News 5/14/25

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UnitedHealth Group announces that CEO Andrew Witty has resigned for personal reasons and has been replaced by Chairman and former CEO Stephen Hemsley.

The company also announced that it will suspend its 2025 financial forecasts due to rising medical costs in its Medicare Advantage business.

UnitedHealth Group has recently struggled with the Change Healthcare cyberattack; the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of its insurance business; and consumer backlash over high costs and denied claims.

UNH shares dropped 18% Tuesday following the announcement.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Healthcare RCM and patient care software company TruBridge reports Q1 results: revenue up 3.7%; adjusted EPS $0.36 versus $0.19, beating revenue expectations but falling short on earnings.

Care coordination company Olio announces $11 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raised to $26.5 million.

OpenAI launches HealthBench, a physician-developed benchmark that evaluates large language models on real-world medical decision-making. It uses 5,000 realistic clinical conversations to grade models on communication quality, instruction adherence, accuracy, context awareness, and completeness.

A federal court orders Commure to stop marketing and selling its Strongline Pro wearable panic button for staff safety. Canopy Works, the original developer of the technology, alleges that Commure resold its system until their partnership ended in 2023, after which it accuses Commure of launching a similar product almost immediately.

Sales

• The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic expands its use of Baton Health’s physician credentialing system. 

People

Children’s Wisconsin names Benjamin Mansalis, MD (Indiana University Health) chief information and digital officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Epic integrates lifestyle medicine assessment tools from The American College of Lifestyle Medicine with its EHR. Tools include a short form-assessment, diet screener, and physical activity review.

Virtual healthcare company Ovatient launches the MyCare Anywhere patient engagement app using technology from League. Patients at MetroHealth (OH), which co-founded Ovatient in 2022 with MUSC Health (SC), will be among the first to use it.

Exalt Health implements WellSky’s Specialty Care EHR at its inpatient rehabilitation facility in Arizona. The company will soon roll out the software at three sites in additional states.

Sanford Health implements organ donor registration via Epic’s MyChart. The collaboration between Epic and Donate Life America streamlines registration with pre-populated information, adds the registrant to the National Donate Life Registry, and updates their medical record to ensure that donor preferences are accessible to care teams anywhere.

PsychNow launches Chapter, an AI co-pilot that captures a behavioral health patient’s history and assessment from their initial visit conversation.

Government and Politics

CMS and ASTP issue an RFI titled “Health Technology Ecosystem” that seeks public input on digital health products in the Medicare population, with a focus on interoperability.

The US Navy’s Military Sealift Command is upgrading its IT infrastructure, including linking the US Naval Ship Mercy, a humanitarian and military vessel, to the federal MHS Genesis EHR. Hospital Ship Joint Task Director Mike Taylor says they are considering incorporating AI into the ship’s healthcare operations: “… I don’t want AI making decisions to shut off a network point, a port that goes to an IV infusion pump. We’re watching it carefully. We’re excited to implement some facets of AI, especially in the security arena, but we’re treading lightly at this point.”

Other

AdventHealth will launch a hypertension management program this summer across 370 care sites that will incorporate remote patient monitoring devices and virtual visits.

Frustration with timely prior authorizations takes the top spot in payer-provider collaboration challenges, according to Black Book Research. An overwhelming majority of surveyed providers typically experience prior auth delays of more than five days, while just 29% of payers say that they have implemented electronic prior authorization tied to EHRs.

Sponsor Updates

• Black Book Research releases a Q2 update to its “Global EHR Market Report,” revealing a growing shift in international healthcare IT dynamics.
• Capital Rx releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “The Bridge to Value-Based Care: Unified Claims Processing, with Dr. Sunil Budhrani.”
• The “Risk Management: Brick by Brick” podcast features Censinet CEO Ed Gaudet in an episode titled “The Power of AI in Risk – Healthcare Cybersecurity: From Digital Risk to AI Governance.”
• Clearsense announces that Director of Healthcare Product Strategy Amy Staly, RN has received PerfectServe’s Nurses of Note Innovative Technology Utilization Award.
• Clinical Architecture releases a new case study featuring LifePoint Health titled “From Fragmented to Future-Ready: How Data Governance Fueled Clinical Transformation.”
• Consensus Cloud Solutions will present at the HIMSS New England conference June 5 in Norwood, MA.
• Direct Recruiters unveils a new website.

Blog Posts

• How to Begin with Application Management for Oracle Health/Cerner (CereCore)
• Get to Know AdvancedMD Chief People Officer Kristin Masters (AdvancedMD)
• The Troublesome Five: Navigating Complexities in Inpatient Coding (AGS Health)
• Best of both worlds: Documentation and navigating patient interactions (Altera Digital Health)
• Insights from Ashu Agte: What Makes Artera’s AI-Powered Virtual Agents Unique? (Artera)
• New Nurses Meet AI & Virtual Care (AvaSure)
• RSA 2025 Recap: AI, Innovation, and Identity Take Center Stage (Clearwater)
• Supporting Nurses’ Work with the Right Data (Dimensional Insight)
• Building Lasting Relationships: How DRI Creates Trust with Clients and Candidates (Direct Recruiters)

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