Particle Health, Complete Patient Records & ‘The Business’ of the Information Blocking Rule
By JESSICA DAMASSA Particle Health’s CEO Troy Bannister stops by to not only talk about the API platform company’s $25M Series B, but to also […]
By JESSICA DAMASSA Particle Health’s CEO Troy Bannister stops by to not only talk about the API platform company’s $25M Series B, but to also […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Just FIVE MONTHS after launch, rural health startup Homeward is proving its potential for growth with MORE funding – today […]
By ANISH KOKA It’s been a while but Anish Koka, a one time regular writer on THCB and occasional THCB Gang member, is back publishing […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Mental health digital therapeutics startup Happify Health has spent the past 5 years quietly ‘self-actualizing’ into a brand-new, tech platform […]
I was at the AHIP conference in Vegas late last month and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quick bite […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH In the ‘point solution versus platform’ debate, mark another score for integration as Vida Health jumps into the musculoskeletal (MSK) […]
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Butterfly Network (NYSE: $BFLY) is working to make its pocket-sized, smartphone-directed ultrasound as “ubiquitous as the stethoscope” – hoping to […]
BY KIM BELLARD My heart says I should write about Uvalde, but my head says, not yet; there are others more able to do that. […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Otsuka Pharmaceuticals is expanding its mental health formulary – looking beyond traditional medications to psychedelics, and to the “intersection of […]
Will Boeglin is CEO of TimeDoc Health. It’s one of a new breed of companies supplying the capability for physician groups and health systems (including […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH What does digital transformation look like at a global healthcare giant like Pfizer? Lidia Fonseca, Pfizer’s Chief Digital & Technology […]
BY KIM BELLARD I can’t believe I somehow missed when OpenAI introduced DALL-E in January 2021 – a neural network that could “generate images from […]
I was at the VIVE conference in Miami last week and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quickbite interviews — […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Two of the most notable payer venture funds, Optum Ventures and Cigna Ventures, just headed up a $30 million dollar […]
I was at the VIVE conference in Miami last week and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quickbite interviews — […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Turns out, the Clarify Health Solutions story is about a lot more than data and analytics these days. Value-based payments? […]
I was at the VIVE conference in Miami last week and caught up with a number of CEOs & execs for some quickbite interviews — […]
New Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) regulations promote innovation, interoperability and the free flow of data. Americans have demanded more transparency in healthcare for decades, […]
European venture firm Korelya Capital led the funding round, Synapse’s third in as many years, bringing the total amount the startup has raised to $40 […]
Aledade is the “build an ACO out of small independent primary care practices” company. It was founded by former ONC Director Farzad Mostashari and has […]
By MIKE MAGEE Yale historian, Frank M. Snowden wisely notes in his 2020 book, “Epidemics and Society”, that “We must avoid the pitfall of believing […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Komodo Health has been catching lots of buzz lately thanks to a recently announced partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s […]
By JEFF GOLDSMITH These are grim days for innovative healthcare companies. The health tech and care innovation firms mature enough to make it to public […]
Funding for 2021 was up 150% from the previous record of $3.6 billion raised in 2020, according to the 2022 New York Healthcare Innovation Report. […]
The haul brings League’s total funding to more than $205 million. The Series C funding round was led by TDM Growth Partners with Workday Ventures […]
The series A funding round was led by General Catalyst, with Human Capital, W Health Ventures, Redesign Health and 7wireVentures also contributing. The latest fundraising […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Wheel’s CEO Michelle Davey says the white-label virtual care startup’s $150M Series C – led by notable health tech mega-funders […]
Infermedica is a company that started by creating symptom checking and chatbot functionality in Poland back in 2012. It’s spread to delivering that patient-facing diagnosis […]
Summus Global is company with a very interesting model that gives a glimpse about the future of virtual care. It delivers online specialty care and […]
OSF HealthCare has made 26 direct investments to date in addition to investing in three healthcare-focused venture funds. The latest venture fund is the largest […]
Binah.ia has made its contactless, video-based blood pressure measurement technology commercially available to businesses.
By HENRY MAHNCKE More than one in four senior citizens fall each year, making it the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries in […]
By KIM BELLARD It has been said that if your company has a Chief Innovation Officer or an Innovation Department, it’s probably not a very […]
By KIM BELLARD Shira Ovide, who writes the On Tech newsletter for The New York Times, had a thoughtful column last week: Tech Can’t Fix […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH The same day Walgreens announced its $5.2B investment in VillageMD to snag a majority stake in the growing primary care […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Forget being pigeon-holed as a “femtech” company! VERY early-stage women’s health startup, Pollie, is taking an integrated care approach to […]
By KIM BELLARD Six hundred years ago, Swiss physician/scientist/philosopher Paracelsus disclaimed: “Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art.” Medicine, most people […]
By MIKE MAGEE This week’s Tom Friedman Opinion piece in the New York Times contained a title impossible to ignore: “China’s Bullying Is Becoming a Danger […]
By KIM BELLARD Maybe you, like me, are an Olympics fan (in my case: Summer Games, track & field). Most Americans look forward eagerly to […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, the word is SHEDLOAD. On Episode 235, Jess and I talk about the scoop on an M&A and […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are at UCSF – we’ll be providing color commentary for the UCSF Health Awards, so […]
By KIM BELLARD You know we’re living in the 21st century when people are 3D printing chicken and cooking it with lasers. They had me […]
It’s Telehealth Awareness Week! Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we cover Pager raising $70 million, bringing their total to $132.6 million. German-based company […]
It’s been quite a while since Jess & I did a Health in 2 Point 00 and that one was buried in our Policies|Techies|VCs conference […]
by MIKE MAGEE dystopian [disˈtōpēən] ADJECTIVE 1. relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice. NOUN 1. […]
It’s M&A day here on Health in 2 Point 00! On Episode 229, Jess and I chat about the big news that Headspace and Ginger […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH The thinking behind the merger-of-equals between on-demand mental health company, Ginger, and mindfulness and meditation company, Headspace, is revealed in […]
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably last year with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All […]
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably last year with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All […]
By HANS DUVEFELT IT GUY: Hey, Doc, don’t make up workarounds, use the EHR the way it was designed. DOCTOR: Listen, your whole EHR is […]
SPONSORED POST In this interview Sophie Park, Chief Strategist at Bayer G4A, talks about the pandemic’s effect on the digital health landscape, digital health’s promise […]
By KIM BELLARD Within a mile from my home in one direction, there are two pharmacies and a primary care office. In another direction, there’s […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH From Bill Gates to Goldie Hawn, Dr. Fauci and Rochelle Walensky to Astronaut Scott Kelly, and magician Penn Jillette to […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we have more deals for you! First up, DomaniRx: Anthem, Humana, and a software company SS&C are teaming […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH According to the team at YourCoach.Health, health coaching is “the ‘glue’ that’s connecting the $4-trillion wellness economy with the $8-trillion […]
By KIM BELLARD I really wasn’t expecting to write about the Metaverse again so soon, after discussing it in the context of Roblox last March, […]
Today on THCB Spotlight, Matthew sits down with Marta Zanchi, who is the founder and Managing Partner at Nina Capital. Nina Capital is a micro […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH SonderMind closes a $150M Series C funding round co-led by Drive Capital and Premji Invest, and we get CEO Mark […]
By KIM BELLARD Jack Dorsey has some big hopes for bitcoin. In a webinar last week, he said: “My hope is that it creates world […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I chat about the staggering medical debt in this country before diving into some more health […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH The “platform-ization” of chronic condition care continues among digital health companies and Nasdaq-traded Dario Health ($DRIO) has acquired TWO different […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess has finally reclaimed her Twitter account! On Episode 223, Jess asks me about Carbon Health raising $350 […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital mental health unicorn Ginger has just launched ‘Ginger for Teens’ in an effort to help the 1-in-5 teens currently […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I cover Availity raising $50 million bringing their total to $200 million and a valuation at […]
By KIM BELLARD When I think of elevator operators, I think of health care. Now, it’s not likely that many people think about elevator operators […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Privia Health ($PRVA) went public a few weeks ago and the stock not only popped when it hit the market, […]
For community cancer centers that rely on patient reimbursement to stay afloat, a smart data-driven approach to clinical trials provides a foundation for future growth. […]
By KIM BELLARD I learned a new word this week: bioresorbable. It means pretty much what you might infer — materials that can be broken […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Sharecare ($SHCR) starts trading on the NASDAQ tomorrow and CEO Jeff Arnold has come back to catch us up on […]
By MATTHEW HOLT I recently interviewed Subha Airan-Javia, the CEO of CareAlign. CareAlign is a small company that is working to fix the clinician workflow […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess claims that I am to blame! But for what?? On Episode 219, Jess and I talk about […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH For those keeping score at home, Glen Tullman is scaling up Transcarent faster than he did Livongo. The startup just […]
On Episode 218 of Health in 2 Point 00, it’s a big week in digital health for IPOs. Today Jess asks me about Bicycle Health’s […]
By MIKE MAGEE What will be the lasting impact of the Covid 19 pandemic? We still don’t know the answer to that question in full. […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “We have to look at telehealth as an operating system.” Amwell ($AMWL) President & CEO Roy Schoenberg has a way […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Jonathan Bush has “More Disruption Please-d” himself and is back at it with a new company, Zus (get it…like the […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is trying to replace me with the other Matthew Holt. But on Episode 216, I am still […]
Amazon Cares already has customers, Clover has become a meme stock, Transcarent has got a Series B that they closed already, and OneDrop has hit […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Another virtual care company hits the New York Stock Exchange as UpHealth ($UPH) emerges from the combined merger of UpHealth […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess pokes fun at me because my primary care provider has acquired a Medicare provider – One Medical […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we’re talking about our new conference in September: Policies, Techies, & VCs: What’s Next for Health Care. On […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess gives us a little tour of Chicago before we dive into some deals. Noom raises $540 million, […]
Geoffrey Parker Edward G. Anderson Vince Kuraitis By VINCE KURAITIS, EDWARD G. ANDERSON, and GEOFFREY PARKER The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated calls for the development […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH The Teladoc Health-Livongo merger continues to expand Teladoc Health’s virtual care capabilities — this time in mental health. Dr. Julia […]
By KIM BELLARD Google is getting much (deserved) publicity for its Project Starline, announced at last week’s I/O conference. Project Starline is a new 3D […]
An email interview with the Co-CEO’s of Evidation Health Over the last few weeks I’ve been conducting a back & forth email interview with Christine […]
Seth Joseph Vince Kuraitis By VINCE KURAITIS and SETH JOSEPH Let’s start with a pop quiz. Take 15 seconds to look at the list below, […]
DrFirst, which provides an array of services including telehealth and e-prescribing, received a $50 million equity investment from Sixth Street Growth. The company plans to […]
Tuesday, May 11th at 2pm ET/11am PT — RSVP here Back in November of last year, Catalyst @ Health 2.0, supported by professional services firm […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, I am over the moon excited about Chelsea’s Champion’s League semi-final win. But on Episode 204, we have […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It’s another mega-round for a digital health chronic condition management startup, as Vida Health closes its $110M Series D – […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess hardly knows the value of $100 million anymore – is it a salary, is it an entire […]
By KIM BELLARD Raise your hand if you had to go through the Hunger Games labyrinth to score a COVID-19 vaccine earlier this year – […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Cigna is making digital mental health services available to its entire nationwide network of 14 million members, and it’s selected […]
On Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I talk about TDOC earnings before getting into today’s deals. First, Virta Health scores $133 million in […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we’re back from our 200th episode celebration! In Episode 201, we have an all-European funding deals episode for […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Sharecare, the population-health-slash-care-navigator of the stars (literally, celebrity doc Dr. Oz is a co-founder, and Oprah’s Harpo Productions, Sony Pictures […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Healthcare SPAC-trackers interested in placing bets on value-based primary care for the lucrative Medicare Advantage market will love hearing Cano […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA What’s the move for Crossover Health? Looking past the virtual-first primary care co’s $168M Series D, CEO Scott Shreeve gets grilled on […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, I air some of my grudges as we get into our deals for the day. In the third […]
By MATTHEW DALE Did you know that as of January 2021, price transparency is being mandated for hospitals? But what exactly does that mean for […]
Tomorrow we are taking a break from #THCBGang. Don’t worry it’ll be back with a vengeance next week. Instead, Jess DaMassa & I will host […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, I’m getting my shots soon! On Episode 197, General Catalyst is throwing more money around – $101 million […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital mental health startup Ginger just closed a $100M funding round on the heels of its biggest growth year yet: […]
By JON BLOOM The rate of adoption for virtual care and remote monitoring solutions has skyrocketed over the last year as access to in-person appointments […]
On Episode 193 of Health in 2 Point 00, we have another huge day! We catch up on Amazon’s telehealth news before covering more massive […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we’re back with more deals as promised for our post St-Patty’s episode. On Episode 192, Jess and I […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, primary care appears to have jumped the shark because there is a deal in this episode in which […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Oh Baby! Connected digital nursery startup, Owlet Baby Care, just announced their SPAC IPO and intention to take their infant […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we’re wishing Jess a happy belated birthday! On Episode 189, Jess asks me about DispatchHealth raising a massive […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “Telehealth has a much bigger role to play than just carrying out transactions,” says Amwell’s President & CEO, Roy Schoenberg, […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital mental health startup Modern Health just closed a $74M Series D, bringing their funding total to $170M, and earning […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are back to cover more fun(draising) deals. First, Zocdoc raises $150 million and Jess asks […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I chat about Haven finally closing its doors. On Episode 175, we cover Color raising $167 […]
By MIKE MAGEE Can you wrestle a collusive, private, profiteering Medical-Industrial Complex to the ground by throwing more private entrepreneurs at it? Apparently not. The […]
By KIM BELLARD Google’s corporate motto – written in its original Code of Conduct — was once “Don’t be evil.” That softened over time; Alphabet […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Arguably 2020’s hottest health tech startup, Olive (olive.ai) closed THREE funding rounds this year, totaling $450M and valuing the company […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess has me weigh in on Cityblock Health’s big raise of $160 million bringing their total up to […]
By MIKE MAGEE Health reporting this week is rightly dominated by the challenging worldwide distribution of the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19. Bringing the virus to […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Bayer G4A, the global life science company’s digital health innovation arm, held their splashy “Agents of Change” event last month […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we’ve got quite a diverse set of companies to cover. MedArrive, which is Dan Trigub’s company – the […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we have a huge IPO coming up – JD Health, a Chinese company which has a valuation of […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess & I are together in Marin County before Jess sets off! On Episode 170, Jess asks me […]
By KIM BELLARD Perhaps you read about, or were directly impacted by, the massive, multi-hour Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage last week. Ironically, AWS’s effort […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It’s not just eyeballs that Comcast NBCUniversal and Independence BlueCross’s joint venture, Quil, is after these days. Carina Edwards, Quil’s […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, the big news is about another COVID vaccine… or is it the collapse of the telehealth and digital […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Lots of changes at Bayer G4A: a new investment thesis, new additions to their portfolio, a new Global Head of […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Potential digital health trend for 2021? Weight loss and weight management. Not only has obesity been an “epidemic” of its […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH When Accolade went public in July at a $1.2B valuation, the BIG question facing the health tech unicorn pre-dated the […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Looking for more proof that telehealth has truly become a global trend in healthcare delivery? Our “man-on-the-street” in Italy, Roberto […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, there is so much to talk about between the election, the Affordable Care Act, and Pfizer’s COVID vaccine […]
By GUS MALEZIS We don’t often see two Republicans and two Democrats come together to offer solutions to problems. But even at this difficult time […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is dismayed at her rising premiums. On Episode 162, Jess and I have more deals to cover. […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we have some hot gossip re: Glen Tullman starting his own SPAC. On Episode 161, Jess and I […]
By JAMES MOELLER Remote patient monitoring has emerged as the next significant challenge for virtual healthcare and that challenge is creating significant opportunities for many […]
On Episode 158 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I talk about Datavant raising $40 million in a Series B for their open […]
On Episode 158 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I talk about Datavant raising $40 million in a Series B for their open […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I gossip about the wild rumor that UnitedHealthcare is acquiring Amwell. On Episode 157, we discuss […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess can’t figure out what’s going on with health tech investors. Episode 156 feels like rummaging through a […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Even though kids make up 20% of the total national patient population, investments in startups that use tech to improve […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I discuss UnitedHealth Group acquiring DivvyDose for $300 million, which is a knock off of PillPack. […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It’s the telehealth market reality check you’ve been waiting for! “Rogue” digital health consultant Dr. Lyle Berkowitz unpacks the numbers […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH From his vantage point at the helm of one of healthcare’s biggest IT infrastructure companies, Change Healthcare’s President & CEO, […]
By KIM BELLARD You might have missed it amongst all the headlines about the U.S.P.S., the 2020 elections, and, of course, that little thing we […]
Today, a special Health in 2 Point 00. Jessica DaMassa asks me about the biggest news in public digital health companies ever: this morning’s merger […]
By JULIA HU Though it will be impossible to overstate the devastation that the COVID-19 pandemic is leaving in its wake, we can also acknowledge […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess helps me celebrate my birthday Kylie Jenner-style. On Episode 140, Jess and I discuss Humana investing $100 […]
Today on THCB Spotlights, Matthew sits down with Paul Johnson, the CEO of Lemonaid. Lemonaid just closed a $33 million Series B led by Olive […]
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I cover some big news! Accolade has filed its IPO, so on Episode 132 I give […]
By RAY COSTANTINI, MD Imagine three months from now when the predicted ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 is expected to resurge and we’re still without a […]
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