...value-based care. Digital Health News (India) Also in RCM, TELCOR is buying Sample Healthcare. Amount and transitions are undisclosed. Like TruBridge, TELCOR started in the late 1990s. It serves both hospital and independent labs’ RCM for billing plus point-of-care and laboratory data. It has a 57% market share in the US for point-of-care solutions and serves over 2,700 hospitals and laboratories. Sample will add an AI-driven workflow engine that will be marketed as a separate product. It received seed funding out of Y Combinator in 2024. It’s easy to determine that Sample is a tuck-in acquisition for TELCOR. TELCOR release.... Continue Reading
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Perspectives: Exploring the Telehealth Extension: Building Infrastructures for Better Access
...cost approximately 20% less than traditional inpatients, allowing Medicare to spend $1,000 to $3,300 less per case across common conditions like pneumonia, heart failure, and sepsis in the 30 days post-discharge. To ensure similar outcomes and savings at scale, a stronger infrastructure is needed. We’re already seeing movement in the replacement of traditional, episodic data by medical-grade wearable sensors capable of continuous ECG monitoring, temperature tracking, and real-time data transmission. We’re already seeing solutions for issues such as interrupted data capture during connectivity gaps, simply by expanding the storage capabilities of devices that support rural Medicare populations. Interoperability is equally... Continue Reading
Funding/deal roundup: WHOOP’s $575M Giant raise, Anthropic buys med AI startup for $400M, early stage fundings for Jimini, Insight Health; Noom buys compounder; Mount Sinai NY to embed OpenEvidence
...2025 growth of 103% and exited at the infamous ‘run rate’ metric of $1.1 billion. Their AI twist is around biometric data and how it is used to guide tracking and performance. It is heavily pitched to elite sports with famous athlete endorsers/investors such as soccer star Cristiano Rinaldo, basketball’s LeBron James, and golfer Rory McElroy. The round was led by Collaborative Fund and includes global participation from a gang of investors including 2PointZero Group, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Mubadala Investment Company, Abbott, Mayo Clinic, Macquarie Capital (entities administered by Macquarie Capital), Glade Brook, B-Flexion, IVP, Foundry, Accomplice, Affinity Partners,... Continue Reading
NY Times’ highly questionable but glowing–and viral–portrait of AI-created GLP-1 e-prescriber and marketer Medvi
...15 working days) to the FDA letter. OpenLoop itself had a January data breach affecting 1.6 million patient records and is facing a class action lawsuit on compounded oral tirzepatide manufactured by Triad Rx–and sold by Medvi. Oh yes, there are faked up before-and-after pictures on the website of customers. Even more blatant is its use of extensive affiliate marketing featuring deepfaked doctor pictures and personas talking up Medvi–5,000 ad campaigns reported by Meta in their library last week, according to Business Insider/MSN. The doctors quoted either did not exist or linked to stores in Angola. They used AI-generated video... Continue Reading
Teladoc faces activist shareholder challenge, demanding $200M stock buyback, business spinoffs, cost cuts
Philip Pillet No one has commented on the changes to CCM and RPM that should significantly increase revenues this year. Instead of 16 or more data points in a month, TDOC a now bill out with as little as two encounters a month for the same price as 16! I expect a significant increase in 1st Q revenue because of this ru=le change by CMS. Donna Cusano Hi Philip, thanks for your comment. Would you expand upon how this will work?... Continue Reading
A study in contrasts: OpenAI raises $122B, eMed’s $200M Series A. Then there’s Avo’s $10M Series A, Stedi’s $50M Series C. And Oracle expands Nashville campus!
...Readers know, the latter is a subjective and oft-inflated estimate of market value especially at this early stage. TTA dug into eMed and some of the company’s interesting history, crossing over into Ali Parsa and Babylon Health, here. Reuters, FierceHealthcare, Mobihealthnews Moving back into reality, Avo, a NYC-based clinical AI information platform, raised a $10 million Series A. Avo’s calling card is bringing together EHR, revenue cycle including payer, patient data, and knowledge bases to streamline use at the point of care. Funders were led by Noro-Moseley Partners, with participation from existing investors AlleyCorp, Las Olas Venture Capital, MedMountain Ventures,... Continue Reading
TTA’s Spring 2: Doctronic’s “AI doc” gets $44M & questions, UnitedHealth sued by religious charity, Oracle may get more VA EHRM scrutiny, Qualified Health’s $125M raise, Cerebral buys ADHD therapy app, more!
...Turquoise Health’s $40M raise, Verily raises $300M to shake off Alphabet control Perspectives: Telehealth as Infrastructure–Building a Financially and Clinically Sustainable Virtual Channel And from earlier this month re Oracle: Oracle’s ‘beat the Street with a club’ Q3 performance Oracle’s rock-and-hard place in Abilene TX: building out a data center with Nvidia chips that are already obsolete–and the financing it takes (updated) Breaking–Oracle to lay off thousands due to AI data center cash crunch, possibly as early as next week. What’s next? (Updated) Breaking–Oracle Health loses five executives sent there to fix Cerner: report. And what is it telling us?... Continue Reading
‘AI doctor’ Doctronic raises $40M Series B, but faces controversy on autonomous Rx renewals in Utah and effectiveness claims
...in 2026. The basic health tech sounds not that unusual: a chatbot discusses your medical concerns and questions, much like a Claude for Healthcare, Microsoft Copilot Health, Teladoc, Ro, or even Google Gemini. The next step is a clinician referral, available 24/7 in all 50 states, for a low $39. It also claims to securely retain your information and timeline/meds/labs, not using the data for AI training. Where the controversy centers is Doctronic’s first-ever state-approved autonomous AI test with the state of Utah. Announced in January, it will test whether a chatbot agent can evaluate and renew existing prescriptions for... Continue Reading
News roundup: Microsoft debuts a rebooted Copilot Health, Stryker whacked by Iranian cyberattack, Amazon buys Rivr robotics for delivery, Turquoise Health’s $40M raise, Verily raises $300M to shake off Alphabet control
...disrupted its customer support, ordering, manufacturing, and shipping operations, wiping information from . It affected operations within the Microsoft environment. It has not affected products including connected products. As of Tuesday, Stryker reported that it had been “contained” on the damage they are aware of and that systems are starting to be restored, though the full scope of the disruption is not yet known. Other reports indicate disruption and wiping on multiple systems. According to DataBreaches.net and Bleeping Computer, the Iranian-linked Handala hacker group claimed that they had stolen 50 TB of data, then wiped tens of thousands of systems... Continue Reading
Perspectives: Telehealth as Infrastructure–Building a Financially and Clinically Sustainable Virtual Channel
...predictable, reimbursable and measurable. Here are the practical, operational steps clinics should take now. Move pre-visit upstream The biggest operational losses happen around patient visits, e.g. when intake is incomplete, insurance is unknown, or staff must chase missing information. One way to change this is by moving pre-visit work upstream: require or encourage patients to complete digital intake forms before an appointment and surface those discrete data fields directly into the chart. This isn’t just a patient convenience, it fundamentally changes how front-office work gets done. Studies show that centralizing reminders and automating pre-visit tasks improves appointment utilization and reduces... Continue Reading
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