What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
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 […]
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 […]
Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin spends his days doing what he loves, leveraging technology to pragmatically improve the health and the care of patients. Griffin grew up in Virginia, the […]
I’m sick. I have some nasty bronchitis thing and it sucks. There is nothing worse than a sick healthcare industry person. We are the worst patients ever because we know all the things that can go wrong and we know all the ways we can make ourselves worse. And that makes us even crankier than […]
Dr. Molly Coye comes from a family who was obsessed with innovation and had a high tolerance for risk. They also had a history of commitment to anything that would disrupt unjust social paradigms and passed that down through the generations. Molly has packed all of these qualities and more into a healthcare career marked […]
I was in Las Vegas at HIMSS this last week, which, for the uninitiated, is a veritable orgy of health information technology (HIT). Someone from HIMSS leadership told me that over 42,000 people had shown up and they were expecting closer to 45,000. It’s a long way from 1998, I’ll tell you. Back then HIT […]
Last week I had the opportunity to address 100 or so members of the Health Management Academy, a group of very senior healthcare system executives from the nation’s largest health systems (representing >1700 hospitals) who meet to “exchange best practices and benchmark information on increasing the quality and efficiency of healthcare.” The meeting was held […]
Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone, long time passing? Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone, long time ago? Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone? Consumers have ignored them everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? -Peter, Paul and Mary, as edited by me […]
“There’s no such thing as a natural-born pilot.” – Chuck Yeager Today I typed the phrase “famous pilots” into Google and the top response was “Amelia Earhart.” I thought that particularly appropriate since I had planned to write this particular blog post on the plague of healthcare IT pilots that has become a black cloud […]
OK, ready for today’s English lesson? Our concept for today is “portmanteau.” For you language nerds, a portmanteau is the combining of the sounds and meanings of two words into one new word. Originally coined, they think (whomever “they” are) by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass, you are definitely familiar with the concept […]
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.