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Matthew Holt Interviews Avizia CMO, Alan Pitt
By PRIYA KUMAR
One in a series of interviews that should have been posted months ago, but Matthew Holt is just getting to now.
Alan Pitt is an old friend of the family at Health 2.0. He’s a Professor of Neuroradiology at Barrow Neurological Institute, and now the Chief Medical Officer of Avizia. He has been working with patient-provider collaboration tools for several years now, and previously co-founded Excelsius Robotics (now acquired by Globus Medical).
Avizia spun off from Cisco in 2013. Now it provides a collaboration technology services to hospitals. Recently, Avizia secured $11m in Series A funding to expand thei...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health 2.0 Matthew Holt Tech THCB Alan Pitt Avizia HIMSS16 Telehealth Source Type: blogs
#HealthTechDeals Episode 28 | Alan; HealthMap Solutions; Sidekick Health; Dialogue & Tictrac
It’s Friday 13th, the unluckiest day and many on the stock market were feeling it. But there were some deals. Alan in France raises 183m Euros, HealthMap Solutions gets $25m for kidney care, Icelandic Sidekick Health gets $55m for DTx & Dialogue buys Tictrac for $43m US.
–Matthew Holt
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Tech Deals Alan Dialouge HealthMap Solutions Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt sidekick health Tictrac Source Type: blogs
#Healthin2Point00, Episode 201 | European Funding Deals – complete with accents!
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we’re back from our 200th episode celebration! In Episode 201, we have an all-European funding deals episode for you, and I even attempt to answer every story in an accent relevant to the company. First, French insurance company Alan raises €185 million. Scottish company Current Health raises $43 million in a Series B for remote patient monitoring. Thankfully we have an English company in the mix, Proximie raises $38 million, bringing their total to $48 million – they do AR for the OR. Kry, a Swedish telehealth company with 3 million visits, raises $316 million bringing their to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Alan Caresyntax Current Health KRY Proximie Source Type: blogs
If You Can ’ t Cure Me, Get Back to Living
By ALAN PITT
Several months ago I had a conversation with Dr. Robert Spetzler, the Director of the Barrow Neurological Institute. During our interview Dr. Spetzler mentioned that the patient needs to become captain of their own ship. I agree. Although most of us (as patients) would like someone to step in and care for us when we’re sick, rising costs and limited providers make it impossible for the healthcare industry to meet America’s expectations for care. Healthcare needs patient partners.
But in all fairness, I thought to ask a patient what they need. So, with the start of 2017, I thought to ask turned to someone ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
This Visit May Be Recorded
By ALAN SCHWARTZ and SAUL WEINER
In their 1993 book, Reinventing Government, David Osborne and Ted Gaebler entitled a section “what gets measured gets done.” Unfortunately, when it comes to improving health care quality, safety, and costs, we often fail to observe the real work of care, and miss the chance to get it done better. To make a real difference, we need to begin measuring care when and where it happens – behind the curtain.
Why We Must Directly Observe Patient Care
For the last 10 years, our work in research and quality improvement has used concealed audiorecorders to capture what actually happens during pa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The AmWell – Avizia Merger and the Evolution of Telehealth
By ALAN PITT
Last week Avizia, where I’ve been the Chief Medical Officer since 2014, was acquired by American Well (AmWell). From my perspective, the merger made perfect sense. Avizia has been focused on chronically and acutely ill patients—those more directly attached to a hospital system. AmWell, on the other hand, has been the dominant solution for community-based care; it’s an online consultation service for folks who might otherwise have gone to an urgent care for problems like fever, headache, or a sore throat. Combining these entities provides a solution that spans the spectrum of care, which aligns with the n...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health 2.0 American Well Avizia Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Why Can’t someone Give Me the Perfect Managed Personal Health Record (mPHR)?
By ALAN PITT, MD I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old, Ben Harper, Glory and Consequence Whether we admit it or not, most of us are afraid of growing old. There is a sense of loss, of youth and vigor, coupled with the burden of managing your health in relative […]
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: THCB Google Microsoft Healthvault mPHR Source Type: blogs
How Technology Will Disrupt Your Doctor’s Monopoly
By ALAN PITT, MD Although you may not realize it, your doctor is a monopoly. Yes, you can see someone else, but not without difficulty. And if you wanted a second opinion, how far would you go? In part, through insurance coverage, in part based on a desire for convenience, healthcare is generally a local […]
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: THCB Physician practice Radiology ZocDocs Source Type: blogs
After Transparency: Morbidity Hunter MD joins Cherry Picker MD
By SAURABH JHA, MD
When report cards of performance became available, cardiac surgeons in New York and Pennsylvania avoided high risk patients. Could something similar happen, nationally, after the forthcoming revolution in transparency inspired by Propublica’s data release?
Take two fictional orthopedic surgeons, Cherry Picker MD and Morbidity Hunter MD.
Cherry Picker lives in the Upper East Side of New York. His patients give him great reviews on Yelp. His patients read every comment on Yelp before making any decision. Cherry Picker has a beautiful family. When he smiles, light refracts from his shiny teeth.
Cherry ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB ProPublica Risk adjustment Source Type: blogs
The Future of Aging and Technology
By SUSANNAH FOX
You might be wondering why a Chief Technology Officer would be talking about aging. Isn’t tech a young person’s game?
First of all, I love Alan Kay’s definition: Technology is anything invented after you were born.
Second, my grandmother, who used a CB radio in the 1970s and bought one of the first Apple computers in the 1980s, inspires a different point of view. When I showed her the internet in 1995, she said, “I was born too soon.” Then she proved herself wrong by living another 11 years, a daily internet user. I learned to never assume that someone’s age determines his or her interest in or...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 31, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: suchandan roy Tags: THCB Susannah Fox Source Type: blogs
Clinical Research Rebooted
By SCANADU RESEARCH
The traditionally conducted clinical trial model requires increasing amounts of time, cost, and resources for both sponsors and sites. In fact, fewer than 10% of clinical trials are completed on time due to poor patient recruitment, retention and protracted budget negotiations. And since 2008 per-patient, clinical trial costs in the US have risen an average of 70% across all development phases.
In March 2015, however, BLOOMBERG BUSINESS
reported “Stanford University researchers were stunned when they awoke Tuesday 10 March to find that 11,000 people had signed up for a cardiovascular study using...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Clinical Trials Data Collection Indiegogo Scanadu Source Type: blogs
Uber’s Surge Pricing May not Lead to a Surge In Drivers
By LAUREN KIRCHNER
Uber has long stirred controversy and consternation over the higher “surge” prices it charges at peak times. The company has always said the higher prices actually help passengers by encouraging more drivers to get on the road. But computer scientists from Northeastern University have found that higher prices don’t necessarily result in more drivers.
Researchers Le Chen, Alan Mislove and Christo Wilson created 43 new Uber accounts and virtually hailed cars over four weeks from fixed points throughout San Francisco and Manhattan. They found that many drivers actually leave surge areas in anticipati...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Lauren Kirchner Source Type: blogs
Good Reads
Very Bad Numbers by Anish Koka, MD
What Would a Health Care Mutual Look Like? by Munk, MD
A Health IT Developer’s Confession: How Bad Software Is Made and What to Do About It by Margalit Gur-Arie
Think Again: Health Insurers Have No Reason To Reduce the Price of Health Care by JK Wall
This Visit May Be Recorded by Alan Schwartz and Saul Weiner
Saving Normal by Saurabh Jha, MD
The Right Not to Know by Benjamin Berkman
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Why I Don’t Believe In Science
By MICHEL ACCAD, MD
A few days ago, cardiologist and master blogger John Mandrola wrote a piece that caught my attention. More precisely, it was the title of his blog post that grabbed me: “To Believe in Science Is To Believe in Data Sharing.”
Mandrola wrote about a proposal drafted by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) that would require authors of clinical research manuscripts to share patient-level data as a condition for publication. The data would be made available to other researchers who could then perform their own analyses, publish their own papers, etc.
The ICMJE proposal is obviou...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A Hayekian Defense of Evidence-Based Medicine
BY ANDREW FOY, MD
It’s a lousy Saturday morning in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The 100-mile bike ride I had scheduled, the first century of the year, was cancelled at 5 AM due to inclement weather. I’ve been scanning my Twitter feed ever since.
I only joined Twitter yesterday, so I’m a bit obsessed at this point. The synapses in my prefrontal cortex are getting fresh hits of dopamine every time I land on another exciting science/political story, journal article, or blog that’s been tweeted about. Yes, I’m a nerd.
Through Twitter, I was introduced to Michel Accad less than 24 hours ago. He’s a cardiologist, phil...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
