Morning Headlines 8/16/19

Nurx Secures $52 Million to Expand Access to Sensitive Health Needs

Contraceptive and at-home STI testing telemedicine company Nurx raises $52 million in a Series C round led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund and Union Square Ventures.

Accenture Federal Services Wins U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Contract to Help Transform Healthcare Delivery for Sailors, Marines and their Families

Navy Medicine awards Accenture a $79 million contract for program and project management support for EHR optimization and health informatics, virtual health, and AI initiatives.

Computer blunder forces Queensland hospitals back to paper records

A handful of Queensland Health hospitals in Australia revert to paper for several hours after a routine overnight update to the state’s beleaguered IEMR system goes awry, making the medical records of male patients inaccessible.