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In aggregate, employers are the largest payers of health care in the U.S. and subsidize other health insurance markets, yet they are often sidelined from the crucial conversations around health care policy and delivery matters. With another spending surge on [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, employer sponsored health care, health care delivery, health insurance, U.S. health care
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What do telehealth, social determinants of health and preventive care have in common? For better or for worse, all have been thrust into the national spotlight due to the coronavirus pandemic. And they share this attention for good reason, as [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, employer health, health care quality, health insurance, Peggy O’Kane, telehealth, virtual care
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How are companies designing their health and well-being strategies to meet the challenges posed by the ongoing pandemic? What role do health and well-being have as part of overall workforce strategy? Is virtual health here to stay? Business Group on [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health Tags: Brenna Shebel, Business Group on Health, COVID-19, employer health, health insurance, pandemic, well-being
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The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the deep cracks in our health care system. At the same time, the crisis has presented us with the opportunity and imperative to improve health care delivery in the U.S. But what actions can [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, Dr. Kavita Patel, employer health, health care delivery, health insurance, U.S. health care system
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Is it possible for companies to prioritize both profit and social value? Although the traditional view dictates that businesses must trade one for the other, Professor Alex Edmans argues just the opposite: the best way to generate profits is to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, corporate social responsibility, employer health, health insurance, well-being
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What if you could predict the future? Now more than ever, many of us wish we could, especially when it comes to the economy, our work lives, the role of technology and demographic trends. Without a crystal ball, our best [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, COVID-19, employer health, future trends, health insurance, pandemic, Professor Mauro Guillén, workforce trends
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If we’re at war with COVID-19 at a personal and societal level, what’s our best defense? Without a vaccine or herd immunity, how can we improve our odds that the virus leaves us unscathed? The answer may lie in how [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Business Group on Health, Healthcare Tags: Business Group on Health, COVID-19, Dr. Amit Sood, employee well-being, employer health, health insurance, resilience, vaccine
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Emerging technologies bring not just profound opportunities but also vexing ethical dilemmas, involving issues such as privacy, consent, and access.
Today’s guest, Michelle Meyer, is a bioethicist and legal scholar who seeks to bring clarity and structure to this [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: bioengineering, bioethics, biomed, Biomedical, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, ehealth, epatient, epatients, health applications, health apps, health care, health care IT, health data, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health software, health startup, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, kealthcare IT, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, medical science, medical treatment, Medicine, mhealth, Michelle Meyer, precision medicine, tech tonics, Technology, technology and health, telehealth, telemedicine, venture valkyrie, wireless health
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The success of Silicon Valley is often attributed to the ability of the entrepreneurial community to embrace setbacks rather than punishing those who experience them. Celebrating these setbacks has become an art form of it own as a recent NYT [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Geoff Clapp, health care, health innovation, health insurance, health research, health science, health sciences, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, lisa suennen, med tech, Medical Technology, provider, providers, technology and health, translational medicine, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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The gap between the promise and practice of technology has been especially vivid in the area of pharmaceutical clinical trials, where even switching from paper to electronic data capture has proved too radical for some sponsors. Today’s guest, Kara Dennis, [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: big pharma, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, health innovation, health insurance, health research, health sciences, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, Kara Dennis, lisa suennen, med tech, medical care, Medical Technology, Medidata, technology and health, translational medicine, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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One of the most significant challenges faced by the healthcare community is that the biggest companies want to innovate but can’t get out of their own way, while the smallest companies want to have an impact, but can’t get any [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Health, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, healthxl, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, Martin Kelly, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, Research, Technology, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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Tech Tonics started 2015 with a goal of featuring the people and passion at the intersection of technology and health. We had 24 great shows featuring the perspectives of consumers and physicians, technologists and investors and others who represent the [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, doctors, Health, health care, health insurance, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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Writer, editor, entrepreneur, visionary – Thomas Goetz has always combined a sophisticated understanding of emerging technologies with a profound sense of humanism. This was evident in his work at Wired (where he served as executive editor for eleven years), in [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: analog divide, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, doctors, Health, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, information technology, insurance, Iodine, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, Technology, technology and health, Thomas Goetz, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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Matthew Holt has spent 20 years in health care as a researcher, forecaster, and strategist. He learned from some of the best in forecasting, policy and survey organizations, like the Institute for the Future and Harris Interactive. But these days [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, diagnosis, diagnostics, dnanexus, Health, Health 2.0, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, Indu Subaiya, insurance, lisa suennen, Matt Holt, medical care, medical research, Medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn’s mother was named Polly. Polly was diagnosed in 1971 with leukemia treated with the current state of medieval medicine and told she would not live long. But armed with a well-equipped librarian, some cooperative doctors and Adelle Davis’ [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Chief Household Officer, david shaywitz, health economist, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, leukemia, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, tech tonics, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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When John Wilbanks graduated from Tulane with a major in philosophy and almost a minor in French, he had little idea that he would become one of the world’s most important forces for good in the areas of citizen science, [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Bioinformatics, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, health care, health insurance, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, hospitals, information technology, John Wilbanks, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, Research, SAGE, Sage Bionetworks, technology and health, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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In his final year of medical school at Columbia, Bijan Salehizadeh weighed whether to become a cardiothoracic surgeon or pursue what was a very unusual path at the time: a career in entrepreneurship.
Inspired by mentors including Dr. Mehmet Oz [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Bijan Salehizadeh, biopharmaceuticals, david shaywitz, dnanexus, Dr Oz, Health, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, Navidmed, raspberry ketone, tech tonics, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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God help you if you are picked up by ambulance—assuming they can find you easily, they don’t know anything about you, can’t get your medical record, can’t effectively pre-communicate to the hospital what you will need, can’t document your data [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Beyond Lucid Technologies, david shaywitz, diagnosis, diagnostics, dnanexus, first responders, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, Jonathon Feit, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, tech tonics, Technology, technology and health, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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UCSF professor Bob Wachter has had a front row view to the collision of irresistible emerging technology with an immovable healthcare system, and has managed to navigate this interface with unusual nuance and grace, a story he shares in the [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Bob Wachter, david shaywitz, diagnosis, diagnostics, Digital Doctor, dnanexus, doctors, health care, health insurance, health science, health-it, Healthcare, information technology, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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After his second series of medical school rejections, biomedical engineer David Goodman found his way to a nascent medical device company seeking to develop an easy way to measure oxygen levels in the blood. The result – the Nellcor pulse [See the full post…] |
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Sean Duffy was one of those kids building monumental Lego edifices when his friends were playing outside. He continued to progress on the building front until he hit on his latest endeavor, the establishment of Omada Health, a company [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, diagnosis, diagnostics, dnanexus, Health, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, IDEO, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, Omada Health, Sean Duffy, tech tonics, technology and health, Type 2 diabetes, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: 23andme, Big Data, Curious inc, david shaywitz, dnanexus, genetics, genetics service, genomics, Health, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, Linda Avey, lisa suennen, medical research, Research, tech tonics, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie, We Are Curious
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As a child growing up in Ethiopia, John de Souza witnessed the grim reality of poverty — families wishing for rapid death for their sick children because a cure was out of reach socially and financially. Fast forward a number [See the full post…] |
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