Morning Headlines 12/8/17
FDA releases three sets of digital health guidance: clinical decision support (draft), reassertion that lifestyle apps will not be treated as medical devices (draft), and how software will be assessed as a medical device (final).
Dignity and CHI sign definitive agreement to merge
Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives will merge to create the country’s largest health system as measured by operating revenue.
Apple health exec Anil Sethi leaves to form new healthcare records startup
Apple’s health director Anil Sethi leaves to focus on his medical information sharing startup Ciitizen.
Using Electronic Health Data for Community Health
A report from public health grant-making organization De Beaumont Foundation and Johns Hopkins University presents use cases describing how public health agencies could use provider EHR data without running afoul of HIPAA.
... because it's a construction worksite. (It's a bit more evident from the second photo in the linked post.)