Dr. Kathy Ku is vice president at Vive Collective, a venture capital firm focused on digital health. Kathy is an entrepreneur, an engineer and a former consultant. She holds an MD/MBA from Stanford, where she was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, and an AB/SM from Harvard, where she studied engineering sciences and molecular and cellular biology.

In other words, she's pretty smart. And she's got a suggestion to the C-suites and boards at hospitals and health systems across the country: Get caregivers involved in the allocation of investment dollars.

In this week's HIMSSCast, Ku will expand on this idea, while also discussing the current deals landscape, hybrid care models in telemedicine, the next 12 months in healthcare AI, and innovation in government institutions to benefit the country's public health sector.

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Talking points:

• Healthcare needs to see more nurses, pharmacists, physicians and other caregivers influence the allocation of investment dollars and be involved in health IT companies.
• How can these individuals – as well as C-suite leaders – make this happen at their organizations?
• Fewer and smaller deals in the near term.
• Telehealth: Balance virtual care with in-person care, hybrid care models could be the future.
• The next 12 months in the realm of healthcare AI.
• Innovation in government institutions is crucial for the country's public health sector; public-private partnerships could be the key.

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