by The Health Care Blog | Jun 4, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By RAGHAV GUPTA, MD “In seeking absolute truth, we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.” William Osler A colleague shared an experience with me about testing one of his patients for the novel coronavirus and it left me a bit puzzled. An...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 3, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By BAYER G4A Digital health is changing the world From chronic disease management to prevention, G4A’s goal is to empower people with the tools and access they need to take control of their health. G4A does this through fostering a diverse and vibrant...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 3, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD I was wondering what might crowd COVID-19 off the news. The historic economic devastation caused by it has been subsumed into it, just another casualty of the pandemic. In better times, perhaps SpaceX’s efforts would inspire us. But, no, it took the...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 2, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By RAFAEL FONSECA, MD Reopening safely out of the current pandemic ought to be done via persuasion, not coercion. It has been more than five months since the world first learned about COVID-19. Models predicted a sharp increase in the number of cases, and a seemingly...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 1, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0 Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are seeking digital solutions that can support the needs of individuals affected by a large scale health crisis. As the current COVID-19 pandemic illustrates,...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 1, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By MICHAEL MILLENSON If you think the grim coronavirus death toll is causing health care workers everywhere to always wash their hands, think again. A recent research letter published in The Journal of Hospital Infection examined whether it’s “possible to achieve 100...
by The Health Care Blog | May 29, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Ken Terry Paul Grundy By PAUL GRUNDY, MD and KEN TERRY Date: June 20, 2022. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has reported its biggest number of visitors in more than 2 ½ years. There’s a string of new Broadway musicals that are well-attended every...
by The Health Care Blog | May 28, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
In-person healthcare conferences ceased to exist about two months ago.And “virtual conferences” – often just glorified webinars – have largely taken their place. And many ‘attractive locations’ around the United States are still under ‘stay-at-home...
by The Health Care Blog | May 28, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By MICHEL ACCAD Last month marked the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Graunt, commonly regarded as the father of epidemiology. His major published work, Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality, called attention to the death...
by The Health Care Blog | May 28, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Episode 11 of “The THCB Gang” was live-streamed on Thursday, May 27th and you can see it again below Joining me were three regulars, patient safety expert Michael Millenson (MLMillenson), writer Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard), health futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve), and...
by The Health Care Blog | May 28, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we have more than $300 million in deals to cover! On Episode 125, Jess asks me about Amwell raising $194 million although they haven’t gone public (yet), Mindstrong getting $100 million and a new CEO from Uber in another big raise for...
by The Health Care Blog | May 27, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD Many believe that the 2020 Presidential election will be a referendum on how President Trump has handled the coronavirus pandemic. Some believe that is why the President is pushing so hard to reopen the economy, so that he can reclaim it as the focal...
by The Health Care Blog | May 27, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0 In collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Catalyst @ Health 2.0 is proud to announce funding for health care providers with limited resources and urgent needs to identify and source digital health innovation...
by The Health Care Blog | May 26, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ANISH MEHTA, MD My practice received its first question about coronavirus from a patient on January 28, 2020. Though there were over 200 deaths reported in China by that time, no one could have imagined how drastically this would come to disrupt our lives at home....
by The Health Care Blog | May 25, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ANISH KOKA, MD Something didn’t seem right to epidemiologist Eric Weinhandl when he glanced at an article published in the venerated Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on a crisp fall evening in Minnesota. Eric is a smart guy – a native Minnesotan...
by The Health Care Blog | May 22, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD From the vantage point of our self-quarantined shrunken universes, we cannot see even the immediate future, let alone what our personal and professional lives will look like some years from now. Factories are closed, luxury department stores are...
by The Health Care Blog | May 21, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ROSEMARIE DAY As the coronavirus pandemic overtook the tail end of the Democratic primary season, attention rapidly shifted from examining the nuances of the differences between the candidates’ healthcare platforms to simply demanding a response to the pandemic....
by The Health Care Blog | May 20, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Episode 10 of “The THCB Gang” was live-streamed on Thursday, May 21th Joining me were regulars: writer Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard), policy expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis), patient advocate Grace Cordovano (@GraceCordovano), radiologist Saurabh Jha (@RogueRad),...
by The Health Care Blog | May 20, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess asks me about Omada Health raising $57 million and then spending $30 million acquiring Physera, Holmusk raising $21.5 million, digital mental health company Meru raising $8.1 million, Noom partnering with LifeScan for digital...
by The Health Care Blog | May 20, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD If you’re lucky, you’ve been working from home these past couple months. That is, you’re lucky you’re not one of the 30+ million people who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic. That is, you’re lucky you’re not an essential worker whose job has...
by The Health Care Blog | May 19, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By IAN MORRISON Back in the early 2000s I was on the board of the California Health Care Foundation and one day the German Minister of Health paid CHCF a visit as part of a learning tour of American healthcare. Mark Smith MD CHCF’s CEO invited me to join the meeting...
by The Health Care Blog | May 19, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ANISH KOKA, MD The great pandemic is wreaking havoc, we are told, because the nation is not testing enough. The consensus from a diverse group that includes public health experts, economists, and silicon valley investors is that more testing will allow the country...
by The Health Care Blog | May 18, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0 Catalyst @ Health 2.0, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is seeking health technology solutions that can support the needs of the health care system (e.g. providers, government, public health and...
by The Health Care Blog | May 15, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By CASEY QUINLAN, HELEN HASKELL, BILL ADAMS, JOHN JAMES, ROBERT R. SCULLY, and POPPY ARFORD Last year, the Patient Council of the Right Care Alliance conducted a survey in which over 1,000 Americans answered questions about what worried them most about their...
by The Health Care Blog | May 15, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By RIEN WERTHEIM FHIR DevDays, run by Rien Wertheim’s company Firely in conjuncion with HL7, is the premier FHIR event in the world, with editions in the US and Europe. The three pillars for DevDays are Learn, Code and Share. The event runs from 15 to...
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