By Gregg A. Masters, MPH You’ve probably heard this expression before if you’re following the innovation curve in medicine, healthcare and the general pursuit of a healthier America that doesn’t bankrupt the Treasury whether at the public trough or on the balance sheets of private corporations. Oft attributed to William Gibson, […]

The future [of medicine] has arrived — it’s just not evenly distributed yet

By Gregg A. Masters, MPH and Douglas Goldstein Though a relative newcomer to the health innovation space, from digital health to healthIT and health-tech including business model innovation, HLTH has made a dent in the universe in its only second year since launch in 2018. Amidst a crowded innovation conference […]

It’s All About #HLTH2019

By Douglas Goldstein and Gregg Masters, MPH Is AI (artificial or “augmented”) intelligence just another buzzword in a sea of healthcare related acronyms to be tracked in the ‘hype cycle’ popularized by Gartner?  Or is it a viable big data set, clinically relevant, deep machine learning, predictive analytics enabler of […]

Harnessing the Power of AI to Achieve the Triple Aim ...

by Gregg A. Masters, MPH and Douglas Goldstein The unsustainable trajectory of the U.S. healthcare spend, including decades of variably labeled and marginally effective government and private sector efforts to restrain its apparently insatiable appetite is no surprise to many of us who’ve been in the policy and execution dance over […]

Precision Medicine and the Pursuit and Promise of a Sustainable ...

by Gregg A. Masters, MPH As noted in the introductory post ‘SAP and Precision or Personalized Medicine‘, SAP Health and Life Sciences has made a substantial commitment to the emerging precision and personalized medicine ecosystem via its connected health group. In this video interview I chat with Dr. Werner Eberhardt, […]

Meet Werner Eberhardt, General Manager Connected Health SAP

by Gregg A. Masters, MPH Favorable brand recognition via audio ‘signatures‘ coupled with catchy video and bite sized tag-line narrative is the marketeer’s holy grail. Many try, though few achieve this ‘mindshare‘ associated brand fusion, let alone corporate, enterprise or organizational goodwill standing. Yet how many of us do not […]

SAP Enters the Precision Medicine Space

by Gregg A. Masters, MPH At ASCO 2016 Joe Biden aka @VP stepped up and challenged the go to gathering of oncologists and allied healthcare practitioners, suppiers, vendors, researchers and even patient advocates to ‘shoot for the moon’, i.e., the Cancer Moonshot. Enjoy! And huge props to ASCO for streaming […]

The Cancer Moonshot via Vice President Joe Biden

by Gregg A. Masters, MPH First CES, then JP Morgan and now the World Economic Forum. 2016 is off to a rather brisk pace in the healthcare innovation, biotech and digital convergence space and while many tend to think in ‘US Centric’ terms, the movement and innovation impulse is rather […]

World Economic Forum: Cancer Moonshot

by Gregg A. Masters, MPH At the 34th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference (see: ‘If it’s January it’s the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference‘ (including free registration to available presenting company webcasts and slide decks) a panel on the Cancer Moonshot 2020 was convened by Moderator: Tycho Peterson, Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst, Life Science […]

JP Morgan Healthcare Conference : Cancer Moonshot 2020

by Gregg A. Masters, MPH I was recently invited by SAP corporate affairs social media leadership to participate in and report on the SAP Personalized Medicine Symposium hosted at the SAP Innovation Center in Palo Alto, California. Two Stanford faculty members, Carlos Bustamante, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Inaugural Chair of […]

The Future is Bright for ‘Computational Biology’ via @StanfordMed Prof ...

by Gregg A. Masters, MPH I was recently invited by SAP corporate affairs social media leadership to participate in and report on the SAP Personalized Medicine Symposium hosted at the SAP Innovation Center in Palo Alto, California. Two Stanford faculty members, Carlos Bustamante, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Inaugural Chair of […]

Population Health v. Precision Medicine: Stanford Professor Euan Ashley Weighs ...