Financial analysts have said that 2022 may have been the worst year for hospital finances in decades. This year looks like it will be yet another year of financial underperformance, with rural providers in especially dire circumstances.

A group of healthcare stakeholders — Amazon Care, Intermountain Healthcare and Ascension, to name a few — has created an alliance to advocate for home-based care services through policy changes.

After Google struck a controversial partnership with Ascension to build a searchable health record, the companies are now launching an expanded clinical pilot of the tool. Now, about 250 clinicians will be able to use it.

Medical voice assistant startup Suki closed a $20 million funding round. Flare Capital Partners led the round, and co-founder Bill Geary will join Suki’s board.

As of March 4, Tamarah Duperval-Brownlee holds the newly created role of senior vice president and chief community impact officer at Ascension.

Keeping health plan provider directories current is a major administrative and cost burden for the industry, with an estimated $2.1 billion spent annually across the healthcare system to acquire and maintain provider data.

The Gates Medical Research Institute will develop products for malaria, tuberculosis, enteric and diarrheal diseases.