...There is an endless supply of in-jokes and jabs, such as Persephone at a TEDtalk saying “The doubters call this goal impossible, but I prefer to say, ‘I’m possible.’” (=”First, they think you’re crazy…”) and the blatant coverup of the technology (=Edison Lab, but here, if anyone drank the water, a competitor could steal the aqua-tech from the urine). The ‘can of oats’ converter, Persephone’s backstory, and the water, of course, are complete fails. Lots of celebrities make guest appearances, but not Judge Edward Davila or John Carreyrou, the author of ‘Bad Blood’. The plotline of “Thirst Trap: A Corporate... Continue Reading
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Get your goggles on! Augmented and virtual reality finally taking off, from alleviating child pain to astronaut mental health
...the same in their relationships with the staff. 74.2% of the caregivers reported that the residents’ moods were improved, while 77.9% of the residents reported feeling more positive. 57.5% of older adults reported feeling less isolated from the outside world after using VR during the study. Mynd Immersive, formerly MyndVR, AT&T 5G Healthcare, HTC Vive, a maker of 5G products, and a group of rehabilitation and senior living communities, like John Knox Village in Pompano Beach, Florida, collaborated with Stanford on the research. Release (Yahoo Finance), HIT Consultant Clinician training for naloxone (Narcan) has received the VR treatment. Before the... Continue Reading
Embedding ECG sensors to a supermarket cart (trolley) handle as ‘first-line’ screening for atrial fibrillation
Not coming soon to a supermarket near you, but an interesting test at Sainsbury’s in Liverpool. The 2022 study by a team from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) was designed to move atrial fibrillation (AF) screening closer to everyday routines. At least one weekly routine is to go to the supermarket. In the ‘SHOPS-AF’ study first/proof-of-concept phase designed in 2022, the LJMU team installed a single-lead ECG designed by them, the MyDiagnostick, into the cart (US)/trolley (UK) handles at four local Sainsbury’s with pharmacies. This idea is similar to the pulse monitor handle that you find in most sport treadmills.... Continue Reading
Theranos’ Sunny Balwani reports to Federal prison
...fishing, and shipbuilding center and once housed Howard Hughes’ monster Hercules H-4 seaplane, a/k/a The Spruce Goose. Commercial businesses include canneries, docks, and SpaceX. Because of the prison’s location, it’s held more than its share of famous/infamous prisoners: mobsters Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, and ‘Goodfella’ Henry Hill; Watergate’s G. Gordon Liddy, LSD advocate Timothy Leary, murderer Charles Manson, and car executive John Z. DeLorean. During World War II, it was used to hold court-martialed Navy prisoners. It is relatively small as Federal prisons go and holds about 1,000 inmates. The coverage from CNN to local media tends to be light... Continue Reading
When ‘the centre cannot hold’: three board members exit at Cano Health, failure looms at Bright Health Group
...from just above $8 to today’s close of $1.25 on the NYSE. The time may be right for a payer or a provider group to make a cheap pickup, but not if the company has intractable troubles–and now there is a deep-pocketed rival. MedCityNews, New Times (Miami) The New Times article digs deeper into the MSP Recovery relationship and CEO John Ruiz. MSP Recovery specializes in collecting from primary insurers that don’t pay and put the burden on commercial or public plans like Medicare or Medicaid. As of December 2022, the company owed Cano roughly $60 million in receivables, not... Continue Reading
Is Oracle Cerner’s VA EHRM implementation going to be tied up? Senate Veterans Affairs Committee says yes–with two oncoming trains (bills).
Both Republican and Democrat Senators proposed separate bills on Wednesday with the same purpose–fix the implementation of Oracle Cerner’s EHR in the VA and increase oversight. Members of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs want to put the brakes on the entire implementation process until at minimum certain requirements have been met and the EHR modernization (EHRM) works at a level surpassing the existing VistA system. The Republican bill drafted (without number yet) is being introduced by Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) and Jerry Moran (R-KS), joined by John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Kevin... Continue Reading
Who’s buying, selling, funding wrapup: athenahealth IPO deux?, NextGen EHR buys reseller TSI for $68M, Cloudwave buys Sensato; fundings for Lumen, UpStream, Aide Health
...made of management or staff transition, nor of SEC review as NextGen is a publicly traded company on Nasdaq. Hat tip to HISTalk 2 Dec. Release, BusinessJournals Triangle Massachusetts-based Cloudwave is acquiring Sensato Cybersecurity to increase cybersecurity capabilities. Cloudwave provides cloud services hosting with cybersecurity capabilities exclusively to healthcare organizations. Sensato adds cybersecurity-as-a-service (CaaS) to manage security needs, determine where security gaps are, and threat intelligence. Transaction price and details were not disclosed, but Sensato’s founder John Gomez will join CloudWave as chief security and engineering officer. Healthcare IT News Cybersecurity continues to be top-of-mind for healthcare organizations. The latest... Continue Reading
Meta Pixel ad tracker collects another 3 million data breaches at Advocate Aurora Health; Zuckerberg getting Senate scrutiny
...if you had a proxy MyChart account, your first name and the first name of your proxy.” It did not collect social security number, financial accounts, credit cards, or debit card information. At this point, there is no reported misuse of information. Bleeping Computer, HealthcareITNews That this is at all problematic is being vigorously denied by Facebook. But in an unusual move, Senator John Warner (D-VA) sent a letter yesterday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, containing seven fairly rigorous questions based on The Markup’s articles to be answered by 3 November. This follows on Sen. Jon Ossoff’s request via the... Continue Reading
Let the lawsuits begin: Meta sued by health system patient for Meta Pixel info gathering
That was fast. Class action game on! Today’s reports of a class action lawsuit being filed against Meta Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco is going to be only the first. The ‘John Doe’ plaintiff, a patient of Baltimore-based Medstar Health System and a Facebook user, claims that he is filing on behalf of “millions of other Americans whose medical privacy has been violated by Facebook’s Pixel tracking tool.” Four law firms are involved in the lawsuit. It follows on last week’s investigative report by The Markup and STAT on the... Continue Reading
Theranos, The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes closes, ch. 15: she believed! in the technology!
...led Holmes-as-Trilby to not be in control of herself as CEO, even after he departed. The prosecution returned for rebuttals. John Bostic countered the defense claim of Holmes’ belief with “the disease that plagued Theranos wasn’t a lack of effort, it was a lack of honesty.” “We see a CEO of a company who was so desperate for the company to succeed, so afraid of failure, that she was willing to do anything.” Bostic also reminded the jury that they needed to put Holmes’ claims of emotional abuse by Balwani aside since there was “no evidence connecting the allegations of... Continue Reading
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