by The Health Care Blog | Jan 15, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT Andreesen Horowitz’s digital heath investor Julie Yoo has been building quite the theory of the present and future of health tech. I am going to try to write up a longer response to her but first, please view her presentation on the New Tech Stack for...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 14, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
Episode 38 of “The THCB Gang” was live-streamed on Thursday, Jan 14. You can see it below! Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) was joined by regulars: medical historian Mike Magee @drmikemagee, policy & tech expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis), Consumer advocate & CTO...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 13, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD Well, you’d have to say that the past week has been interesting. It’s not every week that Joe Biden “officially” won the 2021 election, again, as Congress certified the election results. It’s not every century when the U.S. Capitol is overrun by...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 12, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
We should be celebrating the biggest fundraising year ever for healthcare tech and instead where are we? Not at JP Morgan. Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we chat about the mind-blowingly big numbers for health tech funding this year—Startup Health reported $21.5...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 11, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT Everybody knows how to operate smartphones and understands complex modern phenomena, but many Americans are frighteningly ignorant about basic human nutrition. I am convinced this is the result of a powerful conspiracy, fueled by the (junk) food...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 8, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By JEFF GOLDSMITH As John Glaser argued a recent piece in Harvard Business Review, many health care executives seem have been blinded by the shiny object that is digital health. Forgive us for a powerful feeling of déjà vu. Since the last major digital innovation in...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 7, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By ELIZABETH BROWN On November 19th, six teams competed in two virtual pitch events for the finals of two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Innovation Challenges, one for Emergency Response for the General Public and the other for Emergency Response for the Health Care...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 7, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
Insurgents have stormed the Capitol and we’re still here to talk about health tech deals. On Episode 176, Jess and I discuss Optum acquiring Change Healthcare in a $13.5 billion deal, bringing it back to Jess’s interview with CEO Neil Crescenzo bout what Change...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 7, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
Episode 37 of “The THCB Gang” was live-streamed on Thursday, Jan 7. You can see it below! Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) was joined by regulars: data & privacy expert Deven McGraw, (@Healthprivacy), Patient entrepreneur extraordinaire Robin Farmanfarmaian (@RobinFF3)...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 6, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By ELIZABETH BROWN In mid-June, Catalyst launched the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Emergency Response Innovation Challenges. These Challenges, one for the General Public and one for the Health Care System, asked innovators to develop a health technology tool to...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 6, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I chat about Haven finally closing its doors. On Episode 175, we cover Color raising $167 million growing fast as the major COVID tester in the Bay Area and 23andMe scoring $82.5 million. RapidSOS quietly raised another $51.2...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 6, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By MIKE MAGEE Can you wrestle a collusive, private, profiteering Medical-Industrial Complex to the ground by throwing more private entrepreneurs at it? Apparently not. The very public collapse of Haven – the widely heralded health joint venture of Amazon, Berkshire...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 5, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD Google’s corporate motto – written in its original Code of Conduct — was once “Don’t be evil.” That softened over time; Alphabet changed it to “Do the right thing” in 2015, although Google itself retained the slogan until early 2018. Some Alphabet...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 4, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT I sometimes tell patients “I work for the government”, but sometimes I say the opposite, “I work for you”. Herein lies a dichotomy that is eating away at primary care in this country, like a slow growing cancer. I suspect everybody is aware of it, but...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 31, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD 2020 is almost over; thank goodness. It has been one of the strangest, and longest, years most of us have ever endured. We’ve all probably known someone who contracted COVID-19; many of us have had lost loved ones from it. Most of us have had to make...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 30, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ZEESHAN SYED Tens of millions of Americans rely on consumer experience apps to help them find the best new restaurant or the right hairdresser. But while relying on customer opinion might make sense for figuring out where to get dinner tonight, when it comes to...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 29, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By TAYLOR J. CHRISTENSEN In Part 1 of this series, I reviewed the relevant context of our post-ACA healthcare system to show why President-Elect Joe Biden’s healthcare plan is perfectly reasonable. In this part, I will critically evaluate that plan to show what he got...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 28, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By TAYLOR J. CHRISTENSEN Without the full support of congress behind him, President-Elect Joe Biden will probably not have an opportunity to sign any major system-altering healthcare legislation. But, if Democrats can gain a majority in the senate–either this election...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 24, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT (without JESS DAMASSA!) Due to @jessdamassa being lost in America and my totally crap internet in the Sierras, there is no #HealthIn2Point00 this week. So I’m going to write out a few things we would have said: 1. @OscarHealth raises another $140m and...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 23, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD Feeling good about your holiday spending? You’ve made it through most of this mostly horrible 2020, maybe lost a job or even a loved one, but still probably found a way to buy presents for your loved ones and maybe even to give some money to charity. ...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 22, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Arguably 2020’s hottest health tech startup, Olive (olive.ai) closed THREE funding rounds this year, totaling $450M and valuing the company at $1.5B. Backed by a “who’s who” of technology, healthcare, and health tech venture capital,...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 22, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By YASMIN ASVAT An estimated 1.8 million people in this country may face a cancer diagnosis this year, in what has already been a bleak year of isolation and loss. While news of the COVID-19 vaccine rolling out across the U.S. offers hope in a year...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 21, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD Growing up in Sweden without a Thanksgiving holiday, Christmas has been a time for me to reflect on where I am and where I have been and New Year’s is when I look forward. I have written different kinds of Christmas reflections before: sometimes...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 18, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By MICHAEL E. LIPKIN and RUSSELL S. TERRY, JR. Burnout has always been a concern in medicine, and that concern has been amplified by the added stress of COVID-19. Many months into an unpredictable and distressing situation, we have both hung on to our mental health...
by The Health Care Blog | Dec 17, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today’s #THCBGang was an End of Year special. It’ll was a full “Hollywood Squares/Brady Bunch” with nine of us. Michael Millenson @MLMillenson, Deven McGraw @HealthPrivacy, Jessica DaMassa @jessdamassa, Maggi Cary @margaretcaryMD, Robin Farmanfarmaian @Robinff3, Mike...
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