October 2018 - The Health Care Blog

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

THCB Spotlights: TestCard

A few weeks back, I met with TestCard (another Brit like me) at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018. Greg, from TestCard, spoke to me about how their device can test multiple different illnesses using urine and a clinical grade camera, which then spits out results...

Published Mon, Oct 01 2018 1:52 PM by THCB

Filed under: prevention, Tech, UK, NHS, pregnancy detection, THCB Spotlights, testcard uk, FemTech, fertility, STI detection

10 Houses, 2 Days, 1 City SERENDIPITY Returns to SF and We’re Joining In!

By ANNE COCQUYT On October 26-27 SERENDIPITY is coming back to San Francisco with an opportunity-packed, two-day personal and professional development conference. Hosted by the digital networking platform GUILD, this conference is not your average conference...

Published Fri, Oct 12 2018 9:23 AM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

4 Signs that Disruption is Accelerating in Health Care Delivery

By REBECCA FOGG Hardly a day goes by that I don’t read the term “Disruptive Innovation” cited in relation to health care delivery. This might seem like a good thing, given that our expensive, wasteful, and in some cases frightfully ineffective traditional...

Published Fri, Oct 05 2018 8:56 AM by THCB

Filed under: Technology, Patients, Tech, The Business of Health Care, Disruption, disruptive innovation, Finance, disrupt, Health care Disruption

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

Expensive Hospitals: The Enemy Within

By ANISH KOKA MD Everyone agrees that health care is bankrupting the nation. The prevailing winds have carried the argument that a system that pays per unit of health care delivered and thus favors volume over value is responsible. The problem, you see...

Published Mon, Oct 01 2018 10:02 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Incentives, Anish Koka, Finance, health care, expensive health care, finances, health care finances

Obesity Training and Reimbursement Should be a Higher Priority

By: HANNAH MARTIN; JENNY BOGARD; WILLIAM DIETZ, MD; ANNE VALIK; NICHOLE JANNAH; CHRISTINE GALLAGHER; ANAND PAREKH, MD; DON BRADLEY MD The United States has been facing a mounting obesity epidemic...

Published Thu, Oct 11 2018 9:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Obesity, health care, Obesity Prevention, NOCW 2018, Obesity Week 2018, childhood obesity, Adult obesity prevalence, Obesity prevalence

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 53

Where is Matthew Holt reporting from today? He is at the Novartis Biome Launch Event! And that’s not all, we have some special guest stars for you: Unity Stoakes from StartUpHealth and Zoya Khan from THCB & SMACK.health! Join Jessica Da Massa...

Published Thu, Oct 11 2018 6:00 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Tech, Health Tech, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Novartis, health innovation, novartis biome, hit lab, Startuphealth

AMA to Health Tech: Call a Doctor

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health “That’s why we’re investing so heavily in the innovation space…we look at physicians and how they’re spending their days. The amount of time they’re spending clicking away on their EHRs, wasting time – we think we...

Published Mon, Oct 15 2018 7:59 AM by THCB

Filed under: AMA, American Medical Association, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Jack Resneck, physician innovators

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

A Challenge Posed; A Challenge Answered

SPONSORED POST By JOHN EL-MARAGHY What is the first word that comes into mind when someone says “health” or “health tech?” In 2018, the answer is likely “Opioid” and “Artificial Intelligence (AI).” With a growing public interest in combating opioid abuse...

Published Tue, Oct 09 2018 7:12 AM by THCB

Filed under: Tech, Catalyst @ Health 2.0

Egg Freezing Fertile for Disruption Says Freeze.Health

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health Although egg freezing was only approved for general use six years ago, the business is fertile ground for disruption according to Jen Lannon, co-founder of website Freeze.Health. Jen and her co-founder, Sidonia Swarm, started...

Published Mon, Oct 08 2018 9:04 AM by THCB

Filed under: Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Jen Lannon, women's fertility, egg freezing, freeze.health

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 52

Today on the 52nd episode of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess reports from InsurTechConnect 2018! In this episode, Jess asks Matthew about RockHealth’s $6.8 billion fundraise to date & its $3 Billion raise in Q3, Weight Watcher’s rebranding...

Published Sat, Oct 06 2018 11:42 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Tech, Rock Health, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, jessica da massa, weight watchers, mavenclinic, insurtechconnect, OAK HC/FT

THCB Spotlights: CY5

I know we have been bombarding you all with a bunch of videos and announcements, but there are some really interesting pieces of health tech that are launching and events that are happening in the Fall. Today I wanted to spotlight another really cool...

Published Wed, Oct 03 2018 12:32 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

Treating Mental Health Disorders with Art

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health In honor of World Mental Health Day, I’m sharing the story of PeaceLove Studios and its founder & artist-in-chief, Jeff Sparr. Jeff‘s built an expressive arts program to help millions cope with mental health...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2018 10:45 AM by THCB

Filed under: Mental Health, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, world mental health day, Jeff Sparr, mental wellness, PeaceLove Studios