HCIT

Join Me Monday Night to Talk Digital Healthcare

As many of you know, I help lead the Tech Council at Boston College.  It is a strong group with active chapters in NY, SF and Boston.

Monday the 12th we have a great event in Boston. Healthcare is becoming the foundation of the Boston economy and it is being transformed as technologists tackle the problems of improving care and improving the economics of care.

Come to District Hall, the innovation center of The Seaport, to talk with 100 local tech and healthcare investors & execs about how to build HCIT businesses in this turbulent regulatory and reimbursement environment.  We’ll get started with a strong panel featuring PE leader Matt Carroll from Westview Capital & the Founders of Imprivata, Cyft & Definitive Healthcare.

Open to any and all, even folks that went to Holy Cross.  Details here:  http://bit.ly/2sGLssD  Hope you can join me.

 

What Does HIMSS15 Tell Us About Venture Investment in Healthcare IT?

Over 20,000 people will gather next week in Chicago for this year’s HIMSS conference.  This nexus of the digital health world is a must-attend event for HCIT vendors.  The attendee list allows us to get a snapshot of how the venture industry is impacting healthcare technology.

VCs should be attracted to improving healthcare delivery.  Big returns come from solving big problems.  The cost, availability and quality of healthcare are big problems.  The Kaiser Foundation reports US healthcare costs have expanded from 7.2% of GDP in 1970 to 20% of GDP in 2015.  Venture returns are created when large existing systems undergo change.  US healthcare is a trillion dollar system with core drivers in place for change.  Many hospitals are operating with tech infrastructure that is a generation behind and implementation of the ACA is disrupting the system in ways both intentional and unexpected.

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