2021–2026

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October 2026

1. 28 OctI’d Like Some Choices, Please
2. 27 OctHCAHPS 2.0 Is Not a Survey Update. It’s a Strategic Shift for Healthcare
3. 26 OctEnough of Asshole Capitalism
4. 23 OctWhat Good Is Health Coverage If You Cannot Get to the Doctor
5. 22 OctHave doctors given up on doctoring?
6. 21 OctMedicine Gave Itself a Code for Diabetes Remission. A Year Later, the Payment System Still Can’t See It.
7. 20 OctBig Bucks, No Whammies, Part 2: So You Won. Now What?
8. 19 OctA Regulatory Blind Spot Hiding in Plain Sight
9. 14 OctIs Your AI Query Tool Compliant by Default?
10. 13 OctDischarge Planning Ends at the Funeral Home. That’s a Health System Failure.
11. 12 OctEmployers that exclude GLP-1s point staff to a website and a pretax account
12. 12 OctHealth and Democracy on the Ballot: A Conversation with Dr. Atul Gawande
13. 9 OctMy shoulder — The Inciteful Med, Claude & HealthX update
14. 8 OctWall Street in the ER: How Private Equity Is Squeezing Local Hospitals
15. 7 OctHealthcare Is Fighting the Wrong AI War
16. 6 OctTime to Stop “Calling it Reimbursement”
17. 5 OctThe Rural Radiologist Who Already Exists
18. 2 OctYou Say “AI,” I Hear “Organoid”
19. 1 OctThe Least-Informed Person in the Room

September 2026

1. 30 SepThinking of Healthcare Reform as a Movement
2. 29 SepGlucose Data Wants to Be Ambient
3. 28 SepThe pharmacy pays $1,302. The patient pays $299
4. 28 SepTHCB Gang Special — The Odyssey of Women’s Health: Journeying into the Midterms
5. 25 SepHealthEx — The Demo with Claude & the CEO Speaks!
6. 23 SepKnow Thyselves
7. 21 SepOwen Tripp, Included Health–How to Fix AI
8. 19 SepWhack-a-Mole AI – The Hugging Face Problem
9. 17 SepGozio – Patient Navigation & Directions!
10. 17 SepStart Counting Your Days
11. 16 SepRan Shaul, K Health
12. 15 SepInstitutional Betrayal: HHS’s Failure to Decarbonize the Healthcare Industry (Part 2)
13. 14 SepAmerica Is Running Out of Doctors
14. 9 SepInstitutional Betrayal: HHS’s Failure to Decarbonize the Healthcare Industry (Part 1)
15. 7 SepWhen “Paying Correctly” Means Paying Nothing: How to Make Medicare Advantage Accountable
16. 2 SepThe Pandemic Risk of “What I’ve Never Seen Before”
17. 1 Sep“We’re Sorry, That’s the Policy”: How a Medicare Advantage Runaround Nearly Cost a Senior His Sight

August 2026

1. 31 AugBig Bucks, No Whammies: Patient Access Was Never the Finish Line
2. 21 AugHospital Price Transparency Legislation Will Burden Poor and Rural Patients
3. 20 AugPrior Authorization
4. 18 AugUniversal Coverage Might Be Nice, but an AI Tax Is Necessary
5. 17 AugPre-Surgical Complications (Part 6) — The Decision
6. 14 AugPre-Surgical Complications (Part 5)
7. 13 AugPre-Surgical Complications (Part 4)
8. 12 AugPre-Surgical Complications (Part 3)
9. 11 AugPre-Surgical Complications (Part 2)
10. 10 AugPre-Surgical Complications (Part 1)
11. 7 AugIs There Hope for Parkinson’s Disease Patients?
12. 6 AugA digital health company became an insurance carrier under the thin veil of a product launch
13. 5 AugIs Constructing Multi-generational “Healthy Homes” a Good Investment?
14. 4 AugPassing the Lantern

July 2026

1. 30 JulThe same 10mg Zepbound costs $449 or $699
2. 29 JulWork Requirements Target the Wrong People
3. 28 JulThe Limits of Disclosure and the Power of the Outside Option: A Case for External Reference Pricing in Healthcare
4. 24 JulMatthew reviews ChatGPT Health
5. 22 JulHealthcare Has Confused Disclosure With Understanding
6. 21 JulThe Drug Changing Medicine
7. 16 JulThe price of Ozempic is a meaningless phrase
8. 15 JulValue Is in the Eye of the Beholder
9. 14 JulThe wrong people are scared of clinical AI
10. 13 JulFuture of AI and Telehealth in primary care — Panel discussion
11. 10 JulHow Online Prescription Services Are Closing the Access Gap for Patients Who Skip the Doctor’s Office
12. 8 JulA ridiculously stupid letter from a health insurer
13. 7 JulLife Not As We Know It
14. 6 JulAI and Professional Nursing: On a Collision Course
15. 3 JulJuly 4, 1862

June 2026

1. 26 JunTHCB Spotlight: Warris Bokhari, Claimable
2. 25 JunHow The Patient Rights Revolution Builds on America’s 1776 One
3. 16 JunThe ‌Missing ‌Vital ‌Sign: Why Modern Medicine Still Won’t Measure Sleep
4. 15 JunEllipsis Health
5. 12 JunGood News: Teen Pregnancies Hit New Low In the US
6. 12 JunOceans, Away
7. 5 JunGood News on the HIV Front
8. 4 JunWhat Happens When Insurance Companies Become More Powerful Than Medicine?
9. 3 JunYou call this a system?
10. 2 JunThe Uninsured Crisis: Letter from Arizona
11. 1 JunSchrodinger’s Co-pay

May 2026

1. 29 MayMeat Computers of the World, Unite!
2. 28 MayIs California Staffed For the Crisis? Not Yet.
3. 22 MayThe Canaries Are All Dead
4. 20 MayDor Skuler, Intuition Robotics: Meet ElliQ
5. 18 MayHealthcare ‘quality’ is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
6. 13 MayOfficers Eat Last
7. 13 MayNew Podcast on Primary Care
8. 7 MayDon’t Bury The Lead – AI Assisted Measures of Thymic Health Point to a “Fountain of Youth.”
9. 6 MayBen Salter, SafeRide Health
10. 5 MayCRUSHing Lab Fraud: Three Myths that Derail Real Reform
11. 4 MayBribery, Corruption and the American Health Care Way
12. 1 MayCome help save democracy!

April 2026

1. 29 AprBevey Miner, Consensus Cloud Solutions
2. 28 AprIt’s Got a Good Beat and You Can Kill It
3. 27 AprSamira Daswani, Manta Cares
4. 23 AprAdrian Owen & Faraz Shafaghi, Creyos
5. 22 AprDayne Williams, Quantum Health
6. 21 AprPhilippe Pouletty, Carvolix
7. 20 AprPeter Stetson, TigerConnect
8. 17 AprA Unified Sense of Self
9. 16 AprConcierge Care for All: Yes, It Really Is That Simple
10. 15 AprGive That 1337 a Job!
11. 14 AprCody Simmons, DermaSensor
12. 13 AprMassively Better Healthcare, a review
13. 10 AprQuantifying the Rural Access Problem: Emergency Cardiac Care as a Window into American Healthcare
14. 9 Apr7th and possibly final update on the $39.94 lab test bill
15. 6 AprTom Kelly, Heidi Health
16. 3 AprDyslexia Comes Back To Bite President Trump
17. 2 AprThere Are Three Kinds of Primary Care, Not to Be Confused With Each Other
18. 1 AprOh. Another Moonshot
19. 1 AprToday’s April Fool is me in 2011
20. 1 AprKevin Wang, Suki

March 2026

1. 31 MarHealthcare’s Quiet Dependence on the “Possimpible”
2. 30 MarAdventures in health care billing. My $51.96 zit co-insurance
3. 27 MarCalling BS
4. 26 MarIan Shakil, Commure
5. 25 MarFunction Health has a 23andMe problem
6. 25 MarJason Prestinario, Particle Health
7. 24 MarAssault on Scientific Integrity Is “Fundamentally Problematic.”
8. 24 MarMario Danek, QNovia
9. 23 MarBeyond Generative AI
10. 20 MarPreeti Bhargava, Arintra
11. 19 MarHow Digital Narratives Shape Mental Health Outcomes
12. 18 MarOscar-Nominated Film Highlights Shared American, Iranian Health System Concerns
13. 17 MarStuck in the Middle
14. 16 MarJesse Shoplock, Inbox Health
15. 13 MarRatnakar Lavu, Elevance
16. 11 MarMichael Dalton, Ovatient
17. 10 MarLiberal Arts Education As a Counterbalance To Trumpian AI
18. 6 MarLauren Ranalli, Town Square Health
19. 5 MarWhen Artificial Intelligence Starts Rewriting Reality
20. 3 MarOren Nissim, Brook.ai – Figuring out RPM
21. 2 MarMiriam Paramore, RxUtility

February 2026

1. 26 FebThe Vocabulary of Survival
2. 24 FebWill AI Solve Immunology’s Debate Over “Self vs. Non-Self?”
3. 19 FebCan We Ride the GenAI Wave Without Getting Subsumed by It?
4. 17 FebSofia Noori, Nema Health
5. 16 FebAI replaces me: The Private AI Bubble Meets the Public Digital Health Reality Check
6. 13 FebAmodei Believes “AI-Enabled Autocracy” Could Be Imminent
7. 12 FebTen Ten Ten – Trying to radically fix health care in the US
8. 11 Feb2026: A Year for Reimagining Healthcare’s Safety Net
9. 10 FebTrust No One
10. 9 FebCarta Healthcare – AI for Registry Creation
11. 4 FebWill HHS Enhance or Stall the Promise of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare?
12. 3 FebArnold Ventures Part II “Structuring Information Felicitously”
13. 2 FebPrimary care, Concierge Care & AI – How to fix health care

January 2026

1. 30 JanJohn Arnold: The Most Powerful Man in Healthcare Nobody has Ever Heard Of (Pt I)
2. 29 JanShifting Sands Part 3
3. 26 JanIndiana – It is the best of times, and the worst of times
4. 21 JanA $2,000 Voucher and 600 Patients: The Math Behind Fixing Care
5. 16 JanHospitals can soften the blow of Medicaid’s retroactive coverage change, if they choose to
6. 15 JanIt’s Only a Subsidy If You’re Poor
7. 14 JanJim Gallic shows off Wondr Health
8. 12 JanEven When Healthcare Has a Clear Price Tag, Are We Getting What We Pay For?
9. 7 JanBrick by Brick by (Smart) Brick
10. 5 JanThe Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Industry

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December 2025

1. 23 DecFather Christmas Reminds Us We Can Do Better Than This
2. 22 DecWhy AI Still Isn’t Fixing Patient Referrals—And How It Could
3. 19 DecTo Improve Health, Design for Agency
4. 19 DecBrown and Toland weighs in on the $34.94 Labcorp test. (Part 6)
5. 16 DecThe Dartboard Toss and the Algorithm
6. 15 DecTravis Rush & Kala Weeks, Reperio
7. 11 DecLet’s get moving on AI-discovered treatments
8. 8 DecHealth Insurance Cancel Culture
9. 5 DecSlaying The Dragon
10. 3 DecLet’s Check the Math on Health Subsidies
11. 2 DecFarewell to Medicare Advantage
12. 1 DecWhy Patients – And Many Innovative Doctors – Are Pursuing Health Outside the System

November 2025

1. 28 NovIf You Could read My Mind – Wait, You Can?
2. 26 NovGiving Thanks – Ken Burns “THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION”
3. 25 NovKatie D’Amico, Carequest–Integrating Oral Health into Medical Care
4. 20 NovWhen Drug Price Transparency Isn’t Enough
5. 19 NovNabla — It’s been a rocketship
6. 18 NovStruggling UnitedHealth Group is a Huge Smoking Black Box
7. 17 NovSupport your neighborhood scientist
8. 14 NovA Failure to Rescue: How Predictive Modeling Can Rewrite the Story of Congenital Syphilis
9. 13 NovWhen Your Cloud Provider Doesn’t Understand HIPAA: A Cautionary Tale
10. 11 NovSachin Jain–How do we do better?
11. 11 NovHospitals are Incompetent Monopolists!
12. 10 NovKai Romero, Evidently
13. 7 NovLife Is Geometry
14. 6 NovWaiting for Codman: 100+ Years of Profits > Patients
15. 5 NovArtificial Intelligence Renders the FDA’s Current Drug Approval Process to be Obsolete
16. 4 NovThe ‘After Phase’ Is Missing: Why Every GLP-1 Prescription Needs an Exit
17. 3 NovJustin Schrager demos Vital.io

October 2025

1. 30 OctA Comprehensive Examination of Primary Care Disparities in California: Navigating the Abyss
2. 29 OctHalo, Heresy, and Health Care
3. 27 OctThe Nobel Prize’s Amazing Track Record in Immunology
4. 24 OctLet a Thousand DNA Flowers Bloom
5. 23 OctGreg Whisman, CareMore Health
6. 21 OctSami Inkinen, Virta Health
7. 20 OctConcierge Care for all: What would it look like?
8. 17 OctAAAA (the four A)
9. 16 OctAvasure: Tech for helpful watching & remote care in hospitals
10. 15 OctWhat A Digital Health Doc Learned Recertifying His Boards
11. 13 OctTrade Ya Subsidies For a Government
12. 9 OctLynn Rapsilber on Nurse Practitioners
13. 7 OctTytoCare–The Last Few Inches of Telehealth?
14. 3 OctPenguin–The Flightless Bird of Health AI
15. 3 OctTeledoc Medication Abortions Under Attack

September 2025

1. 30 SepBoulder Care: Stephanie Strong & Marianna Zaslavsky
2. 26 SepHHS’s Independence: If Not Now, When?
3. 25 SepLessons From The Medical Error That Orphaned A Cabinet Secretary
4. 24 SepAnd Yet It Moves
5. 23 SepNew Bereavement Cost Calculator shows that grief is expensive
6. 15 SepDoes American Health Care Violate the ICJ’s Recent Climate Advisory Opinion?
7. 12 SepThat’s More Like It
8. 11 SepTelehealth safe harbor: a call to action for health plans
9. 10 SepLabcorp, Blue Shield and my $34.95 co pay (part 5)
10. 8 SepEpic’s “Emmie” Chatbot Enhances the Patient Voice – For Their *Real* Customers
11. 5 SepDr Kaelee Brockway on AI for physical therapy training
12. 2 SepOwen Tripp, Included Health, talks AI

August 2025

1. 29 AugHow come I owe Labcorp $34.94? (Part 4)
2. 28 AugPublic Health Is Not the Hudson River
3. 27 AugWe Should Write a Really Stern Letter
4. 26 AugRate Reality Check: How Capital Women’s Care Stacks Up Against the Competition (Part 2)
5. 26 AugAdventures in how screwed up health care is, number 436
6. 25 AugRosemarie Day & Me invite you to see Atul Gawande
7. 22 AugPrice Transparency Data Reveals the Real Story Behind Capital Women’s Care vs UnitedHealthcare Contract Battle (Part 1)
8. 21 AugWhy U.S. Healthcare Pricing Transparency Laws Will Fail Without Real Penalties
9. 20 AugIngrid Lindberg, Sobrynth
10. 18 AugHunting down my $34.94 lab test. An journey into the bowels of insurance billing (part 3)
11. 14 AugWhich Platform of Platforms (UDHP) is Right for your Health System? A Market Analysis
12. 13 AugWhen is Preventative Care not Preventative? Let’s get Labcorp to join in! (Part 2) (with UPDATE)
13. 12 AugAprès AI, le Déluge
14. 11 AugHow exactly is my lab test co-pay $34.94?
15. 8 AugWhere “Little Flowers” Bloom – Two by Two
16. 7 AugAmi Parekh & Ankoor Shah, Included Health
17. 5 AugAs Shared Decision-Making Ails, AI May Save This Human Interaction
18. 4 AugAre the MA(HT)GA crowd going to be proud of themselves?
19. 1 AugEmily & Me–Money Remaking Medicine

July 2025

1. 31 JulSteve Brown, CureWise — AI for patients
2. 31 JulHave Some Water – While You Can
3. 29 JulV Bento, Sword Health
4. 28 JulGen Z Should Give Health Care a Stare
5. 26 JulChina Goes “Democratic” on Artificial General Intelligence
6. 22 JulHealthcare AI: What’s in your chatbot?
7. 22 JulDominique Wells, Conduit Health Partners
8. 18 JulWatching Where and How You’re Walking
9. 17 JulWhy Multi-morbidity Requires Two Health Systems, not One
10. 14 JulI’m on the Surgeon’s Record
11. 11 JulTowards a Tricoder
12. 10 JulWe’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
13. 9 JulMatthew tries Reperio’s at home health screening
14. 9 JulWater, Water, Everywhere . . . but Not a Drop to Drink
15. 8 JulHenry Ford, the Model T, and Digital Health
16. 7 JulA New Future for DNA
17. 2 JulAnmol Madan, RadiantGraph

June 2025

1. 30 JunMatthew Explores the Referral Process
2. 25 JunMicroplastics Are Here, There, Everywhere
3. 24 JunAriel Katz, H1
4. 23 JunDr Kimmie Ng discusses young onset colorectal cancer
5. 20 JunDigital Health Hub Awards
6. 18 JunAmerican Medicine’s Meagerness Paradox
7. 17 JunRoy Schoenberg, AileenAI
8. 16 JunHow to Fix the Paradox of Primary Care
9. 13 JunMatthew on the Inside Medtech Innovation podcast
10. 12 JunCan EHRs Expand to Become Health Systems’ “Platform of Platforms” (UDHPs)?
11. 11 JunHow Did the AI “Claude” Get Its Name?
12. 10 JunWhat AI and Grief-bots Can Teach Us About Supporting Grieving People
13. 9 JunNow is the Time to Modernize Communication in the Medicaid Program
14. 6 JunPersonal and Professional Choices in PSA Testing: A Teaching Moment
15. 5 JunWaste, Fraud and Abuse – Oh, My!
16. 4 JunThe Crawfish Chronicles: An NIH Fixed Cost Cap Parable
17. 3 JunOwen Tripp, Included Health
18. 2 JunI’m Sensing Some Future

May 2025

1. 30 MayBiden’s cancer diagnosis should be a teaching moment
2. 28 MayHigh-Profile Start-Ups Inato And Prenosis Show AI ‘Best Practice’
3. 26 MayHow Bright A Light Do We Shine This Memorial Day?
4. 22 MayThis One Weird Trick Can Fix U.S. Healthcare
5. 21 MayHow to Buy and Sell AI in health care? Not Easy.
6. 20 MayPatrick Quigley, Sidecar Health
7. 19 MayAnd Now for Some Fun Future
8. 16 MayHealth Deserves A Vision More Capacious Than Dashboard Metrics
9. 15 MayTracy DeTomasi, Callisto
10. 14 MaySeriously, Aon, you think weight loss drugs save money?
11. 13 MayWhen Star Ratings Backfire: How CMS Could Better Support Health In Medicare Advantage
12. 12 MayMedicaid Budget Cuts: Hospitals will bear the burden, we will pay the price
13. 9 MayA Proud Republican Who Faced Off A Party Leader. . .and Won!
14. 7 MayMedicaid Should be Abolished. But Not Like This!
15. 6 MayWelcome to the (U.S. Science) Apocalypse
16. 6 MayLeague Connect Digital Summit is WEDNESDAY
17. 5 MayGlen Tullman, Transcarent
18. 2 MayDr. Google Starts Sharing Regular Folks’ Advice As Chatbots Loom
19. 1 MayTom Knight, HealthcareDiversion.org

April 2025

1. 30 AprTo Beat Parkinson’s, You Must Stand on Your Head
2. 29 AprBloom is Off the Rose at UnitedHealth Group
3. 25 AprPope Francis Links to Scalia on Due Process: The Case Made by a Skadden Litigator
4. 24 AprRoon – the Demo and Interview
5. 23 AprFair Warning: There Won’t Be Fair Warnings
6. 22 AprResidency and Parenting Are Incompatible
7. 21 AprHow Using Opioids for Acute Pain is Like Burning Coal for Energy
8. 18 AprHow Health Systems are Losing Contact with their Clinicians
9. 16 AprSaving U.S. Manufacturing: Think Biotech, Not Cars
10. 15 AprWe Need to Nationalize to Prevent Fraud
11. 14 Apr“Health Care” vs. “Healthcare” Signals Change Greater Than Grammar
12. 11 AprElevare Law launches!
13. 10 AprLeague Connect Digital Summit on May 7
14. 9 AprI’m on the Baker Health Podcast
15. 8 AprBevey Miner, Consensus Cloud Solutions
16. 7 AprFeeling the Pressure
17. 4 AprThe World’s Psychoactive Drug of Choice
18. 2 AprPlatform Shift: From EHRs to UDHPs (Unified Digital Health Platforms) – – Section 2
19. 1 AprMusk Moves US to Socialized Medicine

March 2025

1. 31 MarPlatform Shift: From EHRs to UDHPs (Unified Digital Health Platforms)- Section 1
2. 28 MarEmory, Balloon Angioplasty, and the Musk Attack on Medical Diplomacy
3. 27 MarThe Life365 Demo
4. 26 MarThe Return of American Manufacturing Demands a Chief Health & Benefits Officer (CHBO) to Fix Benefits Procurement
5. 25 MarHome, Alone
6. 24 MarTanay Tandon, Commure
7. 21 MarSword Health, the Hinge Health S1, and me
8. 20 MarAneesh Chopra talks Medicare Advantage
9. 19 MarBetween Hope and Grief: A Medical Memoir of Father, Son, and Family
10. 18 MarAt Little-Known Health Agency, DOGE Ends Dream ‘To Make A Difference’
11. 17 MarHow Routine Medical Care Fuels America’s Opioid Crisis
12. 14 MarIs American Apartheid Lurking in The Oval Office Shadows?
13. 13 MarNext Up: Fiber Computers
14. 12 MarLinus Health–In-depth demo of cognitive health tool
15. 11 MarHealth Care in Abundance
16. 6 MarWe Cannot Let RFK Jr Lead Us Backwards in Health
17. 5 MarStuart Blitz, Hone Health
18. 4 MarNatalie Schneider, Fort Health
19. 3 MarUnlocking the power of sensor data in type 2 diabetes care

February 2025

1. 28 FebShocking: Trump Builds a Wall Between Basic and Applied Research
2. 27 FebWhat would a rational DOG(gi)E do(o)?
3. 26 FebGoodbye, American Science
4. 26 FebHow hard is it to prove you have coverage?
5. 25 FebNo More ‘Dabbling’: It’s Time to Embrace Value-Based Care
6. 24 FebLynda Brown-Ganzert, RxPx
7. 21 FebKatherine Saunders, FlyteHealth
8. 19 FebPatients Are NPCs
9. 18 FebDisruption For the Sake of Disruption Is Not Innovation
10. 17 FebNYU Langone Super Bowl Ad Claimed “We’re #1,” But Where’s Scorecard?
11. 14 FebDid VC Bros Destroy Digital Health?
12. 12 FebGeorge Boghos, Imagine Pediatrics
13. 11 FebMan and Machine: A New Age for Medicine
14. 10 FebVC returns: Well, it’s stock trading…
15. 6 FebTHCBGang Revisited: Ian Morrison
16. 6 FebIan Morrison
17. 5 FebJonathan Bush, Zus Health
18. 4 FebDEI Is Now a Four Letter Word
19. 3 FebWho Will Oppose American Apartheid?

January 2025

1. 31 JanHow Did We End Up with a Broken Health Insurance System?
2. 30 JanIt’s Money That Changes Everything (Or Doesn’t) For Surgeons
3. 29 JanDoctors Must Fight the RFK Nomination
4. 27 JanBeyond Stigma: Why Addressing Maternal Mental Health Means Confronting Systemic Failures
5. 24 JanPeter Yellowlees, AsyncHealth
6. 23 JanAll The Way With LBJ – A Half Century After His Passing
7. 22 JanAniq Rahman, Fabric Health
8. 21 JanMaybe AI Doesn’t Read Blueprints
9. 20 JanAneesh Chopra talks Cancer Navigation Challenge & more
10. 17 JanSleep: Watch This Space
11. 16 JanWhy Financial Incentives Oppose Quality Improvement Projects in Healthcare
12. 15 JanAin’t no shame in the heart of the VC
13. 14 JanSome real medical innovation!
14. 10 JanPast Presidents Posthumous Advice To Trump #47
15. 9 JanRobert Krayn & Georgia Gaveras, Talkiatry
16. 8 JanYou, Me, and Our Microbiome
17. 7 Jan“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion
18. 6 JanPublic Health Policy: At the Intersection of Law and Medicine.
19. 5 JanMy Totally Wrong, Expert Predictions for Health Care 2025
20. 3 Jan“Comparisons Are Toxic.” True or False?

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December 2024

1. 23 DecJohn Zutter, Lantern
2. 20 DecBrad Kittredge, Brightside Health
3. 19 DecPatientsUseAI: Hugo, Gilles and e-Patient Dave on the race to patient autonomy — THCB Gang Special Episode 149, Thursday December 19
4. 19 DecDanielle Vaeth, Qbtech
5. 19 DecManaged Care History Part III: The Rise of Machine-Driven Managed Care
6. 18 DecManaged Care History Part II- HMOs Give Way to Managed Care “Lite”
7. 18 DecSara Ratner, Nomi Health
8. 17 DecManaged Care History: From HMOs to AI Assisted Claims Management Part 1
9. 16 DecTHCB Gang Episode 148, Monday December 16
10. 13 DecThe Next Steps in Parkinson’s Disease Research
11. 12 DecA Health Economist to lead the NIH
12. 11 DecKris Engskov, Rippl
13. 11 DecColby Takeda, Pear Suite
14. 11 DecMental Health’s Unfinished Digital Revolution
15. 10 DecShama Rathi, Co-Founder, LunaJoy
16. 9 DecTen Shadowy Figures Who Shaped Our Health Care System
17. 6 DecCancer’s Juvenescence: An Incoming Tide and the Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift
18. 5 DecTHCB Gang Episode 147, Thursday December 5
19. 5 DecYou Can’t Spell Fair Pay Without AI
20. 4 DecLyle Berkowitz, Keycare
21. 3 DecSean Bell, Spring Health

November 2024

1. 26 NovTHCB Gang Episode 146, Tuesday November 26
2. 26 NovStick to the Science
3. 22 NovRemembering Thomas E. Kurtz
4. 21 NovTatiana Fofanova demos Koda Health
5. 21 NovTHCB Gang Episode 145, Thursday November 21
6. 20 NovThe Healthcare Industry Needs a Course Correction
7. 19 NovEpic’s Consumer Strategy Is Bold. Its Tactics Push The Boundaries.
8. 18 NovTake a deep breath: Trump may not mean that much change–for health care, that is
9. 15 NovMental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population
10. 14 NovTHCB Gang Episode 144, Thursday November 14
11. 14 NovWill Trump and RFK Jr. Revive His Covid Pandemic Performance?
12. 13 NovAmerica the Schizophrenic
13. 12 NovMedicare’s Hidden Information Hurts People & Policy
14. 8 NovTHCB Gang Episode 143, Friday November 8
15. 6 NovHeat-related illnesses are preventable; here’s how
16. 5 NovInventors (and Innovators) Wanted
17. 4 NovPatty Hayward, Talkdesk
18. 3 NovThe Penn State College of Medicine Oath vs. “Doomscrolling.”

October 2024

1. 31 OctAndrea Ippolito, CEO, Simplifed
2. 31 OctTHCB Gang Episode 142, Thursday October 31
3. 30 OctEngineers: Heal Thyselves (and Health Care)
4. 27 OctMy Father and Arnold Palmer – Embodying Honesty and Respect
5. 25 OctHealth Care’s Endless Loops
6. 24 OctTHCB Gang — DiME Special Episode 141, Thursday October 24
7. 22 Oct“Accelerationalism”: Is Your Money on Altman or Musk?
8. 21 OctYou’re Not Going to Automate MY Job
9. 20 OctThe big guys can’t do HLTH right
10. 18 OctKamala will Win The Popular Vote And No One Is Pointing Out That Absolute Certainty In The Popular Media
11. 16 OctThe Clinical Enterprise is the Beating Heart of Health Systems
12. 15 OctPete Hudson, Alta Partners & Transcarent Investor (Part 2)
13. 14 OctChris Darland, Peerbridge Health
14. 9 OctPete Hudson, Alta Partners & Transcarent Investor (Part 1)
15. 7 OctCan Someone Actually Be Responsible?
16. 3 OctTHCB Gang Episode 140, Thursday October 3
17. 2 OctThe Silicon Curtain Descends on SB 1047

September 2024

1. 27 SepRed Alert about Red Buttons
2. 26 SepA Baby Step Backwards
3. 24 SepTHCB Gang Special! Women Healthcare Leaders for Progress talk about health care & the election
4. 24 SepMiscarriage or Abortion? The Crisis in 14 States Post Dobbs.
5. 23 SepStreamlining Public Benefits Access is a Must to Address Poverty
6. 20 SepDavid Dyke demos Relatient scheduling
7. 17 SepSoftware Living in an Enterprise World: Why Digital Behavioral Health Can’t Gain Traction
8. 13 SepThe Art of Political Jiu-Jitsu: Project 2025 and Donald Trump
9. 12 SepWe Should Learn to Have More Fun (or Vice-Versa)
10. 11 SepWhy We Still Kill Patients (And What We Need to Stop Doing It)
11. 6 SepMoving the bar(rier) forward: the benefits of de-risking cytokine release syndrome
12. 5 SepEverything you ever want to know about birth control and much more — Sophia Yen, Pandia Health
13. 4 SepThe Fantastic Fungi — Biohybrid Bots Are Mushrooming
14. 3 SepConvention Invisibility Teaches A Crucial Health Policy Lesson
15. 2 SepHow’s Human Evolution Going? The Harris-Walz Health Policy team wants to know.

August 2024

1. 30 Aug“Moral Distress” Has Arrived On Health Care’s Stoop
2. 29 AugFake News from MedPac on Medicare Advantage Needs to Be Corrected, Part 2
3. 28 AugBiology to the Rescue?
4. 27 AugFake News from MedPac on Medicare Advantage Needs to Be Corrected, Pt 1
5. 23 AugWhat will Harris mean for Health Care? – Not much
6. 20 AugTiny Is Mighty
7. 19 AugPhil Fasano, Recuro Health
8. 15 AugChatGPT Vs. Magic 8 Ball: Who Can Solve “The HealthCare Crisis”?
9. 14 AugTake My Gun, I Mean, Phone, Please
10. 12 AugWhy Sam Altman Cares So Much About Voice
11. 9 AugIt’s in the Blood
12. 5 AugWhat the Health System Can Expect from a Second Trump Term
13. 2 AugMy Trip To Paris This Week

July 2024

1. 31 JulNo, Health Care Is NOT Brat
2. 30 JulSucceeding in Fighting the Loneliness Epidemic
3. 29 JulNon-profit health systems driving income inequality
4. 24 JulIVF ban shows us the thin edge of the theocratic wedge
5. 23 JulVote, for Health Sake
6. 19 JulMedicare Catheter Scam Sparks Calls for Reform
7. 18 JulU.S. Executive Branch Leadership Turnover and Misbehavior Is Common
8. 17 JulUpgrading public health IT infrastructure: Craig Behm, CSS & Britteny Matero, Innsena
9. 16 JulGoogle Hopes Nobody Beats This Wiz
10. 15 JulDigital Health: There is No Exit
11. 10 JulPamela Stahl, Avalon Healthcare Solutions
12. 9 JulHealth Care Needs a 21st Century Infrastructure
13. 8 JulDon’t Limp. Crush the “Trump Reich.”
14. 3 JulThe Doctors Who’ve Helped Patients Declare Their Independence
15. 2 JulWhere Are Health Care’s Value Meals?
16. 1 JulThe Real Red Wave: Why the Biden Presidency is in Peril

June 2024

1. 26 JunBatteries All Around
2. 25 JunArtificial Intelligence Plus Data Democratization Requires New Health Care Framework
3. 24 JunJake and Dana: Please Ask This Question.
4. 20 JunMedicare Advantage Has Saved Medicare
5. 19 Jun“What’s Up With The Alitos?”
6. 18 JunInnovators: Avoid Health Care
7. 17 JunJosh Reischer, Health Note
8. 14 JunAdding a Sustainability Lens to Health Innovation Pilots
9. 12 Jun“Truth, Justice and The American Way” – Chris Reeve on Donald Trump.
10. 11 JunOh. Never Mind
11. 10 JunWelldoc–Anand Iyer & Marina Dorotheo demo the latest!
12. 6 JunCost Containment Through Health Improvement
13. 5 JunWho Needs Humans, Anyway?
14. 4 JunJody Tropeano, HLTH
15. 3 JunBlue Shield CA, CVS Caremark & the mystery of the extra $116, with 2 UPDATES (at the end)

May 2024

1. 30 MayWhat We Can Learn From the Change Healthcare Hack
2. 29 MayAI Cognition – The Next Nut To Crack
3. 28 MayYour Water, or Your Life
4. 28 MayWhat the Walmart Exit from Primary Care Means
5. 22 MayGetting the Future of Health Care Wrong
6. 21 MayCalum Yacoubian, Linguamatics
7. 20 MayA Call for Responsible Antibiotic Use in the Era of Telehealth
8. 17 MayGlen Tullman, CEO, Transcarent, talks about their new Wayfinding AI service
9. 16 MayGPT-4o: What’s All The Fuss About?
10. 15 MayChakri Toleti, Care.ai
11. 14 MayIt’s the Bureaucrats, Stupid
12. 13 MayWant to get rich in health care? Ditch the startup and run a hospital
13. 8 MayYou Bet Your Life
14. 7 MayWill AI Revolutionize Surgical Care? Yes, But Maybe Not How You Think
15. 6 MayIs getting people off weight loss medications the right move?
16. 2 MayNvidia’s AI Bot Outperforms Nurses: Here’s What It Means for You
17. 1 MayWhat Walmart said & What Walmart Did: Not the same thing

April 2024

1. 29 AprWhat’s behind all these assessments of digital health?
2. 26 AprThe Past, Present & Future of Health Care
3. 24 AprReady for Robots?
4. 23 AprJeff Gartland, Relatient
5. 22 AprAasim Saeed, CEO of Amenities
6. 19 AprHarnessing Digital Innovation to Unlock Cancer Discoveries
7. 18 AprWill Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trigger Universal Health Care in America? What do expert Academics say?
8. 16 AprAnd Now For Something Completely Different
9. 15 AprIf data is the new oil, there’s going to be war over it
10. 12 AprTim O’Connell, CEO, emtelligent
11. 10 AprHealth Care’s Debt Problem
12. 9 AprDavid Lareau, CEO, Medicomp
13. 5 AprAn Urgent Call to Raise Awareness of Heart Disease in Women
14. 4 AprWill Medical Facial Recognition Technology (mFRT) Reawaken Eugenics?
15. 3 AprAndy Chu, Providence
16. 3 AprWhere’s Our Infrastructure Plan B?
17. 2 AprOptum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire
18. 1 AprBevey Miner, Consensus Cloud Solutions

March 2024

1. 29 MarThe Long and Tortured History of Alpha-Synuclein and Parkinson’s Disease
2. 28 MarAmi Parekh, Included Health
3. 28 MarWEBINAR: The How-To of Healthcare Analytics: Implementation to Activation
4. 27 MarGen Z’s Mid-Life Crisis
5. 20 MarDisability Activist: Take Great Care When Seeing Bias Toward Disabled Citizens
6. 19 MarMicroplastics, Major Problem
7. 18 MarThe Latest AI Craze: Ambient Scribing
8. 13 MarWhat could we do if GLP-1 weight loss drugs were free? Would our obesity epidemic be solved for good?
9. 12 MarWait Till Health Care Tries Dynamic Pricing
10. 11 MarRoy Schoenberg, CEO, AmWell
11. 11 MarThe ‘Barbie Speech’ – How Much Has Really Changed For Women in America?
12. 6 MarWhat Scares Healthcare Like EVs Scare Detroit
13. 4 MarFee-For-Service: Predominant, Winning & Stupid
14. 1 MarAre AI Clinical Protocols A Dobb-ist Trojan Horse?

February 2024

1. 27 FebWe Freeze People, Don’t We?
2. 23 FebPutting the ‘value’ in value-based payments
3. 22 FebLucienne Ide, Rimidi
4. 20 FebSo what can we do about health care costs?
5. 19 FebThe 7 Decade History of ChatGPT
6. 14 FebWhy Not, Indeed?
7. 13 FebSupporting innovations in cancer treatment and prevention for our nation’s most vulnerable
8. 13 FebThe 2024 Word of the Year: Missense
9. 9 FebThe Optimism of Digital Health
10. 8 FebWho to Blame for Health Costs: The Poisoned Chalice of “Moral Hazard”
11. 7 FebMedicare Is Now Profitable as a Total Program Because of Medicare Advantage
12. 6 FebA New Day for Parkinson’s Disease Research Is Near
13. 5 FebThe Money’s in the Wrong Place. How to Fund Primary Care
14. 1 FebToo much fawning over Len Schaeffer?

January 2024

1. 30 JanCan Generative AI Improve Health Care Relationships?
2. 29 JanRaj Singh, Accolade
3. 26 JanWho Could (Possibly) Be the Ideal “Chief Patient Officer”? (And Other Ideas that Sound Better on Paper than in Practice)
4. 24 JanZombie Viruses of the Permafrost
5. 23 JanKota Kubo, Ubie
6. 17 JanAu Contraire
7. 9 JanNicola Tessler, CEO, BeMe Health
8. 8 Jan25th Amendment Still Not the Right Response to a Mentally Ill Trump
9. 5 JanAI Inside
10. 4 JanThe US needs a Chief Patient Officer

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December 2023

1. 28 DecKeep it Short
2. 27 Dec2024 Prediction: Society Will Arrive at an Inflection Point in AI Advancement
3. 22 DecA Speech For The Ages – 83 Years Ago This Christmas
4. 18 DecA Place to Call Home
5. 14 DecAI Could Have “Unimaginable Consequences” For Democratic Societies, Says Expert.
6. 13 DecFrom Xenobots to Anthrobots
7. 11 DecThe Courage of Corporate America is Needed to End America’s Opioid Crisis
8. 8 DecI’m on The HealthTech Marketing Show
9. 7 DecLead Pipe Cinch
10. 6 DecWhere is AI in Medicine Going? Ask The Onion.
11. 5 DecPatients are Not “Consumers”: My Cancer Story
12. 4 DecStephanie Strong, CEO, Boulder
13. 1 DecNODE.Health’s Digital Medicine Conference

November 2023

1. 30 NovTHCB Gang Special: Episode 138, Thursday 30 November 2023 with Jen Goldsack
2. 29 NovHealth Innovation & Data: Five Common Missteps (and How to Interrupt Them)
3. 28 NovAmazon Can Still Surprise Me
4. 27 NovHow Patient Activation Made It Possible to Thrive with Kidney Disease
5. 23 NovEngage with Grace
6. 22 Nov(We Don’t) Trust The Science
7. 21 NovTOMORROW: ZS Impact Webinar on Digital Health
8. 20 NovOrange, Green, and Red – The Colors of Tribalism
9. 16 NovPaul Jaglowski, Feedtrail
10. 15 NovPin Me, Please
11. 15 NovTikTok on the Gender Gap
12. 13 NovTurnarounds are Talent Magnets: University of Chicago Medical Center
13. 10 NovThe Voice of Democracy is Young and Female
14. 8 NovWill the AMA Support A Move Toward Single Payer Health Care?
15. 7 NovAbout That New Generation of Clinicians
16. 6 NovJoanna Strober, CEO, Midi Health
17. 1 NovRobin Berzin, CEO & Founder, Parsley Health

October 2023

1. 31 OctRube Goldberg Would Be Proud
2. 30 OctSome Like It Hot! A Century-Old Disease on Our Southern Shores
3. 27 OctJean-Claude Saghbini, Lumeris
4. 26 OctTHCB Gang Episode 137, Thursday October 26
5. 26 OctY2Q and You
6. 26 OctFay Rotenberg, CEO, Firefly Health
7. 25 Oct“Doomscrolling” – Call the doctor!
8. 24 OctCMS’s Policy on Mental Health Therapists Will Work
9. 23 OctAlex Katz, CEO, Two Chairs
10. 20 OctThe Future of Digital Health: How UX Design is Shaping the Industry
11. 19 OctInterview with Oxeon CEO, Sonia Millsom
12. 18 OctGoodWill’s Lessons for Health Care
13. 17 OctInterview with Infermedica CEO, Piotr Orzechowski
14. 13 OctThere Needs to Be an “AI” in “Med Ed”
15. 12 OctNabla CoPilot– the new ambient EMR note taker that snagged Permanente
16. 12 OctInterview with Sonia Milsom, CEO Oxeon
17. 11 OctThe “Green Pope” Loves Science and Is Cautious of AI
18. 9 OctOut of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
19. 5 OctTHCB Gang Episode 136, Thursday October 5
20. 4 OctWe’re All In The Hot Seat Now.
21. 3 OctAltman, Ive, and AI

September 2023

1. 28 SepTHCB Gang Episode 135, Thursday September 28
2. 26 SepWar — and Health Care — on the Cheap
3. 25 SepThe Carenostics Interview
4. 20 Sep“PictureWhat” ??? Super-Human Poison Ivy. What’s Going On?
5. 20 SepDNA is Better at Math than You Are
6. 18 SepPoor Kids. Pitiful Us
7. 14 SepThe Times They Are A-Changing….Fast
8. 12 SepShiv Rao, CEO demos Abridge
9. 11 Sep“The Greatest Scientist of All Time” says Scientific American. Who is it?
10. 8 SepBeyond the Scale: How organizations should evaluate the success of obesity management solutions
11. 7 SepAll the Lonely People: Primary Care isn’t a Team Sport Anymore, We’re Only Interacting with Our Computers
12. 6 SepSmells like AI Spirit
13. 5 SepHas Sensemaking Collapsed When It Comes To U.S. Healthcare?

August 2023

1. 31 AugTHCB Gang Episode 134, Thursday August 31
2. 30 AugThe One Question FOX News Moderators Should Ask Tonight
3. 29 AugLet’s Start Over
4. 25 Aug20th Birthday Classic: “Healthcare” vs. “Health Care”: The Definitive Word(s)
5. 24 AugTHCB 20th Birthday Classic: Value-based care – no progress since 1997?
6. 23 AugThe Next Pandemic May Be an AI one
7. 22 AugTorben Nielsen, CEO, Uptiv Health
8. 21 AugLash of St. Francis
9. 18 AugTHCB 20th Birthday classics: A Brief History of Price Controls by Annoyed Republican Administrations
10. 18 AugAcademics Weigh In On How To Bring Down Trump
11. 17 AugTHCB Gang Episode 133, Thursday August 17
12. 15 AugTHCB 20th Birthday Classic: As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
13. 15 AugWhat Robotaxis Mean for Healthcare
14. 14 AugTHCB 20th Birthday Classic: McKinsey wants to inspire lots of change; caveat emptor
15. 14 AugVertical Integration Doesn’t Work in Healthcare: Time to Move On
16. 11 AugHappy 20th Birthday THCB
17. 9 AugNaive Realism and the Legal Profession
18. 8 AugI Want a Lazy Girl Job Too
19. 7 AugPopulation Health Management: SDOH Challenges and Solutions
20. 3 AugHow to Talk to a Doc
21. 2 AugRepublican Misbehavior Promoted Health Professional Activism
22. 1 AugTHCB Spotlight: Dexcare CEO, Derek Streat

July 2023

1. 27 JulTHCB Gang Episode 132, Thursday July 27
2. 27 JulSach Jain, CEO of Carrum Health talks to Matthew Holt
3. 26 JulIs More Physician-Owned Hospitals the Solution to our Health Cost problem?
4. 25 JulHealth Care, Disagree Better
5. 24 JulOutpatient Vascular Care: Good, bad or ugly?
6. 24 JulMatthew’s tidbits: Obesity Summer
7. 21 JulTruthfully, the Physician Shortage Doesn’t Exist!
8. 20 JulTHCB Gang Episode 131, Thursday July 20
9. 20 JulReviewing the all-in-pod heart health segment
10. 19 JulThe Sweet Spot of Health Care Cost Containment
11. 18 JulNo, the Poor Don’t Always Have to Be With Us
12. 17 JulHealth Tech’s Magic Wand: The Anti-Social Bent of Modern Medicine
13. 13 JulTHCB Gang Episode 130, Thursday July 13
14. 12 JulHHS Again Suspends Disbelief: The Medicaid Program Will Ignore the Greatest Health Threat to Medicaid Beneficiaries
15. 11 JulThe Heat is On
16. 7 JulData Democracy! ‘Dr. Google’ (2023) Vs. ‘Every Man His Own Physician’ (1767)
17. 6 JulTHCB Gang Episode 129, Thursday July 6
18. 5 JulMedicare Advantage Plans Can Leverage Virtual Cardiometabolic Care
19. 4 JulThe Business Reality of Healthcare AI

June 2023

1. 29 Jun“Sons of Liberty” Flea Into King George’s (or Donald’s) Open Arms.
2. 29 JunTHCB Gang Episode 128, Thursday June 29
3. 28 JunMoral Injury: A Physician’s Premature Retirement
4. 27 JunNot The Last of Them
5. 26 JunMatthew’s health care tidbits: Time to get Cynical
6. 22 JunTHCB Gang Episode 127, Thursday June 22
7. 21 JunThe Truth About Medicare Advantage Saving Medicare
8. 20 JunRevisualizing and Recoding Healthcare
9. 19 JunAs Health Professionals Go, So Goes Our Democracy
10. 15 JunTHCB Gang Episode 126, Thursday June 15
11. 14 JunAir, Air, Everywhere, and Not a Breath Safe to Take
12. 13 JunTrump Earns a Failing Grade in Civics (K-12) in North Carolina.
13. 12 JunMA for Tomorrow : Moving Beyond the Status Quo to Advance Concrete Policy Changes for the Future of Medicare Advantage
14. 9 JunVaccine myocarditis update from Korea
15. 8 JunTHCB Gang Episode 125, Thursday June 8
16. 8 JunInterview with Dr Pamela Tenaerts, Medable
17. 7 JunLanded Gentry and Health
18. 6 JunA Hand Up, Not a Hand-Out
19. 5 JunMatthew’s health care tidbits: Hedge Funds that Do Health Care on the Side
20. 1 JunTHCB Gang Episode 124, Thursday June 1

May 2023

1. 31 MayDon’t Blame Burnout
2. 30 MayDesigning (Healthcare) via Roblox
3. 29 MayOperation Searchlight: The American-supported Pakistani genocide you probably haven’t heard about
4. 26 MayThe New Rules of Healthcare Platforms: APIs Enable the Platforming of Healthcare
5. 25 MayCan AI Part The Red Sea?
6. 24 MayWhat Can We Learn from the Envision Bankruptcy?
7. 23 MayTHCB Gang Episode 123, Thursday May 25
8. 23 MayAI is Bright, But Can Also Be Dark
9. 23 MaySPM-Creative Learning Exchange, Portland, OR (& virtual), July 16
10. 22 MayAsking Bard And ChatGPT To Find The Best Medical Care, I Got Truth And Truthiness
11. 19 MayHealthcare Data: The Disruption Opportunity + Why This Time Is Different
12. 17 MayThe Disease Killing Healthcare and Causing Physician Burnout
13. 16 MayHealthcare: Make Better Mistakes
14. 16 MayMatthew’s health care tidbits: Health care pricing is cray-zee
15. 15 MayThe ERA – An Amendment Who’s Time Has Come
16. 11 MayIn an Ideal World, How Much Would We Spend on Health Care?
17. 10 MayTHCB Quickbite: Aditya Bansod, Luma Health
18. 9 MayWould You Picket Over AI?
19. 8 MayTHCB Quickbite: Michael Gould, ZeOmega
20. 5 MayBurden of Pain
21. 3 MayTHCB Quickbite: Steve Yaskin, Health Gorilla
22. 2 MayBluesky Ahead
23. 1 MayAnil Jain, Chief Innovation Officer, Innovaccer

April 2023

1. 27 AprA Life Well Lived, Fights Well Fought
2. 26 AprWorms Aren’t So Dumb
3. 25 AprIn Memoriam: Mighty Casey has moved on
4. 25 AprTHCB Quickbite: Ines Vigil, SVP Transformation & Services, Clarify Health Solutions
5. 24 AprHIMSS Takeaways: Size Doesn’t (Always) Count, Johnny Appleseed and MomGPT
6. 19 AprTwo Cases of a Cool Skin Condition (Erythrocyanosis, Pernio or Chilblains, Anyone?)
7. 18 AprI Have Some Silly Questions
8. 17 AprCoverture – Could History Repeat?
9. 13 AprObesity is crippling the US, but there are solutions
10. 12 AprCan we trust ChatGPT to get the basics right?
11. 11 AprImplementation May Be a Science, But, Alas, Medicine Remains an Art
12. 6 AprTHCB Spotlight: Glen Tullman, Transcarent & Aneesh Chopra, Carejourney
13. 5 AprTrump As Catalyst For Legal and Cultural Reform
14. 4 AprI Have No Mouth, Yet Still I Scream

March 2023

1. 31 MarCan American Democracy Pass The Trump Stress Test?
2. 30 MarTHCB Gang Episode 122, Thursday March 30
3. 27 MarAI: Not Ready, Not Set – Go!
4. 24 MarMatthew’s health care tidbits: The drug model for DTx was wrong
5. 23 MarNils Bottler, Angelini Ventures
6. 23 MarTHCB Gang Episode 121, Thursday March 23
7. 22 MarThrow Away That Phone
8. 21 MarInterview with Ogi Kavazovic, CEO of House Rx
9. 16 MarTHCB Gang Episode 120, Thursday March 16
10. 16 MarTwo Patients With More Than One Diagnosis
11. 14 MarLetting AI Physicians Into the Guild
12. 13 MarA big data COVID train wreck
13. 12 MarPracticing at the Top of Your License is Not an Option for Primary Care Physicians
14. 9 MarTHCB Gang Episode 119, Thursday March 9
15. 8 MarWhat Would John Henry Rauch Do Today As A HIT Entrepreneur?
16. 7 MarOI May Be The Next AI
17. 7 MarMatthew’s health care tidbits: Oh, the DEA makes me sigh….
18. 6 MarEcology Rescued the AMA and Medical Professionalism Beginning in 1870. Will technology and science rescue the profession once again?
19. 2 MarTHCB Gang Episode 118, Thursday March 2
20. 2 MarI Love Explaining Medical Things

February 2023

1. 28 FebLet’s Do Public Health Better
2. 27 FebMyocarditis update from Sweden
3. 24 FebA COVID-19 vaccine exemption letter
4. 23 FebTHCB Gang Episode 117, Thursday February 23, 1pm PT 4pm ET
5. 23 FebLast in Line: Hospitals Brace for a Chilly 2023
6. 21 FebThere Is Something About Trains, Indeed
7. 20 FebMatthew’s health care tidbits: Medicare Advantage is now a provider fracking contest
8. 17 FebAll Three Legs of the Obamacare Stool Are Working Well – Part 2
9. 16 FebTHCB Gang Episode 116, Thursday February 16
10. 16 FebLet’s Finish The Job
11. 15 FebAll Three Legs of the Obamacare Stool Are Working Well
12. 14 FebGive Him a Hand – No, Really
13. 9 FebDear Patient, If You Have to Treat a Cold, Know This:
14. 9 FebTHCB Gang Episode 115, Thursday February 9
15. 8 FebWhat is Health Care’s LEGO?
16. 8 FebElia Stupka, Angelini Ventures
17. 7 FebCOVID-19 myocarditis illusions: A new cardiac MRI study raises questions about the diagnosis
18. 6 FebWhat Scientists and Historians Understand: Without Truth, Progress Is An Impossibility
19. 4 FebWith access to my records, I took my business elsewhere
20. 2 FebTHCB Gang Episode 114, Thursday February 2 1pm PT 4pm ET
21. 2 Feb13 Year Old McAllen
22. 1 FebPracticing Medicine without a License: When Patients and Politicians Play Doctor
23. 1 FebExpanding Real World Datasets

January 2023

1. 31 JanMedEd in an AI Era
2. 31 JanMatthew’s health care tidbits: How do you tell the price of a drug?
3. 30 JanThe “Antebellum Paradox”: What is it and why it matters.
4. 27 JanReturn to McAllen: A Father-Son Interview
5. 26 JanTHCB Gang Episode 113, Thursday January 26 1pm PT 4pm ET
6. 26 JanCardiology update: Should mRNA vaccine myocarditis be a contraindication to future COVID-19 vaccinations ?
7. 25 JanUltrasound is Ultra-Cool
8. 25 JanMatthew’s health care tidbits: My retina & what it tells us about primary care
9. 24 JanCan Missouri Pass The Muster
10. 23 JanMedicare Advantage UpCoding Has Been Eliminated by CMS Effective 2022
11. 20 JanFighting the Wrong (Culture) War
12. 19 JanTHCB Gang Episode 112, Thursday January 19 1pm PT 4pm ET
13. 19 JanThe Open Data Movement Runs Aground on FOURIER
14. 18 JanAt CES, A Tractor And A Patient Stethoscope Point To Digital Health Future
15. 17 JanThe Danger of Stroking a Tiger
16. 16 JanWe’re Disrupting Disruption
17. 13 JanExpanding Real World Datasets
18. 12 JanMy family’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
19. 10 JanOne family’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
20. 6 JanTHCB Quickbite: Ashish Shah, CEO, Dina
21. 5 JanTHCB Quickbite: Zak Holdsworth, CEO, Hint Health
22. 4 JanTHCB Quickbite: Rami Karjian CEO & Pippa Shulman CMO, Medically Home
23. 3 JanHealthcare, Meet Southwest

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December 2022

1. 29 DecAccepting your Future Avatar: Leveraging Digital Twins for Transforming Healthcare
2. 28 DecSearching For The Next Search
3. 27 DecThe Constitution, Health, and Culture in America
4. 23 Dec“All Men Would Be Tyrants.” History Reverberates!
5. 22 DecTHCB Gang Episode 111, Thursday December 22
6. 21 DecHLTH 2022: Mental Health IT Infrastructure Proves Highly Fundable – Inside NeuroFlow’s $25M Series C
7. 21 DecNetflix for Drugs?
8. 20 DecHLTH 2022: Market State-of-Play with Stephanie Davis of SVB Securities
9. 19 DecBad Backs & Deductibles
10. 19 DecHLTH 2022: Health Tech Market Check-Up with Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir
11. 16 DecHLTH 2022: Health Gorilla & Interoperability’s New TEFCA-Fueled Future
12. 15 DecTHCB Gang Episode 110, Thursday December 15
13. 15 DecHLTH 2022: Turquoise Health CEO Talks Future of Healthcare Price Transparency
14. 14 DecHLTH 2022: Komodo Health Says “Big Pharma Needs to Kick Its Consulting Addiction”
15. 13 DecHLTH 2022: Thirty Madison and The Expanding Definition of Women’s Health – and Its Revenue Model!
16. 13 DecHLTH 2022: “Build-Mode” Glen Tullman Talks Transcarent Clients, Charts Comparison With Livongo
17. 9 DecAs Balwani and Holmes Head To Jail…Will Others in Health Tech Follow?
18. 8 DecTHCB Gang Episode 109, Thursday December 8, 1pm PT 4pm ET
19. 7 DecHLTH 2022: Calibrate Launches Enterprise Product to Bring GLP1 Weight Loss Drugs to Payers/Employers
20. 7 DecGive Kids a Healthy Itch
21. 7 DecTHCB Quickbite: Julian Flannery, CEO, Summus
22. 6 DecHLTH 2022: Wheel Adds More Telehealth Tech Infrastructure with Acquisition of GoodRx’s Care Software
23. 6 DecOK, trying more AI to write this
24. 2 DecNew VC Fund Angelini Ventures Launches to Find Next Big Digital Health & Biotech Disruptors
25. 1 DecTHCB Gang Episode 108, Thursday December 1
26. 1 Dec‘Breaking Down Interstate Barriers to Telehealth Delivery’ Tops ATA’s Priorities for 2023

November 2022

1. 30 Nov“True, True, and Unrelated” in the age of “Product Placement/Embedded Marketing.”
2. 29 NovBarcodes Are Us
3. 29 NovTHCB Quickbite: AJ Loiacono, CEO, CapitalRx
4. 28 NovAdventures in health care — Hinge Health
5. 23 NovAmerica, the intolerant
6. 22 NovOne Person’s Trash…
7. 21 NovWhen Push Comes to Shove: The AMA v. Dobbs. Part 2.
8. 18 NovWhen Push Comes to Shove: The AMA v. Dobbs. Part 1.
9. 17 NovTHCB Gang Episode 107, Thursday November 17, 1pm PT – 4pm ET
10. 15 NovIs Care Navigation Healthcare’s Next ‘Gold Mine’? Quantum Health’s Move to Win Over Larger Employers
11. 15 NovOur Plants Should Be Plants
12. 10 NovThe Dangers of EMR-Defaulted Prescription Stop Dates
13. 10 NovTHCB Gang Episode 106, Thursday November 10
14. 9 NovVirtual Care Regulatory Round-Up: Ro’s Z Reitano & Virtual-First’s Power to Control the Care Journey
15. 8 NovAnd you thought Mastadons were extinct…
16. 4 NovI’m trying to get AI to write this!
17. 4 NovThe “Comstockery” of Justice Clarence Thomas
18. 3 NovPatient Journey or Customer Journey? How Salesforce’s CRM Aims to Reposition the EHR
19. 2 NovPromises Made – Promises Kept: President Biden’s Support for “Obamacare.”
20. 1 NovRethinking Newer Events
21. 1 NovInterview: Sarah MacDonald, Author, The Cancer Channel

October 2022

1. 31 OctThe Secret Surveillance Capitalism That Suffuses Medicare
2. 28 OctSylvana Sinha, CEO, Praava Health
3. 27 OctPfizer’s Biotech Strategy: When a “Market Force” Partners with a “Market Mover”
4. 26 OctDoes Surviving The Plague Mean You Will Eventually Contract An Autoimmune Disease?
5. 25 OctFuture of Big Data in Health? LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Says Next-Gen Tokenization & Health Equity
6. 25 OctArt Is in the Eye of the Computer
7. 20 OctHow Is Salesforce a Catalyst for the Consumerization of Healthcare? The Magic Formula is CRM + EMR
8. 19 OctSticks and Stones…
9. 18 OctNEW Today! Health System Patient Comms Startup Well Health Becomes Artera
10. 13 OctA Country Doctor Reads: What if Burnout Is Less About Work and More About Isolation? (NYT)
11. 12 OctSalesforce for SDOH: Health Equity is Taking Center Stage in Salesforce’s Real-Time Health Data Play
12. 12 OctThe college football fans that beat COVID and the experts that couldn’t
13. 11 OctBetter Living Through Better Design
14. 7 OctWhat Does It Mean To Be Human?
15. 6 OctAbout That Cancer Moonshot
16. 5 OctHas “Disruption” Reached Its Sell-by Date?
17. 4 OctExplorations in French Health Care! (Or what I did on my vacation!)
18. 3 OctThe Digital Health Update from Europe: Startups, Funding, Frontiers Health & More

September 2022

1. 30 SepTruth and Trust in Science: Are They Negotiable?
2. 29 SepHealth Care Execs Behaving Badly
3. 28 SepNeuroFlow & The Tech that Jumps the Care Gaps Between Physical Check-ups & Mental Health Care
4. 22 SepTHCB Gang Episode 105, Thursday September 22 at 1pm PT, 4pm ET
5. 22 SepThe Society for Participatory Medicine Presents a Creative Learning Exchange: Community Health Access and Equity
6. 22 SepThe Future of Clinical Trials at Pfizer
7. 21 SepRibbon Health & Provider Data’s Holy Grail: The Accurate Provider Directory
8. 21 SepWhen Medical Error Becomes Personal, Activism Becomes Painful
9. 20 SepGoliath, Meet David
10. 16 Sep#HealthTechDeals Episode 46 | Redesign Health, Theranica, Soda Health, and Kyruus
11. 16 SepConstructed of star dust, will Guardian Angels continue to exist?
12. 15 SepTHCB Gang Episode 104, Thursday September 15 at 1pm PT, 4pm ET
13. 14 SepWhy mandating boosters for college kids is a no good, very bad, dumb idea
14. 13 SepStart the Revolution without Us
15. 12 SepMeet Voice Tech Start-Up Cardiokol
16. 12 SepWhat does CVS’s new deal signify about Medicare Advantage?
17. 8 Sep#HealthTechDeals Episode 45: CVS buys Signify; Psych Hub; 98point6 & MedMinder
18. 8 SepBREAKING: Headspace Health Acquires Shine App, A Diversity & Inclusion Self-Care Platform
19. 8 Sep“Beyond Nicotine”: Tobacco Joins Hands With Pharma.
20. 7 SepVaccine Myocarditis Update
21. 6 SepPutting the “e” in DNA
22. 6 SepWe Should Channel People Into Medicare Advantage Plans Where They Won’t Have Amputations or Go Blind (Part 2)
23. 2 SepMedicare Advantage Saves Lives, Limbs, Sight, And Major Amounts of Money – (Part 1)
24. 2 SepDeep-Dive Into Availity’s Acquisition of Diameter Health
25. 1 SepTHCB Gang Episode 103, Thursday September 1
26. 1 Sep#HealthTechDeals Episode 44 | Alma, Fair Square Medicare, Recuro Health, and Canvas Medical

August 2022

1. 31 AugWhat Could Possibly Go Wrong? Outbreaks of Injustice Linked by Two Different Dobbs.
2. 30 AugIt’s Time for No
3. 29 AugAmazon’s Coitus Interruptus: In or out?
4. 25 AugTHCB Gang Episode 102, Thursday August 25
5. 25 Aug#HealthTechDeals Episode 43 | Happy Ring, Upfront, PatientBond, Nitra, Digital Diagnostic, Ubie
6. 25 Aug“Virgin-Soil Epidemics” Covers a Multitude of Sins
7. 24 AugThe Shocking Impact of an Ancestor’s Secret Abortion
8. 23 AugZap Away
9. 22 AugPharmacists Can Now Prescribe Paxlovid. Good idea?
10. 19 Aug#HealthTechDeals Episode 42: Incredible Health, Abridge, Interaxxon, Arine & Keycare
11. 19 Aug“You’ve Gotta Shoot Some Sacred Cows:” MSU Health Care’s CIO On Health Systems & Tech Transformation
12. 19 AugRural America is a Fertile Field for Digital Health
13. 18 AugTHCB Gang Episode 101, Thursday August 18, 1pm PT- 4pm ET
14. 18 AugStop Talking About the Bubble and Start Telling Your Story
15. 17 AugKeycare raises $24m & Dr Lyle thinks he’s found a virtual care niche!
16. 17 AugA Dream Day at The Beach
17. 16 AugParticle Health, Complete Patient Records & ‘The Business’ of the Information Blocking Rule
18. 16 AugTick Tock (or TikTok) for US Health Care
19. 15 AugLong COVID cardiac studies: More questions than answers.
20. 12 AugNext-Gen PBM Capital Rx Becomes a Tech Co: Inside New PBA Biz, $106M Series C & Big Plans
21. 11 AugHealthTechDeals Episode 41 | Cera, Birdie, Theator, Tebra, Diagnostic Robots
22. 10 AugCNN myocarditis fact check by a Cardiologist (me)
23. 10 AugVirtual Care Regulatory Round-Up: Dobbs & the ‘Weaponization’ of Digital Health Data
24. 9 AugManav Sevak, CEO, Memora Health: Interview & Demo
25. 9 AugCaring Does Not Pay
26. 5 AugLou Lasagna and the MIC “Integrated Career Ladder” – More Than Just A “Revolving Door.”
27. 4 Aug#HealthTechDeals Episode 40 | Everside Health, Particle Health, Annexus Health, and Homeward
28. 4 AugTHCB Gang Episode 100, Thursday August 4
29. 3 AugJenny Schneider on Homeward’s $50M Series B, 30K-Patient Partnership with Priority Health
30. 3 AugYou Need Some Smarter Clothing
31. 2 AugThe Impact of COVID-19 on Shared Priorities for International Cooperation in Active and Healthy Aging
32. 1 AugUS Cardiac electrophysiologists meet reimbursement reality and don’t like it.

July 2022

1. 28 JulThe Tech Layer for Home-Based Care? Tomorrow Health Hopes To Network-ize Home Health
2. 28 Jul#HealthTechDeals Episode 39 | Cleery, Health Note, Elation, and Caraway
3. 28 JulTHCB Gang Episode 99, Thursday July 28
4. 27 JulAt the Core, Tuskegee Has Never Been Resolved
5. 26 JulI Was Wrong
6. 21 JulTHCB Gang Episode 98, Thursday July 21
7. 20 JulQuickbite Interviews: Veda
8. 19 JulBe Careful What You Wish For
9. 19 JulQuickbite Interviews: Health Chain
10. 18 JulDr. Topol’s comment on LongCOVID and the heart is misleading/lacking context
11. 15 JulQuickbite Interviews: Accolade
12. 14 JulHow Happify Health Became Twill: Inside the New Biz Model & What’s Next
13. 14 JulM4A as a Swing Issue
14. 13 JulQuickbite Interviews: NeuroFlow
15. 12 JulInside Vida Health’s Move Into Musculoskeletal Care
16. 12 JulDanger Ahead. Good
17. 7 JulQuickbite Interviews: IXLayer
18. 6 JulPoint-of-Care Ultrasound? How Butterfly Network’s Hand-Held Devices Make Scans On-Demand Diagnostics
19. 5 JulWe Hold These Truths
20. 5 JulMatthew’s health care tidbits: Texas is the present future of abortion care
21. 1 Jul#HealthTechDeals Episode 38: Picnic, Swing Therapeutics, Socially Determined, Nomad & Tomorrow
22. 1 JulMike Magee’s Advice to the AMA on Reversal of Roe vs. Wade

June 2022

1. 30 JunTHCB Gang Episode 97, Thursday June 30
2. 29 JunQuantifying Caregiving: ARCHANGELS CEO Alexandra Drane on The Caregiver Intensity Index
3. 28 JunWe Have a Right to Privacy…Right?
4. 27 JunGetting Sick and Going Broke – CVS, Credit Cards, and Crippling Medical Debt
5. 24 JunAmerican health care leaders are not blameless today
6. 23 Jun#HealthTechDeals, Episode 37 | Proximie, Abacus Insights, AI VF, Florence, Cara Care & Newtopia
7. 21 JunAn Upside Down Future for Healthcare
8. 20 JunMatthew’s health care tidbits: Is Covid over for the health care system?
9. 17 Jun#HealthTechDeals Episode 36| Sana Health, Sesame, Bardavon, Peerwell, Aidoc
10. 16 JunTHCB Gang Episode 96, Thursday June 16
11. 15 JunForget Micro-Networks: How Avaneer Health is Building The One Health Data Exchange to Rule Them All
12. 15 JunGlobal Warming and Disease
13. 15 Jun#HealthTechDeals Episode 35 | CapitalRX, EnsoData, CareAcademy, Inne, and Boulder Care
14. 14 JunAHIP in Vegas next week. Not too late!!
15. 14 JunWhat’s Up, Docs
16. 13 JunInside Boulder Care’s $36 Million Series B & Scaling Telehealth Addiction Treatment in Medicaid
17. 13 JunMatthew’s health care tidbits: Hospital shooting reveals so much
18. 10 JunRepublican Health Policies Disproportionally Harm White Citizens in Their States
19. 9 JunTHCB Gang Episode 95, Thursday June 9
20. 9 JunCan SameSky Health Fix the ‘Trust Issues’ Minority Populations Have with Big Healthcare?
21. 9 Jun#HealthTechDeals Episode 34 | Carebridge, Nava Benefits, Bicycle Health & LeanTaas
22. 7 JunHey, Old Guys!
23. 7 Jun#HealthTechDeals Episode 33|Aledade, Tripp, Socially Determined, and Digital Diagnostics
24. 6 Jun7WireVentures’ Lee Shapiro: What’s Ahead for Investment in Health Tech
25. 3 Jun#HealthTechDeals Episode 32| Hint Health, Moxe Health, uMotif, Fairtility, Circles
26. 3 JunAn interview of, err, me by João Bocas
27. 2 JunTHCB Gang Episode 94, Thursday June 2

May 2022

1. 31 MayAI are (going to be) people too
2. 27 MayA deal on AHIP in Vegas!
3. 27 MayThe Mental Health ‘Formulary of the Future’? Otsuka’s Work in DTx, Psychedelics, & More
4. 27 MayBritish Doctor Suspended for falsely claiming she was “promised” a laptop. WTF!
5. 27 MayRuss Johannesson, CEO, Glooko
6. 26 MayTHCB Gang Episode 93, Thursday May 26 1pm PT, 4pm ET
7. 26 May#HealthTechDeals Episode 31| Homethrive, Greater Good, Parallel Learning, Cayaba Care, Miga Health
8. 26 MayDefanging HIPAA: How Your De-identified Data Was Re-identified For Profit.
9. 26 MayWill Boeglin demos TimeDoc Health
10. 25 MayVirtual Care Regulatory Round-Up: Telehealth & Digital Care ‘State-of-Play’ by Nathaniel Lacktman
11. 24 MayI Want to Believe
12. 23 MayCVS Health’s Head of Enterprise Virtual Health Weighs-in: ‘What’s Next’ for Telehealth at CVS, Aetna
13. 23 MayMatthew’s health care tidbits: Digital Health is dead (well, not quite)
14. 19 MayTHCB Gang Episode 92, Thursday May 19 1pm PT, 4pm ET
15. 19 MayATA’s CEO Ann Mond Johnson Takes on the “Telehealth Cliff”
16. 17 May#HealthTechDeals Episode 30| Legacy, Ness, NowRX, and Monument
17. 17 MayWhat Do You Mean, “Innovation”?
18. 16 MayThe Sovereignty Network will help patients make money out of your health data
19. 16 May#HealthTechDeals Episode 29 | Osmind; Turquoise Health; Mahmee; Simplifed
20. 13 May#HealthTechDeals Episode 28 | Alan; HealthMap Solutions; Sidekick Health; Dialogue & Tictrac
21. 13 MayHow About This Opportunity, Health Tech Investors? Promoting Contraception vs. Banning Abortion
22. 12 MayHealth Care Through the Back Door: The Dangers of Nurse Visits
23. 12 MayTHCB Gang Episode 91, Thursday May 12
24. 11 MayDigital & Tech Are Changing Pfizer: Pharma Co’s Chief Digital & Technology Officer Takes Us Inside
25. 11 MayThe Licensing Walls Come Tumbling Down
26. 10 MayVida Health Starts Prescribing: Meds, Labs, Devices, & More for Mental Health & Diabetes
27. 9 MayThe Reckoning: What Happens to Digital Health After COVID?
28. 5 MayTHCB Gang Episode 90, Thursday May 5 – Cancer Special
29. 5 May#HealthTechDeals Episode 27: Levels, Waltz Health, Safety Wing & Implicity
30. 5 MayThe Pandemic, Bad Habits, Riskier Population Health & The Case for Prevention Coming from Newtopia
31. 4 May#HealthTechDeals Episode 26: Hello Heart, Concert Health, Vivian Health, Curebase, Mendel.ai & Blue Spark
32. 3 MayLearning from This War
33. 3 MayONC Explainer: Micky Tripathi Deep-Dive on Info Blocking, API standardization & TEFCA
34. 2 MayHealthcare Suffers from Patient Bias

April 2022

1. 28 AprTHCB Gang Episode 89, Thursday April 28, 1pm PT 4pm ET
2. 27 AprAmwell CEO Roy Schoenberg: Telehealth Tech Is Now Changing Provider & Payer Business Models
3. 27 Apr#HealthTechDeals Episode 25: Biofourmis, Reify Health, Nex Health, and Amae Health
4. 26 AprCEO Kuldeep Singh Rajput on Biofourmis’ huge Series D raise
5. 25 AprDara’s “Hero Quest”: How About Embracing Universal Health Care in America?
6. 21 AprTHCB Gang Episode 88, Thursday April 21st, 1pm PT 4pm ET
7. 20 Apr#HealthTechDeals Episode 24: Carbon Health, Clipboard Health, Source Health, and Diligent Robotics
8. 19 AprHas Virgin Pulse’s Acquisition of Welltok Created a New Kind of Care Navigator?
9. 19 AprWe Love Innovation. Don’t We?
10. 16 AprTHCB Gang Episode 87, Thursday April 14th
11. 14 Apr#HealthTechDeals Episode 23; Real, Iris Telehealth, 9am Health, Eko & Duos
12. 12 Apr#HealthTechDeals Episode 22: Viz.ai, PocketHealth, Eleanor Health, Recora, and Vytalize Health
13. 12 AprDALL-E, Draw an AI Doctor
14. 11 AprMatthew’s health care tidbits: Hospital System Concentration is a Money Machine
15. 8 AprThe Next Next-Gen PBM? Healthcare Navigation Biz Rightway On Making The Pivot
16. 7 Apr#HealthTechDeals Episode 21: IntelyCare, Avi Medical, Eleos Health, Evernow & Vivosense
17. 7 AprIf You’ve Seen One Robot – Wait, What?
18. 7 AprBreaking down Optum’s $6.4 Billion Acquisition of LHC Group
19. 6 Apr#HealthTechDeals Episode 20: Clarify Health, Season, Altoida, nirvanaHealth, and Pluto
20. 5 AprUkraine’s Secret Weapon – “Moral Superiority”
21. 5 AprMedPAC Got It Wrong (pt 3)
22. 5 AprWell Health Wants To Stay Unknown: The White Label Platform Behind Provider-to-Patient Text Messages
23. 4 Apr988 and 911: Justice System Involvement in Mental Health Crises
24. 1 AprApril Fools….Data Driven Analysis
25. 1 AprHealth Care Organizations Must Prioritize Cybersecurity Before Undergoing Digital Transformation

March 2022

1. 31 MarWTF Health: Why Aren’t You Part of The Advancement League?
2. 31 Mar#HealthTechDeals Episode 19: Brightline, Brightside, OssoVR, Podimetrics, AmplifyMD
3. 31 MarMedPAC Got It Wrong (pt 2)
4. 30 MarMedPAC Got It Wrong (pt 1)
5. 29 MarDibs on a RNA Computer
6. 28 MarMatthew’s health care tidbits: #Does Medicare Advantage Save the Taxpayer Money?
7. 25 MarCricket + Fresenius Health Partners + InterWell Health CEO on New Biz & “Take Out Merger” Chatter
8. 25 MarContemplating Health Data Rights as Civil Rights
9. 24 Mar#HealthTechDeals Episode 18: Huma, Afterlife, Timedoc Health Avive, Antidote Health
10. 23 MarTHCB Gang Episode 86, Thursday March 24th, 1pm PT 4pm ET
11. 23 MarCelebrating the 12th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act in a Pandemic: Where Would We Be Without It?
12. 22 MarLivongo’s Former CEO Zane Burke on New Gig Leading Healthcare Navigator Biz Quantum Health
13. 22 Mar#HealthTechDeals Episode 17: Cricket Health, Embold Health, Canopy, Vira Health, and Woebot
14. 22 MarARPHA-H Needs to Think Bigger
15. 21 MarHospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit
16. 18 MarIDIH Week 2022 on Active and Heathy Aging in Time of COVID– including US workshop 12 ET/9PT, Monday 21st
17. 18 MarQuickbite Interviews: Force Therapeutics/Xealth & Avia Health
18. 18 MarThe (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 2)
19. 17 Mar#HealthTechDeals Episode 16: Doctolib, House Rx, SmithRx, Synapse Medicine, and Kintsugi
20. 17 MarTHCB Gang Episode 85, Thursday March 17th, 1pm PT 4pm ET
21. 17 Mar“There Isn’t One Health Plan to Save Them All”: Flume Health’s CEO on New Build-A-Plan Biz
22. 17 MarThe (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 1)
23. 16 MarQuickbite Interviews: 1UpHealth& Cecelia Health
24. 16 MarClarify Health Solutions’ CEO on Data Analytics Startup’s Next Trick: Value-Based Payments Tech
25. 15 MarWhere Health Care Value Can Lead
26. 15 MarPast the Talking Points: Glen Tullman on Affordable Insulin, Payment Model Reform & Transcarent
27. 15 Mar#HealthTechDeals Episode 15| Clarify, Embedded Healthcare, Wildflower, Vivante Health, Gravie, Nice
28. 14 MarQuickbite Interviews: Lark & Luma Health
29. 10 Mar#HealthTechDeals Episode 14: Elemy, Health Gorilla, M_disrupt; Flume; and Homeward Health
30. 10 MarWill ‘DoorDash for Lab Draws’ Startup Sprinter Health Be What Speeds Up Virtual Care’s Growth?
31. 8 MarWhen Crypto Comes to Health Care
32. 8 MarMental Health Care & Medicaid State-of-Play: Circulo Health, Brave Health Execs Weigh-In
33. 7 MarBREAKING at ViVE: Jenny Schneider on Launch of New Biz, Homeward
34. 7 MarReflections From the Ukraine
35. 5 MarMatthew’s health care tidbits: The Stupidity Vaccine
36. 3 Mar#HealthTechDeals Episode 13: ModMed, Nayya, Sanofi, Dario Health, Ro, Dadi, and Daybreak Health
37. 3 MarTHCB Gang Episode 84, Thursday March 3rd, 1pm PT 4pm ET
38. 2 MarMedicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity
39. 1 Mar#HealthTechDeals Episode 12: Omada Health, Somatus, Qventus, Story Health, and Medibuddy
40. 1 MarRaspberry Pi Health Care

February 2022

1. 28 FebDEMO: Medstar Health’s digital front door – featuring b.well Connected Health
2. 28 FebHow to Talk to Clinicians: Forget Workflows, Just Tell Us How Things Work
3. 25 FebPithiatism Redux
4. 23 FebSeqster: The Salesforce of Healthcare?
5. 22 FebGet Ready for (Healthcare) Microgrids
6. 21 FebWhat Would Newt Do? Making Value-Based Care Victorious
7. 18 Feb#HealthTechDeals Episode 11: MindMaze, Memora Health, Ro, PriorAuthNow, and Equip
8. 17 FebTHCB Gang Episode 83, Thursday Feb 17th, 1pm PT 4pm ET
9. 17 FebBREAKING: MindMaze Lands Fresh $105M for Digital Neuro-Therapeutics
10. 17 FebWhat the Pandemic Taught Us About Value-based Care
11. 16 FebAledade: Mandy Cohen joins, Farzad speaks
12. 15 Feb#HealthTechDeal Episode 10: ANDHealth, Ada Health, Minded, Expressable, and Curve Health
13. 15 FebImaging a Different Future
14. 14 FebWill Microbes Finally Force Modernization of the American Health Care System?
15. 11 FebQuickbites: Equip; SameSky, Jenny Schneider (GC) & Calibrate
16. 10 Feb#HealthTechDeals Episode 9: Signify buys Caravan; Koneksa; Jasper; Vynca; Doximity
17. 10 FebINSIDE THE ACQUISITION: Signify Health Adds Caravan Health’s ACO-building Expertise for $220M
18. 10 FebTHCB Gang Episode 82, Thursday Feb 10th
19. 9 Feb#HealthTechDeals Episode 08: M&A special! ThirtyMadison & Nurx, Concerto Care, Kindbody, Calm, Withings all at it!
20. 9 FebBREAKING: Thirty Madison and Nurx Merge, CEO Steve Gutentag Takes Us Inside
21. 9 FebDoes Digital Health Technology Have a “Famous Trio” in the Making?
22. 8 FebKomodo Health: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Partnership, Rare Disease Patients, and… IPO Rumors?
23. 8 FebTake a Tip from Domino’s
24. 4 FebEcology and Technical Advance
25. 3 FebMeet Teen Mental Health App BeMe Health & Their “TikTok” Type Approach to Behavioral Health Care
26. 3 FebAfter the Crash
27. 2 FebTHCB Gang Episode 81, Thursday Feb 3
28. 2 Feb#HealthTechDeals Episode 7: League, Reimagine Care, Resilience, Mantra Health, Physician Partners
29. 1 Feb#HealthTechDeals Episode 6: Alto Pharmacy, Althelas, A Place for Mom, And Summus Global
30. 1 FebNew Cancer Care Navigator Thyme Care Starts Out with $22M Series A & Big Name Backing
31. 1 FebSpotify, Joe Rogan, and Health Care

January 2022

1. 31 JanMatthew’s health care tidbits: #What is insurance again?
2. 31 JanThe Social Science of Covid
3. 27 JanInside Wheel’s $150M Series C: CEO Talks “Long Game” for Stealthy Virtual Care Infrastructure Biz
4. 27 JanTHCB Gang Episode 80, Thursday Jan 27
5. 26 JanBig Health’s Softbank Money, FDA Board Member Send Strong Signals About Digital Therapeutics Market
6. 26 Jan#HealthTechDeals Episode 5: Infermedica, Wellster, Casana, Babylon, and Atlas Health
7. 26 JanInfermedica raises a big round and demos new product
8. 25 JanWriting the Book on Digital Health: Roberto Ascione on “The Future of Health”
9. 25 JanThe Tests were a Test
10. 24 JanVida Health Hires New Chief Medical Officer from Hims & Hers: A Sign ‘Scripts’ Are Coming Soon?
11. 21 JanThe Covid Vaccine’s PR Crisis: Health Innovation vs the Take-Down Power of Disinformation
12. 20 JanHeadspace Health Merger Update: First Look at How Ginger-Headspace Combo is Really Going to Market
13. 20 Jan#HealthTechDeals Episode 4: Wheel, Topography Health, Lyra, and Big Health
14. 20 JanThe Intersection of 911 and 988: Decriminalizing Mental Health Crises
15. 20 JanTHCB Gang Episode 79, Thursday Jan 20 — 1pm PT- 4pm ET
16. 20 JanInterview & Deep Dive into Summus Global
17. 19 Jan#HealthTechDeals Episode 3: TigerConnect, Verana Health, Waymark, Formel Skin, and RCM
18. 19 JanDAOs May Rescue Healthcare
19. 18 JanMedicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part two)
20. 14 Jan#HealthTechDeals Episode 2: DexCare, Avaneer Health, Deepscribe, Little Otters, and Ianacare
21. 13 JanTHCB Gang Episode 78, Jan 13
22. 13 JanFuturecasting with Amy Abernethy: Verily, Real-World Data, Clinical Trials & Health Policy in 2022
23. 12 Jan#HealthTechDeals Episode 1: Transcarent, Medically Home, Vera Whole Health, Stryker, and more!
24. 11 JanWhat a Waste of a Healthcare System
25. 11 JanTranscarent’s Valuation Soars Past $1B. Hear Why Glen Tullman Says It’s More Than Worth It.
26. 11 JanMedicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part one)
27. 7 JanHealth in Two Point 00 – The LAST Episode (247)
28. 6 JanTHCB Gang Episode 77, Jan 6 1pm PT – 4pm ET
29. 6 JanNate Maslak, CEO of Ribbon Health
30. 5 Jan#Healthin2Point00, Episode 246| Healthcare.com, Found, Well, Gamer Health, Belong Health
31. 5 JanSimple Bills are Not So Simple
32. 4 JanThe Simpson’s Explain Healthcare
33. 3 JanFall Risk: It’s All in Your Head

2021 386

December 2021

1. 28 DecRooting For Schumpter’s Gale
2. 23 DecTHCB Gang Episode 76, Dec 23 1pm PT – 4pm ET
3. 22 DecMy 22 Oldest Jokes and Why They Still Matter in 2022
4. 21 DecNot Just Token Tokens
5. 20 DecMatthew’s health care tidbits: #DigitalHealth valuations
6. 17 Dec“Playing Doctor” – A Cautionary Tale From Health IT Pioneers.
7. 16 DecHealth in 2 Point00, Episode 245| Bright Health, Innovaccer, Cadence, Ophelia, and Apti Health
8. 16 DecTHCB Gang Episode 75, Dec 16
9. 15 DecBREAKING: Innovaccer CEO on Healthcare Cloud Startup’s $150M Raise & $3.2B Valuation Announced Today
10. 14 DecThe Eisenhower Principle
11. 13 DecRcube Health’s ‘Resony App’ Catches Bayer Support for Mental Health DTx for Resonance Breathing
12. 10 DecThe need for H.O.P.E: victims of human trafficking need better care from health professionals
13. 9 DecTHCB Gang Episode 74, Dec 9
14. 9 DecHealth in 2 Point 00, Episode 244 | Transcarent, Suki, Robin, Cerebral, Nomi, and Apti Health
15. 8 DecHealth in 2 Point 00, Episode 243|Quartet, Ribbon, Lyn Health, Medallion & Safely You
16. 8 DecMatthew’s health care tidbits: Athenahealth & Private Equity
17. 7 DecDNA Storage in a Yottabyte Era
18. 6 DecLyn Health Out of Stealth: A Niche Healthcare Navigator for Polychronic Patients
19. 6 DecThe Healing Power of Even Virtual Human Connection
20. 3 DecWTF Health: Early-Stage Med Device Startup Acorai is Turning Smart Phones into Heart Failure Monitoring Devices
21. 2 DecInside FarmboxRx’s Groundbreaking Work in SNAP/EBT Benefits to “Eradicate Food Deserts Overnight”
22. 1 DecTHCB Gang Episode 73, Dec 2 1pm PT – 4pm ET

November 2021

1. 30 NovWTF Health: Accolade Navigates Itself into New Territory: CEO on Personalized Healthcare & Tech Infrastructure
2. 30 NovHealth in 2 Point 00, Episode 242|Owlet, EasyHealth, Luma Health, Calal Health, and more
3. 30 NovWhere’s Our National Health Tech Academy
4. 30 NovMatthew’s health care tidbits: Drug prices
5. 24 NovHealth in 2 Point 00, Episode 241| Papa, Sword, Trevueta, Trusted Health, Ieso, and Talkspace
6. 23 NovTHCB Spotlights: Maya Said, CEO, Outcomes4Me
7. 23 NovThe Kids Aren’t Alright
8. 22 NovTHCB Spotlights: Lindsay Jurist-Rosner, Wellthy
9. 22 Nov988: A New Lifeline for Mental Health Emergencies
10. 19 NovHealthcare Not a Part of the US Inflation Surge: Who Knew?
11. 18 NovTHCB Spotlights: Chris Gervais, CTO of Kyruus
12. 18 NovRumor Check with Vida Health’s CEO: Buyer Sentiment on Virtual Care, At-Risk Models, Mental Health
13. 18 NovClimate Change: The Future of the Quality Movement
14. 18 NovTHCB Gang Episode 72, Nov 18 1pm PT – 4pm ET
15. 17 NovCan Democracy Survive In The Absence of Health Care Security?
16. 16 NovBreaking Up is Good to Do
17. 15 NovHow Unhappy are Patients with Info Coming from Providers, Payers? Pega’s Survey Shows It’s Not Good
18. 12 NovWhat is the “Right” to Health Care Worth? It Depends
19. 11 NovWTF Health: Transcarent, Walmart & The “Re-making” of Healthcare Payers: Glen Tullman on the Power of Big Retail
20. 10 NovTech Can’t Fix the Problems in Healthcare
21. 10 NovCareCentrix CEO on Walgreens Taking Majority Stake, How Post-Acute Care Will Fair in Retail Health
22. 9 NovBehind the Mask
23. 8 NovUpdate from Olive: CEO Sean Lane on Putting $850M+ Funding to Work
24. 5 NovWoman’s Health Startup Pollie Wins Bayer G4A’s Attention With Female-Focused Chronic Condition Play
25. 4 NovTHCB Gang Episode 71, Nov 4
26. 4 Nov#Healthin2Point00, Episode 240|Tebra, Notable, Wellinks, Aktiia, and Enlace Health
27. 4 NovWTF Health: Included Health’s CEO Owen Tripp on Grand Rounds, Doctor-on-Demand Merger & New Name
28. 3 NovReflections on HLTH2021: The Lens of the Patient and Carepartner
29. 2 NovQuantum Computing’s Sputnik Moment
30. 1 NovWe are Asking Our Physicians to Do Too Much. It’s No Wonder They are Burnt Out.

October 2021

1. 30 Oct#Healthin2Point00, Episode 239: Hinge, Femtec, Science37, Augmedix
2. 28 Oct#Healthin2Point00, Episode 238 | Truepill, Stride Health, Bardavon, and Wider Circle
3. 28 OctGodwin’s Law and the Rise of Hyperbole on MedTwitter 🙄
4. 28 OctTHCB Gang Episode 70, Oct 28 1pm PT – 4pm ET
5. 27 OctWTF Health: Inside the One Drop – Bayer Collaboration: New Cardiovascular Disease Product Is Just the Beginning
6. 27 Oct#Healthin2Point 00, Episode 237 | Horowitz and Tiger Global, Medable, Zerigo Health, and more deals
7. 26 Oct#Healthin2Point 00, Episode 236 | HLTH 2021, Oak Street, 23andMe, Babylon Health, and Everlywell
8. 26 OctWTF Health: Inside Scoop – Medicaid Mental Health Startup Brave Health Lands $10M
9. 26 OctMedicine May Be an Art, but AI May Be Artists
10. 25 OctState-Based Marketplaces 2.0 Part 2: Engines of Innovation, Competition, and Consumerism
11. 22 OctThe “Secret Sauce” – A Comparison of TSMC and Pfizer
12. 21 OctTHCB Gang Episode 69 – Thurs October 21 — Alex Drane Special!
13. 21 OctWe Use Too Many Medications: Be Very Afraid of Interactions
14. 20 OctYou Need a Cyber Team
15. 19 OctIn “Riding” Abortion, Is Greg Abbott Driving Texas Toward Divestiture?
16. 18 OctState-Based Marketplaces 2.0 – Part 1: The Coming Expansion in Access, Affordability, and Value
17. 15 OctWalmart Picks Transcarent: Tullman on First ‘Everyday Low Prices’ Offer for Self-Insured Employers
18. 15 Oct#Healthin2Point00, Episode 235 | Walgreens Health + VillageMD & CareCentrix, plus more deals
19. 14 OctTHCB Gang Episode 67 – Thurs October 14
20. 14 Oct#Healthin2Point00, Episode 234 | An M&A and shedloads more money!
21. 13 OctGet Ready for Deepfakes
22. 12 Oct#Healthin2Point00, Episode 233 | Another $2B in deals, including Devoted’s whopping valuation
23. 11 OctMedicine is a Moving Missile, Aiming for a Dangerous, Elusive Target
24. 8 OctTHCB Spotlights: Dan Goldsmith and Jennifer Goldsmith, Tendo
25. 7 OctTHCB Gang Episode 66 – Thurs October 7
26. 7 OctState of Connecticut’s New ‘Episodes-of-Care Health Plan’ Could Be Key to Scaling Value-Based Care
27. 7 Oct#Healthin2Point00, Episode 232 | Cue Health goes public + funding for Stellar, eVisit, & Neuroglee
28. 6 OctThe Vaccine Brawl – A Legal Battle in Process
29. 5 OctYou Want to 3D Print What
30. 4 OctWe Shouldn’t Tolerate Sloppy Allergy Lists

September 2021

1. 30 SepTHCB Gang Episode 65 – Thurs September 30
2. 28 SepNever Waste a (Design) Crisis
3. 27 SepAmerican Primary Care is a Big Waste of Time (When…)
4. 24 Sep#Healthin2Point00, Episode 231 | Pager, Ovivia, Meru Health, and NOCD
5. 23 Sep#Healthin2Point00, Episode 230 | Commure, Spring Health, UniteUs, Nomad & Xealth
6. 22 SepNomad Health’s Next Move: $63M Raise Takes On-Demand Healthcare Staffing into Workforce Management
7. 21 SepNot Your Father’s Job Market
8. 20 SepI Am a Decision Maker, Not a Bookkeeper
9. 17 SepRecommendations From the Coalition for Physician Accountability’s UME-to-GME Review Committee: Winners & Losers Edition
10. 16 SepA Man With Sudden Onset of Gastroparesis
11. 15 SepMore Laughing, More Thinking
12. 14 SepPolicies, Techies, VCS: Musings From a Futurist
13. 13 SepMetaverse and Health Care – A View From 50,000 Feet
14. 10 SepAs Doctor Burnout Climbs, Can We Save Primary Care?
15. 9 SepAnxiety, Worry or Fear? Disappointment, Grief or Depression?
16. 7 SepSelfish Much?
17. 3 SepDoes Our Healthcare System Work for the Most Vulnerable Americans?
18. 2 SepBurnout? Not Even Close!
19. 1 SepHealing at Home: Answering the $30,000 Question

August 2021

1. 31 AugDayTwo Scores $37M to Expand Microbiome-Based Personalized Nutrition Treatment for Diabetes
2. 31 AugHealth Care, Meet Gall’s Law
3. 30 AugPolicies|Techies|VCs: What’s Next For Health Care–Virtual Conference is Sept 7-10
4. 30 AugSleepless Nights For Evolutionary Biologists: A Greek Tragedy in The Making
5. 29 AugMatthew’s health care tidbits
6. 27 AugHealth Insurance is a Stumbling Block in Many Patients’ Thinking
7. 26 AugTHCB Gang Episode 64 – Thurs August 26, 1pm PT- 4pm ET
8. 26 AugInside 1-Year-Old Calibrate’s $100M Raise for ‘Rx + Behavior Change’ Weight Loss
9. 26 AugThe FDA’s Culture: Should Safety Dominate All Practices?
10. 25 Aug#Healthin2Point00, Episode 229 | Headspace & Ginger merge, Connect America buys 100Plus
11. 25 AugGinger and Headspace Merge: CEOs Let Us In On What’s Next for Digital Mental Health Super Company
12. 25 AugDelta Double-Down: A Universal Health Plan Is Long Overdue.
13. 24 AugI am Dr. Groot
14. 23 AugMatthew’s health care tidbits
15. 23 AugGeorge Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance Speech, Part 2
16. 20 Aug#Healthin2Point00, Episode 228 | Mahana, Vera, Cadence, Commure & Ovia
17. 20 AugIt takes a pandemic: Mental Health parity may finally have its day!
18. 19 Aug#Healthin2Point00, Episode 227 | Maven, Carrot Fertility, Cricket Health & Sharecare
19. 19 AugCityblock Health & The ‘At-Risk’ Disruption of Medicaid Care
20. 18 AugGeorge Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance Speech, Part 1
21. 17 AugTrendspotting with Optum’s Direct-to-Consumer VP: Behavior Change Science in Healthcare
22. 17 AugYes, Shit
23. 16 AugEHRs Are Workarounds, Rerouting the Way Physicians Work
24. 13 AugThe Backstory of a Photo That Went Viral
25. 12 AugMorning Distort
26. 11 AugDigital Health: A Promise of Health for All
27. 10 AugHealth Care You Do Not See
28. 9 AugBehind-the-Scenes Look at New Multidisciplinary Healthcare Conference LIFEITSELF
29. 6 Aug“This Doesn’t Usually Hurt that Much”: Patients With Fibromyalgia Spectrum Disorder
30. 5 AugOne Drop’s Minimally-Invasive Biosensor Is Coming (!) & It Nestles Into an Expansive Data Platform
31. 5 Aug#Healthin2Point00, Episode 226 | DomaniRx, Connections Health Solutions, Veda, and Connie Health
32. 4 AugTHCB Spotlights: Shahram Seyedin-Noor, GP of Civilization Ventures
33. 3 AugThe Rise of the Health Coach: YourCoach.Health on Market Opportunity Between Healthcare & Wellness
34. 3 AugLet’s Meet in the Metaverse
35. 2 AugThe Call to Be a Primary Care Doctor

July 2021

1. 30 JulDigital Health Investor Larry Leisure’s Picks for the Next Hot Areas for Healthcare VC Investment
2. 30 JulTHCB Spotlights: Marta Zanchi, Founder & Managing Partner at Nina Capital
3. 30 Jul#Healthin2Point00, Episode 225 | Amwell acquires SilverCloud & Conversa – plus more deals
4. 29 JulTHCB Spotlights: CJ Wilson, CEO of MyHealth.US
5. 28 JulMental Health Startup SonderMind Lands $150M to Tackle ‘THE’ Health Issue of Our Generation
6. 27 JulThe Most Important Thing
7. 26 JulHealth Care Needs A Hero
8. 24 JulMatthew’s health care tidbits
9. 23 Jul#Healthin2Point00, Episode 224 | b.well, Quit Genius, Doktor.se, Sweetch, Kno2, and HealthifyMe
10. 23 JulMoney and Values: For Healthcare Workers, It’s Time They Align
11. 22 JulTHCB Gang Episode 63 – Thurs July 22
12. 22 JulNasdaq’s Dario Health ($DRIO) Does Double Acquisition to Build-out Chronic Condition Care Platform
13. 22 Jul#Healthin2Point00, Episode 223 | Carbon Health, Woebot, Eight Sleep, Aidoc, and OM1
14. 21 JulHealth Care Should Go (Micro) Nuclear
15. 20 JulGinger for Teens Puts “Full-family Approach” to Mental Health Care in Hands of Employers
16. 19 JulBiden Should Extend a “Public Option” as a Message to “Health Care Royalists”
17. 18 JulMatthew’s health care tidbits
18. 16 Jul#Healthin2Point00, Episode 222 | Funding for Availity, VisiQuate, Truveta, and Bayesian
19. 16 JulThe Call to Be a Primary Care Doctor
20. 15 JulTHCB Gang Episode 62 – Thurs July 15, 1pm PT- 4pm ET
21. 15 JulThe Case to Realign Parkinson’s Disease Research
22. 14 JulMeet Wheel: The Mysterious, White-Label Telehealth Startup Bolstering ‘Next-Gen’ Virtual Care
23. 14 JulCan the Practice of Primary Care Medicine ever be Practical Again?
24. 13 JulUp, Please
25. 12 JulA Hamiltonian View of Post-Pandemic America
26. 9 Jul#Healthin2Point00, Episode 221 | Funding for Novacardia, Wellthy, Osso VR, and Form Health
27. 9 JulDoes Newly IPO’d Privia Health’s Climbing Stock Price Prove Value-Based Care Can Scale?
28. 8 JulCONFERENCE UPDATE–Policies|Techies|VCs: What’s Next For Health Care?
29. 8 JulCancer Centers Rebounding From COVID-19 Can Grow By Making the Most of New Technologies for Clinical Trials
30. 8 JulTHCB Gang Episode 61 – Thurs July 8
31. 7 JulThe Art and Soul of Medicine Exist in the Ordinary
32. 6 JulMake Mine Bioresorbable
33. 5 JulThe Science of Clinical Intuition
34. 3 JulMatthew’s health care tidbits
35. 2 JulWhy I Seldom Recommend Vitamins or Supplements
36. 2 Jul#Healthin2Point00, Episode 220 | Olive’s massive raise, Ro buys Kit, plus funding for Tendo & SWORD
37. 2 JulCONFERENCE UPDATE–Policies|Techies|VCs: What’s Next For Health Care?
38. 1 JulTHCB Gang Episode 60 – Thurs July 1
39. 1 JulGo Ahead, AI—Surprise Us
40. 1 JulSharecare ($SHCR) Hits NASDAQ Tomorrow, CEO Jeff Arnold on Closing the SPAC IPO

June 2021

1. 30 JunCareAlign, fixing that physician workflow–demo & interview
2. 29 Jun#Healthin2Point00, Episode 219 | Health Catalyst acquires Twistle, Hims acquires Apostrophe, & more
3. 29 JunDid Glen Tullman Just Launch Another New Category? Transcarent the ‘Health Experience Company’
4. 28 JunHealth Tech: Part II –Powering Up The Vision
5. 25 Jun#Healthin2Point00, Episode 218 | Bicycle, NexHealth, Stork Club, DrChrono & Pear Therapeutics
6. 25 JunHealth Tech, Part I: Where We Are Going, Not Just How Fast We Can Get There
7. 24 JunHealthcare’s New “Operating System”: Amwell’s CEO Says Incumbents are Re-Thinking Telehealth
8. 24 JunTHCB Gang Episode 59 – Thurs June 24, 1pm PT – 4pm ET
9. 23 JunDoctor-Patient Relationships: I Don’t Babysit – I Want to Empower
10. 22 JunSenior Caregiving Startup Papa: “Hanging Out & Helping Out” Backed by Health Plans & $91M in Funding
11. 22 JunBetter Broadband for Better Health Care
12. 21 JunConnection Is Healthcare
13. 18 Jun#Healthin2Point00, Episode 217 | 23andMe goes public, & funding for Zus, Pill Club, and Brightline
14. 18 JunDid Covid and Telemedicine Finally Make the Physical Exam Obsolete?
15. 17 JunJonathan Bush Launches Zus with $35M & “Build-Your-Own EMR” Proposition for Health Tech Startups
16. 17 JunCommunity Health Plans Are Serious: Support Major Federal Action to Reduce Rx Drug Costs
17. 17 JunTHCB Gang Episode 58 – Thurs June 17, 1pm PT – 4pm ET
18. 17 JunMatthew’s health care tidbits
19. 16 JunTwins For Everyone!
20. 15 Jun#Healthin2Point00, Episode 216 | Datavant acquires Ciox, plus deals for AllyAlign, Cerebral & more
21. 14 JunWhy “Radiopharmaceutical” Should be Part of your Healthcare Vocabulary
22. 11 Jun#Healthin2Point00, Episode 215 | Monogram, LetsGetChecked, Transcarent, Lenus, and Ada
23. 10 JunUpHealth Hits the NYSE: CEO & President on SPAC Merger Completion, Virtual Care Competition & More
24. 10 JunTHCB Gang Episode 57 – Thurs June 10
25. 9 JunHey, How About Starship Earth?
26. 8 Jun#Healthin2Point00, Episode 214 | One Medical acquires Iora, plus funding for HumanFirst & many more
27. 7 JunThe Art of Medicine is Not an Algorithm
28. 5 JunMatthew’s health care tidbits, week ending Jun 5
29. 4 JunU.S. Science Embrace of Wuhan “Gain-Of-Function” Viral Research Proved A Slippery Slope
30. 4 Jun#Healthin2Point00, Episode 213 | Babylon’s SPAC IPO, plus big raises for Thirty Madison & Intrinsic
31. 3 JunTHCB Gang Episode 56 – Thurs June 3
32. 3 Jun#Healthin2Point00, Episode 212 | DayTwo, Hello Heart, Pack4U, and Curebase
33. 3 JunVoicemail, Repeat Requests and Multitasking: Inefficiencies in Today’s Healthcare
34. 2 JunBias, Before First Breath
35. 1 JunMake Some Microbe Friends

May 2021

1. 30 MayMatthew’s health care tidbits
2. 28 MayPublic Health Nurses Once Again Asking, “What Are They Thinking?”
3. 27 May#Healthin2Point00, Episode 211 | Noom, Akili, Unmind, Eleanor Health & Clearing
4. 27 MayOff Our Chests: No Secrets Left Behind
5. 26 MayWill Google Health Platformize the Electronic Health Record Market?
6. 25 MayTeladoc Health’s Mental Health Move: Unite Best of Livongo, Virtual Care in myStrength Complete
7. 25 MayHolograms to the Rescue
8. 25 May#Healthin2Point00, Episode 210 | Babylon acquires Meritage IPA, Ro acquires Modern Fertility & more
9. 24 MayWhat Does Your Patient Need to Hear You Say Right Now?
10. 21 MaySecular Stagnation – An Economic Argument for Universal Health Care Now
11. 21 May#Healthin2Point00, Episode 209 | Funding for Lyra, DrFirst, Jasper Health & Cue Health
12. 20 MayTHCB Gang Episode 55, Thursday May 20 – Ian Morrison is the gang!
13. 20 MayWhat’s the Latest with Evidation Health?
14. 19 MayDeath, Taxes — and Paperwork
15. 18 MayKomodo Health’s CEO on $220M Series E & What’s REALLY Happening with Big Data in Healthcare
16. 17 May“Tell Me More”
17. 14 MayWill Virtual Care Platforms (VCPs) Become Healthcare’s Mega-Platforms?
18. 14 May#Healthin2Point00, Episode 208 | Cedar acquires Ooda & funding for Medically Home, Huma
19. 13 MayTHCB Gang Episode 54, Thursday May 13
20. 13 May#Healthin2Point00, Episode 207 | Aetion, Halodoc, Vori, Heartbeat Health & Memora Health
21. 13 MayFive Weight Loss Myths I am Constantly Fighting
22. 12 MayA Timex Healthcare System
23. 12 MayThe Catalyst @ Health 2.0/Wipfli State of Digital Health Survey
24. 11 May#Healthin2Point00, Episode 206 | Walmart buys MeMD, Science 37 SPACs out, Vim & Zoe
25. 11 MaySpecial Event: The Catalyst @ Health 2.0/Wipfli Survey on the State of Digital Health Results Presentation
26. 11 MayScreening for Depression: Then What?
27. 10 May10 Design Considerations for Vaccine Credentials
28. 8 MayThis Mother’s Day, Let’s Get Mothers the Health Care Coverage They Need
29. 7 May#Healthin2Point00, Episode 205 | Groups, Collective Health, Oura Ring & Ciitizen buys Stella
30. 7 May“Necessitous Men Are Not Free Men” – Words to Remember
31. 6 May#Healthin2Point00, Episode 204 | Vida, Headway, & Neuroelectrics, plus RCM acquires VisitPay
32. 6 MayTHCB Gang Episode 53, Thursday May 6
33. 5 MayInside Vida Health’s $110M Series D & Big Push into Digital Mental Health
34. 4 May#Healthin2Point00, Episode 203 | Privia goes public, Vocera acquires PatientSafe Solutions & more
35. 4 MayWe Are All Designers
36. 3 MayDigital Mental Health Hits Mainstream: Cigna’s Behavioral Health CMO on National Rollout of Ginger
37. 3 MaySome People Don’t Think Like Doctors (!)

April 2021

1. 30 Apr#Healthin2Point00, Episode 202 | Virta, Seqster, Kaia, Capsule & Accolade acquires PlushCare
2. 29 AprTHCB Gang Episode 52, Thursday April 29
3. 29 Apr#Healthin2Point00, Episode 201 | European Funding Deals – complete with accents!
4. 29 AprThe Market Forces Behind Vaccine Passports
5. 28 AprThe “Health Tech Responds to COVID-19” Showcase Webinar!
6. 27 AprSharecare’s SPAC IPO: A Second Success for WebMD Founder Jeff Arnold?
7. 27 AprHealthcare’s Million Dollar Blocks
8. 27 AprHealth in 2 Point 00 — The 200th Episode Special!
9. 23 AprPlease Sign Below: Fraudsters Phishing for Physician Signatures
10. 22 AprInside Cano Health’s SPAC IPO & Tailoring Medicare Advantage Primary Care for the Latino Market
11. 22 AprTHCB Gang Episode 51, Thursday April 22
12. 20 AprCrossover Health’s CEO on Next Move: Private? Public? With a Payer??
13. 20 AprLet’s Build Some LTC Infrastructure!
14. 19 AprThe Parallel Realities of Health Care: Ratio and Intellectus
15. 16 Apr#Healthin2Point00, Episode 199 | Olive acquires Empiric plus raises by Medable & Papa
16. 15 AprSmart Healthcare Platforms Shine a Light On Price Transparency
17. 15 AprTHCB Gang Episode 50, Thursday April 15
18. 14 AprThe Pain Is In Your Brain: Your Knees Know Next to Nothing
19. 13 Apr#Healthin2Point00, Episode 198 | Microsoft buys Nuance & lots of IPO rumors
20. 13 AprTo Add is Expected, To Subtract is Design
21. 12 AprOur Healthcare System Needs More Than Policy Overhaul: It’s Time for Private Sector Innovation to Kick into High Gear for Our Health’s Sake
22. 9 AprDoxepin, a Little Known Super Drug in My Personal Black Bag of Tricks
23. 8 AprJean Drouin, Clarify Health, on the new data stack.
24. 8 AprHealth Tech Deals, on Clubhouse tomorrow (Thursday 8th) at 1 PT/4 ET
25. 7 Apr#Healthin2Point00, Episode 197 | BrightInsight, SteadyMD, CirrusMD, and Cleo
26. 7 AprFirefly Health’s CEO & Exec Chairman on $40M Raise & Becoming a “Bloat-less Kaiser”
27. 7 AprThe Art of the Chart: Documenting the Timeline
28. 6 AprSome Discord Could Be Good for Health Care
29. 5 AprTime to Reboot “Medicare-For-All”
30. 1 AprThe Medicaid Plan of the Future: Sean Lane on Building Circulo on Top of Olive’s AI Platform
31. 1 AprPlaying Poker With the Devil: “Prior Authorizations” are Paralyzing Patients and Burning out Providers
32. 1 AprTHCB Gang Episode 49, Thursday April 1, 1pm PT /4pm ET

March 2021

1. 31 Mar#Healthin2Point00, Episode 196 | Rightway, AKASA, Viz.ai, AppliedVR, & Harmonize
2. 31 MarWe Are the Ever Given
3. 31 MarDigital Therapeutics, Megan & Me!
4. 30 Mar#Healthin2Point00, Episode 195 | Cityblock, Crossover, Redesign Health & Vesta
5. 30 MarMeet Rightway: The Little-Known $1.1B Care Navigator PBM Startup That Just Scored $100M
6. 29 Mar“I Don’t Do Windows” Says the Maid. “I Don’t Do Machines” Says this Doctor – “But I Do Nudge Therapy”
7. 26 MarTHCB Gang Episode 48, Friday March 26
8. 26 MarThe Drive To Standardize Records: Progress or Chaos?
9. 25 Mar#Healthin2Point00, Episode 194 | Ro, Appriss, Everlywell & Ginger
10. 24 MarInside Ginger’s $100M Funding & Plans to Scale Value-Based Digital Mental Health Care
11. 24 MarMaximizing the Long Term Value of Virtual Care
12. 23 Mar#Healthin2Point00, Episode 193 | Evidation, Komodo Health, Bigfoot Biomedical & Glooko
13. 23 MarNanoparticles On My Mind
14. 22 MarThe Art of Clinical Decision Making: Friday Afternoon Dilemmas
15. 18 MarTHCB Gang Episode 47, Thursday March 18
16. 18 Mar#Healthin2Point00, Episode 192 | Happify, 100Plus, Health Recovery Solutions—& Glen Tullman is back
17. 18 MarGlen Tullman’s Return to Digital Health: In-Depth Chat on New CEO Role at Transcarent
18. 17 Mar#Healthin2Point00, Episode 191 | Doctor on Demand & Grand Rounds merge, plus more staggering deals
19. 17 MarOfer Leidner, Happify Health
20. 16 MarRoblox and Healthcare’s Metaverse
21. 15 MarThe Art of Asking: What Else is Going on?
22. 12 Mar#Healthin2Point00, Episode 190 | Forward Health, Cedar, & Babylon
23. 12 MarInside Owlet’s SPAC IPO: From Smart Sock Baby Monitor to Data-Driven Pediatric Healthcare Co
24. 11 MarTHCB Gang Episode 46, Thursday March 11
25. 10 MarThe Art of Listening: When the Inner Voice Whispers
26. 9 Mar#Healthin2Point00, Episode 189 | DispatchHealth, TytoCare and Highmark Health
27. 9 MarYour Health Data May Be a NFT
28. 9 MarKelsey Mellard, CEO Sitka
29. 8 MarPandemic Accelerants: Life Under the “New-Normal.”
30. 5 MarCorrelative Adventures with COVID
31. 4 MarA Plan to Conquer U.S. Drug Shortages
32. 4 MarTHCB Gang Episode 45, Thursday March 4, 1pm PT – 4pm ET
33. 3 MarWanna Buy Some Bitcoin
34. 2 MarModerna’s “Secret Sauce”
35. 2 Mar#Healthin2Point00, Episode 188 | MDLive, Devoted Health, Medisafe, January AI
36. 1 MarCan You Trust Digital Health Firms To Trust You?

February 2021

1. 26 FebThe Paradigm Shift That Wasn’t: The ISCHEMIA Trial
2. 25 FebBuoy Health Wins Over Three Health Plans, Turns Symptom Checking into Patient Decision-Making
3. 25 Feb#Healthin2Point00, Episode 187 | Redox, Nanit, Innovacer & MindMed
4. 25 FebWiping the Sleep From Our Eyes: The Pandemic Plan Trump Ignored
5. 25 FebTHCB Gang Episode 44, Thursday Feb 25, 1pm PT – 4pm ET
6. 24 FebAmwell’s CEO Roy Schoenberg on Telehealth as “Healthcare Infrastructure”
7. 24 FebPost Pandemic Re-Entry
8. 23 Feb#Healthin2Point00, Episode 186 | Bad jokes about Circulo, Eden Health, Carevive & Loyal
9. 23 FebDriverless Cars or Keyboardless EMRs? Which Do We Need Most?
10. 22 FebSaints, Sinners, & the Spirituality of the SPAC Church | Politics, Policy, Power
11. 19 Feb1896 – The Birth of Radiology
12. 18 Feb#Healthin2Point00, Episode 185 | Modern Health, Owlet, & Mymee
13. 18 FebTHCB Gang Episode 43, Thursday Feb 18, 1pm PT – 4pm ET
14. 17 FebThe Habit Change Provider? Newtopia & the Case for a New Category of Healthcare Provider
15. 17 FebHealth Care Needs Its Mary Barra
16. 16 FebModern Health’s CEO on Becoming Digital Mental Health’s Latest Unicorn
17. 16 Feb#Healthin2Point00, Episode 184 | Zocdoc, RapidSOS, Capital Rx and Equip
18. 16 FebA Stretched Profession: How Much Longer Can Healthcare Workers Hang On
19. 15 FebWhy We Need Good Primary Care Physicians
20. 12 FebModern Day “Victory Gardens” – Planting the Seeds for Covid Vaccination Success
21. 12 FebSignify Health IPO: CEO Kyle Armbrester on $7.1B Market Debut
22. 12 FebPledge to the Participatory Medicine Manifesto!
23. 11 FebTeladoc Health Integration Update: Former Livongo & InTouch Health Execs Weigh-In
24. 11 FebTHCB Gang Episode 42, Thurs 11th
25. 10 FebIf It Ain’t Real Time, It Ain’t Really Real
26. 9 Feb#Healthin2Point00, Episode 183 | Oscar IPO, Plume, Sitka, & Alma
27. 9 FebUpHealth’s Exec Leadership Team on the Digital Health Super-Company’s Plans for Market Growth
28. 9 FebYou Can’t “Elon Musk” Healthcare
29. 8 FebCritical Care Nurse Shortage During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Nurse Anesthesia Students to Bedside
30. 5 FebThe Art of Asking: What’s Your Biggest Fear?
31. 4 FebLocal Doctors Get the “Centers of Excellence” Treatment: Embold Health’s CEO on Data-Driven Quality
32. 4 FebBetter Get Your Quantum Computer
33. 4 FebTHCB Gang Live, Episode 41–Thurs 1pm PT – 4pm ET
34. 3 Feb#Healthin2Point00, Episode 182 | Sidecar Health, Folx, TimelyMD & more
35. 3 FebDavid Medvedeff, CEO Aspen RxHealth, talks about his new model for pharmacists
36. 2 Feb#Healthin2Point00, Episode 181 | SPAC-ing rumors & more deals
37. 2 FebOne-Price, 30-Day Warranty, Payment at Discharge: Carrum Health’s CEO on Changing How We Buy Surgery
38. 1 FebThe Art of Prescribing (Or Not)

January 2021

1. 29 JanThe Art of Explaining: Starting With the Big Idea
2. 28 JanTHCB Gang, Episode 40
3. 28 JanWe’re Ready for Mamala
4. 27 JanMedable’s CEO: Covid19 Vaccine Will Start Big Pharma’s Era of De-Centralized Clinical Trials
5. 27 JanAnd You Thought Health Insurance Was Bad
6. 26 Jan#Healthin2Point00, Episode 180 | Signify Health IPO, OneDrop-Bayer-SCOR Partnership, & more
7. 25 JanThere Are Three Kinds of Primary Care, Not to Be Confused With Each Other
8. 22 JanCatalyst @ Health 2.0 & AFBH Launch Call For COVID-19 Vaccine Scheduling
9. 22 JanWhat If Healthcare Was Like Wikipedia?
10. 21 JanHims & Hers CEO on IPO, Push into Primary Care, Target & More
11. 21 JanRestorative Justice: Don’t Presume “We’re Better Than This”
12. 21 JanTHCB Gang Live Episode 39
13. 20 Jan#Healthin2Point00, Episode 179 | Inauguration Day Edition
14. 20 JanHinge Health’s CEO on $3B Valuation, Stretch Toward 2022 IPO
15. 19 Jan#Healthin2Point00, Episode 178 | Talkspace IPO, Accolade buys 2ndMD & more
16. 19 JanCatalyst @ Health 2.0 & AFBH Launch Call For COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Tracking
17. 19 JanTime To Change Course!
18. 18 JanThis is Not Health Care
19. 15 JanIs there a Julie Yoo fallacy?
20. 14 JanTHCB Gang Live Episode 38
21. 13 JanThe Cost of Free Speech
22. 12 Jan#Healthin2Point00, Episode 177 | The biggest funding year for health tech (& more deals!)
23. 11 JanThe General Public is Meant to be Deceived: The American Food Conspiracy
24. 8 JanDigital Health: Avoiding a Second TechLash!
25. 7 JanRWJF Emergency Response Innovation Challenges: The Winners’ Interviews
26. 7 Jan#Healthin2Point00, Episode 176 | Optum acquires Change & deals for Hinge, Liva, and Metronom
27. 7 JanTHCB Gang, Episode 37, Jan 7
28. 6 JanRWJF Emergency Response Challenges: The Demos!
29. 6 Jan#Healthin2Point00, Episode 175 | Haven, Color, RapidSOS & more
30. 6 JanNo Safe Haven to be Found!
31. 5 JanHealth Care: Don’t Be Evil
32. 4 JanQuality in Healthcare: Cultural Competence, Diagnostic Accuracy or Patronizing Insensitivity?