‘Virtual healthcare’ – buzzword, opportunity, or impediment?

The COVID pandemic has catalyzed an unimaginably rapid adoption of virtual care. Virtual disease management service offerings, and the demand for them, have grown by leaps and bounds. Largely, this is good. Difficult-to-manage chronic diseases are burgeoning, and healthcare is hard (especially in the USA) – we need all the help we can get. This post (briefly) discusses some pitfalls and lessons all health-tech founders should be aware of as we build disease/health management platforms in today’s increasingly virtual, solution-saturated world.  Some background: the onslaught of point solutions and the trend (read: race) towards integration: There are so, so many…...