COVID has strained our healthcare system, payors are feeling the squeeze of rising costs, and patients are bearing the brunt of the current system’s shortcomings. As a result, healthcare is undergoing a transformation, from care that is predominately fee for service and based on volume of care to value-based care. Risk-based contracts are critical to building businesses based on risk and value, rather than fees and volume. We talked to digital health builders — from Firefly Health, Pearl Heal...

COVID has strained our healthcare system, payors are feeling the squeeze of rising costs, and patients are bearing the brunt of the current system’s shortcomings. As a result, healthcare is undergoing a transformation, from care that is predominately fee for service and based on volume of care to value-based care. Risk-based contracts are critical to building businesses based on risk and value, rather than fees and volume. We talked to digital health builders — from Firefly Health, Pearl Heal...

FacebookLinkedInTwitterWe are now in the era of collaborative building, enjoying the benefits of many popular open source projects which power every company’s software stack. This new behavioral trait also permeates through every organization’s internal development processes. Developers benefit from not only asynchronous time advantages, but also from peer knowledge and the review process to produce high quality software. There are a few activities in a software engineer’s life that have beco...

FacebookLinkedInTwitterWe are now in the era of collaborative building, enjoying the benefits of many popular open source projects which power every company’s software stack. This new behavioral trait also permeates through every organization’s internal development processes. Developers benefit from not only asynchronous time advantages, but also from peer knowledge and the review process to produce high quality software. There are a few activities in a software engineer’s life that have beco...

Over a decade after the idea of “big data” was first born, data continues to be one of the most important and furiously growing innovation drivers across both large enterprises and new startups. From providing pulse checks that are foundational to business operations to intelligently automating daily tasks through machine learning, data has become the central nervous system for decision-making in organizations of all sizes. Moreover, the use of data now reaches well beyond data scientists, da...

Over a decade after the idea of “big data” was first born, data continues to be one of the most important and furiously growing innovation drivers across both large enterprises and new startups. From providing pulse checks that are foundational to business operations to intelligently automating daily tasks through machine learning, data has become the central nervous system for decision-making in organizations of all sizes. Moreover, the use of data now reaches well beyond data scientists, da...

There has been a lot of buzz about “the metaverse” since its coinage in the ‘90s, but especially during the pandemic (given the surge in online activity), and even more so after Facebook changed its name to Meta. Is this just a bit of opaque marketing-speak? What is a metaverse exactly? How does one define the term, and where does one draw a line between a metaverse and, say, just another virtual world? These are common questions that people ask about the metaverse, so we thought we’d outline...

There has been a lot of buzz about “the metaverse” since its coinage in the ‘90s, but especially during the pandemic (given the surge in online activity), and even more so after Facebook changed its name to Meta. Is this just a bit of opaque marketing-speak? What is a metaverse exactly? How does one define the term, and where does one draw a line between a metaverse and, say, just another virtual world? These are common questions that people ask about the metaverse, so we thought we’d outline...

Early on in her web3 journey, LDF met Disco’s CEO and founder, Evin McMullen. At the time, LDF vented to Evin about all of her ideas around individuals and their data: “I was like I’ve always had this idea of people owning their own data and like companies not having to hold it or deal with security concerns or personally identifiable information like I don’t know how that would work.” According to LDF Evin just sat there, listened and said “yeah so this technology exists and it’s called veri...

Early on in her web3 journey, LDF met Disco’s CEO and founder, Evin McMullen. At the time, LDF vented to Evin about all of her ideas around individuals and their data: “I was like I’ve always had this idea of people owning their own data and like companies not having to hold it or deal with security concerns or personally identifiable information like I don’t know how that would work.” According to LDF Evin just sat there, listened and said “yeah so this technology exists and it’s called veri...

Even in today’s modern era of care delivery, this description of a physician’s core responsibilities still resonates. As patients, we hope – and even expect – that our care teams are constantly tracking details of our present health, recognizing signs and symptoms learned from millions of other previously treated patients like us, and using all this data to anticipate what could happen next. In other words, we want “always-on” care. And yet today, as a physician in 2022, I often lament that I...

Even in today’s modern era of care delivery, this description of a physician’s core responsibilities still resonates. As patients, we hope – and even expect – that our care teams are constantly tracking details of our present health, recognizing signs and symptoms learned from millions of other previously treated patients like us, and using all this data to anticipate what could happen next. In other words, we want “always-on” care. And yet today, as a physician in 2022, I often lament that I...