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The Lynne Chou O ’ Keefe Fallacy
By MATTHEW HOLT
Rob Coppedge and Bryony Winn wrote an interesting article in Xconomy yesterday. I told Rob (& the world) on Twitter yesterday that it was good but wrong. Why was it wrong? Well it encompasses something I’m going to call the Lynne Chou O’Keefe Fallacy. And yes, I’ll get to that in a minute. But first. What did Rob and Bryony say?
Having walked the halls and corridors and been deafened by the DJs at HLTH, Rob & Bryony determined why many digital health companies have failed (or will fail) and a few have succeeded. They’ve dubbed the winners “Digital Health Survivors...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech The Business of Health Care BCBS of North Carolina Cambia Health Solutions Define ventures Echo Health Ventures Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs
THCB Spotlights: Jeremy Orr, CEO of Medial EarlySign
Today on THCB Spotlights, Matthew speaks with Jeremy Orr, CEO of Medial EarlySign. Medial EarlySign does complex algorithmic detection of serious diseases, working on early detection of cancer and the progression of chronic disease such as diabetes. Tune in to hear more about this AI/ML company that has been working on their algorithms since before many had even heard about machine learning, what they’ve been doing with Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger, and where they are going next.
Filmed at the HLTH Conference in Las Vegas, October 2019.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - November 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Matthew Holt THCB Spotlights AI Artificial intelligence Geisinger HLTH HLTH 2019 Jeremy Orr Kaiser Permanente machine learning Medial EarlySign Source Type: blogs
No More Empty Desks
By ROBIN COGAN, MEd RN NCSN
Forced absence from gun violence has created a literal and metaphorical void in schools across our country that may impact students and staff for decades to come. The students are referred to as “Parkland kids,” “Sandy Hook students,” or “Columbine survivors.” These labels are sadly reflective of a new reality for American schools, as students, teachers, and staff no longer feel safe. America’s students feel vulnerable as the facade of schools as a safe place is no longer true. The Center for American Progress recent report revealed that 57% of teenagers now fear a sch...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized AFFIRM gun violence Nursing Robin Cogan school shootings Source Type: blogs
Improving Medical AI Safety by Addressing Hidden Stratification
Jared Dunnmon
Luke Oakden-Rayner
By LUKE OAKDEN-RAYNER MD, JARED DUNNMON, PhD
Medical AI testing is unsafe, and that isn’t likely to change anytime soon.
No regulator is seriously considering implementing “pharmaceutical style” clinical trials for AI prior to marketing approval, and evidence strongly suggests that pre-clinical testing of medical AI systems is not enough to ensure that they are safe to use. As discussed in a previous post, factors ranging from the laboratory effect to automation bias can contribute to substantial disconnects between pre-clinical performance of AI systems and dow...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Data Health Tech Health Technology AI Jared Dunnmon Luke Oakden-Rayner machine learning Source Type: blogs
How are hospitals supposed to reduce readmissions? Part III
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD
The
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and other proponents of the
Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) justified their support for the
HRRP with the claim that research had already demonstrated how hospitals could
reduce readmissions for all Medicare fee-for-service patients, not just
for groups of carefully selected patients. In this three-part series, I am
reviewing the evidence for that claim.
We saw in Part I and Part II that the research MedPAC cited in its 2007 report to Congress (the report Congress relied on in authorizing the HRRP) contained no studies supporting tha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare health reform Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program HRRP Kip Sullivan MedPAC Source Type: blogs
Indigenous Medicine – From Illegal to Integral
Brooke Warren
Phuoc Le
By PHUOC LE, MD and BROOKE WARREN
In the 2020 Summer Olympics, we will undoubtedly see large, red circles down the arms and backs of many Olympians. These spots are a side-effect of cupping, a treatment originating from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to reduce pain. TCM is a globally used Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), but it still battles its critics who think it is only a belief system, rather than a legitimate medical practice. Even so, the usage of TCM continues to grow. This led the National Institute of Health (NIH) to sponsor a meeting in 1997 to determine...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Arc Health Brooke Warren complementary and alternative medicine cupping indigenous medicine Phuoc Le TCM traditional chinese medicine Source Type: blogs
Announcing GuideWell ’s Caring for Caregivers Challenge
SPONSORED POST
By CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0
Caregivers who care for aging, ill and
disabled adult family members face a broad array of challenges within their
daily lives. These challenges include stress, burnout, financial burdens,
career sacrifices, sleep deprivation, depression, isolation, and lack of
privacy. GuideWell believes it
“takes a village” to sustainably support family caregivers, and that single
point solutions are typically not broad enough to provide comprehensive relief
to family caregivers.
GuideWell, in collaboration with Catalyst @ Health 2.0, is excited to
announce the Caring for Caregive...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Catalyst @ Health 2.0 Health Tech Health Technology Start-Ups Caring for Caregivers GuideWell home based care Source Type: blogs
The Opportunity in Disruption, Part 1
By JOE FLOWER
The system is unstable. We are already seeing the precursor waves of massive and multiple disturbances to come. Disruption at key leverage points, new entrants, shifting public awareness and serious political competition cast omens and signs of a highly changed future.
So what’s the frequency? What are the smart bets for a strategic chief financial officer at a payer or provider facing such a bumpy ride? They are radically different from today’s dominant consensus strategies. In this five-part series, Joe Flower lays out the argument, the nature of the instability, and the best-bet strategie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Health care Disruption Health care system Joe Flower Source Type: blogs
Why Medicare for All Will Not Cure What Ails the Hahnemann
By ASEEM R. SHUKLA, MD
The impending closure of
Hahnemann University Hospital is a local tragedy. Eliminating a 170-year
old institution is certain to exaggerate the daily travails of the economically
disadvantaged inner-city population that Hahnemann serves as a safety-net
hospital. The closure is also a national tragedy. Hospitals are the
towering, visible monuments of our healthcare system, and closings imply that
something insidious ails that very system—that all is not well.
Hospitals are complex
entities with varied financial drivers, and the solution is never simple.
And the mo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Hospitals Medicare Aseem Shukla Hahnemann University Hospital Medicare For All Source Type: blogs
Everyone Is Having the Wrong Healthcare Debate
By STEVEN MERAHN, MD
In 1807, in an effort to spite the British and French for shipping interference (and forced recruitment of American citizens into military service), the United States Congress passed an Embargo Act, effectively shutting down trade with these two countries. Britain and France quickly found other trading partners; the US, then limited in our capacity to sell products outside our borders, was left with a devastated economy and a gaping hole in our face. It took only weeks before Congress passed a loophole; they repealed the act within 15 months of its passing. It was a great lesson in unintended co...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics Uncategorized Health care debate Health Care Reform Steven Merahn universal healthcare Source Type: blogs
How a Value Focus Could Change Health Care
By BRIAN KLEPPER, PhD
How will the drive to health care value affect health care’s structure? We tend to assume that the health care structure we’re become accustomed to is the one we’ll always have, but that’s probably far from the truth. If we pull levers that incentivize the right care at the right time, it’s likely that many of the problems we think we’re stuck with, like overtreatment and a lack of accountability, will disappear.
A large part of getting the right results is making sure that health care vendors have the right incentives. All forms of reimbursement carry incentives, so it’s important...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Value-Based Care Brian Klepper Health Care Reform Validation Institute Source Type: blogs
‘I Apologize for What You Are About To See’
By HILARY HATCH, PhD
The growing movement to include the patient voice in medicine through
Motivational Interviewing, patient-reported outcomes, social determinants of health
and shared decision-making
One day in 2011, as a part of my research on ways
to improve patient-provider communication about health behaviors, I was
shadowing Dr. G., a talented young internist with a cheerleader demeanor. He marched
through 12 afternoon patient appointments with confidence and purpose. But when
he saw the name of the last patient on her schedule, he turned pale, faced me
and said, “I apologize for what you are about to see....
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Psychology Hilary Hatch motivational interviewing patient-reported outcomes Phreesia Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
A Proposal to Improve Healthcare and Make It More Affordable
By STEVE ZECOLA
Americans spend about $3 trillion
per year on healthcare, or about $10,000 per person per year. Despite these
expenditures, Americans are worse off than their international counterparts
with respect to infant mortality, life expectancy and the prevalence of chronic
conditions.
In policy debates, Republicans
mostly prefer to let the marketplace devise the appropriate outcomes, but this
approach ignores the market failures that plague the industry.
On the other hand, Democrats propose
a variety of solutions such as “Medicare for All” which nationalizes all
healthcare insurance or, as a variant, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare For All Source Type: blogs
Off the Couch, Onto the Stage: My First, Only and Not-So-Great Presidential Debate
This article originally appeared on Forbes here.
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Democratic Debates Health Policy Politics Medicare For All Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 2
By BOB HERTZ
We Need Legal Assaults On The Greediest Providers!
When a patient is hospitalized, or diagnosed with a deadly disease, they often have no choice about the cost of their treatment.
They are legally helpless, and vulnerable to price gouging.
We need more legal protection of patients. In some cases we need price controls.
Next in this three-part series, I discuss how we could challenge Big Pharma by lessening regulation of generic drugs, having the government take over production and establishing price review boards.
Assault Phase Three – Challenge Big Pharma
Step One – Less Regulation of...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
