10 Reasons Why Digital Health Startups Fail

10 Reasons Why Digital Health Startups Fail

Startups, in general, fail for many reasons. One observer mentioned his top 5 reasons as 1) lack of capital, 2) expanding too soon, 3) heavy reliance on debt, 4) poor strategy, and 5) poor business model and plan.

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UnitedHealth to Acquire Workers' Compensation Benefits Company Helios for $1.6B

UnitedHealth to Acquire Workers' Compensation Benefits Company Helios for $1.6B

UnitedHealth is on the verge of acquiring Helios, who provides workers' compensation and pharmacy benefit management to some of the largest U.S. insurers and third-party administrators. It manages more than 7 million prescriptions annually.

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USC's Virtual Care Clinic Now Making Hologram House Calls

USC's Virtual Care Clinic Now Making Hologram House Calls

At the opening of the 9th annual USC Body Computing Conference, Dr. Leslie Saxon screened a video of her image as a hologram in real time to her patient in Dubai. Dr. Saxon, a cardiologist and the conference's founder, calls it hologram house calls since she can speak with patients and walk them through treatment options without ever having to leave her office. 

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10 Reasons Doctors Make Great Entrepreneurs

10 Reasons Doctors Make Great Entrepreneurs

Conventional wisdom has it that “doctors are lousy businesspeople,” and they should just take care of patients and leave the business stuff to someone else. In my opinion, these beliefs are no longer sustainable if doctors are to thrive in the new US healthcare environment. As someone who works with physician entrepreneurs, I know that doctors have the potential to make great entrepreneurs.

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