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THCB Gang Jan 13, 2022 Today at 1pm PT 4pm on #THCBGang I’ll host the double trouble of vaunted futurists Ian Morrison (@seccurve) & Jeff Goldsmith, and  medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee) for an hour of conversation and banter about the health care system, the world in ...

Health Tech Jan 13, 2022 By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Insight on what’s ahead for the future of clinical research, real-world evidence, and personalized healthcare from none other than former FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner and current President of Verily Life Sciences’ Clinical ...

Health Tech Jan 12, 2022 What’s this? A new show? Sort of: Health in 2 Point 00 is now called Health Tech Deals! In our first episode, Jess and I reminisce a bit on our previous 247 episodes, and talk about new huge deals in health tech: Transcarent raises $200 million, bringing their ...

By KIM BELLARD An essay in Aeon had me at the title: The Waste Age.  The title was so evocative of the world we live in that I almost didn’t need to read further, but I’m glad I did, and I encourage you to do the same.  Because if we don’t learn to deal with waste – and, as the author ...

By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Transcarent raises a whopping $200 million Series C funding round that values the year-ish old business at over $1.6 billion – valuing the up-start higher than quasi-competitor, Accolade, which is sitting on the NASDAQ with a $1.3 billion dollar market cap. ...

By GEORGE HALVORSON Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. He wrote a piece in Health Affairs last week arguing with the stance of Medicare Advantage of Don ...

Health in 2 Point 00 Jan 7, 2022 It’s the very last episode of Health in Two Point 00! (We’re not going away just changing the name next week). Six deals in 2 minutes! Embold Health gets $20m; Brainomix gets $21m; $25m for Zing Health; Quartet buys Innova Tel; Prolucent Health gets $11m; ...

THCB Gang Jan 6, 2022 After our Christmas break THCB Gang is back! Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang at 1pm PT 4pm ET Thursday for an hour of topical and sometime combative conversation on what’s happening in health care and beyond will be THCB regular writer Kim Bellard ...

Uncategorized Jan 6, 2022 Nate Maslak, CEO of Ribbon Health talked with me late last year (2021) after his $40m round from General Catalyst and Andreesen Horowitz. We dug into the really thorny problem of information about physicians. This has so many facets and ramifications but most ...

Health in 2 Point 00 Jan 5, 2022 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Let’s break Jess’s New Year’s Resolutions a tiny bit and look at some 2021 healthcare deal holdovers. Healthcare.com raises $180 million, bringing their total to $212 million; Found raises $100 million, bringing their total to 132 million; ...

By MATTHEW HOLT I went for an annual physical with my doctor at One Medical in December. OK it wasn’t actually annual as the last time I went was 2 & 1/2 years ago, but it was covered under the ACA, and my doc Andrew Diamond was bugging me because I’m old & fat. So in I went. I ...

By KIM BELLARD Happy New Year!  We’re starting 2022 full of hope and renewed optimism. Oh, wait; not so much. We’re not only still in a pandemic, the Omicron variant is the most infectious one yet.  Daily cases are setting new records. Our hospitals are full again. Our beleaguered ...