News 4/3/26

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An activist investor pressures the board of Teladoc Health to cut costs, repurchase shares, and sell or spin off its behavioral health business.

Pineal Capital Management notes that TDOC shares are down 98% since February 2021. It says that Teladoc paid too much in its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo in 2020, adding that the company’s low stock price makes it vulnerable to takeover.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Ambient Clinical Analytics raises $5 million in strategic funding and names Brian Tufts, MBA, MS (Vantive) as CEO to drive expansion of its real-time clinical analytics, decision support, and workflow platform.

Wearables company Whoop raises a $575 million Series G round that values the company at $10.1 billion.

Blackstone reportedly hires investment banks to plan an IPO of AGS Health at a valuation of at least $3 billion. The private equity firm acquired the company for $1.1 billion in July 2025.

Oracle will lay off 539 employees at its Kansas City campus between May 26 and June 1 as part of its broad nationwide cuts, according to a WARN act filing. Companies can file WARN notice after a mass layoff as long as those affected remain on payroll throughout the notice period.

People

University of Utah Health promotes Kensaku (Ken) Kawamoto, MD, PhD, MHS to the newly created position of chief health AI transformation officer.

Announcements and Implementations

FDB launches MedProof MCP, an AI-native Model Context Protocol server that lets healthcare organizations deploy AI agents for medication decision support and patient-facing workflows.

Altera Digital Health disputes blame for West Suburban Medical Center’s closure, saying its Paragon system is widely used successfully and that it had been working with the hospital to address broader operational and financial problems.

Commure develops a speech-to-cursor extension that allows using its ambient AI product to dictate into any text field or application.

A KLAS interview of a small number of users of Abridge’s AI documentation product for nurses at Epic sites finds good adoption for drafting flowsheet documentation from natural conversation and  use of links that show each item’s source in the transcript. Respondents recommend assigning strong leaders to run the implementation and making sure that nurses are comfortable speaking instead of typing their thoughts,

Government and Politics

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) files a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against CMS, which it says has ignored its requests to provide information on how its AI-driven WISeR prior authorization program will work. EFF is asking for copies of contracts with participating technology vendors; testing records related to accuracy, bias, or hallucinations; and the results of any audits or evaluation.

Other

A family sues Bridgeport Hospital for malpractice after their son, who was a dental student, died in what the family’s attorney calls a “fake ICU.” The plaintiffs allege that he was assigned to a tele-ICU that had no intensivists on site during overnight hours. The plaintiffs attorney summarizes, “It’s a fake ICU. It’s not real because no patient would ever consent if they were told … they’re not going to have a doctor in here, they’re going to be on the tube.”

The former chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board is indicted on federal charges alleging that he sedated and confined psychiatric patients to increase healthcare reimbursements in a behavioral unit that his company was running. Prosecutors say he used powerful drugs without medical justification, while staff falsified records and, in some cases, used coercion or physical abuse to force unnecessary treatment and prevent reporting.

Sponsor Updates

• Medicomp Systems releases a new episode of its “Tell Me Where IT Hurts” podcast featuring show-floor observations from HIMSS26.
• ReferWell offers a new case study titled “How this Health Plan Achieved Up to 8:1 ROI Multiple Lines of Business.”
• Surescripts announces strong adoption of RxTransfer, including across 4,800 Walmart locations, enabling pharmacies nationwide to electronically transfer prescriptions quickly and accurately.
• Ellkay will present at Executive War College 2026 April 29 in New Orleans.
• Health Data Movers releases a new “Quick HITs” podcast episode titled “Josh Wilda On Digital Transformation, AI, and The Future of Healthcare IT.”
• Infinx announces that it has been named as a Representative Vendor in the “Gartner 2026 Market Guide for Intelligent Prior Authorization, US Healthcare Organizations.”
• Judi Health releases a new episode of “The Astonishing Healthcare Podcast” titled “Proactive, Personalized, and Powerful: The Future of AI in Health Benefits with Amit Srivastava.”

Blog Posts

• Maximizing Patient Lifetime Value: A Data-Driven Approach for Modern Practices (ReferWell)
• Modernizing Infrastructure for Medicaid Community Engagement Requirements (Findhelp)
• Protecting Rural Care: Navigating the $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program (FinThrive)
• On the Front Line: How a Conversational AI Platform Changes The Job (Five9)
• Automate last: What Jon McNeill’s HIMSS26 keynote got right about healthcare AI (Healthmonix)
• Why Training Reveals Whether Change Will Stick (Impact Advisors)

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