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 ...

Omada Health plans exit into the public markets. Omada, which has virtual health diabetes and hypertension management programs, reportedly filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC ...

VA moving forward with the 2026 Oracle Cerner rollout of (lucky?) 13 centers. In March, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that the EHR Modernization (EHRM) for 2026 would be expanded ...

A ‘feel-good’ story figuratively and literally. Clare Island is an island off the west Irish coast in the Atlantic. It is located at the entrance to Clew Bay, part of County Mayo, with a lighthouse ...

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?

Our editors send their hearty congratulations to James Batchelor, the founder of Alertacall, who has been appointed an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for ‘Services to Technology For ...

Anne Wojcicki still wants her 23andMe. This time, she is requesting that the auction be reopened for more bids–hers, along with a new backer. The unnamed “Fortune 500 company with a current market ...

Short takes: Veradigm’s interim CEO departing, Blue Shield CA breached 4.8M members’ PHI to Google, advice on expanded M&A premarket notification rules (You can’t blame that CEO for ankling! And Blue ...

Are we nearing the final episodes of “Cano Health”, the telenovela? New CEO Mark Kent has gotten busy in the past five weeks since his permanent CEO appointment. The first and most important action he ...

Bad News roundup: DOJ drops the hammer on UHG-Amedisys, 23andMe lays off 40% and closes therapeutics, Lyra Health lays off 2% in restructuring, Forward primary care + kiosks shuts down abruptly ...

In news other than Walgreens and Optum/Change Healthcare–with more to come out of HIMSS in Orlando this week… The DOD/VA Cerner EHR went live on Saturday 9 March in the Capt. James A. Lovell Federal ...