Healthcare Economics

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Pharma

Why experts project a boom in healthcare M&A activity in 2025

Factors like lower inflation and interest rate cuts make 2025 a good year for getting deals done.

Maia Anderson
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Pharma

How pharma may be affected by Medicare drug price negotiations

Pharma companies have warned that the lowered prices will mean less drug innovation.

Maia Anderson
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Tech

About 40% of health execs say generative AI pays off, Deloitte finds

AI saves time, but can it save billions?

Caroline Catherman
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Pharma

Why investors are putting more money into biopharma AI

Total investment dollars more than tripled between 2023 and 2024, according to an SVB analysis.

Maia Anderson
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Hospitals & Facilities

Signed and Scrubbed: January hospital M&A, bankruptcy roundup

This month saw a bankruptcy at Prospect Medical Holdings and an HCA acquisition.

Cassie McGrath
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Hospitals & Facilities

Hudson Valley officials, hospital union discuss ‘corporate takeover’

United Healthcare Workers East discussed workplace changes following Optum and Summit Health acquisitions.

Nicole Ortiz

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