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Walgreens to invest $5.2B in VillageMD, acquires home health benefits company
 | | Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. will pay $5.2 billion to acquire a controlling stake in primary-care network VillageMD (Chicago, IL), which operates more than 200 clinics where it has acquired or hired its own physicians and medical staff. Additionally, Walgreens said it would acquire a majority stake in CareCentrix Inc. (Hartford, CT), a home health benefits … |
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Cardinal Health OptiFreight Logistics and Journey Biosciences collaborate to improve long-term diabetes care
 | | Journey Biosciences, Inc. announced a collaboration with Cardinal Health (Dublin, OH) OptiFreight Logistics that will increase control and visibility across every transportation modality. Journey Biosciences is a biotechnology company with an innovative proactive diagnostic screening technology for high risk kidney complications, including … |
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James Wetrich releases new book, Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong
 | | Leaders Press announced the release of Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong, a new non-fiction book by James G. “Big Red” Wetrich. The book explores techniques applied by successful leaders and managers in detail, offering ideas and solutions to all of the challenges facing today’s organizations. Special interest topics range from the refined … |
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Reliable Transportation is Part of Building a More Robust Supply Chain
 | | COVID-19 has created a host of complications. Those impacts extend into the transportation system where congestion at vital ports, scarcity of containers, and critical labor shortages are preventing the return to the reliable flow of products healthcare providers need. Rather than improving as the pandemic has continued, those challenges have grown more significant and are expected to… |
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Abbott recalls two Covid-19 test kits for potential false positive results
 | | Abbott Labs (Chicago, IL) has recalled two of its COVID-19 test kits over concerns about false positive results, the FDA said. The company issued a Class 1 recall, which is the most serious type of recall. It indicates that use of these devices may cause serious adverse health consequences or death. The recalled products are Abbott’s Alinity m SARS-CoV-2 … |
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Health groups ask CMS for flexibility in ACO spending targets in light of anomalies for Medicare spending in 2020
 | | In a letter to the CMS, 12 healthcare associations and stakeholder organizations urged Medicare to better account for the COVID-19 pandemic in accountable care organizations’ (ACOs) financial targets. The groups, led by the National Association of ACOs, asked for an option to select pre-pandemic years on which... |
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Bosnian man builds spinning house so his wife has diversified view
 | | A self-taught innovator in Bosnia has built a rotating house, allowing his wife to watch a rising sun in one moment and passers-by in the next – all without leaving the room.
"I've got tired of her complaints and frequent refurbishing of our family house and I said: I'll build you a rotating house so you can spin it as you wish," Vojin Kusic, 72, told Reuters. The house spins around a 23-foot axis designed Kusic and is rotated by electric motors and wheels from a military transporter.
"The house can make a full circle for 24 hours when it's at the slowest speed, while at the fastest spinning it can make a full circle in 22 seconds," Kusic said.
Kusic says the project took about six years to finish. He says he was inspired by Serbian-American inventors Nikola Tesla and Mihajlo Pupin, and that coming from a poor family without the possibility of a good education had forced him to look for ways to make things by himself.
"This is not an innovation, it only requires will and knowledge, and I had enough time and knowledge," he said, adding that he had built the house completely by himself.
Source: Reuters |
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