Morning Headlines 11/2/22
Walgreens-Backed VillageMD Said to Explore Deal for Summit
The proposed $10 billion company would operate the 200 primary care offices of Walgreens and the 340 urgent care locations of Summit Health-owned CityMD.
Americans Take Ketamine at Home for Depression With Little Oversight
Psychiatrists express concern that virtual care startups are prescribing ketamine for off-label treatment of serious mental health conditions.
Is the Promise of PROMs Being Realized? Implementation Experience in a Large Orthopedic Practice
Most of a practice’s total knee and total hip patients entered their patient-reported outcomes measures that were then stored in the EHR, but care teams ignored them during visits 99% of the time.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.