Morning Headlines 6/27/18
GE Focuses Portfolio for Growth and Shareholder Value Creation
GE will spin off GE Healthcare into a standalone business as the struggling behemoth that yearns to be a “simpler, stronger GE” focuses on its aviation, power, and generator businesses.
New team assembled to unlock the innovation potential in healthcare data
Microsoft Healthcare hires Jim Weinstein, DO, MS (Dartmouth-Hitchcock) as head of innovation and health equity and Joshua Mandel, MD (Verily) as chief architect.
A GAO report finds that the VA was spending $1 billion per year maintaining VistA, and that work remains to define exactly what VistA is and how Cerner can replace the nearly 50 percent of VistA applications that don’t have a Cerner counterpart.
Greenway Health Announces Richard Atkin as the Company’s New CEO
Richard Atkin (Vista Equity Partners) replaces Scott Zimmerman as CEO of Greenway Health.
Fun framing using Seinfeld. Though in a piece about disrupting healthcare, it’s a little striking that patients, clinicians, and measurable…