Taking advice

A few weeks ago, The Next 36 had its National Selection Weekend where they picked their 4th cohort of next generation entrepreneurs. For those who don’t know, The Next 36 is where we started Seamless Mobile Health. I owe a lot of where I am today to that program. Seeing the new cohort made me reflect […]

Uncertainty = Opportunity

It’s human nature to fear the unknown. Both our native instincts and the attitudes of those around us tend to motivate us towards path of certainty and away from uncertainty. We like certainty because it provides us with a framework of what to expect. We like to know whether our ideas will work, whether our […]

Because no one else will

“Most people won’t. Which means those that do change everything.” – Bryce Roberts As I type this, I’m sitting in our company office, sipping a Starbucks and working away on a Saturday afternoon. While some people might feel sorry for me that I’m doing work on a Saturday, believe me when I say you don’t […]

Pursue purpose, not titles

We are always asking kids: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Engineer, basketball player, sports broadcaster, doctor – we hear a wide range of answers. In fact, those were some of my own answers over the years. As we get older, our answers to this question changes. And as we develop […]

Why health outcomes data should directly feed back to the frontline

The first time I met one of my staff physicians on Internal Medicine, he told our team he had just one rule: “Our team must contact the patient’s family physician during the admission, inform him or her of the situation and plan for appropriate patient follow up after discharge.” If you talk to any hospital […]

A new beginning

Although I have been blogging for the past 4 and a half years at MedHopeful, the timing seemed right for a new beginning. At some point in all of our lives, we will face a major transition. Some of us will face more than one. For the first time in my life, I believe I […]