OpenAI released ChatGPT one month ago and already this next generation chatbot built on a sophisticated Large Language Model (LLM) has taken the world by storm. If you haven’t yet, I urge you to give it a try – it WILL blow your mind! Chatbots are not new, but a few key traits have made […]
In medical school, a classmate texted me: “Hey – I’m on my surgery rotation, and the chief resident says you’re the best medical student they’ve ever had. What did you do? Because I want to get into this program and I’d love to impress them.” I was surprised. This was a highly competitive specialty that […]
One of my most memorable experiences as a 3rd year med student was caring for John. John was a 50-year old patient with metastatic lung cancer. His prognosis was poor – he only had a few months to live. Never smoked. No real risk factors. Just really bad luck. John was admitted to the hospital […]
When we started SeamlessMD to deliver digital care journeys for patients, we did many hospital pilots. Before involving hospital executives, clinical teams told us we needed to do a pilot to prove the ROI. No one wanted to engage hospital leadership at all until we had data in hand. We were regularly told “if we […]
“We’ve designed the healthcare system to make it easy for healthier patients to get care. But we make it hard for our sickest, most complex patients – who need care the most – to get the care they need.” This was a stunning realization for me. 🤯 When I heard this quote, I was in […]
It was a summer day seven years ago. We had closed our 1st U.S. hospital customer for SeamlessMD and I couldn’t be more ecstatic. Unfortunately, our excitement was short-lived. We “implemented” our solution, but patient enrollment was going poorly. When we went on-site to investigate, we learned that surgeons were pushing back against patients getting […]
Yesterday I learned about yet another of our health system customers who presented results at a major conference, demonstrating reductions in readmissions by 50% and length of stay by 20%. We had no idea! We only found out thanks to Twitter. Over 30 clinical studies or evaluations have been done by our health system partners […]
The last time I wrote here was May 2016. Since then, I’ve been laser focused on building my Digital Health company SeamlessMD. The crazy thing is that without writing, SeamlessMD wouldn’t exist. How could that possibly be the case? In December 2012, we pitched the venture idea for what eventually became SeamlessMD at The Next […]