Morning Headlines 3/28/25
Kennedy to slash 10,000 jobs in major overhaul of US health agencies
HHS will eliminate 10,000 full-time positions and close half of its regional offices, and will merge Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and other groups under the newly created Administration for a Healthy America.
Taxo, which offers a data extraction and workflow automation engine for healthcare administration, raises $5 million in seed funding.
Layer Health Raises $21 Million Series A to Transform Medical Chart Review Using AI
Automated chart review startup Layer Health raises $21 million in a Series A funding round led by Define Ventures.
Several former leaders of Glassdoor launch Marit Health, a salary transparency website for doctors and advanced practice providers, and announce $3.2 million in seed funding.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.