Zava has operated in Europe since 2011, preceding Hims by six years. It is a private company, corporately Health Bridge Limited, registered with Companies House in London, and the UK company was ...

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’).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VillageMD to cut six locations in the Chicago area–five standalone, one attached to a Walgreens store. The clinics will close on 19 April. The irony is that VillageMD is headquartered in Chicago. In ...