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No matter how much data the AI has on you, missing is the personal relationship. Emerging tech, wearables—all that is great. But at the end of the day, so much of it still depends on interpersonal relationship building and leveraging, adding an intelligence layer to the loop.

The newly launched Techquity for Health Coalition from the HLTH Foundation will share findings from its first national survey of techquity at the conference. Healthcare leaders will also discuss on ways to improve health tech design, tech literacy, accessibility, workforce equity, patient trust, and equitable use of data.

In the runup to INVEST and the startup pitch contest, we highlight trends in investment and innovation across bipharma, diagnostics, medical devices, health tech: payer/provider, and health tech: consumer/employer. The deadline has been extended until February 28 and finalists will be announced March 31. Apply today!

The Aligos Therapeutics pipeline reprioritization comes after clinical trial setbacks to two hepatitis B drug candidates led the biotech to end both programs. Still intact is a Merck research collaboration focused on developing NASH therapies.

Change is the only constant. Once a month, MedCity News’ Editor-in-Chief, Arundhati Parmar, invites a guest whose vision is to help the industry pivot to become more patient-centric, outcomes-based and affordable. All Episodes » Once a month, MedCity News Reporter Katie Adams provides a round up of who’s climbing up the corporate ladder, who’s laying off workers and maybe even who got fired in our ever-changing healthcare industry. Each episode features a short interview with...

UnitedHealthcare Rewards members can earn up to $1,000 per year by meeting daily activity goals, tracking sleep and fulfilling other one-time health activities. The program is intended to incentivize healthy habits, the insurer said.

Employers are most interested in switching up their vendor partners for wellbeing programs, the Willis Towers Watson survey found. About 55% of respondents said they will make changes to their wellbeing vendor partners in 2023 or 2024, while 12% already did in 2022.

Virta is available this month to all Blue Shield of California members enrolled in preferred provider organization plans for individual and family, fully insured, self funded and Medicare Advantage. The payer has been working with Virta since 2019 when the digital health company joined Blue Shield of California’s Wellvolution, a platform of digital lifestyle apps.

Francesca de Quesada Covey, chief investment officer at investment firm TheVentureCity, believes the women’s health sector will come into its own in the next few years. She said startups focused on improving care delivery will probably have the easiest time raising funds of all the companies in the femtech space.

Millennium Physician Group — an independent care group with more than 800 providers across Florida, Texas, and North Carolina — announced successful results following its adoption of Navina’s AI platform. The organization said that the platform saved time, reduced burnout and gave physicians more confidence about forming care plans with patients.