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.
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…