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Humana news, biomarkers of aging, ACEs and more. Neat!
Cicadas 'n Solstice Edition

Longest day, shortest night this Friday. It’s all down hill from here, folks.
Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers
On June 12 Pearl Health released its fourth annual Top 50 Value-Based Care Thinkers report and it includes Alexander Ding, MD, MBA. Alex is Enterprise Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Humana, Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology with UofL and an American Medical Association Board of Trustees member, among other roles.

Watch this space. Something cool coming soon!
More Humana…
Humana’s Chief Medical Officer, Kate Goodrich, MD, “discussed the company’s recent ambient AI pilot on the Becker’s Healthcare podcast, an episode that will air later this month,” according to this article.
Doesn’t say what ambient AI tool Humana piloted. Who knows what was piloted?
And, speaking of Humana…
In March, Drug Channels Institute released The 2025 Economic Report on U.S. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers.
The table below shows the 15 largest pharmacies, ranked by total prescription dispensing revenue in 2024.

Yes, Louisville-based BrightSpring Health Services is also on the list. Again, don’t overlook the pharmacy | pharmacy services space in the ‘ville. Don’t.
Digital Biomarkers of Aging
Cool publication. Hmmm, what if…
Wait? Did we hear biomarkers of aging?
Yes.
Check out this episode of A Healthy Point of View with Ryan Smith, Founder of Lexington, KY-based TruDiagnostic.
Ryan is a fellow Transylvania University alum. Go Pioneers!
ACEs
This by Sarah Ladd for Kentucky Lantern; “ACEs cost Kentucky — both in medical spending and in lost income when people cannot work — nearly $300 million each year.”
Made me think back to this 2018 article by Lisa Suennen.
Healthtech applied to ACEs. Go.
“Health systems go entrepreneurial with startup push”
Louisville? Kentucky?
ICHRA Shuffle
Some ICHRA stuff.
Two funding announcements:
And this by Health Tech Nerds’ Kevin O'Leary.

It’s from a longer deck on Healthcare Innovation Trends that is well worth a read. The rest of the ICHRA data is for HTN members. But this part on AI is cool, too.
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