Morning Headlines 8/23/16
Apple Acquires Personal Health Data Startup Gliimpse
Apple acquires Gliimpse, a three-year-old startup marketing PHR software to help patients collect, personalize, and share their health records with providers.
Children’s Health Dallas testing ‘digitized drugs’ with sensors inside
Digital medicine vendor Proteus Digital Health pilots its sensor-embedded pharmaceuticals within a pediatric patient population at Children’s Health Dallas, allowing clinicians to monitor medication adherence among its patients after discharge.
Digital medicine: empowering both patients and clinicians
Eric Topol, MD publishes a defense of digital health in The Lancet.
Aetna, Humana blast DOJ’s merger challenge for ignoring reality
In response to a DOJ complaint, Aetna and Humana argue that its proposed merger should be allowed to move forward, noting that other private insurers would likely preserve competition by expanding into new geographies.
Carol Harris, the GAO representative testifying, seemed comfortable estimating hundreds of millions of dollars to get the remaining 94% of…