By Susheel Ladwa, CEO, Onyx Health December 2023 – Ask any doctor or nurse what part of the day they dislike the most, and the answer is unanimous – the burden of paperwork. According to an AMA study, physicians spend 27 percent of their total time on direct clinical face time with patients, while a… Read more »

By Kathy McGrath, President, KR Consulting Corp. November 2023 – Benjamin Franklin has often been attributed as saying, “When you are finished changing, you’re finished.“ Never has that been truer than the past few years in the healthcare industry. Contributing factors include changing CMS regulations, the advancement of AI, increased adoption of telehealth modalities, ongoing… Read more »

By Todd Fisher, Chairman and Founder, Intraprise October 2023 – In his Law of Accelerating Returns[1] Kurzweil suggests that the rate of technological progress – notably AI – is increasing and accelerating exponentially. Think about it this way: by the time my three-year-old granddaughter turns 13, she will experience a year’s worth of progress in… Read more »

By Kimball Wilkins, VP of Digital Experience, Blue Shield of California September 2023 – During the pandemic, the message volume on patient portals rose by an estimated 157%.[1] For overstretched physicians, the increase is contributing to burnout. As the chair of one university medical system put it, “[W]e turned on 24/7/365 access for patients (who… Read more »

By Jodi Amendola, CEO and co-founder, Amendola Communications August 2023 – For a long time, owning a corporate LinkedIn account was the equivalent of having a business card. Obligatory, more or less, but not something that was going to do much for the bottom line. Not anymore. LinkedIn has added features and reinforced its business-friendly… Read more »

By Lisa Suennen, CEO, Venture Valkyrie July 2023 – Yesterday I was chatting with an interesting person who works closely with young companies and who himself is considering whether he should further his own education in health tech.  He asked me this question:  What are the biggest challenges in the adoption of AI in healthcare… Read more »

By Nancy Cocozza, Advisor and Board Member June 2023 – By just about any measure, I’ve been fortunate to have had a long, thoroughly enjoyable (sometimes arduous) career, building and turning around Medicare health plan businesses for large payers over the past two decades.  The bigger the business, the more complex the challenges and often… Read more »

By Taylor Davis, Advisor, HIT Peak Advisors May 2023 – I am a child of the 80’s and early 90’s. I was promised a flying car. Well, not exactly promised but it was strongly implied. They were on the back of cereal boxes, in the Jetsons and in Back to the Future. It felt inevitable… Read more »