Fair point
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“So far AI in health care is being used to drive existing profits on workflows and increase revenue per event that patients in the end have to pay for. That’s not a win for anyone long term!” @includedhealth.bsky.social CEO Owen Tripp on the future use of AI thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/09...
Always knew Vinny Prasad was a fool. Didn't realize he was a coward too. YouTube & Alphabet don't exactly cover themselves in glory too www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
On a day when RFK Jr is destroying the CDC, here's a practical suggestion from Gregory Hopson as to how he might get himself and us out of this mess thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
@kimbbellard.bsky.social is very distressed about the state of politics and has decided the answer is to write a really stern letter! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
Jason Hines drops the other shoe on pricing & compares a big OBGYN clinic with its rivals. For one procedure it's getting 3 x the actual payment from the same plan that a competitor gets. You almost might end up sympathizing with @UHC after you read this! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
How much power do providers have vs plan in different markets? Jason Hines from Gigasheet has a very interesting look at the shenanigans between @UHC & a big OBGYN provider in the mid-Atlantic called @CapitalWomens Care. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
Today THCB is featuring a new author, Chinelo Grace Chigozie, who has concluded that transparency laws in the US aren't worth much without regulatory teeth thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
They are back! More on the Unified Health Data Platform and which systems should buy what from whom. Neil P. Jennings & Vince Kuraitis dive into the details in their ongoing series thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
My local classic rock station precedes that ad with a message saying that they do not agree with it in very strong terms
The week after ChatGPT5 came out is as good a time as any for @kimbbellard.bsky.social to be both optimistic and very worried about the the societal and economic impacts of AI thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
Noem shooting the puppies...
Ami Parekh is the Chief Health Officer & Ankoor Shah is VP, Clinical Excellence at @includedhealth.bsky.social. I had a long conversation with them about the philosophy of how we are doing population health and how we fix the system that we have today. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
Nearly 50 years on from its introduction Michael Millenson isn't too impressed with what passes for shared decision making. Will AI improve the patient experience? thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
I assume there's a needed drug you're not taking enough of. Probably whisky
Ha! @boltyboy.bsky.social joins Emily Peters to help her prep for her upcoming book Money Remaking Medicine. The whole thing got into HMOs, health costs, drug prices, et al. Dawn Ellison played host at the Healthcare Reinvention Collaborative. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/08...
All completely normal...
If you care about AI and care about patient care you MUST see this demo of CureWise from OG digital health guy Steve Brown. He's building a multi-LLM multi-AI Doctor expert system to analyze first his, and then others' cancer data. Fascinating stuff thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07...
While you have been worrying about whether you drank 8 glasses of water today, @kimbbellard.bsky.social has also been worrying & he is much more worried than you are. Cities are running out of water, cities are sinking, and we are running out of renewable water thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07...
Today Sword Health is releasing a new product doing back office admin. That's totally different from their MSK and mental health treatment lines. And it's not mentioned by their CEO Virgílio (“V”) Bento in this interview. But pricing & valuation is! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07...
Apparently Gen Z is now reduced to staring at us old boomers who don't know what is going on in the world. @kimbbellard.bsky.social thinks that they should be staring at the health care system the same way! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07...
God bless South Park
Today Owen Tripp is on The Health Care Blog wondering why "The entity that can deliver the healthcare AI experience people deserve likely doesn’t exist quite yet." So what does it need to do and who is going to do it? thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07...
It's time to figure out that's going to happen when we combine facial recognition technology, AI, gait (walking) analysis and spying. A whole lot. Jensen Huang is talking about it and Mike Magee is worried thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07...
A just excellent assessment of what's really going on in immigration in the US, and how the Republicans have blocked solving this issue for ever heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-14-2025
The most pathetic narcissistic thing he has ever done was refuse to get out of the way of the Chelsea team today when he gave them the cup. Why did he deserve to celebrate with them??
Are we sure this is from the Eye and not a photocopy of the Daily Mail?
You've probably been worried that The Health Care Blog's worrier in chief @kimbbellard.bsky.social hasn't been worried enough lately. But don't worry, he is back with a lot of concerns thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07...
Ha. Never seen that but I went to the game. 1st Brazilian goal was offside by the laws then (but wouldn't be now)....terrible refereeing. Bergkamp's goal was brilliant & a fun time had by all
The tragedy of the Texas floods reminds Mike Magee of an inconvenient truth thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07...
At a doctor’s office — with no warrants, masked, no ID 😳 What are we doing? 🇺🇸
Reminder that Elon is still suing Media Matters in like 15 different venues for reporting that Nazi content even appears on Twitter. Now the bot that’s trained on the site’s tweets sounds like Rappin’ Goebbels.
The @sfgiants.com win on an inside the park walk off homer that cannons off the top of the brick wall in right field
Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov, @mayor.lacity.gov we need clear information from state and local authorities on what our rights are when confronted by masked unID ed agents who are now disappearing, neighbors, co-workers and family members. Please have comms post on all platforms.
We can name one easy
Presumably wifey cut him off and he needs the cash
I remember voting in every primary. More Democrats voted for the other guy/gal
Great story teller. His book "Crazy from the Heat" is both nuts and compelling reading
Not the least of which is Thiel is a verified tad cheat
Did you know that Medicaid health plans are not really allowed to send a text to their members? Do you think that will make it easier if all of a sudden those members have to report their work status? Abner Mason has you covered on the topic thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06...
Apparently telling the truth gets you fired from @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
Then they'll all be happy to be fired when the agency is shut down
The question is how long will the market put up with Omada losing money
Trump ain’t trying to stop violence. He’s trying to create it. Hold fast, Los Angeles!
Every so often I start feeling respect for Djokovic then I see something like this
Well we didn't get blown up and we did get a great movie out of it....must rewatch War Games Of course the Russians had a similar issue www.reddit.com/r/interestin...
According to Rep. Jimmy Gomez, ICE has had to stand up tends next to the federal building and is forcing people to sleep outside. Inside the building, lights go off at 5:00PM, leaving families alone in the DARK, where they've had to wait for over 12 hours to get food or WATER.
Throwing them out of helicopters is next. ICE would love to do that
The conversation about PSA testing and prostate cancer that's exploded with Joe Biden's diagnosis and screening or lack of it won't die down Kelli Deeter comes at this from being an NP, and reminds us that patient choice is important thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06...
You should start an On Line Course :..How To Be A Gentleman.. btw..did ya catch this one? They even got you in it.
Wait... is this the best meme ever made?
The fight between Musk and Trump is fundamentally all about people losing their healthcare. If you don’t know how to capitalize on that and you keep insisting it’s all a distraction you need to find another line of work.
Ok but it's cold!
I told you that the foreshadowing this season was lazy and forced.
How is the NIH like a Crawfish restaurant in New Orleans? Gregory Hopson thinks that if you take away the ambience and fire the wait staff, the customer ambience may not be so great.... thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06...
How is the NIH like a Crawfish restaurant in New Orleans? Gregory Hopson thinks that if you take away the ambience and fire the wait staff, the customer ambience may not be so great.... thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06...
Today Included Health 's CEO Owen Tripp talks with @boltyboy.bsky.social about the company's all in one personalized healthcare. Underlying all this is a data integration and analytics platform that's now being used by some of the biggest employers thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06...
Insurance co's have been dropping coverage all over the Gulf Coast for the past several years and millions are either relying on scam companies, near bankrupt state gov. insurers or just forgoing coverage. There are wealthy people in FL that can eat the loss, but a hurricane will ruin LA, MS or AL.
If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he *lost* money.
Want to learn about the new blood sensors, CAR-T, and diagnostic floss? @kimbbellard.bsky.social has you covered thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06...
This.👇
Surely RFK Jr knows more about pregnancy than @acog.org!
Apparently AI is merely a tool for product development and its use has to be rooted in practicality. Michael Millenson attempts to defuse the hype thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/05...
oh hey look who's back www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
DOGE is not unstoppable. The courts stand in the breach.
Reminds me of when I took my 8 yr old boy to see the Top Gun sequel and he asked me why all that talking was interrupting the flying
If you haven't been poor don't legislate for the poor
“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12
Ok I started listening. I lasted 45 seconds after the "singing" started. I mean a bunch of geniuses invented AI and it gets used for this?
Will likely end up in the list of heroic failures!
Excellent new piece by @boltyboy.bsky.social trying heroically to make sense of the storm of activity in AI & health: thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/05... . Might also have also added the agentic AI-for-orchestration stuff that Microsoft has recently highlighted, and others are working on as well.
Well however he says his name he got Altman to pay him $100m per employee which is friggin nutso, and one of the greatest tech sales of all time
Ok but "Jony" should be pronounced as if it rhymes with "Tony"
That too. Well spotted
I just want to know why Johnny spells his name wrong
Understanding who is going to provide what AI to health systems is very confusing. Or at least @boltyboy.bsky.social is pretty confused. He lays out the landscape of AI in a world of LLMs, EHRs that use AI, point solutions, internally built products and more. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/05...
Sidecar Health is an insurer that has created a visible pricing market for its employer and employee clients. CEO Patrick Quigley took me through the idea and the demo of the process. Def one to watch thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/05...
He's petrified about most things but today @kimbbellard.bsky.social has been looking into some of the cooler things coming out of the labs. Biomarkers via selfies and in vivo 3d printing. They qualify all right! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/05...
The longevity movement with its metrics and dashboards is having a moment. David Shaywitz has done a deep dive and he thinks we need to do more than just track metrics, but to think about a wider vision of health thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/05...
The Medicare Advantage Stars system matters massively for the finances of MA plans but doesn't do much for the actual quality and outcomes of those plans. New @THCBstaff contributor Emmanuel Animashaun, MD has some solid ideas on how to reform it thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/05...
This Medicaid cut issue is getting more and more serious. Linda Riddell & Thomas Wilson weigh in today to remind us all of that the likely impact on hospitals and poor people will be. The answer is not good for them and bad for the rest of us thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/05...
Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know
And yet somehow the most extremist Republicans have been winning elections and getting more and more extreme since 1980
There's no way around it. The vandalism from DOGE and now HHS impacting the NIH is just really bad and may lead to the end of America's leadership in science. @kimbbellard.bsky.social thinks it is an apocalypse. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/05...
So what the hell happened to United Health Group earlier this month? Should we be buying the dip? Jeff Charles Goldsmith is on THCB with his analysis and he thinks that the 40 year party is coming to a sticky end. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/04...
Wonderful piece from Dr Mike Magee where he manages to connect Pope Francis's life, the Skadden law firm bending the knee to Trump, Project 2025 and Aton Scalia being a liberal hero! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/04...
OMG and the name Peter Thiel emerges early in their wiki....
Is that a cosplay lesbian couple? Serious question!
So I dug into Roon -- the company that is trying to give expert doctor opinions in bite sized pieces. Great demo and conversation with Vikram Bhaskaran & Rohan Ramakrishna MD. Can this tailored approach work in a world of instant AI content? thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/04...
Well they were $100 a dozen under Biden. Did you forget?
Convenient excuse. It's almost as if they really were going to work soon!
I mean it's not as if they both have authoritarian leaders and nuclear weapons or anything...oh wait
Quite often @kimbbellard.bsky.social is worried. Fair to say that he is really worried now. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/04...
What a moron. If the price of a dozen eggs was $10, apparently it's now 70 cents
I dunno -- not sure that was $400k well spent by Putin
Today THCB has a fabulous post about being a parent and being the partner of a parent while undergoing the torture that is medical residency. Emily Johnson lays out how impossible it is and wonders where the options for fixing it might come from thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/04...
I wish more people had listened to @gregpalast.bsky.social: www.gregpalast.com/i-was-on-the...
Bump
So the Trump administration are saying that unless Europe accepts their plan to help Russia they'll...help Russia. If you're trying to get people to do what you want, it generally helps if your carrot is different from your stick.
