Not coming soon to a supermarket near you, but an interesting test at Sainsbury’s in Liverpool. The 2022 study by a team from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) was designed to move atrial fibrillation (AF) screening closer to everyday routines. At least one weekly routine is to go to the supermarket. In the ‘SHOPS-AF’ study first/proof-of-concept phase designed in 2022, the LJMU team installed a single-lead ECG designed by them, the MyDiagnostick, into the cart (US)/trolley (UK) handles at four local Sainsbury’s with pharmacies. This idea is similar to the pulse monitor handle that you find in most sport treadmills.... Continue Reading
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Amazon Clinic delays 50-state telehealth rollout due to Federal data privacy, HIPAA concerns on user registration, PHI–is it a warning?
...and telehealth vendors.) The letter raises the sensible, usual questions on why personal data is being collected and what Amazon is doing with it. For instance, it requests responses on how patient data is used by Amazon, what data is shared with third-party entities, and what data is used in any analytics or algorithms. It cites as a non-compliance example the $1.5 million that GoodRx paid in an FTC penalty on their past Meta Pixel usage for ad tracking. (Interestingly avoiding the $7.5 million Teladoc paid for similar ad tracker misuse by BetterHelp.) The $30/visit service has been available in... Continue Reading
Babylon Health to go private with AlbaCore in planned ‘Take Private Proposal’, combine with MindMaze
...expected to include immediate material funding for current business operations as well as a commitment to fund the combined business of MindMaze and the Company.” This presumably will resolve Babylon’s debt to AlbaCore of $300 million from the SPAC. BBLN shares will cease trading upon closing. Class A ordinary shareholders or other equity instrument holders will receive no payment, as disclosed in May. (Shares are trading at $0.65 today, amazingly, but whatever shares are out there are being bought and sold, for instance in restricted stock units being vested and sold for whatever value could be obtained.) There is no... Continue Reading
Perspectives: How AI and ML can accelerate the growth of telemedicine across the globe
...of a physician in disease management or can replace the importance of human cognition and judgment in clinical practices. For instance, in the management of patients, we could be able to create a useful algorithm to determine which biological agents to use, but we might not be able to understand the reason that was the result of the prediction by the algorithm. The worth of the output and inference, as with all data analysis, significantly depends on the accuracy and applicability of the input data. When algorithms are applied to databases that are of low quality and significance, it is... Continue Reading
VA renews Oracle Cerner EHR contract, but with multiple caveats, metrics, and annual renegotiations
...applications: Ensuring that the EHR system interfaces with VA’s website, mobile app, and other critical applications, so Veterans have a seamless and integrated health care experience. With 28 performance metrics that if not met will result in Oracle paying a monetary credit to the VA, there’s a big monetary incentive for Oracle. For instance, in the VA update document, they claim that Oracle would have paid approximately a 30-fold increase in credits for the system outages, which is only one of the metrics. “The amended contract lays the groundwork for VA and Oracle Cerner to resolve the EHR issues identified... Continue Reading
News roundup: Cano Health board fight, board shakeup; Memora Health’s $30M raise; Teladoc enters weight management race
...the kicker: appointing a non-executive chairman of the board, Solomon (Sol) Trujillo. This separated the chairman and CEO roles, with the highly controversial founder Dr. Marlow Hernandez remaining as CEO. Not addressed were the issues around Dr. Hernandez. He has been accused of self-dealing in two instances: $23 million to the CEO’s father for general contracting work, and $8.5 million to a dental care company owned by Mrs. Hernandez. Earlier coverage included dubious transactions with Miami medical claims recovery company MSP Recovery (also known as LifeWallet). What’s interesting about this is that it may turn into a battle royal between... Continue Reading
VA pulls out the stick in contract renegotiation with Oracle Cerner, slams brakes on further EHRM rollouts–and is this trouble? (updated)
...without its glitches. Billions had been spent in multiple multi-year efforts to make the two existing systems interoperable, for instance to cover records of service members transitioning from active service to reserve or veteran status and for military retirees. Oracle closed its $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner last June to much fanfare, but has not had a pleasant moment with the VA or Congress since. During 2021-22, failures of the Oracle Cerner system included hundreds of outages, the ‘unknown queue’ creating at least 150 instances of harm (including one averted suicide) at one VA health system (Mann-Grandstaff), four veteran deaths,... Continue Reading
VA EHR update: four deaths traced to Oracle Cerner EHR; four safety issues identified by VA EHRM Sprint Team
The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is unhappy. Very unhappy. With good reason. The ongoing problems with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rollout of the Oracle Cerner EHR multiply. There were six instances of ‘catastrophic harm’ attributed to a feature of the EHR modernization program since the rollout, four of which resulted in the death of a veteran patient. According to information given to the staff of Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), one fatality was at Spokane’s Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center and the other three died as patients in the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System, launched in April 2022. The nonfatal... Continue Reading
News roundup: Transcarent buys 98point6’s virtual care; Best Buy-Atrium hospital-at-home; Walgreens/VillageMD buys another practice group; WW-Sequence digital weight management; UKTelehealthcare events; 300 out at Color
...versus the more common per member per month care management model. 98point6 will continue in a leaner form, licensing its software to third parties, but out of the treatment business. Its major relationship is with MultiCare Health System in Washington state. 98point6 had raised over $260 million from 2015 through a 2020 Series E. Mobihealthnews Best Buy Health is providing telehealth equipment and installation to North Carolina-based Atrium Health’s hospital-at-home program. In the three-year deal, Best Buy’s Geek Squad will install peripherals based on the patient’s needs, transmitted through a Current Health telehealth mobile connectivity hub and using their software.... Continue Reading
Week’s end roundup: Theranica clears, Pixel Watch fall alert, Veradigm delays, Walmart adding 40+ clinics by 2024, Bright Health’s dim future, Ontrak founder charged with insider trading
...from Q3 2021 into estimates for Q4 2022. Not exactly confidence-making for a company in the data management/software business. Coincidentally, the company which bought then-Allscripts’ large hospital/practice EHRs, now called Altera, Canadian giant Constellation Software, is also delaying its Q4/FY 2022 reporting, in this instance due to the Altera acquisition [TTA 15 Feb]. Veradigm’s release gives you the more complicated explanation. Walmart Health’s Big Announcement is that it will be doubling the number of its Health Centers from the current 32 to over 75. By Q1 2024, Walmart’s plan is to open 28 new locations in the following metros: Dallas... Continue Reading
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