The Eagle Has Landed. And It’s Hot as Hell.
July 22, 2019 The word of the week was: hydration. I never thought Chicago could be hotter than India (or Singapore, or Thailand) in July. All of those places I swung through in the first two weeks of July seemed balmy in comparison to la mia citta. As I lay in bed last week deliriously fighting […]
The Era of False Health Claims and Misinformation by Bot
July 8, 2019 Greetings from Bangalore, India. Hope everyone had a nice long July 4th weekend. VC firm Rock Health published its mid-year review of digital health startups. It paints an optimistic picture based on much awaited IPOs from Health Catalyst, Livongo and others. The report also presents us with a new metric, “net liquidity overhang,” which […]
Platform Domination in a World With “Staggering Hurdles”
July 1, 2019 In my most recent piece in CIO, I discuss the penetration rates for digital health platforms. Turns out that healthcare is far too fragmented and incentives are not aligned enough to enable any one platform to dominate. The good news though is that there is room for multiple players, as healthcare is not a […]
What is Holding Back Digital Health Innovation?
Last week, I attended a program at the Harvard Medical School on data and analytics strategies for healthcare that gave me insightful perspectives on healthcare IT from frontline physicians who work with technology on an everyday basis. One of the big topics of discussion was the intractable problem with healthcare data: who owns it, who […]
Healthcare is Not a Winner-Take-All Industry
June 17, 2019 In my latest podcast interview, John Sculley, former CEO of Apple, discusses the growing significance of platforms in healthcare and notes that platforms have revolutionized every sector of the economy – except healthcare. Major tech firms such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google will be major players in healthcare in future. However, unlike search […]
You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet
June 10, 2019 You ain’t heard nothin’ yet – Al Jolson’s immortal words from 1927’s The Jazz Singer may now have a whole new meaning as we enter the era of voice-enablement in healthcare. I have shared some of the most recent developments in secure voice-enabled communication between caregivers and patients in my latest blog in CIO online, and where […]
Think big. Start small. Scale fast.
June 3, 2019 In our latest podcast episode, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer of Jefferson Health, shares his thoughts on how the Digital Innovation and Consumer Experience (DICE) group at Jefferson Health has been creating value through various consumer-facing applications. He shares a few tips and mantras for startups and digital health innovators, and discusses the […]
Healthcare Enterprises Getting Into the Digital Game May Be a Good Thing
May 28, 2019 Penn Medicine and PBM giant Express Scripts launched interesting new models last week that could aid digital health innovation. Penn Medicine is offering up its machine learning algorithms in an open source platform as a free service for users. By making complex algorithms available in a user-friendly interface, Penn Medicine hopes to accelerate biomedical […]
Introducing The Healthcare Digital Transformation Leader
May 20, 2019 Over the past several months, we have received great feedback from our subscribers on the content we share in our weekly newsletters, and our thought leadership on healthcare’s digital transformation. Given our ongoing work in this space and the level of priority and attention to digital initiatives at the highest level of […]
Health IT Firms Are Running Afoul of Regulators Lately
May 6, 2019 The stories last week of uBiome, a startup that invited an FBI raid for fraudulent billing practices, and Surescripts, a dominant player in the e-prescription market that has been accused by FTC of anti-competitive practices, are the latest in a string of companies choosing to put sales growth ahead of compliance and […]
