Morning Headlines 9/30/19
Province gives up on single e-health records provider for doctors’ offices
Canada’s New Brunswick Medical Society will close Velante, the for-profit company it created in 2012 as the sole EHR provider for the province’s doctors, few of whom signed up for the system.
The Department of Justice charges 35 defendants for fraudulently billing Medicare $2 billion by running phony telemedicine companies whose doctors ordered unnecessary cancer genetic screening tests that were processed by private labs in on the scheme.
March, October Targeted for VA Cerner Implementation
The VA will push back its Cerner go-live date from March to October at several facilities in the Pacific Northwest because of staffing and infrastructure problems.
23andMe, moving beyond consumer DNA tests, is building a clinical trial recruitment business
23andMe will work with clinical trial recruitment startup TrialSpark to offer customers enrollment in clinical trials in their areas.
Baptist Health coding jobs being outsourced to company with locations in US and India
Baptist Health (KY) lays off 37 as it outsources some of its coding jobs to AGS Health.
Fun framing using Seinfeld. Though in a piece about disrupting healthcare, it’s a little striking that patients, clinicians, and measurable…