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Digital health research from Brian Dolan.
Welcome to E&O.
Last week's newsletter had a 56 percent open rate. Here's what's happening this week:
- Healthcare investor and founder of NaviMed Capital, Bijan Salehizadeh, took VC-dabbling hospital executives behind the woodshed. In a well-liked Twitter thread, he explained why health systems' VC arms are shutting down. He noted (without naming names) that four high-profile non-profit health systems investment arms pulled the plug in recent months. (New York-Presbyterian, Inova and... who and who?) Tweets here.
- One more Twitter thread worth a skim: Atul Gawande, who currently heads up Haven, tweeted some thoughts on the long-awaited, just-published RCT that revisits the concept of hot-spotting in population health. Gawande made the concept famous in a New Yorker article nine years ago. The RCT showed the