Morning Headlines 7/7/14
Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin sit down with VC legend Vinod Khosla at the annual Khosla Ventures CEO Summit. The three discuss a wide range of topics, including health IT, of which Sergey Brin says, “Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It’s just a painful business to be in. It’s just not necessarily how I want to spend my time. Even though we do have some health projects, and we’ll be doing that to a certain extent. But I think the regulatory burden in the U.S. is so high that think it would dissuade a lot of entrepreneurs.”
Triangle hospitals go Epic with multimillion-dollar software
A Raleigh-Durham, NC paper looks back on the Epic migrations at the area’s three largest academic hospitals.
How webcams in Syria’s bombarded hospitals offer a lifeline for war victims
Physicians in the US, Canada, England, and Saudi Arabia are providing telehealth support to ICU units in war torn Syrian hospitals. 50 percent of Syria’s physicians have fled, leaving behind overcrowded ICU’s with no physicians.
HIPAA does apply to VA care delivery environments, though, as I understand it, regardless of their billing practices.