The Evolving Role Of The Doctor

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The pandemic has catalyzed technology adoption within healthcare, and thus indirectly, has accelerated the evolution of physicians’ role within medicine and healthcare. This 2 minute post will outline the salient points of this transformation: where we’re coming from, where we’re headed, and what we think about this secular trend.  Physicians protecting and curating medical information For better and worse, this has been the status quo. And, as many correctly argue, for good reason. Testing accuracy / interpretability depends heavily upon your ‘a priori’ risk; inappropriate testing multiplies risks of false positives and “incidentalomas” (incidental findings that may appear concerning at…...

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Kush Gupta I am a physician and biomedical engineer who is deeply frustrated with the current state of healthcare delivery. Clinically, I am particularly compelled by the medical complexity and humanistic challenges of caring for critically ill patients. In my free-time (depending on the season), I can be found skiing the slopes of Tahoe or kitesurfing out in the Bay.
Amit Garg I have been in Silicon Valley for 20 years -- at Samsung NEXT Ventures, running my own startup (as of May 2019 a series D that has raised $120M and valued at $450M), at Norwest Ventures, and doing product and analytics at Google. My academic training is BS in computer science and MS in biomedical informatics, both from Stanford, and MBA from Harvard. I speak natively 3 languages, live carbon-neutral, am a 70.3 Ironman finisher, and have built a hospital in rural India serving 100,000 people.