Morning Headlines 9/28/17
Senate Republicans Say They Will Not Vote on Health Bill
Senate Republicans will not bring the Graham-Cassidy bill to vote, ending what might be the GOP’s final opportunity to repeal ACA.
VA running out of money for Choice program
Despite receiving $2.1 billion in emergency funding, the Trump administration says the Veterans Choice healthcare program may run out of money as early as December.
Former IBM Watson Health employee on AI: The truth needs to come out
A former IBM Watson employee remembers his time working on Watson, saying, “There’s a lot of money in marketing and there are a lot of ads on TV but I don’t actually see the products. Anytime anyone would want to see a product roadmap or wanted to see what the future is or when it was coming out, we never really got that timeline.”
Increasing Telehealth Access in Medicare Act
A CBO estimate on costs associated with expanding Medicare telehealth coverage concludes that “enactment of this provision would reduce direct spending by $80 million over the 2018-2027 period.”
Pen and paper is not the downtime system a health system should be using in 2024. A local non internet…