May 2018 - The Health Care Blog - The Network of Care

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 28

With .health‘s Jennifer Lannon again running the camera and with guest appearances from Bayer’s Aline Noizet and Health 2.0’s Emily Hagermen, Jessica DaMassa asked me about Health 2.0 Europe, DCtoVC, the other goings on in Stiges, Spain...

Published Tue, May 29 2018 10:20 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, #Healthin2pt00, EC2VC, #himsseurope2018, Infermedica, #health2eu

Health in 2 point 00 — Episode 26

This week we’re on location in Europe! Sitges near Barcelona to be exact, the site of the 2018 HIMSS Europe & Health 2.0 Conference. There, with our friend Jennifer Lannon from .health acting as emergency camera crew, Jessica DaMassa pins me...

Published Sun, May 27 2018 11:58 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health in 2 Point 00

Bad Blood & Mad Love at Theranos—Psychopaths at Work

By MATTHEW HOLT I’ve been kidding John Carreyrou on Twitter that I was going to give Bad Blood, his tale about the Theranos fraud, a one star review because he never sent me a preview copy. But it’s a barn burner, and I can’t recommend it enough, even...

Published Fri, May 25 2018 2:06 PM by THCB

Filed under: The Business of Health Care, Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, Bad Blood, John Carreyrou

WTF Health | Scaling Up NLP with Simon Beaulah of Linguamatics

By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of the health industry and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews...

Published Fri, May 25 2018 1:29 PM by THCB

Filed under: EMR, NLP, AI, Jessica DaMassa, #HIMSS18, WTF Health, HealthIT, Simon Beaulah, Natural language processing, Linguamatics

Double Standards, Trojan Style

By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD The University of Southern California (USC) appears to look the other way when male physicians harass or assault women. In reality, sexual violence spares no occupation, including medicine, but the way an organization responds to...

Published Thu, May 24 2018 8:48 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Op-Ed, #MeToo, Sexual Assault, USC

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

By MEGHAN CONROY These days I’m spending a lot of time getting in depth with many tech companies. From time to time I’ll be asking those innovators to tell their story on THCB, and suggest what problems they are solving. First up is Meghan...

Published Wed, May 23 2018 1:08 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Meghan Conroy, Captureproof

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 25

It’s late late at #hin2pt00 central. But somehow Jessica DaMassa wakes me up enough to get my views on Redbrick & Virgin Pulse, the VA finally inking the Cerner deal and Iora Health getting another $100m to build out their primary care model...

Published Tue, May 22 2018 12:39 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Wellness, Cerner, VA, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Redbrick Health, Virgin Pulse, Iora Health

The Ethics of Keeping Alfie Alive

By SAURABH JHA Of my time arguing with doctors, 30 % is spent convincing British doctors that their American counterparts aren’t idiots, 30 % convincing American doctors that British doctors aren’t idiots, and 40 % convincing both that I’m not an idiot...

Published Mon, May 21 2018 6:18 AM by THCB

Filed under: Op-Ed, Uncategorized, AlfieEvans

‘Immigrants’ Bring Patient Engagement Energy

By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON An Irish software expert who’d been helping companies sell on eBay walks into a room with a Slovenian inventor who’d built a world-class company in the “accelerator beam diagnostics market.” (Don’t ask.) What they share is not...

Published Sun, May 20 2018 10:21 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Michael Millenson, mHealth, Healthcare, Immigration, patient engagement, digital health, inventor, Entrepreneurs, software start-ups, engineer

SMACK.Health–Getting Clear on the Concept

I’m going to be announcing some big changes on THCB and with my overall services in the next little bit. So to prepare for this, here’s a rather good explanation I did last year in Australia of what I mean by SMACK.health — randomly...

Published Fri, May 18 2018 6:59 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Jessica DaMassa, SMACK.health

Will Cancer Drugs Ever Be As Affordable As Retrovirals in Developing Countries?

By ASHLEY ANDREOU In 2014, the majority of international health aid was dedicated to HIV. So, one might reasonably assume that this is the largest health problem facing the world. Yet, HIV only constitutes 4% of the global burden of disease. In 2014,...

Published Thu, May 17 2018 7:37 AM by THCB

Filed under: Op-Ed, Cancer, Retrovirals, Biologic generics, Pharmaceuitcals

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 24

In this edition of Health in 2 point 00, Jessica DaMassa asks me about enterprise sales (Qventus, Medicity, Health Catalyst), DTC vs Enterprises as a market, the VA allowing nationwide telehealth,, and the TEAP & TEFCA frameworks (that last answer...

Published Wed, May 16 2018 1:04 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, VA, Telehealth, Health Catalyst, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Qventus, TEFCA, DTC, 21st Century Cures, Medicity

Mudit Garg, Qventus on the $30m raise

By MATTHEW HOLT Another day, another $30m round in health tech. On Monday Qventus raised that from Bessemer Partners, with Mayfield, Norwest and NY Presbyterian kicking in too. That brings their total to $43m in so far–not bad for a 75 person company...

Published Mon, May 14 2018 10:08 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Tech, Artificial intelligence, Hospital Operations, Mudit Garg, Qventus

Real World Evidence (RWE) vs Randomized Control Trials (RCT): The Battle For the Future of Medicine

By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD Randomized control trials – RCTs – rose to prominence in the twentieth century as physicians and regulators sought to evaluate rigorously the performance of new medical therapies; by century’s end, RCTs had become, as medical historian...

Published Mon, May 14 2018 5:23 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Alfie Evans and the Medical Ethics of Suffering

By PRADHEEP J. SHANKER, MD Sadly, the case of Alfie Evans came to a close this week, as he passed away in his hospital room surrounded by his parents. The debate over the medical ethics involved goes on. Ultimately, there are extensive moral, philosophical...

Published Sun, May 13 2018 9:24 AM by THCB