Morning Headlines 8/12/19
Mueller: Centra’s Billing a Top Priority
The president and CEO of Centra Health (VA) apologizes to the community for billing problems that followed its September 2018 rollout of Cerner, which it also blames for recent operating losses.
Nuance Communications (NUAN) Q3 Earnings and Revenues Top Estimates
Nuance reports Q3 results, noting that although its healthcare revenue increased 2%, its HIM and EHR implementation businesses underperformed.
Gates Foundation snaps up top Apple Health researcher to run a new digital health group
Apple healthcare expert and radiation oncologist Andrew Trister, MD, PhD leaves the company after three years to join the Gates Foundation, where he will help US digital health entrepreneurs take their products to the developing world.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.