Sramana Mitra: What are the open problems in your industry that new entrepreneurs could be starting companies around? Ted Chan: Telehealth is a very big opportunity for making healthcare more seamless, more efficient, and more cost effective. There’s a trend. A lot of consumer health companies have been getting mega-funding. They’re getting a lot of
Sramana Mitra: How would you tackle the issue in any given community? Let’s say you’re a patient in any given community. Given your insurance and its coverage, there aren’t that many options. How do you deal with that in terms of provider choice? Ted Chan: What we’re trying to do is give a patient a
Sramana Mitra: Help me parse what you said about TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor is actually become a booking site. Isn’t that how they make most of their money? I haven’t been following their business model shift lately. Ted Chan: They look at it as a marketplace. When they show a sponsored listing, they are really showing it
Have you experienced the nightmare of finding good doctors? How about getting reimbursed for a telemedicine consultation by your insurance company? This conversation deals with all those issues. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as CareDash. Ted Chan: CareDash is the fastest-growing doctor review website on the internet. We’ve