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As promised, here are more of my observations made during a recent trip to China with my wife Kate.

Hospitals are being built with extreme speed in China (as is everything else!) yet, there are unbelievable waiting lines to receive institutional medical care.  The government has just liberalized it’s rules to allow foreign Investors to control [...]

I accompanied my wife Kate on a trip she made to China over Christmas and New Year.  We spent most of the visit with what I would call the elite in the Greater Beijing area, so we did not see anywhere near all the variety that other friends have experienced, but the trip was absolutely [...]

It’s painfully apparent that primary care physicians are increasingly dissatisfied with their lives, and that many are leaving their profession behind. There are many reasons, starting with the many years that CMS has gone without any kind of primary care fee increase. And never mind the 20% cut that has been like a sword hanging [...]

From the campus of Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., where Ed Cahill and Yumin Choi are attending the Health IT Track of the Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship. HLM is now a sponsor of Xconomy’s Health Care IT channel.
Xconomy is rallying top innovators and entrepreneurs from the front lines of the mobile healthcare [...]

This is an exciting and unique time in health care investing. Opening and sharing dialogue is essential to creating new, game-changing opportunities.
One of the most dynamic aspects of this new era of innovation in health care is how we are communicating the realities and trends that are shaping tomorrow’s devices, technologies and methodologies. At HLM, [...]

This has been a month for personalized medicine companies; they just keep coming through the door.  Some for the first time. Some we’re seeing for the second or even third time.  The new Holy Grail in health care is finding ways to turn the expanding knowledge of human genes and proteins into more precise, ‘personalized’ therapies [...]