What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
Few of you are likely old enough to remember “Who’s on First?,” the famous comedy bit from Abbott and Costello, but that’s a shame. If you haven’t heard it, you really should seek it out (listen here) because it’s one of the funniest comedy skits in history, at least in the view of me and […]
My lovely friend Susannah Fox thinks and writes extensively about peer-to-peer healthcare, as well as the plight of people with rare health conditions. In a recent article, she developed a framework for thinking about what conditions do and don’t get addressed to patients’ satisfaction (and her friends helped her render it as below): Susannah asked […]
This article ran last week in STAT News – delighted to pass it along to my fellow space buffs and thank you to STAT for telling the story of TRISH. By Asha Collins, Lisa Suennen and Armen R. Kherlopian SpaceX Inspiration4, funded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, recently orbited the Earth for three days with an […]
For ages I’ve been saying that the term “digital health” should be retired – that it is a bit of a lazy term that evolved around 10-12 years ago at a time when technology and healthcare rarely appeared in the same zip code, much less in the same enterprise. At that time, it was surprising […]
You know how when you hear a song or a new word that you haven’t heard before, all of a sudden you start hearing it everywhere? Like you never heard anyone say the word “phygital” and all of a sudden it’s everywhere as if some sort of tipping point has been reached. Today was that […]
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard A few blogs back I wrote about valuations, how they are determined and how crazy they have been. In that piece, called Unraveling the Magical Mystery of Valuation Math, I talked about how valuations of private companies are derived and, […]
If you are age 75 or less, you have undoubtedly heard or read the children’s book Goodnight, Moon. It is a staple, at least in American children’s literature. The book was published in 1947, and written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. It is estimated that the book has sold somewhere in the […]
I have heard a few people refer to the COVID pandemic as a “Black Swan Event.” This concept – if you don’t know it – has been around since the 2nd Century but came into common parlance more broadly when Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote his popular books called Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan […]
In my less cynical moments, I like to think that the organizing principle for much of healthcare today is this: how can we do the most for the most people for the least amount of money? The cynical version might be: what can I create for the most people so I can create the greatest […]
In 2012 I ran my first blog post on Health IT Bingo. It was a hit. In 2014, in honor of a proximate HIMSS meeting, I updated the Bingo story, but I didn’t update the Bingo board. Little had changed between 2012 and 2014, including the buzzwords. Digital health was really not even being called […]
Lisa Suennen is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is also co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.