Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Health Tech In Focus At ViVE Event; Google, Salesforce Invest In ER Startup
Digital health companies and investors flocked to Nashville, Tennessee, this week for the second annual ViVE conference. Hot topics among the crowd of 7,500 included worries about being "creepy," the economy and whether ChatGPT is as good as its buildup. Here were five takeaways. (Perna, 3/30)
Venture capital funds from Google and Salesforce led the seed investment round for newly-launched startup Florence, a software company aimed at hospital emergency rooms. (Turner, 3/30)
The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission allowed the antitrust waiting period to lapse on Monday without taking action to prevent the two companies from combining, Chicago-based primary care provider Oak Street reported in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday. That doesn't prevent those regulators from taking action at a later time, but it does clear the way for the deal to advance. CVS Health and Oak Street submitted the required paperwork to the Justice Department and the FTC on Friday, Oak Street informed the SEC. (Berryman, 3/30)
A federal judge has ordered the former owner of a Matteson, Illinois home-visiting-physician company to pay more than $25 million in damages and penalties for more than 4,000 violations of the False Claims Act. (Asplund, 3/30)
KHN: Readers And Tweeters Are Horrified By Harm Tied To Dental DeviceÂ
KHN gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories. (3/31)
