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At 15th April 2026

VA’s Oracle EHR resumes go-lives at four Michigan systems–finally
Two weekend ‘must reads’: the New Yorker’s Sam Altman/OpenAI exposé–and comments; a further deep dive into Carbon Health’s implosion
Perspectives: Exploring the Telehealth Extension: Building Infrastructures for Better Access
Funding/deal roundup: WHOOP’s $575M Giant raise, Anthropic buys med AI startup for $400M, early stage fundings for Jimini, Insight Health; Noom buys compounder; Mount Sinai NY to embed OpenEvidence
NY Times’ highly questionable but glowing–and viral–portrait of AI-created GLP-1 e-prescriber and marketer Medvi
Former VA EHRM executive director Federally charged with accepting vendor cash and gifts, making false statements
Teladoc faces activist shareholder challenge, demanding $200M stock buyback, business spinoffs, cost cuts
A study in contrasts: OpenAI raises $122B, eMed’s $200M Series A. Then there’s Avo’s $10M Series A, Stedi’s $50M Series C. And Oracle expands Nashville campus!
The Oracle shoe dropped: Oracle lays off 18%–20-30K–of global employees, in their largest ever layoff (Updated 2 Apr)
Chutes and Ladders: UnitedHealth sued by faith-based investor group, Qualified Health raises $125M, Cerebral acquires Inflow ADHD app, Flourish Care’s $5.7M seed
‘AI doctor’ Doctronic raises $40M Series B, but faces controversy on autonomous Rx renewals in Utah and effectiveness claims
Drafted House bill may threaten VA/Oracle EHRM rollout

Telehealth and Telecare Aware posts pointers to a broad range of news items. Authors of those items often use terms 'telecare' and telehealth' in inventive and idiosyncratic ways. Telecare Aware's editors can generally live with that variation. However, when we use these terms we usually mean:

• Telecare: from simple personal alarms (AKA pendant/panic/medical/social alarms, PERS, and so on) through to smart homes that focus on alerts for risk including, for example: falls; smoke; changes in daily activity patterns and 'wandering'. Telecare may also be used to confirm that someone is safe and to prompt them to take medication. The alert generates an appropriate response to the situation allowing someone to live more independently and confidently in their own home for longer.

• Telehealth: as in remote vital signs monitoring. Vital signs of patients with long term conditions are measured daily by devices at home and the data sent to a monitoring centre for response by a nurse or doctor if they fall outside predetermined norms. Telehealth has been shown to replace routine trips for check-ups; to speed interventions when health deteriorates, and to reduce stress by educating patients about their condition.

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