Maverick's Update

If you’re interested in heavy drama between former friends who are testing each other’s loyalties, you can either flip on coverage of the U.S. House leadership saga, or you can watch the Glass Onion, the sequel to Knives Out. It is a new film on Netflix about a murder mystery dinner party that is, in essence, a disagreement among old friends. Loyalties are tested as financial and political self-interest plays out among a colorful cast of characters who ultimately destroy a perfectly good glass house with a tech billionaire’s invention — a film that reflects our real-life issues all too well. We are more interested in less destructive real-life parties with health policy friends, which we describe below in the One Thoughtful Paragraph.

The party is getting started for these newsmakers:

• Oracle Cerner and the Department of Veterans Affairs will resume their multibillion-dollar implementation of a new electronic health records system in June 2023, after a rocky start. See more here.

• Building on its announcement at HIMSS last year, Samsung plans to announce a new app at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show that will connect clinicians and patients through a television set — just like on the The Jetsons.

• GE Healthcare officially split from General Electric, its former parent company, after it began trading as an independent company on Nasdaq. More here about how well the stock is doing.

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