It’s an experience that almost every American adult can relate to: the holiday trip to an emergency room with an injured or sick child that becomes a half-day experience. It’s usually prompted by a just serious enough medical emergency that doesn’t quite require an ambulance, but does require a higher...
Twenty years ago, if the radio played a song you liked, you had to put your ear to the speaker and hope the DJ said the title and artist so you could go find their album at the store. Now, with technologies like SoundHound and...
The art and science of using the internet as a tool to recruit employees hasn’t just fundamentally changed once in the last 15 or so years – it has actually changed twice. And tilr co-founder Summer Crenshaw has actually had a front row seat to...
From the patient side, the many unpleasant points in the modern distribution of primary care in the U.S. are readily apparent. Appointments take a long time to book (two weeks on average), doctor visits are short and rather impersonal, and the assignment of a physician is very...
At first, consumers weren’t bothered by the steep climb in healthcare costs, because their employers were covering their services. If they needed emergency care, all they had to do was meet their $500 deductible and their employer-provided health care plan would take care of the...
There is almost nothing in life worse than driving aimlessly around a major American metro area in search of a parking spot. And there is no pain like the pain that exists for drivers in Boston, and some of its most conveniently situated neighborhoods. “I...
Patient no-shows are a serious problem – for the patient who does not get necessary care, and the provider who loses revenue. Transportation is a point of friction for the relatively less well off and the elderly. Getting patients where they need to go –...
Black cars, airports and business travelers. A mobile app to bring drivers and passengers together worldwide in 50 countries, 250 cities and 500 airports. Uber, right? Nope. Blacklane — a platform that has digitalized the offline and fragmented business of limo services. Unlike platforms such...
Employees making $10 an hour or working gigs with companies like Uber and Lyft aren’t the only ones who struggle to make ends meet. Retail workers and even high-paid freelancers face many of the same challenges as gig workers, from finding health insurance to budgeting...
