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Morning Headlines 6/25/19
UnitedHealth buys PatientsLikeMe, which faced Trump administration scrutiny over Chinese investor
UnitedHealth adds newly-acquired PatientsLikeMe to its research and development group.
President Donald J. Trump is Putting American Patients First by Making Healthcare More Transparent
President Trump signs an executive order requiring hospitals to publicly disclose what patients can expect to pay for services in easy-to-read formats, and giving stakeholders more access to data that will help in pricing transparency efforts.
CentralReach Acquires Pathfinder Health Innovations
Applied behavior analysis EHR and practice management vendor CentralReach acquires competitor Pathfinder Health Innovations.
I actually applaud the executive order, but abhor the headline. The EO won’t meaningfully change the bottom line for healthcare organizations, but I’m all for the naming and shaming price transparency will bring. That headline though…Trump really does love to see his own name. I pity the staffer that had to be on the receiving end of whatever “my full name needs to be in every press release” rant he went on. I went back to the archives of the Obama whitehouse.gov statements and releases and the difference in professionalism vs. egoism in the headlines is immediately apparent.