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Make Mine Bioresorbable
By KIM BELLARD I learned a new word this week: bioresorbable.  It means pretty much what you might infer — materials that can be broken down and absorbed into the body, i.e., biodegradable.  It is not, as it turns out, a new concept for health care – physicians have been using bioresorbable stitches and even stents for several years.  But there are some new developments that further illustrate the potential of bioresorbable materials.  It’s enough to make Green New Deal supporters smile. Bioresorbable stents and stitches are all well and good – who wants to be stuck with them or, wo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology bioresorbable Biotech Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs

Go Ahead, AI —Surprise Us
By KIM BELLARD Last week I was on a fun podcast with a bunch of people who were, as usual, smarter than me, and, in particular, more knowledgeable about one of my favorite topics – artificial intelligence (A.I.), particularly for healthcare.  With the WHO releasing its “first global report” on A.I. — Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health – and with no shortage of other experts weighing in recently, it seemed like a good time to revisit the topic.  My prediction: it’s not going to work out quite like we expect, and it probably shouldn’t.  “Like all new te...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech AI Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs

Twins For Everyone!
By KIM BELLARD I have lived my entire life as a twin, and, while it isn’t an unalloyed blessing, on balance I’d recommend it.  Most of you, though, probably aren’t twins and have missed the experience.  Don’t worry: you may still get a chance – with a digital twin.  It could have profound implications for your health and for healthcare generally. A digital twin, in case you are not familiar with the concept, is a virtual representation of a physical object.  It is created from data about that physical object, and is fed ongoing data (e.g., via IoT) about it to keep the model accurate....
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 16, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech digital twins Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs

Why “Radiopharmaceutical” Should be Part of your Healthcare Vocabulary
By JAY T. RIPTON Not to sound too alarmist, but the radiopharmaceutical industry is on the verge of an explosion. But don’t worry; it’s not the type of explosion one often associates with nuclear materials… I love those movies too! It’s the beginning of a new wave of innovation for the diagnosis and treatment of certain cancers and other diseases. This new radiopharmaceutical boom quite literally has the life sciences industry in a nuclear arms race of sorts, as companies like Y-mAbs, Novartis and others are pushing through clinical trials for the next blockbuster for the treatment and detection of hard-t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice jay t ripton nuclear medicine radiation oncology radiopharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs

Off Our Chests: No Secrets Left Behind
By CHADI NABHAN She was a successful corporate lawyer turned professional volunteer and a housewife. He was a charismatic, successful, and world-renowned researcher in gastrointestinal oncology. He was jealous of all breast cancer research funding and had declared that disease his nemesis. They were married; life was becoming a routine, and borderline predictable. Both appeared to have lost some appreciation of each other and their sacrifices. Then, she saw a lump, and was diagnosed with breast cancer. Not any breast cancer, but triple negative breast cancer. The kind that is aggressive and potentially lethal. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Book Review Breast cancer Chadi Nabhan illness narratives John Marshall Liza Marshall Off Our Chests triple negative breast cancer Source Type: blogs

What Does Your Patient Need to Hear You Say Right Now?
By HANS DUVEFELT Today a patient told me a cancer doctor had told her husband that he only had a year to live. She was angry, because she felt that statement robbed her husband of hope and she knew well enough that doctors don’t always know a patient’s prognosis in such detail. “Would you want to know if you only had a year to live”, she asked me. I thought for a moment and then answered that I probably would want to know. I explained that I would want to make decisions and provisions because I live alone and am responsible for my animals. As I told her, I am well aware that if I dropped dead right now, th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt health communication Source Type: blogs

#Healthin2Point00, Episode 209 | Funding for Lyra, DrFirst, Jasper Health & Cue Health
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we catch Jess on the road again! On Episode 209, Jess is shocked at Lyra’s $200 million raise, bringing their total to a whopping $675 million – and their valuation is somewhere in the $4 billion range. What does this mean for the mental health space? Next, DrFirst gets $50 million. They were doing e-prescribing back in the day, what are they up to now? Jasper Health raises $6.75 million for a new play in cancer navigation. Finally testing company Cue Health raises $235 million, bringing their total to $405 million, plus they’ve got some really big federal grants. —Matthew Holt
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Cue Health DrFirst Jasper Health lyra Source Type: blogs

Our Healthcare System Needs More Than Policy Overhaul: It ’s Time for Private Sector Innovation to Kick into High Gear for Our Health’s Sake
By SACH JAIN Last year I was heading to a meeting on a Fortune 500 business campus and stumbled upon a bake sale. It was odd to see someone selling cupcakes and breads on the grounds of a major corporation, so I inquired. As it turns out, Judy, an employee, was selling baked goods to finance her insurance deductible for spinal fusion surgery.  “Is this what our system has come to?” I asked myself, “Fundraisers for fusions?” If so, our health system is broken. No matter how you slice it, Americans spend more on healthcare than any other advanced economy, with households responsible for 28% of that spen...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Carrum Centers of Excellence Sach Jain Source Type: blogs

Nanoparticles On My Mind
By KIM BELLARD Nanoparticles are everywhere!  By that I mean, of course, that there seems to be a lot of news about them lately, particularly in regard to health and healthcare.   But, of course, literally they could be anywhere and everywhere, which helps account for their potential, and their potential danger. Let’s start with one of the more startling developments: a team at the University of Miami’s College of Engineering, led by Professor Sakhrat Khizroev, believes it has figured out a way to use nanoparticles to “talk” to the brain without wires or implants.  They use “a novel clas...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard nanoparticles Source Type: blogs

The Paradigm Shift That Wasn ’ t: The ISCHEMIA Trial
By ANISH KOKA A recent email that arrived in my in-box a few weeks ago from an academic hailed the latest “paradigm shift” in cardiology as it relates to the management of stable angina.  (Stable angina refers to chronic,non-accelerating chest pain with a moderate level of exertion).  The points made in the email were as follows (the order of the points made are preserved): The financial burden of stress testing was significant ( 11 billion dollars per annum in the USA!)For stable CAD, medical treatment is critical.  We now have better medical treatments than all prior trials including ischemia. th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Anish Koka cardiology ISCHEMIA trial Source Type: blogs

#Healthin2Point00, Episode 186 | Bad jokes about Circulo, Eden Health, Carevive & Loyal
On Episode 186, of Health in 2 Point 00 – I have bad jokes about Olive.ai-related Circulo raising $50m, online/offline clinic Eden Health grabbing $60m, cancer app Carevive getting $18m & provider engagement play Loyal getting $12m. Will Jess DaMassa think the jokes are funny? You’ll have to watch to find out but you can make a pretty good guess!—Matthew Holt
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 #Healthin2pt00 Carevive Circulo Eden Health Jessica DaMassa loyal Source Type: blogs

Why We Need Good Primary Care Physicians
By HANS DUVEFELT I have made the argument that being the first contact for patients with new symptoms requires skill and experience. That is not something everybody agrees on. One commenter on my blog expressed the opinion that it is easy to recognize the abnormal or serious and then it is just a matter of making a specialist referral. That is a terribly inefficient model for health care delivery. It also exposes patients to the risks of delays in treatment, increased cost and inconvenience and the sometimes irreversible and disastrous consequences of knowledge gaps in the frontline provider. UNNECESSARY SPECIA...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt primary care physicians Source Type: blogs

THCB Gang Live Episode 42, Live Thurs 11th, 1pm PT/4pm ET
THCB Gang will be live on Thurs Jan 28 1pm PT -4pm ET. The recording is below. Joining me, Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) will be patient safety expert and all around wit Michael Millenson (@MLMillenson), THCB regular health writer Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard),  futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve), surgeon & innovation dude Raj Aggarwal (@docaggarwal), patient advocate Grace Cordovano (@GraceCordovano), and policy & tech expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis). Yes, there’s an impeachment, but the vaccine rollout is happening. And the stimulus $1.9bn has got some health care components that we will surely get to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang #THCBGang Grace Cordovano Ian Morrison Kim Bellard Matthew Holt Michael Millenson Raj Aggarwal Source Type: blogs

The Art of Asking: What ’s Your Biggest Fear?
By HANS DUVEFELT When a patient presents with a new symptom, we quickly and almost subconsciously create a hierarchy of diagnostic possibilities. I pride myself in my ability to effectively share my process of working through these types of clinical algorithms. But sometimes I seem to get nonverbal clues of dissatisfaction or simply no reaction at all to my eloquent reasoning. And only then do I remember to ask the important questions, “do you have any thoughts on what’s causing this” and, most importantly, “what’s your biggest fear that this could be”. It doesn’t matter how brilliant a diagnostician...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs

The Art of Explaining: Starting With the Big Idea
By HANS DUVEFELT We live in a time of thirty second sound bytes, 280 character tweets and general information overload. Our society seems to have ADHD. There is fierce competition for people’s attention. As doctors, we have so many messages we want to get across to our patients. How many seconds do we have before we lose their attention in our severely time curtailed and content regulated office visits? I have found that it generally works better to make a stark, radical statement as an attention grabber and then qualifying it than to carefully describe a context from beginning to end. Once a person shows...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt health communication Source Type: blogs