If I had a dollar for every time LLMs were compared, everyone but Claude failed miserably, and the audience response…
Morning Headlines 4/12/21
Orange County Hospital Seeks Divorce From Large Catholic Health System
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian is attempting to leave the 51-hospital Providence system, saying the chain’s use of Epic to standardize treatments for cost effectiveness often conflicts with the judgment of its clinicians.
Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance for about $16 billion, announcement could come Monday
Insiders say Microsoft will acquire Nuance for $16 billion, making it the company’s second-largest acquisition after its $27 billion purchase of LinkedIn five years ago.
HHS extends TeleTracking’s COVID-19 hospital operating data collection and reporting for a third six-month term, presumably for another $10 million.
Google is exploring a health record tool for patients
Google is conducting a user feedback study as it prepares to develop a consumer-facing health record tool similar in functionality to Apple’s Health Record app.
Raise your hand if you’d like to see the data use agreement for Google’s PHR (I say this while realizing I’ve turned over 90% of myself to them already). The portal is like the only thing about healthcare I enjoy. Seems like another PHR failure in the making.