Morning Headlines 1/23/19
Hospitals Stopped Readmitting So Many Medicare Patients. Did That Cost Lives?
Medicare patient readmissions within 30 days dropped sharply after CMS started penalizing hospitals financially, but the death rate appears to have increased during the same period.
NantHealth warned over de-listing
NantHealth, whose shares have fallen to $0.70, receives a Nasdaq de-listing notice now that the stock has closed at under $1 for 30 consecutive trading days.
Manhattan’s Largest Automated Parking System Puts More Cars in Less Space
ParkPlus installs an automated parking garage at a hospital in Manhattan, giving patients the ability to retrieve their cars and pay for their space via tablets integrated with the facility’s IT system.
She scammed dozens into giving up their savings so she could stay at the Ritz
A Virginia woman is sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for scamming $5 million from 50 investors in her phony telemedicine company.
Fun framing using Seinfeld. Though in a piece about disrupting healthcare, it’s a little striking that patients, clinicians, and measurable…