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Morning Headlines 9/5/14
After quitting tobacco, CVS makes its next health-care moves
CVS pulls tobacco from its shelves a month ahead of its published goal, cutting $2 billion in annual revenue in the process. The company will expand its Minute Clinics and pursue new payer and health system partnerships to compensate for the loss.
President Obama Names Megan Smith U.S. CTO, Alexander Macgillivray Deputy U.S. CTO
Megan Smith, former Google VP of new business development, replaces Todd Park as the new US CTO, while Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s former lead council, will assume the role of Deputy US CTO.
Cover Oregon needs Oracle’s help to avoid delays in federal health exchange transition
After Oracle and the state of Oregon sue each other over the failed Cover Oregon health insurance exchange, Oracle puts the brakes on efforts to move on by refusing to provide access to the servers and source code for the site. The impasse will likely compromise Oregon’s ability to launch a functional exchange before the start of the next open enrollment period on November 1.
On assumptions and data:
— swinging the pendulum back, the imperfection of data shouldn’t disvalue the notion of measurement, which is fraught with its own issues, but nonetheless an important habit to develop.
— I see your thinking reaching for the idea of judgement. Tends to be related to experience, but is a capability you sometimes see in younger people and find absent in older people.
Keep up the good work,
rb