 | | Health | October 21, 2016 |
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Quote of the Week
"Change is hard, in my view, because the fruit is harder to pick than we thought. The fruit is hard to pick in part because delivering health care is not much like making a car. Auto manufacturing involves highly standardized and intensively automated workflows. Changing how work gets done may require a lot of capital investment. Nevertheless, a numerically-controlled lathe will change what it does when you reprogram it. And you don't need to worry about the expectations of the steel that the lathe shapes. Medical work is much less standardized. No two patients are the same, biologically, psychologically, or in their social circumstances. Unlike steel, patients have agency that the care system should and must accommodate. All this makes caregiving a matter of craft skills, and care 'algorithms' are often more like suggestions. Above all, because they are craftsmen and craftswomen, and not robots, caregivers can be nudged, but they can't be programmed."
- Bill Gardner
| 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 | Remember operator billing?  Operator billing was once thought to be the perfect mobile commerce platform. But for various reasons, it failed to pick up traction. Learn why, and find out about the new future of m-commerce, here. | | Bill Gardner - Incidental Economist This is a great review of an article in JAMA regarding the lack of improvement in the quality of care between 2002 and now. Gardner's main point, which I find incredibly important, is that we expected quality in health care to improve similar as it has in other industries. Delivering health care to humans is, unfortunately, much more complicated than making a car. Read more above. | | Antonio Regalado - MIT Tech Review A look at the practical implications of CRISPR, and how it may help one person fight their battle with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A lot of they hype around CRISPR is obviously still years away, but this gives a good overview of the process' use for the disease, and more generally. | | Joe Biden - Medium Wondering where we are with Joe Biden's "Cancer Moonshot" - look no further. This report goes into details on Biden's plans, and results to date. | | Steve Lohr - NYT An NYT piece on the progress that IBM is making with Watson. This is highly relevant as we think about the potential for AI in health care, and whether or not Watson can achieve its promise in the industry. | | HIT Consultant A quick look at the potential for ResearchKit and CareKit to enact real change in digital health by giving researchers and innovators the tools to nudge us to be our best selves. | | | 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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