Listen app: ResApp diagnoses respiratory ailments
I’m intrigued by an Australian company, ResApp that has developed a smartphone app to diagnose respiratory diseases by analyzing the sound signatures of coughs. The company has just completed an oversubscribed fundraising round, so I guess I’m not the only one who finds it interesting.
I interviewed the CEO, Dr. Tony Keating via email, and his answers are below. Meanwhile, check out the demo for their consumer-facing product.
What is ResApp? from ResApp Health on Vimeo.
Q1. What unmet need does ResApp serve? How big is the need?
ResApp is developing digital health solutions for the diagnosis and management of...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 28, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Devices e-health Entrepreneurs International Source Type: blogs
Good riddance: United finally gives up on ACA marketplaces
United we hardly knew ye
United Healthcare announced that it’s exiting most of the Obamacare insurance marketplaces (aka exchanges) next year. Sound like a familiar story? In fact all the recent news coverage is just a rehash of last November’s announcement that United was probably going to exit.
As I wrote at the time (United pulls out of ACA exchanges: Should we care?), United’s exit is not a huge deal. The company specializes in selling high-priced plans to corporate accounts. In the price-sensitive world of the exchanges that’s a losing proposition. No surprise — United wasn’t ge...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 27, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Health plans Policy and politics affordable care act health care health insurance exchanges health insurance marketplaces united healthcare Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review Archives: 2006-2015
June 16, 2016 - Christopher Fleming at Health Affairs Blog
June 2, 2016 - David Harlow - HealthBlawg
May 19, 2016 - Tinker Ready - Boston Health News
May 5, 2016 - Brad Wright - Wright on Health
April 21, 2016 - Peggy Salvatore - Health System Ed Blog
April 7, 2016 - Jaan Sidorov - The Population Health Blog
March 24, 2016 - Charles Gaba at ACASignups.net
March 10, 2016 - David Williams - Health Business Blog
February 25, 2016 - Louise Norris -Colorado Health Insurance Insider
February 11, 2016 - Steve Anderson at medicareresources.org blog
January 29, 2016 - Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters - 10 Year Anni...
Source: Health Wonk Review - April 25, 2016 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Health Wonk Review is up at Health System Ed
Peggy Salvatore has posted the Early Bird Catches the Worm edition of the Health Wonk Review at Health System Ed. She’s taken an interesting approach by posting in the order the submissions were received. You’ll see my post way down at the bottom, which may explain why I’m wormless.
(Source: Health Business Blog)
Source: Health Business Blog - April 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Announcements Blogs Policy and politics Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
New Health Wonk Review at Health Systems Ed Blog
Peggy Salvatore has posted Health Wonk Review: The Early Bird Catches the Worm Spring Edition at Health System Ed Blog
Please join us for a new multimedia experience (video conversation and text chat), Health Wonk Review On Air With HealthBlawg next Tuesday, April 12, at 1 pm ET for half an hour. It’s a Blab; you’ll need a Twitter account to sign up and log in. Join us live, or watch the replay here later if you can’t make it at #healthwonkreview blab (Source: Health Wonk Review)
Source: Health Wonk Review - April 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Urgent care billing: Eyebrows raised
An unhealthy discount
My wife was sick a few weekends ago so I took her to the Beth Israel urgent care clinic in Chestnut Hill where they diagnosed her with the flu. Nice modern facility. In network. Convenient parking. You get the idea. Care was good, but slow.
Then a few days ago, I received an Explanation of Benefits (EoB) from my health plan.
One reason to go to urgent care is that it’s more cost effective than the emergency room. In this case BI sent Blue Cross a bill for $1328. Blue Cross marked it down to $365.81, subtracted our co-pay ($35) and deductible ($231.68) and sent BI payment for a whopping $99.13.
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Source: Health Business Blog - April 19, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Economics Health plans Hospitals Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
KaloBios bows to the price pressure Gods (I’m quoted)
Pharma bad boy Martin Shkreli, formerly CEO of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals put the company in an uncomfortable spot with plans to jack the price of a drug for Chagas disease.
Today Fierce PharmaMarketing features me in its story explaining what’s going on at KaloBios and the implications for the broader industry. (In Shkreli’s aftermath, KaloBios vows fair pricing. Will others follow its lead?)
The company has really abased itself, essentially putting forward a plan to act like a non-profit. The industry as a whole won’t be following that maneuver! In the story I share my view that pharma has boxed itself i...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 13, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Pharma Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
KaloBios bows to the price pressure Gods (I ’ m quoted)
Pharma bad boy Martin Shkreli, formerly CEO of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals put the company in an uncomfortable spot with plans to jack the price of a drug for Chagas disease.
Today Fierce PharmaMarketing features me in its story explaining what’s going on at KaloBios and the implications for the broader industry. (In Shkreli’s aftermath, KaloBios vows fair pricing. Will others follow its lead?)
The company has really abased itself, essentially putting forward a plan to act like a non-profit. The industry as a whole won’t be following that maneuver! In the story I share my view that pharma has boxed itself i...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 13, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Pharma Policy and politics Source Type: blogs
The decline of white women’s health
The Washington Post (A great divide in American death: Statistics show widening urban-rural gap) examined death statistics and found that death rates for white women –especially rural white women– have been climbing fast. Key culprits? Self-destructive behavior such as over-eating, opioid abuse, heavy drinking, smoking, and suicide. White women still live longer than other groups, but the trend for them is bad.
According to the Post:
In at least 30 counties in the South, black women in midlife now have a lower mortality rate than middle-aged white women, The Post found. That’s up from a single such county ...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 12, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Culture Research Source Type: blogs
The decline of white women ’ s health
The Washington Post (A great divide in American death: Statistics show widening urban-rural gap) examined death statistics and found that death rates for white women –especially rural white women– have been climbing fast. Key culprits? Self-destructive behavior such as over-eating, opioid abuse, heavy drinking, smoking, and suicide. White women still live longer than other groups, but the trend for them is bad.
According to the Post:
In at least 30 counties in the South, black women in midlife now have a lower mortality rate than middle-aged white women, The Post found. That’s up from a single such county ...
Source: Health Business Blog - April 12, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Culture Research Source Type: blogs
