It has been said, that healthcare is the hardest problem because it’s about human life. Each year Rock Health Summit brings together leaders and innovators in medicine, technology, and policy to inspire, spark and question how these three important areas of healthcare can collectively rise the the challenges of improved health services. Below is a collection of tweets highlighting what was said during the conference regarding data, patients, privacy, and AI.
Things we shouldn’t still be talking about at #RHSUM (or healthcare) in 2019: fax and CDs. “I get my healthcare data on a CD-ROM sometimes. How do I find a computer to see it?” – @chrissyfarr ? pic.twitter.com/GIBeX8SPQC
— Rock Health (@Rock_Health) September 25, 2019
Modern tech in #healthcare? Bullshit. We just received 25+ PDFs in WINGDINGS after making a request for a patient’s claims data under HIPAA right of access. The other 30 docs in zip file were either blank or useless. More at the panel moderated by @vijaypande at #RHSUM tomorrow
— Premal S. Shah (@premal2000) September 24, 2019
“So much of healthcare is janitorial paper work. Sending faxes from the 3rd to the 5th floor and reentering thousands of pages into incompatible EHR.” @premal2000 of @ciitizencorp #RHSUM pic.twitter.com/OQ3M6YiqxV
— James McCarter (@JPMcCarter) September 25, 2019
“If we can use our phone to find out where our pizza is, why not use our phone to find out where our lab test is?” Sarah Krevans @SutterHealth The New Competitive Landscape in #Healthcare #RHSUM
— Heather Creran (@Heather_Creran) September 24, 2019
88% download and interact with apps, respond to notifications. – @QuilHealth
— Sameer K Berry, MD, MBA (@sameerkberry) September 24, 2019
“This is not us (physicians) versus technology but rather us (physicians) with technology.”
— Carium (@cariumcares) September 25, 2019
Jesse Ehrenfeld MD MPH @DoctorJesseMD, Board Chair @AmerMedicalAssn #RHSUM pic.twitter.com/9lIy8htWGf
This hits the nail on the head! ? Technology can and has advanced rapidly in most sectors, but healthcare is subject to a much steeper adoption curve given the profound impact – positive or negative – it can have on a person’s life. #RHSUM https://t.co/KNP3nbeXYY
— Katrina Rios (@katcrios) September 25, 2019
Advice for entrepreneurs entering healthcare from @DaphneKoller: Come w/ respect for the space + the experts in it. Respect for moving cautiously + slowly bc breaking things isn’t legit when people’s lives are at stake. Let go of the hubris of ‘I know everything’ @insitro #RHSUM pic.twitter.com/GsnkM0dGJo
— Megan Zweig (@MeganKZweig) September 25, 2019
Med startup 3 takeaways: ① Build on early success at small sites 1st ② Show us you know about medicine or health system & won’t need to learn it all from us ③ Find internal champions with pain points, don’t try to enter through IT @Rock_Health #RHSUM
— Atul Butte (@atulbutte) September 24, 2019
The simple ideas are often the most powerful. “Things we use like peer support and text already existed. But our insight was to use tech as a platform to facilitate human connections—and scale it up immediately.” – @JayneShrenik, founder and CEO of @MarigoldHealth #RHSUM
— Rock Health (@Rock_Health) September 24, 2019
There’s a pervasive and wrong idea out there that with “lots and lots of data, you’re going to be able to make up with quantity instead of quality.” – @insitro’s @DaphneKoller #RHSUM pic.twitter.com/vvpZSLPafM
— Erin Brodwin ⚡️ (@erbrod) September 25, 2019
Some perspective from the techlash talk:
— emocha (@emochaHealth) September 25, 2019
–73% of patients are willing to share data with providers
–52% with health plan
–19% with pharma
–12% with government
–10% with tech companies@Rock_Health #RHSUM pic.twitter.com/5a8tKlwv4H
Scalability in #digitalhealth doesn’t happen overnight.
— Rock Health (@Rock_Health) September 26, 2019
“It’s okay to do unscalable things so long as they’re the right ones.” @heathermirj @solvhealth
“Don’t be afraid to get rid of last year’s processes and re-tune them for this year.” @seanduffy @omadahealth #RHSUM
“Try to understand what your pain points are and how a community of people can help you. So much of healthcare is relational—having a community is a good way to start to have policy shifts for innovators.” – @AdimikaA @HT4Medicaid #RHSUM
— Rock Health (@Rock_Health) September 26, 2019
“If you ask successful CEOs what made it happen, they’ll say they never gave up. You have to care so much about the problem & believe it will make an impact on a grand scale, to a point where it literally feels like a compulsion.” – @seanduffy at @Rock_Health Summit #RHSUM pic.twitter.com/w7UxQOeu02
— Omada Health (@omadahealth) September 26, 2019
