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Archive for May, 2008

Some closing thoughts from last week:

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008


+Congrats to Don Jones, Rob McCray and the team at Connect for organizing such a worthwhile conference

+Healthcare is local and its a cottage industry- there will be lots of expirimentation and failures before we see real improvement the consumer will come to the forefront- Technology is the enabler technology is not the end game- David Gruber J and J

What will drive customers to adopt is the value proposition. The product/service does not exist if customers don’t buy it…. David Gruber J.and J

The docs as a community have to come to consensus you need science that referenced and it needs to change the docs income

The chronological mindset of doctors oldset and new mind set- not age set

Access to information will lower costs

Stenghen the physician! More tools better decisions- less the burden

The industy is informational but the reimbursement is physical-

$300 Billion dollars of waste wow what a market… Jim Sweeney

15 million women looking after 2 sets of parents— an unserved market

Onstar- a monitored car costs less than unmonitored on warranty… Will Google and or Microsoft be the repository for this data.. Do consumers need and or want a PHR . Healthcare consumers want to be told whats next..Can we put personal tools into the consumers hands… See what they will do with them.. Don Jones- Qualcomm

Can some on please develop the Quicken of health care? Paul Jacobs- CEO Qualcomm

Where are the successful examples from the consumer world-Apple- Nike the world wide marathon social interaction is necessary..

We will al be nodes on the web constantly being monitored..

Amir Jafri and Cardinal Health

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Cardinal Health was also a sponsor of the conference I used to work in their Clinical Technologies and Services group. Great bunch of people. Amir Jafri, Joe Condurso( founder of Imetrikus) are two really innovative guys. They are cooking up some new technologies that will save people lives by avoiding the administration of the wrong medication.. We need to keep an eye on the Cardinal share price( CAH:NYSE)

Andy Kessler

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Andy Kessler was the guest speaker at lunch . Made a pretty strong case that the price of medicine will decline.. Just look at the Pharma P/E ratios .
Silicon will replace carbon. ATMs replaced the cashiers/ tellers in banks. There was a lively discussion about how the physicians brain contains the wisdom that a computer( silicon ) could never replace. I got jay and Andy to share a photo. It was a short conversation. Jay and I are going to take Andy out for lunch soon…


Philippe Kahn

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Philippe Kahn the inventor of the camera phone spoke at this weeks conference. Larger than life man. The focus of his new startup Fullpower is to embed sensing technologies in the mobile phone. These new sensors will be able to measure an amazing variety of health related data. Altitude, temperature,motion, temperature, blood pressure, radiation. As Phillip mentioned we will soon be able to turn this data into actionable information. Turn the headlights on so to speak and see what is in our health highway.. This theme has been very close to the core mission of myca since our funding. We have presented several demonstrations of a mobile health dashboard. I connected with Philippe after the conference and I’m sure you will be hearing more about Myca and Fullpower. There will be 2 Billion camera phones shipped in 2010.

Myca at Wireless-Life Sciences Conference

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Hi I’m Nat, the founder of Myca. I’ll be blogging here with Jay. We are both in San Diego for the Wireless Life Sciences Conference. Qualcomm is the sponsor. It is my third year attending and speaking at the conference. I’ve met so many fascinating people here. Certainly one of the most visionary is Jim Sweeney. Jim has founded eight successful healthcare technology startups. Jims latest is Cardionet. ( NASDQ;BEAT) Jim thinks Myca is in the right zip code.He is enthusiastic about the multiple ways in which the myca platform could eliminate wasted time and resources in the delivery of care. Jim is also a golf nut like me. We played yesterday in freezing conditions at a beautiful Fazio course. The Grand. Jims wife Galina hits the ball a mile. I hope we will see more of Jim at Myca in the months to come.

Jim and Galina

Jay Parkinson Sells Out?

Monday, May 12th, 2008

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