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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
AI's next big breakthrough could be in healthcare: General Catalyst CEO
Listen, like, and subscribe to Opening Bid on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja is looking to shape the future of healthcare through artificial intelligence. "We always think about if you close your eyes and you said in 20 years you had a brand-new healthcare system, what should it look like? You would say it's proactive. Nobody wants to go to the hospital. People want to stay healthy. You want it to be affordable, you want it to be accessible," Taneja said in a new episode of Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid podcast (watch above; listen-only below). ChatGPT and AI have helped turbocharge companies' ability to create building blocks that transform healthcare, Taneja added. "With 4.5 billion people currently without access to essential healthcare services and a health worker shortage of 11 million expected by 2030, AI has the potential to help bridge that gap and revolutionize global healthcare," researchers at the World Economic Forum wrote earlier this year. General Catalyst is one of the world's preeminent venture capital firms. The company counts itself as an early backer of buzzy names such as Airbnb (ABNB), Circle (CRCL), Stripe, Canva, Anduril Industries, and Gitlab. In May, the company said it invested in 17 growth rounds and nine seed rounds. Taneja has been with the company for more than 23 years, including nearly five as CEO. The company's focus on healthcare has been receiving its fair share of attention of late. Last October, General Catalyst raised $8 billion in funding and is allocating more than $1 billion of it to healthcare companies. Taneja said about 20% of the company's current portfolio is invested in health. The firm is focusing on companies using AI to make care cheaper and quicker and possibly prevent hospital visits altogether by being more predictive of patient needs. One name in the portfolio is Commure, founded by Taneja in 2017 and launched in 2020. The healthcare services startup company recently struck a partnership with hospital operator HCA Healthcare (HCA) to deploy its AI platform Scribe. The platform provides automatic clinic documentation. Yahoo Finance's Invest conference is coming soon — register here Taneja said it's critical to have technology bring down the cost of care over time. "We don't have a choice [to bring costs down]. It's [the healthcare system] breaking," Taneja explained. "If you look at many of the states, 50% of the budgets are Medicare budgets. So at some point you're really not investing enough in education and other sort of core services in society as a nation if we don't get this [healthcare system] right. So it has to be solved." Three times each week, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi fields insight-filled conversations and chats with the biggest names in business and markets on Opening Bid. You can find more episodes on our video hub or watch on your preferred streaming service. Brian Sozzi is Yahoo Finance's Executive Editor and a member of Yahoo Finance's editorial leadership team. Follow Sozzi on X @BrianSozzi, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Tips on stories? Email Click here for in-depth analysis of the latest health industry news and events impacting stock prices
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
AI's next big breakthrough could be in healthcare: General Catalyst CEO
Listen, like, and subscribe to Opening Bid on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja is looking to shape the future of healthcare through artificial intelligence. "We always think about if you close your eyes and you said in 20 years you had a brand-new healthcare system, what should it look like? You would say it's proactive. Nobody wants to go to the hospital. People want to stay healthy. You want it to be affordable, you want it to be accessible," Taneja said in a new episode of Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid podcast (watch above; listen-only below). ChatGPT and AI have helped turbocharge companies' ability to create building blocks that transform healthcare, Taneja added. "With 4.5 billion people currently without access to essential healthcare services and a health worker shortage of 11 million expected by 2030, AI has the potential to help bridge that gap and revolutionize global healthcare," researchers at the World Economic Forum wrote earlier this year. General Catalyst is one of the world's preeminent venture capital firms. The company counts itself as an early backer of buzzy names such as Airbnb (ABNB), Circle (CRCL), Stripe, Canva, Anduril Industries, and Gitlab. In May, the company said it invested in 17 growth rounds and nine seed rounds. Taneja has been with the company for more than 23 years, including nearly five as CEO. The company's focus on healthcare has been receiving its fair share of attention of late. Last October, General Catalyst raised $8 billion in funding and is allocating more than $1 billion of it to healthcare companies. Taneja said about 20% of the company's current portfolio is invested in health. The firm is focusing on companies using AI to make care cheaper and quicker and possibly prevent hospital visits altogether by being more predictive of patient needs. One name in the portfolio is Commure, founded by Taneja in 2017 and launched in 2020. The healthcare services startup company recently struck a partnership with hospital operator HCA Healthcare (HCA) to deploy its AI platform Scribe. The platform provides automatic clinic documentation. Yahoo Finance's Invest conference is coming soon — register here Taneja said it's critical to have technology bring down the cost of care over time. "We don't have a choice [to bring costs down]. It's [the healthcare system] breaking," Taneja explained. "If you look at many of the states, 50% of the budgets are Medicare budgets. So at some point you're really not investing enough in education and other sort of core services in society as a nation if we don't get this [healthcare system] right. So it has to be solved." Three times each week, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi fields insight-filled conversations and chats with the biggest names in business and markets on Opening Bid. You can find more episodes on our video hub or watch on your preferred streaming service. Brian Sozzi is Yahoo Finance's Executive Editor and a member of Yahoo Finance's editorial leadership team. Follow Sozzi on X @BrianSozzi, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Tips on stories? Email Click here for in-depth analysis of the latest health industry news and events impacting stock prices Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Skypoint Launches Lia and Scribe: AI-Powered Agents Redefining Clinical Workflow Efficiency and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Data Capture
PORTLAND, Ore., June 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Skypoint, a leading provider of HITRUST r2-certified AI platform for healthcare, today announced the launch of two breakthrough AI agents—Skypoint Lia and Skypoint Scribe—designed to dramatically improve workflow efficiency, capturing social determinants of health data (SDOH), and clinical decision-making across care environments. Healthcare systems are increasingly overwhelmed by fragmented electronic health records (EHRs), redundant documentation, and mounting administrative demands. Skypoint's new agents address these challenges head-on, empowering clinicians to spend less time navigating systems and more time with patients. Skypoint Lia is a browser-based, EHR-agnostic AI agent that provides real-time, unified patient insights directly at the point of care. Working seamlessly across platforms like Epic, Cerner, MEDITECH, and PointClickCare, Lia overlays the EHR to surface demographics, payer information, care gaps, SDOH, and more—without any need for integration or disruption to existing systems. "Lia puts the full patient picture in front of clinicians in seconds," said Kishore Bhattacharjee, CTO at Skypoint. "It drives faster decisions, reduces missed opportunities, and improves documentation accuracy—all while ensuring enterprise-grade security." Skypoint Scribe complements Lia by tackling one of the biggest pain points in clinical settings: documentation and SDOH data capture. Scribe is a browser extension-based AI agent that captures and transcribes patient interviews in real time. From hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to home care and specialty clinics, Scribe eliminates duplicate entry by extracting key clinical details, such as medications, goals, and care directives, and auto-populating structured fields. Its AI capabilities streamline workflows, enhance compliance, and centralize data into a unified patient record stored securely in Skypoint's Data Lakehouse, using Data Lakebase for low-latency data management. "Clinical teams spend too much time duplicating data across systems," said Rob MacNaughton, President and COO of Skypoint. "Scribe transforms this experience by letting providers document while they care, not after the fact." Both Lia and Scribe are fully HIPAA-compliant, HITRUST r2-certified, and designed for rapid deployment, typically within minutes. Together, they represent a significant step forward in Skypoint's mission to reduce administrative burden and improve patient outcomes through intelligent automation. To learn more or request a demo, visit View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Skypoint
San Francisco Chronicle
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
This S.F. toast cost $13.50, and I'd buy it again
Each week, critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan shares some of her favorite recent bites, the dishes and snacks and baked goods that didn't find their way into a full review. Want the list a few days earlier? Sign up for her free newsletter, Bite Curious. Remember when The Discourse revolved around the price of toast at the Mill? A simpler, sepia-toned time… The current seasonal toast special costs $13.50 (more than three times the $4 that sparked outrage 12 years ago), but it's 'toast' in the same way that 'The Metamorphosis' is a book about a bug. A chonky, inch-thick slice of Josey Baker's whole grain Wonder Bread is slathered with chive cream cheese, then dolloped with a punchy, vegan pesto made with both basil and arugula. The element that takes the toast from serviceable breakfast to composed dish, however, is the crunchy, garlicky clusters of chili crisp pepitas that are sprinkled over the top. Yow. Go eat this while it's still on the menu. Scribe Winery takes its food seriously. Their chef-in-residence program reads like a who's who of bestselling cookbook authors and James Beard honorees, and the quartet behind Top 100 restaurant Valley all met while working at Scribe. The team grows much of their own produce, collects eggs from the spunky vineyard chickens and serves incredible beans. Spiritually, beans are the opposite of caviar on a restaurant menu; they're humble, a hard sell, and a chef isn't going to serve them unless they're absolute knockouts. Scribe's pink beans are brothy and creamy, seasoned with a good amount of acid and showered with fresh herbs. Last weekend, my family celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival with a proper feast, anchored by homemade zongzi and a cured duck that's a specialty of Yiyang in Hunan, our home province. The ducks are marinated in a variety of Chinese spices and herbs, many of them selected for their medicinal properties, before being air dried. The resulting delicacy is a dark reddish brown in color, mildly spicy and very savory in addition to being good for your spleen and blood circulation, my cousin tells me! Cousin Winnie's house, or the internet
Scotsman
27-05-2025
- Business
- Scotsman
Kindle Scribe drops to £279.99 in rare Amazon deal
The Kindle Scribe combines distraction-free reading with powerful digital writing tools | Amazon This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. Amazon has slashed £100 off the Kindle Scribe – its powerful digital notebook with Premium Pen, now down to just £279.99 for a limited time. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... If you're thinking of upgrading your holiday reading setup, now's the time – because the Kindle Scribe has just dropped to £279.99 on Amazon, matching its best-ever price and saving you £100 off the usual £379.99. This isn't the first time the Scribe has been reduced to this level, but these deals rarely stick around – they tend to last just a few days at a time. And with summer travel on the horizon, it's the ideal moment to snap one up if you want to streamline your reading, note-taking, and document-marking while on the move. Unlike any other Kindle, the Scribe doubles as a digital notebook, letting you scribble thoughts directly onto the page, annotate documents, sketch diagrams, or create full journals. The Premium Pen is included, and never needs charging – so it's always ready when inspiration hits. Its 10.2-inch 300 ppi Paperwhite display is the largest on any Kindle, offering a natural paper-like feel with adjustable warm lighting and glare-free clarity. It's perfect for both reading and writing – and the AI-powered summarisation feature adds a clever touch, especially if you're using it for meetings or study notes. You can also mark up PDFs, review documents, and convert handwritten notes into text with ease – making this an exceptional tool for both work and leisure. And thanks to USB-C charging and Amazon's usual long-lasting battery, you'll get months of reading and weeks of writing between charges. This version includes 32GB storage and comes with the Premium Pen, so it's ideal for those who plan to use the full writing functionality. Now's your chance to upgrade before this limited-time offer disappears. If you're considering alternatives, the reMarkable 2 offers a sleek, minimalist e-ink writing experience that's more notebook than reader. You can explore it here. 🔥 Free Samsung tablet? Don't miss this Sky Mobile Galaxy S25 deal Snap up the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S25 5G and Sky Mobile will throw in a Galaxy Tab A9+ worth £259 – absolutely free! This offer - which we wrote about in detail here - runs until 26 June 2025, but once it's gone, it's gone. You'll get Samsung's most powerful phone yet – built for gaming, streaming and multitasking – from just £30 a month with zero upfront cost.
