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Alice Zheng, partner at Foreground Capital, discussed women's health investment growth - and the private sector's role in addressing care gaps - with MobiHealthNews.

The editors of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews discuss the telehealth bill that was scuttled in 2024, as well as what's ahead in 2025 regarding the RPM market, physicians' pay schedule and cybersecurity policy.

Julia Strandberg, executive vice president and chief business leader of connected care at Royal Philips, told MobiHealthNews she anticipates continued mergers, partnerships and AI innovation in 2025.

The company had struggled to keep the business profitable.

Chief AI officers can help organizations address clinical issues, such as C. diff inspections and sepsis, and broader needs like scheduling, resources and improving the backend, says Zachary Durst, IT practice consultant at WittKieffer.

The global data, analytics and AI company will use the Series J funds to invest in new AI products, complete acquisitions and expand its international go-to-market operations.

AI will transform healthcare with advances in multimodal technology, diagnostic imaging and automation, but its success depends on trust and seamless integration into workflows.

AI and genAI can reduce paperwork and errors by automating tasks prone to human error like data entry, clinical documentation and billing, says Aashima Gupta, Google Cloud's healthcare vertical lead.  

Memora's patient navigation tool will combine with CommureOS's integration engine to personalize patient care and improve outcomes.

PHI is one of the most sensitive classes of data out there. It's important that the right security controls are in place to make sure those things stay where they need to be and don't get into the wrong hands, says Chike Okeke of Concord Technologies.