Morning Headlines 11/30/16
Donald Trump Picks Rep. Tom Price to Lead Department of Health and Human Services
President-elect Donald Trump selects Tom Price to replace Sylvia Burwell as the next HHS secretary.
Trump picks Seema Verma to head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Seema Verma, a health policy consulting firm CEO with ties to VP-elect Mike Pence, has been chosen to replace Andy Slavitt as the next CMS administrator.
The VA will work with artificial intelligence software vendor Flow Health to comb through the medical records of 22 million veterans and use the clinical data to help create software capable of offering meaningful clinical decision support and generating personalized care plans.
Big Names Take Hit on Theranos
Rupert Murdock will likely lose $200 million in Theranos investments after his own newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, exposed the company for misleading investors.
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