Weekly Alert
A little bit of everything as we move towards the unofficial start of summer in the US. Walmart expands its drone delivery, AWS gains a big one in the Healthcare Cloud Wars, and Verizon publishes its latest roundup on IT breaches. Oracle-Cerner moves a little closer to full international approval. There’s an Aging2.0 challenge, a substantial RPM raise, and NY seniors get robots. And to white coat or not on a telehealth consult.
Thursday’s short takes: Walmart’s delivery drones expand, AWS lands Geisinger for AI and cloud, UHG-Kaia Health partner for virtual MSK therapy (Droning on and the Cloud Wars accelerate)
ElliQ companion robot, NYSOFA partner for NY older adult assistance (Will they like it?)
Wednesday news roundup: Oracle-Cerner reportedly OK’d by EU, VitalTech RPM raises $14.1 M, Aging 2.0 interoperability challenge, what do rough times mean for investors and startups, employees cause 39% of healthcare IT breaches (Breaches multiply, and Lisa Suennen’s take on what to expect from the current financial craziness)
To white coat, or not to white coat? That is the telehealth doctor question. (A short, refreshing read through the history of the medical white coat)
Our strange May continues with a lot of legal activity, including the tale of one doctor who side gigged as Dr. Mabuse. Telehealth continues a wobbly path, with claims down along with Amwell’s performance. And Cerner has more problems, this time with DOD and VA. But a new Perspective gives us hope that the UK can save more than £14 bn through TEC–and there’s always self-driving cars for med delivery!
Thursday legal news roundup: Oscar Health accused of IPO securities fraud; Venezuelan cardiologist moonlights as cybercriminal, faces slammer; Change Healthcare sues former employee now at Olive AI (When lawsuit news outstrips M&A, it’s not good)
Cerner EHR implementation with both DOD and VA running into interoperability, other problems: Federal audit (More process problems being sorted out in public)
Perspectives: Where next for technology-enabled care after 2025? (Is £14bn in savings over the next 10 years an underestimate?)
News roundup: telehealth claims drop 9% in February; Amwell’s good news, bad news Q1; tech-enabled practice Crossover Health growing; NowRx and Hyundai test semi-self-driving delivery (One hopes those Hyundai Ionics drive better than telehealth’s performing)
May’s ups and downs, with the stock market drowning out healthcare. Cerebral confirmed their Federal investigation for prescribing practices, putting a bucket of cold water on this hot sector. But good news pokes its head out, with a Johns Hopkins study that telehealth is benefiting the underserved and urban, not just the affluent and young. More good news with a telecare pioneer receiving the top award for UK enterprise.
Alertacall receives Queen’s Award For Enterprise: Innovation (An outstanding recognition for a telecare pioneer in this Platinum Jubilee Year)
CMS telehealth pandemic waivers boosted usage among disadvantaged, urban patients (Tide lifting all boats, and that’s good)
DOJ investigates telemental Cerebral on over-prescribing of controlled medications (A flashing warning sign for investors)
An unusual April has wrapped, but May has gotten off to an unsettling start, from the stock market to telehealth’s leaders such as Teladoc. Hot areas like telemental health and prescribing are (deservedly) under scrutiny, and Noom’s losing more than pounds. But a sign of normality is that ATA is back in person, and there were many announcements with significance.
Weekend news and deals roundup: Allscripts closes sale of hospital EHRs, closing out CEO; DEA scrutiny of Cerebral’s ADHD telehealth prescribing; more telehealth fraud; Noom lays off; fundings; and why healthcare AI is only ML (Looks like some cleaning up is going on)
ATA conference roundup: a new board chair, a digital app review pilot, and company announcements (Hopkins study, BioIntelliSense, Connect America, AliveCor, Withings, more)
Some thoughts on Teladoc and the Week That Was in telehealth (When the whales are in trouble, there may be opportunities for the minnows)
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April is proving to be an active month for something other than rain and blooming cherry trees. A new CEO for Tunstall. Tivity and MobileHelp are sold. UnitedHealth and Optum won’t give up on Change, including a hefty break fee, nor big buys. On the retail front, Walmart finally opens up Florida superstores powered by Epic, and Walgreens ‘corners’ with Blue Shield in California. Some local telehealth grants and the surprising vitality of audio telehealth for the underserved. And, to no one’s surprise, digital health got off to a slow start in Q1.
Tunstall Healthcare announces new group CEO, Emil Peters (More changing of the guard)
Weekend roundup: telehealth claims ticked up again in January, Walmart opens Florida health ‘superstores’, Blue Shield California partners with Walgreens’ Health Corners
Thursday roundup: UHG/Optum, Change extend merger deadline to 31 Dec, buys Kelsey-Seybold; $2B Tivity Health sale; General Dynamics enters derm AI diagnostics; MobileHelp PERS sold to Advocate Aurora (A recovery in the works?)
Digital health funding’s Q1 hangover from 2021’s bender–and Q2 is a question mark, even for Rock Health (Some companies have aching heads still)
Wisconsin’s $5M for child psychiatry, community telehealth; FQHC patients prefer audio-only telehealth–Rand (Back to the roots of telehealth for less health served populations)
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