Drug prices are still rising in 2020, but the rate of inflation appears to be slowing down. For investors, however, that might be good news, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Zipnosis, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based healthcare technology company, has kicked off a new partnership with GYANT, a San Francisco-based company focused on improving physician-patient communication with AI.

Cancer death rates achieved their largest one-year drop between 2016 and 2017, according to the latest data from the American Cancer Society, which published the findings in their journal.

Hospital charges are on their way up, driving up private payments that are already significantly higher than public payments, according to a new study published in Health Affairs. However, the widening gap between private and public payments appears to be slowing down.

Lunit, a medical software company based out of South Korea, has completed a Series C funding round worth $26 million.

Kaiser Permanente, a major nonprofit health system based in California, has partnered with SEUI-UHW to launch Futuro Health, a $130 million nonprofit organization.

A handful of major drugstore retailers are suing Ohio doctors over their role in the national opioid abuse and overdose epidemic, claiming pharmacies alone shouldn't be found liable in litigation.

UPMC Health Plan, a health plan owned by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has launched a new social impact initiative to address social determinants of health and reduce health inequities in underserved communities.