CVS Health plans to acquire Signify Health, which offers analytics and tech to help 10,000 doctors provide in-home care to 2.5M US patients, for around $8B (Lauren Hirsch/New York Times)

Katie Linsell / Bloomberg:
UK drugstore chain Boots says it will launch an online marketplace for third-party health and beauty brands in spring 2023  —  Boots plans to start a new online marketplace for health and beauty products to upgrade the UK drugstore chain’s web offering amid increasing competition.

Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
A profile of Delaware Chancery Court judge Kathaleen McCormick, who is overseeing the Elon Musk-Twitter dispute, ahead of the Friday deadline to close the deal  —  Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief judge of Delaware’s Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to acquire Twitter.

Casey Ross / STAT:
New US federal rules requiring health care organizations to give patients access to their full health records in digital format went into effect on October 6  —  The American Revolution had July 4.  The allies had D-Day.  And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders …

Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
Twitter faces ~$1B per year in interest expenses after Elon Musk’s deal added ~$13B in debt, up from ~$50M in 2021 when operations generated ~$633M in cash flow  —  Mr. Musk faces financial challenges in owning Twitter.  The site frequently loses money and took on $13 billion in debt for the blockbuster deal.

Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews:
Florida-based care.ai, which uses AI-powered sensors to monitor and collect behavioral data on care facility patients, raised $27M from Crescent Cove Advisors  —  The company will use the investment to deploy its technology in more healthcare facilities.  —  AI-enabled care facility …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Altana, which uses AI to find supply chain anomalies and identify potential risks and bad actors, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $123M  —  Trade wars, military conflicts, the rise of e-commerce and sustainability concerns are driving changes to supply chain networks and trade flows.