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Modern Chronic Disease Management – Data’s Virtuous Circle
QiiQ has been around for years now, in grand pursuit of impact. Our unwavering aim is to combine our grasp of clinical workflow's most thorny challenges with our command of technology's potent utility as tooling for process therapy. Along the [...]
A Journey of Destinations
From the beginning of the road, our efforts have been directed at the challenges faced by those delivering care in the ER, and indirectly, their patients. This is a vastly different orientation than many technology startups. (It's instead quite common [...]
On Love and Advice
As detailed in my previous post, QiiQ is at the beginning of a very long and complicated journey. We need more people to help make this happen. Like all startups, we need "doers" - people who will complete some of [...]
QiiQ Teams with Crozer Health
QiiQ has reached a critical milestone in our journey as a health technology company: we have a first customer. Crozer Health, a unit of Prospect Medical, operates four hospitals in Delaware County, PA. They are facing impending reductions in their employment [...]
Acute Care IT – Now and the Future State
Opinions are a-dime-a-dozen. Anyone who's been around this industry has one about where healthcare information tech is now, and where it's going. Some things no-one would dispute: the healthcare industry consumes a huge bulk of GPD (5%-10% globally; 16% in [...]
Jack and Elon Talk AI
This is me not putting it off. And it took listening to these two guys battle away on their philosophies to drive me to it. Like many people who feel a compulsion to distribute their views, I've continued to wait [...]
To Use the Individual Edition of the QiiQ Assistant
Most Health IT applications are built and sold as enterprise solutions that present: significant cost outlay for the hospital disruption to workflow routine for many people who work delivering care considerable new risks to patient data and system security [...]
In Pursuit of Workflow Efficiency
The gyrations around features and functionality have been damn taxing. Choosing which features to go with have been informed by a huge number of criteria. Some are familiar to any entrepreneur, while some are less common: the hospital approval process [...]
Towards a QiiQ Mobile App Design
At the Fraser Health hackathon in January 2017, I met the CEO of QiiQ Healthcare, Dave Brown. I was looking for opportunities to do data visualization at the hackathon, and we got into discussing exciting possibilities for communicating patient tracking [...]
Out of the Cupboard – Design Insight
As a CEO who deeply believes that "getting it right" is really really hard, I sometimes have to defend the importance of design. This morning I found myself contemplating that conversation once again. And this time, the designer's talents for [...]
Awesome New Healthtech Startups
The healthcare industry is notoriously resistant to change. Lots has been written about this, so we won't get into it now. I take comfort as I look around at companies that are working hard to reinvent the experience of clinical [...]
Healthtech Built for… People Who Care
Before I started on the QiiQ path, I was warned that achieving traction in healthtech is VERY difficult and takes a lot of patience. One savvy veteran warned that it will inevitably be a "long slog." At QiiQ, we're all of [...]