Health | September 30, 2016 |
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Quote of the Week
"There are few sectors as resistant to change as government and health care. We count on their stability. But I have seen those two millstones grind a great idea down to powder. I've also seen initiatives flourish and grow, nurtured on the strong platform that this agency provides.
Innovators need sustained, courageous commitment from the top. We need a culture of experimentation that embraces risk and recognizes that failure is not only an option, but is likely within the safe setting of a lab like ours. And we need to ensure that anyone who sees a problem can research, prototype, and test a solution."
- Susannah Fox, CTO, HHS
| Health Startup Digest is curated by: |  | R. Scott Munro - MBA Candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Contact R. Scott Munro at scott.munro@startupdigestmail.com | How mobile commerce really works  Americans are now doing almost 33% of their online shopping on mobile devices. But what happens when you click “buy” isn’t as simple as it seems. A lot has to happen at lightning speed, with ironclad security, for mobile commerce to work. Check out this infographic, which lays out the entire process, by clicking here.
| Want to support diversity in tech?  Throughout September, Betabrand will donate $5 from every Dress Pant Yoga Pants purchase to the Techstars Foundation, a nonprofit working to improve diversity in technology entrepreneurship. | | Laura Landro - WSJ As CTO for the HHS, Susannah Fox has been doing an incredibly good job at making innovation and technological partnerships a priority for the HHS. Above is a WSJ interview with Susannah that goes over her approach to innovation, the future of HHS, and everything in between. | | Jeff Byers - HealthcareDIVE Despite the AMA's recent comments regarding digital health, it seems that physicians are actually looking forward to digital innovations, per a recent AMA survey. That being said, physicians do still worry about reimbursement, data privacy, and liability. Read more above. | | Paul Darling - ZS Associates ZS Associates often has very good thought leadership on sales and marketing best practices in life sciences. This piece is an interesting take on how life sciences companies deploy sales and marketing assets and how they might change it based on how patients seek care. Patients often don't seek care based on zip codes or state lines (which is how sales assets are often deployed), but rather within what ZS calls local health markets. Quite an interesting take on how to map territories in more effective ways.
| | Kevin Chan - The Enigma This is some very bad news for ACA... nationwide many counties are at risk of only having 1-2 insurers to provide them with plans after many insurers are exiting exchanges. This will no doubt be devastating for consumers that are seeking health insurance from these exchanges as competition will be absolutely wiped out. Read more on the study above. | | | You are receiving this email because you believe that the best startup articles and videos are made by active members of the startup community. Startup Digest, © 2009-2016 by Techstars Central LLC. All rights reserved. Startup Digest is a registered trademark of Techstars Central, LLC. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use. | |
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