The Health Care Blog

Because of the holiday in the US this weeks #THCBGang video/podcast is happening today Tuesday at 1pm PT 4pm ET rather than the regular Thursday slot. Joining Matthew Holt are THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard, medical historian Mike Magee; and a new guest from Marsh McLennan, Employee Benefits Consultant Ryan Koo. https://lnkd.in/guggYz9v

The 2010 San Francisco Giants won the world series while being known as a Band of Misfits. The people Trump wants to run health care in his next administration seem similarly unlikely to succeed. Is there any chance they will? Kim Bellard hopes they "stick to the science" https://lnkd.in/gJWVPQnv

Mike Magee is remembering the inventor of the first widespread computer language BASIC who died this week. Here's the story of Thomas Kurtz https://lnkd.in/gSdEYfy4

Tatiana Fofanova, Ph.D. is the CEO of Koda Health. She is dealing with one of the most difficult parts of health care. How do you get patients wishes in the case of end of life or other critical illness made in advance and delivered to medical professionals? Koda Health has not only figured out how to get this option to patients but also include the responses into Epic and other EMRs so that clinicians can see advanced directives and much more. She gave Matthew Holt full demonstration of what is a very important and necessary tool. https://lnkd.in/ga-P7unb

Joining Matthew Holt on #THCBGang on Thursday November 21 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are Vince Kuraitis; Jean-Luc Neptune, MD MBA, Steven Wardell & longtime startup and corporate digital health exec Adam Kaufman. Should be a fun one https://lnkd.in/gFKFzHs3

Steve Zecola is not impressed with how the health care system is run and regulated, and has a boatload of ideas how to fix it. Specifically he wants a lot more formal patient led advisory boards to work at HHS https://lnkd.in/gy82BUsW

This is part 3 of Seth Joseph’s series about Epic that has generated much interest and a little controversy and we are happy to host it on THCB.?Part 1?and?Part 2?were published on Forbes earlier this year https://lnkd.in/gm9hMPmw

It took Matthew Holt a while to write up the election and what is likely to happen in health care under Trump. His answer is, not too much--in health care at least! https://lnkd.in/g8qZVv96

Great article from Tamara Manns about her experience with the support for those suffering post-partum mental health issues following miscarriage. There isn't any and that's a problem https://lnkd.in/g42vCAuM

Today I'm having a special #THCBGang with no gang, just Robert Pearl, M.D. giving his thoughts on the future of AI and we'll chat about the election and the future of health care too. His book is called "ChatGPT-MD". At 1pm PT 4pm ET and the podcast is out tomorrow https://lnkd.in/grgkGPwy