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The referral process is very confusing in health care. But primary care organizations and plans are supposed to be helping out. Do they? @boltyboy got a couple of referrals and tried to figure them out using the @onemedical and @BlueShieldCA websites thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06/3…
Today @owentripp is on @thcbstaff 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/2025/07/2…
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 @drmikemagee is worried thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07/1…
Can we separate the way we pay for long term chronic disease from the way we fund the rest of health care? Jeremy Shane thinks that we need to and has a explanation as to why. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07/1…
Mike Magee thinks that he has found the real Tricorder thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07/1…
You've probably been worried that @THCBstaff's worrier in chief Kim Bellard hasn't been worried enough lately. But don't worry, he is back with a lot of concerns thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07/1…
Today @boltyboy reveals the fun and games of home testing using the @ReperioHealth kit. Can an at-home lab kit be the catalyst for getting Americans into the health care system? And what is the experience really like? thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07/0…
The tragedy of the Texas floods reminds Mike Magee of an inconvenient truth thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07/0…
Back on The Health Care Blog is Trevor van Mierlo (@trevorvm) who thinks that digital health is still in its patchwork, bespoke pre-Model T Ford phase. To break into mass production and scale up it needs standardization, distribution, and access. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07/0…
Apparently Kim Bellard is made of DNA and therefore feels he has to explain advances in it to the rest of you. If you are also made of DNA you may want to pay attention as there are interesting developments afoot! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/07/0…
Not for the first time Kim Bellard is warning everyone about the terrible dangers of microplastics. It's almost like no one paid attention to him the other times he wrote about it! thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06/2…
Great for @boltyboy to nerd out on physician data with Ariel Katz from H1 thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06/2…
Marc-David Munk is not impressed with the state of health care "our societal healthcare money has, simply, been diverted, tapped out....there is only a trickle left to deliver anything but the most miserly front-line care." thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06/1…
Health systems are slowly migrating toward Unified Digital Health Platforms (UDHPs) — a “platform of platforms.” @VinceKuraitis & Neil Jennings write about what the response of the mainstream EMRs (Epic & Oracle Health) will be. thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06/1…
Healthcare's impossible choice: scale care OR make it empathetic. Sage breaks this tradeoff with emotionally intelligent AI trained on millions of patient conversations. $45M in funding from @salesforce @khoslaventures @CVSHealth validates the future of empathetic AI. @WSJ…
If you are deep into AI (or even if you're not) perhaps you should know why Anthropic's Claude is called Claude @drmikemagee has the story on @THCBstaff today, and it's a fascinating tale thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06/1…
Can AI and grief-bots help with those mourning loss? Melissa Lunardini from Help Texts thinks that they have great promise thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06/1…
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/2025/06/0…
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/2025/06/0…
Does anyone out there really believe that adding "work requirements" to Medicaid is anything other than simple cruelty to people who already have basically nothing? Well let Kim Bellard explain it to you thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/06/0…