by The Health Care Blog | Nov 14, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Episode 58 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I have more to share from Exponential Medicine, but this time we’re at the Health Innovation Lab checking out all of the startups. In this episode, Jess and I talk to Meghan Conroy from CaptureProof about...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 14, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health “I don’t know that what they’re doing is going to be as transformative as maybe the potential of it is – and it’s going to take time. I don’t know that they’re going to ‘all-of-a-sudden’ leap frog over all the things that health plans...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 13, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA MD Professor Timothy Noakes, a South African exercise scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town who has run over 70 ultramarathons, speaks to me about the dangers of overhydration in endurance sports. Listen to our conversation at...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 12, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MICHAEL MILLENSON The most intriguing aspect of the recent Connected Health Conference was the eclectic mix of corporations claiming cutting-edge expertise in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). HP, a legend in computer hardware, was touting a service that...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 9, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By JOHN EL-MARAGHY Catalyst @ Health 2.0 is proud to have worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to address issues in substance misuse and artificial intelligence through two exciting innovation challenges. Following the finalists’ live pitches...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 8, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By BISHAL GYAWALI MD Me-too deja vu I read the report of a phase 3 RCT of a “new” breast cancer drug but I had the feeling that I had already read this before. Later I realized that this was indeed a new trial of a new drug, but that I had read a very similar...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 7, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
On Episode 57 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I report from Exponential Medicine. In this episode, Jess and I talk about digital surgery and how Shafi Ahmed and Stefano Bini are transforming surgical training. She also asks me about my favorite session, one by Anita...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 6, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By DAVID INTROCASO PhD THCB readers may recall last year in early June when the Trump administration announced it would withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate accord and earlier this January when the World Economic Forum met to discuss its global risk report that...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By NIRAN AL-AGBA MD While women make up more than half of the U.S. population, an imbalance remains between who we are as a nation and who represents us in Congress. The gender disparity is no different for physicians: more than one third of doctors in the U.S. are...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health “Most large healthcare companies will have numerous teams – innovation teams, maybe a venture fund, business units – all doing different things,” says Sara Holoubek, CEO of Luminary Labs, a consultancy known in healthcare for its...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 4, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT After only maybe 5 years when I’ve been away running a conflicting conference in some other part of the world I finally get to go to Exponential Medicine the next 4 days. I met Daniel Kraft way back before he was famous, and his conference grew from...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 2, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
On Episode 56 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I report from Livongo’s new office in San Francisco. In this episode, Jess asks me about Carrot Health’s $25 million raise for their digital smoking cessation program and 98point6’s $50 million raise for their on-demand...
by The Health Care Blog | Nov 1, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By REBECCA FOGG In the run-up up to this month’s mid-term elections, health care appears to be just one of many burning political issues that will be influencing Americans’ votes. But delve into nearly any issue—the economy, the environment, immigration, civil rights,...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 31, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By DANI BRADLEY MS, MPH The United States is the only developed nation in the world with a steadily increasing maternal mortality rate — and C-sections are to blame. Nearly 32% of babies are born via C-section in the United States, a rate of double or almost triple...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 30, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SCOTT COOK PhD We tested whether new payment mechanisms could be harnessed in health care delivery reform to reduce health and health care disparities. Here’s what we found. First, there were facts that couldn’t be ignored: #1: Children in rural Oregon on Medicaid...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 30, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT As you’ve probably heard (enough!) from me and Indu Subaiya over recent months on video, at Health 2.0 or here on THCB, we are finally arriving at the point where health care tech is “flipping the stack” — where we realize that we can’t practice the...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 29, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By CHRISTINE EIBNER, SARAH NOWAK, PREETHI RAO Sarah Nowak Preethi Rao Christine Eibner Although signed into law in 2010, the Affordable Care Act has been in constant flux, with key aspects changing due to time-dependent provisions, Supreme Court decisions and shifts...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 26, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By PATRICK HORINE Every October we recognize Domestic Violence Awareness Month, an important opportunity to discuss this widespread social and public health problem and to take stock of what we can do better to protect victims of domestic abuse. Unfortunately, the...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 25, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD The original sin of health records interoperability was the loss of consent in HIPAA. In 2000, when HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) first became law, the Internet was hardly a thing in healthcare. The Nationwide Health...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 24, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ETIENNE DEFFARGES 1) What is the likelihood the ACA will be repealed? This straightforward question has a very simple answer: It depends on the results of the upcoming November 6 U.S. congressional elections. If the Republicans retain control of both the House and...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 23, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
We missed our chance to do a Happy Hour Health in 2 Point 00 at Connected Health in Boston (but let’s be honest, those are usually not the most cogent pieces of information in health and technology). Join Jessica DaMassa as she gets my take on the conference starting...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 22, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA, MD The acclaimed author of “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back” physician, and now Editor-in-Chief of Kaiser Health News, Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal speaks to me about health policy and how it has changed...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today we are featuring another #TechCrunchDisrupt2018 THCB Spotlight. Matthew Holt interviews LivioAI, which is an AI hearing aid created by Starkey Technologies. Worldwide, there are 700 Million people with hearing loss but only 10% wear a device to help them. That...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Anyone who’s read this blog and/or seen my shares in social media channels know that social determinants of health and Medicare are two topics near and dear to me. I’ve spent a lot of my time and effort over the last 4-5 years researching, creating, curating and...
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By VINCE KURAITIS & LESLIE KELLY HALL Vince Kuraitis Leslie Kelly Hall Among many healthcare providers, it’s been long-standing conventional wisdom (CW) that hoarding patient data is an effective business strategy to lock-in patients — “He who holds the data,...
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