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Maia Anderson

Maia is a Minnesota-based senior reporter and founding reporter of Healthcare Brew, where she covers the pharmacy industry, women’s health, digital health, and how venture capital is shaping healthcare. She previously worked as a fellow covering the aerospace industry at Insider, as well as a healthcare reporter for Becker's Hospital Review. She has won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her work.

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Tech

Microsoft launches AI platform, Copilot Health

But don’t get too excited—you’ll have to join a waitlist to use it.

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Retail Pharmacies

Walgreens enters the weight loss, telehealth markets

The pharmacy giant is offering virtual visits and access to GLP-1s.

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Retail Pharmacies

This pharmacy industry veteran is hoping to ‘put the clinical focus’ back in PBMs

Ritu Malhotra became president of alternative PBM Illuminate Rx in January.

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Retail Pharmacies

What new PBM reforms mean for pharma

Congress passed a number of new rules for PBMs in a government funding package.

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Pharma

Why drugmakers and hospitals are fighting over the 340B program

At the center is a proposal to shift how drugs are paid for.

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Hospitals & Facilities

Medely co-founder Angie Karim Nasr talks using tech to curb labor shortages

Nasr co-founded the company in 2015 after being frustrated by manually filling staffing shortages.

Hims & Hers products.
Pharma

Why Hims & Hers moved into lab testing

The CEO thinks it’ll eventually bring in $1 billion.

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Retail Pharmacies

Eli Lilly switches from Big 3 PBM to alternative transparent rival

The drugmaker has about 23,000 employees who will be covered by Rightway.

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Tech

Lumata Health CEO on moving healthcare from reactive to proactive

The trick is to stay involved instead of giving orders and walking away, he tells Healthcare Brew.

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Payers

What the government reopening means for healthcare

From insurance subsidies to telehealth, the new funding law has major implications for the industry.