TBD Health Raises $4.4M Seed Round to Expand its Hybrid Sexual Healthcare Offerings Nationally
As Reproductive Rights are Defunded and Debated Nationally, TBD Health Aims to Democratize Access to Inclusive Sexual Care
TBD Health, a sexual healthcare provider revolutionizing the medical landscape through unparalleled digital and in-person clinical care, today announced a $4.4 million seed round led by Tusk Venture Partners, with participation from Springdale Ventures, Human Ventures, Expansion VC, Starbloom Capital, Hyphen Capital, and The Community Fund along with several strategic angels. With this new financing, TBD Health is expanding to all 50 states, democratizing access to its sexual healthcare offerings, co...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT At-Home STD Testing Bradley Tusk Daphne Chen Emergency Contraception Expansion VC Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Human Ventures Hyphen Capital Inclusive Sexual Care Repro Source Type: blogs
Let ’s Finish The Job
BY MIKE MAGEE
In President Biden’s State of the Union Address, the most oft repeated phrase was “Let’s Finish The Job!” This came as part of an appeal for partnership as well as an assertion that in his first two years as President much had been accomplished.
Several days later, as if on cue, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), joint chairs of the Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, announced that two bipartisan pieces of legislation focused on reducing the price of drugs to consumers had passed the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Both bil...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Affordable Generics and Biosimilars Act Biden Mike Magee state of the union Source Type: blogs
Empowering Type 2 diabetes patients with innovative insulin management tools [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Our guest today is James Malone, an endocrinologist and health care executive with over 30 years of experience in the field of diabetes. James has seen firsthand the challenges that many people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) face when it comes to daily insulin
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Empowering Type 2 diabetes patients with innovative insulin management tools [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Great Power Competition Is on the Arctic Agenda
Despite its military problems in Ukraine, Russia remains a formidable potential adversary in the Arctic. And there is a growing realization that China is not going away in the Arctic, bringing both of the United States ' strategic competitors into Alaska ' s backyard. Can great power politics be checked at the door of the Far North? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 16, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Abbie Tingstad; Yuliya Shokh Source Type: blogs
The CBO Budget and Economic Outlook in the Post ‐COVID Fiscal Era
Romina Boccia and Dominik LettThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its latestBudget and Economic Outlook for 2023 to 2033, providing 10 ‐year fiscal projections for the post‐COVID fiscal era. The United States is on the tail‐end of an unprecedented surge in emergency spending during which inflation hit a 40‐year record high. To control this surge in inflation, the Federal Reserve adopted a tighter monetary stan ce by increasing interest rates. In this context, CBO’s report forecasts a worsening fiscal trajectory characterized by high and rising federal debt. Pandemic spending followe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 15, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia, Dominik Lett Source Type: blogs
The fall of the patient-doctor bond: How corporate medicine is changing health care
Fifty years ago, medical graduates’ licensing required membership in the AMA, the state, and the local county societies known as organized medicine (OM). Physicians, through their OM, wrote the rules and guidelines of the practice of medicine, controlled the hospitals through their medical staff organizations, and jointly approved what health insurance covered with the insurance
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The fall of the patient-doctor bond: How corporate medicine is changing health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Edmond Cabbabe, MD Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
All Three Legs of the Obamacare Stool Are Working Well
BY GEORGE HALVORSON
When the Affordable Care Act was passed, the politics were so intense and the debates were so filled with rhetoric in all directions that most people actually didn’t understand that there were three major component parts to the strategy and program that function very directly as a package, and should be looked at now in the context of several years of implementation to see how each part of that law is currently doing.
Medicaid was our first priority.
The first component part — and the one that had the highest need for passage when the law was passed because we were doing such a horrible job...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Affordable Care Act George Halvorson Medicaid Medicare Medicare Advantage Source Type: blogs
Navigating institutional betrayal in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we’re joined by Susan MacLellan-Tobert, a pediatric cardiologist, to discuss the issue of institutional betrayal in health care. The pandemic has put a strain on health care systems and workers, leading to a term called “institutional betrayal” to describe the feeling
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Navigating institutional betrayal in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Brain and Machine Confluence Requires Multi-Sectoral Regulation To Maximize Gains
As the commercialization of brain-computer interface technology expands, it would be prudent for international policymakers to consider how this technology should be regulated, in order to reap its benefits and minimize its risks. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 15, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Sana Zakaria; Joana Gomes Beirao; Timothy Marler Source Type: blogs
Support to Ukraine Continues to Be for America First
Why should the United States spend tens of billions of dollars on a war half a world away? Because it ' s in America ' s economic and strategic interests. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 15, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Raphael S. Cohen; Gian Gentile Source Type: blogs
Preparing for the Next India-China Border Crisis
Mounting tensions between India and China due to Chinese encroachment on their disputed border affect the United States and its Indo-Pacific strategy. Washington should assist New Delhi in deterring further Chinese attempts to nibble away at Indian territory and be ready to respond quickly in case events spiral out of control. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 15, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Lisa Curtis; Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
Why Is North Korea Showing Off Its ICBMs?
On February 8, North Korea held a military parade in Pyongyang to call attention to the strengths of the North ' s military weapons, including what appeared to be 11 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Can the United States and its allies afford to wait until North Korea has dozens of ICBMs and hundreds of nuclear weapons? Because that is the direction in which Kim says he is moving. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 15, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Bruce W. Bennett; Young-jun Kim Source Type: blogs
Preventing Military Sexual Assault Is Important. So Is Getting Mental Health Care Afterward
Despite a decade of scrutiny on the issue, sexual assault and harassment in the military is still a pervasive problem. The effects of the trauma from these assaults can be lasting. So it ' s not just the military services, but also veterans ' services, that need to connect these people to appropriate care for mental health. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 15, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Julia Rollison Source Type: blogs
Give Him a Hand – No, Really
BY KIM BELLARD
When I read The Washington Post article about how a Tennessee high school student’s engineering class built him a prosthetic hand, my immediate reaction, of course, was to be touched, but my bigger reaction was, wait – high school students can now create prosthetics?
If you haven’t been paying attention, the world of prosthetics has been changing in amazing ways, and it’s not done.
The student, Sergio Peralta, was born with his right hand not fully formed, and for much of his life it was a problem. As he wrote in his own account in Newsweek: “When I got bullied at my old scho...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard LIMBER Prosthetic hands Robot Arms Source Type: blogs
How can a diagnosis of Alzheimer ’ s disease help patients and their families? [PODCAST]
This article is sponsored by the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning, an independently owned and operated full-service medical education company that has been developing certified health care education for nearly twenty years. With a special thanks to NAMI Chicago, the accompanying CME activity designed for clinicians in primary care is supported by educational grants from Lilly
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How can a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease help patients and their families? [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Sponsored Neurology Source Type: blogs
