity News
Eli Lilly’s partnership with InnoCare Pharma follows deals struck this year with other China-based companies. While indications for the new alliance remain undisclosed, InnoCare specializes in oncology and autoimmune drugs.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 30/09/2026
AI Won’t Fix Social Care, But Could It Help Us Finally Make It Work? medcitynews.com/2026/09/ai-wont-fix…
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AI Won’t Fix Social Care, But Could It Help Us Finally Make It Work?
AI could play a meaningful role in advancing social care. Not by replacing people, but by helping them and organizations doing this work move faster, see patterns earlier, and coordinate more effectively. 
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 29/09/2026
The Illegal Drug Marketplace in Your Patients’ Pockets medcitynews.com/2026/09/the-illegal…
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The Illegal Drug Marketplace in Your Patients’ Pockets
Patients obtaining drugs through social media, medical spas, or telehealth platforms are not the same as patients obtaining drugs through more traditional illicit channels because they often believe what they are receiving is a clinically validated product. This means they may present with unexplained symptoms without realizing their online purchase is even relevant to the conversation
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 28/09/2026
Merck Pays $400M for Cancer Drug Prospect From China-Based SciBrunch medcitynews.com/2026/09/merck-cance…
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Merck Pays $400M for Cancer Drug Prospect From China-Based SciBrunch
Merck now has global rights to a SciBrunch Therapeutics drug candidate designed to block mutated versions of the cancer-driving protein KRAS G12D. This class of targeted cancer therapies includes clinical-stage assets from Revolution Medicines, BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics, and Verastem Oncology.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 28/09/2026
Noom's Alexander Fabry will share his insights on the INVEST Digital Health panel: Building the DTC Weight Loss Economy, One GLP-1 Script at a Time. He will unpack how to combine clinical behavior with consumer interfaces to drive weight loss outcomes. Register: ow.ly/nBa350ZSbF2
Portrait of Alexander Fabry, Senior VP of Product at Noom, featured speaker at INVEST Digital Health 2026 event in Dallas.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 28/09/2026
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Women, Substance Use, and the Need for Gender-Responsive Care medcitynews.com/2026/09/beyond-one-…
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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Women, Substance Use, and the Need for Gender-Responsive Care
While SUD affects people across all demographics, a growing body of research and clinical experience makes one point clear: gender meaningfully influences how substance use develops, how it is experienced, and what supports effective treatment.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 28/09/2026
Hospital and payer AI governance is at a crossroads. Research from MedCity News and Cotiviti shows robust AI adoption by payers and providers, but what steps are they taking for AI governance and AI-weaponized cybersecurity threats? [Sponsored] Register for the webinar: ow.ly/fQ8150ZSehB
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Hospital and Payer AI Governance Is at a Crossroads - MedCity News
Research from MedCity News and Cotiviti shows robust AI adoption by payers and providers, but what steps are they taking for AI governance and AI weaponized cybersecurity threats?
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 28/09/2026
Where is early-stage capital flowing in the digital health landscape? Investor at Wavemaker 360, Michelle Wang will offer her investor perspective during our key insurance session: The Payer's Role in the Consumer Health Era Register for the conference: 👉https://ow.ly/kbyE50ZSb6y
Portrait of Michelle Wang, investor at Wavemaker 360, smiling with digital health icons in the background for INVEST Digital Health event.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 27/09/2026
Mirum Pharma Pill Lands FDA Approval for Ultra-Rare Bone Growth Disorder medcitynews.com/2026/09/mirum-pharm…
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Mirum Pharma Pill Lands FDA Approval for Ultra-Rare Bone Growth Disorder
Mirum Pharmaceuticals’ Atebrioz is the third FDA-approved drug for fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), but it brings advantages over the two other products for this rare disease that leads to bone growth in soft tissue. Mirum acquired Atebrioz from Incyte earlier this year.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 27/09/2026
When AI Gets Medicine Wrong, Who’s Liable? medcitynews.com/2026/09/when-ai-get…
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When AI Gets Medicine Wrong, Who’s Liable?
As AI technology in healthcare becomes more deeply involved in the complex, high-stakes tasks of diagnosis and treatment planning, traditional lines of accountability will become less clear. Where does the buck stop for AI-supported medical care? 
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 27/09/2026
Fifty Years of Pediatric Rheumatology, but Children Still Can’t Access the Treatments They Need medcitynews.com/2026/09/fifty-years…
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Fifty Years of Pediatric Rheumatology, but Children Still Can’t Access the Treatments They Need
As a country, we have developed treatments capable of improving the quality of life and preventing long-term damage for children with rheumatic conditions, yet many children cannot obtain them when they need them most. This needs to change.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 27/09/2026
MedTech Commercialization Gap: Moving Beyond Technical Viability medcitynews.com/2026/09/medtech-com…
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MedTech Commercialization Gap: Moving Beyond Technical Viability
What are the common reasons that a prototype fails to make the transition? There are several, but they all boil down to early-stage programs ignoring the business problem in favor of the technology problem.  
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 25/09/2026
AI Goes All In To Support Nursing Teams: Ambient Charting is Just the Start medcitynews.com/2026/09/ai-goes-all…
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AI Goes All In To Support Nursing Teams: Ambient Charting is Just the Start
The question is whether these AI tools will be another fragmented layer of technology or true assistants to help them spend more time on patient care. 
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 24/09/2026
From OpenNotes to “Doc Can I Record You?” Why Physicians Should Embrace Era of Accountability medcitynews.com/2026/09/from-openno…
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From OpenNotes to “Doc Can I Record You?” Why Physicians Should Embrace Era of Accountability
Healthcare has a habit of embracing patient empowerment right up until patients become powerful.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 24/09/2026
Modernizing Medicare Advantage for the Next Generation of Seniors medcitynews.com/2026/09/modernizing…
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Modernizing Medicare Advantage for the Next Generation of Seniors
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took constructive steps in its 2027 final rule and rate announcement, particularly on payment integrity and quality measurement. But those steps are not the finish line. Policymakers should further modernize MA to strengthen competition, transparency and accountability. Here’s where to start.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 23/09/2026
Meet Dana Lujan, Founder & CEO at Wellthlinks! They're speaking on "When Consumer Brands Enter Employers’ Benefits Stack" at MedCity INVEST Digital Health in Dallas on Oct 29. Join us: ow.ly/nX2V50ZQNjZ #HealthTech #MedCityINVEST
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 23/09/2026
Innovation in Oncology: The Synergy of New and Old Drugs medcitynews.com/2026/09/innovation-…
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Innovation in Oncology: The Synergy of New and Old Drugs
Years of joint industry-academic engineering suggest that highly engineered single agents will not be the most effective treatments for solid tumors; the solution will be combining the right drugs and administering them in the right way.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 22/09/2026
Device validation and regulatory approval are the ultimate benchmarks for medical hardware. We are excited to feature Peter Micca at Caduceus Capital Partners. Peter will help lead the device-validation conversation on the panel at INVEST Digital Health. Register: 👉 ow.ly/ZvJx50ZQ5Tg
Portrait of Peter Micca, featured speaker at INVEST Digital Health, discussing wearables' impact on health behavior. Presented by MedCity News.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 21/09/2026
How AI Is Transforming Clinical Documentation at Intermountain Health medcitynews.com/2026/09/how-ai-is-t…
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How AI Is Transforming Clinical Documentation at Intermountain Health
Since implementing AI clinical documentation improvement (CDI) tools, Intermountain has seen a 22% point increase in inpatient chart completion during or immediately after rounds.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 21/09/2026
Meet Michelle Davey, CEO at Wheel! They're speaking on "Cutting Out the Middlemen" at MedCity INVEST Digital Health in Dallas on Oct 29. Join us: ow.ly/TCbT50ZPFhh #HealthTech #MedCityINVEST
Portrait of Michelle Davey, CEO of Wheel, smiling confidently against a digital healthcare technology background. MedCity News INVEST Digital Health
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 21/09/2026
The Nurse Is Health Care’s Most Underpriced Founder medcitynews.com/2026/09/the-nurse-i…
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The Nurse Is Health Care’s Most Underpriced Founder
They see the problem first, build the fix, and decide whether it is ever adopted. The market has trained them to hide the one credential that de-risks the deal.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 20/09/2026
Electra’s Upsized IPO Lands $350M for New Class of Precision Immunology Drugs medcitynews.com/2026/09/electra-ipo…
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Electra’s Upsized IPO Lands $350M for New Class of Precision Immunology Drugs
Electra Therapeutics’ IPO cash will support a potential first-in-class drug whose lead indication is a rare hyperinflammatory disorder with no FDA-approved treatments. Meanwhile, clinical-stage biotechs Marea Therapeutics and Sensorion revealed their respective plans to enter the U.S. public markets.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 20/09/2026
Angle Health Raises $600M to Grow Employer Health Benefits Platform medcitynews.com/2026/09/angle-healt…
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Angle Health Raises $600M to Grow Employer Health Benefits Platform
Angle Health's funding round was led by Vitruvian Partners, with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Portage Ventures, PruVen Capital and Y Combinator.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 20/09/2026
RFK Jr. Overhauls USPSTF Leadership: 5 Things to Know medcitynews.com/2026/09/rfk-jr-usps…
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RFK Jr. Overhauls USPSTF Leadership: 5 Things to Know
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force this week, completing the 16-seat panel amid ongoing tension over its leadership.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 20/09/2026
Two Years After the Change Healthcare Cyberattack, Healthcare Still Has a Clearinghouse Redundancy Problem medcitynews.com/2026/09/two-years-a…
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Two Years After the Change Healthcare Cyberattack, Healthcare Still Has a Clearinghouse Redundancy Problem
What happened was not just a cybersecurity failure, it was an infrastructure failure.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 20/09/2026
The Trials Were Always There — Patients Just Couldn’t Find Them medcitynews.com/2026/09/the-trials-…
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The Trials Were Always There — Patients Just Couldn’t Find Them
This structural problem calls for a structural solution, requiring no new science, regulation, or data. 
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 18/09/2026
Meet Amy Summy, EVP, CMO & Consumer Health Lead at Labcorp! Speaking on "From Lab to Living Room" at INVEST Digital Health in Dallas on Oct 29. Join us: ow.ly/Nb9z50ZPetx #MedCityINVEST
Portrait of Amy Summy, Labcorp Consumer Health Lead, smiling with digital health icons in the background for INVEST Digital Health event.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 18/09/2026
CMS Broadens ACCESS Model to New Chronic Conditions medcitynews.com/2026/09/cms-broaden…
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CMS Broadens ACCESS Model to New Chronic Conditions
CMS will expand its ACCESS model starting in spring 2027 to cover heart failure, COPD, substance use disorders and tobacco cessation. The outcomes-based payment model, which launched in July with 160 participating providers, will now make roughly three in four Medicare beneficiaries eligible for at least one track.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 18/09/2026
Extending ADHD Coverage for the Entire Active Day medcitynews.com/2026/09/extending-a…
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Extending ADHD Coverage for the Entire Active Day
The next evolution in ADHD therapy needs to focus not only on drug efficacy but also on how treatment aligns with the ever-busy and demanding lives of patients, families, and caregivers.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 18/09/2026
The Shifting Role of Wearables in Healthcare medcitynews.com/2026/09/the-shiftin…
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The Shifting Role of Wearables in Healthcare
The INVEST Digital Health conference, which will spotlight the consumer influence in healthcare, will include a discussion on wearables. It is scheduled for October 29 at Pegasus Park in Dallas. Register today!
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 17/09/2026
The Missing Link in Surgical Safety: Integrating Patient Warming and Positioning medcitynews.com/2026/09/the-missing…
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The Missing Link in Surgical Safety: Integrating Patient Warming and Positioning
Historically, warming and positioning have been addressed independently because, in many surgical procedures, they do not significantly interfere with one another. However, that’s not the case in most robotic-assisted surgeries.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 17/09/2026
Meet Arpan Parikh, Co-Founder and CEO at Kin Health! He will be speaking on "How Convenience Is Reshaping Clinical Strategy" at MedCity INVEST Digital Health in Dallas on Oct 29. Join us: ow.ly/3aOa50ZOFqz #HealthTech #ClinicalStrategy
Portrait of Arpan Parikh, CEO of Kin Health, smiling with digital health icons in the background for an upcoming healthcare event. MedCity News INVEST Digital Health 2026
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 16/09/2026
Meet Ali Diab, CEO & Co-Founder at Collective Health! He will be speaking on "When Consumer Brands Enter Employers’ Benefits Stack" at MedCity INVEST Digital Health in Dallas on Oct 29. Join us: ow.ly/yUjS50ZOvK9 #HealthTech #MedCityINVEST
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 16/09/2026
AI Isn’t a Therapist, but Many Teens Are Treating It Like One medcitynews.com/2026/09/ai-isnt-a-t…
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AI Isn’t a Therapist, but Many Teens Are Treating It Like One
Clinicians have a responsibility to understand the risks posed by AI chatbots and to inform teen patients, their parents and caregivers about them.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 16/09/2026
On MedCity FemFwd, Amanda Shafton of OB Hospitalist Group discussed what physician-midwifery collaboration looks like for patients. Catch the full episode here: ow.ly/By3G50ZOhcx #womenshealth #midwives
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 15/09/2026
Meet Tanvi Jayaraman, Clinical Lead of Health AI at ŌURA. They're speaking on "How Are Wearables Changing Health Behavior?" at MedCity INVEST Digital Health in Dallas on Oct 29. Join us: 👉https://ow.ly/PbMP50ZNSzt
Portrait of Tanvi Jayaraman, Clinical Lead of Health AI at ŌURA, smiling confidently against a digital health tech background. MedCity News Presents INVEST Digital Health 2026.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 15/09/2026
The Real Bottleneck in U.S. Pharma Reshoring Isn’t Factories – It’s Talent medcitynews.com/2026/09/the-real-bo…
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The Real Bottleneck in U.S. Pharma Reshoring Isn’t Factories – It’s Talent
Pharma leaders must take a “construction crew” mindset and start treating workforce development in the same manner as they do critical infrastructure.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 15/09/2026
A new white paper from LiveWorld highlights how AI tools for healthcare marketers fall short and what’s needed for more effective marketing strategies. [Sponsored] Learn more: ow.ly/1v5s50ZNRmK
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How Human-Led AI Improves Healthcare Marketing Intelligence - MedCity News
A new white paper from LiveWorld highlights how AI tools for healthcare marketers fall short and what’s needed for more effective marketing strategies.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 14/09/2026
From Onboarding to Outcomes: The Privacy-First Identity Workflow for Pharma Marketing. A new Experian playbook shows what privacy-first activation looks like in practice, from governed onboarding through partner-enabled measurement. [Sponsored] ow.ly/Kw9t50ZNs7A
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From Onboarding to Outcomes: The Privacy-First Identity Workflow for Pharma Marketing - MedCity News
A new Experian playbook shows what privacy-first activation looks like in practice, from governed onboarding through partner-enabled measurement.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 14/09/2026
Meet Magda Lenartowicz, Chief Medical and Innovation Officer at Clever Care Health Plan! Speaking on "The Payer's Role in the Consumer Health Era" at INVEST Digital Health in Dallas on Oct 29. Join us: ow.ly/xhjq50ZNqmU #MedCityINVEST
Portrait of Magda Lenartowicz, Chief Medical & Innovation Officer at Clever Care, featured speaker at INVEST Digital Health 2026 event.
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 14/09/2026
Shadow AI Is the Fastest Growing Force in Medicine, and Hospitals Are the Only Ones Who Can Control It medcitynews.com/2026/09/shadow-ai-i…
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Shadow AI Is the Fastest Growing Force in Medicine, and Hospitals Are the Only Ones Who Can Control It
If trust, transparency, and accountability remain core values in medicine, AI governance cannot be left to improvisation. 
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MedCity News @medcitynews.com · 13/09/2026
Interra Health Adds GLP-1 Bridge Program Support medcitynews.com/2026/09/interra-hea…
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Interra Health Adds GLP-1 Bridge Program Support
Interra Health is helping Medicare patients access $50-per-month GLP-1s through the new Bridge program.
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