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California Healthline

California Healthline is a free, daily publication featuring health care news, opinion and original reporting, designed to meet the information needs of busy health care professionals, decision makers, media organizations and consumers. It is independently published by Kaiser Health News (KHN) for the California Health Care Foundation. California Healthline is part of the Foundation’s commitment to important issues affecting health care policy, delivery and financing in California.

“From where we sit, this is an old story. Corporations that are not really invested in the community come helicoptering in, bearing gifts, but what they’re taking away is much more valuable,” said Dr. Noha Aboelata, CEO of Roots Community Health Center, an East Oakland clinic that serves mostly African Americans and is one of the original Verily sites in Oakland.
“The system is slower than it should be, and it means more people are going to get sick and die," said Bruce Pomer, a public health expert and chief lobbyist for the California Association of Public Health Laboratory Directors. "The lifeblood of public health is data.”
Covered California acknowledged the problem, casting part of the blame on its computer system. The glitch will be fixed, but not until September