Morning Headlines 3/3/21
Health Gorilla raises $15 million to build secure APIs for medical records
Healthcare API developer Health Gorilla raises $15 million in a Series B round of funding it plans to use for market expansion and product development.
Why drug prescriptions should include diagnoses
HHS OIG Principal Deputy Inspector General Christi Grimm, MPA and HHS OIG Chief Medical Officer Julie Taitsman, MD, JD say that prescriptions should be required to include the condition for which the drug is being prescribed.
Hill-Rom accused of wrongfully pulling plug on $375 million deal
Hill-Rom cancels its plan to acquire ambulatory ECG monitoring vendor Bardy Diagnostics for $375 million, citing potentially unexpected reductions in Medicare reimbursements for patient-monitoring devices.
Reperio Health raises $6 million in seed funding to advance the rollout of its kits for employer-provided, at-home wellness screenings.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.