TTA’s wintry roundup: UHG’s stock crash, buys/funding Sword Health, OpenEvidence, more; AI studies indicate caution, dodgy eMed, SVB’s 2025 healthcare investment roundup, Done Global convictions, more!

Editor Donna is (mostly) back and here’s a roundup of our articles over the past couple of weeks. News, including the Big Crash of UnitedHealth Group. Some big buys kicking off 2026. A couple of major analyses of AI studies and 2025 healthtech investment. Must Reads too!

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Chutes & Ladders: UnitedHealth’s disastrous day and industry portents; Sword Health buys Kaia for $285M and gains German entry, $250M Series D for OpenEvidence, Pomelo’s $92M Series C, NOCD buys Rebound Health

One-two punch: AI moves hard into clinical healthcare and consumer medical with OpenAI/ChatGPT and Claude for Healthcare debuts

AI failing–at present–to lower costs, grow revenue, improve efficiencies. Yet it’s full speed ahead: Deloitte, PwC surveys

Short takes: Owlet’s baby sleep survey, MediBioSense’s Infinity Watch, telehealth extensions move to Senate, EBG’s telemental laws app ’26 update, Done Global indicted with principals convicted

This week’s Must Read: a deep dive on football’s Tom Brady’s involvement with GLP-1 e-Rx eMed

2025 healthcare investment off 12% versus 2024, with AI nearly half: Silicon Valley Bank roundup (updated for Scheffel interview))

From our last Alert: Congratulations to James Batchelor MBE (Well Deserved!)

And a read with even more relevance now: Should free-falling UnitedHealth Group be broken up? Or break itself up to survive, before it becomes another GE? (updated) (See Chutes & Ladders above)

And on a personal note, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion was yesterday. A short and personal remembrance on where I was and what I was doing that day is published here. 

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