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 ...

Donna Cusano is a strategic marketer, consultant and writer/editor who focuses on companies in healthcare services and technologies. As a marketer/communicator, she works with companies to establish ...

Filling a ‘donut hole’ gap between technology-enabled care (TEC) and emergency response by using urgent community response (UCR) organizations. A just-published NHS guidance document developed in ...

Telehealth and Telecare Aware posts pointers to a broad range of news items. Authors of those items often use terms 'telecare' and telehealth' in inventive and idiosyncratic ways. Telecare Aware's ...

Teladoc formally responds to the Blue Orca Capital research report [TTA 25 Feb]. Their letter (PDF) via its legal counsel (King & Spalding) yesterday refutes Blue Orca’s allegations in a report on ...

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 ...

Omada Health plans exit into the public markets. Omada, which has virtual health diabetes and hypertension management programs, reportedly filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC ...

Are we nearing the final episodes of “Cano Health”, the telenovela? New CEO Mark Kent has gotten busy in the past five weeks since his permanent CEO appointment. The first and most important action he ...

Hims & Hers expands to Ireland, France, and Germany, and adds to UK. Announced yesterday, the ambitious strategic acquisition of Zava, a similar online direct to consumer provider of telemedicine ...

Hello, Editor Donna is back, trying to catch up after a long and unanticipated leave that is not quite finished. We look at the effects of the US government ‘shutdown’ (not much except in telehealth), ...

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 ...

A new and exhaustive report diagnoses the US healthcare patient, pronounces it sick, and the proposed cure involves a “return to first principles”. A new report from researcher Trilliant Health ...