#HealthTechDeals Episode 39 | Cleery, Health Note, Elation, and Caraway
We’ve been duped! Everyone said nothing’s been going on in digital health, but Amazon bought OneMedical! Keep watching for our thoughts and new deals: Cleery raises $192 million; Health Note raises $17 million; Elation raises $50 million; Caraway raises $10.5 million.
-Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Tech Deals Caraway Cleery Elation Health Note OneMedical Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 99, Thursday July 28
This was a special early in the day edition of #THCBGang. It was at 9.15am PT/ 12.15 pm ET (so if you are coming at 1pm it won’t be live today at the normal time as it’s already happened!). It was part of the Primary Care Transformation Summit which has been running since Monday and continues to the end of Friday. It’s a who’s who of everyone in primary care. You can check out the wider agenda but we were on immediately before the day 3 keynote from head of CMS Innovation, Liz Fowler.
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) to discuss primary care and more were are WTF Health host & Health IT girl J...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB daniel o neill Jeff Goldsmith Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt primary care Primary Care Transformation Summit thcb gang Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 99, Thursday July 28, 9.15am PT 12.15pm ET
This is a special early in the day edition of #THCBGang. Starting at 9.15am PT/ 12.15 pm ET on Thursday July 28. It is part of the Primary Care Transformation Summit which has been running since Monday and continues to the end of Friday. It’s a who’s who of everyone in primary care. You can check out the wider agenda but we are on immediately before the day 3 keynote from head of CMS Innovation, Liz Fowler.
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) to discuss primary care and more are are WTF Health host & Health IT girl Jessica DaMassa (@jessdamassa); futurist Jeff Goldsmith; & Dan O’Neill (@dp_oneill) who...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB daniel o neill Jeff Goldsmith Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt primary care Primary Care Transformation Summit thcb gang Source Type: blogs
At the Core, Tuskegee Has Never Been Resolved
BY MIKE MAGEE
July 25, 1972 was fifty years ago this week and it is a day that all AP Science journalists know by heart. As Monday’s AP banner headline read: “On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation. Based on documents leaked by Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower at the U.S. Public Health Service, the then 29-year-old journalist and the only woman on the team, reported that the federal government let hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years in order to study th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Bill Clinton Elisabeth Holmes Mike Magee Theranos Tuskegee Source Type: blogs
I Was Wrong
BY KIM BELLARD
The New York Times had an interesting set of op-eds last week under the theme “I Was Wrong.” For example, Paul Krugman says he was wrong about inflation, David Brooks laments being wrong about capitalism, and Bret Stevens now fears he was wrong about Trump voters. Nobody fessed up about being wrong about healthcare, so I’ll volunteer.
I’ve been writing regularly about healthcare for over a decade now, with some strong opinions and often with some pretty speculative ideas. I’ve had a lot to be wrong about, and I hope I will be wrong about many of them (e.g., microplastics). ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Martin Shkreli New York Times Pandemic Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 98, Thursday July 21
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday July 21 were futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); and fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey)
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 - July 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Casey Quinlan Ian Morrison Matthew Holt Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Quickbite Interviews: Veda
I was at the AHIP conference in Vegas late last month and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quick bite interviews — around 5 mins getting (I hope) to the gist of what they & their companies are up to. I am dribbling them out –Matthew Holt
Next up is Meghan Gaffney, CEO, Veda. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech THCB Spotlights Uncategorized AHIP AHIP2022 Meghan Gaffney Veda Source Type: blogs
Be Careful What You Wish For
BY KIM BELLARD
I read the Stat News investigative piece “Health care’s high rollers,” by Bob Herman and colleagues, with interest but not much surprise. I mean, is anyone surprised anymore that healthcare CEOs often make a lot of money, and didn’t let a crisis like the pandemic dampen that? As Kaiser Family Foundation’s CEO Drew Altman told them, “Health care has become big business. We have a lot of people making a lot of money in health care, and we still have an affordability crisis in health care.”
I periodically see Twitter threads lamenting how little of that healthcare spending actually goes ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy 2022 Medscape Physician Compensation Report Kaiser Family Foundation Licensed Physicians Source Type: blogs
Quickbite Interviews: Health Chain
I was at the AHIP conference in Vegas late last month and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quick bite interviews — around 5 mins getting (I hope) to the gist of what they & their companies are up to. I am dribbling them out–Matthew Holt
Next up is Sudheen Kumar, CEO, Health Chain. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech THCB Spotlights AHIP AHIP2022 Health Chain Quickbite Interviews Sudheen Kumar Source Type: blogs
Quickbites: Health Chain
I was at the AHIP conference in Vegas late last month and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quick bite interviews — around 5 mins getting (I hope) to the gist of what they & their companies are up to. I am going to dribble them out this week.
Next up is Sudheen Kumar, CEO, of Health Chain. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech THCB Spotlights Source Type: blogs
Dr. Topol ’ s comment on LongCOVID and the heart is misleading/lacking context
By ANISH KOKA
It’s been a while but Anish Koka, a one time regular writer on THCB and occasional THCB Gang member, is back publishing up a storm on his Substack channel. You may recall that his political and clinical views don’t always mesh with some of the wooly liberals we feature on THCB (cough, cough, me), but we are delighted to be back publishing some of his pieces–starting with a look at a tweet from one of America’s most prominent cardiologists.–Matthew Holt
Given Twitter’s commitment to the truth in Medicine, I thought I would try to give them a hand by analyzing a semi-vi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka Eric Topol Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Quickbite Interviews: Accolade
I was at the AHIP conference in Vegas late last month and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quick bite interviews — around 5 mins getting (I hope) to the gist of what they & their companies are up to. I am dribbling them out–Matthew Holt
Next up is Kristin Herrera, EVP, Accolade. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech THCB Spotlights Accolade AHIP AHIP2022 Kristin Herrera Source Type: blogs
How Happify Health Became Twill: Inside the New Biz Model & What ’s Next
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Mental health digital therapeutics startup Happify Health has spent the past 5 years quietly ‘self-actualizing’ into a brand-new, tech platform company that just launched this week: Twill. This is a big pivot – not just a brand change – and we’ve got co-founder & President Ofer Leidner and newly-hired Chief Operating Officer Megan Callahan (who formerly ran Lyft Health) here to tell us how it all went down AND what will happen to the old Happify app.
Wellness-app-no-more, Twill has emerged as a health tech infrastructure company. Its core product (called Sequences) is the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Happify Health Jess DaMassa Megan Callahan Ofer Leidner Twill Source Type: blogs
M4A as a Swing Issue
BY MIKE MAGEE
“There’s common ground there—not the warm belonging of full creedal agreement, perhaps, but a place, even a welcoming place, where we can stand together.” Ian Marcus Corbin, Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Most Americans would love to believe this statement. But political reality intervenes. A March, 2022 Pew Research Center analysis found our two major parties to be “farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.”
Take, for example, Presidential hopefuls, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). They see political pay dirt on th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy HE/HI CEOs LE/LI strivers M4A Marco Rubio Mike Magee Ron DeSantis Source Type: blogs
Quickbite Interviews: NeuroFlow
I was at the AHIP conference in Vegas late last month and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quick bite interviews — around 5 mins getting (I hope) to the gist of what they & their companies are up to. I am dribbling them out–Matthew Holt
Next is Julia Kastner, CPO & Chris Molinaro, CEO, Neuroflow, and it includes a great brief product demo from Julia (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Health Technology The Business of Health Care AHIP Chris Molinaro Julia Kastner Mental Health Neuroflow Source Type: blogs
