My Cancer Story
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
On Christmas Eve 2014, I received a present of some profoundly unwelcome news: a 64 slice CT scan confirming not only the presence of a malignant tumor in my neck, but also a fluid filled mass the size of a man’s finger in my chest cavity outside the lungs. Two days earlier, my ENT surgeon in Charlottesville, Paige Powers, had performed a fine needle aspiration of a suspicious almond-shaped enlarged lymph node, and the lab returned a verdict of “metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with an occult primary tumor”.
I had worked in healthcare for nearly forty years when ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice The Business of Health Care Cancer Jeff Goldsmith Medicare Advantage Patient Experience Source Type: blogs
Patients are Not “Consumers”: My Cancer Story
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
On Christmas Eve 2014, I received a present of some profoundly unwelcome news: a 64 slice CT scan confirming not only the presence of a malignant tumor in my neck, but also a fluid filled mass the size of a man’s finger in my chest cavity outside the lungs. Two days earlier, my ENT surgeon in Charlottesville, Paige Powers, had performed a fine needle aspiration of a suspicious almond-shaped enlarged lymph node, and the lab returned a verdict of “metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with an occult primary tumor”.
I had worked in healthcare for nearly forty years when ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice The Business of Health Care Cancer Jeff Goldsmith Medicare Advantage Patient Experience Source Type: blogs
Stephanie Strong, CEO, Boulder
Stephanie Strong is the CEO of Boulder, which has been blazing a trail in the virtual treatment of substance use disorder. She left venture capital to start the company and has been steadily building its capabilities and reach. We talked in depth about how Boulder helps its patients, who are predominantly on Medicaid and in general tend–as you’d expect–not to have easy circumstances. One remarkable thing Stephanie has done is spearhead resistance to the DEA’s proposal to ban telehealth prescribing of the anti-addiction drug Buprenorphine. And it looks like that campaign has been successful. that alo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Medical Practice Buprenorphine DEA opiates Stephanie Strong Source Type: blogs
75 Blessed Quotes to Help You Appreciate The Good Things in Life
Sometimes we get lost in negative thoughts.
About what went wrong. About what we lack. And about the less fun parts of life at this time.
If you're in such a place today – or just want to start or finish your day in a positive way – then I hope these 75 blessed quotes will help you out.
And open your eyes, shift your perspective to all the small and bigger good things and blessings you still have in your life.
And if you want even more blessings and count your blessings quotes then check out this post with good morning blessings and this one filled with new week blessings.
Inspirational Blessed Quotes
“When...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - December 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
NODE.Health ’ s Digital Medicine Conference
Next week is the NODE.Health Digital Medicine Conference in New York. Dec 6-8. It features a great line up of speakers and digital health tech luminaries & THCB readers can get a 30% discount using the code THCB30. Register here (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech NODE.health Source Type: blogs
Mysterious Makes You Attractive and Interesting
This article delves into the captivating world of mystery, exploring its ability to amplify our appeal and the practical ways in which we can cultivate an aura of mystery around ourselves.
The Magnetic Appeal of Mystery
Mankind has been perennially intrigued by the unseen and the unknown. From ancient myths to contemporary cinema, the concept of mystery has captivated our collective imagination. But what exactly makes mystery so attractive?
The Thrill of the Unseen
Human beings are innately inquisitive creatures. We are drawn towards the unexplored and the unexplained. When someone carries an air of mystery, it...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Yoga Tags: confidence featured philosophy psychology Source Type: blogs
How to Stay Positive During Difficult Times: 14 Helpful Tips
When life changes and a difficult time begins then it’s not always easy to remain positive.
I know.
Even if you’re pretty optimistic and positive in daily life, it’s easy to get dragged down into pessimism and a sad funk when you’re having a rough week or tough month.
But being able to keep a positive mindset can make a big difference.
So in today’s post I’d like to share the best tips and habits that have helped me over the past 10+ years and still helps me today to handle times like that in a better, healthier and more helpful way.
I truly hope you’ll find something helpful here.
1. Feel what you feel and ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - November 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Special: Episode 138, Thursday 30 November 2023 with Jen Goldsack
On #THCBGang today we have a special solo episode with Olympic rower for 2 countries and Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen) joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy). It’s at at 1pm PST 4pm EST on Thursday November 30. Find out about what DiME is and does, and what projects it is pushing forward in the future of health tech.
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 - November 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang #THCBGang Jennifer Goldsack Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
Health Innovation & Data: Five Common Missteps (and How to Interrupt Them)
By MARIE COPOULOS
I’ve had the great fortune of spending much of my career at the intersection of health care innovation and the underlying data that drives new models.
For those of us who’ve worked in this space for a long time, there’s a certain pattern recognition that comes with this work that is often immediate and obvious – both in terms of really cool developments but also gotchas. “Ah, you’re stumbling here. Everyone does that.”
The challenge, I’ve found, is that these ‘gotchas’ that can be so visible to the folx who’ve worked in health tech for the past few decades can be counterintu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bardavon Health Innovations Data Marie Copoulos Teams Source Type: blogs
70 Good Evening Blessings for Joy, Gratitude and Optimism
The evening is here.
The stars and moon come out and it’s time to relax a bit, to spend time with friends and family and on hobbies.
To help you to make this a wonderful evening for yourself and the people you may want to send a message to, I'd like to share 70 inspiring and joyful blessings.
I hope you’ll find something here that’ll be helpful both for yourself and your loved ones.
And if you want even more inspirational blessings then check out this post with good morning blessings and this one filled with Monday blessings.
Good Evening Blessings on Joy
“Have a peaceful and relaxing evening, my love. Know that ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - November 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Amazon Can Still Surprise Me
By KIM BELLARD
It’s Cyber Monday, and you’ve probably been shopping this weekend. In-stores sales on Black Friday rose 2.2% this year, whereas online sakes rose almost 8%, to $9.8b – over half of which was via mobile shopping. Cyber Monday, though, is expected to outpace Black Friday’s online shopping, with an estimated $12b, 5.4% higher than last year.
Lest we forget, Amazon’s Prime Day is even bigger than either Cyber Monday or Black Friday.
All that shopping means lots of deliveries, and here’s where I got a surprise: according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, Amazon is now the leadin...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech The Business of Health Care Amazon AWS Delivery Kim Bellard Pharmacy Pillpack Source Type: blogs
How Patient Activation Made It Possible to Thrive with Kidney Disease
By DAVE WHITE
It had been 10 years since I’d seen a doctor when I arrived at the Emergency Room at George Washington University Hospital in October 2009. I was able to climb the first flight of stairs, but after I froze on the second, they brought me in on a wheelchair.
That was the first time I heard the dreaded words, “Your kidneys aren’t working.” I was put on dialysis immediately, and my life transformed into a series of tests and procedures. But even after three weeks at the hospital, it didn’t sink in that there was no cure.
I checked most risk factors for kidney disease: I ate the wrong foods, smo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy chronic kidney disease Dave White Patient Activation Measure Patient Activism patient advocacy Source Type: blogs
Engage with Grace
Alex Drane started this movement in 2008 & named it Engage with Grace. What are your loved one’s wishes at the end of life? Are you with them this Thanksgiving weekend? This one slide can help you start the conversation (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Awakening Your Dormant Talents
Do you have a talent that you no longer develop? Do you have some potential that you are no longer using?
I wrote about this topic years ago. At that time, I wrote that my dormant talent was coding. I have a background in computer science, but at that time I hadn’t developed an app in years. My wish was to develop my coding talent again.
Fast forward to the present, I’m happy to report that I have been developing my coding talent! I’ve developed several apps in the past years, and I still do now. So, my coding talent is no longer dormant. It still has a lot of room for improvement, but I’ve been working on it...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
(We Don ’ t) Trust The Science
By KIM BELLARD
I know the A.I. community is eagerly waiting for me to weigh in on the Sam Altman/OpenAI dramedy (), but I’m not convinced this isn’t all a ploy by ChatGPT, so I’m staying away from it. A.I. may, indeed, be an existential issue for our age, but it’s one of many such issues that I fear we’re not, as a society, going to be equipped to handle.
Last week the Pew Research Center issued an alarming report Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline. Now, a glass half-full kind of person might look at it and say – no, it’s good news! Fifty-seven pe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Creationism Education Kim Bellard Science STEM Source Type: blogs
