With McGraw’s new position at Transcarent, it seems like Glen Tullman might be getting the Allscripts band back together.
Morning Headlines 2/8/16
One Medical Buys Virtual Nutritionist App Rise
Concierge medicine provider One Medical acquires digital health startup Rise for $20 million. Rise markets an app that provides one-on-one nutrition and diet coaching, and has raised $4 million since its 2013 launch.
Obamacare’s Low Enrollment Numbers Also Show Why Exchange Coverage Will Get Worse
A Forbes opinion piece argues that public insurance exchange coverage options will continue to get worse.
JHU launches new healthcare engineering center
Johns Hopkins University launches The Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, a research center focused on data analytics, system design and analysis, and technology and devices.
athenahealth Jonathan S. Bush on Q4 2015 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
On its quarterly earnings call, Athenahealth CEO Jon Bush noted that its recently announced partnership with University of Toledo will help it develop a system suitable for larger academic health systems.
Jonathon Bush needs to look into things a bit more. University of Toledo Medical Center will soon transition to a non-academic medical center. ProMedica will soon be the teaching hospital for UT’s medical students, http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2015/08/26/UT-ProMedica-sign.html
Perhaps Toledo Watcher. But that isn’t the only interesting angle of this story. Around the same time ProMedica’s very respected CIO was terminated or resigned and another ProMedica affiliate chose not to take on their Epic install either. So perhaps the question is did UTMC know what they didn’t want to get themselves in to?