M&A action news: Astrana Health buys up Prospect Health for $745M after Centene MSO unit buy, Veradigm nears $1B+ sale, Sword Health lays off 17% of clinicians prepping for IPO using AI instead, Cigna ...

Transcarent closes Accolade buy, changes its game. Transcarent’s $621 million acquisition of Accolade was wrapped up in record time (two months from announcement). This takes the Nasdaq-listed ...

Meta Pixel tracker sending appointment scheduling, patient portal information to Facebook–likely to become the Hot Story of next week. A study published jointly by The Markup and STAT examined the ...

Mid-week roundup: Colorado terms Friday Health Plans; Cano 3 continue to savage board; Amazon Pharmacy layoffs; hacking attacks: QuickBlox, Barts Health; Phreesia buys MediFind; financing pops for K ...

Teladoc formally responds to the Blue Orca Capital research report [TTA 25 Feb]. Their letter (PDF) via its legal counsel (King & Spalding) yesterday refutes Blue Orca’s allegations in a report on ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) pulls on the parking brake for Oracle Cerner, but doesn’t turn off the engine. Last Friday (21 April), the VA formally announced ) that it would cease further ...

News roundup: Oak Street’s Pykosz departs CVS, Musk’s Neuralink gains Canadian clinical trial, VA healthcare improvement bill omits EHR oversight measures, 23andMe’s Mirador precision medicine ...

Walgreens was too big to fail entirely–but made too many mistakes and remained in too many dying segments. The Gimlet Eye credits Walgreens for making a good deal with private equity firm Sycamore ...

Your Editor recommends grabbing lunch or a cuppa for these lengthy reads/views: Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts. This is mostly about the billions spent in ‘last ...

Industry news short takes: fundings for Qure.AI, Centivo, Rippl, Surescripts; M&A closings for GE Healthcare-Intelligent Ultrasound, LetsGetChecked-Truepill. And is Hinge Health going public soon?

The latest legal activity in digital health and cybersecurity: Teladoc’s pending class action lawsuit by shareholders was tossed. This was originally filed in June 2022 after the crash of Teladoc’s ...

Telecoms, as linkages to digital health tools and remote patient monitoring, are vital–and lately the target of hackers. BT Group’s BT Conferencing business division shut down some of its servers ...