A new term may be helpful in the world of health and healthcare entrepreneurship in particular aimed at galvanizing individual health or motivating people’s health focus: “Goal-Driven Health”. Just to define what we mean by this term here, Goal-Driven Health is based on achieving individualized health or wellness goals that…

How do we best maintain good health and thrive for as much of our life as we possibly can (and perhaps not need healthcare interventions as much or even at all)? In recent years this question has been at the center of the wellness movement. The Global Wellness Institute in…

Covid19 has already had a massive impact on the world in many ways but disproportionately on so-called ‘vulnerable’ people and groups. Just to be clear a ‘vulnerable population’ is any group or community that is at higher risk of experiencing greater barriers or problems than most people in terms of…

-and especially as it relates to older adults? The term “social determinants of health”, or SDoH for short, seems to be used as “everything that might influence a person’s health other than physical ones”. This includes variables such as a person’s housing situation, proximity to toxins or waste, or the…

Decisions to do anything in life always have a cost and a benefit. Sometimes, these are clear to see and calculate but at others, this is not the case (often because they are both separated by time or the issues to think through are complex, or even apparently conflicting). …

Covid19 has already had a massive impact on the world in many ways but disproportionately on so-called ‘vulnerable’ people and groups. Just to be clear a ‘vulnerable population’ is any group or community that is at higher risk of experiencing greater barriers or problems than most people in terms of…

If we only take away one lesson from the Covid19 crisis in the last few months (and I realize that there are many) it’s that all of our decisions have a higher level of quality and ultimate success when they are based on sound data (of which we clearly need…

As Bill Gates said in 2016 “If anything kills over 10 million people over the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.” Not only does coronavirus show us how much that could be true today, already with…

Let’s not pretend. Startup businesses of all kinds, and especially early-stage ones, will struggle significantly as a result of the coronavirus shutdown and impact in the short-term and from the economic slow-down and recession (small or large) in the longer term. Customers will be, at best, distracted and, at worst…