Morning Headlines 11/25/15
AcademyHealth Becomes Host Organization for 2016 Health Datapalooza
Washington DC-based non-profit AcademyHealth takes over hosting responsibilities for this year’s Health Datapalooza conference.
El Camino Hospital launches new online services
After a two-year implementation, 395-bed El Camino Hospital (CA) goes live with its $150 million Epic system.
Paging Dr. Pigeon; You’re Needed in Radiology
Researchers find that pigeons can be trained to find tumors in medical images as well as radiologists or pathologists.
Man Receives $1 Million Hospital Charge For 5-Day Stay With No Surgery
An uninsured 24-year-old man from Pittsburgh is receiving national media attention after a five-day hospital stay at UPMC results in $1.1 million in hospital charges.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.