NYC-based journalist, Executive Editor
@FierceHealth
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.com. Also big fan of very good dogs, crime thriller fiction, margaritas
Bit of personal news, as they say, I'm excited to share that I've been promoted to Executive Editor
@FierceHealth
. I'll be focused on leading the healthcare editorial team and supporting Editor-in-Chief
@AylaEllison
on editorial strategy. (And, also still doing some writing)
Speaking about
@Cerner
acquisition,
@Oracle
's
@larryellison
says company plans to build an anonymized national
#EHR
database where all Americans' health records "not only exist at the hospital level are also in a unified national health records database."
Standing room only for earlier
#HLTH2022
session on
#primarycare
.
@CVSHealth
’s
@KyuRheeMD
said, “I’m a big believer in innovation around primary care. We’re in Vegas, right? So let’s double down and triple down on primary care to deliver better outcomes.”
For a high-energy conference,
#HLTH2022
puts a big focus on chilling out. There’s message services, a zen lounge and an adult coloring wall. Apparently there’s also puppies somewhere.
Very excited to share that
@emmabeavins
is now a part of the team at
@FierceHealth
! She joins us from Inside Health Policy, where she focused on digital health policy topics at both the state and federal levels. Keep an eye out for her byline:
Very proud of the
@FierceHealth
editorial/podcast team for being named finalists in the 2023 Jesse H. Neal Awards, an awards program focused on B2B journalism. We were shortlisted for Best Website and Best Podcast for "Podnosis"
Very excited to announce that Fierce's
#Podnosis
podcast won a 2023
@foliomag
Eddie award for best business news & information podcast!! Congrats to the entire
@FierceHealth
team! If you haven't checked it out, you can listen to all the episodes here:
Empty booth spaces on the
#HIMSS21
show floor are being used for extra seating areas. Definitely appreciate the rest stops after days of walking the conference
Speaking at
#WhatsNextHealthCare
event,
@GlenTullman
says
#healthtech
market not in a bubble. "This is real and we’re seeing healthcare transform. The next 18 months will define the next 5 years" as we see the "winners" shake out
How
#HIMSS23
is going - asked a health tech exec about his thoughts on the conference, what got his attention. His response, “If we both wrote down two letters, do you think we’d write the same two letters?” Yep. (Hint, one letter is “A”)
For all the talk about the value of big healthcare conference and the future of HIMSS, companies are definitely investing big in their presence at
#HIMSS23
We're celebrating our 2022
#Fierce15
winners. Looking for some inspiration? These companies are on the edge of the latest innovations in the industry.
#BeFierce
.
@CedarNY
scored $102 million in a Series C funding round and a new partnership with a large health system. The company is expanding beyond medical billing to focus on pre-visit technology tools
Good morning from Las Vegas where there's already big
#digitalhealth
news from
#HLTH2022
:
@mavenclinic
banks $90M series E amid ramped up demand for women's health services and family care
Exclusive news:
@GoogleHealth
notches another provider partner for Care Studio. A California value-based care medical group will be piloting the clinical software
"If you want to do media relations, think of the journalist as a journalist. And then correspondent with them like you would if you were in that role."
Yes!
One of the things I've learned about great storytelling is that it requires having empathy for the audience. Which is why so much of PR/media relations doesn't work.
Founders/agencies think of journalists as a conduit to their own sales or growth efforts.
#ViVE2023
news:
@Amazon
rolled out a new feature to automatically apply drug manufacturer-sponsored coupons directly when consumers order brand-name medications through its online pharmacy
@PRcarly
In my experience, a lot of what is pitched today is not technically an "exclusive." It's just giving you a sneak peak at the news and the company will post a press release a few hours later. Really wish companies would stop calling this "exclusive."
.
@GeisingerHealth
's pilot program with
@BestBuy
's
@GeekSquad
resulted in better adherence to care plans and more positive outcomes for chronic care patients, the health system reported, as it looks to expand its collaboration with the retailer
"The
@signifyhealth
deal is
@CVSHealth
skating to where the puck is going to be in three to five years," said
@Colin_Banas
, CMO at
@DrFirst
. Here's what other industry watchers have to say about recent M&A deals
“We’ve seen a lot of health systems that really try to connect with the Latino community by simply just translating their content into Spanish,” said
@ZocaloHealth
's Erik Cardenas told
@AnnieBurky
."The big miss here is culture and tradition."
.
@HIMSS
just issued this update: "Given the dynamic nature of this situation, HIMSS has assembled an external panel of medical professionals to further advise our evidence-based decision-making" regarding attendance at
#HIMSS20
Five years in the making,
@ONC_HealthIT
released Tuesday the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, a critical step in federal efforts to establish a nationwide data-sharing network
#TEFCA
#Interoperability
I'm thrilled to be moderating a panel focused on improving behavioral health care for Veterans in the digital era as part of the
@_DiMeSociety
and
@VHAInnovation
virtual event today. Be sure to tune in!
We’re excited to be attending the inaugural Digital Health Innovation Symposium hosted by
@_DiMeSociety
and
@VHAInnovation
, where our President and CEO
@Corey_M_McCann
will be speaking about improving behavioral health care for Veterans in the digital era. See you all there!
Hospitals are under tremendous financial strain, with profitability shrinking. Health systems need to make strategic tech investments to optimize operations, increase clinician efficiency, productivity, industry experts say at
#ViVE2022
As
@Oracle
jumps into the healthcare cloud wars, the company just reported strong cloud revenue, up 19% to $2.9B in recent quarter. Oracle projects strong double-digit cloud sales growth this year, including cloud sales from
@Cerner
, via
@technology
"All this $29 billion going into healthcare and digital health and a lot of that is just chasing the money," says
@DeborahDiSanzo
, president of
@BestBuy
Health at
#MIGlobal
. Most tech doesn't effectively integrate with health records or even Apple Health, she said.
Great story here from
@AnnieBurky
about how supporting women's health and work-life balance and workforce retention go hand in hand. Health systems are tapping into tools like
@Upliv
for menopause care and
@CareRev
for flexible scheduling
Startup
@Ask_Tia
marks largest partnership to date with
@CedarsSinai
to open women's health clinics in LA area. Expanding access to primary, reproductive care for women has become more imperative in a post-Roe world, CEO Carolyn Witte says
Alexa is finding a voice in healthcare.
@CedarsSinai
, Boston Children's sign on for new
@amazon
smart hospital service that aims to scale up voice-enabled devices in hospitals, senior living facilities
.
@AbbottGlobal
, one of the world's largest companies in the diabetes space, is teaming up with
@omadahealth
to launch an integrated digital platform for people living with Type 2 diabetes
"Health inequity is America’s chronic condition. We’ve put band-aids on it without addressing the system, structures, polices and environment that impact the issue," said
@DeloitteUS
'
@bhangrajay
at
#SXSW2023
panel on
#healthequity
#HIMSS21
sent a notification that 3 people at the conference received positive
#COVID19
test results. One person got a positive result in Las Vegas before returning home and two received positive test results after experiencing mild symptoms once they got home,
@HIMSS
said
#AI
is not our savior. It will not solve the inequities we see today. AI is one tool, but before we talk about
#equity
in AI we have to talk about equity in clinical protocols," says
@aikeho
, a partner at VC firm ACME, while speaking about AI investing at
@NorthwellHealth
event
Brave Health, a virtual-first
#behavioralhealth
provider focused on serving
#Medicaid
populations, nabbed $10M to fuel its growth. Co-founder and CEO Anna Lindow told me how Brave Health aims to "change the narrative about Medicaid-based innovation"
The U.S. is facing a maternal health crisis.
@HeyDianaHealth
launched three years ago to take a new approach to maternal care. The startup picked up $34M in new funding to expand its network of modern women’s health practices
In a competitive
#digitalhealth
market, startups like
@carebyginger
and
@mavenclinic
move to add new medication delivery services.
It speaks to a larger trend in the digital health space as companies expand their products and services
During
#ViVE2022
, I chatted with female founders and executives about how they are driving innovation in
#healthtech
and
#digitalhealth
and forging a path for the next generation of leaders
More news in the
#primarycare
space:
@Aetna
, owned by
@CVSHealth
, and VC-backed medical group
@crossoverhealth
are piloting a primary care service for Seattle employers. In an exclusive interview, execs shared details about the partnership
Edward Karlovich, CFO at
@UPMC
, says health systems have to make care more convenient, accessible to compete with market disruptors. "The younger generation will push enormous change on our industry and we have to be prepared to accept it and deal with it."
#JPM23
Kicking off
#cybersecurity
forum at
#HIMSS21
with discussion on
#ransomware
: "These attacks are terrorist attacks and we should treat them as terrorist attacks. The end result is the same , your denying a strategic asset to your adversary," says Adam Zoller,
@providence
CISO
Some news...I'm now a senior writer at
@FierceHealth
🎉
Stoked to focus more on investigative + longform stories. Special thanks to my editors who advocated for me<3
Covering healthcare is a privilege and a passion. I remain hopeful about a fairer future system. Send me tips!
Working on a story about healthcare/health tech
#mergers
and
#acquisitions
. Wanna tap into the industry expertise out there: Anyone want to share their predictions about what companies are shopping and who might be a target? You can DM me as well
I’m here in Vegas for
#HIMSS21
! Getting up bright and early Monday morning to join
@BeckerJMB
and
@mssoftware
on a media panel in the
@HIMSS
Digital Studio. Be sure to check it out:
Building on its acquisition of Kantar Health, health IT giant
@Cerner
is setting its sights on building a $1 billion data business, executives said during the
#JPM2021
conference
Employers hold a lot of power to push forward value-based care in the commercial market, says
@CPegusMD
w/
@MorganHealth_
"In markets where we can do it, we’re not moving fast enough and employers aren’t pushing payers enough."
#JPM23
I recently chatted with
@Microsoft
Healthcare executives
@peteratmsr
and
@GJMooreMDPhD
about the company's work in pediatric research, its partnership with Walgreens, and the role Microsoft can play in healthcare
@Health_IT
Social psychologist
@amyjccuddy
says during
#WSJHealth
employees experiencing "pandemic flux syndrome." "In the first months of the pandemic, we were operating on what psychologists call surge capacity, which helps us to endure acute threats but it gets depleted quickly."
Fierce 50 spotlight: Patient Advocacy category chair
@pminemyer
: "I think there's a lot of really important work that's being done to advocate for the patient or the member and to reduce friction in their journey with their health plan."
#Fierce50
Some big
@amazon
news this morning: After shuttering Amazon Care three months ago, the company is rolling out Amazon Clinic, a virtual health service for common conditions like allergies and hair loss
Doctors are already seeing a glimpse of the future w/ AI in medicine. During
@StanfordMed
and
@StanfordHAI
symposium today,
@euanashley
said when a patient was told it would take six months to get an appointment, he asked, "Can I get an appointment w/ Dr. Ashley's AI?"
On the ground here in lovely Toronto for
#Collision2022
. Excited to participate in two fireside chats tomorrow about
#healthtech
innovation. About 35,000 people here. The show floor is buzzing. Hit me up if you’re here!
@CollisionHQ
#collisionconf
#FierceHealthPayerSummit
kicked off this morning in Austin!
@pminemyer
opened the conference with a keynote interview w/ CenterWell Senior Primary Care exec Dr. Erica Savage-Jeter
On
@generalcatalyst
’s acquistion of
@SummaHealth
: “I’m not sure it’s the best thing. They risk competing with the people they may want to sell technology to.”-
@TGHCares
CEO John Couris