by The Health Care Blog | Oct 16, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD We knew that the most powerful way to provide substance abuse treatment is in a group setting. Group members can offer support to each other and call out each other’s self deceptions and public excuses, oftentimes more effectively than the...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 15, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD I recently saw a patient who received a bill for an outpatient procedure for $333. The Medicare allowable reimbursement for the procedure was $180. I have seen other medical bills where the healthcare provider was charging patients more than 10...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 15, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH A few weeks ago, WTF Health took the show on the road to Australia’s digital health conference, HIC 2019. We captured more than 30 interviews (!) from the conference, which is run by the Health Informatics Society of Australia (hence the...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 14, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and other proponents of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) justified their support for the HRRP with the claim that research had already demonstrated how hospitals could reduce...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 11, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By DEBORAH A. COHEN Physical inactivity is a mounting challenge for America. In reviewing the 2013-2015 American time use survey, we found that most Americans report spending their daily leisure time watching screens, and devote only a small fraction of leisure...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 10, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH A few weeks ago, WTF Health took the show on the road to Australia’s digital health conference, HIC 2019. We captured more than 30 interviews (!) from the conference, which is run by the Health Informatics Society of Australia (hence the...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 10, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By SAI BALA, JD The United States medical education system is heralded as one among the top in the world for medical training. Given the strict standards of education, multiple licensing boards, and continuous oversight by governing bodies, getting a placement to...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 9, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By CLAUDIA WILLIAMS Robust exchange of health information is absolutely critical to improving health care quality and lowering costs. In the last few months, government leaders at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have advanced ambitious policies to...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 8, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is in Berlin for the Bayer G4A Signing Day where they’re announcing which startups are going to get deals and Glen Tullman is doing a fireside chat with Eugene Borukhovich. In Episode 97, Jess and I talk about Walmart and fertility....
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 8, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JOE FLOWER The system is unstable. We are already seeing the precursor waves of massive and multiple disturbances to come. Disruption at key leverage points, new entrants, shifting public awareness and serious political competition cast omens and signs of a highly...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 7, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA, MD Despite an area under the ROC curve of 1, Cassandra’s prophesies were never believed. She neither hedged nor relied on retrospective data – her predictions, such as the Trojan war, were prospectively validated. In medicine, a new type of Cassandra...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 4, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By BEN WHITE, MD Over four years of medical school, a one-year internship, a four-year radiology residency, a one-year neuroradiology fellowship, and now some time as an attending, one of my consistent takeaways has been how well (and thus how badly) the traditional...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 3, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
“all your stuff works together” Really! By MATTHEW HOLT Those of you who remember my BestBuy washer & dryer installation saga from a couple of weeks back may want to gird your loins. Because the saga continues. And it has even more relevance for consumerism in...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 2, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By KEVIN WANG, MD If our urgent-care-as-healthcare culture isn’t killing us, it’s certainly wasting our time and resources. Consider these facts highlighted by Advanced Medical Reviews, based on various studies: U.S. physicians report that more than 20 percent of...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 1, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD The notion that hospitals can reduce readmissions, and that punishing them for “excess” readmissions will get them to do that, became conventional wisdom during the 2000s on the basis of very little evidence. The Medicare Payment Advisory...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 1, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0 According to the California Health Care Foundation, from 2012-2014, nearly 20% of Californian adults who sought mental health treatment did not receive it. It is believed that these figures may even be understated, as The...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 30, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I catch up on loads of news in health tech. In this episode, Jess asks me about Amazon Care, doing telehealth, house calls, urgent care, drug delivery for their employees—could it change health delivery? Also, Eko raises $20...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 30, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JOE FLOWER The system is unstable. We are already seeing the precursor waves of massive and multiple disturbances to come. Disruption at key leverage points, new entrants, shifting public awareness and serious political competition cast omens and signs of a highly...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 27, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By LUKE OAKDEN-RAYNER A huge new CT brain dataset was released the other day, with the goal of training models to detect intracranial haemorrhage. So far, it looks pretty good, although I haven’t dug into it in detail yet (and the devil is often in the detail)....
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 26, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD The chest CT report was a bit worrisome. Henry had “pleural based masses” that had grown since his previous scan, which had been ordered by another doctor for unrelated reasons. But as Henry’s PCP, it had become my job to follow up on an emergency...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 26, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH When you ask the ‘big data guy’ at a massive health system what’s wrong with EMRs, it’s surprising to hear that his problem is NOT with the EMRs themselves but with the fact that health systems are just not using the data they’re...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 25, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Brooke Warren Phuoc Le By PHUOC LE, MD and BROOKE WARREN In the 2020 Summer Olympics, we will undoubtedly see large, red circles down the arms and backs of many Olympians. These spots are a side-effect of cupping, a treatment originating from traditional Chinese...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 25, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0 Three finalists for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Home and Community Based Care and Social Determinants of Health Innovation Challenges competed live at the Health 2.0 Conference on Monday, September 16th! They demoed their...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 24, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JOE FLOWER Picture, if you will, a healthcare sector that costs less, whose share of the national economy is more like it is in other advanced economies—let’s imagine 9% or 10% rather than 18% or 19%. A big part of this drop is a vast reduction in overtreatment...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 24, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital therapeutics has exploded as the new hot buzzword in digital health. But how are digital therapeutics different from digital health applications, applied health signals, or m-health technologies? The Digital Therapeutics Alliance...
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