Hari Harikrishnan

How to Spend $4 Trillion on a 10% Problem? Pareto Principle And US Healthcare

Are we solving a 10% problem with $4 Trillion? We know the 80/20 rule — majority of consequences result from a few causes. Examples include how a big portion of wealth is concentrated in fewer individuals, how a small portion of population contributes to majority of healthcare spending, how bulk of company revenues come from a minority …

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The Really Simple Guide to Navigating Health Care Technology Innovations

Making sense of all technologies in health care – molecular, digital, and material. We hear about technology-enabled healthcare innovations constantly. Peloton’s camera for better strength training using vision AI; Microsoft’s acquisition of Nuance for conversational AI; Google using AI for drug-discovery; Amazon’s Amazon Care for employee health benefits; The list goes on. When technology meets …

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The X-Ray of a Tapeworm: Visualizing Money Flow in US Healthcare

How does US fund and spend $3.8 trillion for healthcare? How does each player in the system stack up in funding or spending? Healthcare System Warren Buffet memorably termed the healthcare industry the tapeworm of the US economy, referring to the apparent crowding out of investment in other industries as healthcare costs exceed 17% of …

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Big 4 Tech Players and Threat to Healthcare Incumbents

How do the Big Four in tech — Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon — stack up in the threat level they pose to incumbents in the US healthcare industry? New headlines loom large every day about investments and initiatives from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon (MAGA, for short if you can’t remember them) in healthcare. Some of the initiatives promise miraculous …

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3 Reasons for Women Reporting More Vaccine Side Effects Than Men

Why women report more Covid-19 side effects — Three Bs: Biology, Behavior, and Bias. By early Jan 2021, almost 80% of Covid-19 vaccine side effects reported in the US came from women. This article from USA Today from April 2021, covers the possible reasons. Here’s a graphical summary of the findings. 3 Bs: Why women report more …

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The Skill Map to Anchor Us for the Decades Ahead

A way to inventory our skills for deliberate diversification. Our Skills — A Balancing Act In 2020, we did not discuss how the labour force has to outrun the automation-and-AI bear. Instead, we were preoccupied with unemployment, with the pandemic shuffling the deck on jobs across industries. Rightly so. As we hit a reset on this decade …

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Beyond the Pandemic: 3 Es Shaping US Healthcare

What underlying structural factors will affect post-pandemic healthcare in the US? Post-pandemic US Healthcare: 3 Es 2020. Annus horribilis. The year when considerations of health outweighed those of wealth globally, though we found them inseparably intertwined as millions lost their livelihoods. The debate about how the pandemic transformed healthcare globally and in the US will go …

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Devotion in Service During Cancer Care and a Terror Attack

3-days in India when The Crab claimed a beloved life, while terrorists claimed many. 3-days witnessing acts of care with keen devotion. Terrorism, Cancer, and Devoted Caring Day 1 2:30am: I am stepping off a flight in New Delhi. Air is chunky and warm, overpowering me with its familiar smells. I’m living the mundane life of …

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