A year’s end newsletter to our Readers: a few wishes for Under the Tree, a few Quirky Predictions for 2025

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News roundup: Precision’s $102M raise, more on BCI; Withings clears BPM Pro 2; Nebraska 1st state to sue Change/UHG, related insider trading update; VA Oracle go-lives may resume; ATA intros CODE; ClearDATA HITRUST certified

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Rounding up last of 2024’s M&A/fundings: Redesign Health’s $175M, HEALWELL AI buys Orion Health, startup Tuva Health’s $5M

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Federal budget continuing resolution battle could derail telehealth extensions, physician fee increase, PBM reforms

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Perspectives: How Telehealth is Transforming Access for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Patients

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Short takes: improving healthcare worker safety; CareMax may ax 530 jobs in bankruptcy/sale, finds 2nd buyer; $15M Series A for Evidently, $35M Series B for Hyro AI

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Perspectives: Virtual Nursing Optimism Grows, But Providers Remain in Early Stages

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News roundup: OnMed to debut CareStation at January CES, former HealthTap employees sue investor MDV, maternal monitoring spotlight with PeriGen/Texas Children’s in Malawi, Ouma Health-Marani Health partner

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Breaking: suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder arrested in Pennsylvania, to be arraigned tonight

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Masimo update: SEC announces investigation of RTW Investments and role in proxy war voting

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Weekend short takes: Merative’s $25M funding, Risant closes on Cone Health, Aya buys Cross Country staffing, Supreme Group acquires Amendola PR

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BT Group hacked by Black Basta, China’s Salt Typhoon breached 8 telecoms in dozens of countries, government records

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News roundup: VA’s 2025 EHR budget + vendor breach, Neuralink robot arm study, linking mood prediction to sleep, CoachCare buys Revolution Health RPM/CCM, Seen Health’s $22M launch, Spectrum.Life in Deloitte Ireland’s Fast 50

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Breaking: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson murdered in NYC

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Wojcicki: I’m transforming 23andMe to be ‘viable’ and thriving–but had ‘no idea why her board resigned’

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VillageMD’s co-founder/CEO resigns as Walgreens continues the brush-off after billions in losses

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Short takes: Teladoc intros hospital bed fall risk detector, Veradigm’s AI scribe, Lucid’s pill-sized esophageal cancer diagnostic, Cortica’s $80M raise for autism treatment, LG NOVA startup winners

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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 partnership

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Breaking: Federal agents seize Steward Health’s CEO, international head’s mobile phones in widening US investigations

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Government updates: GAO scores HHS on cybersecurity issues; patient issues largely omitted from EHR notes in VA study

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News roundup: CVS Health cedes 4 new board seats to Glenview, Oscar’s strong Q3, telehealth controlled substance prescribing in 3rd extension, new Revere Medical to buy CareMax assets, Oura picks up $75M Dexcom financing and partnership

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Bad News Roundup updates: UHG/Optum defends Amedisys buy fast via a website, digging deeper into Forward’s fast demise, former Masimo CEO Kiani booted–and sued

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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

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Babylon Health’s Parsa founds new AI medical assistant venture, Quadrivia, one year after Babylon Health’s failure

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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 is not buying Humana–really! truly!

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News roundup: Cerebral forfeits $3.7M on federal Rx charges, Aetna president named, Stewardship Health sold to Rural Healthcare, Oura buys data company Sparta Science, Brook Health-Linus Health remote cognitive assessment

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Weekend reading: 23andMe’s up in the air future, including genetic data; Walgreens debates What To Stop and Start; what if healthcare pursued a zero-failure rate?

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Surprise! HLTH conference group sold to UK’s Hyve Group Limited

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News roundup: Teladoc’s improved Q3, PursueCare resuscitates Pear’s apps, AMA removes 16-day RPM requirement in 2026, PatientPoint intros Innovation Network, PeopleOne’s $32B raise, Cigna-Humana again a no-go

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Some thoughts on the takeaways from HLTH

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News roundup 23 Oct: views on a CVS breakup and CEO replacement, Amwell’s interesting new CFO, CopilotIQ/Biofourmis merge, raises by HealthEx, Counsel Health, Oshi Health

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News roundup 16 Oct: Walgreens shuts 1,200 stores–500 in ’25, CVS exiting core infusion biz, Masimo v. Apple update, DEA recommends 3rd telehealth extension, Change hack costing UHG $705M, Owlet back in NYSE compliance

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FTC drops the hammer on premerger notification requirements–what will be M&A effects?

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News roundup: Omada Health files S-1 for IPO in 2025–and a look at 2024 healthcare IPOs, Philips debuts new smart baby monitor, ActiveAlert launches in UK, ATA Nexus 2025 calls for speakers, abstracts

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Breaking: another exit at Teladoc, with COO resigning effective 31 December

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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?

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Two ‘oops’ at VA: OIG finds VA, Oracle performance misalignments, makes 9 recommendations; VP candidates’ EHR records improperly accessed by VA employees

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Two follow ups: Steward Health CEO resigns–and sues the Senate HELP committee, Wojcicki will take 23andMe private

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Now CVS Health may be reviewing ‘options’–including a possible breakup–report

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What’s next for: Steward CEO now in criminal contempt of Congress; Walgreens’ Pessina’s fortune vanishes by 97%; Masimo’s Kiani now a man without a company

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TTA’s Summer Long Goodbye: 23andMe board exits, pays out $30M in breach; Walgreens sued on pharmacy revenue; Masimo-Politan proxy fight to end 19 Sep; Steward CEO faces charges; telehealth prescribing waiver down to wire, more!

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News roundup: Owlet expands to EU, mPulse buys Zipari, New Mountain PE merges 3 payment integrity firms in $3B smush, Candid Health’s $29M raise, Oura buys Veri, Bloomer Tech’s cardio bra

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23andMe settles 6.9M data breach lawsuit for $30M. Breaking–all seven independent directors quit

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Rounding up follow ups: Walgreens shareholder suit on pharmacy performance, Steward CEO no-shows Senate committee, Masimo-Politan proxy fight has court win for Politan–vote on for 19 September

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US telehealth controlled substances prescribing waiver may expire at year’s end; DEA may further restrict

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Evolent Health talking major acquisition by payer Elevance, private equity

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Truepill to be acquired by LetsGetChecked for $525 million

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Signs of life: another view on healthcare investments and exits as of mid-year

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Are patients and physicians ready for generative AI? How will it be most acceptable?

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“I will survive” updates: NeueHealth survives Q2 with small net loss, Steward sells off Stewardship Health practices to private equity firm for $245M

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