Amazing that the takeaway is that its easier to buy a gun than to get credentialed as a physician is…
Morning Headlines 5/7/20
CVS Health sees a 600% jump in telemedicine visits through its chain of Minute Clinics, part of an overall spike in its digital services that helped the essential business realize Q1 sales of $67 billion.
TimeDoc Health Secures $5.7 Million Series A Financing Round
Chronic care management technology and services startup TimeDoc Health raises $5.7 million in Series A round of funding led by Vocap Investment Partners.
A Black Book survey names Cerner as the top-rated EHR vendor in large hospitals, and in outsourced tech support for hospital networks.
From the web page of Black Book
Umm, what?
The other week you covered the potential they would fire Azar over the Rick Bright demotion. Take a look at the whistle blower complaint:
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6882560-Rick-Bright-Whistleblower-Complaint
TLDR: Dr. Bright had been warning Azar and other leadership about the PPE shortage, the need to on-shore supply chains, and the need to ramp up production of remdesivir since early February. HHS leadership wanted to pretend everything was going to be fine, so instead of heeding his warnings they stopped inviting him to meetings, and tried to push him out to NIH. Dr. Bright pushed back as the White House tried to make chloroquine widely available to the public for unsupervised use(!). Oh and prior to COVID it sounds like Dr. Bright witnessed plenty of examples of research dollars prioritized for unqualified politically-connected groups.
The House testimony next week is going to be must-watch television.