What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
All eyes are on the hullaballoo created by the challenges at Healthcare.gov and several of the states’ public insurance exchanges. Yet all the while, like in a magic show, attention has been diverted from the real action going on elsewhere. Quietly and in a relatively drama-free way, the private health insurance exchanges are busily taking […]
While I was time-wasting on Facebook or Twitter or whatever it was the other day, I came across a Kaiser Family Foundation quiz about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now commonly known as the ACA. Since I spend at least 94.7% of my time dealing with issues related to the ACA, I figured […]
Two momentous events took place on Thursday, June 28th, the day I am writing this post. First, the Supreme Court of the United States Upheld the legality of the Affordable Care Act, setting the stage for continued massive healthcare industry change including nearly universal health insurance coverage. I could have written in depth about this […]
Recently Steve Case wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post called Give Entrepreneurs Room and They Will Grow the Economy. For those not familiar with him, Case was the original founding CEO of AOL and he has been an active healthcare investor, among other things, for the past 7 years. My firm, Psilos Group, has […]
Last year about this time of year I wrote a parody of Twas the Night Before Christmas about the coming of healthcare IT and meaningful use. I decided to make these holiday parody songs an annual event. I figure I have years of material, as there are so many ways of ruining an otherwise joyous […]
You know how they always say that in venture capital and private equity investing, great management is even more important than a great idea? Well, when you get both together, it’s like finding a rainbow-colored unicorn. So please meet our unicorn du jour, Bryce Williams, CEO of ExtendHealth. Bryce is the poster child for dedicated, […]
Once upon a time in 1955, Fortune Magazine published its first Fortune 500 list, an annual list that ranks the top 500 U.S. public and private companies based on their gross revenue. The original Fortune 500 was restricted to companies whose revenues were derived from manufacturing, mining, or energy exploration, although Fortune published some ancillary […]
Once upon a time in 1955, Fortune Magazine published its first Fortune 500 list, an annual list that ranks the top 500 U.S. public and private companies based on their gross revenue. The original Fortune 500 was restricted to companies whose revenues were derived from manufacturing, mining, or energy exploration, although Fortune published some ancillary […]
This weekend’s NY Times had an Op-Ed by doctors Peter Bach and Robert Kocher about why medical school should be free for people willing to pursue a career in primary care. Drs. Bach and Kocher note that primary care is critical to the successful improvement of quality and cost in the healthcare system and yet […]
This weekend’s NY Times had an Op-Ed by doctors Peter Bach and Robert Kocher about why medical school should be free for people willing to pursue a career in primary care. Drs. Bach and Kocher note that primary care is critical to the successful improvement of quality and cost in the healthcare system and yet […]
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.