Beyond his company, James Batchelor (or James Batchelor MBE, as we should now call him!) tirelessly campaigns to alleviate loneliness and isolation among older people, mentors socially focused ...

A company most have never heard of is snapping up provider networks, health plans, and management services. Astrana Health, a Southern California-based value-based care (VBC) company formerly known as ...

Transcarent closes Accolade buy, changes its game. Transcarent’s $621 million acquisition of Accolade was wrapped up in record time (two months from announcement). This takes the Nasdaq-listed ...

South Australia Health has rolled out Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Patient Administration System (PAS). The EMR and PAS is being implemented across over 100 ...

VA moving forward with the 2026 Oracle Cerner rollout of (lucky?) 13 centers. In March, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that the EHR Modernization (EHRM) for 2026 would be expanded ...

The waning days of summer wrapped with a few moderate-sized fundings: India’s Qure.AI scored a $65 million Series D, bringing their total funding to $125 million. Leading the raise: Lightspeed and 360 ...

DOD, VA Cerner implementations stumbling on their raison d’être–interoperability. Those of us with pre-Covid memories recall that the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs had ...

In news other than Walgreens and Optum/Change Healthcare–with more to come out of HIMSS in Orlando this week… The DOD/VA Cerner EHR went live on Saturday 9 March in the Capt. James A. Lovell Federal ...

Update: According to First Health Advisory, a cybersecurity firm in healthcare, some large providers are losing $100 million daily because of the interruptions to Change/Optum’s payer systems. CNN, ...

Back at the desk….hope your holiday was great! Cherry blossoms are blooming (finally) and so is the news. The roundups include Walgreens’ continuing Aisle 9 cleanup of their Federal opioid prescribing ...

Elizabeth Holmes may be in Bryan, Texas serving time, but the appeals go on. Her legal team will appear before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at 9am next Tuesday 11 June. Her initial ...