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Mashup Score: 3Health Tech’s Magic Wand: The Anti-Social Bent of Modern Medicine - 9 month(s) ago
BY MIKE MAGEE In George Packer’s classic 2013 New Yorker article titled “Change the World: Silicon Valley transfers its slogans – and its money – to the realm of politics,” there is a passage worth a careful reread now a decade latter. Packer shares an encounter with a 20-something techie critiquing his young colleagues who…
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Mashup Score: 0THCB Gang Episode 130, Thursday July 13 - 10 month(s) ago
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday July 13 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are Queen of employer benefits Jennifer Benz (@Jenbenz); radiologist Saurabh Jha (@RogueRad), and policy expert consultant/author Rosemarie Day (@Rosemarie_Day1). You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available…
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Joining @boltyboy on #THCBGang on Thursday July 13 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are Queen of employer benefits @Jenbenz; radiologist @RogueRad, and policy expert @Rosemarie_Day1 https://t.co/YrI9UTfN6n
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Mashup Score: 2THCB Gang Episode 129, Thursday July 6 - 10 month(s) ago
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday July 6 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); writer Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn (@healthythinker); & patient advocate Robin Farmanfarmaian (@Robinff3); Two special guests today, Bob Rebitzer, these days at Manatt Health & brother Jim Rebitzer Professor at Boston University’s Questrom…
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Why Not Better & Cheaper? That's the title of the new book by @JimRebitzer & @Breb1 Bob Rebitzer and it's the topic of #TCHBGang today 1 PT 4 ET. Joining them will be @seccurve, @kimbbellard , @healthythinker & @Robinff3. @boltyboy will referee. https://t.co/RSG8btPGTd
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Mashup Score: 2The Business Reality of Healthcare AI - 10 month(s) ago
BY KIM BELLARD I was at the barbershop the other day and overheard one barber talking with his senior citizen customer about when – not if – robot AIs would become barbers. I kid you not. Now, I don’t usually expect to heard conversations about technology at the barber, but it illustrates that I think…
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Exciting times for #ArtificialIntelligence, but as @kimbbellard explains on @THCBstaff , the new tech world is governed by payment and liability issues that may slow the #healthcare break in. https://t.co/yKhoW6xtWj @peteratmsr @zakkohane @NEJM_AI
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Mashup Score: 2“Sons of Liberty” Flea Into King George’s (or Donald’s) Open Arms. - 10 month(s) ago
BY MIKE MAGEE If there is a silver lining to the Trump assault on decency and civility, it is our majority response to this “stress test” of our Democracy, and the sturdiness (thus far) of our Founders’ vision. It was, after all, a long shot when Alexander Hamilton, under the pen name Publius, published Federalist…
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Without law, there is no society. Check out @drmikemagee's article on how #Trump is testing that theory, both now and during the #RoevWade decision. https://t.co/xzmYevPHCh
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Mashup Score: 3THCB Gang Episode 127, Thursday June 22 - 10 month(s) ago
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday June 29 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are futurist Jeff Goldsmith: medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@mlmillenson) and Suntra Modern Recovery CEO JL Neptune (@JeanLucNeptune). You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio…
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Joining @boltyboy on #THCBGang on Thursday June 29 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are futurist #JeffGoldsmith: medical historian @drmikemagee; patient safety expert @mlmillenson and @hellosuntra CEO @JeanLucNeptune https://t.co/cR8iT4g840
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Mashup Score: 0Not The Last of Them - 10 month(s) ago
By KIM BELLARD I’m seeing two conflicting yet connected visions about the future. One is when journalist David Wallace-Wells says we might be in for “golden age for medicine,” with CRISPR and mRNA revolutionizing drug development. The second is the dystopian HBO hit “The Last of Us,” in which a fungal infection has turned much…
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Today on @THCBstaff @kimbbellard is very concerned about the fabulous fungi, and what it means for a purported golden age of medicine https://t.co/W5rOBmjYR4
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Mashup Score: 3Not the Last of Them - 10 month(s) ago
BY KIM BELLARD I’m seeing two conflicting yet connected visions about the future. One is when journalist David Wallace-Wells says we might be in for “golden age for medicine,” with CRISPR and mRNA revolutionizing drug development. The second is the dystopian HBO hit “The Last of Us,” in which a fungal infection has turned much…
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The golden age of medicine needs mushrooms...the #microbiome and the #mycobiome. @kimbbellard brings the #fungi story. Check it out on @THCBstaff! https://t.co/TPXd6smsBF
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Mashup Score: 1Matthew’s health care tidbits: Time to get Cynical - 10 month(s) ago
Each time I send out the THCB Reader, our newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB (Sign up here!) I include a brief tidbits section. Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt Plenty of reason to worry about the future of American…
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Today @boltyboy's tidbits on @THCBstaff -- It's time to get cynical https://t.co/J4qbgiL9ze
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Mashup Score: 1THCB Gang Episode 127, Thursday June 22 - 10 month(s) ago
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday June 22 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are delivery & platform expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis); privacy expert and entrepreneur Deven McGraw (@HealthPrivacy); and back after way too long of an absence, health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn (@healthythinker). The video is below. If you’d rather listen to the episode, the…
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Joining @boltyboy on #THCBGang on Thursday June 22 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are delivery & platform expert @VinceKuraitis; privacy expert @HealthPrivacy; and back after way too long of an absence, health economist @healthythinker https://t.co/vDF1o0A58J
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Why do we downplay the idealism of profit-driven entrepreneurs? Is neo-liberal "solutionism" truly a magic "liberation technology" for health policy? @drmikemagee has his doubts. Check out his article on @THCBstaff! https://t.co/EmnIheGYkm