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Job Ad: CEO for Soleforce

Soleforce, Inc., a new digital health startup based in New York City and incubated out of the Hospital For Special Surgery (HSS), is looking for an energetic and resourceful Chief Executive Officer (or CEO) to join its founding team. Soleforce, Inc. markets...

Published Wed, Dec 13 2017 9:19 AM by THCB

Filed under: Tech

It’s Time to Truly Share the Chemo Decision With Cancer Patients

By MICHAEL MILLENSON You (or a loved one) has cancer, but the latest round of chemotherapy has unfortunately had only a modest impact. While you’re acutely aware of the “wretchedness of life that becomes worn to the nub by [ chemotherapy’s] adverse...

Published Thu, May 11 2017 11:25 AM by THCB

Filed under: Oncology, Uncategorized, Millenson, shared decision making, Chemotherapy

So what does Trump mean for new health tech?

By MATTHEW HOLT I’m a pundit who like everyone else was surprised by Trump’s victory in the (profoundly undemocratic and hopefully-to-be-abolished-soon) electoral college, and everything I say here is prefaced by the fact that there was very...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2016 3:58 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Tech, health technology, digital health, Trump

Health in 2 point 00, Episode 17

Today Jessica DaMassa asks me about the microbiome, the Dev4Health conference & whether there are more female CEOs than there used to be. All in 2 minutes, plus a bit more with me defending myself from Bruce Greenstein’s wisecracks–Matthew...

Published Mon, Apr 16 2018 1:03 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Female CEOs, Microbiome, Dev4Health

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 21

Jessica DaMassa asks me everything she can about health and technology in just 2 minutes. Including the firing of Ron Gutman at Healthtap, what happened at Dev4Health, gesture company Klue’s deals & Tom Price’s temporary lobotomy reversal...

Published Thu, May 03 2018 11:04 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Healthtap, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Dev4Health, Tom Price, Ron Gutman, Klue

MedPAC’s Proposed “Reforms” Should Be Tested Before They’re Implemented: CMS’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Is Exhibit A | Part II

By KIP SULLIVAN JD The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), one of numerous pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes authorized by the Affordable Care Act, was sprung on the Medicare fee-for-service population on October 1, 2012 without being pre...

Published Fri, Dec 07 2018 6:45 AM by THCB

Filed under: Congress, Medicare, CMS, Politics, Kip Sullivan, HRRP, MedPAC, P4P, Pay for Performance, hospital readmissions

Prior Authorizations: Will They Become Damocles Sword?

By NIRAN AL-AGBA In July 2009, the family of Massachusetts teenager Yarushka Rivera went to their local Walgreens to pick up Topomax, an anti-seizure drug that had been keeping her epilepsy in check for years. Rivera had insurance coverage through MassHealth...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2018 9:49 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Patients, Insurance companies, Medicine, Prior Authorization, Pharmaceuitcals, medical malpractice

For Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation

By VINCE KURAITIS and DEVEN McGRAW Two years ago we wouldn’t have believed it — the U.S. Congress is considering broad privacy and data protection legislation in 2019. There is some bipartisan support and a strong possibility that legislation will...

Published Wed, Feb 20 2019 8:15 AM by THCB

Filed under: Policy, Privacy, Vince Kuraitis, Data, Health policy, Artificial intelligence, Facebook, analytics, AI, Tech platforms, machine learning, GDPR, techlash, legislation, data protection, Deven McGraw, ML, Patient rights

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 65 | Microsoft-Walgreens, Google, and HIMSS

Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is braving the oncoming blizzard in Boston for MassChallenge. In this episode, Jess asks me about some crazy things happening in health tech, from the recently announced Microsoft-Walgreens partnership to compete with...

Published Mon, Jan 21 2019 7:40 AM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, HIMSS 2011, Amazon, Apple, Google, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, MassChallenge, Fossil, Microsoft-Walgreens

Making Sense of the Health Care Merger Scene

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In the past 12 months, there has been a raft of multi-billion-dollar mergers in health care. What do these deals tell us about the emerging health care landscape, and what will they mean for patients/consumers and the incumbent actors...

Published Mon, Jul 23 2018 11:39 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Hospitals, Healthcare systems, The Business of Health Care, the future of healthcare, Healthcare merger

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

Docs Wash Hands Like Guys In Gas Station Bathroom

By MICHAEL MILLENSON OK, a new study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine did not directly compare how often someone washes their hands after using a gas station bathroom and how often your doctor washes his hands... Read More...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 9:55 AM by The Health Care Blog

Conflicted

By MARYA ZILBERBERG, MD, MPH I want to digress from our recent focus on methods and talk a bit about conflict of interest (COI for short). There has been a lot in the press lately about doctors taking money from... Read More...

Published Wed, Dec 22 2010 6:00 AM by The Health Care Blog

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

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Progress Across the Pond

By TIM WILLIAMS & DAVID INTROCASO This past October CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the agency’s “Meaningful Measures” initiative.[1] Ms. Verma launched the initiative because, she admitted, the agency’s current quality measurement...

Published Thu, Apr 19 2018 12:05 PM by THCB

Filed under: Uncategorized

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