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Prevention is Not Only Good Health Policy, It's Good Economic Policy

By KENNETH THORPE, PhD The current debate around how to best control burgeoning health costs, has pushed the issue of prevention to the forefront. That's right where it should be. By shifting our health care to be more pro-active and... Read More...

Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 7:52 AM by The Health Care Blog

Where's the magic with electronic medical records?

By MICHAEL PAINTER Last week a new article from The American Journal of Medicine entitled, “Hospital Computing and the Costs and Quality of Care: A National Study” by Himmelstein, et al. appeared in my Twitter stream. In fact, Brian Ahier... Read More...

Published Fri, Nov 27 2009 8:21 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Electronic Medical Records

Deciding What Works

Steven Goldberg Is probably best known for the controversial "Billions of Drops in Millions of Buckets: Why Philanthropy Doesn't Advance Social Progress." In this post he looks at the ways in which success and failure are measured in his...

Published Tue, Feb 08 2011 8:38 AM by The Health Care Blog

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 47

Jessica DaMassa asks me about Patrick Soon-Shiong and his Verity hospital chain going bankrupt, whether Peerfit can justify its $8m raise, and who I’m going to see at TechCrunch Disrupt this week–Matthew Holt Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 04 2018 9:02 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Medable, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Novartis, Peerfit, Veta Health, Livio.AI, Mira, Verity, TechCrunch Disrupt, Starkey Hearing Technologies, Cy5

Physician Well-Being: Lessons From Positive Psychology

By SANJ KATYAL The absence of burnout does not equal wellness. While the focus on physician burnout as an epidemic is finally gaining more attention, we may be missing a larger issue. Most physicians are not burned out. We are able to function. We get...

Published Fri, Sep 07 2018 9:32 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Physicans, Psychology, mindfulness, physician burnout, positive psychology

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 49

Jessica DaMassa asks me about what I saw at Techcrunch Distrupt, Clarify Health Solutions’s $57m round, what Wellth will do with its $5m & a whole lot about next weeks Health 2.0 Conference–Matthew Holt Read More...

Published Mon, Sep 10 2018 11:14 PM by THCB

Filed under: Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Novartis, Veta Health, Mira, TechCrunch Disrupt, Clarify Health Solutions, Kegg, Testcard, Wellth

Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 50

Wow, today is the 50th Episode of Health in 2 Point 00. On today’s episode, we have something special for you: an Epic Guest Takeover at the Health 2.0 Conference from the “intellectual capital” (as Jessica puts it) that exists today...

Published Thu, Sep 20 2018 4:32 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health 2.0 Conference, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Singularity University, bolty boy, #health2con, jessica da massa, bayer; upmc; engagedIN

“Remember that Oath?”: EPCS and the Fight Against Opioid Abuse

By SEAN KELLY, MD As doctors, we all took an oath when we graduated from medical school to “do no harm” to patients. It is, therefore, our duty to speak up and take action when there is an opportunity to prevent harm and improve patient care, safety...

Published Tue, Sep 25 2018 9:41 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, pharmaceuticals, Opioids, Opioid crisis, EPCS

Will Apple Track Your Mind, Not Just Your Heart?

By MICHAEL MILLENSON If your heart throbs with desire for the new Apple Watch, the Series 4 itself can track that pitter-pat through its much-publicized ability to provide continuous heart rate readings. On the other hand, if you’re depressed that you...

Published Thu, Sep 27 2018 10:09 AM by THCB

Filed under: Artificial intelligence, Apple, monitoring systems, smart devices, health care

Come to the Society for Participatory Medicine conference (Boston, Oct 17)

Join me at the 2nd annual Society for Participatory Medicine (SPM) conference, co-located with the Connected Health Conference at the World Trade Center in Boston. It’s magical and very inexpensive–Matthew Holt DEMOCRATIZING HEALTH CARE! Me...

Published Tue, Oct 02 2018 10:13 AM by THCB

Filed under: Patients, Casey Quinlan, Rasu Shrestha, Sarah Krüg, Ivan Handler, Bill Marder, s4pm, Brennen Hodge, Jason Bobe, Patti Brennan

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

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

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

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

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

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