by The Health Care Blog | Apr 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me all about health & technology, in just 2 minutes, featuring venture rounds for Kyruus, Parsley Health, Livongo buying RetroFit, the RWJF AI challenge from Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and a ridiculously long explanation of where the @boltyboy...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews at www.wtf.health. They just raised another $10M and...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By TIM WILLIAMS & DAVID INTROCASO This past October CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the agency’s “Meaningful Measures” initiative.[1] Ms. Verma launched the initiative because, she admitted, the agency’s current quality measurement programming, widely...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JOHN EL-MARAGHY When it comes to navigating healthcare and making decisions about your health, and the health of loved ones, there is no yellow brick road. Even the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a leading national healthcare nonprofit, could only...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews at www.wtf.health. One of the new faces – and mega...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By BENJAMIN MAZER, MD Doctors can be two-faced. This isn’t necessarily a negative attribute. Doctors have distinct personas for our patients and our colleagues. With patients, doctors strive for a compassionate but authoritative role. However, with each other, doctors...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA Health Datapalooza is coming up quick at the end of April, so I sat down with Bruce Greenstein, CTO of HHS about why all of THCB’s health tech friends should attend. Plus, we get into what’s happening with the open data movement and how Bruce’s...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By KIP SULLIVAN Lawton Burns and Mark Pauly, economists at the Wharton School, just published an article that should be required reading for all policy makers and health services researchers. The article, entitled “Transformation of the health care industry: Curb...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today Jessica DaMassa asks me about the microbiome, the Dev4Health conference & whether there are more female CEOs than there used to be. All in 2 minutes, plus a bit more with me defending myself from Bruce Greenstein’s wisecracks–Matthew Holt View Entire Article...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT Any DuRoss is one of the more charming and remarkable characters in the health tech world. She lead the campaign for Proposition 71 in 2004 which funded and established the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Later on she was a key player...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By NYU SPORTS & SOCIETY Should young athletes be allowed to play tackle football? Are concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) a public health problem or merely one associated with professional sports? Join experts in science, media, policy and...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
BY VA WEST HAVEN COE CLINIC If it weren’t for the round, scaly patch on the young woman’s shoulder, her doctor might never have known that she served in the Navy for 6 years. He wouldn’t have learned about her sun exposure during a year-long station in east Africa,...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 13, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD When Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan (AmBerGan) announced their healthcare partnership, Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett declared “the ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy.” He is right. Our broken...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 13, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me about money in (Livongo) money out (Theranos), and how much is enough money for challenges (AMA & Google); all in this episode of #healthin2point 00–now on its own Youtube channel. Look for the weird 30 second extreme psoriasis I get in...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 12, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA THCB is thrilled to help launch a new interview series from Jessica DaMassa. It’s called WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health. Jessica is bringing you all some honest conversations about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 12, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By HEALTH 2.0 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are very buzzy and in the storm of tweets and scandals it’s easy to use the terms interchangeably, as if they are synonyms. They’re not synonyms, but here’s a rule of thumb: All Machine...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By PAUL KECKLEY Medicare is a big deal in U.S. healthcare: no doubt. It’s the $683 billion federal program that provides insurance coverage to 59 million Americans, up 3 million from 2015. It covers 16% of the population and accounts for 20% of total health spending...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me every question about health & technology she can fit into 2 minutes. Topics include Facebook looking for hospital data, the EU starting a VC fund, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon blowing up the hype about ABC & the ACA under more assault....
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
BY MATTHEW HOLT It’s not every day that an analytics firm focusing on improving the efficacy and value of drugs has a big raise in the health tech world–especially one I don’t know much about. This morning Aetion raised $36m to add onto $11m they raised last year....
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 10, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD I can’t help myself from telling patients how things really work in health care. But I feel they have a right to know. When I see new patients their jaw usually drops when I sit down with them next to the computer with a stack of papers held...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 7, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ROBERT WACHTER and JEFF GOLDSMITH After a blizzard of hype surrounding the electronic health record (EHR), health professionals are now in full backlash mode against this complex new tool. They are rightly seen as a major cause of professional burnout among...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 6, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
BY GEORGE HALVORSON A growing number of people want to set aside all of our current health care financing approaches as a country and set up Medicare For All as a Canadian like single payer system to cover every American and pay for our care. When we spend three...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
BY IAN MORRISON There is lots of talk of disruption in healthcare particularly involving new entrants and weird combinations such as the CVS-Aetna merger, CIGNA and Express Scripts, Amazon Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan, and now Wal-Mart and Humana all claiming to...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me about digital health funding, Walmart and PillPack, Blockchain and my sweater — not in that order, but all in less than 2 minutes. Bonus–Farzad Mostashari’s bow tie makes a twitter appearance! — Matthew Holt View Entire Article on...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 4, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA, MD Intrigued by many things in my first few days in the U.S., what perplexed me the most was that there seemed to be a DaVita Dialysis wherever I went; in malls, in the mainstreet of West Philadelphia, near high rises and near lower rises. I felt that...
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