Dave's Advice To Health Tech Entrepreneurs: Start With The Long Tent Pole

Thu, 6/13/2013 - 1:37pmChad Johnson0 Comments var addthis_config = {ui_click: true,data_track_clickback: true,data_ga_social: true,data_ga_property: UA-317164-6}; On June 12, Corepoint Health Founder and CTO Dave Shaver had the opportunity to address the Dallas chapter of the Health 2.0 organization, which is made up of a wide swath of participants including casual observers of health technology; CIOs, CTOs and CEOs of healthcare organizations; and entrepreneurs who are in the planning and startup phases of building their businesses. The topic of Dave's presentation was titled, appropriately, "Health Data Integration -- Where Do We Stand?"   Dave tackled a variety of topics related to health data integration, but the advice he gave to aspiring entrepreneurs and developers about common mistakes they should avoid and how to increase odds of adoption for their product or application really drove home the importance of employing a strategic, long-term approach rather than focusing only on the "cool bells and whistles" in their product.    Using the metaphor of building a tent, Dave advised the entrepreneurs to "start with the long pole in the tent first and the rest will be easier to assemble." The long pole refers to using common health standards to more easily integrate with clinical health systems. Mobile and application developers, he said, chronically make the mistake of devoting only 15-20% of their energy and resources on the integrati...
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