As Balwani and Holmes Head To Jail …Will Others in Health Tech Follow?
by MIKE MAGEE
This week’s headlines seemingly closed a chapter on the story of medical research criminality in America. Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, former president and COO of Theranos was sentenced to 13 years in prison for fraud. That’s 2 years more than his former business and romantic partner, Elizabeth Holmes.
White crime criminal defense attorney for all things science tech, Michael Weinstein, took the opportunity to trumpet out a confident message that crime doesn’t pay in Medicine with these words, “It clearly sends a signal to Silicon Valley that puffery and fraud and misrepresentation will be pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice Ethics Henry K. Beecher Medical Ethics Mike Magee Theranos Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 109, Thursday December 8, 1pm PT 4pm ET
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday December 8 will be futurist Jeff Goldsmith; privacy expert Deven McGraw (@healthprivacy), and employer & care consultant Brian Klepper (@bklepper1). Deven has a bunch of insights from her new study on health data access!
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 - December 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: THCB Gang Brian Klepper Deven McGraw Jeff Goldsmith Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
HLTH 2022: Calibrate Launches Enterprise Product to Bring GLP1 Weight Loss Drugs to Payers/Employers
by JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Telehealth weight loss clinic Calibrate is expanding its two-year old D2C biz and taking it into the workplace with the launch of ‘Calibrate for Enterprise,’ which makes its program of GLP-1 weight loss drugs and behavior change coaching now available to payers and self-insured employers as a packaged employee health benefit. CEO Isabelle Kenyon shares the news here and reveals that the enterprise offering actually launched in stealth-mode a little more than a month ago with three clients and already has signed up more members in one month than it had its entire first six months D2C. H...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Jessica DaMassa Calibrate Isabelle Kenyon WTF Health Source Type: blogs
Give Kids a Healthy Itch
by KIM BELLARD
Someday I’ll probably write about Neuralink, but these days I don’t feel like giving Elon Musk any extra publicity. I also had the notion to take OpenAI’s newly announced ChatGPT down a rabbit hole about U.S. healthcare, just to see where it would go, but Mr. Musk has his fingerprints on that organization too. Then I saw something worth celebrating: Scratch has hit 100 million users worldwide.
What’s that? You’re not familiar with Scratch? Well, me neither, until last week. Now that I know a little about it, I kind of feel how I felt when I first discovered TikTok, found out about Roblo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Scratch Source Type: blogs
THCB Quickbite: Julian Flannery, CEO, Summus
Julian Flannery is CEO of Summus, which I can’t pronounce (it’s Sue-mus like lawsuit not Sum-mus like math, despite the 2 Ms!). It’s a multidimensional referral platform which combines primary and specialty virtual care for employers, a white-label service for hospitals to deliver their specialty care, and now a peer-to-peer escalation model for specialists to talk to AMC-based specialists & get 2nd opinion reviews. Around 1.4m members on the platform and it’s seen massive usage growth in last 12 months–Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Matthew Holt Julian Flannery virtual care Source Type: blogs
HLTH 2022: Wheel Adds More Telehealth Tech Infrastructure with Acquisition of GoodRx ’ s Care Software
by JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Health tech infrastructure startups remain HOT and, given the industry-wide rise of the “omnichannel care” strategy, none might be hotter than telehealth infra biz, Wheel. CEO Michelle Davey talks about providing white label virtual care services that will now not only include telehealth and EMR technology, clinical care, and end-to-end lab technology, but also the back-office tech that has powered GoodRx all these years. We dive into the acquisition of GoodRx’s care engagement software, how it will enable Wheel to expand its behind-the-scenes reach into the healthcare market, and wh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Jessica DaMassa Michelle Davey Telehealth Wheel WTF Health Source Type: blogs
OK, trying more AI to write this
by MATTHEW HOLT
In the far oft halcyon days of last month, I used an AI system from Lex.Page to write something about digital health. In the past few days the world has gone nuts about a new AI author called ChatGPT. So I tought I would compare and contrast.
Last month Lex.page was asked about Digital Health and it said
Digital Health is one of the most rapidly growing and important sectors in health care today. It is a broad term that encompasses the use of technology to improve health and health care.
Today I asked ChatGPT the same thing. In fact I just wrote “Digital Health” as the Q and this...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Matthew Holt AI ChatGPT Lex.ai Source Type: blogs
New VC Fund Angelini Ventures Launches to Find Next Big Digital Health & Biotech Disruptors
BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
NEW VC Fund! Angelini Ventures just launched their $300 million dollar investment fund to support early-stage biotech and digital health startups in the US, Europe, and Israel. CEO & Managing Director Paolo Di Giorgio and Managing Director Elia Stupka explain the fund’s thesis which is different than the usual corporate investment funds because of its “very long-term” strategy and interest in supporting disruptive health innovation that doesn’t necessarily need to relate to the core businesses of its multi-national parent, Angelini Industries. Find out more – including details a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech WTF Health Angelini Ventures Big Digital Health Biotech Jessica DaMassa Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 108, Thursday December 1
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday November 17 were futurist Jeff Goldsmith; THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson); fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey); and Olympic rower for 2 countries and all around dynamo Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen). This was quite the conversation!
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:...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Casey Quinlan Jeff Goldsmith Jennifer Goldsack Kim Bellard Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
‘Breaking Down Interstate Barriers to Telehealth Delivery’ Tops ATA ’ s Priorities for 2023
by JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Just one week before the ATA EDGE Policy Conference (12/7-12/9 Washington DC) we get a SNEAK PEEK at what’s topping the agenda – and the American Telemedicine Association (ATA)’s list of priorities for 2023 – to ensure that digital health and virtual care providers avoid the ‘telehealth cliff’ that could send us back to pre-pandemic scaling issues of both practice and reimbursement.
Kyle Zebley, SVP of Public Policy at the ATA and Executive Director of ATA Action (the ATA’s affiliate advocacy organization) gives us the skinny on where policies currently stand at the feder...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy ATA Kyle Zebley Pandemic Regulation Telehealth Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 108, Thursday December 1, 1pm PT – 4p
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday November 17 are futurist Jeff Goldsmith; THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson); fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey); Jeff Goldsmith; and Olympic rower for 2 countries and all around dynamo Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen).
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, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Uncategorized Casey Quinlan Jeff Goldsmith Jennifer Goldsack Kim Bellard Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
“True, True, and Unrelated” in the age of “Product Placement/Embedded Marketing.”
BY MIKE MAGEE
This is “high grandparenting season” at our home when you go “The Extra Mile.” That means it is possible on certain days on or between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day to find up to 20 children and grandchildren under our roof. With my wife one of ten, and me, one of twelve, we are no strangers to chaos. Our kids believe we feed off it, and maybe they’re right.
With over 150 years under our collective belts, we two are – if nothing else – optimistic, resilient, and somewhat wiser then we were in our early years. For example, we know that the mere temporal or geographic approximation of ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 30, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Embedded Marketing Mike Magee Product Placement Source Type: blogs
Barcodes Are Us
BY KIM BELLARD
Usually I write about things where I see some unexpected parallel to healthcare, or something just amazed me, or outraged me (there are lots of things about healthcare like the latter). But sometimes I run across something that just delights me.
So when I inexplicably stumbled across DNA Barcoding Technology for High Throughput Cell-Nanoparticle Study, by Andy Tay, PhD, my first thought was, oh, nanoparticles, that’s always interesting, then it hit me: wait, DNA has barcodes?
How delightful.
We’re all used to barcodes. Pretty much every product in pretty much every store has a b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology DNA Barcodes DNA nanotechnology Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
THCB Quickbite: AJ Loiacono, CEO, CapitalRx
AJ Loiacono, CEO of CapitalRx, in a quickbite interview with The Health Care Blog’s Matthew Holt. CapitalRx is up to 1.5m members serviced both as a PBM and as a tech company administering pharmacy benefits using its tech platform. AJ says they’ve demonstrated to the market that they can service customers of any size, and the employer groups are starting to ask the right questions about pharmacy costs. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Matthew Holt AJ Loicano pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) Source Type: blogs
Adventures in health care — Hinge Health
At the HLTH conference in Vegas the week before Thanksgiving, I decided to embark on another adventure in health care. Somehow I badly hurt my back and was barely able to walk when I found myself at the Hinge Health booth. Could they give me any help? As it turned out they could. I met physical therapist Lori Wolter who showed me (and used me as a guinea pig for) their Enso device and got a quick update on Hinge Health’s progress from its President Jim Pursley. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Technology back pain Hinge Health physical therapy Source Type: blogs
