HeyJaredHealth Tech Happy Hour
Interdisciplinary analysis of digital health, care delivery, and health policy. Health Tech Happy Hour applies on-the-ground knowledge, academic rigor, and thorough analysis to understand healthcare from individual technologies to federal health policy.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 8
- Latest publication
- Aug 30, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest issues
The Costco Hotdog of Health Care has Arrived? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In August 2026, Costco announced its first comprehensive partnership with a Medicare plan, teaming with the nonprofit SCAN Health Plan to offer co-branded Medicare Advantage and Medigap products. The joint program will launch Medicare Advantage in two states and a Medicare supplement p
AI Compared to What? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Artificial intelligence in health care has a problem that I continue to emphasize in these articles. Every week brings a press release or an article about a new company or model that reads a scan, drafts a note, or flags a diagnosis with magical speed and accuracy. Medical technology seems to captivate readers because it provides hope (and sometimes actual solutions) that we can solve some of our most horrible afflictions. The articles, marketing messaging, and even the spoken beliefs of policy
Should I get a full-body MRI scan each year? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I guess its time for me to weigh in on this whole-body MRI debate. While it may be new to the mind of the general public, the debate around screening using medical imaging for various use cases has raged in academic and policy circles for decades now. And, when I say raged, I mean like throwing chairs in meetings kind of rage because there are really strong arguments on both sides of the debates for the who, what, when, where, and why components of screening. What age should colonoscopies be rec
A Primer: CMS Proposed Rule Impact to Remote Monitoring and Connected Care Models (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I try not to write articles that are too far in the policy weeds, but the audience for Health Tech Happy Hour is split between people who want very detailed coverage of remote monitoring and other programs and those who want interesting reads and health care analysis. My apologies to those of you looking for an interesting read. This short article is intended for those watching the remote physiological monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) markets closely. If you are unfamilia
TEMPO Is One of the Most Interesting Regulatory Doors FDA Has Opened in Years (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Most digital health policy news is incremental, or even detrimental, some might say. A new code might make big news. The CMS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT might quietly make some changes. The FDA’s TEMPO pilot is not that. It gives a narrow group of manufacturers permission to market a device for an intended use the FDA has not yet authorized, collect real-world data while doing
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.