By Natalie Hodge, MD, FAAP and Brandi Harless, MPH
After a spending a whirlwind week at Cleveland Clinic, becoming a newly minted member of Startup Health’s Army, followed up by demo day with the Xlerate Health Crew, we have a newfound clarity on entrepeneurship.
We are not alone.
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We have our incredible home grown Kentucky team, and now the cumulative teams of our international network.
There might be no problem left unsolved in healthcare here.
We basically feel it’s a privilege to be entrepreneurs ushering in new business models and creating markets. We just couldn’t stand to keep whining about the status quo. We had to act, each of us using our own talents to their best level.
We are doers, thinkers, tinkerers, problem solvers, hackers, and last but not least, lots of doctors, in a hipster, hacker, hustler dynamic, to quote Dave McClure at 500 startups.
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Then wrap us all up in this incredible Krein tour de force, power siblings, with a dream team of front men, Wall Street gurus, operations forces, and Ivy League connected task masters, and it sends chills down any old jaded primary care doctor’s spine.
We listened to Cleveland Clinic’s CEO discuss his early vision of doing cardiac surgery a different way, and his trials and tribulations along the way. Disruption always wins in the marketplace. Customers always win.
Forty-five 59 second pitches blasted into the audience, back to back ushered on and off the stage like the best of Broadway productions.
Then we planed and automobiled our way down and then back up to Louisville, to pitch on our home turf, ushered in by the mayor of Louisville and every healthcare CEO worth his salt within driving radius. Pitching employer wellness, autism diagnostic imaging, physical therapy automation, genetic marker discovery and advancement, home care disruption, and then last but not least some crazy entrepreneurs who want to eliminate lifestyle disease in the at risk Robert Wood Johnson “fat states”. We are two women, by the way, and a hacker.
We were glad to see at the conclusion of my Xlerate pitch, folks were clapping and nodding, giving me conviction that 90 million people walking around with marginal a1c levels is a big problem beyond my practice and ecosystem. Every physician looking at it had a new use for the dashboard that we hadn’t thought of yet, from event recording to rule out. Hypoglycemia, to the detection of illness by lack of accelerometer movement.
There was a little “gasp” when I mentioned the $59 Android phone and the ushering in of a digital age of healthcare in 2015. This is real and it is happening now for patients.
Get on board. The digital train is leaving the station. Are you on it? Come hear us speak at Mhealth Summit in December about engaging the disconnected.
