Over the past few years, the government imposed copious regulations on healthcare providers, most of which are supposed to reduce costs, improve access to...
Author - Kyle Samani
Kyle is CoFounder and CEO of Pristine, a VC backed company based in Austin, TX that builds software for Google Glass for healthcare, life sciences, and industrial environments. Pristine has over 30 healthcare customers. Kyle blogs regularly about business, entrepreneurship, technology, and healthcare at kylesamani.com.
My company sells solutions that typically span multiple avenues of care. We’ve encountered a unique problem: incentives to improve care coordination...
OMSignal recently raised $10M to build sensors into smart clothes. Sensoria recently raised $5M in pursuit of the same mission, albeit using different tactics...
In Where Does It Hurt, Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush explicitly calls out a number of businesses that are disrupting hospitals. Specifically, these businesses...
Like many other enabling-technologies in healthcare, telemedicine has vast unrealized potential. If we make location completely irrelevant and can deliver care...
A family friend was recently admitted to the hospital after a traumatic motorcycle accident in Colorado. He’s not in great condition, but he’s...
As I read Jonathan Bush’s new book, Where Does It Hurt? the most salient problem that Bush discusses is that hospitals can’t effectively measure or...
Apple recently announced Health and Healthkit as part of iOS 8, and initial responses have been mixed. At one extreme, the (highly biased) CEO of Mayo Clinic...
I recently had a chance to meet Dr. Dave Levin, the first CMIO from Cleveland Clinic, at the Texas HIMSS conference, where I spoke about Google Glass in...
The Atlantic just wrote a piece highlighting the growing trend of non-physicians (commonly referred to as midlevels) providing healthcare. The reason is...