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What would an Uber for healthcare look like? In a perfect world: convenient, quick, easy & inexpensive. — Davis Liu, MD Health Care CEO Jonathan Bush of cloud based EMR athenahealth has a radical vision. Is it possible to make an inpatient EMR purely in the cloud? Would not rule this idea out! Help us build a hospital in the cloud. Harvard Business Review – The CEO of Athenahealth on the Role of Anger in Starting New Businesses. I was completely blown away by the ability to text a doctor for free 24/7 on First Opinion app. Response time was less than 10 seconds. So fast I signed off, because I had no questions. Health care is being outsourced much like manufacturing. The question is how will US doctors respond? And how will First Opinion make money? Might it be machine learning to see what questions patients ask and what physicians respond with? Could a […] Read More »

“It seemed like the medical industry was one that could be disrupted. I went to work on a business plan and the sales and marketing side of it later, but it didn’t fly. We didn’t love it.” – Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk’s brother on a digital health startup they almost founded  Health Care Health care needs to innovate! A Surgery Center That Doubles as an Idea Lab –  Two-dozen of the best health care stories (and journalists) from 2015. All pretty amazing. Did you miss this one? The ugly civil war in American Medicine. Doctors are increasingly furious about “maintenance of certification” rules, and in a controversial Newsweek story, Kurt Eichenwald explains why. The American Medical Association (AMA) is investing $15 million in a San Francisco start-up called Health2047 to disrupt health care because out of the “tens of thousands of initial apps that have emerged, we have a lot of noise but not […] Read More »

Women can get online prescriptions for birth control and antibiotics for urinary tract infections (UTIs) or bladder infections from board-certified US doctors as easily as they can reserve time at a restaurant via OpenTable, purchase books via Amazon, or hail a car via Uber. That is what we aim to do with our Lemonaid app (Apple iOS and Android) and website. This kind of hassle-free, worry-free, convenience that we’ve come to expect in travel, banking, and other aspects of our busy lives has finally come to health care. — Davis Liu, MD Read more why I think this is true.  Health Care Is there a disconnect? Is health care really affordable as the leading cause of personal bankruptcy? Health care in Mass. is ‘very affordable,’ Partners CEO says Trouble for Kaiser? From Forbes columnist Dave Chase, who notes the rise of a new company, Zoom +, “I’ve Seen The Future Of […] Read More »