Ron Gutman

Founder & CEO, HealthTap · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ron Gutman is the founder and CEO of HealthTap. He focuses on building end-to-end healthcare experiences connecting patients with thousands of doctors.

9statements → 6claims → 2claims resolved → 4.33/5average certainty → 1.89/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

0 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ron argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Gutman: 74% of nighttime ER visits are unnecessary
“74% of people that go to ERs at night don't need to be there.”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 11:46 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

270 words/min while actually speaking · 17.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Ron Gutman: only 6 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 6 raw tape exchanges is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,577 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Ron Gutman said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Gutman: 74% of nighttime ER visits are unnecessary
“74% of people that go to ERs at night don't need to be there.”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 11:46 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gutman predicts doctors will increasingly become data scientists
“I think that in the foreseeable future, we will see doctors becoming more and more data scientists.”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 12:38 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gutman: 100% of HealthTap content is doctor-created and peer-reviewed
“Always, a hundred percent of HealthTap, all answers, tips, news, app reviews are created by doctors and reviewed by other doctors.”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 8:56 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Partly supported
Gutman: Over 50% of patients do not take prescribed treatments or medications
“Ah, more than 50% of people that get a certain treatment or a certain medication, whatever it is, actually don't take it.”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 1:24 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
What-if
HealthTap could have been profitable in 2014 by serving ads
“HealthUp, HealthUp could have been profitable more than a year ago by serving ads on the pages, which was everyone, when we were on University Avenue in Palo Alto, and everyone around us is doing ads, right, so it's like the easiest thing in the world, turn it…”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 17:54 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Contextual data helps physicians identify depression hiding behind physical pain complaints
“Sometimes patients come and complain about pain, but what they really are talking about is depression. And if you had some context about where they're coming from, you would not look for the source of pain, you would look for why they're depressed.”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 22:56 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HealthTap network includes over 66,000 licensed U.S. physicians
“We have a network with more than 66,000 physicians, ah, U.S. Licensed physicians in good standing”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 3:48 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
HealthTap has served over 2.6 billion doctor answers
“We serve more than 2.6 billion doctor answers to date.”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 3:59 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Disclosure
Gutman: HealthTap patients are always anonymous
“So first of all, patients on HealthTap are always anonymous,”
Ron Gutman Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 7:13 Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital) Feb 18, 2015 20m
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