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 ...

After this Editor’s call for breaking up UnitedHealth Group–two more views, for your consideration (as Rod Serling used to say before we entered ‘The Twilight Zone’). Additional points are made by the ...

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 ...

Another review/meta-analysis confirms that GLP-1 weight off doesn’t stay off. A University of Oxford systemic review and meta-analysis of 130 full texts, distilled to 11 studies with 6,370 ...

News roundup 22 May: an inflight ‘save’ and AliveCor’s KardiaMobile, rolling out the VA/Oracle EHR in ‘waves’, Fuze Health formed from LetsGetChecked/Truepill, hacking and ransomware 92% of PHI data ...

This was drastic. This morning (13 May), UnitedHealth Group announced that CEO Andrew Witty is stepping down immediately “for personal reasons” which are not specified. Replacing him is former ...

Teladoc closed out a down Q1 with buying UpLift. The $30 million acquisition is clearly strategic in bolstering BetterHelp, their floundering direct-to-consumer mental health provider. It closed on 30 ...

Partnerships and add-ons are much in the news this week. Hims & Hers isn’t worrying about GLP-1 drug sourcing. Neither are Ro and LifeMD. All three made a deal with Novo Nordisk on providing branded ...

Medical device company Masimo may not be able to rid itself entirely of its meddlesome former CEO, Joe Kiani. In fact, if a court awards him the shares exercised under his various employment ...

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 ...

Product & funding very short takes: South Australia 1st with Sunrise EMR; S. Korea pain research, new emergency services app; BCI + telehealth for stroke patients; VirtuSense monitoring launches at ...