Xconomy: Merging Medicine and Entrepreneurship: UW Health Docs Share Lessons
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Merging Medicine and Entrepreneurship: UW Health Docs Share Lessons (Page 2 of 2) common in the life sciences, but it also happens in the software industry.Jon Keevil, who earned a degree in engineering and computer science before going on to medical school and working at UW Health as a cardiologist, started HealthDecision in 2004.It’s developing software that fetches data from a hospital or clinic’s EHR system and displays the information in a manner that helps patients and their physicians make a care plan together.The company’s progression, which Keevil calls a “slow burn process,” is not uncommon among doctors who stop treating patients to pursue business ventures, according to a Forbes article by David Shaywitz.Medow launched the startup in 2014 and said it has developed “adapted physiology algorithms” aimed at reducing the amount of time doctors spend monitoring critical-care patients, among other objectives.
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