What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
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 […]
For those of you interested in the program I moderated in Sacramento last week on Health Reform in California, here is the video for you to watch. The overall program is about 90 minutes, but the actual panel starts at minute 17:35 (before that is some remarks from Sacramento Mayor (and former …
An ode to healthcare information technology modernization by Lisa Suennen, stealing liberally from Clement Clarke Moore ‘Twas the night before Christmas, in the ER of St. Strauss, Not a doctor was working, not even House; The IVs were hung by the bedsides with care, In hopes that some pain meds soon would be there; The […]
“The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual” 1963 quote from Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. I moderated a panel last week for Xconomy that was focused on consumer-oriented healthcare information technology. The panel included 2 hospital chief information officers (one current, one […]
The Cleveland Clinic recently published an annual Top 10 list of what their leadership believes to be the most significant advances in medicine in each of the last five years. In 2007-2008 all of the items on the top 10 lists were either medical devices, clinical diagnostics,pharmaceutical or biotech products. These sectors were basically the […]
While I am always reticent to promote anything that comes out of Stanford given my Cal Bear roots, a lawyer friend of mine, Stephen Thau, recently sent me an article from e!Science News that is definitely worth mentioning for the significance of the invention it describes and the fact that the inventors behind it are […]
There was a great article authored by Gregory Huang and posted in Xconomy on September 1st called Party Like It’s 1999: 10 Old Tech Ideas That Are New Again. The article was basically about the top 10 things that are hot right now but are, essentially, “back to the future” developments in technology that […]
According to an August 18th, 2010 Reuters article, a new study suggests that a patient’s odds of having an orthopedic operation may depend on whether or not the surgeon has a financial stake in the treatment center. Patients receiving care for their wrist, rotator cuff or knee from a provider with …
According to an August 18th, 2010 Reuters article, a new study suggests that a patient’s odds of having an orthopedic operation may depend on whether or not the surgeon has a financial stake in the treatment center. Patients receiving care for their wrist, rotator cuff or knee from a provider with …
I had the chance to see Aneesh Chopra speak at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last Wednesday, August 18th. Chopra is the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer and officially works in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. You know all that healthcare information technology stuff you have been hearing about from […]
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.