by The Health Care Blog | Jan 23, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
BY JESSICA DAMASSA Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is known worldwide for their leading-edge approach to cancer care…so, how can digital health help? MSK’s new Digital Ventures Lead, Janhvi Patel, talks about the types of tech companies she’s looking to partner...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 23, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, everybody’s getting 20 million dollars! There are so many deals to cover. AI chatbot symptom checker Buoy gets $20 million, Clue gets $20 million, diabetes management company Oviva gets $21 million, Covera gets $23.5 million for...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 23, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ANDY MYCHKOVSKY Would it blow your mind if only five startup health plans interested in Medicare Advantage (MA) have collectively raised over $3.9 billion in private funding to-date? Well, readers, that is the reality. Now I know there are some skeptics out in the...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 22, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I bring you the first ever cliffhanger episode—money was flying everywhere during JP Morgan last week, so stay tuned for more tomorrow. Jumping right in, on Episode 105 we discuss Virta Health raising $93 million for diabetes...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 22, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH Almirall is a dermatology-focused pharmaceutical company based in Spain, and its investment in R&D for developing new therapeutics leads the way as the largest within the country’s pharma industry. It’s no surprise, then, that...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 22, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD We’ve been spending a lot of time these past few years debating healthcare reform. First the Affordable Care Act was debated, passed, implemented, and almost continuously litigated since. Lately the concept of Medicare For All, or variations on it,...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 21, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
BY JESSICA DAMASSSA, WTF HEALTH As the adage goes, “health is wealth,” and Wellthy Therapeutics is a startup looking to improve the health of patients with chronic conditions in India by making treatment more accessible. Only 5% of Indians are insured and much of the...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 21, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ANISH KOKA, MD Mr. Smith has a problem. He can’t see. Even this cardiologist knows why. The not so subtle evidence lies in the cloudy lens in front of his pupils. He is afflicted with cataracts that obstruct his vision to the point he can’t really do his job...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 20, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
BY JESSICA DAMASSA Bum knees, aching backs, and neck pain are literally a pain-in-the-neck for millions of people – making chronic pain one of the largest areas of healthcare spending. Is it time to disrupt the traditional delivery of physical therapy? Physera CEO,...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 20, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Vince Kuraitis Deven McGraw By DEVEN McGRAW and VINCE KURAITIS This piece is part of the series “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both?” which explores whether it’s possible to advance interoperability while maintaining privacy. Check out other...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 17, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD I don’t really follow FinTech — I can’t even keep up with HealthTech! — but it caught my eye when Visa announced that it was acquiring FinTech company Plaid for $5.3b; a 2018 funding round valued the company at $2.65b. A 100% increase in valuation...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 17, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on THCB Spotlights, Matthew chats with a couple of the OGs from the original days of Health 2.0—Scott Shreeve, founder and CEO of Crossover Health, and Jay Parkinson, founder of Sherpaa, who were the first ones doing something different in terms of doctors...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 16, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0 The IDIH Project (International Digital Health Cooperation for Preventive, Integrated, Independent and Inclusive Living) is setting up an expert-driven “Digital Health Transformation Forum” to promote and increase international...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 16, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By BRYAN CARMODY, MD Surely every resident has had the experience of trying to explain to a patient or family what, exactly, a resident is. “Yes, I’m a real doctor… I just can’t do real doctor things by myself.” In many ways, it’s a strange system we have. How come...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 15, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH Is Castlight Health suffering a case of ‘first-mover’ curse? One of digital health’s first unicorns, Castlight Health, IPO’d back in 2014 with a valuation of over $3 billion dollars (reportedly, 107 times revenue) at a share price of...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 15, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ANDY MYCHKOVSKY In this post, I write down all my strategy and business development knowledge in healthcare and organize it into the top 9 commandments for selling as a healthcare startup. I think everyone from the founder to the most junior person on the team...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 14, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH Looks like Uber has found its place as a healthcare company. On the heels of announcing a major partnership with Cerner to integrate its platform directly into the Cerner EMR system (and its reach of 220 million patients), Head of Uber...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 14, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD Many patients make this or similar requests, especially in January it seems. This phenomenon has its roots in two things. The first is the common misconception that random blood test abnormalities are more likely early warning signs of disease...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 13, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH Is healthcare innovation more challenging in a public healthcare system? We sat down with the Chief Medical Officer & Director of Innovation for the Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Dr. Julio Mayol, to find out! A large, academic...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 13, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD The New York Times had an article that surprised me: Current Job: Award Winning Chef. Education: IHOP. The article, by food writer Priya Krishna, profiled how many high-end chefs credit their training in — gasp! — chain restaurants, such as IHOP, as...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 10, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH Before Livongo set digital health records for its IPO, it started 2019 by launching a brand-new category of healthcare company: the Applied Health Signals company. How is this category different than what we already think of when we...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 10, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By GUS MALEZIS Healthcare is in the midst of a digital transformation, creating information security, compliance, and workflow challenges. The engagement of an increasingly decentralized workforce along with anytime anyplace healthcare and the proliferation of...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 9, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I have a million deals to talk through. My Softbank rumor from last week hasn’t been announced yet, but there’s still plenty to discuss before JP Morgan. In this episode, get key takeaways from OneMedical’s S1, Swedish company...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 9, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH The ‘virtual-care-for-behavioral-health’ space is getting a bit crowded these days, particularly as demand for such services reach new heights among patients. Russell Glass, CEO of health tech startup, Ginger (formerly known as...
by The Health Care Blog | Jan 9, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD A new decade and a new EMR are making me think about what the best use of my time and medical knowledge really is. The thing that stands out more and more for me is the tension between what my patients are asking me for and what the medical...
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