Theranos
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Elizabeth Holmes Requests Home Confinement Instead of Prison Ahead of Formal Sentencing
In January, a federal jury convicted Holmes of four counts of fraud, including an investor wire fraud conspiracy count and three substantive wire fraud counts, with wire transfers totaling more than $140 million.
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Elizabeth Holmes granted evidentiary hearing for new trial based on possible government misconduct
After a key witness arrived at Holmes’ house in August and expressed regrets about his role in the trial, a California judge has decided to grant Holmes a chance for a new trial.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Elizabeth Holmes requests new trial after “star witness” expresses regrets
A former Theranos lab director who testified during Elizabeth Holmes’ trial said he’s had trouble sleeping because of regrets about the trial and showed up at her door “disheveled” and wanting to talk.
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes may seek ‘mental disease’ defense in trial, document shows
A partially redacted document filed in federal court last week in connection with the trial stated that Holmes planned to obtain an evaluation from a psychologist. The court allowed federal prosecutors to obtain an evaluation from their own experts as well.
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What the Theranos whistleblowers learned about ethics in health startups
Theranos whistleblowers Erika Cheung and Tyler Shultz have established an organization called Ethics in Entrepreneurship hoping to prevent other tech and health startups and employees from going through what they did.
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Lawyers for Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes get delay in trial date
Various news outlets reported that attorneys for Holmes successfully convinced a federal judge to delay setting a trial date in order to get more time to review some 20 million pages of documents.
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HBO documentary ‘The Inventor’ goes inside the rise and fall of Theranos
Despite a couple of flaws, Alex Gibney’s new film – airing March 18 – expertly portrays how Elizabeth Holmes’s dream of changing the world of lab testing became a fraud.
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Health unicorns’ valuations often outweigh their body of peer-reviewed research, study finds
Peer review is important for ensuring transparency and trust and may have put a stop to Theranos before it became a darling of investors and the press, the lead study author said in an interview.
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Why healthcare startups fail and 5 that bit the dust in 2018
Healthcare VCs provided their thoughts on why startups die, followed by a roundup of five companies that didn’t survive 2018.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Highlights from Cleveland Clinic CEO-turned-Googler Toby Cosgrove at the Rock Health Summit
During an event Rock Health Summit in San Francisco, the always quotable Cosgrove shared his thoughts on topics ranging from the V.A. to Theranos to EMRs to where he believed big tech firms can hope to change healthcare.
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Report: Theranos to dissolve
The company is negotiating with creditor Fortress to keep $5 million that it will distribute to creditors, to whom it owes $60 million.
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Why the Theranos saga and Holmes’ trial is good for innovation
The criminal trial of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will help entrepreneurs see the legal ramifications of hyping and under-delivering presumed medical advances and ultimately be good for innovation.
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Theranos founder, former COO face criminal charges in blood testing company’s latest chapter
Federal prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco have charged Holmes and COO Sunny Balwani with fraud over allegedly lying to investors and misleading doctors and patients about their technology and its accuracy, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Is Theranos venture investor Tim Draper living in a parallel universe? (video)
Tim Draper, the founder of Draper Associates and one of the earliest backers of Theranos, appeared to be in denial about the true cause of the company’s downfall in an interview on CNBC Thursday.
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Report: Theranos slashes majority of staff in bid to avert bankruptcy
The diagnostics company has cut back most of its staff from more than 100 employees to about two dozen in the wake of a civil fraud complaint from the SEC last month, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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