May 2nd, 2012

Community Hospital Joins Wave Of New Strategic Venture Funds To Drive Disruptive Innovation

Rex Health Ventures

This first part of a two-part series on strategic investors in healthcare focuses on the expansion of the venture business beyond traditional venture and large strategic investors. In the second part, I will outline the backdrop for the investment thesis that strategic healthcare investors are using to guide their capital allocation.

Healthcare providers are finding their “play it safe”… → Read More

March 29th, 2012

Patients Are More Than A Vessel For Billing Codes

Patient as Billing Code Vessel

It will be virtually impossible to succeed in the new reimbursement model without recognizing what has long been said, but little done about it — “the most important member of the care team is the patient.”

Having implemented or reviewed over 100 health IT systems, there is one common purpose at the core of the architecture of these systems — how to get as big a bill out as quickly as… → Read More

January 24th, 2012

The Rise of Nimble Medicine

Innovator's Prescription - New Wave of Disruptive Models in Healthcare

In the New Yorker, Dr. Atul Gawande outlined how, at the turn of the 20th century, more than forty per cent of household income went to paying for food and food production consumed nearly half the workforce. Starting in Texas, a wide array of new methods of food production were tested. Long story short, food now accounts for 8% of household budgets and 2% of the workforce. As a wide array of small… → Read More