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A short note to our Readers: It’s been quiet in TTA-Land because at the top of June, your Editor fell and broke the upper part of her left arm (humerus, not funny) fairly substantially on what was up ...
Hims & Hers expands to Ireland, France, and Germany, and adds to UK. Announced yesterday, the ambitious strategic acquisition of Zava, a similar online direct to consumer provider of telemedicine ...
After this Editor’s call for breaking up UnitedHealth Group–two more views, for your consideration (as Rod Serling used to say before we entered ‘The Twilight Zone’). Additional points are made by the ...
Your Editor recommends grabbing lunch or a cuppa for these lengthy reads/views: Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts. This is mostly about the billions spent in ‘last ...
Another review/meta-analysis confirms that GLP-1 weight off doesn’t stay off. A University of Oxford systemic review and meta-analysis of 130 full texts, distilled to 11 studies with 6,370 ...
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 ...
Most of 23andMe bought for a lot more than one could have thought–and why? Yesterday, the board of 23andMe confirmed that they have a court-approved definitive agreement for the sale of their core ...
This was drastic. This morning (13 May), UnitedHealth Group announced that CEO Andrew Witty is stepping down immediately “for personal reasons” which are not specified. Replacing him is former ...
Medical device company Masimo may not be able to rid itself entirely of its meddlesome former CEO, Joe Kiani. In fact, if a court awards him the shares exercised under his various employment ...
Short takes: Veradigm’s interim CEO departing, Blue Shield CA breached 4.8M members’ PHI to Google, advice on expanded M&A premarket notification rules (You can’t blame that CEO for ankling! And Blue ...
Product & funding very short takes: South Australia 1st with Sunrise EMR; S. Korea pain research, new emergency services app; BCI + telehealth for stroke patients; VirtuSense monitoring launches at ...
Let us now hold the formal memorial service for the SPAC–the special purpose acquisition company, at least for digital health. Halle Tecco, whom many of us know as the founder and past CEO of Rock ...