November 2018 - The Health Care Blog

Many Ways of Skinning a Statistical Cat

By SAURABH JHA MD In this episode of Firing Line, Saurabh Jha (aka @RogueRad), has a conversation with Professor Brian Nosek, a metaresearcher and co-founder of Center for Open Science. They discuss the implications of this study, which showed that there...

Published Fri, Nov 30 2018 7:01 AM by THCB

Filed under: Data, Saurabh Jha, Radiology Firing Line Podcasts, data analysis, Radiology Firing Line Podcast

Consumers are Dishing On Healthcare Experiences—Be Part of the Conversation

By KARYN MULLINS Consumers aren’t taking their healthcare providers’ words for it anymore. They’re taking charge and leading a digital revolution where individuals have the power to make their own educated decisions about care. According to the Healthcare...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2018 7:02 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, The Business of Health Care, patient experiences, health consumers, Karyn Mullins, medical sales

EMRs, APIs, App stores & all that: More data

By MATTHEW HOLT, with OLIVIA DUNN & KIM KRUEGER Today I’m happy to release an update to some unique data about a pressing problem–the ability of small health tech vendors to access data from the major EMR vendors and integrate their applications into...

Published Wed, Nov 28 2018 6:42 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Allscripts, EMR, Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, health technology, API

Saying No to the Drug Crisis

By BRIAN KLEPPER In a recent essay, VIVIO Health’s CEO Pramod John guides us through four sensible drug policy changes and supporting rationales that could make drug pricing much fairer. Reading through it, one is struck by the magnitude of the drug manufacturing...

Published Tue, Nov 27 2018 5:59 AM by THCB

Filed under: Brian Klepper, pharmaceuticals, Pharma, Politics, Pfizer, drug prices

Health Care-Related Public-Private Partnerships Will Likely Become the Norm in 2019

By MARY SCOTT NABERS The United States ranks number one in the world for health care spending as a percentage of GDP. That sounds great… but, for instance, Texas ranks only 11th worldwide when it comes to performance. That’s because of access to care...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2018 6:30 AM by THCB

Filed under: Hospitals, The Business of Health Care, public-private partnerships, health innovation, health spending, Mary Scott Nabers, health care partnerships, P3, U.S. health spending

Young People Need To Turn Out For Their Health

By MERCEDES CARNETHON Last week, we saw historic turnout at the polls for midterm elections with over 114 million ballots cast. One noteworthy observation regarding voter turnout is record rates of participation by younger voters aged between 18 to 29...

Published Fri, Nov 23 2018 6:37 AM by THCB

Filed under: Research, Obesity, Politics, voter turnout, Diabetes, clinical studies, Mercedes Carnethon, young adults, heart disease

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 59

Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess interviews me all the way from London. In this episode, she asks me about Google, who hired Geisinger CEO David Feinberg to lead its health care initiatives, Driver, a startup which ran out of money just weeks after...

Published Wed, Nov 21 2018 9:47 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, pharmaceuticals, Google, Startups, Health Tech, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, regulatory, Geisinger, Driver, digital therapeutics

How to Become an Empowered Patient | ePatient Dave de Bronkart

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health “When doctors today say patients should stay off the Internet, I know they’re wrong.” — ePatient Dave de Bronkart Dave de Bronkart (aka ePatient Dave) credits online communities of other patients – and access to clinical...

Published Wed, Nov 21 2018 6:48 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Patient data, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Dave de Brokart, patient advocate, ePatient Dave, ePatients

The Burning Question: Who Will Foot the Bill for America’s Increasing Burn-Care Costs?

By CELIA BELT Each year in the United States, half a million Americans will be treated for burns so severe as to require hospitalization. The “survivors”—including more than three hundred children each day and a drastically increasing number of U.S. military...

Published Tue, Nov 20 2018 7:02 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Non-profits, burns, Celia Belt, hospital bills, burn victims

The MSSP Is No Silver Bullet for Healthcare Cost Control

But ACOs could pave the way for more significant cost-cutting based on competition. By KEN TERRY The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), it was revealed recently, achieved a net savings of $314 million in 2017. Although laudable, this victory represents...

Published Mon, Nov 19 2018 6:41 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, Physicians, Economics, Hospitals, Accountable Care Organizations, Health policy, Ken Terry, Medicare Shared Savings Program

AI Doesn’t Ask Why — But Physicians And Drug Developers Want To Know

By DAVID SHAYWITZ MD At long last, we seem to be on the threshold of departing the earliest phases of AI, defined by the always tedious “will AI replace doctors/drug developers/occupation X?” discussion, and are poised to enter the more considered conversation...

Published Fri, Nov 16 2018 6:06 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, pharmaceuticals, Tech, Artificial intelligence, Health Tech, David Shaywitz, AI

Mrs. Verma Goes to Washington

By ANISH KOKA MD Seema Verma, the Trump appointee who runs Medicare, has had an active week. The problem facing much-beloved Medicare is one that faces every other government-funded healthcare extravaganza: it’s always projected to be running out...

Published Thu, Nov 15 2018 7:15 AM by THCB

Filed under: Medicare, Physicians, Hospitals, Health policy, Health care spending, Government, Anish Koka

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 58

Today on Episode 58 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I have more to share from Exponential Medicine, but this time we’re at the Health Innovation Lab checking out all of the startups. In this episode, Jess and I talk to Meghan Conroy from CaptureProof...

Published Wed, Nov 14 2018 6:57 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Nursing, Startups, AI, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Captureproof, health innovation, Exponential Medicine, XMed, Care Angel, Voice, Humm

Health Plan Innovation Gets a ‘New Look’ | AHIP’s CEO Matt Eyles

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health “I don’t know that what they’re doing is going to be as transformative as maybe the potential of it is – and it’s going to take time. I don’t know that they’re going to ‘all-of-a-sudden’ leap frog over all the...

Published Wed, Nov 14 2018 6:52 AM by THCB

Filed under: Health insurance, CVS-Aetna, Jessica DaMassa, WTF Health, Matt Eyles, AHIP, health plan innovation, health plan, Aetna-CVS

A Conversation About the Dangers of Overhydration with Professor Timothy Noakes

By SAURABH JHA MD Professor Timothy Noakes, a South African exercise scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town who has run over 70 ultramarathons, speaks to me about the dangers of overhydration in endurance sports. Listen to our...

Published Tue, Nov 13 2018 5:47 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Saurabh Jha, Water, Radiology Firing Line, water intoxication, exercise, overhydration, hydration, running, spots, marathons