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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: There a lot of people trying to do the solution that you’re describing – this central electronic health record of a patient. Can you help me understand when you started this company, what was the competitive landscape like, and how has that competitive landscape evolved over the years as you have been in this business?
Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What happens in 1998? Philippe d’Offay: You have to go back a little bit because the two questions overlap with one another. There’s a lot of news lately about medical errors. According to a Johns Hopkins, more than a quarter million patients die due to medical errors a year. In 1991, my grandfather
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Norm Wu, CEO of i-Human Patients (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: That’s a good thing because your contribution is in enhancing the quality of education, so the ones who don’t have that quality of education will gain more from your technology. Norm Wu: Right. Just like with MOOCs, you can go out and find the best educators and the best content. We’ve had a
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Norm Wu, CEO of i-Human Patients (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: We know quite a bit about that segment—stuff like Concordia’s huge programs in nurse practitioner training. Do you provide the content infrastructure for them? Norm Wu: It’s very much the same model. They can either create their own cases or they can license cases that we’ve worked with outside educators on. Our move
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Norm Wu, CEO of i-Human Patients (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Let me actually question a few things on the more specialized learning in the medical school process. In terms of the different specializations, how much coverage have you accomplished so far? This is a very intense body of simulation and content that you need to be able to deliver. Norm Wu: Our company
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Norm Wu, CEO of i-Human Patients (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit more about i-Human Patients. What do you do? How do you do what you do? What are the trends that we see in play in this particular venture? Norm Wu: We are fundamentally an online education technology company. We’re focused mainly on the healthcare professional vertical market. Specifically, we make
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Norm Wu, CEO of i-Human Patients (Part 1)
There will be an acute need for trained medical professionals as healthcare becomes democratised around the world. Norm discusses what his company is doing in this very important realm using online education principles. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to i-Human Patients. What do you do? What trends
Resilient Entrepreneurship: Inspire CEO Brian Loew (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: This is actually a great story. I love stories like this. There’s another entrepreneur whose story I’ve covered. For the first four years, he had no revenue. In the fifth year, they had a million dollars in revenue, and in the sixth year, $100 million. If you’re interested, you can check out his
