...final FDA approval may be more distant than the funding and turnover make it appear. Indian RCM provider IKS Health seeks to add TruBridge’s RCM for $675 million. Talks are reportedly in an advanced stage with an all-cash offer funded by a $675 million debt facility from banks like Citi, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan. It covers both purchase price and refinances TruBridge’s existing debt. No formal offer has been tendered to TruBridge’s board or shareholders. Surprisingly, this has gained little notice in the US healthcare press. TruBridge provides HIT, an EHR, and RCM for health systems and practices. It... Continue Reading
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VA’s Oracle EHR resumes go-lives at four Michigan systems–finally
...20’s Anchorage, Alaska VA Health System. [TTA 8 Feb] The only exception to the hiatus was a joint Military Health System/VA implementation at Lovell in Chicago, which has had its own bumps after its start in March 2024. VA previously had five disastrous implementations, VA Mann-Grandstaff (VISN 20) in October 2020 and four more in 2022. After many actions to fix them, the VA halted implementations in April 2023. Even in 2025, in its agency report, the VA’s Office of Inspector General in their March 2025 report, and their January 2026 report on VA’s Management and Performance Challenges for FY... 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
...announcement last week. It will be integrated into their Epic EHR. OpenEvidence, with a eyeblinking valuation of $12 billion [TTA 13 Feb], claims a daily average usage by 40% of US doctors in 10,000 hospitals and medical centers of their free search engine trained on journals and clinical medical data only. It fills a gap that competitors Doximity, Epocrates, and Medscape aren’t doing. It has added clinical trial matching to its capabilities filtering trials by study design, enrollment status, and geographic proximity. This adds on to Sutter Health’s integration into doctors’ Epic workflows announced earlier this year. Healthcare IT News... Continue Reading
Former VA EHRM executive director Federally charged with accepting vendor cash and gifts, making false statements
...threatened this Power Group with economic and reputational harm, particularly but not only related to his diversity networking expectations (General Allegations, point 14). John Windom, aged 64, has an interesting background. He joined the VA in September 2017 after retiring from service as a Navy Captain. While in the Navy, he had direct experience of the Cerner EHR implementation at the Department of Defense (DoD) as a program manager for their Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization Program. His 2017 appointment as executive director of the OEHRM replaced Genevieve Morris, interim chief health information officer, who had moved from ONC in... 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
The Oracle shoe dropped: Oracle lays off 18%–20-30K–of global employees, in their largest ever layoff (Updated 2 Apr)
...many thousands in IT and development, indicated the layoffs hit hardest in these areas–FTA RollingOut via Times of India: RHS (Revenue and Health Sciences) — employees described a reduction in force of at least 30%, with 16 or more engineers from individual business units cut in a single action. (Editor’s Note: this includes the Oracle Health EHR team which was the former Cerner) SVOS (SaaS and Virtual Operations Services) — similarly reported a 30% or greater reduction, with manager-level roles included in the sweep. NetSuite’s India Development Centre (IDC) — cuts spanned project management, individual contributor, and manager roles across... Continue Reading
Drafted House bill may threaten VA/Oracle EHRM rollout
...its requirements coming a little late in the day? 13 health system EHR rollouts are already planned, starting in April for the year, announced in February by the EHR Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO) [TTA 8 Feb]. The VA stopped Oracle EHR rollouts in 2023 save for Lovell in Chicago. Since then, the original six disastrous installs have been overhauled and tested. There have been multiple hearings, floggings of Oracle executives, and extensive reports from the VA’s Inspector General. What does this bill add to the mix, and do these ‘guardrails’ add meaningfully to performance? The Committee chair, Rep. Mike Bost... Continue Reading
Perspectives: Telehealth as Infrastructure–Building a Financially and Clinically Sustainable Virtual Channel
...elsewhere. Make governance non-negotiable Without clear operational ownership, telehealth programs drift and performance deteriorates. Who owns booking rules? Who maintains payer mappings? What are clear escalation policies for clinical red flags? Assign cross-functional ownership (e.g. operations, revenue cycle, clinical leaders, and IT) and lock in a change-control cadence that prevents “rule drift” as policies and payer contracts change. Evidence that EHR workload-per-visit can rise even when visit volume falls illustrates why governance and workflow redesign must accompany modality shifts. Pilot pragmatically—and scale what earns results Don’t rip-and-replace overnight. Start with two tightly scoped pilots: for example, telehealth follow-ups for chronic... Continue Reading
Short newsy takes: Amazon Connect Health AI, UHS buys Talkspace for $835M, Oura buys Doublepoint, Science Corp.’s $230M raise, VSee’s debuts first autonomous telehealth robot
Our roundup is up! Amazon adds Amazon Connect Health agentic AI for provider workflows to their roster. Amazon’s multiplicity of niches in healthcare adds a new solution, this time targeting providers. This is part of AWS’ health suite for EHRs, designed to handle high-volume administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling, clinical documentation, and medical coding. It also targets builders in EHR companies, healthcare ISVs (independent software vendors), and tech-enabled providers through a unified software development kit (SDK) to directly integrate Amazon Connect Health’s point of care capabilities into their existing workflows. It is based on the company’s Amazon Connect cloud... Continue Reading
Breaking–Oracle to lay off thousands due to AI data center cash crunch, possibly as early as next week. What’s next? (Updated)
...in this area problematic. Just because EHR problems have supposedly been fixed and that both the VA and Oracle are set to roll it out, VISN by VISN, does not mean that AI can do it. It is a long and customized implementation due to the sheer number of VA locations and diversity of functions [TTA 8 Feb]. And for that, you need people with deep experience and buckets of patience who know the system and can get along with their Federal counterparts. VistA in over two decades of implementation was so highly customized for both patient care and additional... Continue Reading
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