December 2017 - The Health Care Blog

What’s Wrong With American Doctors?

By BRIANNA GRAFF It is February of 2005, and my grandpa is lying in an Intensive Care Unit bed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, critically ill from a renal artery rupture that planted him face-first in his parlor. As a functioning alcoholic...

Published Thu, Dec 28 2017 12:00 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Secure your seat for live demos on precision medicine delivery at next week’s Tech Summit

Imagine if you will, a future in which a cancer diagnosis will be treated with a lifestyle change, like a chronic condition. Survivable. Manageable. Like Diabetes. Sure, to receive a cancer diagnosis today does not mean what it meant twenty years ago...

Published Tue, Dec 05 2017 2:49 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Tech, The Business of Health Care, Featured, THCBist, Trending, The Vault

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Lessons from Finance

By AJAY KOHLI, MD “We built it and we just let it run. We’re a few dudes in an office and our goal is to keep it running. It does everything we could do, except it’s significantly more powerful and it has completely automated how our work is being done...

Published Fri, Dec 08 2017 3:28 PM by THCB

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FDA, VCs, Big Ideas, and more at WinterTech

WinterTech is almost one month away, and we’re extremely excited about the final agenda. The 2018 edition of WinterTech will be not only be focusing on the new investment treads in digital health, but will take a in-depth look into the revolution...

Published Mon, Dec 11 2017 12:33 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Economics, Tech, THCBist, Trending, The Vault

The Boys From Silicon Valley

By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE A few weeks ago one man, named @jack, decided that millions of people will be allowed to use up to 280 characters when expressing themselves on Jack’s public square platform. One man decides how many letters each and every one of...

Published Thu, Dec 14 2017 9:42 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Sean Parker, Mark Zuckerberg, Techno-drugs, Keytruda, Dopamine Labs

The Fight to End Alzheimer’s Should Start Earlier Than You Think

By SHANNON HALLOWAY & MELISSA KALENSKY A patient walked into clinic wearing only a hospital gown, feet bare and EKG wires trailing. Just hours after having surgery, his dementia had prompted him to wander out of the hospital and walk two miles to...

Published Sat, Dec 16 2017 8:25 AM by THCB

Filed under: prevention, Alzheimer's, Uncategorized, Dementia

Connecting the Dots: Referrals between Medical Care and Community Resources

By JOELLE JUNG & VALERIE LEWIS Policymakers and providers all agree that addressing patients’ non-medical needs will be critical to improving health, health care, and health care costs, but little progress has been made towards integrating traditionally...

Published Mon, Dec 18 2017 10:51 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

An Ode to Evidence-Based Health Policy

By ANISH KOKA, MD A recent kerfuffle ensued when a CDC analyst leaked details of a meeting that noted a list of banned words and phrases that included ‘evidence-based’ and ‘science-based’. This most recent assault on reason from the Trump administration...

Published Tue, Dec 26 2017 7:46 AM by THCB

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The Health Care System in 2018: Combat Zones to Watch

By PAUL KECKLEY Entering the home stretch on 2017, the stage is set for some classic duels next year: they’re about money and control and they’re playing out already across the industry. Here’s the five combat zones to watch: Hospitals vs. insurers: This...

Published Fri, Dec 29 2017 10:37 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Paul Keckley

Could Artificial Intelligence destroy radiology by litigation claims?

By, Hugh Harvey MBBS BSc (Hons) FRCR MD (res) We’ve all heard the big philosophical arguments and debate between rockstar entrepreneurs and genius academics – but have we stopped to think exactly how the AI revolution will play out on our own turf? At...

Published Sun, Dec 03 2017 2:14 PM by THCB

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What does the Concorde Tell Us About Healthcare Technology in the 21st Century?

By JOE FLOWER I am spending this month in the English Midlands in Stratford-on-Avon hard by the canal, the Bard’s town of quaint half-timbered Tudor pubs with “established 1482” on the plaques, and I am thinking about medical technology. I am here with...

Published Wed, Dec 06 2017 6:49 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Hey Watson, Can I Sue You?

By JAYSON CHUNG & AMANDA ZINK Currently, three South Korean medical institutions – Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Pusan National University Hospital and Konyang University Hospital – have implemented IBM’s Watson for Oncology artificial...

Published Sun, Dec 10 2017 10:19 AM by THCB

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Innovation vs. Implementation

By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD One word: implementation. Increasingly, I’m convinced that the underappreciated challenges of implementation describe the ever-expanding gap between the promise of emerging technologies (sensors, AI) and their comparatively limited...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2017 8:38 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized, Innovation, David Shaywitz, Daimler Benz AG, Shaywitz

Applying Psychology to the Challenge of Internal Health Adoption

By AMELIA EDWARDS Adoption of technology in the healthcare field has been happening at an incredibly slow pace. This is a fact that few would disagree with. The market is saturated with health tech companies that are vying to be the next big unicorn in...

Published Thu, Dec 14 2017 10:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Tech, Uncategorized, Junto Health, Adoption, Psychology

Trump, Stalin and the Price of Replacing Science with Ideological B.S.

By ART CAPLAN Donald Trump and many of his closest advisors have been accused of colluding with Russia to win his election as President. We shall see what Robert Mueller and the FBI discover in that regard. But, whatever truth emerges there is no doubt...

Published Sat, Dec 16 2017 12:14 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

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What’s Wrong With American Doctors?

Secure your seat for live demos on precision medicine delivery at next week’s Tech Summit

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Lessons from Finance

FDA, VCs, Big Ideas, and more at WinterTech

The Boys From Silicon Valley

The Fight to End Alzheimer’s Should Start Earlier Than You Think

Connecting the Dots: Referrals between Medical Care and Community Resources

An Ode to Evidence-Based Health Policy

The Health Care System in 2018: Combat Zones to Watch

Could Artificial Intelligence destroy radiology by litigation claims?

What does the Concorde Tell Us About Healthcare Technology in the 21st Century?

Hey Watson, Can I Sue You?

Innovation vs. Implementation

Applying Psychology to the Challenge of Internal Health Adoption

Trump, Stalin and the Price of Replacing Science with Ideological B.S.