...few other important items. Unlike a CFO, Mr. Lander’s office is largely toothless and can’t say no. HPD plans to sign off on it anyway as DocGo is quite tight with Mayor Eric Adams. Mayor Adams spoke at the DocGo in-person Investor Day on Tuesday 20 June about their partnership with the city. Adams has already stated that “We are going to move forward with it.” FierceHealthcare According to the New York Post and Fortune, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and Gov. Kathy Hochul have launched investigations into the company, focusing on how DocGo could contract for logistical... Continue Reading
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Another antitrust shoe drops: FTC, DOJ publish Draft Merger Guidelines for comment–what are the effects?
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have published for public comment a draft of revised corporate merger guidelines. These update prior guidelines from 1968 which have been revised six times since. These are stated as incorporating comments from hearings and comments that started in January. The Draft Merger Guidelines on FTC.gov are open for comment for the next 60 days (18 September), cleverly during a time when most of Washington DC is repairing to cooler climes for summer holidays. They are centered on what DOJ Antitrust and FTC loftily call The 13 Guidelines. These will... Continue Reading
Short takes: FDA seeks feedback on home care tech; Japan care homes piloting AI; Author Health’s $115M bet on senior mental health; Alertacall’s Batchelor on ‘right fit’ finance support; Headspace in the wrong (layoff) space again
...patient care that includes home-based care?” The FDA’s language around this is anodyne as couched in ‘health equity’ but it’s seriously around increasing access to all, supporting innovation, reducing barriers to care, and empowering people to make better decisions around their health. All public comments must be submitted to FDA’s docket (FDA-2023-N-1956), available at Regulations.gov. Important–the public comment period will end on 30 August 2023. Healthcare Dive In Japan, a nursing home operator/insurer is adopting analytics to track residents and reduce caregiver workload. The operator/insurer is Sompo Holdings (LinkedIn) and the analytics company is Palantir. The jointly designed software platform,... Continue Reading
VA awards four remote patient monitoring companies to share in $1B Home Telehealth contract (updated)
...(now part of Optum) in 2018 and they with Iron Bow walked away [TTA 16 Jan 2018]. Another major hurdle is acceptance by VA care teams, and here all three companies are up against incumbent Medtronic. Update 1 Nov: Another incumbent, AMC Health, which in 2022 partnered with GE HealthCare on post-hospital monitoring, switched partnerships and moved to partner with Cognosante. Partnerships are near-impossible to discern from the award notices. This is per their chief operating officer, James Considine, to the Editor. Becker’s, GovConWire, Valor release, GlobalMed release, SAM.gov award notice-Medtronic, SAM.gov award notice-Valor, SAM.gov award notice-DrKumo, SAM.gov award notice-Cognosante... Continue Reading
Week-end roundup: more House actions on telehealth benefits, VA EHR; Oracle exec moves to FDA digital health; Angle Health raises $58M; layoffs at Akili, Innovaccer, Athenahealth, Mindstrong
...this point, the bill is not numbered, submitted, or on Congress.gov. HealthcareITNews Not addressed in this bill or any other is whether the extensions will cover hospital-at-home remote patient monitoring (RPM) that was permitted under waivers during the Public Health Emergency (PHE). With its scheduled 11 May end, the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) believes that CMS will not allow remote monitoring to continue in hospital-at-home programs, under current reimbursement and devices. CHI had sent Congress at the end of January a list of their priorities and they’ve received a hearing, but no action has been taken yet. Healthcare Finance The... Continue Reading
Pull the plug on Oracle Cerner in the VA! Two House Representatives urge return to VistA, send bill to Veterans’ Affairs committee
...the bill would pass both House and Senate, and be signed into law, is low, H.R. 608 is one very heavy and clever cudgel for getting Oracle–and the VA staff involved with the conversion–to Pay Attention! Fix The Problems! There’s also leverage far beyond the VA EHR. Oracle has multiple Federal contracts which could be jeopardized or defunded. Stay tuned to further developments in VA’s Tower of Trouble and Oracle’s Mound of (Acquired) Misery. Hat tip to HISTalk for the heads up, actually obtaining a screenshot of part of the bill which has not yet been posted on Congress.gov. FCW.... Continue Reading
Mid-week roundup: UnitedHealth-Change trial kicks off; Amazon’s One Medical buy questioned; Cionic’s neural sleeve designed by Yves Behar; Medable-Withings partner; Orion Health’s new CEO; IBM Watson Health’s Simon Hawken passes
...abuses, loopholes exist in every legal framework.” He also cites, somewhat broadly, that information of this type could be used to suggest over-the-counter blood pressure medications to a One Medical patient shopping at a Whole Foods Market. (What is meant here is that there are many supplements that claim to benefit blood pressure available OTC, such as Garlique; however, there are many OTC meds that can increase blood pressure such as decongestants.) This Editor agrees with Senator Hawley that the acquisition should be carefully reviewed by FTC and, to go further, HHS as it involves patient data.) Hawley Senate.gov page... Continue Reading
Short takes: £150 million for UK social care tech out of £1 billion, bias by design in medical device use investigated, Netsmart buys Remarkable Health, Vinehealth seed rounds £4.1 million
...delivery and standard of care up to £25 million to support unpaid carers Part of the tech upgrading includes 80% of social carers having digitized care records that connect to a shared care record by March 2024. The improvements will be funded through the 1.25% Health and Social Care levy. Gov.uk, HealthcareITNews The UK DHSC is investigating whether the design and use of medical devices such as pulse oximeters could be potentially biased by race. This stems from the disproportionate death rate during COVID-19 of blacks, Asians, and other minorities. The review announced will look at whether AI tools can... Continue Reading
Hearing voices: Cigna-Ellipsis AI-powered voice stress test; UCSF/Weill neuroprosthesis decodes attempted speech
...What the neuroprosthesis did was decode directly from the cerebral cortical activity while the participant attempted to say individual words from a vocabulary set of 50 words. Using computational models plus a natural-language model on next-word probabilities in sentences, the researchers were able with a high degree of accuracy to decode full sentences from the cortical activity. The New England Journal of Medicine article is available in abstract but paywalled for the full study (limited free access with registration). The clinical trial was funded by Facebook and is on ClinicalTrials.gov here for the device and related neurological studies. Also Mobihealthnews.... Continue Reading
NHS touts COVID-19 Test and Trace app; Livi’s MJog notifies users of vaccine jab info
...smartphone has downloaded the app. It was 2020’s second most downloaded free iPhone app in the App Store in 2020. Gov.UK Department of Health and Social Care release, Mobihealthnews Seeking info on your vaccine jab? Livi is supporting the NHS through its MJog app, notifying users of vaccination messages including vaccination eligibility, the latest information about vaccines, and whether or not users can phone their GP. Since the December rollout, 25 million vaccination text messages have been sent to NHS patients. The MJog platform saw a 220 percent increase in messages sent during the same period the prior year. The... Continue Reading
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