Amazon's healthcare business will be divided into six new units as part of a restructuring effort, in a move that comes after recent top health executive departures. CMO Sunita Mishra stepped down last month, while Aaron Martin, who has been the vice president of the healthcare unit, is also set to step down. This reorganization follows a series of other executive departures, including Vin Gupta, who served as CMO of Amazon Pharmacy, and Trent Green, the CEO of One Medical.
Veterans' advocates have worked for years to stop unaccredited consultants from charging vets thousands of dollars for help filing disability claims, but setbacks in court and on Capitol Hill indicate their quest to ban the deep-pocketed companies could be in peril. With Republicans in control of Congress, a bill legalizing for-profit claims consultants nationwide will advance to a full House of Representatives vote, the first time such a measure has made it out of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Meanwhile, a competing bill introduced by a Democrat, which would crack down on for-profit companies by imposing criminal penalties, has not advanced.
Corporate investors hoping to take over local healthcare facilities in Oregon could soon face one of the hardest markets nationwide. Senate Bill 951, which was quietly signed into law by Gov. Tina Kotek this week, sets the strongest regulations on private and corporate control of medical practices in the nation. A similar effort failed in the Legislature last year amid pushback from Republicans that prevented the bill from meeting key legislative deadlines.
Medtronic has announced that its planned spinoff diabetes business will be named MiniMed, reviving the original name of the company acquired by Medtronic in 2001. The separation is expected to complete within 18 months, subject to various conditions.
The bots encouraged him to “get rid of” his parents and to join the bot in the afterlife to “share eternity.” They often tried to convince him that they were licensed human therapists and encouraged him to cancel appointments with actual psychologists. They also crossed the line into sexual territory, with one bot suggesting an intimate date as an “intervention” for violent urges.
The whole point of this improv game called ‘Loser Ball’ was to have fun failing. Danger's been teaching similar workshops to Mayo Clinic doctors since 2017. He uses improv theater techniques to help physicians be comfortable using humor, curiosity and empathy in their interactions with patients and each other.