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Comment on Be Wary Of Healthcare IT Startups by John Lynn - EMR and HIPAA

John Lynn - EMR and HIPAA — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:00:30 +0000

John,
You’re right that they should be able to illustrate the benefit. However, if every hospital waits for “client references, a proven track record, or a successful implementation” then no new solutions will ever be adopted since no one will be first. A vision and trust in a company can overcome a previously proven track record. Many hospital CIOs are just overwhelmed by the minutiae that they lack vision of where they should take their hospital.

Comment on Be Wary Of Healthcare IT Startups by Nattie

Nattie — Sun, 19 May 2013 06:26:12 +0000

This is an interesting post.
I would like to “represent” the other party- the one of the startup companies.
As a due diligence, I am working in an Israeli start up (SphereUp).
We mainly approach service oriented organizations, like hospitals and universities, offering them our patent pending solution. Although we don’t have dedicated sales people (as of yet), we feel that we are getting a good grip of the market.
I am assuming that organizations, in healthcare like in other verticals, value a good solution when they see one, especially one that can help them grow their patient base (online), even when sales people are not involved yet.

Comment on Be Wary Of Healthcare IT Startups by John

John — Sat, 04 May 2013 04:08:34 +0000

Great post Will. Many of these companies have approached us and have technical knowledge, but struggle to convince us the benefit of their product over what is already established in the marketplace. Even when the sales pitch has been top-notch, I don’t see how one could sell such a giant leap of faith to leadership without strong client references, a proven track record, or a successful implementation under their belt.

Comment on Thoughts on Presentations by tomcatalini

tomcatalini — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:09:44 +0000

So this post kicked off a bunch of thinking on my part, and a bit of research to share key presentation tips with students in a class I teach at Bentley University.

Here are three items, 2 videos and 1 article that can really help someone to “up there game” without a lot of effort to read all the books recommended here or do lots of research and analysis. All can all be consumed in 20 minutes or less. Thought I’d share here:

http://www.tomcatalini.com/take-20-minutes-to-learn-the-best-presentation-tips/

Hope you find it useful.

Tom

Comment on Read The Regulations by John Lynn - EMR and HIPAA

John Lynn - EMR and HIPAA — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:20:10 +0000

Both types of content have their place depending on what you’re trying to accomplish. The problem with the regs is exactly what you describe. In a 300 page regulation there might be 5 pages in the middle that really matter and are the actual regulation. All the other pages are background, reference material, a discussion of the comments, etc etc etc. Knowing which 5 pages really matter is the key to reading the regs.

Comment on Be Wary Of Healthcare IT Startups by John Lynn - EMR and HIPAA

John Lynn - EMR and HIPAA — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:18:13 +0000

I’d also be careful not to lump all startups in with the idea that they’re all well funded startups that pay for sales people. In fact, I think the opposite is more common. Most of the healthcare startups are a bunch of really smart programmers/designers that are trying to create a beautiful product and have very few good quality sales people. The problem is that these startups aren’t the ones calling you, so they often don’t get seen.

Of course, the idea of due diligence is an important one though. I’m always amazed what a slick salesperson can get pushed through.

Comment on Thoughts on Presentations by John Lynn - EMR and HIPAA

John Lynn - EMR and HIPAA — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:14:21 +0000

My biggest pet peeve presentation issue is when the presenter basically reads the slides to you. Pointless. I could read them on my own if that’s all you’re doing and I can read them a lot faster.

Comment on Thoughts on Presentations by Milos

Milos — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:49:59 +0000

Here is a recording of Guy Kawasaki’s presentation – funny, engaging and memorable. The takeaways are two fold, he is educating you on being “enchanting” all while practicing it himself. Quite entertaining.

This is a bit old but nearly identical to what we heard in recently in Dallas:

http://www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/audio-video/

Comment on Thoughts on Presentations by Jacob Sconyers

Jacob Sconyers — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:19:37 +0000

Edward Tufte’s “The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint” (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint) is a great piece on creating better slides and visuals for technical presentations. It’s excerpted almost in its entirety on his blog (http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB).