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Dan Burton explains what Health Catalyst does!

By MATTHEW HOLT

I’m steadily getting all those interviews I did 3+ months ago at HIMSS up onto THCB. (For those of you not paying attention we had a bunch of tech issues at THCB needing a big change and had to forswear videos for a while. But we’re baaack…)

Dan Burton is CEO of Health Catalyst which is a data warehousing and analytics company that’s seen remarkable growth by selling to big names like Kaiser, Partners & Allina. It’s raised over $150m and has even gone at risk with Allina over outcomes–to show how confident they are in their data and analytics. This is a very interesting interview about a company that’s at the crux of the world of clinical data management, with over $100m booked revenue in 2014.

Dan will also be interviewed at Health 2.0 this fall as one of our “3 CEOs”. (And FD Health Catalyst is a THCB sponsor, but as I tease Dan they’re also in the conference business themselves, running the Health Analytics Summit!)

Xerox is extending to consumers & communities

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By MATTHEW HOLT

I’m steadily getting all those interviews I did 3+ months ago at HIMSS up onto THCB. (For those of you not paying attention we had a bunch of tech issues at THCB needing a big change and had to forswear videos for a while. But we’re baaack…)

This interview is with Xerox’s Tamara StClaire (Chief Innovation Officer, Commercial Healthcare) and Gail Croall, Chief Medical Officer, Healthspot.

Xerox has a big business in inpatient analytics–I interviewed Justin Lanning who runs their Midas+ Division back in 2012, and does lots of government based claims-processing (especially for Medicaid) and customer service centers. It even was one of the many companies building health exchanges (and struggled like many others!). In May this year (after this interview was shot) Xerox bought a community based visualization company called the Healthy Communities Institute which sells dashboards about public health issues to towns and counties–and has been a big player both at Health 2.0’s Healthy Communities Data Summit but also winning a couple of our challenges.

In late 2014 Xerox invested in Healthspot a telehealth company that builds kiosks. That partnership is the main focus of this interview. Below the fold there’s another video which is a tour of the Healthspot hub that you can expect to see cropping up in RiteAid pharmacies across Ohio and later the nation.

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The reboot for Care Innovations: Interview

By MATTHEW HOLT

I’m steadily getting all those interviews I did 3+ months ago at HIMSS up onto THCB. (For those of you not paying attention we had a bunch of tech issues at THCB needing a big change and had to forswear videos for a while. But we’re baaack…)

This interview is with Karissa Price, chief marketing officer, and Kumar Subramanian, CTO of of Care Innovations. This is the GE/Intel JV which was originally a devices and perpiherals company that has recast itself as a software and data analytics company–in the business of remote patient management–just in time for population health to get serious. When Sean Slovenski (ex-Humana) took over as CEO at Care Innovations he not only wanted to recast the company but he also wanted to impact the way the industry positioned itself, so he set up the Validation Institute (FD: I’m on the Advisory Board for the Validation Institute). You can hear more about what Care Innovations is up to in the video below.

It’s “Slack for Health Care”- athenaText

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By MATTHEW HOLT

 

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By now it’s not a secret that EMRs are “records” and yet we’ve been trying to cram communication functions down their throat. Meanwhile the hottest tools in enterprise tech are souped up versions of AIM (remember that, you AOL fans?)– with companies like Slack & HipChat providing group-based instant messaging and changing the way teams work. As health care becomes a team sport, you’re going to see many approaches from the major EMR vendors and new entrants in the coming months to fix the communication problem. And yes at Health 2.0 this Fall I’ll be running a full panel on the topic that the Clinical User Experience Sucks–how do we fix it?

This week athenahealth, one of the few big cloud-based players in EMR-land introduced athenaText. (Don’t bother asking why there are no caps in the company name yet the simple word “text” gets a capital T in the middle of the product name! It’s as you’d expect an instant message product (rather than SMS one) but with some differences. For a start it integrates direct into the athenaClincals EMR, but it also pulls in both drug info and physician contacts from the Epocrates product that athenahealth owns (and which has several hundred thousand physicians on it). The goal is to spread the product virally (think Skype or Slack). But first things first. What is it and how does it work? I spoke with VP of UX at athenahealth, Abbe Don, to find out more and to get a demo, which you can see below.

Dean Stephens updates Healthline’s new entry into clinical world

By MATTHEW HOLT

A few weeks back I caught up with a Health 2.0 veteran Dean Stephens, CEO of Healthline. For those of you who’ve not been paying attention Healthline.com has become a very fast growing consumer site–now with over 30m visits a month. Meanwhile, Dean’s been incubating a provider-focused natural language search product called Coding InSight to extract information from EMRs, which will compete with the likes of Apixio, Clinithink and others. Many more details in the interview below!

Limelight Health raises $3m to automate insurance quotes

By MATTHEW HOLT

A while back Michael Lujan, who was one of the originals working at Covered California, came to see me at the Health 2.0 office. He and his colleagues realized that the workflow for small business health insurance quotations between the carriers and the agents was broken. Yet, despite the ACA (or maybe because of it!) agents are responsible for 90% of small business health quotes.

Any small business who’s ever got a health insurance quote from an agent has likely seen a relatively incomprehensible series of prices and benefits on a PDF. And if they want to see a change, the broker has to go back to the carrier/insurer and start again.

For the past year or so LimeLight Health (working at incubator Launchpad Health) has been trying to make that an interactive process, and the result is their product Quotepad. Another really interesting niche product in our convoluted health care mess.

Today Limelight announced a $3m series A funding round. I spoke to CEO Jason Andrew, who told me what they do and gave a demo.

https://youtu.be/Fky8br-AcmU

NantHealth buys Harris: Why?

By MATTHEW HOLT

Yesterday Harris Corporation sold its health care operation–mostly based around the former CareFx HIE product (now named FusionFx)–to Patrick Soon Shiong’s NantHealth. This follows close on the heels of NantHealth’s cross-investment in Allscripts, which of course has its own HIE product DBMotion. While NantHealth’s strategy under Soon-Shiong’s grand vision is extremely wide (and a little tough to predict) it certainly involves moving huge amounts of data around.

But what does Harris do in health? I’ve had an interview in the can from April 2015 with Eileen Rivera, VP of Marketing at Harris, which explains what they do and gives some hints as to why NantHealth decided it needed them. So this is as good as time as any to release it!

Health 2.0 Quarterly: What’s New in Q2?

By KIM KRUEGER

Every quarter, Health 2.0 releases a summary set of data that explains where industry funding is going, which product segments are growing fastest, and where new company formation is happening. Health 2.0’s precision and clarity when it comes to market segmentation and product information make this quarterly release the cream of the freebie crop.

The major news this quarter is that funding has slowed compared to this time last year, notwithstanding a significant bump from Allscripts’ $200M investment in NantHealth on the last day of the month. Yet, we’re still seeing growth in the Health 2.0 Source Database — both in number of products and companies. We also highlight the release of the Apple Watch, the growing momentum around FHIR, some key moves in the data analytics space, and the success of the latest Health 2.0 IPOs. For more, flip through below.

Kim Krueger is a Research Analyst at Health 2.0

Chelsea Clinton, AMA, Walgreens Headline Health 2.0’s 9th Annual Fall Conference

San Francisco, CA – Health 2.0, the largest global conference and innovation community in digital health announces the agenda for The 9th Annual Fall Conference. The event will host over 3000 attendees and more than 150 LIVE demos in over 35 sessions across 4 days. This year’s exciting line-up features main stage panels on:

  • New technologies for outcomes based care
  • Consumer tools for tracking, rapid diagnostics, and digital therapeutics
  • Big data tools and analytics for smarter health care
  • Data and technology advancing healthy communities
  • The frontier of Health 2.0: robotics, 3-D printing, virtual reality, space medicine and more!

Special Sessions:

  • New technologies for care delivery organizations
  • Launch!  The top 10 brand new companies in health tech
  • Traction — The leading startup business competition in health tech
  • Investment trends and a look inside the biggest deals in digital health

Featured Speakers:

  • Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair, The Clinton Foundation. Chelsea will speak to women’s health and the work of The Clinton Foundation to strengthen health systems in developing countries, increase opportunities for women and girls around the world, and to help Americans live healthier lives.
  • Dr. Bob Wachter, Professor and Associate Chair of the Dept. of Medicine, University of California San Francisco. Bob will share insights from his latest book “The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Digital Age” which examines the promises, controversies and obstacles in the new digital age of healthcare.

With Other Speakers:

  • Dr. James Madara, President, American Medical Association
  • Robin Thurston, Chief Digital Officer, Under Armour
  • Gregory Orr, Director of Consumer Digital Health, Walgreens

Many more speaker, panel, and session announcements coming soon on the agenda here. Start-up & academic rates are available online on the registration website. Full-time clinicians can apply for free registration.

Sumit Nagpal, Lumira, talks rebranding & more

Now that the technical reboot of THCB is well underway, I’m going to be running more interviews recorded at HIMSS (April 2015) on THCB. Next up is Sumit Nagpal, CEO of Lumira, which used to be Alere ACS and before that, for those of you with long memories, Wellogic. Beyond telling you what is up with the new name and rebranded company, Sumit has some interesting thoughts about the inter-operability trend. Incidentally, Sumit’s colleague Helen Figge will be at Health 2.0 Europe this week if you happen to be in the vicinity of (newly crowned La Liga Champions) Barcelona–Matthew Holt

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