Walmart has hired a new executive to lead its care organization

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Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm healthcare editor Leah Rosenbaum, and today in healthcare news:

• Walmart has hired a new executive to lead its care organization;
• A startup wants to make it easier for doctors to spot and manage cognitive issues in older adults;
• The CDC voted to offer a low-dose Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to kids.

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Walmart has hired a Louisiana health-system exec to lead its care organization as it expands its clinics and pushes into telehealth

• Walmart tapped David Carmouche to lead its omnichannel-care organization, it confirmed to Insider.
• Carmouche is an executive overseeing value-based care at Louisiana's Ochsner Health.
• He joins Walmart's health unit amid a leadership shake-up and as it stands up clinics in Florida.

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Here is the 12-slide presentation two academics used to sell investors on their virtual cognitive-testing startup

• BrainCheck is a startup that can assess and manage cognitive impairment virtually.
• The Texas-based startup announced it had raised $10 million in Series B funding Wednesday.
• The cofounder and CEO Yael Katz said the company wants to proactively manage conditions.

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CDC advisors green-light Pfizer's lower-dose COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 5-11

• An expert panel to the CDC voted Tuesday to offer a low-dose version of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to kids ages 5-11 in the US.
• The vaccine is the same product that adults and teens receive, but a smaller size.
• Doctors and nurses at the meeting stressed kids shouldn't die from vaccine-preventable diseases, and parents should not wait to vaccinate them.

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More stories we're reading:

• The digital-health startup Folx taps tech and nonprofit leaders as the industrywide boom intensifies (Insider)
• Some parents still need more convincing to get their teens vaccinated against COVID-19 (Kaiser Health News)
• Pfizer expects to make nearly as much revenue just from COVID-19 vaccines in 2021 as it earned in all of 2020 (Insider)
• Biden may not be able to fix home health care as he promised (The New York Times)
• New York's MTA won't pay a $500,000 death benefit if unvaccinated workers die of COVID-19. It's another way companies are pushing workers to get vaccinated. (Insider)

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-Leah