Healthcare DIVE November 6, 2019
Rebecca Pifer

LAS VEGAS — Headlines at HLTH 2019 included a peek behind the curtain at the secretive healthcare division of tech giant Google from ex-Geisinger CEO David Feinberg, Uber’s newly inked deal with Cerner and a preventive health push by Facebook sparking renewed data privacy concerns.

On the government side, outgoing head of CMS’ innovation center Adam Boehler suggested industry will be pleased with his replacement and CMS Administrator Seema Verma promised further Medicaid deregulation and “humility” in government.

But the four-day conference last week also covered some broader themes, including retail’s presence in the industry, the rise of telehealth and voice tech and the challenges of interoperability. Here are six of the biggest takeaways from Las Vegas.

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Topics: Conferences / Podcast, Digital Health, EMR / EHR, Equity/SDOH, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Retailer, Technology, Telehealth, Trends, Voice Assistant, Wearables
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