Morning Headlines 1/18/19
Consumer health data sharing company Ciitizen raises $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Gawande, still mum on plans for new health venture, pulls out of major health conference
Atul Gawande, MD cancels his keynote at HIMSS19.
GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ In Health System Showing Up In Crowdfunding
GoFundMe reports that a third of the $5 billion raised on its platform since launching in 2010 has been used for healthcare campaigns.
Epic roll-out creates prescription refill gridlock
After going live on Epic in December, Memorial Hospital (NH) staff struggle to keep up with prescription refill requests as they transfer prescription data to the new system.
Far-reaching impact: Computer virus at HSN affects 24 hospitals across North
A “zero-day virus” forces 24 hospitals in Ontario to revert to downtime procedures while they work to bring their IT systems, including Meditech and Elekta EHRs, back online.
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