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Mashup Score: 1
THCB is back from its end of year break, but we are starting with a little catchup from December from Mike Magee. As my wife often reminds me, “Comparisons are toxic.” And, in general, I agree and try to respect this cardinal rule. But these are extraordinary times. So grant me this exception. As a loyal reader of Krugman, I read his “last column” carefully – twice. Over 25 years I’ve admired this specialist’s (global economics) willingness and interest to wander often into generalist, cross-sector,
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Mashup Score: 3John Zutter, Lantern Care – The Health Care Blog - 12 day(s) ago
John Zutter is the CEO of Lantern Care which is a company managing specialty care. It has evolved from a centers of excellence model, and changed its name from Employers Direct earlier this year. The trick is product expansion into the expensive stuff, especially cancer care, infusion and specialty surgery. John has thought a lot about where there is money to be saved – and how health care can be structured, and how cost and quality can be managed. This is a fascinating and in-depth conversation about
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Mashup Score: 0Brad Kittredge, Brightside Health – The Health Care Blog - 15 day(s) ago
Brad Kittredge is CEO of Brightside Health, which he co-founded with CMO Mimi Winsberg. They are a large online mental health group that aims a providing more access with higher quality. They have built their own technology stack and medical group, and are in network for about 135m lives. They also take patients from the emergency departments of health systems – as well as direct patient outreach for “standard” mental health conditions. Brad talked to me about measurement, quality and care improvement,
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Mashup Score: 0
Joining Matthew Holt on #THCBGang on Thursday December 19 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are three leaders in the patient movement Hugo Campos (@HugoCampos); Gilles Frydman (@GillesFrydman); and ePatient Dave deBronkart (@DavedeBronkart). They will be bring us up to speed on the very latest in patients using AI. You can see the video below live (and later archived) & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels.
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Mashup Score: 4Danielle Vaeth, Qbtech – The Health Care Blog - 16 day(s) ago
Danielle Vaeth is Head of Growth and Strategic Development at Qbtech, a company that helps diagnose ADHD, working mostly with virtual providers. They use facial recognition and tracking to do this. Qbtech can diagnose 50% more patients than self-reporting and has approval from a big NHS study, the FDA and many peer-reviewed studies. They raised $6.8m in 2022 have just tested their millionth patient. Plenty more to go! – Matthew
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Mashup Score: 1Managed Care History Part II- HMOs Give Way to Managed Care “Lite” – The Health Care Blog - 17 day(s) ago
This is part 2 of Jeff Goldsmith’s history of managed care. If you missed it read Part 1 The late 1990s crash of HMOs opened the door to a major consolidation of the health insurance market controlled largely by national and super-regional health plans. While HMOs by no means disappeared post-backlash, the “movement” begun by Ellwood and Nixon fell far short of national reach. HMOs never established a meaningful presence in the most rapidly growing parts of the US- the Southwest, South and Mid-Atlantic
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Mashup Score: 4Managed Care History: From HMOs to AI Assisted Claims Management Part 1 – The Health Care Blog - 18 day(s) ago
Healthcare payment in the US has evolved in decades-long sweeps over the past fifty years, as both public programs and employers attempted to contain the rise in health costs. Managed care in the United States has gone through three distinct phases in that time- from physician- and hospital-led HMOs to PPOs and “shadow” capitation via virtual networks like ACOs to machine-governed payment systems, where intelligent agents (AI) using machine learning are managing the flow of healthcare dollars. This
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Mashup Score: 0THCB Gang Episode 148, Monday December 16 – The Health Care Blog - 18 day(s) ago
Joining Matthew Holt on #THCBGang on Monday December 16 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are patient safety expert Michael Millenson, physician, entrepreneur and technologist Shantanu Nundy; and Digital Health and Emerging Med-Tech Practice Co-Founder at Marsh & McLennan, Beracah Stortvedt. You can see the video below live (and later archived) & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels.
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Mashup Score: 0THCB Gang Episode 148, Monday December 16 – The Health Care Blog - 19 day(s) ago
Joining Matthew Holt on #THCBGang on Monday December 16 at 1pm PST 4pm EST are patient safety expert Michael Millenson, physician, entrepreneur and technologist Shantanu Nundy; and Digital Health and Emerging Med-Tech Practice Co-Founder at Marsh & McLennan, Beracah Stortvedt. You can see the video below live (and later archived) & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels.
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Mashup Score: 1A Health Economist to lead the NIH – The Health Care Blog - 23 day(s) ago
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic a seroprevalence study from Santa Clara indicated that the viral spread was far greater than was believed. The study suggested that the infection fatality rate (IFR) was much lower than the case fatality rate and perhaps even lower than the suspected IFR. The researchers estimated that 2.8% of the county had been infected by April 2020. The virus was contagious and, most importantly, caused many asymptomatic infections. The study, released as a preprint within a month of
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OK @THCBstaff is back from Christmas/New Year break with a piece from @drmikemagee comparing Paul Krugman's assessment of the problems of the past 25 years with the possibilities of Quantum AI https://t.co/LyqdUwc786