#HealthTechDeals, Episode 37 | Proximie, Abacus Insights, AI VF, Florence, Cara Care & Newtopia
Jess & I have been out late playing the odds in Vegas at the AHIP conference. This #healthtechdeals has a special appearance from our friend Lara Dodd at Newtopia, and then there are deals for Proximie ($80m), Abacus Insights ($28m), AI VF ($25m), Florence Health ($27m) & Cara Care ($7m) –Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Tech Deals Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Abacus Insights AHIP AI VF Cara Care Florence Health Newtopia Proximie Source Type: blogs
An Upside Down Future for Healthcare
BY KIM BELLARD
I find myself thinking about the future a lot, in part because I’ve somehow accumulated so much past, and in part because thinking about the present usually depresses me. I’m not so sure the future is going to be better, but I still have hopes that it can be better.
Two articles recently provided some good insights into how to think about the future: Kevin Kelly’s How to Future and an except from Jane McGonigal’s new book Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today that was published in Fast Company.
I’ll briefl...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Futurists health futurist Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: Is Covid over for the health care system?
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
I am beginning to wonder, is COVID over? Of course no one has told the virus that it’s over. In fact infection rates are two to three times where they were in the post-omicron lull and new variants are churning themselves out faster and faster. We still have 300 people dying every day. But since we went past a million US deaths, no one seems to care any more....
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Economics Hospitals Matthew Holt COVID Hospital at Home Hospital staffing Telehealth Source Type: blogs
#HealthTechDeals Episode 36 | Sana Health, Sesame, Bardavon, Peerwell, Aidoc
It’s the scandal inside the scandal, and we’ve got the scoop! Check out this episode of Health Tech Deals to learn more about Facebook, health data, and American Hospitals. Is someone stealing someone else’s activity and not getting rewarded for it? What about HIPPAA violations? All these questions and more are answered, along with some new deals: Sana Health raises $60 million; Seasme raises $27 million; Bardavon Health Innovations buys Peerwell; AIdoc raises $110 million.
-Mathew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Tech Deals aidoc Bardavon PeerWell Sana Health Sesame Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 96, Thursday June 16
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday June 16 were medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson); Queen of all employer benefits Jennifer Benz (@jenbenz); and Suntra Modern Recovery CEO JL Neptune (@JeanLucNeptune), who these days also hosts the Is It Serious podcast. We got into mental health, patient safety, drug advertising and whether the Jan 6 committee will make a difference.
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 & ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang jennifer benz JL Neptune Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Mike Magee The THCB Gang Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 96, Thursday June 16, 4pm ET 1pm PT
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday June 16 are medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson); Queen of all employer benefits Jennifer Benz (@jenbenz); and Suntra Modern Recovery CEO JL Neptune (@JeanLucNeptune), who these days also hosts the Is It Serious podcast.
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 - June 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang jennifer benz JL Neptune Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Mike Magee The THCB Gang Source Type: blogs
Forget Micro-Networks: How Avaneer Health is Building The One Health Data Exchange to Rule Them All
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
What BIG thing is Avaneer Health building with its $50 million SEED round backed by not-just-investors-but-also-partners CVS Health, Aetna, Anthem, Cleveland Clinic, HCSC, PNC Bank, Sentara Healthcare and IBM Watson Health? CEO Stuart Hanson stops by to clear-up the mystery that IS Avaneer Health, and how the massive data exchange platform it’s building is meant to connect the data coming out of the biggest payers and biggest providers in healthcare, directly and in real-time.
Hang on – is this the blockchain-based data exchange healthcare has been talking about for more than a ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Avaneer Health Blockchain data exchange Health Data Stuart Hanson Source Type: blogs
Global Warming and Disease
BY MIKE MAGEE
A study eight years ago, published in Nature, was titled “Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic.” The study, which analyzed more than 80,000 gene sequences from flu viruses from humans., birds, horses, pigs, and bats, concluded the 1918 pandemic disaster “probably sprang from North American domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.”
The search for origin in pandemics is not simply an esoteric academic exercise. It is practical, pragmatic, and hopefully preventive. The origin of our very own pandemic, now in its third year and claiming more than 1 million ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Uncategorized Bird Ecology Global Warming Source Type: blogs
#HealthTechDeals Episode 35 | CapitalRX, EnsoData, CareAcademy, Inne, and Boulder Care
Hear the big news? Not only has Oracle bought Cerner, but Larry Ellison says “Interoperability! What interoperability? Oracle has fixed it!” Some new funding deals: CapitalRX raises $106 million; EnsoData raises $20 million; CareAcademy raises $20 million; and Inne raises $10 million; Boulder Care raises $35.7 million. Check out the AHIP Conference 2022 taking place in Las Vegas! We’ll be there! Tickets are $100 off with code THCB. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Deals Boulder Care CapitalRX CareAcademy EnsoData HealthTechDeals Inne Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
AHIP in Vegas next week. Not too late!!
If you want to come see the best of health plans and health tech aimed at them, plus try your hand at the craps tables, it’s not too too late to get a ticket to AHIP 2022 in Las Vegas next week! Plus meet Matthew Holt & Jess DaMassa as they tour/troll the exhibit hall and look for parties!. And you can still get $100 off if you use the code “THCB”
https://www.ahip.org/conferences/ahip-2022 (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AHIP AHIP2022 Las Vegas Source Type: blogs
What ’ s Up, Docs
BY KIM BELLARD
Here’s how I’ll know when we’re serious about reforming the U.S. healthcare system: we’ll no longer have both M.D.s and D.O.s.
Now, I’m not saying that this change alone will bring about a new and better healthcare system; I’m just saying that until such change, our healthcare system will remain too rooted in the past, not focused enough on the science, and – most importantly – not really about patients’ best interests.
Let me make it clear from the outset that I have no dog in this hunt. I’ve had physicians who have been M.D.s and others who have been D.O.s, and I have no ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Inside Boulder Care ’s $36 Million Series B & Scaling Telehealth Addiction Treatment in Medicaid
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Telehealth addiction treatment clinic Boulder Care just closed a $36 million Series B. I’ve got Founder & CEO Stephanie Strong here to talk about the virtual care company’s medication-assisted approach to opioid and alcohol use disorder treatment, and its growing-bigger-by-the-day presence in the Medicaid market.
In fact, more than 95% of Boulder Care’s revenue comes in from Managed Medicaid plans, and this focus on making medications like Suboxone accessible to traditionally marginalized patients is not only better for patients (drugs like these can cut all-cause mortality r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech WTF Health Bicycle Health Boulder Care Cerebral Medicaid Mental Health Stephanie Strong substance use disorders Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: Hospital shooting reveals so much
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
In this edition’s tidbits, the nation is once again dealing with an epidemic of shootings. Now a hospital joins schools, grocery stores and places of worship on the the recent list. I was struck by how much of the health care story was wrapped up in the tragic shooting where a patient took the life of Dr. Preston Phillips, Dr. Stephanie Husen, receptionist Am...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Hospitals Matthew Holt Chronic Back Pain Gun Control gun violence medical racism opiates orthopedic treatment structural racism Source Type: blogs
Republican Health Policies Disproportionally Harm White Citizens in Their States
BY MIKE MAGEE
“As I’ve said before, I believe Dr. Ladapo is an anti-science quack who doesn’t belong anywhere near our state’s Surgeon General office, let alone running it. But now that he’s been confirmed, it’s my sincere hope that he and Governor DeSantis choose to focus on saving lives and preventing unnecessary illness instead of continuing their absurd promotion of conspiracy theories and opposition to proven public health measures — but I’m not going to hold my breath.”
If you identified these as the words of the former governor, and now Congressman Charlie Crisp, currently running to retake t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics ACA Affordable Care Act Charlie Crisp Medicaid Medicaid Expansion Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 95, Thursday June 9
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday June 9 were THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey); Principal of Worksite Health Advisors Brian Klepper (@bklepper1) & Queen of all employer benefits Jennifer Benz (@jenbenz)
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 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Brian Klepper Casey Quinlan jennifer benz Kim Bellard Matthew Holt The THCB Gang Source Type: blogs
