They had power and status on the East Coast. So why did these health care gurus decamp for California? To change the world
PALO ALTO, Calif. — It’s easy to think, from the headlines, that the future of health care is being forged on Capitol Hill. But the traditional centers of power and influence are losing ground — and talent — to the fertile, sometimes chaotic, environs of Silicon Valley.
What happens when top biomedical scientists and health policy experts head west? What do they find in California? And what lessons do they draw?
To find out, STAT invited five leading voices in California’s health care startup culture to a roundtable discussion at the offices of Mindstrong Health, a startup seeking to use data gathered from smartphones to diagnose and treat mental illness. A sixth interview, with Dr. Atul Butte, was conducted earlier in San Francisco.
Here are the lessons these scientists and entrepreneurs draw from their cross-country migration. And one editorial note: We’d love to hear responses from East Coast denizens working on health care innovation from Kendall Square, Research Triangle, D.C., or elsewhere. Please use the comment box at the end of the article to share
