by The Health Care Blog | Oct 19, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT This is a fun conversation with Jon Bloom, the CEO of Podimetrics. It’s one of a number of competitors trying to help prevent foot ulcers among people with diabetes. Some use socks, others use insoles, but Podimetrics’ approach is to use a pad which...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 16, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By BRIAN KLEPPER and JEFFREY HOGAN GoodRx’s planned initial public offering recently made the news, notable because the company, launched in 2011, has been profitable since 2016. Evidently, it’s become unfashionable for investors to demand proof of performance, so...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 15, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By MICHAEL MILLENSON When powerful politicians confront a life-threatening diagnosis, it can change policy priorities. In addition to President Trump and a slew of top aides, five U.S. senators and 15 members of the House of Representatives have now tested positive...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 15, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Episode 28 of “The THCB Gang” was live-streamed on Thursday, October 15th! Watch it below! Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) was joined by some of our regulars: communications leader Jennifer Benz (@jenbenz), data privacy expert Deven McGraw (@healthprivacy), CEO of addiction...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 14, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD We’re in the midst of a major U.S. election, as well as hearings on a Supreme Court vacancy, so people are thinking about litmus tests and single issue voters – the most typical of which is whether someone is “pro-life” or “pro-choice.” Well, I’m a...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 14, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we might be seeing a quiet period in health tech investing with the election coming up. On Episode 159, Jess and I talk about TigerConnect raising $45 million in a Series D, offering a HIPAA-compliant texting service for doctors;...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 13, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
On Episode 158 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I talk about Datavant raising $40 million in a Series B for their open health data exchange platform, Mira raising $2.7 million for it’s Costco-esque health insurance alternative, Avail raising $100 million providing...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 13, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By MIKE MAGEE The patient/health-professional relationship is fundamentally grounded in science and trust, and involves the exchange of compassion, understanding and partnership. The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged this relationship by acutely increasing the nation’s...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 12, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT Humana is out with a report saying that its Medicare Advantage members who are covered by value-based care (VBC) arrangements do better and cost less than either their Medicare Advantage members who aren’t or people in regular Medicare FFS. To us wonks...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 9, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I gossip about the wild rumor that UnitedHealthcare is acquiring Amwell. On Episode 157, we discuss Lark raising $55 million in a Series C along with a deal with Anthem to be their preferred DPP provider, Medicare Advantage plan...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 8, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By GRACE CORDOVANO, DEVEN McGRAW, and AARON MIRI The HIPAA Privacy Rule gives patients the right to copies of their medical records, with rare exceptions. When patients need a copy of their medical records, most start the process by calling their doctor’s office and...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 8, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Episode 27 of “The THCB Gang” was live-streamed on Thursday, October 8th! Watch it below! Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) was joined by some of our regulars: health futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve), WTF Health Host Jessica DaMassa (@jessdamassa), writer Kim Bellard...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 7, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KEN TERRY In a recent podcast about the future of telehealth, Lyle Berkowitz, MD, a technology consultant, entrepreneur, and professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, confidently predicted that, because of telehealth and clinical...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 6, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD When Walmart announced earlier this summer that it was opening an insurance agency to sell Medicare-related products and services plans, I thought, “that’s it?” When Walmart announced later in the summer that it was partnering (first with Microsoft,...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 6, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess can’t figure out what’s going on with health tech investors. Episode 156 feels like rummaging through a garage sale… First up is mirrors, mirrors, mirrors, with a total of $225 million invested: Tonal gets $110 million, Tempo gets...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 5, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KEN TERRY (This is the eighth and final installment in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician Leadership.) Medical technologies include...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 2, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT Interviewing celebrities can make you a celebrity yourself, and it can make you very rich. So there’s got to be something to it or it would be a commodity. The world of media certainly recognizes the special skill it takes to get people to reveal...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 1, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Even though kids make up 20% of the total national patient population, investments in startups that use tech to improve their care is, at best, a dismal 1% of the total investments made in digital health and health tech each year. Why is...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 1, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I discuss UnitedHealth Group acquiring DivvyDose for $300 million, which is a knock off of PillPack. Is there anything left for them to buy? We cover many more deals in Episode 155—Noyo raises $12 million in a series A, helping...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 30, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It’s the telehealth market reality check you’ve been waiting for! “Rogue” digital health consultant Dr. Lyle Berkowitz unpacks the numbers and the market potential for virtual care from the unique vantage point of a...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 30, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KEN TERRY (This is the seventh in a series of excerpts from Terry’s new book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: a New Approach to Medicare for All, published by the American Association for Physician Leadership.) Even in a healthcare system dedicated to value-based...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 29, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
On Episode 154 of Health in 2 Point 00, follow @barkyboy (a dog wearing a Health in 2 Point 00 shirt!) on Twitter! Jess also asks me about Papa getting $18M in a Series B for their matching platform for college students, Optimize.health raising $15.6M in a Series A...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 29, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD You may have missed it, but the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) just announced its first annual Squirrel AI award winner: Regina Barzilay, a professor at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 28, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By HAYWARD ZWERLING I walked into my exam room to see a patient I first met two decades ago. On presentation, his co-morbidities included poorly controlled DM-1, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and a substance abuse disorder. Over the years our healthcare system has...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 27, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT The new Supreme Court, in all likelihood including just nominated Justice Amy Coney Barrett, will be hearing the California v Texas suit against the ACA on November 10th, seven days after the election. The lower courts have already ruled the ACA...
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