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Fred Pennic

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Fred Pennic

    FDA Clears DreaMed MODI: First CGM-Driven Insulin Dose Optimization App for Type 2 Injection Therapy (opens the original)

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    Approximately 85% of all insulin users rely on subcutaneous injections rather than wearable electromechanical pumps. MODI is engineered to bridge that technological divide: Spun out in 2014 from research initiatives at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center (part of Clalit Health Services), DreaMed has developed clinical decision support tools backed by more than $35.5M in total capital (comprising $12.5M in equity from strategic investors like Medtronic, eHealth Ventures, SIBF, and OurCrowd, a

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Fred Pennic

    Capstone Partners Reports 93.8% Surge in AI-Enabled Healthcare IT M&A (opens the original)

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    The September 2026 Healthcare Information Technology Market Update from Capstone Partners details how AI-led workflow automation is restructuring capital allocation, valuation benchmarks, and transaction structures across healthcare IT. The primary takeaway: Healthcare IT has exited the experimental pilot era and entered an aggressive consolidation phase where private equity sponsors and strategics are acquiring verticalized, agentic AI assets to automate high-cost, labor-intensive workflows and

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Fred Pennic

    Venture Medical Acquires Wound Care EHR Startup Medipyxis to Unify Clinical Documentation and Billing (opens the original)

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    Founded in 2024, Medipyxis was engineered to replace the fragmented, manual point solutions—spreadsheets, third-party route planners, generic EMRs, and fax queues—that create administrative drag in mobile, office-based, and facility-based wound care practices: “The reduced payment changes did not reduce the number of patients who need wound care. The need continues to grow. What the changes have done is reduced the margin for inefficiency,” said John Schroeder, Chief Executive Officer of Venture

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Fred Pennic

    PHTI Survey Reveals Majority of Employers and Health Plans Tie Digital Health Payments to Performance (opens the original)

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    Purchasers are actively moving away from paying purely for platform availability, using contracts as enforcement mechanisms: While risk-based terms are widely signed, verifying whether performance thresholds were actually met has become a contentious administrative friction point: Purchasers are redefining engagement away from superficial signups toward active clinical utilization: Following years of expansion, digital health purchasing is stabilizing around fewer, more accountable vendors: Heal

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Fred Pennic

    Basalt Health Raises $20M to Scale Post-Acute AI Transition Platform Across 111 Markets (opens the original)

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    Founded in 2024 by CEO Ben Hackett (a former executive at Accolade), Basalt acts as an intelligent automation layer for post-acute intake: The financing directly underwrites large-scale enterprise deployments across acute and post-acute hospital operators by the close of 2026: The enterprise adoption of Basalt highlights an acute operational reality: acute-care hospitals cannot resolve emergency department boarding, surgical backlog, or bed-capacity constraints without fixing the post-acute exit

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