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1 week ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Michael Millenson

By MICHAEL MILLENSONTreating artificial intelligence as just one ingredient in a business success recipe was a prominent theme at the MedCity INVEST 2025 conference, with this AI “best practice” advice epitomized by high-profile start-ups Inato and Prenosis. “You need to build a business model that makes sense, then use AI,” cautioned Raffi Boyajian, principal at CIGNA Ventures and a panelist at the MedCity INVEST 2025 conference in Chicago.

1 week ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Mike Magee

By MIKE MAGEE According to Veterans Administration historians, the origin of Memorial Day dates back to 1864 when three women from Boalsburg, Pennsylvania joined in grief to decorate the graves of family members who had died in the Civil War. A year later, other townspeople joined in and one year later, in 1866, women in Columbus, Mississippi, joined the event, in honor of fallen Confederate soldiers. That was 14 years after the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabinin 1852.

2 weeks ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Matthew Holt

By MATTHEW HOLTIt was not so  long ago that you could create one of those maps of health care IT or digital health and be roughly right. I did it myself back in the Health 2.0 days, including the old sub categories of the “Rebel Alliance of New Provider Technologies” and the “Frontier of Patient Empowerment Technologies”But those easy days of matching a SaaS product to the intended user, and differentiating it from others are gone.

2 weeks ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Kim Bellard

By KIM BELLARDI feel like I’ve been writing a lot about futures I was pretty worried about, so I’m pleased to have a couple developments to talk about that help remind me that technology is cool and that healthcare can surely use more of it. First up is a new AI algorithm called FaceAge, as published last week in The Lancet Digital Health by researchers at Mass General Brigham. What it does is to use photographs to determine biological age – as opposed to chronological age.

1 month ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Mike Magee

By MIKE MAGEEThis past week, Trump’s posting of himself as The Pope surfaced once again David French’s classic Christmas, 2024, New York Times column titled “Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel?”As I wrote at the time, “French and his wife and three children have experienced the cruelty first hand since he openly expressed his opposition to Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential campaign.