by The Health Care Blog | Sep 14, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By DAVID C. NORRIS, MD David Norris, MD I want to tell you about the most exciting discovery I’ve made in 2+ years of research on dose individualization methods for phase 1 cancer trials. This discovery has nothing to do with any of the technical problems I’ve...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 13, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DA MASSA, WTF Health The phrase ‘consumer health’ doesn’t mean what it used to. And, when you really think about it, neither does the word ‘consumer.’ We’ve changed. Wielding the power of our smart phones, wearable devices, and proximity to CVS Minute...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me about what I saw at Techcrunch Distrupt, Clarify Health Solutions’s $57m round, what Wellth will do with its $5m & a whole lot about next weeks Health 2.0 Conference–Matthew Holt View Entire Article on...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 10, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DA MASSA, WTF Health If you’re a health tech startup, should you be building for your exit? Does that really lead to the greatest possible success for your business…if you know how to get out? Here’s some advice from someone who should know. Glen Tullman is...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 9, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
BY ANISH KOKA, MD The hottest medical school in the country right now is the New York University School of Medicine thanks to the gift of a generous benefactor that promises to make medical school free for all current and future medical students. The news was met...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 8, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By, SAURABH JHA I have a wide ranging conversation with Dr. Nicole Saphier for JACR’s Firing Line Podcast. Dr. Saphier is a radiologist specializing in women’s imaging. We discuss screening mammograms and the breast density law. Dr. Saphier, a frequent contributor to...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 7, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SANJ KATYAL The absence of burnout does not equal wellness. While the focus on physician burnout as an epidemic is finally gaining more attention, we may be missing a larger issue. Most physicians are not burned out. We are able to function. We get through our...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 6, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DA MASSA, WTF Health Today’s cholesterol test is about to be disrupted. Nightingale Health, a five-year-old startup based out of Finland, has built a better blood test that – among other things – is about to disrupt the cholesterol test of today. Their...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 6, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me about Cricket Health’s $24m raise for kidney disease services, Rx.Health from Mount Sinai and a whole bunch of big money in little China. All in 2 minutes–Matthew Holt View Entire Article on...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ETIENNE DEFFARGES The November midterms elections are approaching, and one of the major topics is health care. Democrats are campaigning on retaining Obamacare, in many cases advocating that we move towards universal health care. That would be pure socialism,...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me about Patrick Soon-Shiong and his Verity hospital chain going bankrupt, whether Peerfit can justify its $8m raise, and who I’m going to see at TechCrunch Disrupt this week–Matthew Holt View Entire Article on...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 4, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By REBECCA FOGG Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma proposed bold changes to Medicare’s Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), with the goal of accelerating America’s progress toward a value-based healthcare...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 29, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SWAPNIL HIREMATH, MD Archie Cochrane and the Cochrane Collaboration Archie Cochrane was born in Scotland, educated in London (King’s College, University College and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and worked in Cardiff, Wales. His work as a doctor...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 29, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me about single payer polling high, big VC for women’s pelvic floor digital therapeutic Renovia, 23andme cutting off API access to its data, plus guest mentions for Shafi Ahmed and Glen Tullman. All in 2 minutes (more or less!)–Matthew Holt View...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 28, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By NIRAN AL-AGBA Niran Al-Agba, MD, FAAP In July 2009, the family of Massachusetts teenager Yarushka Rivera went to their local Walgreens to pick up Topomax, an anti-seizure drug that had been keeping her epilepsy in check for years. Rivera had insurance coverage...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 24, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD Dr. Hans Duvefelt In most other human activities there are two speeds, fast and slow. Usually, one dominates. Think firefighting versus bridge design. Healthcare spans from one extreme to the other. Think Code Blue versus diabetes care. Primary...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 23, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By LYGEIA RICCIARDI Lygeia Ricciardi These days Americans are more politically divided than ever, disagreeing vehemently about everything from guns to the role of the press. Despite the distrust and inflammatory rhetoric, there are examples of cross-party,...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 22, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By DAVID INTROCASO, Ph.D. Skid Row in Los Angeles In May Philip Alston, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, and John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University Law School released his, “Report of the Special Rapporteur On Extreme...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD Kip Sullivan, JD There is no meaningful difference between the performance of Medicare ACOs that accept only upside risk (the chance to make money) and ACOs that accept both up- and downside risk (the risk of losing money). But CMS’s administrator,...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
In this episode a not-too-happy Jessica DaMassa asks me about who’s on the Inc5000 list (Modernizing Medicine, Health Recovery Solutions, Definitive Healthcare, EngagedIN & uBiome), about Klara’s $11m round, and what I’ll be doing in NYC at the DHMP Matchmaking...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JOSHUA C. RUBIN JD, MBA, MPH, MPP Joshua C. Rubin Last week, Facebook’s unprecedented stock price collapse triggered by concerns over personal data privacy, as well as same-day commentary regarding GlaxoSmithKline’s investment in 23andMe to gain access to its...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA Public reporting of doctors is fiercely controversial. I’m vehemently opposed to it. So I decided to find out why its proponents favor it. I discuss public reporting with Ben Harder, Chief of Health Analysis at U.S. News and World Report, for JACR...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Lotta $$ flowing around health tech services this week. Jessica DaMassa asks me about Alphabet/Google putting $375m into Oscar, Best Buy $800m for GreatCall, no money for med school at NYU & pain for patients in a Netflix movie. All in Health in 2 point 00...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT Another one of my favorites, although this one is much more recent than those published so far–dating back to only March 2015. It was the written version of a talk I gave in September 2014 following the birth of my son Aero on August 26, 2014. So if we...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
THCB isn’t a traditional newspaper or a traditional press outlet. But we do report on news and policy and we do host opinions from across the political and policy spectrum. Trump’s attacks on the press as “enemies of the people” and purveyors of “fake news” are the...
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