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Apple Watch Leaves Patients Connected with No Where To Go

By GRACE CORDOVANO, Ph.D., BCPA The highly anticipated unveiling of the Apple Watch Series 4 caused a news and social media sensation. Apple coined the iconic timepiece as the “guardian of your health”, with health tracking functionalities such as the...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2018 9:15 AM by THCB

Filed under: Tech, mHealth, Apple, Wearables, PatientAdvocacy, Apple Event, DigitalHealth, AppleWatch, Healthcare innovation

Another Round of NYC Curated Matchmaking through DHMP!

SPONSORED POST By JOHN EL-MARAGHY The New York City Economic Development Corporation and Catalyst @ Health 2.0 are thrilled to announce another round of Digital Health Marketplace matchmaking coming up on December 5th! Since 2013, the Digital Health Marketplace...

Published Tue, Oct 02 2018 1:41 PM by THCB

Filed under: Catalyst @ Health 2.0

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

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

Please support Charles Gaba at ACASignups

By CHARLES GABBA It’s pretty rare that I ask THCB readers to go over to another blog and support that blog with money BUT, today is the day to do that. Charles Gabba has been THE leading source of information about exactly who is signing up for...

Published Sun, Oct 14 2018 3:45 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB, Politics, ACA, Obamacare, ACA Database, Trump, Charles Gaba

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

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

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

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

2018 Midterms: The Year of the Female Physician

By NIRAN AL-AGBA MD While women make up more than half of the U.S. population, an imbalance remains between who we are as a nation and who represents us in Congress. The gender disparity is no different for physicians: more than one third of doctors in...

Published Mon, Nov 05 2018 6:26 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Politics, Women, Niran Al-Agba, Midterm Elections

Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 71 | Livongo’s SIGNUM 2019, Bobblehead Edition!

Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are at Livongo’s SIGNUM 2019 conference in San Francisco—in bobblehead form. In this episode, Jess asks me about my key takeaways from the conference, which focused on chronic condition solutions. It was...

Published Sat, Mar 02 2019 12:23 PM by THCB

Filed under: Matthew Holt, Chronic conditions, Glen Tullman, Health in 2 Point 00, Jessica DaMassa, Livongo, SIGNUM 2019, chronic disease management

Standing Rock Two Years Later: Public Health Lessons and the Physician’s Responsibility

By PHUOC LE MD A close look at disease and suffering would lead most of us to the same conclusion: our natural environment is inextricably linked to our health. When the Army Corps of Engineers approved the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline Read...

Published Thu, Mar 07 2019 9:52 AM by THCB

Filed under: public health, Health Disparities, Phuoc Le, Standing Rock, DAPL

Health Care Price Tags Won’t Find You the Best Doctor

By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON Say you want to know which baseball players provide the most value for the big dollars they’re being paid. A Google search quickly yields analytics. But suppose your primary care physician just diagnosed you with cancer. What will...

Published Tue, Mar 12 2019 7:07 AM by THCB

Filed under: Physicians, Michael Millenson, Hospitals, health technology, health care pricing, Quality of care, transparent pricing

New THCB site coming MONDAY! (It’ll be down this weekend)

I’m thrilled to tell you that after a lot of work by Zoya Khan, Dan Kogan and his tech whizzes, there’ll be a new THCB site up on Monday. Hopefully you’ll notice the changes and think it’s an improvement! But while we do the switch...

Published Thu, Mar 14 2019 10:08 PM by THCB

Filed under: THCB

What’s Yours Is Actually Mine

By LISA SUENNEN Imagine someone you barely knew came to your neighborhood and took a picture of you playing with your kids at the park and then turned around and used it in an advertisement to promote a product they developed. How would you feel? Presumably...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 11:10 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Lisa Suennen, Front Page, Ownership, DNA, Legal issues

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