by The Health Care Blog | Jul 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ADRIAN GROPPER The focus on the CMS rules on information blocking continues on THCB. We’ve heard from Adrian Gropper & Deborah Peel at Patients Privacy Rights, and from e-Patient Dave at SPM and Michael Millenson. Now Adrian Gropper summarizes — and in an...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA What do health tech investors think is ‘hot’ these days? Where is the money going? I ran into Marvin Liao, partner at 500 Startups (a VC fund/accelerator program that has made more than 2000 investments in early-stage tech startups over the past...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa decides the the way to deal with mourning Croatia’s loss in the World Cup Final is to make you suffer through my explanation of what’s wrong with the Trump Administration’s decision to screw over health plans and destabilize the exchanges. Oh and Higi...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By WILLIAM ROSENBERG A ‘single-payer’ plan is a target on the back of its supporters. But what about a ‘Medicare Public-Private Partnership’? MOUNT VERNON — In February 2017, President Trump famously said: “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” Nobody...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA I’ve humbly realized that doctors aren’t always indispensable. When I was three, a compounder – a doctor’s assistant – allegedly saved my life. Dehydrated from severe dysentery, I was ashen and lifeless. My blood pressure was falling and I would soon...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 12, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By DONNA SHIELDS I’ve been a proponent of marijuana legalization since I heard about it in high school. I lived in the UK in the 1970s when it was not easily available! So I was a legalization proponent before I’d ever touched the stuff. Nearly four decades later,...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 12, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Somewhere in this long and rambling in-mourning edition of #HealthIn2Point00 Jessica DaMassa gets past my depression about England’s World Cup semi-final exit & asks me about NuRx’s funding round, and Verily’s move into sleep. But it’s mostly soccer depression! —...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
by HANS DUVEFELT, MD My second foray into Suboxone treatment has evolved in a way I had not expected, but I think I have stumbled onto something profound: Almost six months into our in-house clinic’s existence, I have found myself prescribing and adjusting treatment...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 10, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MICHAEL MILLENSON This is the second of two posts from the Society of Participatory Medicine about the important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The first provided background, with link to a PDF of the comments SPM submitted, largely...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 10, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me about the American Well mega funding round, Cerner investing in Lumeris, and the new NHS England app. Which naturally descends into a conversation about England’s chances in the world cup semi-final tomorrow!–Matthew Holt View Entire Article on...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 9, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By E-PATIENT DAVE DEBRONKART This is the first of two posts from the Society of Participatory Medicine about an important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The second part will be published tomorrow and is written by Michael Millenson, who did...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 7, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA Poverty is known to be an important determinant of a person’s health and longevity. A person’s zip code is more relevant than genetic code. Does a physician’s zip code – that is where they were born and raised – have an effect on where they practice?...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 6, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Back in the US of A to celebrate the nation’s birthday, Jessica DaMassa asks about Amazon buying Pill Pack, GE spinning off its health division, and what Rock Health and Startup Health’s numbers say about health tech investment–Matthew Holt View Entire Article on...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 6, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
OK, so it’s a tad of an ambitious title… but it was a talk that I gave in Finland last month. I had fun looking at the development of health and technology and suggesting a structure for the future. Plus I got to tell my Neil Armstrong joke. The talk was part of the...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of the health industry 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. How can patients help...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 2, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By VA WEST HAVEN COE CLINIC On a sunny New England morning at a secluded guest house with a perfectly manicured lawn, medical residents, each with their own brightly colored yoga mat, were getting ready to assume the downward dog position. They were on an annual...
by The Health Care Blog | Jul 1, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By, SAURABH JHA MD In the ongoing battle between radiologists and artificial intelligence, is the real risk not that computers will replace radiologists, but that radiologists will become machines? This lecture delivered at the annual meeting of the ARRS explores the...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 29, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ANISH KOKA Part 1 Part 2 Physicians have been making up numbers longer than people have been guessing weights at carnivals. How much does this statin lower the chances of a heart attack? How long do I have to live if I don’t get the aortic valve surgery? In...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 27, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
by HANS DUVEFELT, MD Drivers are distracted klutzes and computers could obviously do better. Self driving cars will make all of us safer on he road. Doctors have spotty knowledge and keep illegible records. EMRs with decision support will improve the quality of...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 26, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa’s European tour continues. This week she’s at the #WebIT conference in Sofia, Bulgaria (no, I couldn’t find it on a map either!) and the #HealthIn2Point00 takeovers continue! This time the guest is pioneering British surgeon Shafi Ahmed, who has lots...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 25, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ADRIAN GROPPER & DEBORAH PEEL Today is the last day for public comments on the proposed CMS regulations regarding Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS). While there are several changes proposed, the one that’s raised lots of attention...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 23, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA Though the exact cost of Modicare, the government’s extension of health insurance for poor people, estimated at one lakh crore (a trillion U.S. dollars), is open for debate, what is not disputable is that the cost of insuring India’s poor won’t fall...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 22, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
I’m back. After the takeover editions, I’m answering Jessica DaMassa about Atul Gawande as the CEO of the ABC new venture, the demise of Caresync, Ooda Health and its demand for a female VC, and whole bunch more blather! — Matthew Holt View Entire Article on...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 22, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JONATHAN HALVORSON Risk adjustment in health insurance is at first glance, and second, among the driest and most arcane of subjects. And yet, like the fine print on a variable-rate mortgage, it can matter enormously. It may make the difference between a healthy...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 22, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By GRACE MOEN If you have an innovative solution that addresses Patient Engagement and Remote Monitoring, Bayer’s Dealmaker Challenge wants to hear from you! Apply here for a shot at collaborating with the Bayer G4A Digital Health Team and participating...
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