Pioneer in Digital Transformation, Innovator in Healthcare, Design Thinker, Enterprise Architect, Start up Coach and Amateur Flautist
Joined November 2008
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Restore Hyper Wellness made $135M selling vitamin IVs, red light therapy, and cryotherapy.
A physician friend tells me it’s mostly marketing and expensive placebo.
Anyone else have a viewpoint?
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Doctors possess a remarkable gift, the ability to heal. They possess hearts filled with empathy & compassion & dedicate their lives towards improving the health, wellbeing of their patients. Today & everyday, we celebrate them & their incredible contributions.
Thank you Doctors!
ALT Doctors possess a remarkable gift, the ability to heal. They possess hearts filled with empathy & compassion & dedicate their lives towards improving the health, wellbeing of their patients. Today & everyday, we celebrate them & their incredible contributions. Thank you Doctors!
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Being a VC (of the kind that leads round and sits on boards) feels schizophrenic rn:
* 50% of your day you deal with unwinding the excesses of 2020-21 (cost-cutting, RIFs, efficiency)
* The other 50% you witness the creation of the same exact situation, the AI Bubble of 2023
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On major life decisions, the purpose of seeking advice is not to get answers. It’s to gain perspective.
No one knows what's best for you. They can only share what makes sense to them.
The most important question to ask is not what you should do. It's what you might be missing.
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Exactly why I say 90% of VCs add no value. A few of us do work 80 hrs per week and enable new things to be done that might not get done otherwise, like fusion, public transit ... but more agree than not with you. It's why in 40 yrs I've never called myself a venture capitalist.
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investing is an amazing very-part-time job, and (at least for me) a soul-sucking full-time job.
BUT
those mountains in aspen aren’t gonna ski themselves, that party in saint-tropez isn’t gonna enjoy itself, that kiteboard on necker island needs someone to fly it, etc etc etc.
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Disturbing trend of VCs denigrating clinicians.
“I hate working with doctors”
“Clinicians are poor adopters of technology”
The room nods or laughs.
Where is the love for people who trained hard to care for you?
Where is the accountability?
We need to call it out.
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Another day and another reminder that it makes no sense for patient experience surveys — especially for busy caregivers like parents or decedents (hospice) — to be paper that need to be sent back in snail mail
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Wherever I go I consider whoever I meet to be another human being like me. We all want to live a happy life. We all respond to smiles, so wherever I go, I smile. Even when we don't share a language, we can communicate our friendship by smiling.
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Something I've noticed at ViVe: more and more health systems have a "Chief Digital Health officer"
It's clear that all these health systems realized that they need to transition to a "tech-enabled care organization". The time of paper & clipboards is over
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There are no natural boundaries between human beings on this earth, we are one family. At a time of increasing natural disasters, climate change and global warming affect all of us. We must learn to live together, to work together, and to share what we have together.
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Dear @Gartner_inc and @Forrester - there is a world outside of North America, too. It was all poor and colonized centuries ago. But now, they build software, too! Ain't it amazing? Please send your analysts to these parts of the world on a voyage sometime. I am sure they will learn something new 😏
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Human beings are social animals. What brings us together is love and affection—anger drives us apart. Just as we employ physical hygiene to protect our health, we must use ‘emotional hygiene’ to tackle our destructive emotions and achieve peace of mind.
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I believe in altruism. No matter how capable a person may be, no one can survive alone. We depend on the community in which we live. By dedicating ourselves to the welfare of others, we actually bring about our own benefit.
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Why has the focus in healthcare entrepreneurship become unicorn or bust?
Create a small business that helps your community and works with local providers/patients.
Grow a little bit after a few years of proving success.
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Our health tech startup serves 1,000,000 patients!*
* We count 50 patients of our own + 999,950 from a regional United Healthcare exec who emailed us one time saying he was “open to discussing a pilot” if he can get the internal resources lined up
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Home is where the health is. ❤️
I had the opportunity to ride along with our Hospital at Home team, and see the intentional coming together of technology + empathy!
Truly blown away by the feedback from our patients & their loved ones.
More at #ViVE2023 – at Charlotte, NC
