Morning Headlines 10/29/19
Exclusive: Google owner Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
Fitbit shares rise 27% on the news that Alphabet has made an offer to acquire the company.
Facebook will now remind you to get flu shots and medical checkups
Facebook launches a Preventive Health tool that will remind users to get vaccines, checkups, and tests based on their demographic profiles.
Federal prisons shopping for EHR system
The DoJ’s Federal Bureau of Prisons issues an RFP for an EHR that can handle the physical, mental, and dental care of nearly 200,000 inmates.
Looks like the House rep for Spokane and one of the Senators from Washington State are engaged: https://mcmorris.house.gov/posts/mcmorris-rodgers-blasts-va-cerner-for-patient-harm-at-spokane-va https://www.murray.senate.gov/murray-mcmorris-rodgers-secure-va-commitment-to-hold-town-halls-for-veterans-in-eastern-washington/ That…
The thing I'm focusing on are the department(s) these have hit: Marketing & Customer Experience. The database community has believed…
How Cerner fumbles VA and rolls out at DHA without issue, and Congress to my knowledge doesn't as why, so…
Yikes. Oracle/Cerner just can't get the break on this one. Mr. H, could you please run a poll on how…
That BH ER experience matches mine even years before the pandemic - went in with a suicidal friend, and they…