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Blair Hurst: Consumerized Healthcare Will Shift Incentives and Improve Care
“Once the incentive is around how well we're taking care of patients and how well we're taking care of people and people have a voice in that and they can demand that and they can put their efforts and dollars behind things that are actually working. Then the i…”
Hurst: Bill Gates Is Right That the Next Pandemic Will Be Worse
“Bill Gates is right. COVID is one thing, The next thing is going to be worse. Viruses mutate. This isn't going to be the only thing that we see.”
Hurst: Most healthcare and pharma workers are motivated by helping, not profit
“I gotta say though, being in the healthcare industry and knowing folks who've worked in pharma, knowing folks who've worked in hospital and other large systems and insurance companies, most people are working there not for profit, but for personal reasons and …”
Hurst: Consumer expectations drive the technology shift in healthcare
“Increased engagement is the catalyst to a lot of the technology shift that we're seeing in healthcare because patients or consumers, or which people are normally called in every other industry, are demanding certain quality of healthcare and certain aspects of…”
Hurst: Government and hospitals are shifting to value-based care
“The government and hospitals are now shifting the incentive model to value-based care.”
Blair Hurst: US Healthcare Has Extremely Poor, Disconnected Infrastructure
“The healthcare system in America has very, very, very poor infrastructure. No one talks to anyone.”
Hurst: Health data ownership laws are emerging at state, not federal level
“The other thing that it's coming up in state law, it hasn't quite come up yet at the federal level, but it's the question of data ownership.”
Hurst: Real-time wearable monitoring will transform cardiac care
“Being able to monitor it on a real-time basis rather than on an incident basis is something that is really going to change the cardiac care.”
Hurst: Digital Health Will Probably Face Regulatory Tightening Within 10 Years
“If anything, you know, it's sort of an open market right now, and probably the next 10 years we're going to see some tightening of it.”
Hurst: Healthcare AI will take ten years to mature
“AI is entering the space. I think the thing there and why it's going to be something that is going to be more on the 10 year maturation cycle is because it's going to be diving into a lot of data lakes and it's going to be needing a lot of learned experience f…”
Hurst: Consumers must actively shop for healthcare tools like retail goods
“I think people need to start shopping for their health care and their health as much as they shop for, you know, winter sweaters and the latest shoes and the latest tech and the latest, in my case, you know, new washing machines and, you know, other household …”
Hurst: Insulin was given away for free before extreme price hikes
“So a drug that was discovered and made and given for free, you can look that up, was then later up priced so much that people were shorting their dosage because they couldn't afford to pay for it.”
Hurst: Pandemic Shift to Home Care Drives Health Tech VC Surge
“So there's an uptick in folks, now that they have to stay at home, wanting to get their care, their regular care, their mental health, their chronic care, PCP care, care for their children. Pediatric care, right? From their home. When we were previously travel…”
Hurst: Regulation Is the Biggest Challenge in Digital Health
“The regulatory challenge, I think is going to be the biggest challenge in trying to get into digital health and health tech.”
Hurst: Cyberattacks on Health Tech Data Are an Inevitable Certainty
“Cyber attacks are no longer a thing of will it happen, but it's more of a question of when it's going to happen. I think if you take that mindset, then you know that you're going to be targeted because you have key data that Malicious people are after, and so …”
Hurst: Telehealth access and wearables will surge within five years
“Yeah, the next five years we're definitely going to see Easier access to telehealth. That's the major one that I see. Wearables also are going to be a huge thing in the next five years.”
Hurst: Aging demographics make senior and elder care tools essential
“Senior care is actually something that Is definitely a vertical in the digital health industry that should get a lot of attention. And people should be asking questions around that. We have a aging population, right, in the U.S. That's going to be pretty big. …”
Hurst: Health Tech Democratizes Care for People in Healthcare Deserts
“So health tech products are a great way to give access to folks who previously may live in healthcare deserts, who may live in places that they don't have easy access to primary care, who may have chronic conditions that need a lot of management, as well as a …”