We’ve been talking about telehealth and mental health this week. Here’s both combined in one interesting and highly valued announcement today, followed by several tests – well, 3 million COVID tests a week to be exact, and,...more
1/14/2021
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Cancer ,
Clinical Laboratory Testing ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Healthcare ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Medical Research ,
Mental Health ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) ,
Telehealth ,
Virus Testing
It’s Day 2 of the J.P. Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference at its finest – looking closely at healthcare inequities, strategic business shifts and killer robots, all in the same day! (Yes, we did say killer robots and it’s...more
1/13/2021
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Diversity ,
Equity ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Stimulus ,
Healthcare ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Social Justice Issues ,
Telehealth
Sitting in the dark before 6 am in my Los Angeles house with my face lit up by yet another Zoom screen, wearing a stylish combination of sweatpants, dress shirt and last year’s JPM conference badge dangling around my neck for...more
1/12/2021
/ Affordable Care Act ,
CMMI ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Healthcare ,
Home Health Care ,
Humana ,
Insurance Industry ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Mental Health ,
Moderna Inc. ,
Over The Counter Drugs (OTC) ,
Pfizer ,
Professional Conferences ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Teleconferences ,
Vaccinations ,
Value-Based Care ,
Walgreens
If I printed a tee shirt for the 2020 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, what would it say? In past years, it would have been “Big Data,” Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, ACA, Risk, Medicare Advantage or Quality. This...more
1/15/2020
/ Data Management ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Hospitals ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Patients ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacies ,
Physicians ,
Professional Conferences ,
Value-Based Care
What is Quality Anyways?: James Hinton, the CEO of Baylor Scott and White, got a good laugh from the audience when he said that he was proud to be one of the five or six hundred hospitals in the nation’s top 100 hospitals....more
1/10/2019
/ Aetna ,
Cancer ,
Clinical Trials ,
CVS ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Hospitals ,
Investors ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Partnerships ,
Professional Conferences
San Francisco (January 11, 2018) – The final day of the 2018 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference gave us food for thought about the topic of healthcare navigation, as well as updates on the home health sector. Post-acute has...more
1/15/2018
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Genesis HealthCare ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Home Health Care ,
Hospitals ,
Humana ,
Joint Venture ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Medicare ,
Mergers ,
Patients ,
Professional Conferences ,
Self-Insured Health Plans ,
Skilled Nursing Facility ,
Telehealth
San Francisco (Wednesday, January 10, 2018) – The third afternoon of the conference was a deep dive into data and analytics, with successive presentations by IBM Watson Health, Inovalon and AthenaHealth and an earlier morning...more
1/11/2018
/ Big Data ,
Data Reporting ,
Electronic Medical Records ,
Genetic Testing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Hospitals ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Outpatient Services ,
Patients ,
Professional Conferences ,
Technology Sector
San Francisco (Tuesday, January 9, 2018): Day 2 of the 2018 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference provided concrete examples of the trends that have been discussed in recent years – the impact of shifting healthcare delivery...more
1/11/2018
/ China ,
Chinese Medicine ,
Chronic Care Managment (CCM) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Home Health Care ,
Hospitals ,
Humana ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Professional Conferences ,
Retail Market
San Francisco (Monday, January 8, 2018): Outside it was raining heavily today in San Francisco, but inside the 2018 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference the weather was distinctly sunny. Nary a hint of gloom or pessimism was heard...more
1/11/2018
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Catholic Church ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Professional Conferences ,
Stem cells
On January 13, 2016, conference sessions surfaced interesting questions and approaches regarding the post-acute sector, bundled payment, emergency medicine and anesthesia.
Post-Acute Focus: With more and more focus on...more
Someone asked me last week what it was like to attend the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, which started its annual run on January 11, 2016. Outside the conference hotel right now is the obligatory lunchtime...more