Streamlining Healthcare: AdvancedMD CEO Eric Morgan (Part 6)

SM: What is driving your low medical billing rejection rate?

EM: There are a variety of things. We have a sophisticated process of taking the claims and scrubbing them before they go out to ensure they are encoded correctly. >>>

WSJ: Entrepreneurs Can Lead Us Out Of This Crisis

WSJ echoes what I’ve been saying all along. They even quote me this time.

I’m going to the Kauffman Foundation’s Economics bloggers conference on Friday, where we’re to brainstorm on policy issues, and discuss ways to bring the focus back to entrepreneurship and innovation.

If you have a blog or a column, please try to push for a Stimulus Package For Entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurship Education: Should Entrepreneurship 101 Be Compulsory?

Following up on my last Forbes column highlighting the brain drain from technology to finance, let me ask the readers an important question: Should Entrepreneurship 101 be compulsory for all science and engineering students in college, and early on, to be completed by the end of the freshman year?

I believe students should be exposed to technology entrepreneur role models as early in their development as possible. Your thoughts?

Deal Radar 2009: CrossLoop

Online tech help is plentiful, but solving a problem or getting a direct answer to a question can be cumbersome: describing what is going wrong with your computer or application is not always easy and frequently involves a long chain of emails or chats among users who can’t see one another’s screens. The desktop sharing company CrossLoop tries to solve this problem by connecting computer users with service providers and friends who can offer the technical help users require easily and quickly. This is achieved through a free software application that is designed to be easy to use. The software puts users in touch with over 15,000 computer expert Helpers who can provide immediate support and training remotely. >>>

Streamlining Healthcare: AdvancedMD CEO Eric Morgan (Part 5)

SM: Let me change the course of the conversation a bit. I would like to understand the genesis of this company. How did it start and what did it take to get to this point?

EM: It was started in 2002. There was some nucleus of intellectual property that was purchased from a previous company. In taking that product and technology, a decision was made to move it to a SaaS model. >>>

Friedman On Stimulus Package For Entrepreneurs

Thomas Friedman has a good article in the NYTimes on how stimulus money ought to be spent. He suggests, instead of giving $20 billion to the whining General Motors, give it to 20 top VCs, and encourage them to take big risks. Read Start-Up the Risk Takers.

He also acknowledges that the stimulus vis-a-vis renewable energy policy is quite good, and is likely to stimulate a lot of jobs and innovation. I agree.

My thoughts are here: Stimulus Package For Entrepreneurs, to encourage bootstrapping as a weapon for mass reconstruction.

Redesign SramanaMitra.com

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy.

As regular blog readers, how would you like to see the user interface and experience of SramanaMitra.com redesigned? How would you want to interact with it? What would you add? What would you take away?

We’ll be taking a look at the design of blogs next week. But for this week … you be the designers and let us know your thoughts.

We will all participate in this process, including Sramana!

Streamlining Healthcare: AdvancedMD CEO Eric Morgan (Part 4)

SM: How many employees do you have?

EM: We have about 140. >>>