Morning Headlines 11/19/15
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Joins OptumLabs
HHS partners with OptumLabs to bring its data analytics capabilities to the agency’s researchers. The first research project will be led by AHRQ, which will compare Optum’s healthcare utilization database to its own Medical Expenditure Panel Survey dataset.
CHIME Letter To CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt
CHIME sends a letter to CMS arguing that the MU program and quality reporting requirements will need to be streamlined if health systems are going to transition to value-based reimbursement models fast enough to meet transition goals outlined by HHS.
Software is now eating medicine
Andreessen Horowitz Partners announces a $200 million investment fund that it will direct toward digital health startups, specifically those working at the intersection of health data and machine learning.
CVS launches a new app that generates medication reminders and allows users to submit prescriptions and insurance cards by taking a picture of them
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.