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Morning Headlines 5/14/14
McKesson Reports Fiscal 2014 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results
McKesson reports Q4 and full-year results: revenue for the quarter ended up 25 percent, at $30.5 billion, and dusted EPS climbed to $2.55 vs. $1.48, beat analyst forecasts on both.
How Massachusetts screwed up Obamacare
Massachusett’s poor performing health insurance exchange was the result of a systemic failure to communicate between three state bureaucracies that were all issuing change orders to CGI, the lead contractor responsible for the site. MIT health economist Jon Gruber, who is a member of the state health exchange’s board of directors, says "There wasn’t a single point of management," Gruber says. "It was poorly set up and it was this horrible combination where the contractor would get different orders, and would do none of them."
The Advisory Board’s CEO Robert Musslewhite on Q4 2014 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
During The Advisory Board’s Q4 earnings call, CEO Robert Musselwhite reports that the company acquired HealthPost, a physician search and schedule tool similar to ZocDoc, for $25 million.
Medtronic exec: Google looms large as next great rival
Medtronic’s resident technology scout Dr. Stephen Oesterle predicts that 20 years from now Google will be a dominant player in the medical device industry, competing with the likes of Boston Scientific and Covidien.
Regarding the Massachusetts health insurance exchange, you can add this to the list of Governor Deval Patrick long list of failures. If he had any hopes of running for president, he should just run and hide. Just like healthcare.gov, Deval used the same contractor as his good buddy POTUS and got the same results or lack there of.
To bad no one read the ACA bill and understood how all the required parts had to be integrated and were dependent on each other.