THCB Gang Episode 94, Thursday June 2
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday June 2 were regulars Grace Cordavano (@GraceCordovano); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson); and policy expert consultant/author Rosemarie Day (@Rosemarie_Day1). Gun control, hospital quality and much more all came up and were interlinked. 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: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang #THCBGang Grace Cordavano Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
AI are (going to be) people too
BY KIM BELLARD
My heart says I should write about Uvalde, but my head says, not yet; there are others more able to do that. I’ll reserve my sorrow, my outrage, and any hopes I still have for the next election cycle.
Instead, I’m turning to a topic that has long fascinated me: when and how are we going to recognize when artificial intelligence (AI) becomes, if not human, then a “person”? Maybe even a doctor.
What prompted me to revisit this question was an article in Nature by Alexandra George and Toby Walsh:Artificial intelligence is breaking patent law. Their main point is that pa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Artificial intelligence Kim Bellard Patent Uvalde Source Type: blogs
A deal on AHIP in Vegas!
I’m going to AHIP in Vegas next month and you should come too!
It’s time to be together again. It’s also time to save. Register for AHIP 2022 (formerly Institute & Expo), June 21 – 23 in Las Vegas with code THCB and save. Together, we’ll explore the ideas, innovations, and forward-thinking driving health care’s transformation. Check out the agenda and Register today with code THCB. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Mental Health ‘Formulary of the Future’? Otsuka’s Work in DTx, Psychedelics, & More
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals is expanding its mental health formulary – looking beyond traditional medications to psychedelics, and to the “intersection of technology and psychiatry” with digital therapeutics currently in clinical trials for Major Depressive Disorder. Kabir Nath, Senior Managing Director of Otsuka’s Global Pharmaceutical Business, lets us in on the thinking behind these bold moves, why the pharma co is even innovating to expand the spectrum of treatments available for mental illness in the first place, and how soon these new therapies will reach patients.
“Follow t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa WTF Health dtx Kabir Nath Mental Health Otsuka Pharmaceuticals psychedelics Source Type: blogs
British Doctor Suspended for falsely claiming she was “promised” a laptop. WTF!
BY SAURABH JHA
If forced to choose Britain’s two biggest contributions to civilizations, I’d pick the Magna Carta and the vaguely instructional “f. off.” If permitted a third, I’d choose “managerialism.” Brits are good at telling others what to do. Managerialism is how the Brits once ruled India. Buoyed by the colonial experience, British managers felt they could rule doctors.
The new Viceroy, the manager-in-chief, is the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC is a physician watchdog, funded by doctors, which works for the public good and is answerable to…well, I’ll get to that later. Their releva...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics Laptop Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service Saurabh Jha UK General Medical Council Source Type: blogs
Russ Johannesson, CEO, Glooko
Russ Johannesson has been CEO of Glooko since 2018. In that time the diabetes data platform has expanded internationally, made a couple of acquisitions, and added support for digital therapeutics and distributed clinical trials. He brought me up to date with the latest–Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Matthew Holt THCB Spotlights Glooko Russ Johannesson Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 93, Thursday May 26 1pm PT, 4pm ET
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday May 26 are medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); Suntra Modern Recovery CEO JL Neptune (@JeanLucNeptune); and be fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey). you can imagine we’ll be talking about data, and sadly guns as a public health crisis.
You can see the video below live (and later archived) & 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 - May 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Casey Quinlan JL Neptune Matthew Holt Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
#HealthTechDeals Episode 31 | Homethrive, Greater Good, Parallel Learning, Cayaba Care, Miga Health
You know what Jess just realized? We haven’t heard my opinion on Cerebral! Scandal! Firings! Intrigue! Legal Issues! Risk! Skyrocketing! Dying! Cerebral offers quite some food for thought. Check out the episode for my opinion on this incredibly fast-brewing story as well as more multi-million deals: Homethrive raises $20 million; Greater Good raises $10 million; Parallel Learning raises $20 million; Cayaba Care raises $12 million; Miga Health raises $12 million.
-Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Tech Deals Cayaba Care Greater Good Homethrive Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Parallel Learning Source Type: blogs
Defanging HIPAA: How Your De-identified Data Was Re-identified For Profit.
BY MIKE MAGEE, M.D.
Arthur Sackler continues to demonstrate just how wealthy one can become by advantaging patients and their diseases.
He’s been dead since 1987, but his ghost continues to access your personal health data, pushes medical consumption and over-utilization, and expands profits exponentially for data abusers well beyond his wildest dreams. Back in 1954, he and his friend and secret business partner, Bill Frohlich, were the first to realize that individual health data could be a goldmine. That relationship would still be a secret had it not been exposed in a messy family inheritance feud unleashed by h...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both? Uncategorized Arthur Sackler Congress HIPPA IMS Health Medical-Industrial Complex Mike Magee MQIC Source Type: blogs
Will Boeglin demos TimeDoc Health
Will Boeglin is CEO of TimeDoc Health. It’s one of a new breed of companies supplying the capability for physician groups and health systems (including FQHCs) to deliver CCM (chronic care management) and RPM (remote patient monitoring). Both of those services are now reimbursed by Medicare, and some private plans, but rolling them out and tracking all that activity–not to mention accounting and billing for it–is non-trivial for practices. That is where TimeDoc comes in. Will started the company as part of a med-school project and just raised $48m to really get it going. He showed me how it worked, and gav...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Matthew Holt THCB Spotlights CCM RPM TimeDoc Health Will Boeglin Source Type: blogs
Virtual Care Regulatory Round-Up: Telehealth & Digital Care ‘ State-of-Play ’ by Nathaniel Lacktman
BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Just as HHS extends the Covid-19 public health emergency waivers until July, we kick-off a brand-new monthly interview series about the state-of-play for all things telehealth and digital care policy and reimbursement. Called the WTF Health Virtual Care Regulatory Round-up, we’re partnering with our friends at Wheel to feature health policy experts, lobbyists, health plan folks, and other virtual care experts and insiders who can keep us updated on the changing regulations and what they will mean to those health tech co’s whose businesses rely on virtual care.
Attorney-to-the-stars-of...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Foley & Lardner Nathaniel Lacktman Telehealth Wheel WTF Health Virtual Care Regulatory Round-up Source Type: blogs
I Want to Believe
BY KIM BELLARD
I know, I should be writing about hot topics like monkeypox or the baby formula shortage, but, c’mon, Congress held hearings last week about UFOs – the first in 50 years! I mean, I followed Project Blue Book in the 1970’s, watched “The X-Files” in the 1990’s, and have seen UFO videos on YouTube. If Congress is starting to take UFO’s seriously, how could I not?
And for those of you who don’t see any possible connection to healthcare (except for those unpleasant alien probes…), let me put it to you this way: by 2050, is it more likely that:
We’ll know what UFOs actually are;...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Congress Kim Bellard The X Files UFOs Source Type: blogs
CVS Health ’s Head of Enterprise Virtual Health Weighs-in: ‘What’s Next’ for Telehealth at CVS, Aetna
BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
What are the BIG questions a BIG healthcare company like CVS Health is trying to answer when it comes to virtual care and creating the healthcare business model of the future? I’ve got Dr. Creagh Milford, CVS Health’s Head of Enterprise Virtual Health, who’s purview covers both CVS Pharmacy (9,000+ stores including 1,100 Minute Clinics) and Aetna, which provides health insurance to 39 million people.
Creagh’s big concern right now: how to weave together existing care models with virtual so 1) the consumer has a single front door and 2) the provider workforce – which includes eve...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Uncategorized WTF Health Aetna Creagh Enterprise Virtual Health Jessica DaMassa Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: Digital Health is dead (well, not quite)
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 today’s health care tidbits, the elephant in the room has truely come home to roost, and now it’s landed on the phone wire, it’s close to breaking it. OK, I have stretched that metaphor to death but you’ll get my point. Writing on THCB earlier this month Jeff Goldsmith and Eric Larsen picked up on something I’ve been saying for a while –the fall...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Hospitals Matthew Holt The Business of Health Care Cerebral digital health Livongo remote patient monitoring Teladoc venture capital Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 92, Thursday May 19 1pm PT, 4pm ET
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang at 1pm PT 4pm ET Thursday May 19 are delivery & platform expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis); Queen of all employer benefits Jennifer Benz (@Jenbenz); policy expert consultant/author Rosemarie Day (@Rosemarie_Day1); & back after a long absence dangerous radiologist Saurabh Jha (@roguerad).
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 - May 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang jen benz Matthew Holt rosemarie day Saurabh Jha Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
