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Morning Headlines 3/23/22
Antidote Health Raises $22 Million in Series A Funding
Membership-based telemedicine company Antidote Health will use a new $22 million investment to add primary and chronic care services, and to further develop AI screening and clinical decision support system capabilities.
Tech-enabled cardiac recovery startup Recora raises $20 million in Series A funding.
VA and Cerner to investigate cause of Spokane electronic health records outage
The VA and Cerner promise to perform a thorough root-cause analysis of the software bug that caused Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center to take its Cerner EHR offline earlier this month.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Epic Systems’ bid to restore $280 mln jury award
The US Supreme Court will not take up Epic’s challenge to an appeals court’s decision to cut the amount of damages it won in its stolen trade secrets case against Tata Consultancy Services.
Wait, what? They promise to perform a root-cause analysis? That means the root cause hasn’t been determined yet, two and a half weeks later?
Am I the only one that thinks this is simply unprofessional?
Knowing the root cause and providing a root-cause analysis are two different things. They know what caused the problem. The analysis is a formal document and can take some time to complete. This is not unusual for any IT vendor.