Morning Headlines 2/27/15
Merge Reports Fourth Quarter Financial Results and Announces the Acquisition of DR Systems, Inc.
Merge reports Q4 earnings: revenue remained flat at $53 million, EPS $0.02 vs. $0.00, missing analyst’s expectations for both. The company also announced that it has acquired medical imaging vendor DR Systems for $70 million.
The 11 Best U.S. Companies for Students to Get Summer Internships
Epic takes seventh place on the 11 best US companies to intern for, down from their fifth-place finish last year.
ICD-10 Medicare FFS End-to-End Testing: January 26 through February 3, 2015
CMS reports that it accepted 81 percent of the ICD-10 test claims that were submitted during end-to-end testing earlier this month.
Taxpayers have spent more than $1 billion on a digital health record that doctors won’t use
In Australia, the nation’s $800 million Personally Controlled e-Health Record project is still sitting unused three-years after its launch. Just 10 percent of the general public has a medical record on the system.
Sounds reasonable, until you look at the Silicon Valley experience. Silicon Valley grew like a weed precisely because employees could…