NODE.Health ’ s Digital Medicine Conference
Next week is the NODE.Health Digital Medicine Conference in New York. Dec 6-8. It features a great line up of speakers and digital health tech luminaries & THCB readers can get a 30% discount using the code THCB30. Register here (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech NODE.health Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Special: Episode 138, Thursday 30 November 2023 with Jen Goldsack
On #THCBGang today we have a special solo episode with Olympic rower for 2 countries and Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen) joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy). It’s at at 1pm PST 4pm EST on Thursday November 30. Find out about what DiME is and does, and what projects it is pushing forward in the future of health tech.
You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang #THCBGang Jennifer Goldsack Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
Health Innovation & Data: Five Common Missteps (and How to Interrupt Them)
By MARIE COPOULOS
I’ve had the great fortune of spending much of my career at the intersection of health care innovation and the underlying data that drives new models.
For those of us who’ve worked in this space for a long time, there’s a certain pattern recognition that comes with this work that is often immediate and obvious – both in terms of really cool developments but also gotchas. “Ah, you’re stumbling here. Everyone does that.”
The challenge, I’ve found, is that these ‘gotchas’ that can be so visible to the folx who’ve worked in health tech for the past few decades can be counterintu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bardavon Health Innovations Data Marie Copoulos Teams Source Type: blogs
Amazon Can Still Surprise Me
By KIM BELLARD
It’s Cyber Monday, and you’ve probably been shopping this weekend. In-stores sales on Black Friday rose 2.2% this year, whereas online sakes rose almost 8%, to $9.8b – over half of which was via mobile shopping. Cyber Monday, though, is expected to outpace Black Friday’s online shopping, with an estimated $12b, 5.4% higher than last year.
Lest we forget, Amazon’s Prime Day is even bigger than either Cyber Monday or Black Friday.
All that shopping means lots of deliveries, and here’s where I got a surprise: according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, Amazon is now the leadin...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech The Business of Health Care Amazon AWS Delivery Kim Bellard Pharmacy Pillpack Source Type: blogs
How Patient Activation Made It Possible to Thrive with Kidney Disease
By DAVE WHITE
It had been 10 years since I’d seen a doctor when I arrived at the Emergency Room at George Washington University Hospital in October 2009. I was able to climb the first flight of stairs, but after I froze on the second, they brought me in on a wheelchair.
That was the first time I heard the dreaded words, “Your kidneys aren’t working.” I was put on dialysis immediately, and my life transformed into a series of tests and procedures. But even after three weeks at the hospital, it didn’t sink in that there was no cure.
I checked most risk factors for kidney disease: I ate the wrong foods, smo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy chronic kidney disease Dave White Patient Activation Measure Patient Activism patient advocacy Source Type: blogs
Engage with Grace
Alex Drane started this movement in 2008 & named it Engage with Grace. What are your loved one’s wishes at the end of life? Are you with them this Thanksgiving weekend? This one slide can help you start the conversation (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
(We Don ’ t) Trust The Science
By KIM BELLARD
I know the A.I. community is eagerly waiting for me to weigh in on the Sam Altman/OpenAI dramedy (), but I’m not convinced this isn’t all a ploy by ChatGPT, so I’m staying away from it. A.I. may, indeed, be an existential issue for our age, but it’s one of many such issues that I fear we’re not, as a society, going to be equipped to handle.
Last week the Pew Research Center issued an alarming report Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline. Now, a glass half-full kind of person might look at it and say – no, it’s good news! Fifty-seven pe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Creationism Education Kim Bellard Science STEM Source Type: blogs
TOMORROW: ZS Impact Webinar on Digital Health
Join ZS’s Ahmed Albaiti with me, Matthew Holt, author and founder of The Health Care Blog, as we discuss the considerations and approaches that policy experts, regulators, clinical leaders and the venture capitalist community can take to affect a future for connected health technologies.
Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
Duration: 30 minutes
Register here (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Matthew Holt Ahmed Albati digital health ZS Source Type: blogs
Orange, Green, and Red – The Colors of Tribalism
BY MIKE MAGEE
As Thanksgiving Day approaches, let’s give thanks for the study of history, in part because it reminds us that Trumpian words like “vermin” have been used before and serve to alert the human race that we have entered danger zone
One President who understood the power of words more than many others was FDR. When he structured up “a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations…to provide support for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly”, he memorably packaged the plan under the label, “The New Deal.”
Seizing alliteration in 1933, he further ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Declaration of Human Rights March of Dimes Mike Magee Thanksgiving Welfare Source Type: blogs
Paul Jaglowski, Feedtrail
Feedtrail is one of a new breed of customer experience companies. Most health care experiences are captured in paper surveys that end up in H-CAPS and Star ratings. These are very important for how providers and plans get paid but probably don’t actually reflect what happens very well and give very poor feedback to organizations and staff about what’s actually going on. They also don’t give a chance for patients to directly give positive feedback to staff who do a great job–which likely helps them feel good about their work. Feedtrail is working to fix all that. I got a full demo and explanation fro...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Feedtrail Patient Experience Surveys Source Type: blogs
Pin Me, Please
By KIM BELLARD
You had to know I’d write about the new Humane AI Pin, right?
After all, I’d been pleading for the next big thing to take the place of the smartphone, as recently as last month and as long ago as six years, so when a start-up like Humane suggests it is going to do just that, it has my attention. Even more intriguing, it is billed as an AI device, redefining “how we interact with AI.” It’s like catnip for me.
For anyone who has missed the hype – and there has been a lot of hype, for several months now – Humane is a Silicon Valley start-up founded by two former Apple employee...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
TikTok on the Gender Gap
By MIKE MAGEE
The juxta-positioning of Tuesday’s New York Times headlines was disturbing. The first “Why Does This Bride Look So Mad?”, was followed by “An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy in Men.”
The “reluctant bride” referred to in the first article is (by now) an estimated 175 years old intended bride was 18 in the painting. The painting itself was the work of artist, Auguste Toulmouche, in 1866. The original title was “The Hesitant Fiancee”. Its current fame has a much shorter timeline – 2 weeks to be exact. That’s when it began to appear on TikTok, hosted as a statement of disg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Gender gap Life Expectancy Mike Magee tiktok Source Type: blogs
Turnarounds are Talent Magnets: University of Chicago Medical Center
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
Like birds of a feather, talent in healthcare management often gathers in flocks. The University of Minnesota, University of Michigan and University of Iowa healthcare management programs are all justly famous for graduating, over many decades, an exceptional number of future transformative healthcare leaders. But sometimes, talent comes from the “street”- challenging healthcare turnarounds that attract risk-taking leaders who, in turn, gather young talent around them. The University of Chicago’s urban academic health center has been one of these places.
The U of C was (and remains) the la...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Jeff Goldsmith talent University of Chicago Source Type: blogs
The Voice of Democracy is Young and Female
By MIKE MAGEE
“Don’t call me a saint,” said founder of the early 1930’s Catholic Workers Movement, Dorothy Day. “I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” Oddly enough, says Jesuit writer, James Martin, “That quote is probably the biggest obstacle to her canonization…Given that quote, would Dorothy really want to be canonized?”
This week’s election results were a sliver of bright light in what has been a rather dark period. But it is at times like this that quiet heroes emerge. If courage has a face, this morning, as results across the land show a sweeping victory for Democrats, and specifi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion Democracy Dobbs Mike Magee Womens rights Source Type: blogs
The Voice of Democracy is Young and Female.
By MIKE MAGEE
“Don’t call me a saint,” said founder of the early1930’s Catholic Workers Movement, Dorothy Day. “I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” Oddly enough, says Jesuit writer, James Martin, “That quote is probably the biggest obstacle to her canonization…Given that quote, would Dorothy really want to be canonized?”
Today’s election results were a sliver of bright light in what has been a rather dark period. But it is at times like this that quiet heroes emerge. If courage has a face, this morning, as results across the land show a sweeping victory for Democrats, and specifically tho...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion Democracy Dobbs Mike Magee Womens rights Source Type: blogs
