Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the HIStalk crowd. I wish you the joys of the season!
Morning Headlines 8/17/22
CDC to regain control of US hospital data after Trump-era seizure, chaos
CDC will regain control of hospital-reported COVID-19 data when the government’s contract with TeleTracking ends on December 31.
Enterprise medical imaging vendor Intelerad acquires PenRad Technologies, which offers productivity tools for breast imaging and lung screening.
SpendMend Acquires Pharmacy Procurement Software Pioneer, Trulla
Hospital cost management system vendor SpendMend acquires Trulla, which sells pharmacy procurement software.
The first headline – CDC to regain control of US hospital data after Trump-era seizure, chaos – is beyond a political opinion piece, it reads like a tabloid. As a non-political person who isn’t aligned with Trump, this isn’t quality news, let alone a headline. Is HIStalk his the tabloid pages of healthcare now?
The primary source summarized by the Ars Technica article in the headline was a Bloomberg report, but that original article is behind a paywall and I try not to link to those. I run headlines just as they appear on the original site, and while I wasn’t thrilled with either the Ars Technica headline or its editorializing, it was the only freely available summary of the actual news item. I disagree that this isn’t quality news — it affects a health IT vendor and it may require hospitals to change their data submission processes as occurred when HHS Protect was implemented. I stuck with the factual parts of the article — TeleTracking’s contract wasn’t renewed.
Bloomberg’s headline was a lot better: “CDC Takes Back Control of Pandemic Hospitalization Data Despite Criticism” and I would have used that had the paywall not made the article invisible to most of us.
The Ars article is all opinion and fluff, yet curiously you do not indict any of the specific content of the article?