Forbes November 28, 2018
What does the healthcare industry really need? An app store, says legendary Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr.
“Why doesn’t the healthcare industry have something like that?” Doerr, 67, asked onstage Wednesday at the Forbes Healthcare Summit in Manhattan. “Why can’t I transparently get to anonymized data, or subject to HIPAA regulations, de-identified data? Why aren’t the platforms fundamentally open so we can get three or four applications for bariatric surgeons all of which talk to Epic , talk to Cerner CERN -1.82%.”
Lately Doerr, who famously led KPCB to invest $12.4 million into GoogleGOOGL +0.17% in 1999, which became billions when the company went public in 2004, has been thinking a lot more about questions like that.
“If...
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