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December 2020

  1. Goodbye, 2020. Hello, 2030
  2. Need to Choose a Doctor? What Does AI Think About the Choices?
  3. Evaluating President-Elect Biden’s Healthcare Plan | Part 2
  4. Evaluating President-Elect Biden’s Healthcare Plan | Part 1
  5. Health in 2 Point 00 — with no video!
  6. No Names, Please
  7. Olive CEO Sean Lane on 2020’s Big Numbers: 3 Funding Rounds, $450M, & a 5-Point Plan for the Future
  8. 3 Patient Lessons: What Cancer Patients Teach Me
  9. A Christmas Message to All Physicians From a Swedish-American Country Doctor in Maine
  10. Two Surgeons—a Veteran and a Newcomer—Talk Fighting COVID Burnout
  11. THCB Gang, Episode 36, Dec 17
  12. Streaming, Baby Yoda, and Healthcare
  13. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 174 | Cityblock, Elation, Modern Health, LeanTaaS & Well
  14. The Pathway to Health Leads Through Clean Energy Technology
  15. COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge Showcase Event — WEDNESDAY 4pm ET!
  16. The Evernorth Digital Health Formulary & the Disruption of the Digital Health Payment Model
  17. The Year When Everything Changed: Covid, Self Care and High Tech Innovation In Medicine
  18. Docs are ROCs: a simple fix for a “methodologically indefensible” practice in medical AI studies
  19. THCB Gang Episode 35, Dec 10
  20. Bayer G4A Agents of Change: Watch the Panels, Meet the Co’s that Got Deals
  21. The “Right” to Health Care in America
  22. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 173 | Calm, Story Health, Centivo, Ro & Pear
  23. CRAZY AMERICA: Health Insurance Covers Testing When You Are Well But Not When You Are Sick
  24. Michelin Star Medicine: Food Start-Up Epicured Delivers Meals for GI & Chronic Condition Care
  25. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 172 | MedArrive, PointClickCare, Consejo Sano & FOLX Health
  26. PointClickCare buys Collective Medical
  27. This is Your Brain on Microwaves
  28. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 171 | Massive deals & a massive IPO
  29. THCB Gang Episode 34 Live Dec 3
  30. #Healthin2Point00 Episode 170 | Olive, WithMe, Andor & more
  31. RWJF Emergency Response Challenges Video
  32. Healthcare on the Edge

November 2020

  1. Stewardship: We Worry More About the Environment than Our Own Bodies
  2. What, Us Worry
  3. THCB Book Club: Rosemarie Day – Marching Towards Coverage
  4. #Healthin2Point 00, Episode 169 | They’re real and they’re SPACtacular!
  5. The Art of Listening: Beyond the Chief Complaint
  6. Comcast, Independence BlueCross’s Quil: Fast-Forward Past Video Content to Home Sensors for Seniors
  7. Can the Government Mandate a Covid-19 Vaccine? Will It Have To?
  8. RWJF Emergency Response Challenge Results!
  9. THCB Gang Episode 33, Thursday 11/19
  10. Women Leaders Increasingly Visible In The Fight Against Covid-19
  11. #Healthin2Point 00, Episode 168 | Is Amazon taking over the world of healthcare?
  12. Social Workers are the Healthcare Heroes We Need
  13. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 167 | Bridge Connector, Togetherall, Solv Health & more
  14. Healthcare’s Bridge Fire
  15. Bayer G4A Agents of Change: Digital Health & the Future of Pharma
  16. The Catalyst @ Health 2.0/Wipfli Survey on the State of Digital Health
  17. THCB Gang Episode 32
  18. Covid-19, the “Quarantine 15” & Healthcare’s Focus on Weight Management in 2021
  19. In Praise of Unsung Heroes
  20. Accolade’s CEO Raj Singh: IPO Backstory & Pop Health Predictions for 2021
  21. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 166 | $100 million, scandal, & more
  22. RWJF Emergency Response Innovation Challenges: Virtual Pitch Event on 11/19!
  23. Telehealth, Digital Health Market Update from Europe & Frontiers Health Preview
  24. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 165 | Centene, Koa Health, Eko and Medically Home
  25. What Will Shape Joe Biden’s Health Care Agenda?
  26. We Need a Digital Identity Framework to Guide the Challenging Transition to Remote Healthcare
  27. THCB Gang Episode 31 11/5
  28. It’s (Cyber)Criminal
  29. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 164 | Election Day Edition
  30. The Health Care Blog
  31. A Cure at Any Cost? Time to Shine a Light on Drug Pricing

October 2020

  1. Health in 2 Point 00, Halloween Edition (Ep 163)
  2. Election Issue Spotlight: “Junk” Insurance Makes a Pandemic Even Worse
  3. THCB “SPOOKY” Gang: Episode 30 10/29
  4. Rehash: The Health Assurance SPAC
  5. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 162 | Whoop, Honor, Sidekick Health & more
  6. Can You Say “Chemputer”?
  7. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 161 | Partnerships galore & a new SPAC
  8. Viruses on Motorcycles
  9. Remote Patient Monitoring Sets Up Big Tech to Revolutionize Telemedicine and Healthcare
  10. Not Just Faxes
  11. THCB Gang Episode 29 10/22
  12. THCB Book Club, October: Mike Magee, Code Blue
  13. Careful What You Wish For: How Republican Attorneys General’s Attack on the ACA Could Trigger Medicare for All
  14. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 160 | Lawsuits galore, and a faux IPO
  15. THCB Spotlights: Jon Bloom, Podimetrics
  16. Tying Health Care Investment to Performance
  17. Will Trump, Congressional Infections Boost Innovations For Covid-19 Survivors?
  18. THCB Gang Episode 28 10/15
  19. A War on Science is a War on Us
  20. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 159 | A quiet period?
  21. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 158 | Datavant, Mira, Avail & more
  22. Health Professionals Are Tomorrow’s Health Journalists. Here is a Code of Ethics to Guide Us and Trump’s White House Doctor.
  23. Value-based care – no progress since 1997?
  24. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 157 | The phrase is “Takeout Speculation”!
  25. How Can Patients Get Medical Records from a Closed Medical Practice?
  26. THCB Gang Episode 27, 10/8
  27. Will AI-Based Automation Replace Basic Primary Care? Should It?
  28. Attention, Walmart Patients
  29. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 156 | Garage Sale Edition
  30. New Technologies Drive Cost Growth Over Time
  31. Physicians’ Communication Skills are Overlooked and Undervalued
  32. KidsX to Unite Children’s Hospitals & Boost Innovation Investment in Pediatric Digital Health
  33. #Healthin2Point00, Episode 155 | Is UnitedHealth Group taking over the world?

September 2020

  1. Telehealth Reality Check: Who’s Really Going to “Win” the Race to Virtual Care Market Leadership?
  2. Obstacles to Value-Based Care Can Be Overcome
  3. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 154 | Health Tech Rounds, Socialized Medicine, & the ACA
  4. Trying to Make AI Less Squirrelly
  5. Talking Politics in the Exam Room: A Physician’s Obligation to Discuss the Political Ramifications of Science with Patients
  6. Biden’s Nov 9th speech: “Don’t you force me to pass Medicare 4 All”
  7. Measuring the Effectiveness of Cost-of-Care Conversations
  8. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 153 | GoodRx’s massive IPO, Olive, Bright Health & more
  9. It’s complicated. A deep dive into the Viz/Medicare AI reimbursement model.
  10. THCB Gang Episode 26, 9/24
  11. Minding the Competition: Ginger’s Karan Singh & Russell Glass on Digital Mental Health Investments
  12. Congress Is Getting the Transition to Alternative Payment Models Wrong
  13. WeChat to Many, WeDoctor to Some
  14. Now Is Not the Time to Forget About the AIDS Epidemic
  15. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 152 | 2 IPOs, At-Home Care, & Youtube for Employees?
  16. If I Can Be Safe Working as An ER Doctor Caring for COVID Patients, We Can Make Schools Safe for Children, Teachers, and Families
  17. THCB Gang Episode 25 9/17
  18. Doctors Urge Caution in Interpretation of Research in Times of COVID-19
  19. Kids & Mental Health: Brightline Aims to “Grow Up” Pediatric Behavioral Health Care with Tech
  20. THCB’s Bookclub, September 2020 – NEO.LIFE
  21. Hospitals Must Give Up Power to Save Healthcare
  22. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 151| MDLive (not?) IPOing, DTx Platform for Schizophrenia, & more
  23. Healthcare Can Learn From Chess
  24. Will COVID-19 Force The South To Finally Confront Structural Racism Within Their Medicaid Programs?
  25. Patient Identity and Patient Record Matching
  26. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 150 | Sesquicentennial anniversary edition!
  27. THCB Gang Episode 24!
  28. The Medical AI Floodgates Open, at a Cost of $1000 per Patient
  29. #COVID19 Symptom Data Challenge
  30. To Avoid Pay Cuts, Doctors Must Reduce Waste
  31. A New Kind of Labor Day
  32. Why Primary Care Should Run the Healthcare System
  33. The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge Webinar
  34. Don’t want my age revealed…
  35. The Wrong Legacies
  36. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 149: Pong & other video games
  37. Trump’s “Compstockery!”
  38. Big Health’s CEO: Working With Big Healthcare (CVS) & Big Pharma (as a DTx) on Mental Health
  39. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 148 | A colonoscopy story (& other health tech news)
  40. Announcing The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge

August 2020

  1. Why Health Systems Employ Doctors: Money and Control
  2. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 147 | The Most Confusing Episode So Far
  3. COVID-19 is Bringing Data Privacy into the Spotlight – This is How Healthcare Companies Should Respond
  4. THCB Gang Episode 23 8/27
  5. Meaningful U’s
  6. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 146 | Can We Call it Digital Health Anymore?
  7. The Bayer Deal: One Drop’s CEO on New $98M & How Data Science Will Fix Chronic Condition Care
  8. Slow Walking to Value Based Care: Why Fee for Service Still Rules
  9. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 145 | Amwell, OneDrop, Outset Medical & Podimetrics
  10. Thriving in COVID Times
  11. Change Healthcare’s CEO on Payers, Providers & The New Healthcare Economy
  12. Physicians Should Lead on Healthcare Reform
  13. Catalyst @ Health 2.0 Launches Rapid Response Open Call with Grapevine Health
  14. THCB Gang Episode 22, 8/20
  15. THCB’s Bookclub, August 2020 – UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance
  16. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 144 | Magical Forests, PsychCentral’s History, & More Funding Rounds
  17. An Epic Fight for the Metaverse
  18. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 143 | Lumeon, Nurx, Thirty Madison, & More
  19. Crossover Health: The Amazon Deal, Primary Care & The Rise of the ‘Health Activist’ Employer
  20. Health Insurers Ride High for Now, But Watch What’s Coming Next
  21. Healthcare Sings The Non-Profit Blues
  22. I Cured My Patient, But What Was His Diagnosis?
  23. Teladoc & Livongo — The Health Techerati Weigh-In
  24. THCB Gang Episode 21
  25. The Story of an American Mask Distributor
  26. Don’t Underestimate Doctor On Demand – CEO Hill Ferguson on the Era of ‘Tele-Everything’ Healthcare
  27. Take Your Mom to Work
  28. The Need for Measuring Clinician-Patient Cost-of-Care Conversations
  29. How to Pandemic-Proof Our Health Care Payment System
  30. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 142 | Ginger, Infermedica, Xealth & SOC Telemed
  31. Why is a 1980 Drill in my 2020 Brain?
  32. Redefining Values in American Health Care
  33. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 141 | Teladoc Livongo Merger Special
  34. Post Covid Healthcare is Becoming Like Buying from Amazon Instead of Going to the Mall or Reading an eBook Instead of a Paperback
  35. Vida Health’s CEO on Scaling Up in the Highly Competitive Chronic Condition Virtual Care Space
  36. Quality Virtual Care Is Within Reach – But Only If We Act Now
  37. The THCB Book Club!
  38. Health Insurance Needs to Grow Up

July 2020

  1. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 140 | Heal, Lemonaid, CVS & Sema4
  2. Medical Education Must Adapt to Support the Broadening Role of Physicians
  3. THCB Spotlights: Paul Johnson, CEO of Lemonaid
  4. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 139 | More Funding Deals & Livongo’s Diabetes Prevention Program
  5. PBM Startup Capital Rx Starts Prescription Drug Pricing Shake-Up with Walmart Partnership
  6. COVID herd immunity: At hand or forever elusive?
  7. THCB GANG, Episode 20
  8. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Innovation Challenges Blog Post Announcing Semi-Finalists
  9. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 138 | Health Tech Funding in Late July?
  10. Too Many Small Steps, Not Enough Leaps
  11. Can Community Be a Medicine?
  12. THCB Gang, Episode 19, July 23, 2020
  13. Stop Rolling Back Expanded Practice Licenses for Nurse Practitioners
  14. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 137| $10M in Seed Rounds, AI & Chatbots, and a New Meditation App?
  15. Collective State Action Is Needed to Fight This Pandemic Right Now
  16. Amwell’s Roy Schoenberg: Telehealth Post-Pandemic is “Entrenched Inside” Traditional Health Care
  17. Healthcare Should Get Into Some #GoodTrouble
  18. “Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech Conference” Matthew Holt & Jessica DaMassa’s Long, Exhaustive & Boring Overview
  19. Repurposing a Universally Installed EHR App Into an Effective COVID-19 Early Detection System
  20. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 136 | Telepharmacy, a Mega-Merger, & DoorDash’s Deal with Walgreens
  21. Everyone has a role to play: Reducing your child’s risk of developing food allergies
  22. THCB Gang, Episode 18 LIVE 7/16 from 1PM PT/4PM ET
  23. The Trump COVID Legacy: Bad Timing. Lots of Questions. Few Answers.
  24. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 135 | Amazon’s primary care entry, UnitedHealth’s digital DPP & more
  25. The 2020 Pandemic Election
  26. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 134 | Health Tech’s “PPP Blacklist”, Walgreens and VillageMD, & more
  27. Virtually Better
  28. Doctors and Democracy: Why Vote-By-Mail is Good Public Health
  29. We Are in Store for the Greatest Change to Our Health Care System Since the Affordable Care Act. Here’s Why.
  30. A Conversation with John Ioannidis
  31. THCB Gang Episode 17, LIVE 7/9 1PM PT/4PM ET
  32. Equipoise and Its Problems
  33. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 133 | PBMs galore, Genome Medical, & the FCC’s Rural Health Program
  34. Goodbye Glasses, Hello Smartglasses
  35. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 132 | Accolade IPO, Somatus, NexHealth, Tatch & more
  36. Telehealth’s Missing Link: In the Rush to Implement Virtual Care, What Did CMS Leave Out?
  37. “When Blood Breaks Down”: It Can Break Your Heart
  38. THCB Gang Episode 16
  39. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 131 | Tele-everything! Oscar, Evidation, Lululemon, Calibrate, & more

June 2020

  1. COVID-19 & Fertility Care: Remote Monitoring Meets Fertility Benefits for Better At-Home Option
  2. Silence Can Be Deadly: Speak up for Safety in a Pandemic
  3. And We Thought Pandemics Were Bad
  4. Community Organizations Can Reduce the Privacy Impacts of Surveillance During COVID-19
  5. Gastrointestinal Diseases in America: The Costly Impact on Employers and Patients
  6. THCB Gang Episode 15
  7. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 130 | DispatchHealth, BrightInsight, Cedar, Big Health, Redox & Plume
  8. How Traditional Health Records Bolster Structural Racism
  9. Will the Public Health Emergency Policy Changes for Telehealth & Remote Monitoring Stick?
  10. TikTok Teen’s Time
  11. Long-Term Telehealth Expansion Should Be Planned Intelligently
  12. USMLE Step 1 During COVID-19: A Fog of Uncertainty
  13. Omada Health’s Acquisition of Physera: Sean Duffy & Dan Rubinstein on ‘The Deal’ & What’s Next
  14. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 129 | Kaia Health, RapidSOS, Abacus Insights, Ready, and Doximity
  15. Three Things I Hope Health Care Won’t Recover From
  16. THCB Gang, Episode 14
  17. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 128 | Proteus, Walmart, Kyruus, Headspace and CareAcademy
  18. Your Face is Not Your Own
  19. THCB Spotlights: Allison Martin, UDoTest and Rahul Dubey, AHIP
  20. Managing Surgical Wait Times in the Intra-COVID-19 World
  21. THCB Spotlights: Stacie Ruth, CEO and Nirinjan Yee, Head of Innovation at AireHealth
  22. Contact Tracing: 10 Unique Challenges of COVID-19
  23. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 127 | AireHealth, Sharecare, PlushCare, & PatientPing
  24. A Missed Opportunity for Universal Healthcare
  25. THCB Gang, Episode 13
  26. Healthcare’s Sliding Doors Moment
  27. Defund Health Care!
  28. The Medical-Industrial Complex Pads Its Pockets As We Empty Ours
  29. RWJF Emergency Response Challenge Apps Closing Soon: Apply Today!
  30. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 126 | A triple-episode ft. Bigfoot, Tictrac, Lifestance & many more
  31. More Women Are Pursuing Majority-Male Specialties and Changing Patients’ Perceptions
  32. THCB Gang, Episode 12
  33. Escaping COVID-19
  34. Call for Applications: Bayer G4A Partnerships 2020
  35. We Can’t Breathe
  36. The Lack of Persuasion as a Failure Against COVID-19
  37. RWJF Apps Closing Soon: Apply Today!
  38. Even Covid-19 May Not Be Causing Your Doctor To Wash His Hands

May 2020

  1. Primary Care Practices Need Help to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic
  2. What’s a diagnosis about? COVID-19 and beyond
  3. THCB Gang, Episode 11
  4. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 125 | Amwell, Mindstrong, Big Sky Health, Medwing
  5. The 2020 COVID Election
  6. Catalyst @ Health 2.0 Launches Subsidized Rapid Response Open Calls (RROCs)
  7. How to Practice High-Quality Telemedicine in the Era of COVID-19
  8. A Vigilante in Statistical Badlands
  9. The New Normal is Still Unknown, on Earth as it is in Healthcare
  10. Post-Pandemic Solutions: A Public Option for Universal Healthcare
  11. THCB Gang, Episode 10 LIVE 1PM PT/4 PM ET 5/21
  12. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 124 | Omada Health, Meru, Noom, and Alike
  13. Home, Sweet Work
  14. The End of the Game
  15. Testing Won’t Get Us Where We Need to Go
  16. RWJF Challenge: Health Care Emergency Tech
  17. Americans Are Worried About the Cost of Their Healthcare (and they have good reason)
  18. Patients proving the life-saving value of data
  19. It’s Not About Tradeoffs
  20. Building an Intake Valve for New Ideas
  21. THCB Gang: Episode 9
  22. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 123 | Haven Health, Wellth, Vynca, Nanit & many more
  23. How Will COVID-19 Change the Health Care Balance of Power?
  24. Keep Petri Dishes in the Lab
  25. How to Manage Patients in Quarantine, Smartly
  26. We Need to Fix COVID-Damaged Care Sites and Give the Country Better Care and Universal Coverage in the Process
  27. After COVID-19, What Next? A Recovery Blueprint for Health System Leaders
  28. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 122 | Livongo Q1 Earnings, LetsGetChecked, Vida Health, and Medable
  29. Is Covid-19 the Argument Health Data Interoperability Needed? | WTF Health
  30. THCB Spotlights: David Smith, Medicaid Transformation Project at Avia
  31. Can AI and radiographs help in resource-poor areas for the fight against COVID-19?
  32. THCB Gang: Episode 8 LIVE 1PM PT/4PM ET, 5/7
  33. THCB Spotlights: Stan Kachnowski, Director of the Digital Health Program at Columbia Business School
  34. Healthcare Starts to Zoom Along
  35. The Problem With “Herd Immunity” as a COVID-19 Strategy
  36. Deep-Dive on GuideWell’s Covid19 Innovation Collaborative for Health Tech Startups | WTF Health
  37. Predicting the Future by Listening to the Experts
  38. Announcing the 2020 RWJF Emergency Response Innovation Challenges
  39. COVID-19 and Opening the Country: Lessons from 1918 Philadelphia
  40. COVID-19: Physicians in Shackles
  41. The False Choice Between Science And Economics

April 2020

  1. Can The Tablighi Jamaat’s Conference be India’s Own Epidemiological Diamond Princess?
  2. Pandemic State of Mind: Data from Behavioral Telehealth Startup Reveals How We’re Feeling
  3. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 121 | Takeover Edition ft. Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce
  4. COVID-19 Answers Might Be Just a Click Away
  5. THCB Gang: Episode 7
  6. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 120 | Particle Health, AliveCor & OMRON, Compass Pathways and Optum
  7. Occam’s Razor and COVID-19 Hospitalization Rates
  8. Lasting Lessons From Health Care’s ‘Money Back Guarantee’ Experiment
  9. Australia Healthcare Market: Telehealth, Digital Health Expected to Boom Post-Covid19 | WTF Health
  10. Hiding Our Heads in the Sand
  11. Paul O’Neill, Health Care Hero
  12. Will the Covid-Induced Telemedicine Scramble Change Primary Care Forever?
  13. Calling Health Tech Companies: GuideWell is Seeking Solutions against COVID-19
  14. Is the COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County really 50-85 fold higher than the number of confirmed cases?
  15. Lessons from Zika in the Era of COVID-19
  16. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 119 | RDMD, Dorsata, XRHealth, OneDrop, and Akili
  17. THCB Gang: Episode 6, LIVE 1PM PT/4PM ET, 4/23
  18. Beware the COVID-tech Cowboys
  19. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 118 | Aledade, Medopad, Amblyotech and Yes Health
  20. Provide Emotional Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Physicians Facing Psychological Trauma From the COVID-19 Crisis
  21. A Dream Deferred? Price Transparency in the American Healthcare System
  22. Even Republicans Want to Outlaw Surprise Medical Billing
  23. Nursing Students and Educators Must Be Part of a National Public Health Surveillance Strategy
  24. The Official Estimates of COVID-19 Deaths Are Way Too Low
  25. Wait — Robots Work But I Get Paid
  26. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 117 | Wellthy, Lionrock Recovery, Datos and Gaido
  27. Rationale for Testing Anticoagulants Against COVID-19
  28. InTouch Health’s CEO on B2B Telehealth Demand & Post-Covid Virtual Care Market | WTF Health
  29. The Important Role of Faith-based Organizations in the Context of COVID-19
  30. The THCB Gang: Episode 5
  31. How Will COVID-19 Impact Medical Malpractice, Healthcare Worker’s Comp Insurance? | WTF Health
  32. COVID-19: The Nursing Home Tragedy
  33. COVID-19: Hidden Coinfections and Chain Reactions Parasitic Infectious Relationships within Us
  34. Leadership During a Healthcare Crisis: Kaiser Permanente’s Response to COVID-19
  35. There Will Be Consequences
  36. GuideWell Launches COVID-19 Health Innovation Collaborative
  37. American Hospital Association’s Top Advocacy Efforts Amid COVID-19 Outbreak | WTF Health
  38. COVID-19 Makes the Case for a National Health Care System
  39. The COVID Pandemic: WHO Dunnit?
  40. Flipping the Stack: Can New Technology Drive Health Care’s Future?
  41. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 116 | Telehealth $$, Layoffs and Rock Health’s Q1 fundraising report
  42. The Tipping Point for Telehealth
  43. The THCB Gang Episode 4
  44. Health Plans Need to Go Farther To Get Us Through the COVID-19 Crisis. Employers Can Encourage Their Cooperation.
  45. 5 Steps Health Insurance CEOs Must Take to Help with COVID-19
  46. Glen Tullman, Livongo, Live with Jess & Matthew
  47. Blue Cross NC Chief Medical Officer on “Flipping the Switch” To Telehealth at Parity | WTF Health
  48. Patients & Vulnerable Populations Pandemically Left in the Dark
  49. Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus
  50. Sourcing Digital Health for COVID-19? Mount Sinai’s Medical Innovation Lead Has Advice | WTF Health
  51. “Essential Oncology”: The COVID Challenge
  52. The THCB Gang Episode 3, (LIVE Today at 1PM PT/4PM ET)
  53. India’s COVID Conundrum: To Lockdown or Not to Lockdown
  54. Understanding Covid19: How Data From People’s Daily Lives, Flu Outbreak Models Can Help | WTF Health
  55. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 115 | Olive, Bright.md and AristaMD
  56. Trump Urges Insured COVID-19 Victims to Use For-Profit Medical Care

March 2020

  1. Immediate Changes Needed for Physicians to Stay in Business During the Pandemic
  2. The Costs of Covid-19: What Health Plans & Employers Are Saying About Covering Care | WTF Health
  3. Pandemics Are the Mother of Invention
  4. This Treatment Could Save Your Life – COVID-19 and Convalescent Plasma Therapy
  5. False Negative: Testing’s Catch-22
  6. Covid-19 & Digital Health in Italy: “10 Years of Evolution in 10 Days” | WTF Health
  7. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 114 | COVID-19 Stimulus Package & Startup Responses
  8. The New Scarlet Letter
  9. The THCB Gang Episode 2, (Thursdays at 1pm PT/4 ET)
  10. Infection Control for COVID-19 Imaging
  11. Telehealth Startup CEO On How Covid-19 Is Changing Telemedicine Use In Hospitals | WTF Health
  12. CT scanning is just awful for diagnosing Covid-19
  13. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 113 | Oura, Heartbeat Health, Vault & Bloomer Tech
  14. COVID-19 Pandemic Puts Rural and Tribal Communities at Great Risk
  15. Can AI diagnose COVID-19 on CT scans? Can humans?
  16. Livongo Health’s Jenny Schneider on Covid-19 & Helping Patients with Chronic Conditions | WTF Health
  17. American Telemedicine Has Gone Viral
  18. The THCB Gang, Today at 1pm PT/4pm ET
  19. COVID-19 Update: A Message From Concerned Physicians
  20. Tracking digital health innovation in response to COVID-19
  21. Bruce Greenstein to Health Tech: “This is The Make-or-Break Time” | WTF Health on Covid-19
  22. A Healthcare System, If We Can Keep It
  23. How Concerned Should Patients Be About An Irregular Heartbeat?
  24. Why Peak Viral Load makes temperature screening alone insufficient for COVID-19
  25. Julia Cheek, Everlywell, & its response to COVID-19
  26. 41 Countries Later, This Doc’s Pick for Best Health System “Hack” | Dr. Niti Pall, KPMG & AXA
  27. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 112 | COVID-19, HealthDevJam & loads of deals
  28. There Is No Time for That
  29. Pandemic Fears: What the AIDS Battle Should Teach Us About COVID-19
  30. A Patient’s View of the Cures Regulations
  31. Can the US health care system “pull an Italy?”
  32. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 111 | #HIMSSpocalypse2020
  33. A Full-Scale Assault on Medical Debt, Part 3
  34. A Full-Scale Assault on Medical Debt, Part 2
  35. A Full-Scale Assault on Medical Debt, Part 1
  36. As Physicians Today, We Must Both Represent the “System” and Disregard it
  37. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 110b | Maven, IntelyCare, and New Acquisitions!
  38. Still Fighting the Wrong Wars
  39. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 110a | Trump at HIMSS20, K Health, and Accolade
  40. Can Startups Save Primary Care?
  41. The Undercurrents & Subtext of JP Morgan Healthcare 2020 | Luminary Labs, Sara Holoubek
  42. Hotspotting, Superutilizers, and Avoiding “RTM Traps”

February 2020

  1. How Hospital Systems Invest in Digital Health | Brent Stackhouse, Mount Sinai Ventures
  2. How eConsults Can Help PCPs Benefit From the Primary Cares Initiative
  3. Health Tech Investor Outlook for 2020 | Bryan Roberts, Venrock
  4. Time Really Can Be Money
  5. Back Pain Treatment Under the Watchful Eye of Your SmartPhone Camera | Konstantine Mehl, Kaia Health
  6. American Primary Care and My Soviet Era Class Trip: Sensing the Inevitable Collapse of a Top Down Bureaucracy
  7. Advice for Health Tech: Focus on Results, Mission, & Critics | Molly Coye, AVIA
  8. Advanced Professionalism and Fitzhugh Mullan
  9. Mainstream Adoption of Virtual Care is Like…Online Dating? | Stephany Verstraete, Teladoc Health
  10. Understanding #Medicare4All & the Democratic Primaries
  11. Consulting for Health Tech Startup CEOs From the Guy Who Knows | Matthew Holt, SMACK Health
  12. Who’s in Your Supply Chain?
  13. Consumer Health Tech Market Outlook for 2020 | Robert Garber, 7Wire Ventures
  14. Out of Network? Cigna, RICO and where’s the line?
  15. Behind the Big Deal: Teladoc Health’s Acquisition of InTouch Health | Joe DeVivo, InTouch Health
  16. The Legacy of Forced Sterilizations
  17. What’s Ahead for Livongo & the Health Tech Market in 2020? | Glen Tullman, Livongo
  18. Getting Ahead of Privacy and the CCPA – Healthcare Needs to Move Beyond HIPAA
  19. Scaling Up One Drop: From Walmart & Apple Stores to Employers & Bayer | Jeff Dachis, One Drop
  20. The FDA Needs to Set Standards for Using Artificial Intelligence in Drug Development
  21. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 109 | Flywire & Simplee, Headspace, and Iora Health
  22. Mindful Daily Practice Offers an Antidote to Healthcare Burnout
  23. From Ophthalmology Clinic to At-Home Device: Disrupting OTC Testing | Helge Sudkamp, Visotec
  24. The Step 1 Score Reporting Change – A Step in the Right Direction for IMGs?
  25. #USMLEPassFail: A Brave New Day
  26. Taking Healthcare Innovation Beyond the “Peloton Crowd” | Andy Slavitt, Town Hall Ventures
  27. Healthcare Has a Moral Injury
  28. Health Catalyst’s New Data-Driven Life Sciences Business | Sadiqa Mahmood, Health Catalyst
  29. Burned out on Burnout?
  30. The Digital Therapeutics Startup Following Pharma’s Formulary Model | David Klein, Click Therapeutics
  31. The Primary Cares Initiative: How Value-Based Payment Models Aim to Strengthen Primary Care
  32. Healthcare in the National Privacy Law Debate
  33. Leading Mental Health Platform on DTx Reimbursement, Scaling | Ken Cahill, SilverCloud Health
  34. For Your Eyeballs Only
  35. A Hospital Chief Pharmacy Officer on Innovation Needs | Jennifer Tryon, Wake Forest Baptist Health
  36. Patient Worries as a Central Feature of their Health Care Experiences
  37. The EU-Backed Community of Health Innovators Transforming Health | Katharina Ladewing, EIT Health
  38. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 108 | OneMedical IPO, Hinge Health, & Humana
  39. To Improve Patient Care, Think Both “Zebras” and Golf
  40. The Digital-First Health Insurance Startup Changing Healthcare in Nigeria | Femi Kuti, RelianceHMO
  41. The Social Context and Vulnerabilities that Challenge Health Care in the San Joaquin Valley of California
  42. Autonomous Pharmacy: An Industry Movement to Free Hospital Pharmacists | Randy Lipps, CEO, Omnicell
  43. Medical Records in Primary Care: Keeping the Story of Phone Calls and Medication Changes with Less than Perfect Tools
  44. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 107 | SoftBank Money, Judy Faulkner’s Letter, & Practice Fusion Gossip

January 2020

  1. Ouchie, a Chronic Pain Management App Mapping “Pain Journeys” | Rachel Trobman, Upside Health
  2. Why the Centene and WellCare Merger is the Biggest Deal in 2020
  3. Livongo Takes on Hypertension | Zane Burke, CEO, Livongo
  4. Quantum Theory of Health
  5. Consumer Weight Loss Platform Noom Heads for Digital Health | Saeju Jeong, CEO, Noom
  6. Strategic Interests and the ONC Annual Meeting
  7. Disrupting How We Detect Asthma & Hypertension | Edward Allegra, BioLum Sciences
  8. Why Healthcare Needs Designers
  9. Announcing the Finalists of GuideWell’s Caring for Caregivers Challenge
  10. Digital Therapeutics Category Outlook for Reimbursement | Megan Coder, Digital Therapeutics Alliance
  11. Asinine, Backasswards Colonoscopy Insurance Rules Make Patients Decline Medically Necessary Testing
  12. Artificial Intelligence vs. Tuberculosis – Part 2
  13. Detecting Heart Conditions Faster: The Case for Biomarkers-PLUS-AI | Dean Loizou, Prevencio
  14. A Letter to Ms. Judy Faulkner & Mr. Tommy Thompson
  15. Innovative Cancer Care Meets Digital Health | Janhvi Patel, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  16. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 106 | More Post-JPM Deals, & a Google/Cerner catfight?
  17. Will Medicare Advantage (MA) Startup Plans Be The Future?
  18. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 105 | JP Morgan 2020: Virta, Arcadia, Teladoc & more
  19. Leading Innovation in Dermatology | Francesca Wuttke, Chief Digital Officer, Almirall
  20. Your Wealth is Your Health
  21. Digital Therapeutic for Chronic Condition Management in India | Abhishek Shah, Wellthy Therapeutics
  22. Low Value Testing and Unmet Cascades
  23. The Digital Physical Therapy Startup for Knee, Neck, & Back Pain | Dan Rubenstein, Physera
  24. Health Data Outside HIPAA: Simply Extending HIPAA Would Be a #FAIL
  25. Healthcare Might Look Good in Plaid
  26. THCB Spotlights: Scott Shreeve, CEO of Crossover & Jay Parkinson, Founder of Sherpaa
  27. Digital Health Experts Needed for Landmark International Forum
  28. Why Do We Have Residency Training?
  29. A New Era for One Digital Health’s First Unicorns? | Maeve O’Meara, CEO, Castlight Health
  30. 9 Things Every Healthcare Startup Should Know About Business Development
  31. Uber as a Healthcare Company: The ‘Rideshare in Healthcare’ State-of-Play | Dan Trigub, Uber Health
  32. “I Want Complete Labs Ordered Before My Physical”
  33. Hospital Innovation in Madrid: Harder than in U.S.? | Julio Mayol, CMO, Hospital Clinico San Carlos
  34. Healthcare Needs Some IHOPs
  35. The Applied Health Signals Category of Health Tech | Jennifer Schneider, Livongo
  36. Top 3 Myths About Digital Identity in Healthcare
  37. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 104 | OneMedical, KRY, ClassPass, Komodo Health & LeanTaaS
  38. Solving the ‘Supply Side’ of Scaling up Behavioral Health Care | Russell Glass, CEO, Ginger
  39. Doctoring in 2020: Why is the Patient Here? Whose Visit is it Anyway?
  40. Radiology Gets an “App Store” for its AI Tools | Ben Panter, Blackford Analysis
  41. For all who hate computers in medicine: here’s what we got before.
  42. Disrupting Medicare Advantage for Data Access, Better Outcomes | Vivek Garipalli, CEO Clover Health
  43. 9 Healthcare Companies Who Changed the 2010s
  44. Disrupting Healthcare Payment with Mobile Platform M-TIBA | Maarten Ras, CarePay
  45. Hypersonic Missiles Aimed at Healthcare
  46. Will At-Home Lab Tests Change Healthcare Diagnostics Forever? | Frank Ong, Everlywell
  47. Chronic Disease Drugs are Big Business, Antibiotics are Not
  48. THCB Spotlights: Carolyn Magill, CEO of Aetion
  49. Doctors Lack Knowledge about Medical Cannabis Use. Their Patients Can Help.
  50. A Clinically Validated Game Teaching Mental Health Coping Strategies | Swatee Surve, Litesprite
  51. 2020: Entering the Year of the Midwife

2019 439

December 2019

  1. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 103 | ACA Ruling, Sutter Health Settlement, & Bright Health
  2. 11 Healthcare Innovation Trends To Watch In 2020
  3. Young Health Leaders Unite! | Alex Maiersperger & Antwan Williams, Advancement League
  4. Revisiting the Concept of Burnout Skills
  5. Reference Manuals May Be Facing Obsolescence
  6. Fertility Predicting Wearable Expanding into Birth Control, Menopause | Lea Von Bidder, Ava Science
  7. Will Your Health Plan Tell You That It Can Save Your Life?
  8. Doctoring at Christmas
  9. The Intrusion of Big Tech into Healthcare Threatens Patients’ Rights
  10. Getting Healthcare Providers Paid in Real-Time. FOR REAL. | Seth Cohen, Ooda Health
  11. A System that Fails Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers
  12. What Makes a Digital Health Startup a Winner? | John Sharp, Personal Connected Health Alliance
  13. Angels are Taking our Data
  14. Thou Shalt Not Try to Outsmart Me
  15. This Video Game App is Really Remote Monitoring for Eye Diseases | Stephanie Campbell, OKKO Health
  16. Switching to Outpatient Surgery for Everyone’s Benefit
  17. Angels Have Our Health Data
  18. Glen Tullman’s Advice for Health Startups | Glen Tullman, Livongo
  19. Patient-Directed Uses vs. The Platform
  20. Scaling Health Insurance Disruption | Ali Diab, Collective Health
  21. The Public Health To-Do List is Choking Doctors and Jeopardizing Patients’ Lives
  22. Will ‘Digital-First’ Health Plans Usher in Telehealth At-Scale? | Danielle Russella, American Well
  23. “Chasing My Cure”: A Book Review
  24. How Health Plans Pick Startups for Partnerships & Investment | Bryony Winn, BCBS North Carolina
  25. Presenting Complaint: Social Injustice
  26. The AMA’s Digital Health Investment Fund | Andrew Elkind & Stas Sokolin, Health2047
  27. THCB Spotlights: Omri Shor, CEO & Co-founder of Medisafe
  28. Explain yourself, machine. Producing simple text descriptions for AI interpretability
  29. This Digital Health Tool is Proven to Improve Cognitive Fitness | Jean Castonguay, NeuroTracker
  30. Lower Health Insurance Premiums Sound Like Great News – But It’s Only Part Of the Story
  31. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 102 | Proteus, Health 2.0 Asia/Japan, and…a Jewel Heist?
  32. RSNA 2019 AI Round-Up
  33. Will Health Data from Wearables EVER Be Useful to Physicians? | Yenvy Truong, HealthSnap
  34. The Liability of Outside Provider Orders and What Could be Done About It
  35. Rebuilding Trust in our Doctors: An Option for our Broken System
  36. The Dilemma of the Black Patient
  37. Artificial Intelligence vs. Tuberculosis, Part 1
  38. The Definition of Health Data has Changed—and HHS is All Over It | Dr. Mona Siddiqui, HHS
  39. The Lynne Chou O’Keefe Fallacy
  40. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 101 | FBI Scandals, EHR Competitors, & Amazon
  41. Maternal Mortality – Separating Signal from Noise
  42. THCB Spotlights: Mike McSherry, CEO of Xealth
  43. Will Omada Health be Digital Health’s Next Big IPO? | Sean Duffy, Omada Health
  44. Applications for GuideWell’s Scale Up Accelerator Closing Soon!
  45. The F Word …
  46. Pressed to Demonstrate Utility, Digital Health Struggles — Just Like Traditional Medicine
  47. Do Dogs Watch Oprah?
  48. Should Death Row Inmates Be Able to Donate Their Organs Before They Die?
  49. The New FDA Nutrition Labels Are Here. And They’re Freaking Brilliant!
  50. Med School For Lawyers
  51. Obamacare Enrollment Hits Six Million. Is Seven Million Out of Reach?
  52. The Creative Destruction of Healthcare
  53. My Last Column Focused On Digital Health
  54. A New Study Finds (Surprise) Americans Are Happier Than We Thought They Were
  55. The Orphan Organ: The Brain
  56. Surescripts Marketplace
  57. Texas Abortion Case Isn’t about Abortion, but The Rule of Law
  58. As health IT Matures, Security Approaches Must Mature With It
  59. Surgeons Doing Math

November 2019

  1. Playing Poker With the Devil: “Prior Authorizations” are Paralyzing Patients and Burning out Providers
  2. THCB Spotlights: Todd Clardy, EVP Marketing at Accolade
  3. Changing EMR – Seamless Continuation, Dreaded Chore or Fresh Start?
  4. Concrete Problems: Experts Caution on Construction of Digital Health Superhighway
  5. Now 30M Comcast Members Can Sync their Care Plan with their TV | Carina Edwards, CEO Quil Health
  6. Guerilla Billing – Missing the Gorilla in the Midst
  7. THCB Spotlights: Jeremy Orr, CEO of Medial EarlySign
  8. Charting The Economic History of US Health Reform
  9. From Health Consumers To Health Citizens | Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, THINK Health & Health Populi Blog
  10. What a Sock Business Can Teach Health Care Companies
  11. 6 Core Patient Portal Features to Get More Patients on Board
  12. Livongo’s Post-IPO Plans? | Glen Tullman, Livongo
  13. BetterCare for All
  14. Ten Building Blocks of Therapeutic Relationships
  15. THCB Spotlight: Kuldeep Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis
  16. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 100 | Frontiers Health, Google & Ascension, Apple & More!
  17. No More Empty Desks
  18. Applying Smarter, Part 1: Breaking Down the AAMC’s Apply Smart Campaign
  19. THCB Spotlight: Dr. Pascal Zuta, CEO of Gyant
  20. What Google Isn’t Saying About Your Health Records
  21. More and More Pills for 25-30% Better Odds of This, That and The Other – Some Patients Want That, and Some Will Run the Other Way
  22. Why Former FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, Joined the Aetion Board | Carolyn Magil, CEO Aetion
  23. Give One Minute to Add Healing into Healthcare
  24. Announcing GuideWell’s 2020 Scale Up Accelerator: Aging in Place
  25. More Disruption from Jonathan Bush…This Time It’s Primary Care | Jonathan Bush, Firefly Health
  26. Why Isn’t Price Transparency Working in Healthcare?
  27. THCB Spotlight: Two old men reminisce about the glory days!
  28. Clinical Depth: The Power of Knowing More than the Minimum
  29. The Untold Reality of Medical Device Shortages in the U.S.
  30. Should We Fear The Robots Taking Over Healthcare? | David Ewing Duncan, CEO Arc Fusion
  31. The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma | Vince Kuraitis & Deven McGraw
  32. Prehab Tool and AI Win Big at the 2019 RWJF Live Pitch
  33. The FDA has approved AI-based PET/MRI “denoising”. How safe is this technology?

October 2019

  1. ACCESS Act Points the Way to a Post-HIPAA World
  2. Health System Digital Transformation, Aussie Style | Michael Walsh, Queensland Health
  3. YTH Live 2020
  4. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 99 | (Reverse) Takeover Edition with Bayer G4A
  5. Health Tech in Africa | Nnamdi Oranye, Disrupting Africa Encyclopedia
  6. Another MCQ Test on the USMLE
  7. Climate Change is not an ‘Equal Opportunity’ Crisis
  8. Why I’m Not Buying Healthcare’s AI Hype…Yet | Enrico Coiera, Macquarie University
  9. Addressing Digital Health’s Gender Gap | Dr. Kudzai Kanhutu, HIC 2019 & Royal Melbourne University
  10. Leveraging Time by Doing Less in Each Chronic Care Visit
  11. Changing Health Behavior at the Population Level | Maureen Perrin, Public Health Epidemiologist
  12. Improving the Affordable Care Act Markets (Part 2)
  13. $2 Trillion+ in New Taxes for Single Payer, or $50 Billion to Strengthen ObamaCare? Next Question, Please
  14. Aussie Series: Health Tech Workforce
  15. Improving the Affordable Care Act Markets (Part 1)
  16. What’s on USMLE Step 1?
  17. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 98 | Connected Health, Pear Therapeutics & the Sutter Settlement
  18. Improving Medical AI Safety by Addressing Hidden Stratification
  19. Are Neighbors the New Caregivers? | Matiu Bush, RMIT University & One Good Street
  20. Let Patients Lead – Explaining Addiction and Recovery to Families
  21. Precision Medicine in Australia | Kathy Campbell, Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA)
  22. How to End Egregious Medical Bills (while minimizing the impact on the provider’s bottom line)
  23. Aussie Series: My Health Record Update
  24. How are hospitals supposed to reduce readmissions? Part III
  25. Click and Exercise! Amazon, Netflix, Hulu—Are You Listening?
  26. How is HISA Expanding Digital Health in Australia? | David Hansen, CSRIO e-Health Research Centre
  27. The Father of FHIR 🔥 & Healthcare’s Big Chance at Interoperability | Grahame Grieve
  28. Training the Modern Physician: A Call to Incorporate Finance and Law into Medical Education
  29. The good, the bad, and the hopeful in new interoperability plans from Washington
  30. EMR Euphoria: All New Zealanders Have Digital Health Records | Kevin Ross, Orion Health
  31. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 97 | Walmart and Fertility
  32. The Opportunity in Disruption, Part 5: Five Strategies of Cooperation
  33. The Rise and Rise of Quantitative Cassandras
  34. Academic Medicine and the Peter Principle
  35. A Patient Advocate’s Tips for Creating Equity | Gillian Mason, University of Newcastle
  36. Consumerism, washing machines, big data & health care
  37. Primary Care Is at the Center of a Health Revolution
  38. How are hospitals supposed to reduce readmissions? Part II
  39. Apply to Pilot your Tech and Transform Mental Health Services in California!

September 2019

  1. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 96 | Amazon Care, Echo, OneDrop & more
  2. The Opportunity in Disruption, Part 4: Success Strategies for Provider and Payer CFOs
  3. Healthcare’s ‘Copernican Moment’, Value-Based Health & The Future| Lucien Engelen, Transform.Health
  4. A Change Management Guru’s Guide to Working with Clinicians | Dr. Margaret Kennedy, Gevity Inc.
  5. AI competitions don’t produce useful models
  6. Ordering Tests Without Using Words: Are ICD-10 and CPT Codes Bringing Precision or Dumbing Us Down?
  7. The Most Expensive Data in the US & Why we’re NOT Using It | Atul Butte, UC Health
  8. Indigenous Medicine– From Illegal to Integral
  9. Announcing Winners for the RWJF Innovation Challenges
  10. The Opportunity in Disruption, Part 3: The Shape of Things to Come
  11. WTF are Digital Therapeutics? | Digital Therapeutics Alliance Executive Director, Megan Coder
  12. How Are Hospitals Supposed to Reduce Readmissions? | Part I
  13. Announcing GuideWell’s Caring for Caregivers Challenge
  14. Consumerism is the answer to health care? Maybe not
  15. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 95 | Health 2.0 Wrap-Up Edition
  16. Health 2.0: Why I’m (Freaking) Excited…and a (Bit) Concerned
  17. Why Should Anyone Care About Health Data Interoperability?
  18. We Can Stop America’s Surge in Opioid-Dependent Babies
  19. Taking on Facebook for Health Data Privacy: Fred Trotter, CareSet Systems
  20. I Have a Strong Relationship with my Bank but I Almost Never Go There. How Could this Translate to Primary Care?
  21. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 94 | Healthy.io, Smile Direct Club, and Period Tracking?
  22. The Opportunity in Disruption, Part 2: The Shape of Today’s System
  23. Health Innovation in Seattle & the Pacific Northwest | Maura Little of Cambia Grove
  24. The Opportunity in Disruption, Part 1
  25. Pilot Your Technology with Help@Hand
  26. Can Rah-Rah, Blah-Blah and Meh Accelerate Digital Health Innovation?
  27. What’s Hitting “Escape Velocity” in Health Innovation & Technology? | Todd Park, Devoted Health
  28. Thinking ‘oat’ of the box: Technology to resolve the ‘Goldilocks Data Dilemma’
  29. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 93 | Ginger, VillageMD, & Health Recovery Solutions
  30. Radiology Firing Line | Choosing Wisely, Wisely
  31. WW (aka WeightWatchers) Is Watching Health Tech & Behavior Change Thinking | Zoe Griffiths, WW
  32. Barbarians at the Gate
  33. Providers Don’t Take Enough Risk to Bend the Cost Curve
  34. Abu Dhabi’s Looking to Invest in the Future of Health | Abdulla Alii & Dirk Richter, Dept of Health
  35. Patient Controlled Health Data: Balancing Regulated Protections with Patient Autonomy
  36. Everybody Seems to be an Expert, Except Your Family Doctor?

August 2019

  1. Three Reasons Why 4 of 5 Digital Health Solutions Don’t Make It | Bram Van Leeuwen, Sanofi
  2. Physicians Should Play a New Role in Reducing Gun Violence
  3. The Efficiency Mandate: To Achieve Coverage, the U.S. Must Address Cost
  4. DNA Testing India: Startup Wants to Sequence 20% of World’s Population | Anu Acharya, Mapmygenome
  5. Cultivating Charisma in the Clinical Encounter (and emulating Marcus Welby, M.D.)
  6. RWJF Innovation Challenge Finalists To Compete Live at Health 2.0
  7. Walmart Launches Neuroscience Behavior Change Health App | David Hoke of Walmart
  8. How Maunakea Teaches Us to Practice Medicine
  9. Hyperscaling: Startup Advice from Softbank | Sakshi Chhabra Mittal, VP Softbank Vision Fund
  10. Why Medicare for All Will Not Cure What Ails the Hahnemann
  11. THCB Spotlights | Jacob Reider, CEO of Alliance for Better Health
  12. Protecting Health Data Outside of HIPAA: Will the Protecting Personal Health Data Act Tame the Wild West ?
  13. Everyone Is Having the Wrong Healthcare Debate
  14. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 92, Takeover Edition | Louise Schaper, HIC 2019 Australia
  15. The Rebellion of the Buyers
  16. How a Value Focus Could Change Health Care
  17. Selling Your EMR Startup to Apple…Then Leaving Apple to Start-up Again | Anil Sethi, Ciitizen
  18. ‘I Apologize for What You Are About To See’
  19. Health Data Outside HIPAA: The Wild West of Unprotected Personal Data
  20. WeightWatchers Acquired This Health Tech Startup That Helps Kids Lose Weight | Kurbo, Thea Runyan
  21. HardCore Health Podcast| Episode 3, IPOs, Privacy, & more!
  22. Are Radiologists Prepared for The Future?
  23. Barcelona Health Hub Launches to Advance Digital Health Solutions from Spain | Josep Carbo, Founder
  24. Telemedicine is a Tool, not a Panacea, to Reach Underserved Communities
  25. What will REALLY Bring Down the Cost of Healthcare (i.e.NOT Consumerization) | Peter Orszag, Lazard
  26. The Health Startup with the Largest Set of LIVE Connected Health Data | Kristin Valdes, b.well
  27. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 91| Babylon, MetaMe, & CVS CarePass
  28. A Proposal to Improve Healthcare and Make It More Affordable
  29. Next Gen Leadership in Healthcare | C-Suite Coach Simmi Singh, Egon Zehnder
  30. Off the Couch, Onto the Stage: My First, Only and Not-So-Great Presidential Debate
  31. Microsoft Healthcare, 169K Clients, & Health Tech at-Scale | Peter Lee, Microsoft Healthcare
  32. Where Health IT & Digital Health Collide | Hal Wolf, HIMSS
  33. “Paging Dr. Nobody!” Why Outdated Healthcare Paging Systems Need to Go | Sandeep Bansal, Medic Bleep
  34. “Thanks for Your Time”: Einstein’s Relativity in the Clinical Encounter
  35. Govt Mandated Patient Records on Smart Phones…You Ready, HealthTech? | Don Rucker, HHS
  36. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 90 | One year older…
  37. Healthcare IT Has Failed Providers, but It’s Not Too Late to Redeem Ourselves

July 2019

  1. “Alexa, Open Symptom Checker” Gets You This Health Startup’s App | Piotr Orzechowski Infermedica
  2. Doctors Will Vote With Their Patients
  3. Security Crisis of Cardiac Pacemakers Paves the Way for IoT Security Evolution in Cardiology
  4. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 89 | IPOs, Oscar and Fitbit
  5. Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 3
  6. Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 2
  7. Health Reform Job One: Stop the Gouging! | Part 1
  8. Pending Federal Privacy Legislation: A Status Update
  9. Those Digital Health IPOs—Flipping the Stack & Filling the Gap
  10. Announcing a New Series: “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both?
  11. Zeev Neuwirth Reframes Primary Care…Brilliantly
  12. Will Amazon Deliver a Single-Payer Health Care System for the U.S.?
  13. Health in 2 Point 00 | Episode 88, IPO Mania!
  14. Announcing the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation SDoH & Home and Community Based Care Innovation Challenges Semi-Finalists!
  15. A Patient in the Lobby Refuses to Leave: Medical Emergency, Unhappy Customer or Active Shooter?
  16. Announcing the GuideWell Matchmaking Summit
  17. What’s After Health 2.0? Trends Shaping Health Tech | Indu Subaiya, Health 2.0 & Catalyst Health
  18. Helping Health Tech Developers Connect to Connected Devices | Friedrich Lämmel, Thryve
  19. Can an App Help You Lose Weight? | André Heikius, Edevent
  20. Can You Treat IBS with an App? | Jossy Onwude of Bold Health
  21. Price-Fixing Case Reveals Vulnerability of Generic Drug Policies
  22. Redefining STI & HIV Testing in the Netherlands | Erwin Fisser, Soa Aids Nederland
  23. Landmark Results Achieved in Aging and Chronic Disease: Danish Group Extends Disease-free Life by 8 Years
  24. What’s the Difference Between ‘Digital Therapeutics’ & ‘Digital Drugs’? | Lina Behrens Flying Health
  25. India’s Mob Problem
  26. A National Patient Identifier: Should You Care?
  27. HardCore Health Podcast, Episode 2: Consumerism & Privacy
  28. Is “Medicare For All (Who Want it)” Enough?
  29. 12 Rules for Health Tech Startups
  30. Was the IOM estimate of medical errors correct?
  31. What Oncology’s Figured Out About the EHR | Dr. Ed Kim of Atrium Health
  32. THCB Spotlights: Brooke LeVasseur, CEO of AristaMD
  33. Sexism vs. Cultural Imperialism
  34. Why the Health Care System Is Incapable of Reducing Its Own Costs: A Brief Structural System Analysis
  35. Psychiatrist: My Medicine Raised Our Patient’s Blood Sugar, Can You Help? PCP: That’s a Dump!

June 2019

  1. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 87 | Omada, Call9 & Politics
  2. Whole Genome Sequencing Heads for Consumers – Rodrigo Martinez of Veritas Genetics
  3. DANGER! COURSE CORRECTION ALERT!
  4. Can we move on?
  5. The rAIdiologist will see you now
  6. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 86 | Lightning Round!
  7. Patient Privacy Rights: Comment on Regulatory Capture
  8. A Rose by Another Name
  9. Remembering the Real Stakeholders: Patient Privacy Rights Comments to TEFCA Draft 2
  10. Today’s Doctors: Colleagues or Free Agents?
  11. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 85 | Health 2.0 HIMSS Europe Final Thoughts
  12. Is Good, Human-Centered Design in Healthcare Possible? | frog Healthcare Lead Stefania Marcoli
  13. Remembering the Real Stakeholders: Patient Privacy Rights Comments on the Proposed CMS Regulation Pursuant to the Cures Act
  14. This Startup is Making Clinical Trials Easier to Run | Cyntegrity Co-Founder Artem Andrianov
  15. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 84 | Health 2.0 HIMSS Europe, Part 2
  16. Medicare for All and Industry Consolidation
  17. Better than Blue Zones? The Pioppi Protocol | Pioppi Protocol Filmmaker Donal O’Neill
  18. Why A Diverse and Inclusive Healthcare Innovation Workforce Matters
  19. Health Startup Trends: US vs. Europe | Startup Health Academy Director Polina Hanin
  20. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 83 | Health 2.0 HIMSS Europe
  21. Hyperscaling: Startup Advice from Softbank | Sakshi Chhabra Mittal, VP Softbank Vision Fund
  22. Gamification: The Future of ADHD Treatment | Vincent Hennemand, Akili Interactive
  23. Medical Ethics: Should Identity be a Human Right? | Albert Franz
  24. The best medical AI research (that you probably haven’t heard of)
  25. The Future of Chronic Kidney Disease | BOCAhealth Co-founder & CEO Alessandro Faragli
  26. This Startup Brings Mobile Breast Cancer Screenings to India | MyCliniCare co-founder Carman Kobza
  27. THCB Spotlight | Chris Gervais, CTO of Kyruus
  28. Which Health Tech Innovations are Actually Relevant? | Intouch Solutions Abidur Rahman
  29. ONC & CMS Proposed Rules – Part 6: Payer Data Requirements
  30. Funding Startups to Bring Health Tech to Emerging Markets | PATH Deputy Director Skye Gilbert
  31. The ABCs of Beginning a Clinical Encounter
  32. One of Europe’s First Publicly-Traded Digital Therapeutics Startups | Pierre Leurent, Voluntis
  33. Virtual’ Clinical Trials Eliminate Human & Animal Testing | InSilico Trials CEO Luca Emili
  34. The European Digital Health Ecosystem Matures | Roberto Ascione, Healthware International
  35. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 82 | Talkspace, Heal & Apple

May 2019

  1. Predictions and Parachutes
  2. Our Cancer Support Group On Facebook Is Trapped
  3. Snoop Last Year’s Bayer G4A Startups, Then Apply
  4. Role of Innovation in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
  5. Brief is Good
  6. Is America Flourishing? A Key Question For Health Reformers.
  7. Perspectives on Working with Healthcare Systems for Digital Start Up Companies | Part 2
  8. Perspectives on Working with Healthcare Systems for Digital Start Up Companies | Part 1
  9. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 81 | Takeover, Take Two with Jenny Schneider
  10. New GuideWell Innovation Scale Up Accelerator Program
  11. THCB Spotlights | Lygeia Ricciardi, CTO of Carium Health
  12. Coaching and Leadership Training Can Help Med Students Avoid Burnout
  13. The Folly of Self Referral
  14. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 80 | Takeover Edition!
  15. Health Care is Coming Home
  16. NEW: HardCore Health Podcast, Episode 1
  17. Reducing Churn to Increase Value in Health Care: Solutions for Payers, Providers, and Policymakers
  18. Calling All Tech Companies & Early Stage Innovators Health 2.0 Annual Conference Applications Are Open!
  19. We Are Not A Dashboard: Contesting The Tyranny Of Metrics, Measurement, And Managerialism
  20. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 79 | Noom, DispatchHealth and Kaiser Permanente
  21. Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: April 2019
  22. THCB Spotlights | Accenture: Brian Kalis, Managing Director of Digital Health
  23. One Physician’s Frustrations of Practicing Amidst the CHIPHIT Complex and Implications for the Future of the U.S. Healthcare System
  24. THCB Spotlights | Max Kerz, Bayer G4A Partnerships Program
  25. Private Health Insurance Organizations Shouldn’t Dictate Quality of Care
  26. A Millennial Doctor’s Experience with Industrial Medicine
  27. THCB Spotlights|Deven McGraw, CRO of Ciitizen
  28. ONC & CMS Proposed Rules – Part 5: Business Models
  29. Pulling Care Out of Hospital—By Phone, Ambulance, and Good Ol’ House Calls.

April 2019

  1. THCB Spotlights: Arcadia.io
  2. The “Back Story” of the JAMA Wellness Smackdown (Part 2)
  3. The “Back Story” of the JAMA Wellness Smackdown (Part 1)
  4. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 78 | FBI, FDIC and Funding, oh my!
  5. Race-Based Medicine Can Blind Doctors from Social Injustice
  6. THCB Spotlights: Matt Cox CMO of Lumeris
  7. No Quick Fix for the Culture of Prescribing that Drives Medication Overload
  8. Trauma-Informed Primary Care
  9. Making Oncology Accessible in Nepal
  10. MedPAC’s Latest Bad Idea: Forcing Doctors to Join ACOs
  11. Now More Than Ever, the Case for Medicaid Expansion
  12. Patient-Directed Access for Competition to Bend the Cost Curve
  13. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 77 | ATA19, Cityblock, & Microsoft HealthVault
  14. Announcing the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Social Determinants of Health and Home & Community Based Care Innovation Challenges
  15. ONC & CMS Proposed Rules – Part 4: Information Blocking
  16. Why Is the USA Only the 35th Healthiest Country in the World?
  17. Financial Toxicity is Hurting my Cancer Patients
  18. Six Health-Focused Fixes for SNAP
  19. The Next Frontier: Clinically Driven, Employer-Customized Care
  20. Patients Win When Payers and Providers Speak the Same Language
  21. THCB Spotlights: Lightbeam Health Solutions
  22. Death by 1000 Clicks Redux
  23. Changing the Way You Care: The Coming 5G Revolution
  24. XX Marks the Spot: Why Did Women Tech Experts Rule at DC Health Data Confab?
  25. WTF are Digital Therapeutics? | Digital Therapeutics Alliance Executive Director, Megan Coder
  26. Ridesharing Startup Cuts Medical Costs with Innovative Service | Mark Switaj CEO of RoundTrip
  27. Surveyor Health demystifies clinical pharmacy
  28. Innovators Worth Watching: Hennepin Health ACO
  29. Disrupting the Health Coach | Marina Borukhovich & Eugene Borukhovich, YourCoach
  30. ONC & CMS Proposed Rules – Part 3: Data Requirements
  31. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 76 | Facebook releasing an EMR? Jim Cramer Going to Epic? #AprilFools
  32. Amazon, Google, Microsoft Healthcare Takeover | Dr. Rasu Shrestha, Atrium Health
  33. Addressing Heresy in Healthcare
  34. SCOOP: Facebook enters EMR business
  35. Will Digital Therapeutics be ‘The End’ of Digital Health? | Eugene Borukhovich, G4A Bayer
  36. Investment State-of-Play in Big Pharma: Bayer’s Eugene Borukhovich Weighs In
  37. Economics Lessons from the Subcontinent: India’s Coronary Stent Policy

March 2019

  1. The Future of Genome Sequencing | Veritas Chief Marketing & Design Officer Rodrigo Martinez
  2. A Mental Health Chatbot that Can Reduce Symptoms of Depression by 13-18% | Michiel Rauws of X2AI
  3. For American Indians, Health is a Human and Legal Right
  4. The Neobiological Revolution | Jane Metcalfe, CEO NEO.LIFE & Founder Wired Magazine
  5. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 75 | Rounds & IPOs, Health Datapalooza, & the Facebook Controversy
  6. All for One, One For All
  7. Teladoc, CVS, Utilization Rates, & Apple in ‘THE YEAR of Telehealth’ | Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic
  8. Radiology in India
  9. Teladoc, CVS, Utilization Rates, & Apple in ‘THE YEAR of Telehealth’
  10. Is the ‘Applied Health Signals’ Category the New ‘Digital Health’? | Glen Tullman, Livongo
  11. Last Couple of Months in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: March 2019
  12. You Lose a Child, You Lose Your Job
  13. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 74 | European Money, Postpartum Care, & Social Determinants of Health
  14. Beyond Vaccination: New Measures Needed to Protect Hospitals and the Public Against the Flu
  15. Insights from a Verily Venture Investor on Health Data & Dollars
  16. Medical Education
  17. USMLE Step 1: Leveling the Playing Field – or Perpetuating Disadvantage?
  18. When Health Care Organizations Are Fundamentally Dishonest
  19. Welcome to the New & Improved THCB!
  20. Build-Your-Own ‘Squad’ – YourCoach Redefines Health Coaching
  21. The Cruelty of Managed Medicare
  22. New THCB site coming MONDAY! (It’ll be down this weekend)
  23. ONC & CMS Proposed Rules | Part 2: Interoperability
  24. Health Care Must Open More Doors to Mental Health Patients
  25. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 73 | Mergers, Medicaid, & Money
  26. Come Together.Health, Right Now…Over Me
  27. Health Care Price Tags Won’t Find You the Best Doctor
  28. Reducing Burnout and Increasing Efficiency with Telepsychiatry
  29. Radiologist Entrepreneurs
  30. Standing Rock Two Years Later: Public Health Lessons and the Physician’s Responsibility
  31. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 72 | Haven, Scott Gottlieb, & Crossover Health
  32. A Change in Tactics
  33. Health Innovation in Detroit | Paul Riser, Tech Town Detroit
  34. Learning from CVS – When is telemedicine disruptive, and when is it just…cool technology?
  35. Health Innovation in Seattle & the Pacific Northwest | Maura Little of Cambia Grove
  36. Coronary Stent Price Control in India: Two Years and Counting
  37. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 71 | Livongo’s SIGNUM 2019, Bobblehead Edition!
  38. What Keeps United Healthcare, Mayo Clinic & Medtronic Up At Night? | Shaye Mandle, Medical Alley
  39. Health Innovation in Denver | Mike Biselli, Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation
  40. “Public Charge” is a Public Health Disaster in the Making

February 2019

  1. The Business Case for Social Determinants of Health
  2. Health Innovation in Nashville | Hayley Hovious, Nashville Health Care Council
  3. Interoperability and Data Blocking | Part 1: Fostering Innovation
  4. Pediatrics Innovation: What Health Startups Need to Know | Omkar Kulkarni, Children’s Hospital of LA
  5. Our Dead on Every Shore
  6. Health Innovation in HIMSS | Leslie Evans, HIMSS Innovation Center
  7. How is Google’s Verily Thinking About Data, Investing, & Healthcare? | Luba Greenwood, Verily
  8. Advance Practice vs Primary Care
  9. Uniting 800 Emergency Rooms | Collective Medical CEO Chris Klomp
  10. EMR Integration Done Better, Cheaper, & Faster…Again? | Sansoro Health CEO Jeremy Pierotti
  11. ONC’s Proposed Rule is a Breakthrough in Patient Empowerment
  12. Running an RCT – A Conversation With the Investigators of the REGAIN Trial
  13. Need Patients to Review Your Healthcare Product? | Jen Horonjeff of Savvy Cooperative
  14. For Your Radar — Huge Implications for Healthcare in Pending Privacy Legislation
  15. THCB Spotlights: eyeforPharma
  16. Failing Healthcare’s ‘Free Market’ Experiment in US: Single Payer to the Rescue?
  17. What Do Docs Think About Delivering Care via Telehealth? | Teladoc Provider Dr. Chris Dennis
  18. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 70 | HIMSS Recap
  19. The End of the ‘Interoperability Showcase?’ | Niko Skievaski, Redox
  20. Tips for Scaling a Health Tech Startup | Glen Tullman & Zane Burke of Livongo
  21. Radiology in Africa
  22. Medicine is Not Like Math
  23. Obsessive Measurement Disorder: Etiology of an Epidemic
  24. Everyone Has a Part to Play in Ending Vaccine Hesitancy
  25. HIPAA RFI Comments: Patient Privacy Rights
  26. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 69 | Pre-HIMSSanity!
  27. HIMSSanity Preview
  28. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 68 | Livongo, Clover Health, Aetion, Hims, and Healthy.io
  29. Innovation Amidst the Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 4 – Resource Allocation and Access
  30. Innovation Amidst the Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 3 – Clinical Decision Support
  31. The Power & Perils of Unconventional Healthcare Partnerships
  32. Innovation Amidst Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 2 – Fostering Situational Awareness
  33. Innovation Amidst the Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 1 – A Strategic Framework
  34. Checking Boxes

January 2019

  1. Watch This Space: 3 Phenomena That Will Drive Health Care Innovation in 2019
  2. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 67 | uBiome, Planned Parenthood and Lively
  3. Overprescribing Is a Key Component of the Opioid Crisis — Here’s How to Stop It
  4. Radiology Firing Line | Meet the Patients
  5. AHA’s FutureScan Publication Available Now
  6. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 66 | Ciitizen, Limelight Health, The Pill Club, and ADURO
  7. The Future of the Affordable Care Act: Unscathed by Attacks from the Right, Overtaken on its Left?
  8. The Perfect Storm: When Parkinson’s Patients Enter the Hospital
  9. Has U.S. Health Care Spending Finally Stabilized? An Outlook for 2019
  10. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 65 | Microsoft-Walgreens, Google, and HIMSS
  11. A Bizarre Claim of Right to Try
  12. Venture Capitalism & Radiology
  13. The Perfect Office Note? SOAP, APSO or aSOAP?
  14. The Growing Problem of Military Suicides
  15. Despite Youth On Farm, Abbott Ventures Chief Avoids Spreading Manure
  16. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 64 | J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
  17. Net Effect of Expanding Medicaid
  18. Commissioning Healthcare Policy: Hospital Readmission and Its Price Tag
  19. Not Fake News! A Trump Administration Rule Models Government Civility
  20. New Study: Medicare’s Readmission Penalties May Be Killing Patients
  21. Google Is Quietly Infiltrating Medicine — But What Rules Will It Play By?
  22. Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali
  23. Into America: The Odds Against a Foreign Trained Doctor
  24. The Root Cause of Physician Burnout: Neither Professionals nor Skilled Workers
  25. The Death of Cancer: Book Review and Reflections

2018 575

December 2018

  1. Creating an Infrastructure of Health Data to Support Amazon’s Leap into Healthcare
  2. Where is Relationship, Authority, and Trust in Health Care Today?
  3. Is CareMore Health’s Population Health Management Model Disruptive?
  4. Statistical Certainty: Less is More
  5. Are Bipartisan Agreements on Health Care Possible?
  6. Evidence-Based Satire
  7. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 63 Walgreens & Fedex partnership, Verily’s adherence program, & more!
  8. CMS Should Boost the Signal on Social Determinants of Health
  9. Increased Payer and Provider Support May Drive Billions of Dollars in Savings from Biosimilars
  10. The Importance of Patient Engagement in Post-Acute Care
  11. What Does Congressional Gridlock Mean for the Rest of the Country?
  12. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 62- AHIP in Nashville!
  13. Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: November 2018
  14. Hotlines Aren’t Enough to Help People at Risk of Suicide
  15. Win, Lose, or Draw: Not all ACA Enrollees Gain from Increased Competition
  16. Medicaid Expansion is Evidence the Health Policy Debate Defies Political Divides
  17. The Disruptive Potential of Employer-Centered Care
  18. THCB Spotlight: Jesse Ehrenfeld, AMA
  19. Where to Apply Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
  20. Putting Patients into “Meaningful Use”
  21. Part II | MedPAC’s Proposed “Reforms” Should Be Tested Before They’re Implemented: CMS’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Is Exhibit A
  22. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 61
  23. MedPAC’s Proposed “Reforms” Should Be Tested Before They’re Implemented: CMS’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Is Exhibit A
  24. Iowa Race Questions Logic of Significance of Health Policy Debate
  25. Integrating in Health Care: 6 Tools for Working Across Boundaries
  26. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 60
  27. The Reality of Bush I on Health Care and Its Lessons for Today
  28. Why Narratives Do (and Should) Matter in Bioethics
  29. Let Them Depend on Charity
  30. It’s Time to Tango: Impatient With Progress on Patient-Physician Partnerships
  31. Looking for Quality in the Wrong Place
  32. Tall Buildings
  33. Think Medical Billing, Not “EMR First”
  34. Medicare Is Lousy Insurance
  35. Is Your Lack of “MQ” Costing You Money ?
  36. Technologic Decline in Health Care
  37. Ryan’s Attack on IPAB
  38. Essential Health Benefits: The Secretary’s Joystick
  39. Horses, Camels & Signals
  40. ICD-10: Rough Seas Ahead
  41. The Super Mobile Doctor Uses Smartphones and Tablets in Patient Care
  42. How Fast Can You Say “Social Media”?
  43. The Effectiveness of Online Health Intervention Programs
  44. It Looks Like the Head of HIMSS Likes Us
  45. Do Kaiser Cardiologists Need More Pharmacist Consults to Keep Their Patients Alive?
  46. GAO: FDA Can’t Monitor Device Recalls
  47. Google Health: What Did We Learn About PHRs?
  48. TMI, Dude!
  49. Health Reform: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Real World
  50. Why Do Doctors Offer Credit Cards?
  51. FDA Mobile Medical Applications NPRM
  52. How Not to Create an HIE
  53. Rhetoric Ahead of Reality: Doctor Ratings Not Useful Yet
  54. Practical Collaborative Document Writing for Patient Communities
  55. The Usefulness and Uselessness of Electronic Medical Records
  56. Hospital-Physician Mergers: All Is Not Well
  57. HIE Market Snippets
  58. Why Medical Specialists Should Want to End the Reign of the RUC
  59. The Pace of Change
  60. Is There an Independent Unbiased Expert in the House?
  61. More About Balancing Business, Humanity, and Restraint in Cancer Care
  62. Vesalius, Hooke, Hood and Steve Jobs
  63. The CSI Effect Hits Medicine
  64. HIT Trends Summary for August 2011
  65. Huddle of One
  66. The Impact of 9/11 on Healthcare IT
  67. One Word Can Save Your Life: Too Simplistic
  68. Must Waiting Be Inherent To Medical Care?
  69. Requiem for the CLASS Act
  70. Bucking the Established
  71. The Meaningful Use Song (with Apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan)
  72. The White Coat
  73. A SOCIAL Approach to Health Reform
  74. Is the Era of Off-Label Promotion Over?
  75. Cold Hard Facts or Cold Hard Doctors?
  76. How AARP Can Help, Not Harm
  77. New Physicians, Rethink Your Career Path Before Your First Job
  78. Violence in the Media Does Matter
  79. Guidelines are in the Eye of the Beholder
  80. Don Berwick, Martyr for Socialized Medicine
  81. The Power in What We Most Fear
  82. Look Outside Hospital Walls to Collaborate, Improve Health
  83. Can We Design a Heart-Healthy Home?
  84. A Computer Teaches Docs the Empathy Thing
  85. As Goes the Post Office, So Too Medicare?
  86. Pfizer Pioners New Ways to Frustrate Generics
  87. The Vital Role of Guideline Narratives
  88. Using Medicare Data to Rate Physician Quality
  89. Why Smart People Don’t Learn from Failures
  90. The Joy of Success
  91. Our Cancer Journey – Week 2
  92. Food Safety: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
  93. Physician Payment Sunshine Act Proposed Regulations Out
  94. Me too! It’s not fair! The Tragedy of the Commons in the Health Care Marketplace
  95. No Savings from Raising Medicare Age
  96. What do Patients Really Want?
  97. Super Bowl Sanitation: “Washed Up” Giants Outpoint Docs
  98. EHR and Practical, Tactical Outcomes
  99. Do You Want Your Doctor to Tell You When You’re Going to Die?
  100. Feed the Beast: Renewing the Prescription Drug User Fee Act
  101. Doctors Struggle to Make Ends Meet?
  102. Am I My Genes? The Question Of Fate, Free Will And Genetics
  103. Public Needs Voice in Health Care Decisions
  104. Give Young Adults Needed Privacy for Health
  105. How to Win Facebook Friends and Influence People
  106. Insurance Fraud, Abuse and Waste Could Be Reduced With High Deductible Policies
  107. It’s a Healthy Expense That CEOs DREAD … Well, WAKE UP!!!
  108. Hurdles to Accessing One’s PHI
  109. Ask Not What Your Dog Can Do for You…
  110. IPAB Is Not the Solution
  111. THCB is underwritten by:
  112. Republicans Run from Voucher Label
  113. 5 Things Parents Should Look for in Their Children’s Medical Record
  114. Is Your Doctor Lying To You?
  115. Will High Court Tamper with Cost-Cutting Reforms?
  116. Connected Health Predictive Analytics: A Long Road Ahead
  117. The Return of Conservative Medicine
  118. You : The App
  119. WSJ to Biotech: “You’re All Going To Die.” Thanks – Now Let’s Keep Fighting.

November 2018

  1. Many Ways of Skinning a Statistical Cat
  2. Consumers are Dishing On Healthcare Experiences—Be Part of the Conversation
  3. EMRs, APIs, App stores & all that: More data
  4. Saying No to the Drug Crisis
  5. Health Care-Related Public-Private Partnerships Will Likely Become the Norm in 2019
  6. Young People Need To Turn Out For Their Health
  7. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 59
  8. How to Become an Empowered Patient | ePatient Dave de Bronkart
  9. The Burning Question: Who Will Foot the Bill for America’s Increasing Burn-Care Costs?
  10. The MSSP Is No Silver Bullet for Healthcare Cost Control
  11. AI Doesn’t Ask Why — But Physicians And Drug Developers Want To Know
  12. Mrs. Verma Goes to Washington
  13. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 58
  14. Health Plan Innovation Gets a ‘New Look’ | AHIP’s CEO Matt Eyles
  15. A Conversation About the Dangers of Overhydration with Professor Timothy Noakes
  16. The Internet of Medical Things Gold Rush (And My Grandfather’s Wooden Leg)
  17. Looking Back at the RWJF Challenges
  18. Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali
  19. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 57
  20. The IPCC Confirms Life As We Know It Will Soon Cease to Exist
  21. 2018 Midterms: The Year of the Female Physician
  22. The Case for Open Innovation in Health | Sara Holoubek of Luminary Labs
  23. Exponential Medicine
  24. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 56
  25. The Rule of Thirds
  26. The Road Not Taken: The Unrecognized Harm of Excessive Regulation
  27. Racing to Nowhere
  28. Fraudulent Cancer Research: An Exception or the Tip of the Iceberg
  29. Tremors
  30. Biopharma + Digital Health?
  31. Lessons Learned from China
  32. Capital Markets and Development Prospects are Bright Spots for 2012; Aging Facilities Pose Challenges
  33. HIMSS12 Takeaway: Follow the Money
  34. Whose Voice Is Missing in the Health Reform Debate?
  35. The Democratization of Health Care: The IPAB
  36. Hey CEOs, Want to $ave Cash? Here’s What Few See
  37. The Politics of DS
  38. Uber-Tech
  39. Living for Today with Cancer
  40. Crowd-Funding for Research Dollars: A Cure for Science’s Ills?
  41. Kids Today Are Not Inattentive
  42. What About Single-Payer?
  43. What Makes Health Care Different
  44. States’ Revenue Rising, Spending Not So Much
  45. Roulette
  46. The Nursing Workforce of 2020: Well Trained, Well Paid, and — Actually, Who the Hell Knows
  47. Who Owns Patient Data?
  48. The Problem Is Relative
  49. Separating Professional and Hospital Records
  50. Clint Eastwood’s Empty Chair Health Care Speech
  51. An Open Letter To Governor Mary Fallin
  52. How to Practice Medicine in a World We Can Never Truly Understand
  53. We Know We Have to Address the Social Determinants of Health. Now What?

October 2018

  1. Life-Saving Data That Is Nowhere To Be Found: Hospitals’ C-section Rates
  2. You Can’t “Elon Musk” Healthcare
  3. A Unique Offering for Students, Professors, and Lifelong Learners: “The ‘Right’ to Health Care and the U.S. Constitution.”
  4. How do Consumers view Technology’s Role in Healthcare?
  5. Medicine is Child’s Play: Where’s Waldo, Spot the Difference and Whack-a-Mole
  6. During National Kidney Month, Protect Patients by Protecting Their Health Care Choices
  7. Facts, Conclusions, and More Questions on the Road to Solving Disparities
  8. Silencing Noisy Health Care?
  9. All Health Policy Is Local: The Case of the Individual Mandate Penalty in New York
  10. Hospitals Can and Should Support Employees Who Are Victims of Domestic Violence: Here’s How
  11. The Futility of Patient Matching
  12. The November 6 Midterm Elections and Their Impact on Obamacare:Q&A
  13. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 55
  14. A conversation about Health Policy with Elizabeth Rosenthal
  15. THCB Spotlights: Livio AI
  16. Hoarding Patient Data is a Lousy Business Strategy: 7 Reasons Why
  17. LIVE — #SPM2018
  18. Make Hackathons Fair Again
  19. Ensuring that the 21st Century Cures Act Health IT Provisions Promotes Interoperability and Data Exchange
  20. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 54
  21. AMA to Health Tech: Call a Doctor
  22. Please support Charles Gaba at ACASignups
  23. 10 Houses, 2 Days, 1 City SERENDIPITY Returns to SF and We’re Joining In!
  24. Obesity Training and Reimbursement Should be a Higher Priority
  25. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 53
  26. Treating Mental Health Disorders with Art
  27. Dr. Patti Brennan – #SPM2018 speaker preview “Supporting the Care Between the Care: The Role of the National Library of Medicine”
  28. A Challenge Posed; A Challenge Answered
  29. Egg Freezing Fertile for Disruption Says Freeze.Health
  30. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 52
  31. 4 Signs that Disruption is Accelerating in Health Care Delivery
  32. Part 2: Bypassing Prior Authorizations
  33. THCB Spotlights: CY5
  34. Another Round of NYC Curated Matchmaking through DHMP!
  35. Come to the Society for Participatory Medicine conference (Boston, Oct 17)
  36. THCB Spotlights: TestCard
  37. Reducing Cancer Care Costs by Comparative and Cost-Effectiveness Research (CER)
  38. Modeling readmissions
  39. Two Former Obama Health Advisors Whistle in the Dark about End of Health Insurance Companies
  40. The Journey We Take Together
  41. A Question of Worth
  42. Too Expensive to Treat? God and Medicine in the Neonatal ICU
  43. Let Them Eat Cheesecake!
  44. Meaningful Use — A Pinch of 3 and a Dash of 4
  45. It’s The Platform, Stupid: Capturing the Value of Data in Campaigns — and Healthcare
  46. The Economics of Reimplantation
  47. A Cowardly New World
  48. Let’s Talk About Stress
  49. Dallas Police Officer transported to Texas Health With Ebola Symptoms
  50. The #1 Reason Why Mobile is Critical to the Evolution of Healthcare
  51. A Shout Out to Our Sponsors
  52. HIMSS 2015: Girish Navani
  53. How Hard is it to ‘Get My Health Data’?
  54. Human factors and EHRs
  55. How I Use P4 Medicine to Maximize Patient Engagement
  56. Why Healthcare IT is So Hot Right Now
  57. Yelp Can Help: Rating Access to Electronic Medical Records will Hold Hospitals Accountable
  58. New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Could Backfire
  59. athenahealth presents
  60. Neither Expert nor Businessman: The Physician as Friend
  61. Running 2 ORs: Is it always wrong?
  62. Snake Bite Anti-Venom Shortages: A Preventable Public Health Crisis
  63. Weight-Loss — I’ve got An App for That…..and It doesn’t Work)
  64. Plastic Surgery Industry needs Comprehensive Overhaul and Stricter Regulations
  65. Will Healthcare Law Pit Obama vs. Roberts?
  66. Supreme Court Needn’t Fear Healthcare Law’s Individual Mandate Provision
  67. That Tremor? It’s U.S. Healthcare Crumbling under Pressure
  68. The Unlikely Heroes of Healthcare
  69. Expensive Hospitals: The Enemy Within

September 2018

  1. Escaping COVID-19
  2. You Can’t “Elon Musk” Healthcare
  3. A Whole New Ball Game. Same Problems to Solve, Though.
  4. Apple Watch Leaves Patients Connected with No Where To Go
  5. Will Apple Track Your Mind, Not Just Your Heart?
  6. Making Healthcare a Consumer Biz: Livongo’s Glen Tullman on his New Book & IPO Rumors
  7. THCB Spotlights: MIRA Fertility Tracker
  8. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 51
  9. “Remember that Oath?”: EPCS and the Fight Against Opioid Abuse
  10. The Biggest Trend You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: A Status Report on 138 Healthcare ICOs
  11. Limitations of Randomized Controlled Trials
  12. HealthTech Investing: Venrock’s Kocher & Roberts Bet on Platforms
  13. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 50
  14. A Guide to Making Machine Learning Work in Health Care
  15. A Rosa Parks Moment is Coming in Phase 1 Cancer Trials
  16. The White House chooses Paxlovid over science
  17. UPMC’s Rasu Shrestha on Consumer Health in ‘Big’ Healthcare
  18. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 49
  19. Livongo CEO Glen Tullman’s Advice for Startups
  20. Does Free Medical School Decrease Social Justice?
  21. A conversation with Dr. Nicole Saphier
  22. Physician Well-Being: Lessons From Positive Psychology
  23. Disrupting the Cholesterol Test: Finnish Startup Nightingale Health
  24. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 48
  25. Is Universal Health Care Socialism?
  26. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 47
  27. Can CMS’ Proposed ACO Changes Really Help Medicare Beneficiaries?
  28. How My iPhone Prevented an ER Visit
  29. Grassley Criticizes Removal of Doctor Discipline Data
  30. Price Tags and Haggling in an Exotic Market
  31. Essential Health Benefits: Balancing Costs, Coverage, And Necessity
  32. Obamacare HHS rule would give government everybody’s health records
  33. Suit Says Test Labs Cheat Medicare, Medicaid
  34. Do Computers Really Come Between Doctors and Patients?
  35. Leaders Of Science-Driven Businesses Should Understand … Science
  36. Pay-for-Performance Attacks Hospitals
  37. How Much Does it Cost to Have a Baby?
  38. Cost Awareness in Health Care: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
  39. The Czar of Ebola
  40. Healthcare : The Case of the Patient Portal
  41. Addiction Nature versus Nurture –Which? Both?
  42. Spring Training for Health Care Teams
  43. E-Prescribing: Experiences from Physician Practices and Pharmacies
  44. The (Affordable!) Health Coach in Your Pocket
  45. Matthew Holt Interviews Athenahealth CMO, Todd Rothenhaus
  46. Matthew Holt Interviews Regina Holliday at HIMSS
  47. Income Taxes and Healthcare: The Disconnect
  48. 150 Ways to Measure Healthcare Quality. Which One is Best?
  49. Measurement of Interoperability and the Transaction Receipt

August 2018

  1. Is Medical Imaging a Ricardian Derived Demand?
  2. Why Cochrane is Wrong About Hypertension. Very Wrong.
  3. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 46
  4. Prior Authorizations: Will They Become Damocles Sword?
  5. Comprehensiveness is Killing Primary Care
  6. A Cross-Party Win: Empowering Consumers Through Digital Health
  7. The UN’s Extreme Poverty Report: Further Evidence US Healthcare Is Divorced From Reality
  8. Seema Verma Hyperventilates About Tiny Differences Between ACOs Exposed to One-and Two-Sided Risk
  9. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 45
  10. Biomedical Knowledge Must Be Mobilized to Save Lives, Not Privatized in the “Last Mile”
  11. Logic, Science, and Rationale of Public Reporting
  12. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 44
  13. In Search of Intra-Aero-Bili-ty
  14. THCB Editorial on Trump’s Assault on the Press
  15. Cats & Dogs: Can We Find Unity on Health Care IT Change?
  16. Raj of the NHS – How doctors from India and Pakistan saved the NHS
  17. Why Hillarycare failed…and what we need to learn from that failure
  18. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 43
  19. As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
  20. The Doctor Who Thwarted the Charge of the General Medical Council- Part 2
  21. Surrogate End Points Ain’t all that Bad
  22. The First Post: What’s Wrong with Medicare?
  23. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 42
  24. The Following is an Excerpt from the Book “Let’s Talk About Death (Over Dinner): An Invitation and Guide to Life’s Most Important Conversation”
  25. The Doctor Who Thwarted the Charge of the General Medical Council – Part 1
  26. Can We Teach a New Dog Old Tricks? A Conversation with Gary Klein
  27. Health Care’s Third Wave
  28. A Libertarian’s Case Against Free Markets in Health Care
  29. A Doctor Thanks His Mentor – Steve Jobs
  30. Shielding My Daughter’s Heart
  31. How Much Are We Paying For a Choice of Insurers?
  32. Physician, Feed Thyself …
  33. The Evolving Role and Stature of Health Information Management (HIM)
  34. The Health Care Blog
  35. Decentralization and home health kits: Thoughts from Health 2.0
  36. Why Developers Should Enter Health IT Contests
  37. The Value of Moodscope
  38. Navinet: Health 2.0 Poster Child
  39. Looking to Get Funded? Thoughts From An Entrepreneur Who Just Did
  40. The Individual Mandate, a Brief History — Part I Conservative Origins

July 2018

  1. Susannah Fox on Teens & Digital Health Study
  2. Digital Health and the Two-Canoe Problem
  3. Who Cares About the Doctor-Patient Relationship? A Review of “Next In Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health”
  4. Will Computers Really Replace Radiologists?
  5. Giving Consumers the Tools and Support They Need to Navigate Our Complex Healthcare System
  6. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 41
  7. AI to the Rescue: 5 Semi-Finalists Advancing Through the RWJF AI and the Healthcare Consumer Challenge!
  8. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 40
  9. Making Sense of the Health Care Merger Scene
  10. Is the Conservative Establishment Against Entitlement Reform?
  11. Are Doctors Bribed by Pharma? An Analysis of Data
  12. The Rise of Litigation in the US
  13. Information Blocking–The AHA Comments & PPR Responds
  14. What’s Next in Health Tech Investment? 500 Startups VC Marvin Liao Weighs In
  15. Health in 2 Point 00 — Episode 39
  16. Maine Voices: Want better, less complicated health insurance? Push the narrative, not the name
  17. Medical Care in Rural India
  18. CBD (Cannabidiol) 101
  19. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 38
  20. My Triple Aim of Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addicted Patients
  21. Medicare Holds Out Promise of Health Record Access Revolution
  22. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 37
  23. SPM’s comments on important proposed CMS interoperability rules
  24. Social determinants on becoming a physician
  25. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 36
  26. The Past, Present and Future of Health Care
  27. Why I Tattooed My Health Data Over My Heart | WTF Health with Casey Quinlan
  28. Stay Out of my Wellness
  29. Sending the Questions to the Data
  30. Money, Medicine and Ethics
  31. Are Entitlement Spending Cuts Bad for Young People?
  32. Who Knew? California May Have a Public Option
  33. Direct Access to Lab Results: Helpful or Harmful?
  34. New York Say It Has Enrolled 47,000. More Than HealthCare.gov …
  35. Surviving Workplace Wellness Preorder Now Available!!
  36. The Doctor Is In (And Extremely Annoyed)
  37. Radiologists versus Machines

June 2018

  1. The Evidence Crisis: Causal Inference – Don’t be a chicken (Part 3)
  2. Self-Driving Cars are Like Most EMRs
  3. Health in 2 point 00 -Episode 35, Shafi Ahmed takeover edition
  4. Information Blocking–Gropper & Peel Weigh in
  5. India’s Health Insurance Experiment. Who will be the winners?
  6. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 34
  7. Adjusting for Risk Adjustment
  8. Defining Engagement in an Age of Patient Monitoring and Data Collection
  9. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 33, (another!) Takeover Edition
  10. Can Medicaid Expansion Survive?
  11. WTF Health | Self-Reported Patient Monitoring Startup from Finland, Kaiku Health
  12. Misdiagnosis: Obamacare Tried to Fix the Wrong Things and Prescribed the Wrong Treatments
  13. WTF Health | Oscar’s Schlosser on Consumerizing Health Plans, post-ACA & pre-Amazon/JPM/BH
  14. The EBM Wars: When Evidence has a Price – The ECMO Trials (Part 2)
  15. The EBM Wars: Manufacturing Equipoise (Part 1)
  16. Health in 2 Point 00 Episode 32 — Takeover Edition
  17. Health for coins, not dollars ;) – The “not so serious” Mapping of Healthcare Cryptocurrencies
  18. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 31
  19. Can Supportiv fill the mental health peer support gap?
  20. Announcing the Digital Health Marketplace Summer Matchmaking Event!
  21. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 30
  22. Apple, Cerner, Microsoft, and Salesforce
  23. The verdict is in: All three of CMS’s “medical home” demonstrations have failed
  24. Fighting Hubris in Medicine
  25. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 29
  26. WTF Health | Teladoc’s Gorevic: “We’re feeling A-quisitive”
  27. A Tale of 2 FDAs
  28. Bringing “care” back to healthcare by caring about those who care
  29. Penn State’s Wellness Disaster: How to Avoid Employee Rejection of Wellness Programs–and Even Get Buy-In
  30. Will Palo Alto Ever Make a Successful Healthcare IT Company?

May 2018

  1. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 28
  2. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 27
  3. Health in 2 point 00 — Episode 26
  4. Bad Blood & Mad Love at Theranos—Psychopaths at Work
  5. WTF Health | Scaling Up NLP with Simon Beaulah of Linguamatics
  6. Double Standards, Trojan Style
  7. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
  8. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 25
  9. The Ethics of Keeping Alfie Alive
  10. ‘Immigrants’ Bring Patient Engagement Energy
  11. SMACK.Health–Getting Clear on the Concept
  12. Will Cancer Drugs Ever Be As Affordable As Retrovirals in Low and Middle Income Countries?
  13. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 24
  14. Mudit Garg, Qventus on the $30m raise
  15. The Case For Real World Evidence (RWE)
  16. Alfie Evans and the Medical Ethics of Suffering
  17. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 23
  18. Trump and Rx Drug Prices: Let the Games Begin
  19. HLTH & Healthcare — My tweetstorm on the HLTH conference
  20. A Public-Private Partnership to Fix Health Care
  21. Empowering Patients through Decentralized Information Governance
  22. The AmWell – Avizia Merger and the Evolution of Telehealth
  23. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 22
  24. MedStar Franklin Center: The Case Against Global Capitation
  25. Trump’s Docs
  26. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 21
  27. Not Actually Fake News
  28. Expanding Medicare Advantage Benefits to Address Social Determinants of Health

April 2018

  1. Seeing Value From the Patient’s Perspective
  2. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 20
  3. Interview with Brian Yarnell, Bluestream Health
  4. There Are Buoys: The Real Path to Lower cost in the Coming Catastrophic Deformation of Healthcare
  5. State Employee Health Plans Key for Driving Value-Based Initiatives
  6. Check Out The RWJF Opioid Challenge Semi-Finalists!
  7. APIs: A Path to Putting Patients at the Center
  8. Consider this Speculative Scenario on Walmart & Humana
  9. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 19
  10. WTF Health | Women in Health Tech, Crashing your ‘Mike Fest’ & Organizing for World Domination
  11. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 18
  12. WTF Health | Kyruus co-founder, Julie Yoo
  13. Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Progress Across the Pond
  14. Announcing the RWJF AI & The Healthcare Consumer Challenge!
  15. WTF Health | Uber Health’s Head of Strategy, Lauren Steingold
  16. Twitter-Based Medicine: How Social Media is Changing the Public’s View of Medicine
  17. Why go to Health Datapalooza? Ask Bruce Greenstein, CTO of HHS
  18. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  19. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 17
  20. Vineti raises $33m, Amy DuRoss interview
  21. Science, Liability, Public Policy and the CTE “Epidemic”
  22. The Art of Medicine: Taking a Military History
  23. The Tapeworms are Coming for Direct Primary Care
  24. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 16
  25. WTF Health | Blockchain God Ted Tanner of PokitDok
  26. Beyond The Hype Within AI and Machine Learning
  27. Another Myth that Refuses to Die: As Medicare Goes, So Goes the Nation
  28. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 15
  29. Aetion raises $36m, Carolyn Magill interview
  30. From EHR to Paper to EHR .. to Paper??
  31. Fix the EHR!
  32. We Should Use Both Medicare Advantage for All and Medicaid As A Package to Cover Everyone And We Should Do It Now
  33. Médecins sans Hôpitaux (Doctors without Hospitals)
  34. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 15
  35. Splitting hairs with Hypertension
  36. The Greatest Decision Trump Has Ever Made
  37. Can Amazon, Chase, and Berkshire Help Medical Malpractice Victims?
  38. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 14
  39. Exclusive Interview with Chris Boone, CEO of Health Data Consoritum
  40. THCB Exclusive–Trump appoints Holt to run VA

March 2018

  1. MyFitnessPal and the State of Data Privacy in America
  2. HHS Conscience Rule Would Grant Providers Sweeping Rights to Deny Care
  3. How the VA Colon Cancer Screening Program Fails African-American Males
  4. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 13
  5. The Myth That Refuses to Die: All Health Care is Local
  6. What Parents of Athletes Should Know About Injuries and Abuse
  7. Making Progress Toward Healthier Pharma Markets
  8. Health Savings Accounts: Are Lawmakers Being Target-ed or Amazon-ed?
  9. Health in 2 point 00 — Episode 12
  10. Making Employee Wellbeing the Top Leadership Priority
  11. Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning For the Extremely Confused
  12. The Future of Value-Based Care Relies Upon Providers: Taking the Reins on Alternative Payment Models
  13. A GIS-based Transport Network for Emergency Referral in Bangladesh
  14. Bad Medicine: Medicaid Managed Drug Plan Rollback
  15. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 11
  16. The Barbershop Study: How an Unorthodox Study on Black Men’s Health Brought Down the House and Where It Went Wrong
  17. ACA Market Stabilization Push Is On But Success Is Uncertain
  18. Why Do We Need ACOs and Insurance Companies? Part 3. The HMOs Strike Back!!!
  19. After Right to Try Fails, Here’s How We Can Actually Bring Potentially Life-Saving Drugs to Patients in Need
  20. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 10
  21. On the Non-Effectiveness of Cost Effectiveness Analyses
  22. Don’t Like Obamacare? Do We Have a Plan For You!
  23. On Theranos: It’s Time to Throw the Book at Healthcare Tech Frauds
  24. The Conflicted-Disruption Complex
  25. Dear CMS Administrator Verma
  26. Why Lawmakers Must Vote Down Right to Try
  27. The One Way the Trump Administration Can Drive Competition Without Regulation
  28. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 9
  29. Why Do We need ACOs and Insurance Companies? Part II
  30. I am a Pediatrician. I Treated the Columbine Kids. I Have Not Spoken Out Before.
  31. Three Reasons Amazon’s Mega Partnership Is Fertile Ground For Innovation
  32. Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 8
  33. A Four Step Plan For the Value-Based Transformation of the Health Care System
  34. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 7
  35. The Trump Administration, Patient Data Rights + Value Based Care
  36. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 6
  37. What to Decide When You’re Expecting
  38. Deadline This Week For Your Special Rate For Health 2.0 Annual Conference
  39. Myth No. 1: Quality of Care in the U.S. Health System is the Best in the World
  40. Health in 2 point 00 — Late night HIMSS18 edition
  41. AI Is Close to Giving Us the Ultimate Early Diagnostic Test For Breast Cancer
  42. Health in 2 point 00 Episode 4, HIMSS18 kickoff special
  43. Learning to Listen
  44. The Time is Now to Develop and Implement a National Health Data Strategy
  45. The ACA’s Crucial Prevention Component

February 2018

  1. The Peril of Online Physician Reviews
  2. Apple’s EHR: Why Health Records on Your iPhone is Just the Beginning
  3. Integrating with EMR vendors? Tell us More! The 2018 Health 2.0 API Survey
  4. Why Do We Need ACOs and Insurance Companies?
  5. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 3
  6. Consider This Speculative Amazon Scenario
  7. The Luxury to Choose
  8. A National Health Encounter Surveillance System
  9. Fear and Loathing in Pay-For-Performance Land
  10. The Intractable Debate over Guns
  11. A Health Tech’s Secret Weapon: The People Under The Hood
  12. CMS Quietly Launches an Offensive Against Direct Primary Care
  13. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 2
  14. The Healthcare.gov Rescue and the Hawaii False Alarm . When Good Government Tech Goes Bad.
  15. On Data and Informatics For Value-Based Healthcare
  16. Impact of FHIR + SMART on FHIR
  17. 2018 Forecast: Another Theranos, Hospital Hiring Slows & Successful HIT Exits
  18. Questioning the Link Between Sports-Related Concussions and CTE
  19. The Doctor Squared Movement: An Alternative to Regulatory Burden
  20. Health in 2 point 00, Episode 1
  21. Artificial Intelligence & How Doctors Think: An Interview with Thomas Jefferson’s Stephen Klasko
  22. Why Raising Hospital Prices is a Zero Sum Game
  23. The Doctor and the CFO
  24. The Conference Created by Innovators for Innovators
  25. The Skeptical Oncologist
  26. Sexism in Healthcare Reporting
  27. Global Risk Report: Davos, Trump and Climate Change
  28. Will Amazon Eat the Market?
  29. It’s (Still) the Prices, Stupid
  30. Medicine Is a Profession That is Rapidly Losing Control of Its Tools.
  31. A Whiff of Market-Based Health Care Change
  32. What Kmart’s Settlement Says About Health Care Fraud

January 2018

  1. Ambergan = Amazon + Berkshire Hathaway + JPMorgan
  2. What Is a “Co-Presidency”? Would It Work? Biden-Obama 2020
  3. To Err is Homicide in Britain – The Case of Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba
  4. Bigger is Not Always Better: How Consolidation in Health Care Hurts Patients
  5. RWJF Opioid Challenge: You Can Help
  6. MedPAC’s Repeal And Replace MIPs Campaign Will Not End Well
  7. AbStats, VR & the Future of Digital Health : A Conversation with Brennan Spiegel
  8. Diversifying Digital Health
  9. Does Donald Trump Have Heart Disease?
  10. Pharma’s (Big) Data Problem
  11. Mayo Clinic: Transparency, Deception, and Ice Cream
  12. The UPMC-Highmark Brawl Spills Into Philadelphia’s Backyard
  13. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
  14. NEJM Blasts “Crusade,” Omits that Its Former Editor Launched It
  15. A Patient Experience-Based View of the TEFCA
  16. The Kentucky Armageddon
  17. Mark Ganz — What’s Your Purpose in Health Care?
  18. The Naming of Things
  19. Science Fiction Coming to Life
  20. A Surprisingly Logical Argument in Favor of Head Transplantation
  21. New Evidence in JAMA Shows Insurance Gaps Leave Some Cancer Patients Without Treatment
  22. The Individual Mandate’s Dead. What Happens Next?
  23. Separating the Art of Medicine From Artificial Intelligence
  24. Is Marital Status in a Febrile 5-year-old Child Important?
  25. What Is An Abnormal Test Result?
  26. Are you in SF? What are you doing on Wednesday?
  27. A New Non-Partisan Panel to Monitor the President’s Health
  28. The Price of Progress
  29. No Surprise, Life Expectancy Declined Again
  30. The Death of Objectivity
  31. The Other Opioid Epidemic
  32. The Political Economy of Fentanyl
  33. Your Ticket to an Intimate Chat With Health Tech VCs

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