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Rounding out week: Oracle Health engineering head departs; Hive ransomware KO’d by DOJ; Google sued by DOJ on antitrust, lays off another 12,000; Pearl and Precision Neuro raise, Enabled Healthcare ADAPT grant

...were numerous, including Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston and a Louisiana health system. DOJ release 26 Jan, Healthcare IT News, HealthITSecurity The problems at Google continue with a DOJ civil antitrust lawsuit released earlier this week accusing Google of monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products. For those of us in marketing who came up with a choice of multiple search engines and ad technologies, Google’s monopoly of the “ad tech stack” that website publishers depend on to sell ads and that advertisers rely on to buy ads is very real, and very expensive. You live and die by Google... Continue Reading

CVS, Walgreens, Walmart….Dollar General health clinics?

...former chief clinical officer at Aspire Health; Dr. Von Nguyen, clinical lead of public and population health at Google; and Dr. Yolanda Hill, a board-certified physician in pediatrics and adolescent medicine. On Dollar General’s third quarter earnings call last December, CEO Jeff Owen noted the expansion of stores and the test of the DocGo vans to expand their services into rural health. Watch out Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens! Healthcare Dive, Forbes, Mobihealthnews Their healthcare provider, DocGo, last week announced a partnership with Redirect Health, a platform offering directed to enterprises that provides on-demand, urgent mobile care to businesses in New... Continue Reading

Mid-week roundup: Teladoc gets BetterHelp to boost Q4 ’22 revenue; fundings for Array, Paytient, Telesair, three others; layoffs hit at Alphabet’s Verily, Cue Health

...reorganization designed to move to financial independence from Alphabet/Google. It’s categorized among Google units as ‘Other Bets’ which is appropriate given that so far, their bets haven’t hit any jackpots. An example we covered back in 2015-16 was a glucose monitoring contact lens developed with Alcon, an on-the-face of it Preposterous Idea that died about that time. Current discontinued areas include remote patient monitoring for heart failure and micro needles for drug delivery. Employees were told to leave the office for the remainder of the week; further information including separation would be sent to them via email. Since 2017, it... Continue Reading

News (and robot) roundup: ElliQ companion robot upgrades, named to 2022 TIME list; Robin the Robot introduced for older adult care; Utilita acquires Canary Care (UK)

...to loved ones. The software upgrades are supported on ElliQ 1.0 and the new 2.0 hardware. The 2.0 hardware is at a significantly larger scale with improvements such as simpler tablet charging, a better screen, and higher quality far field microphone performance. The new companion app for family members, friends, and caregivers expands capabilities into video calls, text/image/video messages, remote reminder setting, and updates on wellness changes. The free app is available shortly on the Apple Store and Google Play. ElliQ was also named to TIME’s 2022 list of Best Inventions in the Accessibility category, for innovation in helping seniors... Continue Reading

Mid-week news briefs: House members’ ‘grave concerns’ on two deaths tied to Oracle Cerner VA rollout; care.ai’s $27M funding; Clear Arch’s new mobile RPM platform; digital health investment in rough times

...such as Glen Tullman of 7Wire Ventures/Transcarent, Emily Melton of Threshold Ventures, Andrew Adams of Oak HC/FT; and Krishna Yeshwant of Google Ventures. Don’t focus on valuation. Focus on how much capital your enterprise needs to the next phase of inflection, minimize dilution, and set yourself up for the next up round. Refocus and reprioritize, making the most of cash resources on hand Have a plan to get to profitability, not just growth Even more depressing news: the downturn is expected to continue through 2023 into 2024 — make cash last into 2025 Growth areas in healthcare they identified will... Continue Reading

News briefs: ResMed-Verily’s Primasun sleep solution; Maven Clinic’s $90M Series E; Mount Sinai genomics spinoff Sema4 lays off additional 500, exits women’s health

The large conference HLTH is underway in Las Vegas and like pre-Covid, conferences are a platform for announcements. Verily, which is Alphabet’s (Google’s) life sciences and health skunk works, and ResMed, a large company in respiratory medical devices for sleep apnea and sleep disruption treatment, have formed a joint venture, Primasun. Their target market is employers and providers to identify patients at risk for sleep disorders, particularly obstructive sleep apnea. About 75% of those in the US experience some form of sleep disruption at least a few times a week, leading to behavioral and physical problems. Mobihealthnews has the basic... Continue Reading

Oracle in Federal court class-action lawsuit on global privacy violations; Cerner VA EHR had 498 major outage incidents, 7% of time since rollout

...but also Google and any data analytics or brokerage company. Look over your shoulder…someone’s coming after you. TechMonitor.ai Meanwhile, back at the endless tsuris called the VA EHR implementation, Oracle Cerner got more verbal beatdowns from the VA’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Senate committee members. FedScoop, through a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request living up to its name, was able to quantify the system outages in the Cerner Millenium system between 8 Sept 2020 and 10 June 2022. Of the 640 days the system was in place, it was out or nearly out for about 45 days, or... Continue Reading

Week-end news roundup: Fitbit revives with 3 new watches, Sena Health hospital-at-home, SteadyMD surveys telehealth clinicians, 9.4% fewer adult dental visits in England, save the date for ATA 2023

Fitbit’s three new wearables–will they revive the brand? Fitbit, now owned by Google, announced the debut of two new smartwatches and one fitness tracker, available now for preorder and shipping in September. Will buyers find them more attractive than their predecessors? From left to right: Fitbit Inspire 3 upgrades from the predecessor with a color display and similar $99.95 price. Monitors for irregular heartbeat, reminders to move, wakey-wakey alarm, apps, and more. Fitbit Versa 4 is a thin, light fitness smartwatch with sleep, SpO2 monitoring, GPS, irregular heartbeat, stress, pay hands free, Amazon Alexa, and connects to your smartphone. Four... Continue Reading

Amazon moves to acquire One Medical provider network for $3.9B (updated)

...2020. (The stock closed last Wednesday before the announcement at just above $10 per share then plumped to ~$17 where it remains.) The announcement is oddly not on One Medical’s website but is on Amazon’s here. The buy is subject to shareholder and the usual regulatory approvals. The IPO was managed by JP Morgan Securities and Morgan Stanley. It is primarily backed by Alphabet (Google). One Medical’s CEO Amir Dan Rubin will stay on, but there is no other executive transition mention. Also not mentioned: the Iora Health operation that serves primarily Medicare patients in full-risk value-based care models such... Continue Reading

Cerner’s business now consolidated under Oracle Health

The internal memo doesn’t say so but doesn’t really have to. The sunsetting of the Cerner brand (logo left) has begun. HISTalk this evening reported on Friday 15 July’s Cerner internal announcement posted on Reddit, vetted by the Kansas City Business Journal (paywalled), and it’s not all that surprising: The business unit is now called Oracle Health Global Industry Unit (GIU) or Oracle Health The chairman of Oracle Health will be David Feinberg, MD, late CEO of Cerner and previously of UCLA Health, Geisinger Health, and Google’s last effort at Health. Travis Dalton is being promoted to run the Oracle... Continue Reading