by The Health Care Blog | Mar 19, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By BRIAN KLEPPER A class action legal ruling this month, on a case originally filed in 2014, found that UnitedHealthCare’s (UHC) mental health subsidiary, United Behavioral Health (UBH), established internal policies that discriminated against patients with behavioral...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 18, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Welcome back–and thank you for bearing with us while we figured out all the technical stuff transitioning the old THCB site to the new one! Hopefully this all looks familiar, but while the content is the same, under the hood everything is actually brand new. We’ve...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 18, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Health coaches are playing an ever-more important role in healthcare, but there’s no one single authority when it comes to finding one — or vetting them for that matter — until now. Marina Borukhovich, CEO of startup YourCoach, talks...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 18, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT MD Jeanette Brown had lost twenty pounds, and she was worried. “I’m not trying,” she told me at her regular diabetes visit as I pored over her lab results. What I saw sent a chill down my spine: A normal weight, diet controlled diabetic for many...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 15, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
I’m thrilled to tell you that after a lot of work by Zoya Khan, Dan Kogan and his tech whizzes, there’ll be a new THCB site up on Monday. Hopefully you’ll notice the changes and think it’s an improvement! But while we do the switch (to a new server, template, host, et...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 15, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
I’m thrilled to tell you that after a lot of work by Zoya Khan, Dan Kogan and his tech whizzes, there’ll be a new THCB site up on Monday. Hopefully you’ll notice the changes and think it’s an improvement! But while we do the switch (to a new server, template, host, et...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 15, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By DAVE LEVIN MD The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have proposed final rules on interoperability, data blocking and other activities as part of implementing the 21st Century Cures Act. In this series, we will...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 15, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By DAVE LEVIN MD The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have proposed final rules on interoperability, data blocking and other activities as part of implementing the 21st Century Cures Act. In this series, we will...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 14, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By ARPAN WAGHRAY, MD and BENJAMIN F. MILLER, PsyD Benjamin F. Miller Arpan Waghray If someone we love has a physical ailment, we can list a variety of places for them to seek care: a clinician’s office, a pharmacy, an urgent care clinic, a school health clinic, an...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 14, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By ARPAN WAGHRAY, MD and BENJAMIN F. MILLER, PsyD Benjamin F. Miller Arpan Waghray If someone we love has a physical ailment, we can list a variety of places for them to seek care: a clinician’s office, a pharmacy, an urgent care clinic, a school health clinic, an...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I power through a whopping six questions. In this episode, Jess asks me about the merger between Cambia Health Solutions and Blue Cross NC, Alex Azar getting grilled by Rep. Joe Kennedy on Medicaid work requirements, Omada...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I power through a whopping six questions. In this episode, Jess asks me about the merger between Cambia Health Solutions and Blue Cross NC, Alex Azar getting grilled by Rep. Joe Kennedy on Medicaid work requirements, Omada...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH At HIMSS19, the year-old ‘Digital Health Collaborative’ announced its relaunch as ‘Together.Health.’ More than just a feel-good name, the new moniker is indicative of how the organization is literally trying to help the health innovation...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH At HIMSS19, the year-old ‘Digital Health Collaborative’ announced its relaunch as ‘Together.Health.’ More than just a feel-good name, the new moniker is indicative of how the organization is literally trying to help the health innovation...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 12, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON Say you want to know which baseball players provide the most value for the big dollars they’re being paid. A Google search quickly yields analytics. But suppose your primary care physician just diagnosed you with cancer. What will a search for...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 12, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON Say you want to know which baseball players provide the most value for the big dollars they’re being paid. A Google search quickly yields analytics. But suppose your primary care physician just diagnosed you with cancer. What will a search for...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 11, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By PETER YELLOWLEES MD Telepsychiatry is now an established form of mental health care. Many studies demonstrate that it meets all appropriate standards of psychiatric care and may be better than in-person consultations for certain groups of patients,...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 11, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By PETER YELLOWLEES MD Telepsychiatry is now an established form of mental health care. Many studies demonstrate that it meets all appropriate standards of psychiatric care and may be better than in-person consultations for certain groups of patients,...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 8, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA MD What motivates the radiologist entrepreneur? In this episode of Radiology Firing Line Podcast, we talk to Kathryn Pearson Peyton MD, chief medical officer of Mammosphere. Listen to our conversation here. Saurabh Jha is a contributing editor to THCB...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 7, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By PHUOC LE MD A close look at disease and suffering would lead most of us to the same conclusion: our natural environment is inextricably linked to our health. When the Army Corps of Engineers approved the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in July...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 7, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
On Episode 72 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I give you a run down of the latest in health tech. At long last, the joint health care venture between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan has a name: Haven. In other news, Scott Gottlieb has decided to leave the...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 6, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By ROBERT PRETZLAFF MD, MBA Those that advocate for change in healthcare most often make their case based on the unsustainable cost or poor quality care that is sadly the norm. A 2018 article in Bloomberg highlights this fact by reporting on global healthcare...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 5, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By REBECCA FOGG The Theory of Disruptive Innovation, defined by Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Clayton Christensen in 1997, explains the process by which simple, convenient and affordable solutions become the norm in industries historically characterized by...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 4, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By SOMALARAM VENKATESH MD With a stated intent of bringing social justice and financial relief to hundreds of thousands of patients undergoing coronary angioplasty in the country every year, the Government of India capped the sale price of coronary stents in Feb 2017....
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 2, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are at Livongo’s SIGNUM 2019 conference in San Francisco—in bobblehead form. In this episode, Jess asks me about my key takeaways from the conference, which focused on chronic condition solutions. It was really exciting to...
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