THCB Gang Episode 121, Thursday March 23
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday March 16 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); writer Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); Suntra Modern Recovery CEO JL Neptune (@JeanLucNeptune); and Olympic rower for 2 countries and all around dynamo DiME CEO Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen).
The video will be below. If you’d rather listen to the episode, the audio is preserved from Friday as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Ian Morrison Jennifer Goldsack JL Neptune Kim Bellard Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
Throw Away That Phone
By KIM BELLARD
If I were a smarter person, I’d write something insightful about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. If I were a better person, I’d write about the dire new UN report on climate change. But, nope, I’m too intrigued about Google announcing it was (again) killing off Glass.
It’s not that I’ve ever used them, or any AR (augmented reality) device for that matter. It’s just that I’m really interested in what comes after smartphones, and these seemed like a potential path. We all love our smartphones, but 16 years after Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone we should realize th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Interview with Ogi Kavazovic, CEO of House Rx
Ogi Kavazovic, CEO of House Rx joined Matthew Holt to explain how his company is trying to ungum the specialty pharmacy market. Its a huge market with a few huge oligopolies in charge of it, and Ogi thinks there is room to work directly with the clinics responsible for most patients using injectables and provide them a better and cheaper experience. Last year they raised $30m in a round led by Bessemer, but as Ogi says there’s along way to go! (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: THCB Quickbites The Business of Health Care House Rx Matthew Holt Ogi Kavazovic specialty drugs Specialty pharmacy Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 120, Thursday March 16
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday March 16 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson); and delivery & platform expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis).
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 - March 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Ian Morrison Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Mike Magee Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
Two Patients With More Than One Diagnosis
BY HANS DUVEFELT
I have written many times about how I have made a better diagnosis than the doctor who saw my patient in the emergency room. That doesn’t mean I’m smarter or even that I have a better batting average. I don’t know how often it is the other way around, but I do know that sometimes I’m wrong about what causes my patient’s symptoms.
We all work under certain pressures, from overbooked clinic schedules to overfilled emergency room waiting areas, from “poor historians” (patients who can’t describe their symptoms or their timeline very well) to our own mental fatigue after many hours on the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Hans Duvefelt neuralgia sinusitis Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 120, Thursday March 16
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday March 16 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson); and delivery & platform expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis).
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 - March 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Ian Morrison Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Mike Magee Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
Letting AI Physicians Into the Guild
BY KIM BELLARD
Let’s be honest: we’re going to have AI physicians.
Now, that prediction comes with a few caveats. It’s not going to be this year, and maybe not even in this decade. We may not call them “physicians,” but, rather, may think of them as a new category entirely. AI will almost certainly first follow its current path of become assistive technology, for human clinicians and even patients. We’re going to continue to struggle to fit them into existing regulatory boxes, like clinical decision support software or medical devices, until those boxes prove to be the wrong shape and size for ho...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech AI physicians Kim Bellard Medical Education Prediction Source Type: blogs
A big data COVID train wreck
BY ANISH KOKA
If there was any doubt the academic research enterprise is completely broken, we have an absolute train wreck of a study in one of the many specialty journals of the Journal of the American Medical Association — JAMA Health.
I had no idea the journal even existed until today, but I now know to approach the words printed in this journal to the words printed in supermarket tabloids. You should too!
The paper that was brought to my attention is one that purports to examine the deleterious health effects of Long COVID. A sizable group of intellectuals who are still socially distancing and wearing n95s ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Anish Koka Covid research COVID-19 Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Practicing at the Top of Your License is Not an Option for Primary Care Physicians
BY HANS DUVEFELT
You don’t really need a medical degree to know how to follow an immunization schedule, to recommend a colonoscopy, or order a screening mammogram (as long as, in this country, there is a standing order – in some places, mass screenings are done outside the primary care system).
You also don’t really need a medical degree to enter data into an EMR.
And when you decide to order a test, how many of the EMR “workflow” steps really require your expertise? I mean, borrowing from my iPhone, you could say “order a CBC” and facial recognition could document that you are the ordering physician...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice EMR Hans Duvefelt primary care Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 119, Thursday March 9
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday March 9 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are writer Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard), benefits expert Jennifer Benz (@Jenbenz); Suntra Modern Recovery CEO JL Neptune; and special guest digital health investment banker Steven Wardell (@StevenWardell)
If you’d rather listen, the “audio only” version is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels — Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang jennifer benz JL Neptune Kim Bellard Matthew Holt steven wardell Source Type: blogs
What Would John Henry Rauch Do Today As A HIT Entrepreneur?
BY MIKE MAGEE
Health entrepreneurs today tend to give themselves very high grades, and seem surprised when their creations fall short of expectations due to a disconnect with funders or regulators with legal authority. But Medicine isn’t fair, and genius is not that common.
What other conclusion can you draw from the thousands of references and citations featuring Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush and his wild ideas on how to heroically treat Yellow Fever in 1793, but likely never heard of Dr. John Henry Rauch. The former signed the Declaration of Independence but directly or indirectly contributed to many an un...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Benjamin Rush John Henry Rauch Mike Magee public health sanitation Source Type: blogs
OI May Be The Next AI
In the past few months, artificial intelligence (AI) has suddenly seemed to come of age, with “generative AI” showing that AI was capable of being creative in ways that we thought was uniquely human. Whether it is writing, taking tests, creating art, inventing things, making convincing deepfake videos, or conducting searches on your behalf, AI is proving its potential. Even healthcare has figured out a surprising number of uses.
It’s fun to speculate about which AI — ChatGPT, Bard, DeepMind, Sydney, etc. – will prove “best,” but it turns out that “AI” as we’ve known it may become outdated...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Artificial intelligence health technology Kim Bellard Organoid Intelligence Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: Oh, the DEA makes me sigh….
Each time I send out the THCB Reader, our newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB (Sign up here!) I include a brief tidbits section. Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
I have always thought that the dual role of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was an anacronym that severely hampers America’s complex relationship with pharmaceuticals. Congress deems some medicines legal and regulates them via the FDA, and deems others illegal and tells the DEA and other law enforcement agencies to attempt to control their supply. Leaving aside the basic...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Adderall Controlled Substances Act DEA FDA regulations online prescribing Source Type: blogs
Ecology Rescued the AMA and Medical Professionalism Beginning in 1870. Will technology and science rescue the profession once again?
BY MIKE MAGEE
Medicine does not exist in a vacuum. The trusting relationships that underpin it function within an ever-changing environment of shifting social determinants. This is not new, nor surprising.
Consider for example the results of their 1851 survey of 12,400 men from the eight leading U.S. colleges had to be shocking. The AMA was only four years old at the time and being forced to acknowledge a significant lack of public interest in a physician’s services. This in turn had caused the best and the brightest to choose other professions. There it was in black and white. Of those surveyed, 26% planned to pur...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy AMA Ecology Mayo Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 118, Thursday March 2
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday March 2 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are DiME CEO, & Olympic rower for 2 countries Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen); writer Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); benefits expert Jennifer Benz (@Jenbenz); and Suntra Modern Recovery CEO JL Neptune (@JeanLucNeptune). Today we have also a special guest –former Permanente Medical Group CEO Robbie Pearl @robertpearlmd, who is not shy with his opinions!
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 cha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang jennifer benz Jennifer Goldsack JL Neptune Kim Bellard Matthew Holt Robert Pearl Source Type: blogs
