I'll be visiting a 92-year old cousin and his 90-year old SO this week. I'll watch what they eat!
Morning Headlines 5/14/18
Military Healthcare System (MHS) GENESIS Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) Report
A newly declassified April 30 Department of Defense evaluation of the military’s four MHS Genesis pilot sites concludes that the system “is neither operationally effective or operationally suitable” and says it is inadequate for managing and documenting care delivery.
Cumberland Consulting Group Expands Managed Services Practice with LinkEHR Acquisition
Cumberland Consulting Group acquires EHR-focused managed services firm LinkEHR, expanding its consulting and services offerings into Epic-focused help desk, application break-fix, maintenance, physician concierge support, and build / optimization.
Early investor doubles down on support for Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos: ‘She did a great job’
Venture capitalist and early Theranos investor Tim Draper says founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was “bullied into submission,” adding that he is “thrilled at what she has done” despite SEC charges that the company was a massive fraud from the beginning.
Understanding that “forward-looking” statements make it somewhat subjective, isn’t there a SEC-minimum bar for truth when communicating with investors? Zane said the following in prepared commentary in February, well after the IOT & E report, which could only logically interpreted as grading the deployment as “unsuccessful.” Misleading sales prospects behind closed doors is one thing… but misleading investors in plain sight, that’s class-action territory.
“IOC sites represent the first successful deployment of a commercial, off-the-shelf comprehensive EHR solution in the federal space.” — Zane Burke, Cerner