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Individual Blog Posts

  • Healthcare reform, and “cheap colonoscopy”

    My work last month took me to several conferences and locations, and I have come back with a collection of fascinating snapshots illustrating different ways in which the US healthcare ecosystem is responding to the pressures for change that are being exerted on it. Some are depressing, but some offer exciting glimpses of very positive…

  • Can there really be 452 crowd funding platforms?

    Hard not to be struck by this statistic in this morning’s in-box. According to the report below from crowd sourcing.org, there are now 452 crowd funding platforms, and collectively they were used to raise $1.5Billion in 2011, in over a million successful fund-raising campaigns. I thought I was on top of this space, but if…

  • Changing healthcare: Tricorder X Prize

    It’s hard not to get excited about the Tricorder X prize if (like me) you are interested in new things in general, and in ways innovation can be applied to reengineering the US healthcare system in particular. I spent some time recently reading carefully through the draft guidelines which describe just what this “Tricorder” needs…

  • Crowdfunding: more work needed

    Crowd-funding challenges Nice post yesterday by “Startup Iceland” on the challenges of creating a robust Crowdfunding platform. This concept is certainly resonating way beyond the normal Silicon Valley world! The author acknowledges some of the issues that are scaring various pundits in the blogosphere, and might make crowdfunding “risky”. He mentions: Information asymmetry; Valuation issues; High…

  • Crowdfunding and the Nanny State

    Lots of activity in the blogosphere this week on Crowdfunding, coinciding with debate in the Senate of the so-called JOBS bill (HR3606), which contains various provisions relating to Crowdfunding. I wanted to comment on some of the different perspectives, and in particular, on a series of recent posts in one of my favorite blogs, Baseline Scenario.

  • Top healthcare cost categories

    This post examines the size of the different components that make up the total $2.6 Trillion National Healthcare Expenditures (NHE) of the USA. It also looks at the different growth rates of the components. This is the third installment in our series on US healthcare costs. For background to this project, which is all about…

  • Eating the seed-corn of healthcare

    In the prior post in this series, I concluded that controlling healthcare cost growth was about reducing the differential growth rate of NHEPC (compared to GDP per capita) by a couple of percent per year. This made me want to dig deeper into the question of what exactly is NHEPC (National Healthcare Expenditures Per Capita)? I…

  • Healthcare cost growth analysis (1)

    As explained in this prior post, I am working on a project to identify fertile opportunity spaces resulting from runaway healthcare costs. Here is the first installment of my investigation, my first steps to understanding the healthcare cost curves. (For details of data sources see the references at the bottom.) Typical media depiction of healthcare costs…

  • Runaway healthcare costs create opportunities

    We all know US healthcare costs are growing at a rate most consider unsustainable. If you accept the premise that a lot of time and attention will be focused over the next decade on ways to improve healthcare quality and reduce costs (or perhaps reduce costs without reducing quality?), then there are likely to be…

  • Fewer IPO’s: the reasons

    Relating to my last post on Crowdfunding and the 99%, yesterday’s Wall St Journal had an excellent summary of the state of the US IPO (Initial Public Offering) market, written by Jack Markell, Governor of Delaware. In my earlier Crowdfunding post, I made the point that the small, early-stage companies that a public investor could…

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