by The Health Care Blog | Mar 27, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “It’s fair to say that, in Italy, we are doing 10 years of digital health evolution in 10 days.” Our “man-on-the-street” in Italy (well, man-sheltered-in-place in Italy) Roberto Ascione, CEO of Healthware, reports in on the Covid-19...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 27, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we have a viewer question! For our friends who are wondering what will happen to all the IPOs that were supposed to happen this year, I weigh in on how this crisis will impact IPOs and startup funding. On Episode 114, Jess asks me about...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 27, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD 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 pieces in the series here. If you live in one of...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 26, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
This episode of “The THCB Gang” is up here as a video (you could also see it live at 1PT/4ET every Thursday) and it’s also preserved as a weekly podcast and available on our Itunes & Spotify channels a day or so later. Each week 4-6 semi-regular guests drawn from...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 26, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By STEPHEN BORSTELMANN, MD Occasionally, you get handed a question you know little about, but it’s clear you need to know more. Like most of us these days, I was chatting with my colleagues about the novel coronavirus. It goes by several names: SARS-CoV-2, 2019-nCoV...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 25, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Jamey Edwards, CEO of one of the larger in-hospital B2B telehealth startups in the US, Cloudbreak Health, is already seeing changes in the way hospitals are using his company’s telemedicine services in the wake of COVID-19. From a noted...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 25, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By LUKE OAKDEN-RAYNER, MBBS I got asked the other day to comment for Wired on the role of AI in Covid-19 detection, in particular for use with CT scanning. Since I didn’t know exactly what resources they had on the ground in China, I could only make some generic...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 24, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are covering all the hard hitting news while surviving COVID-19. Before we turn to deals, Jess asks for my thoughts on the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association asking for...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 24, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Connie Chan Brooke Warren Phuoc Le By PHUOC LE MD, CONNIE CHAN and BROOKE WARREN Since the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, we have been changing our daily lives to protect the highest-risk populations: older...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 23, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Vidur Mahajan Vasanth Venugopal By VASANTH VENUGOPAL MD and VIDUR MAHAJAN MBBS, MBA What can Artificial Intelligence (AI) do? AI can, simply put, do two things – one, it can do what humans can do. These are tasks like looking at CCTV cameras, detecting faces of...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 20, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “What’s happening in COVID is those of us living with these chronic conditions are at highest risk — not to contract the disease, but highest risk for outcomes. Our unique ability to be able to see what’s happening in that population and...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 20, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD It took a 125 nanometer virus only a few weeks to move American healthcare from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. This had nothing to do with science or technology and only to a small degree was it due to public interest or demand, which...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 19, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Starting today we are going to create a new live show on THCB that will be preserved as a weekly podcast. I’m calling it The THCB Gang. Each week 4-6 semi regular guests drawn from THCB authors and other assorted old friends of mine will shoot the shit about health...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 19, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By HOWARD LUKS MD, JOEL TOPF MD, FACP, ETHAN WEISS MD, CARRIE DIULUS MD, NANCY YEN SHIPLEY MD, ERIC LEVI MBBS, FRACS, BRYAN VARTABEDIAN MD “EVERYTHING WE DO BEFORE A PANDEMIC WILL SEEM ALARMIST. EVERYTHING WE DO AFTER WILL SEEM INADEQUATE”—Michael Leavitt Last updated...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 18, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By INDU SUBAIYA & MATTHEW HOLT Since the COVID-19 pandemic became very real for all of us a couple in the US a couple of weeks ago, our team at Catalyst @ Health 2.0 has been working on a way to support the wider health tech community. We have created a list of...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 18, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH “Health tech providers — this is the make-or-break time. If you can’t prove your value in the next, say, eleven weeks, then you should NOT be in the health care game. It’s time to get serious.” Bruce Greenstein, former CTO at HHS and...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 18, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD We are in strange days, and they are only going to get stranger as COVID-19 works its way further through our society. It makes me think of Benjamin Franklin’s response when asked what kind of nation the U.S. was going to be: “A Republic, if you can...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 17, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By KOUSIK KRISHNAN, MD As many industries and individuals are struggling publicly with burnout, a new study from the European Journal of Preventative Cardiology links the “burnout syndrome” with atrial fibrillation (afib). The findings are both interesting and...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 16, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By TONY ESTRELLA And how South Korea and Taiwan’s approach to diagnosis and tracking is leading to positive results By now, the sight of people wearing surgical masks, flinching at the sights and sounds of someone coughing or sneezing, governments restricting large...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 14, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
I interviewed Julia Cheek, CEO of Everlywell about their response to COVID-19. Last week they issued a $1m challenge to labs to promote the rapid capability to develop COVID-19 testing. Her goal is to get the US up to 250K home tests per day within a month, but it...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 13, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Dr. Niti Pall has experience working in 41 different health systems around the world in her roles as Global Medical Director for KPMG, Senior Mobile Health Advisor for AXA, and as a General Practitioner in the U.K. With that type of...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 13, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is joining somebody for their self quarantine in the Oval Office! Shenanigans aside, I give a quick coronavirus update and a shameless plug before diving into our regular coverage of all the deals. As for COVID-19, there’s a ton of...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 13, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ROMAN ZAMISHKA, MPA Some of the most important engineering lessons were demonstrated on the tank battlefields of World War II when German Tigers faced off against Soviet T-34s. The Tiger tank was a technical masterpiece of for its time with many features that did...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 12, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ANISH KOKA, MD As the globe faces a novel, highly transmissible, lethal virus, I am most struck by a medicine cabinet that is embarrassingly empty for doctors in this battle. This means much of the debate centers on mitigation of spread of the virus. Tempers...
by The Health Care Blog | Mar 11, 2020 | Healthcare Technology
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD How should we react to 1,718 pages of new regulation? Let’s start by stipulating the White House and HHS perspective: “Taken together, these reforms will deliver on the promise to put patients at their center of their own health care — you are...
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