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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 ...

A company most have never heard of is snapping up provider networks, health plans, and management services. Astrana Health, a Southern California-based value-based care (VBC) company formerly known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starting with international health tech developments… South Australia Health has rolled out Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Patient Administration System (PAS). The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The waning days of summer wrapped with a few moderate-sized fundings: India’s Qure.AI scored a $65 million Series D, bringing their total funding to $125 million. Leading the raise: Lightspeed and 360 ...