M&A action news: Astrana Health buys up Prospect Health for $745M after Centene MSO unit buy, Veradigm nears $1B+ sale, Sword Health lays off 17% of clinicians prepping for IPO using AI instead, Cigna ...

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 ...

Walgreens was too big to fail entirely–but made too many mistakes and remained in too many dying segments. The Gimlet Eye credits Walgreens for making a good deal with private equity firm Sycamore ...

A short note to our Readers: It’s been quiet in TTA-Land because at the top of June, your Editor fell and broke the upper part of her left arm (humerus, not funny) fairly substantially on what was up ...

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 ...

Industry news short takes: fundings for Qure.AI, Centivo, Rippl, Surescripts; M&A closings for GE Healthcare-Intelligent Ultrasound, LetsGetChecked-Truepill. And is Hinge Health going public soon?

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 ...

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 ...

Bad News Roundup updates: UHG/Optum defends Amedisys buy fast via a website, digging deeper into Forward’s fast demise, former Masimo CEO Kiani booted–and sued (updated) ...

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 ...

TTA has an open invitation to industry leaders to contribute to our Perspectives non-promotional opinion and thought leadership area. Telehealth extensions, especially for controlled substances, are ...

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 ...