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- Discharge Planning Ends at the Funeral Home. That’s a Health System Failure.
by matthew holt on October 13, 2026 at 8:51 pmBy EVAN REID We reconcile medications at discharge because we decided, correctly, that the handoff out of a hospital is a clinical event with its own failure modes. Then a patient dies,Continue reading...
- Employers that exclude GLP-1s point staff to a website and a pretax account
by matthew holt on October 12, 2026 at 8:21 pmBy JOHN SAMARAS Most employers still won’t cover GLP-1s for weight loss, and some of them now tell the employee where to buy them without the plan. The International Foundation of EmployeeContinue reading...
- Health and Democracy on the Ballot: A Conversation with Dr. Atul Gawande
by matthew holt on October 12, 2026 at 4:35 amI’m inviting you to a virtual Movement Voter Project event with Dr. Atul Gawande on Thursday, October 22, 8PM ET • 7 PM CT • 6 PM MT • 5 PM PTContinue reading...
- My shoulder — The Inciteful Med, Claude & HealthX update
by matthew holt on October 9, 2026 at 5:57 amI had shoulder surgery on Monday and today I’m getting information about what happened delivered into the big LLMs. Follow along with me as I figure out how to get the informationContinue reading...
- Wall Street in the ER: How Private Equity Is Squeezing Local Hospitals
by matthew holt on October 8, 2026 at 7:14 pmBy ADAM LEE Reflecting on a Private Equity (PE) internship in New York City reveals a major takeaway: financial engineering can be incredibly empowering, but applying it to public infrastructure often catchesContinue reading...
- Healthcare Is Fighting the Wrong AI War
by matthew holt on October 7, 2026 at 6:55 amBy KIM BELLARD The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is crying wolf about AI. Its new analysis claims that “hospital systems are increasingly billing patient hospital stays as more medically complex,” andContinue reading...
- Time to Stop “Calling it Reimbursement”
by matthew holt on October 6, 2026 at 6:52 amBy JEFF GOLDSMITH Back during the Jurassic period, at the beginning of my consulting career, senior colleagues at Ernst and Whinney took me to lunch to explain to the newby the factsContinue reading...
- The Rural Radiologist Who Already Exists
by matthew holt on October 5, 2026 at 6:36 amBy STEVEN GOODMAN The future of rural healthcare won’t be determined by how much money is invested. It will be determined by how wisely that money is used. That line gets noddedContinue reading...
- You Say “AI,” I Hear “Organoid”by matthew holt on October 2, 2026 at 5:02 am
By KIM BELLARD I must admit, ever since I learned about, and wrote about (OI May Be the New AI), “organoid intelligence” over three years ago, I’ve been looking to do aContinue reading...
- The Least-Informed Person in the Room
by matthew holt on October 1, 2026 at 5:44 amBy DAVID KIRK My father called me from a hospital bed a few years ago. He had been admitted to a small hospital with an abdominal infection, and his surgeon had offeredContinue reading...
