“Healthcare focused startups and government agencies got together in the same room here for HHS Startup Day and each group brought some hard-earned advice for the other.”
“Health and Human Services Deputy Chief Technology Officer Ed Simcox explained that startups typically avoid government for four main reasons: lengthy decision-making processes, ambiguous priorities, byzantine processes, and the difficulty of finding the right contact.”
“HHS conceptualized Startup Day, in fact, to break down such barriers between government and innovative upstarts…”
“As is often the case at startup events, emerging companies including Apervita, BehaveCare, Collective Medical, Livongo, PhysIQ and Redox took the stage to make their pitch to federal officials and attendees.
The innovators also had some advice for the agency leaders…” Read the full article here.
Source: CMS, HHS and FDA to tech innovators: Here’s how to win federal agencies as customers – By John Sharp, May 31, 2018. Healthcare IT News.
