Over the years, this blog has concentrated primarily on how healthcare is being changed by technology. There are two tectonic forces that we believe are changing healthcare today and they…
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“U.S. health-care spending to climb 5.3% in 2018” and Beyond (Part 1)
The U.S. Government Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their annual National Health Expenditures…
Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan Chase
I am writing this blog from the San Francisco International (SFO) Airport, after spending a few days visiting investors in technology, venture capital, and private equity firms from Silicon Valley…
2017 - Amazing Year for Digital Health Investments
We now have quantitative data that 2017 was an amazing year for digital health investments, by the headline, “$5 billion (USD) was invested by venture capital firms into digital health…
Silicon Valley and Healthcare (Part 6)
In our ongoing series on Silicon Valley and healthcare, we began with the discussion of Alphabet/Google’s growing interest in healthcare. We continue this series with Google, so that we can…
Silicon Valley and Healthcare (Part 5)
As we continue our series on Silicon Valley and Healthcare, we move to Mountain View, California; the headquarters of Alphabet, Inc. and its monster subsidiary, Google, Inc. Later in this…