...what about the cost of kiosk installation, cleaning, stocking, monitoring, just like those telehealth kiosks from Forward (CarePods), Higi, and way back HealthSpot Station. They were the future–for five minutes. Apparently there’s also a little regulatory issue of self-dealing referral (hat tip to LinkedIn commenter Ajay Kumar Gupta). Also Healthcare Dive VillageMD continues to shrink. The formerly free-standing and co-located Walgreens clinic unit, spun off into a standalone company by Sycamore Partners while I was on medical leave (FierceHealthcare 28 Aug), has sold 32 Texas primary care clinics to Harbor Health, a primary care group and payvider in the Austin... Continue Reading
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News roundup 22 May: an inflight ‘save’ and AliveCor’s KardiaMobile, rolling out the VA/Oracle EHR in ‘waves’, Fuze Health formed from LetsGetChecked/Truepill, hacking and ransomware 92% of PHI data breaches
Leading our news with a short, heartwarming story. A passenger on a 29 April KLM flight from Uganda to Amsterdam experienced, three hours in, heart attack symptoms and extreme pain. The Dutch passenger’s luck was that a group of passengers were medical volunteers with Cura from the World, a Oklahoma-based group returning from a medical mission to Uganda. Dr. TJ Trad, the founder/CEO and an invasive cardiologist, created an aid station for the passenger where his legs could be raised and his vitals monitored with the assistance of a nurse. The lucky part was that the team had most of... Continue Reading
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
...choice. The one – or two booth self-cleaning kiosk has been placed in Tampa, Auburn, Tuskegee, Milam County, Connecticut, and Georgia in multiple settings including a homeless shelter, sheriff’s office, universities, public buildings, and supermarkets. Their website has demonstration videos here. Their target has also changed from five years ago to concentrate on underserved areas, citing the 80% of U.S. counties lacking sufficient primary care and 83 million Americans living in healthcare deserts. Our Readers will be reminded of Forward’s recent implosion [TTA 14 Nov, 15 Nov] after two CarePods installed, and in the Wayback Machine, HealthSpot Station which managed... Continue Reading
Breaking: suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder arrested in Pennsylvania, to be arraigned tonight (updated)
...watt talk radio format station. Luigi Mangione’s manifesto (not fully published) and social media postings reflect a distinct anger towards corporate America, according to the NYPD, and medicine and insurance companies as ‘parasites’, possibly personal because of the treatment of a sick relative. He also admired the writings of the murderous Unabomber, who terrorized individuals and academia for 20 years. The shell casings of ammunition found at the New York Hilton crime scene engraved with ‘delay’, ‘deny’ and ‘depose’ were the first indication that the shooter committed this murder in the name of a cause best known to him. New... Continue Reading
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
...in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Nice idea, but like the earlier HealthSpot Station of 2012-2016, they are equally defunct. In its eight-year life, Forward had raised $325 million (Crunchbase), which also reported last year’s Series E as only $75 million. At the time of their Series D, Forward was valued at over $1 billion and had a roster of flashy investors such as music’s The Weeknd, Salesforce’s founder Marc Benioff, actor Matthew McConaughey, Eric Schmidt, and Softbank. What’s stunning? Reports indicated that it only generated under $100 million in total revenue since its founding.... Continue Reading
Short takes 2: Humana’s CEO changeover; Owlet Dream Sock CE Mark, UK approval; TytoCare goes to school; LG enters home health with Primefocus; Samsung $92M buys Sonio (FR); raises by Blackwell in health cybersec, Watershed Health
...app and on a base station to provide baby sleep insights. In the US, it was FDA cleared under de novo last November. It is sold without prescription through retailers and directly through Owlet. Owlet plans to debut it in Germany, France, and the UK later this year. CE Mark, UK releases. Mobihealthnews TytoCare expands a logical market–school RPM. Their school health initiative that started before the pandemic has added or expanded in five healthcare systems. This brings primary and urgent care services to over 2,500 schools in 31 states. Three of the five systems are Cone Health (North Carolina),... Continue Reading
Mid-week news roundup: US offers $10M for BlackCat/ALPHV info; most Change systems still down; Risant closes Geisinger buy; SureScripts exploring sale; DarioHealth 2023 revenue -23%; Amazon Pharmacy same-day delivery NYC and LA
...this Editor noted then, it was a feat of funding legerdemain that rivaled a Frank Lorenzo deregulation-era airline acquisition. Their information around 2023 earnings isn’t much different. Dario provides a combined app and in-person approach to musculoskeletal (MSK) therapy, diabetes (including GLP-1 drugs), hypertension, weight management, and behavioral health. Mobihealthnews, Dario release And speaking of pharmacy, Amazon Pharmacy expanded same-day medication-delivery offerings to NYC residents and the greater Los Angeles area. This adds to same-day prescription delivery available in Phoenix, Austin, Seattle, Indianapolis, Miami, and Texas, including free drone delivery in College Station. How it works: Amazon has small facilities... Continue Reading
Primary care provider Forward introduces CarePod kiosks, raises $100 million for deployment–but will it work this time?
...saw a closed type of health kiosk. I demo’d HealthSpot Station at the CES preview in NYC in late 2012. It officially debuted at CES 2013. Despite decent takeup, HealthSpot was defunct by mid-2016 having placed only 50 or so stations and burned through a substantial $43 million through its entire short but showy life. Its remains went to now-bankrupt Rite Aid which did nothing reportable with it. HealthSpot had key differences with Forward’s CarePods in that HealthSpot was a place to sit down and have a synchronous virtual visit with a doctor (supplied by Teladoc initially), with vital signs... Continue Reading
Friday roundup: VA Spokane quashes staff cuts; EHR market share ex-US; Epic’s proposed UK HQ expansion; Apple watchOS 10 adds health features; Nox Health on Pear buy; GP2U Telehealth sold
...America, MV and Philips in Brazil with NTT DATA (not on list) in Argentina. Becker’s But Epic has plans to expand. One sign: plans to move their UK headquarters staff currently located in several buildings in Bristol to a much larger campus on the outskirts of town in nearby Long Ashton. The campus site is currently pasture fields and the village cricket club. This coincides with plans to develop a ‘garden village’ with 2,500 homes to the south that may include a rail station. The public hearing is 12 June in Long Ashton. Bristol Post Apple debuted its latest iteration... Continue Reading
News roundup: GoodRx pays $1.5M to FTC on Meta Pixel use, ATA concerns on Covid PHE end, defending Livongo sale to Teladoc, Philips lays off 18K, Amazon health layoffs–and big ’22 loss, Ireland HSE digital head quits, Matt Hancock assaulted on Tube
...suspended from the Conservative Party in November, having decided that traveling to Australia for several weeks to appear in a reality show was more important–while he was Conservative Whip and Commons was still sitting. Now as an independent representing West Suffolk, in December he announced he will not stand for re-election next year. The insult upon injury was being assaulted last month by a 61-year-old man on the London Underground, following Mr. Hancock through Westminster station and onto a train, and earlier by the same man on Parliament Street. The Lancashire man was arrested. Lately quite in the BBC News.... Continue Reading
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