Morning Headlines 11/4/20
Teladoc Health Completes Merger with Livongo
Teladoc Health completes its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo with a valuation of $28 billion.
Louisville health care company expanding operations, creating 80 new jobs
Healthcare supply chain analytics and technology vendor Handle will add 80 new jobs to expanded operations in Kentucky.
City Health Department failed to terminate former employee’s access to protected health information
The City of New Haven in Connecticut will pay $202,400 to the HHS Office of Civil Rights to settle potential HIPAA violations related to its health department’s failure to implement employee termination procedures, enabling a former staffer to download the PHI of nearly 500 patients.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.