...greater detail, such as Larry Ellison, Oracle’s 81-year-old (but still quite active) CEO with a passion for longevity research, stating that Oracle had almost completely rewritten Cerner’s software code and had expanded into other hospital systems including accounting and HR. Read his post on LinkedIn. Article for Bloomberg subscribers here. Again, it is well known that Oracle purchased the antique EHR that was Cerner in order to sell other Oracle systems into the hospital and large healthcare system market, plus to increase its foothold into the Federal government through the VA and MHS EHR modernization contracts. Our Readers know how... Continue Reading
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Chutes & Ladders: Amwell’s ’25 loss, ’26 hopes; Teladoc’s flat 2025; Walgreens and Cigna layoffs; telehealth stable at 7%; Humana CenterWell buys MaxHealth clinics; Honest Health raises $140M
...Research. (Yes, that Epic). The study from July 2022 to October 2025 showed the decline from 8% to today’s range. Two other findings were also interesting: Telehealth has consistently remained more common among patients from metropolitan areas compared to those from more rural areas–the opposite of what one would assume. Telehealth use varied substantially by preferred language; many non-English groups had much higher rates than the rates among English-speaking patients. The study tracked patients speaking primarily Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Persian, and Spanish. Many of their rates are above 10%. Epic’s data comes from its EHR in health systems representing more... Continue Reading
Must Read: an excellent analysis on Carbon Health’s bankruptcy–and the Ominous Parallels
...well on the road to bankruptcy. Their creation of and practice dependence on a proprietary EHR in retrospect was mind-boggling. Get the cuppa and settle in. Stuart Miller of Haverin Consulting, writing on Substack (free article), draws the Ominous Parallels among the three companies first on a seven-point comparison grid: peak valuation (always inflated), core promise (always 35,000 feet), growth strategy (always hyper), strategic overreach (always too complex), technology gap (always aggravated by overreach), demand dependency (always a fadeaway), and outcome (inevitably, failure). He then illustrates what your company should avoid. What are the lessons smart founders and funders should... Continue Reading
Chutes and Ladders w/o 9 Feb: Biofourmis’ ex-CEO faces 7 major Singapore fraud charges (updated), Doximity’s 17% drop; Devoted Health’s big $366M raise, Garner Health garners $118M, Synthpop’s $15M Series A
...had an early raise of $15 million that closed last week. The new Series A brought their total funding to $23 million. It was led by Ansa Capital, with Defy.vc and Peterson Ventures participating in the round with Storm Ventures and strategic investor Bruce Broussard. Marco DeMeireles, co‑founder and managing partner at Ansa Capital will be joining Synthpop’s board. Synthpop uses AI processes to coordinate document intelligence, payer-aware reasoning, and conversational voice agents to automate up to 80% of healthcare business processes, integrating directly with EHR, billing, and e-prescribe platforms. It was founded in 2023 by CEO Elad Ferber and... Continue Reading
What’s happening now with the VA on the Oracle EHRM rollout?
Planning for April–but are the problems that derailed it three years ago solved? The US Department of Veterans Affairs is still stoutly maintaining an April start date for resumption of its EHR Modernization (EHRM) rollout. In last week’s updated schedule issued by the EHR Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO), the new strategy is to keep the rollouts within a fairly tight geographic area in the same VA region, or in VA-speak, VISN, and roll out every two months. Thus the first four systems are VISN 10 in Michigan: Detroit, Saginaw, Ann Arbor, and Battle Creek (system) in April. Two months later... Continue Reading
Chutes & Ladders this week: Carbon Health’s Ch. 11; Centene’s 2-way beat, TrumpRx.com debuts; Doc.com files for $24M Nasdaq listing, $55M for Alaffia Health, big Series Ds for Midi Health and ElevenLabs
...generative AI in text-to-speech and an $11 billion valuation. Its scope is apparently near-universal for developers and companies in multiple industries. For healthcare systems, it has platforms for private practitioners and clinics that provide HIPAA-compliant, intelligent voice agents that triage, route urgent calls and respond to patients. The agents can sync with EHR and HIS systems as well as nurse-call and messaging systems. It can also update records, log triage outcomes and book appointments automatically integrated with EHRs. The fresh financing will assist in their international expansion and ElevenAgents, its enterprise platform for voice and conversational AI. Mobihealthnews, ElevenLabs release... Continue Reading
Summing up the speculation: will Oracle sell off Oracle Health/Cerner to finance $300B OpenAI datacenter buildout?
...Yet the price of this is to abandon its massive investment in healthcare, a linchpin strategy, and the customers there. And there are Federal consequences: the completely incomplete VA implementation scheduled to resume this year and the complete, but still in progress, Department of Defense system. Let’s look at what the effect may be on Oracle Health. Oracle bought Cerner back in December 2021 for $28.3 billion–after Cerner’s troubles with the VA EHR implementation and in the midst of the Department of Defense rollout. Oracle now is a fading number 2 in health system EHR implementations. It was all Epic,... Continue Reading
Need to knows: Omada’s $158M IPO at flat valuation, AZ lawsuit on Centene plan’s ‘ghost network’ fatality, UHG shareholders OK reduced package for CEO Hemsley, new ASTP/HIT-ONC leader, NJ’s Cooper Health patient data breach, Net Health buys Limber Health
...an unknown actor around 14 May 2024. Abnormal network activity was noticed at the time and their systems were secured. However, the incident review which wrapped in March 2025 confirmed the PHI acquisition and Cooper has since notified the suspected individuals. Information accessed on individuals may include names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance information, treatment information, medical record numbers. and medical history information. Mobihealthnews Net Health acquires Limber Health. Net Health, a provider of specialized EHR software plus diagnostic and predictive analytics, including wound care and rehabilitation, is adding Limber Health’s MSK remote therapeutic monitoring and analytics... Continue Reading
News roundup: GLP-1 weight regain real, soft robots walk off 3D printer, Ambience’s AI coding beats doctors by 27%, Get a Second Opinion debuts, $11.5M for AssistIQ
...using the AIQ Capture platform that tracks supplies and implants as they are used, eliminating RFID and barcodes, and integrating them into EHR and billing records with 98% accuracy versus half in manual systems. The Montreal-based company had an initial seed raise of C$2.5 million from StandUp Ventures. Its US flagships are design partner Northwell Health (Allscripts transitioning to Epic), Owensboro Health Regional Hospital in Kentucky (Epic), and others in coming months. It is also a partner with CHUM— Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal , the anchor hospital for the University of Montreal. Mobihealthnews, Battery Ventures release, BusinessWire release... Continue Reading
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
...Department (MHS), and the Coast Guard also are modernizing their EHRs. VA is learning from them as well as the private sector, according to Dr. Evans. The ‘wave’ needs to work. Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins outlined VA plans at two House appropriations hearings last week on the 2026 and 2027 VA budgets. The total for the EHRM is $3.5 billion in FY 2026 (Federal budgets start in October; the total budget has been dubbed the ‘Big Beautiful Budget’) and is needed for additional rollouts in FY 2027. But given the failures at the six existing implementations and the continuing... Continue Reading
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