February 2025

AI readiness in primary care | Partner news | Newsmakers: PCPs, surgeons, Salesforce, more ()
UVA Health CEO steps down following internal investigation | FTC inquiry pauses $615M staffing merger | more ()
Trump signs healthcare price transparency rule | Walgreens settles COVID-era telehealth dispute for $595M | more ()
VA drops 1,400 employees, FDA recalls 300 | Senator launches inquiry into UnitedHealth billing | FTC lawsuit moves forward ()
AI faces down pain | Partner news | Newsmakers: CAIOs, CTOs, AI Rorschach testers, citizens united around healthcare AI ()
MSNBC settles ‘uterus collector’ lawsuit | UnitedHealth sued by 17 out-of-network hospitals | FDA approves rare disease drug ()
Report: UnitedHealth under investigation by DOJ | FDA approves first treatment for rare genetic disorder | more ()
Healthcare consumer AI | Partner news | AI newsmakers: Trump, Nvidia, Daniel Kraft, more ()
FTC lawsuit against PBMs moving forward | Doctor in $742K ‘residency prep’ scam sentenced to 3 years | Baxter recovery | more ()
Cybersecurity: DOD contractor fined $11M | 2TB of data found online | Change breach updates | FDA warning | Clinics breached ()
Baxter’s Asheville IV plant operational after Helene | Data trove of 1.6M patient records found online | DOGE news | more ()
Prescribing antibiotics with AI | Partner news | Newsmakers: Meta, WTW, Int’l Energy Agency ()
UnitedHealth bucks shareholder revolt | DOD contractor fined $11M over Tricare data security | more ()
CDC, VA cut thousands of jobs | UnitedHealth threatens doctor over social media post | more ()
Weekly Update: PE linked to 21% of bankruptcies | Super Bowl ad controversy | RFK confirmed | FDA recall | Epic art gallery ()
AMA survey: AI insights | Partner news | AI newsmakers: UnitedHealth, CVS, ‘enhanced clinical reasoning’ ()
RFK confirmed as HHS secretary | Hospital’s Super Bowl ad draws ire of congressman | more ()
Private equity bankruptcies hit 21% for second consecutive year | Trump’s HHS content ban update | Medicare cuts ()
Federal court orders HHS info restored | Vandals halt opening of new Trinity hospital | Former FDA head questions AI policy ()
Int’l consensus on AI’s ‘FUTURE’ | Partner news | Newsmakers: Schweikert, Vance, Altman, Musk … ()
Medicare cuts U-turn? | Scott Gottlieb on AI for CDS | Epic artworks ()
FDA recall of dangerous catheters | HHS job cuts? | Epic’s Harry Potter art gallery | Surgical sponge malpractice lawsuit ()
Generative AI check-in | Partner news | Newsmakers: Living intelligence, medical tourism, AI nurses ()
HHS provides update to comms pause during chaotic week | Best in KLAS 2025 sees Epic dominate | more ()
FDA emergency recall of exploding oxygen concentrators | Musk, DOGE searching CMS for ‘big money fraud’ ()
Trump bans ‘gender’ terms at CDC | Cigna announces changes to prior authorizations, executive compensation | Class I recall ()
Evidence-based AI medicine | Partner news | Newsmakers: Reid Hoffman, Eva-Maria Hempe, Eric Topol, more ()
Serious FDA recall after 15 injuries | UnitedHealthcare in $1M claims dispute with maternity practice | more ()
FDA greenlights non-opioid painkiller | Ascension, surgeon face lawsuit after wrong organ removed ()