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 »
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For HIT Vendors, Good is Often the Enemy of Great
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 »
I Learned How To Sell On-The-Job. Yikes!
by Neng Bing Doh, Board Member and Digital Health Entrepreneur April 2023 – Yup. I learned how to sell on-the-job. Pretty scary, but it was the only choice. In fact, prior to founding my company, I had never sold anything and knew very little about healthcare in the US. Bless the souls who funded us!… Read more »
The Opportunity of Rising Behavioral Health Utilization
by Michael Shepherd, MD, CPA, MBA March 2023 – Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of patients experiencing anxiety or depression symptoms have increased 25%, behavioral health care providers have seen increasing requests for behavioral health services exacerbating pre-covid access issues and, emergency rooms have seen an increasing number of pediatric patients seeking… Read more »
Every Company in Healthcare Should Have a ‘Code Red’ Team for AI
by Geoff Halstead, Fraction Chief Product Officer and Digital Business Strategist February 2023 – For the last year, experts across the entire breadth of the technology industry – business and technical leaders, entrepreneurs, observers and venture capitalists alike – have been proclaiming that we have crossed over a critical threshold or ‘tipping point’ in the… Read more »
Real World Evidence Can Make Drugs More Affordable
by Jennifer Stacey, SVP of Clinical Sciences & Operations, TriNetX January 2023 – It should be no surprise that profitability is the primary goal for pharmaceutical companies, as it allows them to continue to fund research and development (R&D) of new drugs, pay dividends to shareholders, and support their business operations. The truthful way to… Read more »
Enabling Aggressive Growth Plans While Preserving Capital
by Colin Dittus, VP Consulting, Gibson Consultants December 2022 – At a time when the macroeconomic environment has made funding for healthcare startups increasingly challenging, employing the best talent strategies has become more critical than ever. The companies that stand out and win the battles both for investment dollars and market share will be those… Read more »
Show Me the Data: Solid Clinical Decisions Depend on Accurate Patient Records
by Colin Banas, Chief Medical Officer, DrFirst November 2022 – Physicians know this scenario well: A patient shows up with a piece of paper scribbled with lists of medications or hands over a paper bag full of old pill bottles. These scraps of information are better than nothing. Many patients have only vague recollections or… Read more »
Improve Health Equity through Connecting Data
By Enam Noor, Founder & CEO, Insightin Health October 2022 – There is something missing in healthcare industry conversations today – rarely is there any mention of the individual health plan member. It is all about segments, cohorts, and profiles. The person gets lost in all the strategizing. In those discussions, members are referred to… Read more »
Low Hanging Fruit
By Colleen Watford, Director, Executive Search, Gibson Consultants September 2022 – There’s nothing like an industry in upheaval to create opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors. Upheaval doesn’t adequately describe healthcare today. As we read every day in the trade press, many healthcare companies, including startups, are doing quite well. Some even have the enviable challenge… Read more »