Morning Headlines 9/13/19
Healthy.io raises $60 million and receives FDA clearance for the use of its smartphone-based ACR test to be used in diagnosing chronic kidney disease.
TrialCard Announces Acquisition of Mango Health
Digital prescription savings company TrialCard will acquire medication management app Mango Health.
GE’s health unit wins first FDA clearance for A.I.-powered X-ray system
GE Healthcare receives FDA clearance for its Critical Care Suite, an AI-powered X-ray device that can reduce the time between diagnosis and treatment for a collapsed lung to as few as 15 minutes.
Google and others ‘not interested in electronic patient record market’
Google Cloud Executive Advisor Toby Cosgrove, MD says that health systems have spent so much on Cerner and Epic that Google, IBM, and other companies aren’t interested in trying to launch competing EHR products.
I had an old physician colleague whose favorite hobby was bitching about EHRs, and one day told a story about…