Neil Versel
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MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum, to take place April 22-23 in Chicago, unites active investors with corporate business development executives to facilitate investment opportunities with promising Mid-America based startups.
The event showcases emerging innovation and technology dealflow originating in the Midwest, and has earned the reputation as the premier healthcare investing conference.
The speaker lineup reflects a stellar program and some of the industry’s most influential and innovative leaders.
A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
To get to know each of these leaders a little better before the conference, we asked them each the same four questions. Neil Versel is a Chicago-based freelance journalist specializing in health information technology, mobile healthcare, healthcare quality, physician practice and hospital management and healthcare finance.
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1. Who influenced you to get involved in healthcare and/or investing?
I kind of fell into it when Modern Physician hired me as a reporter in late 2000. After I was downsized out of a job at the end of 2003, I stayed in healthcare as a freelancer.
2. What do you think is the most important change happening in healthcare today?
The switch from volume-based to value-based payment.
3. What is your biggest pitch pet peeve/what’s the most bizarre press pitch you’ve ever received?
I get media pitches, not investment pitches, but my biggest pet peeve is over-reliance on jargon. I can’t stand the use of “solution” as a synonym for product or service. If everyone has so many “solutions,” why hasn’t anything in healthcare been solved yet?
4. What’s one piece of advice you would give to an entrepreneur?
Direct-to-consumer is a risky strategy in healthcare, where there is little price transparency and most things are paid for by third parties.
Find out how other speakers answered these questions here.
