August 25, 2020: Bill was wrong! About the CDC HHS stuff. He explores the rocky transition and why he’s glad he was wrong. You get cars from Uber, food, even a helicopter. Now they deliver drugs too. We can’t afford to lose billions in a crisis again. We have to focus on speed and agility. How fast can we launch new business models? How good are we at improving productivity? How fast are we developing new products? We also look at the startling UCSF hack ransomware story, REI going remote and selling its corporate headquarters and the scary Orwellian future of health passports. Big brother really is watching.

Key Points:

• Health passports [00:11:50] 
• Kaiser terminates employee that inappropriately accessed 2,756 patient records [00:13:50]
• COVID-19 to cost hospitals 323 billion [00:15:10]
• COVID-19 data will once again be collected by the CDC in a policy reversal [00:17:10] 
• In this ransomware era you really must look at all of your backups [00:27:50]
• McKinsey article: Ready, set, go: Reinventing the organization for speed in the post-COVID-19 era [00:28:50]

Stories:

• The Trump administration says hospitals will soon report new cases to the CDC after a rocky transition to the HHS drew criticism in Congress
• Microsoft joins court battle between Apple and Fortnite maker Epic - The Guardian
• Billions in Hospital Virus Aid Rested on Compliance With Private Vendor
• UCSF Hack Shows Evolving Risks of Ransomware in the Covid Era - Bloomberg
• U.S. charges former Uber security chief with covering up massive 2016 hacking
• Organizational speed in the post-COVID-19 era | McKinsey
• How Teladoc won: The inside story of how prescient bets put it ahead of rivals
• Covid-19 - When covid-19 becomes a chronic illness | Science & technology | The Economist
• 2020 Health care consumer survey: consumer health trends | Deloitte Insights
• Primary Care Doctors Look at Payment Overhaul After Pandemic Disruption – Kaiser Health News
• REI is going remote and selling its corporate headquarters – RetailWire