Jules and I know the businesses surrounding medicine and can slice them in multiple ways - save for how insurers operate.
We’ve both worn white coats and delivered medical care - and have a deep understanding of how efficiencies in those interactions can be improved.
We’ve also worked in the medical affairs department of a specialty pharmaceutical company - where we met - traveling 150000 miles a year visiting thought leaders. Our responsibilities included strategy and facilitating phases 3 and 4 research with academic institutions.
We’re using those experiences and relationships to build an online service for doctors - predicated on ideas and concepts popularized by Facebook and Linkedin to streamline information flow between physicians. Our pharma experience probably seems tangential at the moment. It’s not. More on that later.
We’d like to think that we have above-average intelligence and we’re certain that we have difficult-to-procure insights into both medicine and pharma, the core of what we’re building is entirely plugged into the World Wide Web. It would have been nice if either of us had developed a web site, built a database or two, and perhaps ran a couple of online communities.
Not a problem. We just fast-forward a year or two to leverage future experiences today by bringing in advisors and consultants to bridge the knowledge chasms.
We’re currently building an entire advisory board - and we signed our first member just a few weeks back. Planning to write a note about him next - he’s wicked cool and amazing.