...cut about 15% of staff. Yet the VA chief of VA health care, Shereef Elnahal, has denied this. The controversy around this has prompted VA’s secretary, Denis McDonough, to issue a statement that he will look into these reports but stopped short of confirming that no staff would be cut. Spokesman-Review (Spokane) Hat tip to HISTalk 31 May Cerner’s Continuous Campus in Kansas City, Kansas, apparently will be redeveloped. Two local developers are in contract with Oracle to buy the empty 63.5 acre property with twin nine-story office towers. Last week, local authorities approved rezoning with an amended master plan.... Continue Reading
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Another Bright Health selloff: Zipnosis sold to Florence Labs
...quick look at Zipnosis staff on LinkedIn indicates the cutover (and presumably the sale) took place in March but for various reasons such as financial closings was not announced until today. Zipnosis is one of telehealth’s Ur-companies, founded in 2009 and gaining 50-60 health systems before their sale. Zipnosis was a good buy, lightly funded, and with a unique technology that fit well and conveniently into EHRs. It was a smart addition for Bright’s practices under NeueHealth along with entree to health systems. Their later and larger competition at least in synchronous telehealth for health systems was Bluestream Health, bought... Continue Reading
Mid-week roundup: Pear assets fetch paltry $6M *updated*, Bright Health’s reverse stock split, Oracle Cerner loses hospital EHR share, Lifeforce health optimization scores $12M Series A
...and is headed by former athenahealth head Jonathan Bush. In other implosion news, Bright Health on Monday executed its reverse stock split buying itself time on the NYSE from delisting. The board and shareholders approved a 1:80 split. It is now trading as BHG1 and closed today (Tuesday 23 May) at $14.38. Bright is in real extremis–selling its California health plans, either fined or under investigation in four states, in a lawsuit over unpaid claims with SSM Health, and needing a quick $500 million to pay off their outstanding JP Morgan credit facility. Ouch. [TTA 7 Apr, 20 Apr, 4... Continue Reading
VA renews Oracle Cerner EHR contract, but with multiple caveats, metrics, and annual renegotiations
...rock and a hard place, but this hearing put Oracle’s Mike Sicilia on the hot seat about the EHR’s pharmacy software to support the VA’s role as both prescriber and prescription filler–which he previously committed to having fixed by this past April. Carol Harris, Director, Information Technology and Cybersecurity, Government Accountability Office (GAO), responding to Rep. Rosendale’s questions, described a system that is not fully functioning and puts veterans at risk with failings by both Oracle and VA. In the current state, VA users are extremely dissatisfied. The present workarounds and ad hoc processes outside of the system are not... Continue Reading
Monday roundup: Envision files Ch. 11, who’s to blame for Meta Pixel abuse?, CVS Health to shut clinical trials unit, Amino Health scoops $80M, DocGo flat but optimistic, Owlet way down in revenue
...shut its clinical trials unit by December 2024. CVS, like Walgreens and Walmart, jumped into the clinical trials business during the Covid-19 pandemic, seeing a need in the market with pharmaceutical companies and a ready-made, 100 million deep diverse base of patients among their pharmacy users. CVS cited to Healthcare Dive that the shutdown was to better concentrate on core business. Current active trials on the website include narcolepsy, rheumatoid arthritis, and kidney health. No disclosure as to profitability but CVS has a lot to digest with new buys Signify Health and Oak Street Health. Amino Health’s $80 million funding... Continue Reading
Week-end roundup: Is ChatGPT *really* more empathetic than real doctors? Amwell’s $400M loss, Avaya emerges from Ch. 11, Centene sells Apixio, more on Bright Health’s MA sale, layoffs at Brightline, Cue Health, Healthy.io
...a lasting decline in the company’s share price. Current versus prior year Q1 revenue remained flat at $64 million, $15 million lower than Q4 2022 due to a decline in professional services revenue. Visits were 1.7 million visits in Q1, with 36% through the new platform Converge. Guidance for the year remains at $275-$285 million with an adjusted EBITDA loss between $150-$160 million. Mobihealthnews This contrasts with rival Teladoc’s optimistic forecast released last week, though remaining in the loss column [TTA 4 May]. Avaya emerged from Chapter 11 on Monday. According to the release, the company has financially restructured and... Continue Reading
Mid-week roundup: CVS-Oak Street closes, DEA extends controlled substance telehealth waiver, Bright Health selling CA MA plans, Talkspace, Teladoc turnarounds? (updated)
...boost in revenue. FierceHealthcare DEA in-person prescribing requirements on Schedule II and higher controlled substances postponed indefinitely. The proposed rule would have added back in-person requirements for telehealth prescribing of controlled substances after the official end of the Public Health Emergency and its in-person waivers on 11 May. On 25 April, the DEA filed a draft temporary rule with the Office of Management and Budget for the extension. The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008 requires that Schedule II medications and narcotics (including Adderall and Ritalin) require an in-person prescription, while Schedule III or higher medications, including... Continue Reading
Perspectives: Implementing technology in rural communities to support access to mental and behavioral healthcare
...hire psychologists and other experts who specialize in mental and behavioral health, residents in these communities still need — and deserve — this type of care. There are efforts underway to address this issue and expand access, specifically with technology tools that can be used in rural communities to support mental and behavioral health issues. Some of these technology tools include the following: Access to Broadband: One challenge in rural areas is limited broadband internet access, which can make it difficult to access online mental health resources, telemedicine services, and other technology tools. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),... Continue Reading
Mid-week roundup: Kaiser Permanente to buy Geisinger, setup separate system; GoodRx co-CEOs step down; strong earnings for Centene, Humana; Clover Health stock woes, settles $22M lawsuit
...will be to advance value-based care by acquiring and connecting other multi-payer, multi-provider, community-based health systems in areas such as care model design, pharmacy, consumer digital engagement, health plan product development, and purchasing. Kaiser Permanente is a giant integrated care system with 12.6 million members based in California. It operates in eight states (California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington) and the District of Columbia. Geisinger Health is Pennsylvania-based, has 10 hospital campuses, its own health plan that covers more than 500,000 members, and the Geisinger College of Health Sciences with schools of medicine, nursing, and graduate education.... Continue Reading
VA pulls out the stick in contract renegotiation with Oracle Cerner, slams brakes on further EHRM rollouts–and is this trouble? (updated)
...Ann Arbor (including medical research, TTA 1 Mar) and Saginaw (this month) systems to later this year or even 2024. None of this has been cheap. The Senate VA Committee hearings in March revealed that the VA has paid Oracle Cerner $4.4 billion on the contract so far, with a refund of $325,000 paid as compensation for ‘incomplete technology and poor training’. Obligations through the contract are at least $9.4 billion. The new system has been implemented to date in five VA medical centers out of 171. [TTA 18 Mar] Updated. Another five-hour outage of both VA and DOD-MHS systems... Continue Reading
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