A collection of our top ten quotes in health tech this week from various articles and Twitter:
“In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.”
– Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures
Source: TechCrunch
Please don’t bet your job or your facility on not being fully prepared for #ICD10, Start Now If You Have Not! #KareoChat
— Brad Justus (@Brad_Justus) September 10, 2013
“To all the hospital groups who say they can eliminate this need for interoperability by just going with a single vendor for all their solutions, I would counter by saying you’ll never be dealing with just one vendor.Even if a single EMR vendor is used within a hospital, any data solution should be able to accept data from ancillary clinical information systems, such as from radiology, and referring clinicians and other outside groups.”
– Dr. Shrestha, Vice President of Medical Information Technology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
Source: Beckers Hospital Review
@DShaywitz @LifeSciVC @canaanpartners @longitudecap Novel/refor/early/etc doesn’t matter. ONLY thing that matters=getting product 2 patient.
— Nimesh Shah (@nimshah123) September 12, 2013
“I think m-Health is a misaligned term these days, because the mobile is mostly used to provide information based upon a contextual query.”
– Kai Gait, Multichannel Marketing Franchise Director at GSK
Source: DigitalJournal
“When you put an entire industry under the MU pressure cooker, the need to meet Federal Mandates overwhelms anything else. The need to develop software that is able to support a large number of externally controlled mandates can, and in many cases, has resulted in bad engineering. You can’t innovate well on a deadline.”
– Keith Boone, Standards Architect at Healthcare Standards
Source: HIT Consultant
Computers have eased and simplified the capture, analysis and sharing of financial information, supply chain information, manufacturing information, transportation information, and every other type of industrial information you can think of, so why not medical information?”
– Margalit Gur-Arie, Founder of BizMed
Source: HIT Consultant
“Certainly investors are investing to make money. It’s in their business model. The best way to ensure that they’re investing in breakthrough ideas is to align margin and mission. Find a business model where the more money you make, the more good you’re doing. If you can tie those, if you can make money on improving outcomes, everybody wins.”
– Halle Tecco, CEO of Rock Health
Source: TechCrunch
“If EHR design is based on user-friendly design principles, I believe some outstanding issues with existing EHR’s can be addressed (not fully, but much closer to what it is now). ”
– Michael Chen, MD, Founder of NOSH Charting System
Source: NOSH
“@RaineDoc: @cmaer @dlschermd Open source doesn’t mean open access. You don’t have to give up security to be open. Often the opposite.”Yep
— David Lee Scher, MD (@dlschermd) September 13, 2013
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