Information technology
Amazon has a secret health tech team called 1492 working on medical records, virtual doc visits | CNBC
Amazon is working in secret on healthcare technology, including software that could work with existing electronic health record systems.
ECMC spent nearly $10 million recovering from massive cyberattack | The Buffalo News
Erie County Medical Center has been reeling from an April cyberattack, with about $15,000 lost to spending on hardware, software, and work on the response and another $15,000 of overtime pay and lost revenue during downtime.
Yelp, California Health Care Foundation form partnership to improve maternity care | Mobihealthnews
Yelp will display information on maternity care measures for about 250 California hospitals on those hospitals' Yelp pages.
Government
Will the Trump administration ever be held accountable for its abuses? Here's one way it might. | The Washington Post
The GAO will look into whether HHS has broken the law by "using federal resources to advance partisan legislation"—namely, ACA-replacement bills.
Afters vets protests, new deal struck to end VA budget crisis | The Associated Press
A new proposed spending deal would give $3.9 billion in emergency funds to the Department of Veterans Affairs, including $2.1 billion for the Choice program, which allows veterans to get care outside the VA.
In other news
First human embyros edited in U.S. | Technology Review
For the first time in the U.S., scientists have changed the DNA of human embryos. The researchers used CRISPR to alter the DNA of one-cell embryos.