Blog: The TAO of Health

2017 has been an eventful year! We’ve welcomed new clients, ideas, opportunities, projects, and great learning opportunities. The year started with plans to market Damo Consulting as a specialized partner in healthcare growth advisory for our…

It’s been nearly two years since we started publishing this newsletter, and it’s grown to a dedicated readership of several hundred healthcare technology executives. Times change, tastes change. Sometimes you have to leave behind the past…

It’s almost a year to the day I started writing my first book, The Big Unlock. It’s finally out (find it on Amazon). In the book, I talk about harnessing data to grow digital health businesses…

Greetings from Bangalore, India. With digital health apps, we can’t always get what we want. Of the 318,500 mobile health apps to download, a very small number are getting any real traction with consumers. In my…

First, the policy updates. POTUS nominates Alex Azar, a former top exec from Eli Lilly, to head the HHS. If he wants to, he can right away take credit for the blowout performance of the ACA…

The 2018 enrolment period for individual insurance is open and this year’s major challenge is the current administration’s stance on promoting enrolment, which may be described as passive at best. For those in doubt, the ACA…

As the tailwinds from Meaningful Use incentives slow down, EHR vendors are reassessing their options. Close on the heels of McKesson’s decision last quarter to sell their EHR business to Allscripts, GE Healthcare is considering divesting…

This week, I start with a request: Please take our 2018 healthcare IT outlook survey here. Policy uncertainty continued to roil the individual exchange markets last week with POTUS declining to provide clarity on whether he…

POTUS delivered what the Commonwealth Fund refers to as a one-two punch last week, signing an executive order to allow insurance companies to sell “junk” plans with low premiums that would offer little or none of…

Emerging technologies are slowly but surely beginning to define the way healthcare will be delivered in future. Updates from the Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara last week point to interesting approaches to data as well…