October 2018 - The Health Care Blog

Life-Saving Data That Is Nowhere To Be Found: Hospitals’ C-section Rates

By DANI BRADLEY, MS, MPH The United States is the only developed nation in the world with a steadily increasing maternal mortality rate — and C-sections are to blame. Nearly 32% of babies are born via C-section in the United States, a rate of double or...

Published Wed, Oct 31 2018 6:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Hospitals, Tech, Data, Pregnancy, maternal health

Facts, Conclusions, and More Questions on the Road to Solving Disparities

By SCOTT COOK, PhD We tested whether new payment mechanisms could be harnessed in health care delivery reform to reduce health and health care disparities. Here’s what we found. First, there were facts that couldn’t be ignored: #1: Children in rural Oregon...

Published Tue, Oct 30 2018 6:46 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicaid, Health Disparities, Uncategorized, Health care payment reform, health care delivery reform, health care disparities

Silencing Noisy Health Care?

By MATTHEW HOLT As you’ve probably heard (enough!) from me and Indu Subaiya over recent months on video, at Health 2.0 or here on THCB, we are finally arriving at the point where health care tech is “flipping the stack” — where...

Published Mon, Oct 29 2018 9:20 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Tech, Livongo, Tech platforms

All Health Policy Is Local: The Case of the Individual Mandate Penalty in New York

By CHRISTINE EIBNER, SARAH NOWAK, PREETHI RAO Although signed into law in 2010, the Affordable Care Act has been in constant flux, with key aspects changing due to time-dependent provisions, Supreme Court decisions and shifts in U.S. policy. The effects...

Published Mon, Oct 29 2018 9:34 AM by THCB

Filed under: Politics, ACA, Health policy, New York Health Care

Hospitals Can and Should Support Employees Who Are Victims of Domestic Violence: Here’s How

By PATRICK HORINE Every October we recognize Domestic Violence Awareness Month, an important opportunity to discuss this widespread social and public health problem and to take stock of what we can do better to protect victims of domestic abuse. Unfortunately...

Published Fri, Oct 26 2018 1:24 PM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Hospitals, domestic violence awareness, workforce;, Domestic Violence

The Futility of Patient Matching

By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD The original sin of health records interoperability was the loss of consent in HIPAA. In 2000, when HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) first became law, the Internet was hardly a thing in healthcare. The...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2018 9:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, ONC, Politics, HIE, Interoperability, TEFCA

The November 6 Midterm Elections and Their Impact on Obamacare:Q&A

By ETIENNE DEFFARGES 1) What is the likelihood the ACA will be repealed? This straightforward question has a very simple answer: It depends on the results of the upcoming November 6 U.S. congressional elections. If the Republicans retain control of both...

Published Wed, Oct 24 2018 9:15 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Politics, ACA, Obamacare, health care, Midterm Elections

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 55

We missed our chance to do a Happy Hour Health in 2 Point 00 at Connected Health in Boston (but let’s be honest, those are usually not the most cogent pieces of information in health and technology). Join Jess as she gets my take on the conference starting...

Published Tue, Oct 23 2018 10:37 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, Matthew Holt, AMA, Susannah Fox, Medicaid, Don Berwick, Society for Participatory Medicine, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, SMACK.health, FemTech, guild serendipity, don norman, SPM, devoted health

A conversation about Health Policy with Elizabeth Rosenthal

By SAURABH JHA, MD The acclaimed author of “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back” physician, and now Editor-in-Chief of Kaiser Health News, Dr. Elizabeth Rosenthal speaks to me about health...

Published Mon, Oct 22 2018 8:01 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

THCB Spotlights: Livio AI

Today we are featuring another #TechCrunchDisrupt2018 THCB Spotlight. Matthew Holt interviews LivioAI, which is an AI hearing aid created by Starkey Technologies. Worldwide, there are 700 Million people with hearing loss but only 10% wear a device to...

Published Fri, Oct 19 2018 1:00 PM by THCB

Filed under: Tech, Artificial intelligence, Livio.AI, THCB Spotlights, Techcrunchdisrupt2018, Starkey Technologies, hearing aids

Hoarding Patient Data is a Lousy Business Strategy: 7 Reasons Why

By VINCE KURAITIS & LESLIE KELLY HALL Among many healthcare providers, it’s been long-standing conventional wisdom (CW) that hoarding patient data is an effective business strategy to lock-in patients — “He who holds the data, wins”. However…we’ve...

Published Wed, Oct 17 2018 10:50 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, primary care, Tech, HIE, Data, HIPAA, patient engagement, Interoperability, health information exchange, value-based care, HealthIT, Information Blocking, patient loyalty, referral leakage, strategy, hoarding, interop

LIVE — #SPM2018

Here’s the live stream of today’s Society for Participatory Medicine’s conference in Boston: Read More...

Published Wed, Oct 17 2018 6:34 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Make Hackathons Fair Again

By FRED TROTTER On Oct 19, I will begin to MC the health equity hackathon in Austin TX, which will focus on addressing healthcare disparity issues. Specifically, we will be using healthcare data to try and make an impact on those problems. Our planning...

Published Wed, Oct 17 2018 6:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: Tech, Healthcare, health equity, Hack-a-thon, hackathon

Ensuring that the 21st Century Cures Act Health IT Provisions Promotes Interoperability and Data Exchange

By KENNETH D. MANDL, MD; DAN GOTTLIEB; JOSH C. MANDEL, MD The opportunity has never been greater to, at long last, develop a flourishing health information economy based on apps which have full access to health system data–for both patients and...

Published Tue, Oct 16 2018 11:12 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, Patients, primary care, Medicaid, Politics, Tech, HIE, HIPAA, patient engagement, Interoperability, health information exchange, value-based care, HealthIT, Information Blocking, patient loyalty, referral leakage, strategy, hoarding, Business model, interop

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 54

On Today’s episode of healthin2point00, Jess asks me about the CVS & Aetna’s merger, CSweetner & HIMSS new partnership in women’s health care, HLTH’s new pledge with Parity.org, Noona Healthcare getting acquired by Varian Health Systems...

Published Mon, Oct 15 2018 11:53 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

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Life-Saving Data That Is Nowhere To Be Found: Hospitals’ C-section Rates

Facts, Conclusions, and More Questions on the Road to Solving Disparities

Silencing Noisy Health Care?

All Health Policy Is Local: The Case of the Individual Mandate Penalty in New York

Hospitals Can and Should Support Employees Who Are Victims of Domestic Violence: Here’s How

The Futility of Patient Matching

The November 6 Midterm Elections and Their Impact on Obamacare:Q&A

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 55

A conversation about Health Policy with Elizabeth Rosenthal

THCB Spotlights: Livio AI

Hoarding Patient Data is a Lousy Business Strategy: 7 Reasons Why

LIVE — #SPM2018

Make Hackathons Fair Again

Ensuring that the 21st Century Cures Act Health IT Provisions Promotes Interoperability and Data Exchange

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 54