Morning Headlines 12/6/16
US Health Spending in 2015 Averaged Nearly $10,000 Per Person
Healthcare spending climbed 5.8 percent in 2015, the fastest rate since 2008, according to a recently published HHS report.
Theranos Dissolves High-Profile Board of Counselors
Theranos announces that its Board of Counselors, including two former secretaries of state, the former director of the CDC, and a former secretary of defense, will retire in 2017.
Global Cybersecurity Assurance Report Card
Tenable publishes a cross-industry analysis of cybersecurity preparedness, noting that readiness scores dropped an average of six percent from last year, and giving the healthcare industry a “D” in overall preparedness.
Illumina spinout Grail is seeking to raise $1.7 billion for large-scale clinical trial: sources
Grail, a spinoff of DNA-sequencing company Illumina, is in the process of raising $1.7 billion to fund large-scale clinical trials in the UK to test early-stage cancer detection tools.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.