Anne Wojcicki still wants her 23andMe. This time, she is requesting that the auction be reopened for more bids–hers, along with a new backer. The unnamed “Fortune 500 company with a current market ...

Takeaways: other insurers are challenged but UHG, for 40 years the best managed of the lot, is stumbling and falling into a hole; it hasn’t moved beyond ‘squeezing the rock’ of MLR and reducing care ...

Get back to being the insurer of choice for individuals and groups. Contract for the services you need, not own them and try to manage them too. UHG would not be the first insurer who has faced ...

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 ...

One of our Perspectives contributors, Yosi Health, is seeking a Demand Generation Manager for their B2B buyer customers. This role combines lead generation with marketing analysis, coordination with ...

More on this in Strata-gee 15 May. More good news– Editor Ted Green is recuperating and back at his desk, if only part-time. He has been invaluable for his inside looks at Masimo’s endless drama over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extra non-merger/financing news. A new virtual food initiative from ATA Action. In another sign that the ATA Action portfolio is enlarging, they announced the formation of a new advocacy group, the ...

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 ...