The Status of Women in Medicine

The Status of Women in Medicine

International Women's Day is a time to inventory the status of women in medicine and women physician entrepreneurship in the US and throughout the world. The economic, business, educational, healthcare, social, political, and justice benefits of gender equality around the world are evident. Yet, barriers remain. 

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How Millennials Will Change the Healthcare Industry

How Millennials Will Change the Healthcare Industry

I recently attended an event in an area of Denver, named as #1 on a list of best cities to live, which was a former warehouse district that now has been redeveloped as an innovation district, filled with bars, co-working spaces, sports venues, creatives, hoodies, hotels with funny names and lots of startup people.

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10 Ways to Screw Up Your Patient Portal

10 Ways to Screw Up Your Patient Portal

Patient portals are supposed to provide patients access to their EMR information and make it easier to interact with their doctors. They are taughted to be an important weapon in the patient engagement arsenal. Many just misfire.

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10 Recent Trends in Physician Entrepreneurship

10 Recent Trends in Physician Entrepreneurship

Physician entrepreneurship has changed from being a curiosity to becoming mainstream in five short years. Defined as physicians pursuing opportunity with scarce resources with the goal of creating user-defined value through the deployment of biomedical and clinical innovation, we are starting to see some trends and fault lines forming. 

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Get Real About Digital Health

Get Real About Digital Health

Like an anxious, expectant father, pundits and reporters just can't wait for the birth of "real" digital health, with all the hype and promise of a new life for sick care. Their commentary and reporting, however, reflects some fundamental misunderstandings about digital health: 

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