Disruptive Women Mourns the Loss of 2017 Woman to Watch Trish Vradenburg
2017 Disruptive Woman to Watch Trish Vradenburg, who was the Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, died on Monday. Disruptive Women offers its sincerest condolences to the Vradenburg family and the UsAgainstAlzheimer’s community. The following is a statement issued today by UsAgainstAlzheimer’s.
UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Mourns Passing Of Adored And Inspirational Co-Founder And Vice-Chair Trish Vradenburg
Trish’s Deep-Rooted and Unflinching Passion to Fight Alzheimer’s Creates Admirable and Aspirational Legacy
WASHINGTON, DC, April 18, 2017 – UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Co-F...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Taking on Women ’s Heart Health the Old-Fashioned Way
This editorial was originally published by Morning Consult on 4/14.
Heart disease claims the lives of more women than any other illness — more than all types of cancer combined — so let’s set straight the myth that heart disease is a man’s disease. While an estimated 80 percent of heart disease is preventable, cardiovascular disease among women remains an invisible disease in the national conversation. It’s time we focus more attention on the unacceptable number of mothers, daughters and sisters we have lost, and spread awareness of this silent killer of women.
Every 80 seconds a woman dies of heart disease; that...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Children of Medicaid
This article was originally published on Complex Child.
Compiled by Susan Agrawal
I’ve been continually surprised by how many people think Medicaid is just for poor families on welfare. Those of us who parent children with complex medical needs know that Medicaid is so much more than that. After all, 72% of Medicaid enrollees are children, people with disabilities, and the elderly, and these groups account for 84% of spending.
Medicaid provides vital services for children, including home nursing care and therapies, that are not otherwise covered. In this article, we will share just a few of the children with medical co...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Bohemian, Er, I Mean Health Tech Rhapsody
This post was originally published by Venture Valkyrie on April 2.
By Lisa Suennen
In my nearly 20 years in healthcare venture capital, I have heard at least 37 million pitches for technology solutions to help patients be healthy, get healthy, stay healthy, One of the questions I most frequently ask entrepreneurs is this: What patient research have you done? How many potential consumers/customers have you interviewed to know there is a market for your wares? Guess what the most common answer to this question is? Wait for it…
None. That is often the answer. Seriously. Second place is “one,” as in “my grandma had con...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Some Things are Better Left Unsaid
It’s been on the news, but thankfully not too much. The US Preventive Health Services Task Force just issued a statement saying there was “no evidence of value for celiac disease screening.”
Taken out of context, without a careful reading of the statement, an understanding of the distinction between “screening,” “diagnosis,” and “case finding,” without sufficient background about the role of the Task Force, and in the midst of today’s controversies about “going gluten free,” this statement might easily lead to misinterpretation by patients, families, clinicians and insurers.
Even with my years of ex...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How public libraries help build healthy communities
This blog was originally posted by Brookings on March 30, 2017.
By Marcela Cabello, Brookings Research Assistant, and Stuart M Butler, Brookings Senior Fellow – Economic Studies
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. Increasingly in the United States, you also can’t judge a library’s value to its community by simply its books. Let us explain.
In a previous blog post, we’ve noted the importance of “third places” in strengthening communities – meaning those places that are neither one’s home (first place) nor workspace (second place). A range of such third places, from churches to beauty salons,...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Women ’s Health Activist Movement Global Announces “Big Idea” Challenge with $10,000 Prize to Improve Women’s Health in Western PA
The Pittsburgh chapter of the Women’s Health Activist Movement Global (WHAMGlobal) has issued a request for video applications for its 2017 “Big Idea” Challenge, which will award a $10,000 prize and the guidance of WHAMGlobal network members to a non-profit organization that identifies a strategy for improving women’s health and health equity in western Pennsylvania. The deadline for video submissions is April 30, 2017.
WHAMGlobal is looking for one-minute video submissions that outline a pressing women’s health issue in western Pennsylvania, as well ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
New Tech Tonics Podcast: Jess Mega of Verily Actually Is Making the World a Better Place
This blog was originally posted on Venture Valkyrie.
Jessica Mega, an accomplished cardiologist and now Chief Medical Officer at Alphabet’s Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), says she joined the venerable Silicon Valley company to help patients. According to Jess, physicians who love patients need to lean into the tech world because great tech that doesn’t actually change care doesn’t have much of a chance, implying also that it doesn’t have much of a point.
Very early to the concept of what is now called Precision Medicine, Jess helped pioneer the idea of large scale patient data collection (e.g., a study wit...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Before Thursday ’s ACA repeal and replace vote – a throwback to 2012
Before Thursday’s ACA repeal and replace vote, we’d like to share a post from 2012, when Disruptive Women in Healthcare Founder Robin Strongin moderated a panel held by The Hill at the Republican National Convention on the future of health care policy. Among the panelists were former Sen. Trent Lott; Rep. Tom Price; Dr. Donald Palmisano, MD, JD, former president of the American Medical Association; and Sally Greenberg, Executive Director of the National Consumers League.
Check out the recap (with video) of that event:
http://www.disruptivewomen.net/2012/09/07/robin-strongin-disrupts-the-rnc/
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Beyond Repeal and Replace
While most of the attention in the health zone is being sucked up by the latest attempt to repeal ACA and replace it with God knows what, there exists a disturbingly high number of health related issues that never seem to get the attention they deserve.
So I thought I would remind us about a few of them — (would love to hear from others–what else should be on this list?):
Hunger: do you have any idea how many children go to school hungry? How many older people do not get enough nutrition? How many homeless people and people living in poverty go to bed hungry?
Hospitals’ tax-exempt status: what are hospit...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Source Type: blogs
How the Wrong Medicaid Reforms Could Devastate Young People with Complex Medical Needs
This post was authored by Sophia Jan MD, MSHP; Ahaviah Glaser, JD; and Rebecca Kim. It was originally published by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute Policy Lab blog.
Current proposals to simultaneously repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and reform the federal Medicaid program would be devastating to children and young adults with disabilities and complex medical needs. Even if the final ACA replacement plan continues to allow young people to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until they turn 26 – which is a benefit largely supported on both sides of the political aisle ̵...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 10, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
In Honor of International Women ’s Day 2017…
In Honor of International Women’s Day 2017, we give a shout-out to our Disruptive Women to Watch in 2017!
http://www.disruptivewomen.net/2017/01/30/17-disruptive-women-to-watch-in-2017/
Linda Avey
Co-founder 23andMe and Co-founder and CEO, Curious Inc.
Biography
Dr. Roberta Diaz Brinton
Inaugural Director, Center for Innovation in Brain Science, University of Arizona Health Sciences
Biography
Dr. Maria C. Carrillo
Chief Science Officer, Medical and Scientific Relations, Alzheimer’s Association
Biography
Meryl Comer
Founding Board Member, USAgaistAlzheimer’s and President, Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzh...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Patient Advocates Targeted with Unwarranted Criticism
A study in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, dings patient-advocacy groups for taking funds and engaging with experts from biopharmaceutical and medical device companies.
It’s an unfortunate (though familiar) drumbeat, insinuating – though not proving – a conflict-of-interest because money is involved. Guilty until proven innocent – once the charge is made – is hard to defend against.
Having worked with more than 1,500 patient advocacy groups in 26 countries for more than 40 years, I can.
The late Henreitta Aladjem, founder of the Lupus Foundation and the first advocate to visit me after m...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Loneliness and its Impact on Health: Share Your Story
A friend of mine reached out not to long ago and asked if we could meet for coffee. She had something she wanted to talk to me about and I was intrigued.
It had been some time since we had seen each other so we spent a bit of time catching up on friends and family. Of course most of that time was focused on our kids–how proud we are of them, how fortunate we are to have great relationships with them, and how quiet it is at home now that they are out of the house.
As we made our way from coffee to food (hers was the healthy meal choice, mine, not so much) she shared that she had been thinking about, and doing some...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
See You at HIMSS 2017
Hope to see you on Tuesday where we will be discussing NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY: Disruptive Women Style.
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
