by The Health Care Blog | Sep 24, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
It’s Telehealth Awareness Week! Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we cover Pager raising $70 million, bringing their total to $132.6 million. German-based company Ovivia gets $80 million, bringing their total to $127 million. Meru Health raises $38 million, and NOCD...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 23, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
It’s been quite a while since Jess & I did a Health in 2 Point 00 and that one was buried in our Policies|Techies|VCs conference in the first week of September. But, as John Malkovich says, We’re back… Commure gets $500m and maybe one day we’ll know what it does,...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 22, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Not all who wander are lost: Nomad Health lands a $63M Series D round after a year of 5X revenue growth for their tech-driven healthcare staffing marketplace that helps hospitals hire nurses on-demand. This round, led by Adams Street...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 21, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD If you, like me, continue to think that TikTok is mostly about dumb stunts (case in point: vandalizing school property in the devious licks challenge; case in point: risking lives and limbs in the milk crate challenge), or, more charitably, as an...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 20, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT Perhaps it is because I love doctoring so much that I find some of the tools and tasks of my trade so tediously frustrating. I keep wishing the technology I work with wasn’t so painfully inept. On my 2016 iPhone SE I can authorize a purchase, a...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 17, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By BRYAN CARMODY If you’re involved in medical education or residency selection, you know we’ve got problems. And starting a couple of years ago, the corporations that govern much of those processes decided to start having meetings to consider solutions to those...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 16, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT Leo Dufour is not a diabetic. He is in his mid 50s, a light smoker with hypertension and a known hiatal hernia. He has had occasional heartburn and has taken famotidine for a few years along with his blood pressure and cholesterol pills. Over the past...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 15, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD There was a lot going on this week, as there always is, including the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the beginning of the NFL season, so you may have missed a big event: the announcement of the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Awards (no, those are not typos)....
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 14, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By IAN MORRISON I should’ve been in Paris last week on vacation with my wife, instead I listened in to the Policies Techies VCS: What’s Next For Healthcare conference (I’ll explain why later). Matthew Holt and Jessica DaMassa did a magnificent job of assembling the...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 13, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
by MIKE MAGEE dystopian[disˈtōpēən]ADJECTIVE1. relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.NOUN1. a person who imagines or foresees a state or society where there is great suffering or injustice. There are certain...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 10, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By RONALD DIXON Week after week, I hear from colleagues in diverse specialties about how exhausted they are from practicing medicine. It’s no surprise that they are looking for careers outside of medicine. The demands and strain are unsustainable. So it’s also no...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 9, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT Especially in these strange and uncertain times, many people feel uneasy. Some of them come to us with concerns over their state of mind. In primary care, our job is in large part to perform triage. We strive to identify patients who need referral,...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 7, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD In a week where we’ve seen the bungled Afghan withdrawal, had Texas show us its contempt for all sorts of rights, watched wildfires ravage the west and Ida wreak havoc on a third of the country, and, of course, witnessed COVID-19 continue its...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 3, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By DEBORAH AFEZOLLI, CARL-PHILIPPE ROUSSEAU, HELEN FERNANDEZ, ELIZABETH LINDENBERGER “Why did you choose this field?” Most physicians are asked this question at some point in their early careers. We are geriatrics and palliative medicine physicians, so when that...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 2, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT I am a 68 year old family physician in rural Maine. This morning I read yet another article about physician burnout, this time in The New York Times. (I’m not linking to it, because they have a “paywall”.) I did not end up exactly where and how I...
by The Health Care Blog | Sep 1, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By DAWN CARTER If you’ve been working remotely for the past year, would a $30,000 raise entice you back into the office? In a recent survey of 3,000 workers at dozens of large US companies, the vast majority of respondents said they would forego the hefty raise if...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 31, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH People with Diabetes can get ready to celebrate: “The ‘Era of Lancets’ is over.” Precision nutrition startup, DayTwo, is scaling up its microbiome-based program, which takes the guesswork (and finger pricks) out of Diabetes management by...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 31, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By KIM BELLARD I can’t believe I’ve gone this long without knowing about Gall’s Law (thanks to @niquola for tweeting it!). For those of you similarly unaware, John Gall was a pediatrician who, seemingly in his spare time, wrote Systemantics: How Systems Work and...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 30, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
Policies|Techies|VCs: What’s Next For Health Care? is the conference bringing together the CEOs of the next generation of virtual & real-life care delivery, and all the permutations thereof. You can register here or learn how to sponsor. This is a big week. We are...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 30, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By MIKE MAGEE In my Jesuit high school, we were offered only one science course – chemistry. I took it in my Senior year and did pretty well. In contrast, I took four years of Latin, and three years of Greek, as part of the school’s Greek Honors tract. Little did I...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 29, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt For my...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 27, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By HANS DUVEFELT I have a patient with no health insurance but a brand new Mercedes. He says he can’t afford health insurance. He cringes at the cost of his medications and our office visit charges. His car cost a lot of money and I know that authorized Mercedes...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 26, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
THCB Gang is back from its summer break. Joining me Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) for an hour of topical and sometime combative conversation on what’s happening in health care and beyond will be patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@MLMillenson);...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 26, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Just ONE-year in market, and Calibrate has already closed a $100M Series B co-led by Founders Fund and Tiger Global, with participation from Optum Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Threshold Ventures, and Redesign Health. Why is this...
by The Health Care Blog | Aug 26, 2021 | Healthcare Technology
By STEVEN ZECOLA An organization’s culture is an internal set of shared values, attitudes and practices. The cohesiveness of the organizational culture will affect whether the entity will meet its vision, purpose, and goals. One type of organizational culture is...
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