Namrata is an MD, Family Medicine Physician, with an MS in Management from Stanford GSB. She has over 14 years of experience in healthcare executive and advisory roles: including VC, Product advisor to startups, Partner of a primary care clinic and Digital Transformation leader for a health system. She currently serves on the Health Advisory Board at Palantir and as a Board Advisor at Medwise.ai.
Current billing practices do not adequately meet the needs of consumers, providers or payers. While there is no magic wand, reinventing billing processes in the US will require measures that strengthen consumer protection, and continued policy change towards fairer drug pricing and increased price transparency of provider service costs.
I am a practicing UK general practitioner and in this article, I take a magnifying glass to quality indicators including access, affordability, healthcare inequalities and population health, staffing and equipment, and patient and provider experience to discuss how we can shape up.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
No single practitioner can be left with the ownership of patient care. The single point of truth should lie with the patient and their clinical record.
The healthcare industry is responsible for 4.4% of global net emissions, or over 2 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2). The need to address this fact is so pressing that the World Health Organization (WHO) recently put out a comprehensive set of climate guidelines for healthcare facilities across the world.
Child and adolescent mental health, palliative care and clinical AI are among opportunities that investors should consider closely this year an in the future.