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Insight
EMRs are built for billing and workflow, not population health
“EMRs, including our own, we're no better, are built for physician workflow and billing. They're not built for population health or informatics or all this”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 12:25 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Machine learning should enhance human experts rather than replace them
“Our take on this is we should be building tools for trained professionals along with a feedback loop to tell them how they're doing. Machine learning and other technologies I think you can apply on top to make those people slightly more efficient.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 13:43 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Ask for advice rather than pitching during early customer discovery
“Our tip and trick for this was always just to ask for advice. Pretend like you're not actually selling something so people enjoy giving feedback they don't like being sold to.”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 2:08 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Changing physician behavior requires showing direct benefits to individual doctors
“If you're gonna tell a doctor to change something they're doing, you need to tell them why it matters. And I think the key is explaining, hey, if you do this thing that you haven't done, and you weren't trained to do, and you went to school for, like, 15 years…”
Zach Weinberg Feb 18, 2015 ▶ 21:43 Zach Weinberg, Flatiron Health // Using Data to Cure Cancer // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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