The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox, opened their doors for an inside look at innovation this week. Some of us (until Wednesday, myself included) might think of Xerox as “that copy machine company,” but … Continue reading
The Obama Administration’s comprehensive health care reform law tackles the nation’s health care spending crisis in several ways. It also addresses spending on Medicare, one of the nation’s costliest programs, in several ways. One way that Affordable Care Act doesn’t … Continue reading
Dr. G makes her rounds on the medical ward looking for clues. She is worried. There has been an increase in the number of urinary infections related to catheters over the past month and she is not sure why. Right … Continue reading
Today, we’re approaching 14,000 health and fitness related apps in the Apple iOS App Store. While there is a great deal of talk about the “explosion in mHealth”, the reality is that we’ve seen an increase in ‘stuff’ and not … Continue reading
The Supreme Court’s decision upholding the ACA is deliciously ironic. The “individual mandate”–an idea promoted for everyone in the 90s and for Massachusettians (?) in the 2000s by the arm of the Republican party known as the Heritage Foundation–was found … Continue reading
I read and hear a lot about scaling culture. For the open data movement in healthcare to make a difference, the culture that needs to scale looks like this: the government and private health care organizations make certain types of … Continue reading
It didn’t appear on the lightning strike map, but lightning did indeed strike a young medical student inside the Washington Convention Center right in front of about 1,500 amazed spectators on the first day of The Health Data Initiative Forum … Continue reading
I saw Roy Ziegler, a partner at Chrysalis Ventures, speak on a panel about funding for startups at the Health Tech NextGeneration Conference last week. Depending on what setting he’s in and who he’s sitting next to, Ziegler might come off … Continue reading
“The bottleneck is actually the patient,” Dough Hirsch, CEO of GoodRx, said on a panel at the Health 2.0 Conference last week. Hirsch, speaking really quickly, explained why it’s so difficult to get a health care startup off the ground. … Continue reading
On May 14 and 15 of this year, I had the opportunity to attend the Health 2.0 Spring Fling conference in Boston, MA. According to their website, Health 2.0 is about bringing “together the best minds, resources and technology for … Continue reading
The law book is only symbolic. The truth is, there isn’t a health information technology law manual. Many health tech companies are trying things that have never been done before and, therefore, will run into legal issues the field hasn’t … Continue reading
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