by The Health Care Blog | Dec 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By LAWRENCE LEISURE When it comes to health care prices, the burden piled on payers can seem almost cartoonishly heavy. News stories on the state of the industry read as though some satirist decided to exaggerate real systemic flaws into cost-prohibitive fiction. A...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today, we are featuring Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld from the American Medical Association (AMA) on THCB Spotlight. Matthew Holt interviews Dr. Ehrenfeld, Chair-elect of the AMA Board of Trustees and an anesthesiologist with the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 10, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT MD I have seen the light. I now, finally, see a clear role for artificial intelligence in health care. And, no, I don’t want it to replace me. I want it to complement me. I want AI to take over the mandated, mundane tasks of what I call Metamedicine,...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 9, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
It’s prediction season and all of the experts, thought leaders, consultants and others operating in and around the edges of the healthcare industry are sharing their lists of predictions and trends expected to take place in 2019 and beyond.For the fourth year in a row...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 7, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By KIP SULLIVAN JD The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), one of numerous pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes authorized by the Affordable Care Act, was sprung on the Medicare fee-for-service population on October 1, 2012 without being pre-tested and with...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 7, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
On Episode 61 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are still in Tokyo—but this time we’re reporting from a famous whiskey bar. In this episode, Jess asks me about the most important takeaways from Health 2.0 Asia-Japan and the growing health tech market there. We also...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 6, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By KIP SULLIVAN JD Egged on by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Congress has imposed multiple pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes on the fee-for-service Medicare program. MedPAC recommended most of these schemes between 2003 and 2008, and Congress...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By AMY LONG and JOE MOLLOY According to the Democrats, their success across the country in the midterm elections has largely been due to the party running on healthcare. Indeed, surveys such as the one conducted by Health Research Incorporated indicated that health...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 4, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By REBECCA FOGG Today’s health care providers face the formidable challenge of delivering better, more affordable and more convenient care in the face of spiraling care costs and an epidemic of chronic disease. But the most innovative among them are making...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 4, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I report from a hedgehog cafe in Tokyo. In this episode, Jess asks me about Bright Health’s $200 million raise and the significance of Amazon’s new EMR product. We also talk about Health 2.0 Asia-Japan, which is happening right...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 3, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON Former President George H.W. Bush may have been every inch the caring individual portrayed in the eulogies of those who knew him, but when it came to health care reform, two words characterized his attitude: Don’t care. However, compared to...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 30, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA MD In this episode of Firing Line, Saurabh Jha (aka @RogueRad), has a conversation with Professor Brian Nosek, a metaresearcher and co-founder of Center for Open Science. They discuss the implications of this study, which showed that there was a range...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 29, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By KARYN MULLINS Consumers aren’t taking their healthcare providers’ words for it anymore. They’re taking charge and leading a digital revolution where individuals have the power to make their own educated decisions about care. According to the Healthcare Consumer...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 28, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT, with OLIVIA DUNN & KIM KRUEGER Today I’m happy to release an update to some unique data about a pressing problem–the ability of small health tech vendors to access data from the major EMR vendors and integrate their applications into those EMRs....
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 27, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By BRIAN KLEPPER In a recent essay, VIVIO Health’s CEO Pramod John guides us through four sensible drug policy changes and supporting rationales that could make drug pricing much fairer. Reading through it, one is struck by the magnitude of the drug manufacturing...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 26, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MARY SCOTT NABERS The United States ranks number one in the world for health care spending as a percentage of GDP. That sounds great… but, for instance, Texas ranks only 11th worldwide when it comes to performance. That’s because of access to care. The country’s...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 23, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MERCEDES CARNETHON PhD This month, we saw historic turnout at the polls for midterm elections with over 114 million ballots cast. One noteworthy observation regarding voter turnout is record rates of participation by younger voters aged between 18 to 29 years...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess interviews me all the way from London. In this episode, she asks me about Google, who hired Geisinger CEO David Feinberg to lead its health care initiatives, Driver, a startup which ran out of money just weeks after their launch,...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health “When doctors today say patients should stay off the Internet, I know they’re wrong.” — ePatient Dave de Bronkart Dave de Bronkart (aka ePatient Dave) credits online communities of other patients – and access to clinical research he...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By CELIA BELT Each year in the United States, half a million Americans will be treated for burns so severe as to require hospitalization. The “survivors”—including more than three hundred children each day and a drastically increasing number of U.S. military members...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
But ACOs could pave the way for more significant cost-cutting based on competition. By KEN TERRY The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), it was revealed recently, achieved a net savings of $314 million in 2017. Although laudable, this victory represents a rounding...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By DAVID SHAYWITZ MD At long last, we seem to be on the threshold of departing the earliest phases of AI, defined by the always tedious “will AI replace doctors/drug developers/occupation X?” discussion, and are poised to enter the more considered conversation of...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ANISH KOKA MD Seema Verma, the Trump appointee who runs Medicare, has had an active week. The problem facing much-beloved Medicare is one that faces every other government-funded healthcare extravaganza: it’s always projected to be running out of money. Medicare...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 14, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Episode 58 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I have more to share from Exponential Medicine, but this time we’re at the Health Innovation Lab checking out all of the startups. In this episode, Jess and I talk to Meghan Conroy from CaptureProof about...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 14, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health “I don’t know that what they’re doing is going to be as transformative as maybe the potential of it is – and it’s going to take time. I don’t know that they’re going to ‘all-of-a-sudden’ leap frog over all the things that health plans...
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