LOL @ Ascension. Who knew that outsourcing your entire IT department wouldn't be the best idea? I can't speak to…
Morning Headlines 3/14/17
ECRI Institute Names Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2017
ECRI’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2017 includes information management in EHRs and use of clinical decision support tools.
Trump chooses Gottlieb to run FDA; Pharma breathes sigh of relief
President Trump nominates industry favorite Scott Gottlieb, MD to lead the FDA.
HHS secretary expresses concern on bill allowing employers to demand genetic tests
HHS Secretary Tom Price voices concern over the a House bill that would grant employers access to employee genetic test results.
Former Vice President Joe Biden at SXSW 2017: ‘Your government’ is how curing cancer ‘gets done’
Joe Biden speaks about the Cancer Moonshot Task Force and its future with the new administration at SXSW.
I had to look into this again because I had forgotten the details, but the NCI Cancer Moonshot project begun under Joe Biden and Barack Obama is different from the Cancer Moonshot 2020 project bankrolled by the infamous NantHealth CEO Patrick Soon-Shiong (who coincidentally announced his project ONE DAY before Biden’s 2016 announcement). Soon-Shiong was actually sued over his use of the doppelgänger and his project has since been renamed Cancer Breakthroughs 2020. This is the same guy that STAT blasted a few weeks ago for potentially embezzling millions of dollars through “charitable giving” to a research university. Some have speculated that his budding friendship with Donald Trump suggests he is reaching to take over the NCI’s Moonshot project.