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Hello from Tech Scrubs — our little space on the world wide web designed for healthtech enthusiasts, evangelists, patrons and however you describe yourself.

Healthcare has always been an industry that has always traditionally demonstrated resistance against the adoption of tech. And not without reason, the industry comes with its own spectrum of red flags:

• Disparate Workflows

• Resistance from healthcare professionals 

• Misaligned Incentives amongst stakeholders

• Paying Propensity 

• Regulatory Complexity 

• High Stakes Environments

Why Now?

So yes, its messy, complicated and resistant to change (just like an ex). But somehow, now feels like the time when the stars are aligning for builders to start exploring the industry again. While telemedicine made some strides it was far from ~ revolutionary ~. And the reason why it feels different this time for your idea is because well, AI - you know you heard it here first!

Unlike past innovations that often added complexity or forced workflow changes, AI has a unique capacity to reduce friction and augment existing processes:

• Pattern Recognition at Superhuman Scale: Healthcare is fundamentally about pattern recognition - from radiologists scanning images to doctors correlating symptoms. AI excels precisely at this core function, but can do it across millions of data points simultaneously with the potential to improve diagnostics by order magnitudes

• Augmenting Care Delivery: Streamlines various admin tasks reducing costs across the value chain and solves for the global shortage of medical workers by 10x’ing capacity

• Enhancing Personalized Health: Capture all aspects of patient data (histories, genetics, real-time monitoring) to improve treatment efficacy & clinical outcomes

Now, we’re entering a "Stripe and Plaid" moment for healthtech—one where interoperability, automation, and big ideas come together to solve long-standing problems.