Challenges of Health Care Innovation and Investing

Atul Gawande on the promise of digitization to make medical care easier and more efficient, and whether screens may be coming between doctors and p... (2018)

How are healthtech companies creating sustainable growth paths by selling to SMBs? Can companies solely rely on SMB sales to get to scale, or do th... (2022)

Analyzing the moves made by Aetna, CVS, UnitedHealth Group, and DaVita. "The U.S. health care system is begging for disruption. It costs way too... (2017)

a16z Published on Dec 15, 2017 The U.S. spent $2.6 trillion on healthcare in 2010; this is expected to double by 2020. Why so expensive? And wh... (2018)

Analyst report notes that Gilead’s hep C cure will make less than $4 billion this year. (2018)

The “move fast and break things” approach that works in tech doesn’t translate well to healthcare. Instead, digital health startups should try need... (2018)

Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit health organization that provides healthcare and coverage w... (2018)

The U.S. government has spent $36 billion digitizing medical records for better, safer, and cheaper health care. Now the system is a mess. (2019)

Action to prevent deeper access to our private lives and data is more essential than ever Health data paints a rich picture of our lives. Even i... (2020)

Camille Samuels has spent the last five years as a partner with the healthcare venture firm Venrock and a dozen years before that with Versant Vent... (2020)

The U.S. could be on a crash course of increasing ICU capacity--if it had the will. “Ventilators pump oxygen into the lungs of a failing Covid-1... (2020)

Technology has failed the US and much of the rest of the world in its most important role: keeping us alive and healthy. As I write this, more than... (2020)

We should commit tens of billions toward a program. “ Today, the U.S. government could go big and create a Covid-19 vaccine A.M.C., guaranteeing... (2020)