Morning Headlines 5/21/24
Centivo Acquires Eden Health to Serve Escalating Demand for Affordable, High-Quality Primary Care
Centivo, which offers primary care-focused health plans to employers, acquires virtual-first, direct-to-employer provider Eden Health.
ARPA-H announces program to automate cybersecurity for health care facilities
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health announces its UPGRADE program, which will invest $50 million in the development of proposed automated cybersecurity solutions for hospitals.
Better medical record-keeping needed to fight antibiotic overuse, studies suggest
A pair of studies conducted by University of Michigan physicians finds that a lack of detailed record-keeping – specifically, information about why an antibiotic is prescribed – could drive up unnecessary and potentially harmful prescriptions.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.