Morning Headlines 9/7/22
Amazon is secretly testing another virtual-care venture that aims to treat common conditions online
Amazon is reportedly internally testing a direct-to-consumer telemedicine and online prescription drug service that will compete with the likes of Hims and Ro.
‘Critical’ network failure at all 3 campuses of The Ottawa Hospital resolved
The Ottawa Hospital in Canada recovers from an unspecified hardware issue that took its Epic, Cerner, PACs, Rhapsody, and Spok systems offline over the weekend.
Upfront Raises $10.5 Million in Oversubscribed Series C
Less than a month after its acquisition of PatientBond, patient engagement and access software vendor Upfront Healthcare raises $10.5 million as part of a Series C funding round.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.