The next big thing in health care? It probably will start as something small.

Health Technology
November 29, 2015

Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson had a great post a while back titled, “Bootstrap Your Network With A High Value Use Case.” He points out that the initial value proposition for Waze (the community-based traffic and navigation app acquired by Google) was simply to help drivers that like to drive too fast identify speed traps. But it of course quickly expanded way beyond that and now provides a lot more value …

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The next big thing in health care? It probably will start as something small.

Mobile has put patients in the driver’s seat. Here’s how.

Health Technology
June 25, 2015

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Many people used to believe that Facebook was an extremely defensible business and that it would be almost impossible for another social network to compete.

It has grown to an enormous scale with massive troves of data and more than 1.5 billion monthly users. The thinking around their defensibility was that because all of your friends and photos and updates are already stored on Facebook, it …

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Mobile has put patients in the driver’s seat. Here’s how.

Patient portals and EMRs: Each requires a different skillset

Health Technology
January 13, 2015

Most readers know that an EMR (electronic medical record) is the back-end software that runs a health care organization. EMRs have been around for a while. Recently most large hospitals and health systems have begun building out the patient-facing version of their EMR; allowing patients to communicate electronically with their doctors, refill prescriptions, schedule appointments, and view clinical information.

I’ve written at length about the differences between B2B software and B2C …

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Patient portals and EMRs: Each requires a different skillset

4 ways EMR companies can stay competitive

Health Technology
June 29, 2014

The health care IT space is possibly the most exciting and dynamic industry in the United States right now. Health care is going through a total transformation driven by massive regulatory change, the consumerization of health care and the important shift from a system that manages sickness to a system that manages health.

Underlying all of this change is the software that runs large health care organizations: specifically, the big EMR …

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4 ways EMR companies can stay competitive

What the unbundling of Craigslist has to do with today’s EMRs

Health Technology
October 6, 2013

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Recently there’s been a lot of talk about the law of bundling and subsequent unbundling of web services. Many have used Andrew Parker’s brilliant image below to make the point.

Craigslist came along and bundled everything into one place and, as a result, completely dominated. They destroyed multiple businesses in the process (including the rental and roommate web service I worked with …

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What the unbundling of Craigslist has to do with today’s EMRs

What Groupon has to do with severe chest pain

Health Policy
November 24, 2012

It was unfortunate – but not very surprising – to see the news recently that Groupon laid off a portion of their 10,000 employees. If ever there was a predictable bubble, it was daily deals.

But it was fun while it lasted, and you can see why there was so much overinvestment in the space. Groupon’s pitch to merchants was to ask them to take a loss by making a super compelling offer …

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What Groupon has to do with severe chest pain