Forbes Column 2010: The Way Forward With Health Reform

Health care costs can be reduced by nearly $100 billion, but it would trigger higher unemployment. Read more in this week’s Forbes column, The Way Forward With Health Reform.

Deal Radar 2010: Office Ally

Office Ally is an electronic clearinghouse that acts as a go-between in processing insurance claims for doctors’ offices, clinics, and hospitals. Founder Brian O’Neill saw that although the United States often has the latest technology for clinical testing and patient care, it often lags when it comes to business operations in the health-care industry. O’Neill

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Deal Radar 2009: HSA Global

HSAGlobal provides a SaaS platform for the long-term condition management and chronic care management segments of healthcare internationally. The web-based software addresses the requirements of providers and clients in the home and community care, long-term and aged care, mental health care, chronic care and corporate wellness segments of the health sector.

Deal Radar 2009: AnyWare Group

As US lawmakers argue over the specifics of President Obama’s proposed healthcare overhaul and Americans’ call for affordable healthcare grows more strident, Deal Radar continues its coverage of companies that are using technology to make healthcare delivery cheaper and more flexible. AnyWare Group is a Canadian provider of remote access solutions for hospitals and healthcare organizations

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Forbes Column 2009: Health Care’s Big Opportunity

Zero-In this week focuses on another bootstrapped business opportunity that can double as a healthcare reform strategy as well. Read Health Care’s Big Opportunity.

Healthcare Reform Through Entrepreneurship: Phytel CEO Steve Schelhammer (Part 7)

SM: How did you finance this company? Is it also a venture-funded company? SS: It was funded by a select few angel investors and a private equity firm.

Healthcare Reform Through Entrepreneurship: Phytel CEO Steve Schelhammer (Part 6)

SM: Your background is not in technology. Where does your company’s technology come from? What you are suggesting is not an easy problem to solve. SS: It is definitely not an easy problem to solve. Form follows function. The most important thing is to lay out and articulate our approach to the marketplace and show

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Healthcare Reform Through Entrepreneurship: Phytel CEO Steve Schelhammer (Part 5)

SM: It sounds as though physicians need to be on some form of EMR system to use Phytel. Is that correct? SS: No. If we had architected our solution to be dependent on EMR, then we would only have access to 5%-10% of the marketplace. We can access EMR data, and we will do more

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