What Would Lisa Suennen Say?
So here we are in mid-November with no more baseball to discuss, receiving no more candidate robo-calls and with an election in the bag (the bag being a nice silk purse if you are a Democrat, a sow’s ear if you are a Republican). As a result, we are now all blessed with an immeasurable […]
What is worse than an unhealthy healthcare person? I am sure if you asked my current family, friends and acquaintances, the answer is a resounding “nothing!” And thus, here I sit, some alleged “expert” on various healthcare topics, and all I can think is that no one ever felt so yucky as I currently do […]
Note: this post also ran 9/7/2012 in HealthcareIT News I was hanging out with David Shaywitz of Forbes the other day and he told me about a piece he wrote some time back about the buzzwords associated with the “innovation” culture that has emerged by name in Silicon Valley and Beyond. In the story, which […]
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 […]
Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was in college, I studied the field of political science. In both undergraduate and graduate school my areas of specialization were public opinion, voting behavior and polling. I worked with the legendarily brilliant Jack Citrin, still at UC Berkeley and now Executive Director of the Institute […]
Shakespeare’s play MacBeth opens with two witches uttering these words: “When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? “When the hurlyburly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won.” The quote refers to the impending reunion of three sister witches intent on evil, but it struck me as a great metaphor for […]
Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance–Plato Let’s just say you own a car. You have undoubtedly purchased insurance for the car and if you are diligent and worried about value and performance, you also are diligent about maintenance. You get the oil changed according to schedule, you fill it with the right kind of […]
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 […]
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.