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Optum will, over the next three months, lay off 572 workers and close numerous clinics in New Jersey. The closures affect some pediatric and specialty offices, and all mental health offices across the state. Optum Health CEO Patrick Conway alluded to the restructuring during parent company UnitedHealth Group’s most recent earnings call, noting that the business will work with fewer providers in 2026.
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Ashley Rogers (Evolent) joins Elation Health as chief product officer.
Announcements and Implementations
Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center (OR) implements Canopy’s enterprise AI for cancer care.
EHR vendor Elation Health announces GA of pediatric-focused capabilities.
Infusion therapy provider Uptiv Health (MI) will offer virtual dementia care using technology from Harmonic Health.
RXNT announces GA of its standalone Ambient IQ ambient listing and documentation platform.
Research and Innovation
Primary care practices that adopt remote patient monitoring technology as part of chronic care programs see a 20% increase in Medicare revenue, according to an analysis of the Medicare claims of 754 practices over a two-year period. Participating practices also saw more patients overall.
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Two former DigitalMint employees are indicted on charges related to conducting ransomware attacks on a medical company, doctor’s office, pharmaceutical company, engineering firm, and drone manufacturer. Just one of their schemes was successful, netting them $1.2 million in cryptocurrency. The men worked at DigitalMint, a cybersecurity incident response company, as ransom negotiators.
CarePilot prepares to launch a prescription order entry-focused AI assistant, according to this profile of the startup, which raised $2.5 million in June. The funding helped the Kansas-based physician practice AI company expand to 13 team members.
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