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’).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More evidence that telehealth has advanced 10 years in Pandemic Time. Doctor on Demand, estimated to be the #3 telemedicine provider behind Teladoc and Amwell, announced a Series D raise of $75 ...

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 ...