Morning Headlines 4/18/18
UNC Health Care Achieves Highest Rank Possible in Three Health IT Categories
UNC Health Care (NC) announces that it has achieved HIMSS Stage 7 for inpatient, ambulatory, and analytics, of which neighboring Duke Health was the first trifecta winner.
Livongo Health Acquires Retrofit
Livongo Health acquires 80-employee, Chicago-based Retrofit, which provides online programs for weight management and disease prevention.
Greenway Health has added 104 jobs at its Tampa headquarters as it closed offices in Lake Mary, FL, Birmingham, AL, and Atlanta.
VA loses its CIO, creating further uncertainty for EHR modernization
Interim VA CIO Scott Blackburn, who was heavily involved in its plan to implement Cerner, resigns for unspecified reasons.
Jealous of the 10 figure money feinberg has made as a C- at best leader at Google and Cerner (besides…