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'Disrupt' has an entirely different meaning when you're working in healthcare or government, where there's an intimidating culture of politics, status quo and b
by tonywebster 15y ago
'Disrupt' has an entirely different meaning when you're working in healthcare or government, where there's an intimidating culture of politics, status quo and big money. Actually, those sectors are probably the ones that need disrupting the most.
There's two distinct things here: medtech/biotech and software. The former is riddled with patents, government approvals, waiting periods and stonewalling by the very hospitals and insurance companies that are supposed to want healthy people, etc. Software is easier: an easier EMR (they exist) might remove complexity in daily life for medical professionals, but I'm waiting to see a startup make an impact in the way of meaningful doctor-patient relationships, especially outside of a static, single clinical visit.
- VladRussian 15y ago>'Disrupt' has an entirely different meaning when you're working in healthcare or government if it has any meaning at all there. You just can't provide an alternative government (like better police, tax collecting, military or child protective services ... :) or other official monopoly protected services (law, medicine, ...) for it is just illegal (ie. they are protected by the real threat of government's violence). Look at Uber which even didn't try to provide an alternative cab service, they only tried to provide a partial alternative _to_ cab service which is official monopoly (again - protected by government's violence, and yes, Silicon Valley, especially new generations of it, doesn't deal well in the realm of violence)