Information technology
Allscripts offered to buy Practice Fusion for $250M. A DOJ investigation changed everything | Fierce Healthcare
Earlier this month, Allscripts bought Practice Fusion for $100 million. But a little over half a year ago, Allscripts offered the EHR vendor $250 million. After eClinicalWorks settled with the government for allegedly lying about EHR certification, Allscripts pulled the offer.
Two Epic shops merge patient portal data | Healthcare IT News
Novant Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health are putting their patient data together through Epic's "happy together" initiative, which allows patients to access their records from both systems in a single view in Epic's patient portal.
Pharmaceuticals
Pharma gets a seat at the table at private dinner with Trump at Davos | Stat
Executives from Novartis and Bayer, along with other business executives, had dinner with Donald Trump at Davos Thursday. No sitting president in the last two decades has attended the meeting.
Everything that could go wrong for this drugmaker did | Bloomberg Businessweek
Endo International Plc., a maker of generic and branded drugs, has been beset by problem after problem, including building up more than $8 million in debt.
In other news
Planned Parenthood's president stepping down | NPR
After more than a decade at the helm, Cecile Richards will leave Planned Parenthood later this year.
