TTA’s July’s a Wrap: what’s up with Masimo and Danaher, Oracle’s new datacenter danger zone with overruns, Included buys Firefly in expansion, Candid raises $120M, TytoCare’s new CEO and $25M, more!

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30 July-3 August 2026

A mixture this week of catchup–Masimo’s acquisition by Danaher and what that all means–and suddenly perking activity in M&A and diverse funding rounds from Series D to seed. But the week wouldn’t be complete with yet more on Oracle In Danger, this time from data center overruns–yet getting a tidy Federal contract worth several billions.

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The week that was in M&A, financings: Included Health buys Firefly, Candid’s $120M raise, DarioHealth’s $23M RDO, TytoCare’s $25M growth round + new execs, Aurenar’s $5.7M seed for ICU neuromodulation

Chutes & Ladders, Oracle Edition: Surprise! Project Jupiter data center build overages, “social costs” multiply. Pentagon inks $7B, 10 year deal for software.

Catching up to Masimo’s ‘unfinished’ business: Danaher completes $9.9B acquisition of Masimo. $634 million damages from Apple upheld, but Kiani lawsuits continue

Last week’s headlines

This week’s Must Read: the dangerous financing of AI data center buildouts–and how they resemble the 2020 health tech boom (Remember the SPAC boom that cracked and left nearly all companies and billions in the dust?)

Chutes & Ladders: Data breach clouts Clover, OpenAI agent escapes sandbox to attack Hugging Face, Precision’s surface BCI achieves thought control, Tempus AI $1.5B Personalis buy, Karoo Health’s $16.2M Series A

Recent Headlines and Must Reads

News roundup: Withings Medical Group service launches, MPs urge cancellation of NHS/Palantir FDP contract, IKS closes TruBridge buy for $557M, ATA comments on prelim CMS PFS for telehealth, Philips’ AI-powered…toothbrush

A gloomy view on Oracle going forward: debt, cash flow, and dependence on OpenAI

Chutes & Ladders: Done Global principals sentenced on Adderall fraud, Oracle E-Biz Suite hacked, OpenAI’s 5% offer to US government, Meta considers cloud AI, Pearl’s $110M raise

Midjourney Medical audaciously promises a revolution in whole-body scanning, powered by Butterfly Network chips. Can the reality ever match the hype?

Vinegary Must Reads This Week: Silicon Valley’s ‘Cargo Culture’; the clinical query tool explosion between OpenEvidence and general AI

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TTA’s Even Hotter July #2: why data center financing is like subprime mortgates and SPACs, OpenAI’s model escapes its sandbox and attacks, Precision’s BCI wins tests, Tempus buys Personalis for $1.5B, more!

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24-27 July 2026

Even though summer storms replete with tornados have cleared out the northeast US heat wave, elsewhere it’s roasting and the summertime news doldrums continue. The most significant news isn’t healthcare specific–it’s that OpenAI’s agentic AI in test jumped out of its sandbox, got into the internet, and attacked an AI model repository. Another BCI, Precision, is notching some clinical test wins in non-invasive thought control. Clover Health has a hopefully small data breach.

But the Big Read this week is another cautionary tale from Ed Zitron, who takes apart AI data center financing by likening it to the 2008 and prior subprime mortgate financing. Your Editor takes it further to the 2020-22 SPAC boom that left nearly all companies and billions in the dust.

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This week’s Must Read: the dangerous financing of AI data center buildouts–and how they resemble the 2020 health tech boom

Chutes & Ladders: Data breach clouts Clover, OpenAI agent escapes sandbox to attack Hugging Face, Precision’s surface BCI achieves thought control, Tempus AI $1.5B Personalis buy, Karoo Health’s $16.2M Series A

Last week’s headlines

News roundup: Withings Medical Group service launches, MPs urge cancellation of NHS/Palantir FDP contract, IKS closes TruBridge buy for $557M, ATA comments on prelim CMS PFS for telehealth, Philips’ AI-powered…toothbrush

A gloomy view on Oracle going forward: debt, cash flow, and dependence on OpenAI

Recent Headlines and Must Reads

Chutes & Ladders: Done Global principals sentenced on Adderall fraud, Oracle E-Biz Suite hacked, OpenAI’s 5% offer to US government, Meta considers cloud AI, Pearl’s $110M raise

Midjourney Medical audaciously promises a revolution in whole-body scanning, powered by Butterfly Network chips. Can the reality ever match the hype?

Vinegary Must Reads This Week: Silicon Valley’s ‘Cargo Culture’; the clinical query tool explosion between OpenEvidence and general AI

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TTA’s Even Hotter July: a gloomy view on Oracle’s future, Withings gets into medical care, IKS closes TruBridge buy, Palantir/FPS contract in jeopardy, PFS’ draft telehealth provisions, more!

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16-20 July 2026

Back into summertime doldrums with a little less news than usual. Oracle continues to depress Mr. Market with its debt load and lack of cash on hand in its ambitious transformation to an AI infrastructure landlord–but still no word about whether it can sell its EHR. But Withings makes a truly gutsy move by entering the provider fray with a CMS initiative supplementing Medicare primary care providers. IKS closes its big buy of TruBridge for $557 million in another consolidation move. NHS’ big patient database move in jeopardy if Palantir is removed. And debate on the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and telehealth starts anew.

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News roundup: Withings Medical Group service launches, MPs urge cancellation of NHS/Palantir FDP contract, IKS closes TruBridge buy for $557M, ATA comments on prelim CMS PFS for telehealth, Philips’ AI-powered…toothbrush

A gloomy view on Oracle going forward: debt, cash flow, and dependence on OpenAI

Recent Headlines, from 23andMe, to Done being Done, to Midjourney Medical scanning, to Cargo Culture

News roundup: 23andMe settles with data breach victims for $46.75M, Neuralink implants first Canadian ALS patient, Resmed selling MatrixCare EHR for $490M, Teladoc now preferred telehealth provider for NBA players

Chutes & Ladders: Done Global principals sentenced on Adderall fraud, Oracle E-Biz Suite hacked, OpenAI’s 5% offer to US government, Meta considers cloud AI, Pearl’s $110M raise

Midjourney Medical audaciously promises a revolution in whole-body scanning, powered by Butterfly Network chips. Can the reality ever match the hype?

Vinegary Must Reads This Week: Silicon Valley’s ‘Cargo Culture’; the clinical query tool explosion between OpenEvidence and general AI

Amazon’s One Medical Seniors hacked by ShinyHunters, issues “final warning” on 8.8 TB of patient data

Perspectives: The most aggressive AI adoption in healthcare is happening off the books

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TTA’s Hot July: 23andMe settles data breach payout, Done Health fraud principals sentenced,, Resmed sells MatrixCare, Pearl Health’s big raise, OpenAI’s 5% offer, more!

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10-13 July 2026

A quieter post holiday week, but with one major sale and one substantial raise. Resmed sold off their MatrixCare post-acute software business to private equity, for substantially less than they paid for it seven years ago. The big raise was Pearl Health’s. Not so pearly were the substantial sentences and fines given to Done Health’s principals for out of control Adderall prescribing and fraud. Nor was 23andMe’s data breach settlement of $47 million while still in bankruptcy, or another Oracle software vulnerability. And OpenAI’s offer of 5% to the US government–good deal or Trojan Horse? But there’s hope in the 26th clinical trial of Elon Musk’s Neuralink in a Canadian ALS patient. 

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News roundup: 23andMe settles with data breach victims for $46.75M, Neuralink implants first Canadian ALS patient, Resmed selling MatrixCare EHR for $490M, Teladoc now preferred telehealth provider for NBA players

Chutes & Ladders: Done Global principals sentenced on Adderall fraud, Oracle E-Biz Suite hacked, OpenAI’s 5% offer to US government, Meta considers cloud AI, Pearl’s $110M raise

 

Recent Headlines, from Midjourney Medical scanning to Cargo Culture

Midjourney Medical audaciously promises a revolution in whole-body scanning, powered by Butterfly Network chips. Can the reality ever match the hype?

Chutes & Ladders: Xsolis data breach affects 1.4M records, Five Eyes warns of AI-supercharged hacking; FDA closes Whoop BP warning, Centene adds HR/finance exec to board; $120M raises for Assort Health, $46M for xCures

Vinegary Must Reads This Week: Silicon Valley’s ‘Cargo Culture’; the clinical query tool explosion between OpenEvidence and general AI

Short takes: Bain report on anemic AI ROI, SVB report on women’s health, Ladder Health pedes virtual health raises $7M, an update on the Luigi Mangione trial

Amazon’s One Medical Seniors hacked by ShinyHunters, issues “final warning” on 8.8 TB of patient data

News roundup: Validic bought by ChartSpan; raises for Cadence, Prosper AI, Telepatia; Epic MyChart portal messages doubled in 5 years–study    

Perspectives: The most aggressive AI adoption in healthcare is happening off the books

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TTA Celebrates USA 250! Midjourney’s body scanner promises a revolution and Butterfly a future? Hype or reality? And more!

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2 -6 July 2026

An early close for a very big holiday this weekend–the 250th anniversary of United States Independence, a/k/a The Rebel Colonials Serving It Up Hot To King George III. And the UK and Europe returned this weekend’s 100 degree F temps (38 C) as a present…

Speaking of presents…our one story this week is a very deep dive into Midjourney Medical’s ‘magical’ whole-body scanner and the Butterfly Network ultrasound chips powering it. The Midjourney agreement is a substantial present to a once-promising POCUS company that was almost KO’d by the Devil of Demise after a cracked SPAC. Is it a future that Butterfly can bet on, or just another bridge to cross?

Set off fireworks (safely), drink up like a colonial, and stay cool!

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Midjourney Medical audaciously promises a revolution in whole-body scanning, powered by Butterfly Network chips. Can the reality ever match the hype?

Last Week’s Headlines, from Cargo Culture to OpenEvidence   

Chutes & Ladders: Xsolis data breach affects 1.4M records, Five Eyes warns of AI-supercharged hacking; FDA closes Whoop BP warning, Centene adds HR/finance exec to board; $120M raises for Assort Health, $46M for xCures

Vinegary Must Reads This Week: Silicon Valley’s ‘Cargo Culture’; the clinical query tool explosion between OpenEvidence and general AI

Short takes: Bain report on anemic AI ROI, SVB report on women’s health, Ladder Health pedes virtual health raises $7M, an update on the Luigi Mangione trial

Amazon’s One Medical Seniors hacked by ShinyHunters, issues “final warning” on 8.8 TB of patient data

News roundup: Validic bought by ChartSpan; raises for Cadence, Prosper AI, Telepatia; Epic MyChart portal messages doubled in 5 years–study    

Perspectives: The most aggressive AI adoption in healthcare is happening off the books

Catch up with these if you haven’t

Chutes, and chutes: Microsoft’s $3B Oracle cloud leasing deal goes sideways, Defense Health Agency to replace Leidos as system integrator for MHS’ EHR, Centene offering voluntary buyouts to most employees

Tuesday 23 June–UKTelehealthcare webinar/virtual event: Keeping People at Home, Supported by Technology (this is now available on video–check the UKTelehealthcare website and LinkedIn)

Perspectives: Virtual Care, AI, and the Future of Autism Therapy

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TTA’s Here Comes Summer: two data breaches and a warning, six raises, Validic bought, Silicon Valley’s ‘Cargo Culture’, OpenEvidence scored in study, ‘off the books’ AI in healthcare, more!

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Friday 26 June 2026

Summer started and the doldrums lifted. We have not one but two data breaches with a big warning from Five Eyes that AI-powered breaches are coming. Six raises from seed to Series C–including in Brazil–and Validic after many years is bought. But scrutiny is piling on AI and AI clinical tools, from the economics to Silicon Valley ‘Cargo Culture’ to OpenEvidence’s performance to ‘off the books’ AI in healthcare. We also touch on the current status of the Luigi Mangione NY State trial, 18 months after the murder of UHC’s Brian Thompson.

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Chutes & Ladders: Xsolis data breach affects 1.4M records, Five Eyes warns of AI-supercharged hacking; FDA closes Whoop BP warning, Centene adds HR/finance exec to board; $120M raises for Assort Health, $46M for xCures

Vinegary Must Reads This Week: Silicon Valley’s ‘Cargo Culture’; the clinical query tool explosion between OpenEvidence and general AI

Short takes: Bain report on anemic AI ROI, SVB report on women’s health, Ladder Health pedes virtual health raises $7M, an update on the Luigi Mangione trial

Amazon’s One Medical Seniors hacked by ShinyHunters, issues “final warning” on 8.8 TB of patient data

News roundup: Validic bought by ChartSpan; raises for Cadence, Prosper AI, Telepatia; Epic MyChart portal messages doubled in 5 years–study    

Perspectives: The most aggressive AI adoption in healthcare is happening off the books

Last Week’s Headlines

Chutes, and chutes: Microsoft’s $3B Oracle cloud leasing deal goes sideways, Defense Health Agency to replace Leidos as system integrator for MHS’ EHR, Centene offering voluntary buyouts to most employees

Tuesday 23 June–UKTelehealthcare webinar/virtual event: Keeping People at Home, Supported by Technology (this is now available on video–check the UKTelehealthcare website and LinkedIn)

Perspectives: Virtual Care, AI, and the Future of Autism Therapy

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