...insurance, NZ government 24/7 telehealth scored by GPs, Auxira tele-cardiology follow-up launches (Two disappointments that look like advances) News roundup: GLP-1 weight regain real, soft robots walk off 3D printer, Ambience’s AI coding beats doctors by 27%, Get a Second Opinion debuts, $11.5M for AssistIQ (Reality bites GLP-1s and a soft robot wee bairn) Job Posting: Yosi Health seeks Demand Generation Manager and Manager, Data Analytics & Reporting Should free-falling UnitedHealth Group be broken up? Or break itself up to survive, before it becomes another GE? (updated) (Not a rant, more a ‘get going’ to avoid disaster!) * * *... Continue Reading
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TTA’s Unofficial Summer kickoff: breaking up UnitedHealth to save it, post-GLP-1 weight gain, soft robots, NZ telehealth controversy, Midi Health widening women’s health, AssistIQ, Ambience, more!
...women covered by (some) insurance, NZ government 24/7 telehealth scored by GPs, Auxira tele-cardiology follow-up launches (Two disappointments that look like advances) News roundup: GLP-1 weight regain real, soft robots walk off 3D printer, Ambience’s AI coding beats doctors by 27%, Get a Second Opinion debuts, $11.5M for AssistIQ (Reality bites GLP-1s and a soft robot wee bairn) Job Posting: Yosi Health seeks Demand Generation Manager and Manager, Data Analytics & Reporting Should free-falling UnitedHealth Group be broken up? Or break itself up to survive, before it becomes another GE? (updated) (Not a rant, more a ‘get going’ to avoid... Continue Reading
News roundup: GLP-1 weight regain real, soft robots walk off 3D printer, Ambience’s AI coding beats doctors by 27%, Get a Second Opinion debuts, $11.5M for AssistIQ
...drugs in future. For the non-obese, it requires continuing weight/lifestyle management and a recognition of the rebound. It’s a good news/bad news scenario for teleprescribers and pharmas: users will require ongoing management and may cycle through another round in a year or two- to lose weight again, but they could also be disappointed and not want to spend the money. Hat tip to the GLP-1 Digest 25 May on Substack. A “soft robot” that strolls off its 3D printer. We’ve missed our robots. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh developed a new, inexpensive printer that created a palm-sized, 100% soft... Continue Reading
Short takes: both Clover and Oscar in the black; Aetna prez booted after 11 months; Ava-VSee bedside robot; updates on Change, OneBlood ransomware, Masimo proxy fight
...income decreasing 39.1%, the medical benefits ratio (MBR) soaring to 90% from 86% in prior year and the medical loss ratio (MLR) going up to 89.6% from 86.2%. These were attributed to increased utilization, the decline in Medicare Advantage Star ratings, Medicaid acuity, and a revised risk adjustment in the individual exchange business. Something in this immediately doomed now former president Brian Kane, who joined only last September. His last post was at Humana as chief financial officer and leader of their primary care business. CVS Health release, FierceHealthcare, Healthcare Finance Marrying robots with telemedicine, VSee is partnering with Ava... Continue Reading
Another icy bucket: who is liable when a healthcare AI system fails?
...having consulted software in making care decisions (e.g., to screen patients for certain conditions or generate medication regimens). In cases of harm, those physicians’ decisions are evaluated against what other specialists would have done–standard of care. Apparent malfunctions of software embedded within devices, such as implantables, surgical robots, or monitoring tools. Plaintiffs may assert malpractice claims against physicians and hospitals, alleging negligent use, installation, or maintenance of these devices, including human error in reprogramming. Plaintiffs may also sue developers, alleging defects in manufacturing, design, and warnings. Moving ahead, the study’s recommendations on weighing liability risk against the benefits of adoption... Continue Reading
2021 UK-RAS Network Robotics Summer Showcase 5 May-30 July and UK Festival of Robotics 19-25 June
...– spanning laparoscopic surgical robots, continuum surgical robots, intra-corporeal robots and microrobots – to shape science policy and funding. 4th UK-RAS Conference for PhD and Early-Career Researchers: Robotics at Home (2nd June 10am – 4pm BST) – virtual event specifically designed for PhD students and early-career researchers to foster research progress and offer opportunities for networking. Humans in the Loop and Human-Robot Teaming for Remote Inspection (15th June 11am – 12pm BST) – take part and ask questions in this interactive showcase from the Human-Robot Interaction theme of the ORCA Hub, using Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Interaction to help... Continue Reading
Digital health on the front lines of coronavirus checking, treatment and prevention (updated 2 Mar)
...and Israeli approach. Robots–actually a telehealth cart–are being tested for patient self-testing, much like Tyto Care’s use at Sheba. Robots could also deliver food (although they could also carry germs) and sweep streets. Other monitoring can be done via symptom checkers (Babylon, K, and others). 98point6 released a coronavirus screening chatbot app as early as January, but what they’ve turned up so far is more cases of the flu. STAT Data analytics can pinpoint outbreaks. The Epic, Athenahealth, and Meditech EHRs have released new guidance, testing orders and screening questions (e.g. around travel and contacts) that will help to identify... Continue Reading
CES roundup: what happened to the excitement around ‘innovation’, robots, VR, and voice assistants?
...it works. This year it highlighted VR developer partnerships with Rendever, which creates experiences for LTC residents, and VRHealth’s physical therapy at home. SanaHealth has a pulsed light/sound pain reduction device and the VoiceItt speech recognition device which translates the speech of the severely impaired into intelligible language. Robots continue to seek a market, albeit tinier and we confess, occasionally more amusing. Samsung’s Ballie robot, about the size of an orange, will roll through your home minding your pets, monitoring your safety, and interfacing with your smart devices and apps to make absolutely sure you get enough exercise and track... Continue Reading
The CES circus opens its largest tent yet in health tech, AI, 5G, and more
...and Dr. Mehmet Oz, and some Grizzled Pioneer speakers and moderators such as Laurie Orlov, Chris Otto, Sean Slovenski, and Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. The Digital Health Summit is itself a Grizzled Pioneer as it goes back at CES to 2013–and my, how the players have changed. (Whatever happened to Sonny Vu?) The Wearables Tech Summit is about the form and function of wearables, plus VR, AR (augmented reality), and of course Peleton. Accessibility is sadly a mismatch (mish-mash?) of home networks, 5G, IoT, and a pitch competition. What’s big? 5G, AI anything, and autonomous vehicles. What’s faded in the stretch? Robots.... Continue Reading
A telemedicine ‘robot’ delivers end of life news to patient: is there an ethical problem here, Kaiser Permanente?
...much thought to believe there may be an issue of cultural inappropriateness. There is no patient advocate or a chaplain present. Whether one visited later is not known. Another open question: why was additional comfort care and a ventilator not available at home if Mr. Quintana was truly terminal? Did this man die needlessly in an ICU? The popular takeaway about Kaiser, the VA, and other health systems which are deploying telemedicine by their patients is that robots are replacing doctors. We may know better, but that is what the consumer press runs with–an emotional video that, BTW, breaks patient-doctor... Continue Reading
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