Company News

April 2010
Scully "The World Show" interview with SimulConsult founder Michael Segal, aired on PBS TV stations.

6 July 2009
Hugh Hewitt radio interview "Professor Clayton Christensen on health care reform and disruptive innovation" (audio here).  Prof. Christensen explains how SimulConsult empowers doctors to do diagnosis better and less expensively by tapping into the wisdom of their colleagues.

1 July 2009
Healthcare IT news article "CDS key to health reform".  The CEO of SimulConsult is quoted as saying "physicians are likely to gauge the meaningful use of EHRs by the extent of the integrated clinical decision support available to help make diagnoses more directly and accurately, choose best therapies and avoid errors such as incorrect use of medications."

May 2009
Managed Care article “Managing the Cost of Diagnosis”.  The CEO of SimulConsult highlights emerging diagnostic benefit managers and how they can achieve large efficiencies by using diagnostic software to improve both accuracy and efficiency.

May 2009
Fast Company article "The Doctor of the Future".  Four innovative companies, including SimulConsult, are described as creating "the medical system of tomorrow" and ones that will "free U.S. medicine from the strictures that have given us the world's costliest health care".

25 March 2009
Strategy & Innovation interview "Voices of Disruption: Lynn K. Feldman".  The CEO of SimulConsult explains how the SimulConsult diagnostic software leverages the skills of medical practitioners.

6 March 2009
Health Business Blog item "Doctor calls for SimulConsult without realizing it".

23 February 2009
Business Week viewpoint article "A Disruptive Solution for Health Care: Encouraging adoption of new health IT tools like SimulConsult by those left out of the current hidebound system is a path toward change for all" by Clayton M. Christensen and Jason Hwang. 

4 December 2008
Clayton Christensen et al. "The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care".  A book by Clayton Christensen and colleagues discusses SimulConsult as an example of a "disruptive innovation" that helps generalist and specialist doctors make diagnoses at the level of specialists and sub-specialists. 

Fall 2005
Save Babies Through Screening Foundation "Newborn Screening NEWS" item "Children's Stories to Educate Physicians" told about SimulConsult's Cases Blog.

13 June 2005
FierceHealthCare item "SimulConsult launches cases weblog".

10 June 2005
Health Business Blog item "An excellent example of decision support".

26 December 2004
Medical Tablet PC blog item "SimulConsult's Diagnostic Software".