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Mashup Score: 1A Health Economist to lead the NIH – The Health Care Blog - 25 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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Mashup Score: 2Kris Engskov, Rippl – The Health Care Blog - 26 day(s) ago
Kris Engskov is CEO of Rippl, a General Catalyst-funded company developing a wrap around care model around the primary care doctor for people with dementia. Their process is to help the family caregiver who is looking after the dementia patient and gives a ton of support to those caregivers which helps them be successful taking care of the patient at home. They start with diagnosis and use care navigators to build a care model face to face with patients. They’ ve raised $52m and are nearly 2 years into
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Well funded mental health start up @RipplCare which is managing the care of dementia patients and their caregivers in a team-based approach. CEO @KrisEngskov explained how to @boltyboy https://t.co/jCjeSe6WYB
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Mashup Score: 2Colby Takeda, Pear Suite – The Health Care Blog - 26 day(s) ago
Colby Takeda is CEO of Pear Suite which has developed a system that helps organizations employing community healt h workers to track and pay for their work. These community health workers are in multiple social and health organizations. Increasingly states Medicaid and health plans are paying directly to community organizations and Pear Suite is building the capacity for those organizations to contract and bill the plans and states. The community health workers are now out helping engage patients,
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Next up is an interview with a really interesting company, @pearsuiteinc , setting up community health workers in the field to improve access and outcomes for the underserved in a way health plans can pay for. CEO Colby Takeda talked to @boltyboy https://t.co/uufgsX5fIi
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Mashup Score: 1
In 2021, digital mental health and substance use startups attracted a record-breaking $5.1 billion in funding. Despite the surge, the promise of scalable, transformative digital health platforms remains unfulfilled. Following the surge, investment plummeted. Unlike other industries that have been revolutionized by digital-first solutions, digital health struggles with models that fail to address cost, complexity, and access. What we’re left with entering into 2025 are a smorgasbord of solutions clamoring
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Today @TrevorvM shows that there's a huge potential market in digital mental health but the market is still dominated by incumbents and that we haven't seen a use of technology to really scale disruption. He calls it an unfinished revolution https://t.co/GsF4LADxGe
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Mashup Score: 1Shama Rathi, Co-Founder, LunaJoy – The Health Care Blog - 27 day(s) ago
Shama Rathi MD is the co-founder of LunaJoy, a mental health company that works exclusively for women. It started with pregnancy (pre- and post- partum) and now is working with women in midlife for nearly a third of its cases. Shama believes that women have been ignored and LunaJoy has built out specific care pathways for women. They are moving into the market starting with Medicaid, the payer responsible for a large number of births, mostly doing it in conjunction with OBGYN clinics. It’s an interesting
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There's a boom in niche mental health. @boltyboy interviewed Shama Rathi, MD co-founder of LunaJoy Health, a mental health company dedicated to women post partum and mid life. https://t.co/un5Lqmym47
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Mashup Score: 3
The incoming Trump Administration nominees for positions in Health and Human Services (like RFK Jr. to direct the department and Mehmet Oz to head Medicare and Medicaid Services) are names you know and apparently many trust? In this morning’s New York Times, Dr. Ashish Jha, President Biden’s Covid lead, thinks he knows why. He says, “You have a large swath of the population facing a health crisis, and they feel like medicine and public health isn’t delivering…They’re much more open to people saying,
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Today @drmikemagee has some history for you on a number of shadowy individuals who have had a huge impact on our health care system https://t.co/zpHlbmJUe9
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Mashup Score: 2Lyle Berkowitz, Keycare – The Health Care Blog - 1 month(s) ago
Lyle Berkowitz is an old fri end and these days is CEO of Keycare, which provides a virtual care workforce, primarily for major health systems. It’s based on Epic taking advantage of Telehealth Everywhere, which means that patients can get to them from within their MyChart accounts and it can easily integrate its EMR data with its health system clients. It’s being used primarily for out of hours care, but increasingly primary care expansion for population health and patient outreach. I call Keycare
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Today's interview is with @DrLyleMD Berkowitz the CEO of @KeyCareInc -- @boltyboy calls it a dinosaur preservation effort, but the effort is going well and the dinosaurs (health systems) are signing up in droves. So what does it do? https://t.co/JjjQIqKNxy
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Mashup Score: 1THCB Gang Episode 146, Tuesday November 26 – The Health Care Blog - 1 month(s) ago
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Tuesday November 26 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); and a new guest from Marsh McLennan, Employee Benefits Consultant Ryan Koo (@RyanKoo). You can see the video below & 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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Joining @boltyboy on #THCBGang on Tuesday November 26 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are THCB regular writer @kimbbellard; medical historian @drmikemagee; and a new guest Employee Benefits Consultant @RyanKoo https://t.co/GddV0mvGBX
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Mashup Score: 0Stick to the Science – The Health Care Blog - 1 month(s) ago
A year ago I wrote about disturbing news from the Pew Research Center that trust in science, and in scientists, had fallen since the pandemic. I am slightly relieved to report that a new follow-up study by Pew indicates that trust is up slightly – but still way below where they were pre-pandemic. Overall, 76% of Americans express fair or a great deal of confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interests (versus 87% in April 2020). The public is about evenly split about how active a role
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The 2010 @SFGiants won the world series as a Band of Misfits. The people Trump wants to run health care in his next administration seem similarly unlikely. Is there any chance they will succeed? @kimbbellard hopes they "stick to the science" https://t.co/meR7RsRonf
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Mashup Score: 1Remembering Thomas E. Kurtz – The Health Care Blog - 2 month(s) ago
This has been a challenging week for me, but not for the reasons you might think. Compartmentalization skills have allowed me to push the 2024 Presidential election into the back reaches of my mind as I worked to complete teaching a course on “AI and Medicine” at the Presidents College at the University of Hartford. The complexity of AI, its risks and potential benefits, are staggering. So it was comforting for me to remember how far we have come with data and information in my own lifetime. That
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Today @drmikemagee is remembering the inventor of the first widespread computer language BASIC who died this week. Here's the story of Thomas Kurtz https://t.co/ydkjjtdd7l
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Lots of people are pretty distressed that Jay Bhattacharya has been appointed by Trump to head the @NIH. Not @RogueRad, stirring it up as usual! https://t.co/hTFJLClYhG