by The Health Care Blog | Aug 21, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Softbank Vision Fund is a $100 billion technology-focused fund with an eagle eye on the tech that is poised to disrupt large markets, including healthcare. From hyperscaling to detailed advice on pitching, VP Sakshi Chhabra Mittal goes deep on what they’re looking for...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 20, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By ASEEM R. SHUKLA, MD The impending closure of Hahnemann University Hospital is a local tragedy. Eliminating a 170-year old institution is certain to exaggerate the daily travails of the economically disadvantaged inner-city population that Hahnemann serves as a...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 20, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on THCB Spotlights, Matthew talks to Jacob Reider. Jacob is the CEO of Alliance for Better Health, one of New York State’s 25 Performing Provider Systems which work to reduce unnecessary or preventable acute care utilization for Medicaid members by improving the...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 19, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Vince Kuraitis Deven McGraw By DEVEN McGRAW and VINCE KURAITIS This post is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?” Introduction In our previous post, we described the “Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.” Will the cavalry...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 16, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By STEVEN MERAHN, MD In 1807, in an effort to spite the British and French for shipping interference (and forced recruitment of American citizens into military service), the United States Congress passed an Embargo Act, effectively shutting down trade with these two...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 15, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we have another takeover edition! On Episode 92, Jess talks to Louise Schaper, CEO of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) at HIC 2019. Louise’s key takeaway from the conference is that health tech in Australia is focused...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 15, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JOE FLOWER Did you catch that headline a few weeks back? An official of a health system in North Carolina sent an email to the entire board of the North Carolina State Health Plan calling them a bunch of “sorry SOBs” who would “burn in hell” after they “bankrupt...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 14, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By BRIAN KLEPPER, PhD How will the drive to health care value affect health care’s structure? We tend to assume that the health care structure we’re become accustomed to is the one we’ll always have, but that’s probably far from the truth. If we pull levers that...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 14, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Anil Sethi had the health tech exit every startup dreams about: a buyout by Apple. Not content to ride that unicorn into the sunset, Anil’s back at it with his new startup Ciitizen, which is another take on better a patient health...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By HILARY HATCH, PhD The growing movement to include the patient voice in medicine through Motivational Interviewing, patient-reported outcomes, social determinants of health and shared decision-making One day in 2011, as a part of my research on ways to improve...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 12, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Deven McGraw Vince Kuraitis By VINCE KURAITIS and DEVEN McGRAW This post is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?” “…the average patient will, in his or her lifetime, generate about 2,750 times more data related to social and...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 12, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Kurbo just became a wholly owned subsidiary of WW (aka WeightWatchers) with its app that helps kids lose weight. Co-founder Thea Runyan explains how the digital health solution is changing unhealthy lifestyles for teens and kids...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 9, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
On Episode 3 of HardCore Health, Jess & I start off by discussing all of the health tech companies IPOing (Livongo, Phreesia, Health Catalyst) and talk about what that means for the industry as a whole. Zoya Khan discusses the newest series on THCB called, “The...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 9, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By ALEX LOGSDON, MD Leave your bias aside and take a look into the healthcare future with me. No, artificial intelligence, augmented intelligence and machine learning will not replace the radiologist. It will allow clinicians to. The year is 2035 (plus or minus 5...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 8, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Barcelona has emerged a global hot-spot when it comes to healthcare innovation and health tech startups. And now, finally, Spanish startups with digital health apps, digital therapeutics, novel med devices, and other tech-enabled...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 8, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Sam Aptekar Phuoc Le By PHUOC LE, MD and SAM APTEKAR “Kijan ou ye? How are you?” I asked my patient, a fifty-five year-old Haitian-American woman living in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It was 2008. I had been her primary care doctor for two years and was working with...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 7, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is reporting back to us from the future… On Episode 91, Jess asks Matthew about Babylon and MetaMe’s recent raises and CVS rolling out their new CarePass service. It’s been weeks and we haven’t had any more IPO’s, but Babylon’s $550...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 6, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By STEVE ZECOLA Americans spend about $3 trillion per year on healthcare, or about $10,000 per person per year. Despite these expenditures, Americans are worse off than their international counterparts with respect to infant mortality, life expectancy and the...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 5, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
DETROIT, MICHIGAN – JULY 31: Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden (C) speaks while Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) (R) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) listen during the Democratic Presidential Debate at the Fox Theatre July 31,GETTY IMAGES By...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 2, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Think fax machines are the only out-dated tech in healthcare? Sandeep Bansal, CEO of Medic Bleep makes the case that outdated internal phone-based paging systems used by hospitals need to go too. According to Sandeep, the UK’s NHS clocks...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 2, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD In business literature I have seen the phrase “getting paid for who you are instead of what you do”. This implies that some people bring value because of the depth of their knowledge and their appreciation of all the nuances in their field, the...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 1, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we’re wishing Matthew a happy birthday! On Episode 90, Jess and I talk about the drama around Amazon PillPack and Surescripts, HelloHeart’s $12 million raise, and Cerner selling its health data. In the end, the data is going to have to...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 1, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By GUS MALEZIS It’s no secret that healthcare providers are among the hardest working of all professionals – their skill and intelligence are matched only by their creativity and commitment to their patients. But the healthcare IT sector, while it has made an effort...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 31, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH One of Europe’s top health tech startups, Infermedica out of Poland just closed a $3.65M funding round for its suite of tools that help patients figure out the best place to go to get care. It’s a patient-routing / symptom-checker with...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 30, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By MIKE MAGEE, MD As Robert Muller’s testimony before Congress made clear, we owe President Trump a debt of gratitude on two counts. First, his unlawful and predatory actions have clearly exposed the fault lines in our still young Democracy. As the Founders well...
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