Pharmaceuticals
Roche executive Daniel O'Day is named Gilead CEO | The Wall Street Journal
Roche sales have fallen lately. The company's total annual revenue for the year is predicted to be $21.7 billion.
Technology
Amazon, AI and medical records: Do the benefits outweigh the risks? | [email protected]
Amazon's new medical-records-parsing tool, Comprehend Medical, raises privacy concerns. But it might also improve treatment.
This patient's medical record said she'd given birth twice—in fact, she'd never been pregnant | CBNC
On health IT academic estimates that 70% of medical records have incorrect information. Once those errors are in the record, it can be hard to get them removed.
Providers
4,000 mental health professionals to go on strike in California | The Hill
Kaiser Permanente mental health workers will go on strike for five days over problems with understaffing, which they say has kept patients from getting the right treatment.
Safety and quality
Poll: Young people more likely to defer healthcare because of cost | NPR
About 20% of people had held off on getting healthcare in the last three months because of cost, according to an NPR-IBM Watson Health poll. And 41% of people under 35 said they had trouble paying for healthcare in the past three months; 11% of people over 65 said the same.
In other news
It's official: Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space | Gizmodo
For the second time ever, a human-made object has gone into the space between the stars. NASA launched Voyager 2 in 1977, sending it to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond. Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2013.
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