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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 ...

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’). MedCityNews examines The No Good ...

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 ...

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 ...

Partnerships and add-ons are much in the news this week. Hims & Hers isn’t worrying about GLP-1 drug sourcing. Neither are Ro and LifeMD. All three made a deal with Novo Nordisk on providing branded ...

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 ...

Starting with international health tech developments… South Australia Health has rolled out Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Patient Administration System (PAS). The ...

Veradigm’s interim CEO departing, CFO continuing. Tom Langan, who has been in place as Veradigm’s CEO for the last 11 months, will be departing after a little more than 13 months, according to ...

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 ...