Re: Allbirds Business Pivot Stephen Colbert captured that "Huh? What?!" feeling very well. I mean, shoes to AI. One of…
Morning Headlines 3/9/26
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company
Financial Times reports that former NHS senior official Matthew Swindells was serving as a paid lobbyist for Palantir while urging colleagues to send GP patient data to the nationwide Federated Data Platform.
Lumina Health Partners Joins ECG Management Consultants
Siemens Healthineers company ECG Management Consultants acquires value-based care consulting firm Lumina Health Partners.
HHS updates a free risk tool to help hospitals size up their cybersecurity exposure
HHS updates its Risk Identification and Site Criticality (RISC) 2.0 Toolkit to include a cybersecurity module.
Medhost creates new product called Medhostone that uses AI. Well, did they use AI to pick the name? It’s MEDHOSTone as in #1 I guess. I saw MedHO-STONE.
I think you should have a poll for the worst healthcare IT company names. I think there was one from GE awhile back, but I can’t recall what it was. This one is pretty bad though.
I generally follow AP Stylebook style guidelines:
The new product is styled as MEDHOSTone, which per guidelines, makes it Medhostone. I can’t arbitrarily capitalize the “One” part for legibility to offset the lower-casing of the rest of the name. But, the company is not accountable to AP Style and is thus free to spell its name however it likes.