Last month, Planned Parenthood Great Plains opened its newest clinic in Pittsburg, Kan., a city of about 21,000 people mere minutes from the borders of both Missouri and Oklahoma. It’s the second new clinic the regional affiliate has opened in Kansas in a little over two years, to accommodate the growing number of patients coming…
Truth is, there are hugely positive tailwinds at our back. But the way we’ve been thinking about the problem is holding us back from solving it. Here’s why. The post Dear Mr. Buffett: Healthcare Isn’t Hopeless appeared first on MedCity News.
Sue Sheridan’s baby boy, Cal, suffered brain damage from undetected jaundice in 1995. Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. On April 1, the…
Kent Dicks, CEO, and Kendall Paulsen, Telehealth Solutions lead, at Life 365 showed me their comprehensive set of tools and services for remote patient monitoring, or what I call the “continuous clinic”. Kent did this with MedApps, later acquired by Alere. But at Life 365 he’s building a new approach to getting the tools and…
We need apps that have been tested with real users to ensure they are intuitive and easy to use. The apps also need to be designed to be inclusive of different needs including patients with disabilities, different levels of tech literacy, and diverse needs. The post Building Patient Trust in Digital Health Software appeared first…
Andy Crowder, chief digital officer at Advocate Health, detailed five benefits his health system is experiencing as a result of being bullish on AI — including better staff retention, clinical improvements and cost savings. The post How AI Is Paying Off: 5 Wins at Advocate Health appeared first on MedCity News.
Worried that President-elect Donald Trump will curtail federal efforts to take on the nation’s medical debt problem, patient and consumer advocates are looking to states to help people who can’t afford their medical bills or pay down their debts. “The election simply shifts our focus,” said Eva Stahl, who oversees public policy at Undue Medical…
Ian Morrison died yesterday. 5 years ago in one of the early THCB Gang’s, we had a rash of late cancellations. So I talked to Ian solo about his journey, and his views about health care. I re-listened to it this morning and thought you might enjoy it
By GEORGE HALVORSON I have been railing against the Electoral College (and the Senate) as anti-democratic forever, and no one much cares. Turns out George Halvorson noticed–Matthew Holt We all need to remember that Joe Biden got 11,110,258 California votes in the last election and we need to know and remember that Donald Trump got…
In a sit-down interview at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference, Allen talked about a tool built by a company backed by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz. The post One Healthcare AI Application that Intrigues Intermountain Health’s CEO appeared first on MedCity News.