News 1/26/26. January 26, 2026 News No Comments Top News. Bloomberg reports that Tandem Technology has achieved a $1 billion valuation with an anticipated $100 million in new funding. The startup specializes in helping practices automate medication access. Tandem founder and CEO Sahir Jaggi was previously a director at insurance company Oscar Health. Sponsored events and resources. Live Webinar: February 18 (Wednesday) 2 ET. "From Blind Spots to Insights: Gaining Real-Time Visibility into Healthcare Risk." Sponsor: CloudWave. Presenters: Jacob Wheeler, MBA, director of sales engineering, CloudWave; Mike Donahue, chief operating officer, CloudWave. Resilience starts with the ability to see clearly, across every endpoint, cloud workload, user, and clinical system. Join CloudWave's cybersecurity leaders for an in-depth session on how real-time visibility transforms your ability to detect threats early, respond decisively, and strengthen resilience across the care ecosystem. Attendees will learn the practical steps that hospitals can take to move from reactive defense to resilient action. Publication: HIStalk's Guide to ViVE 2026 lists the activities of sponsors at the conference. Acquisitions, funding, business, and stock. Care coordination company Pair Team acquires social care coordination company Town Square. Town Square founder and CEO Royal Tuthill will join Pair Team as SVP of networks. Tuthill co-founded patient messaging vendor Docent Health in 2015 and sold it to Get Well in 2021. Interwell Health promotes Carney Taylor, MD, MBA (Fresenius Physician Solutions) to CMO. Announcements and implementations. In Ohio, Mental Health Services for Clark and Madison Counties selects EHR and project management software from NextGen Healthcare. TriZetto Provider Solutions begins notifying patients impacted by a breach of its web portal containing eligibility transaction reports. Hackers first gained access in November 2024. The breach was discovered last October. Affected providers were notified in December by OCHIN, which provides their EHR software and utilizes TriZetto's billing services. Adapt Integrated Health Care (OR), San Francisco Community Health Center, and the Baltimore City Health Department are among the impacted organizations. The New York Times looks at the creative ways independent physicians and other medical professionals are finding practice space that meets their budgets and schedules. Whether it's subleasing space from other physicians, renting weekend space in a practice that's only open during the week, or making other, hybrid arrangements, clinicians are engaging in off-market arrangements that don't burden them with high overhead. Psychotherapist Carla Mannino, who rents co-working space in New York City's Chrysler Building, puts it this way: "I don't have to worry about HVAC or Verizon. I'm 58 years old. I don't want to sign a 10-year lease." Walmart's Healthcare Research Institute and Care Access will open research sites this spring in three former Walmart Health clinic locations and one Walmart store. Care Access staff will offer health screenings and information about research opportunities and participation in clinical trials. Walgreens launched its own clinical trials business in 2022. CVS Health launched a similar endeavor in 2021, but commenced a phased closure two years later.

Pair Team, an AI-enabled medical group for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, has acquired Town Square, a social care coordination company. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition aims to integrate clinical, behavioural and social care through an AI-driven model that coordinates complex care whilst human teams focus on clinical judgement and relationship-driven support. Town Square's platform connects health plans, providers and community-based organisations to manage social determinants of health at scale. Royal Tuthill, Town Square's CEO and founder, will join Pair Team as senior vice president of networks, leading national expansion of Medicare programmes and deepening community partnerships. The combined organisation will prioritise responsible AI use and continued investment in community-based infrastructure to make whole-person care more accessible to underserved populations.