Sitemap - 2025 - Arlen’s Healthcare Entrepreneurship Substack

The ABCDEs of the 5th industrial revolution

Sick care open innovation 2.0

Physician entrephreneurship

The evolving computer-patient relationship

How entrepreneurs can work with teens to solve teen mental health problems

What to do when the sick care bubble pops

All in the family

How to use LinkedIn to build your brand as a physician entrepreneur

Uh-oh. I forgot about getting paid for my products

10 Ways to improve your Webside manner

Compassionate Capitalism: Resolving the Ethics of Business and the Ethics of Medicine Conflict

How to navigate the five-career crossroads: persevere, pivot, persuade, or punt?

Fundamentals of Digital Health Entrepreneurship

Cutting off the net

The state of physician entrepreneurship

So, what's your story?

How many have you done, Doctor?

Single Payer Cocktail Party Talking Points

Threats and opportunities in medical ganjapreneurship

What does your doctor wear to work?

The physician entrepreneur black bag

Geography is destiny if you are interested in medical entrepreneurship

Recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of academentia

Love someone, not your idea

D-fentrepreneurship

What you should know about working for equity

The end of "general"​ surgeons and "general subspecialists

Innovation Moneyball: Enough with the Jobs Act

Podcast: Ideas to patients

Letter from the Birmingham Clinic

The White Coat Luddite Entrepreneur

The future of sick care work

Are you built to get ideas to patients?

How to divorce your cofounder or advisory client

Why so many more medical school applicants?

The entrepreneurial attending and business model second opinion as a service

Physician entrepreneurship is not an either/or proposition

The art of a physician entrepreneur

Startup Website Errors

Newco funding for doctors

Cap Hospital CEO Salaries

SoPE in Seoul

Sick care change management is different

How to Find Physician Investors

What is your surgical outcomes numerator?

Computer science is the new doctor killer

Join my new subscriber chat

SoPE Office Hours: Thursday, December 4th, 7am MT

What doctors should know about entrepreneurship

Physician entrepreneurs are not immoral, greedy profiteers

Why Nobel Laureates should earn what college quarterbacks do

Why Nobel Laureates should earn what college quarterbacks do

The New Academic Accelerators

Who is responding to the sick, sick care system of systems?

The Golden Age of Medicine starts with you

AI in Drug Discovery and Development

How to sell your me-too product

Practice entrepreneurial gratitude

MI10 office hours tomorrow at 7am PT

Knowledge Technicians are dead. Be a wisdom worker instead.

How much should you charge for your services?

The problems with legacy leaving

Should clinical innovators be certified?

You're not the doctor or the provider. You're the product and the brand.

First mover or fast-follower?

Introduction to sick care AI entrepreneurship

The Lean PPD Plan

We don't need a startup2hospital dating service

10 ways to screw up your minimally viable product

How is Digital Health Entrepreneurship Different?

Stop! 10 Questions to ask before you do one more thing to integrate AI into your medical education, training, and development programs.

Bioentrepreneurial Success Factors

The Physician Entrepreneur's Guide to Dog Walking on National Puppy Day

How to Fill the MD-CMO-CIO gap

How to prevent your ideas from going down the drain

What if Private Equity Ran Medical Schools?

What I learned working construction as a summer job

Fed up and grumpy? Then suit up, show up, put up, or shut up

Driving Miss Digital

Why do some doctors use more resources than others?

How to build high performance virtual teams

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Put a toe tag on your bad idea

A Million Data Points of Heat

10 Reasons Why You Are Not Innovating

Podcast: Saving Private Practice

Tidy Up

Leading from the right side of your brain

Thanks to all who participated in MI10 office hours

Physician Imposter Syndrome

No, Physicians Aren't Lousy Businesspeople. They just think they are.

What I've learned about mentoring...without meeting most of the people I've mentored

Fixing Ruralcare

How to get started as a physician entrepreneur

Thanopreneurship

The March of the Status Quotidiens

10 Things Sick care Should Learn from Chipotle

Webinar tonight: Physician entrepreneurship issues and aswers

5 Sick care bubbles going Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!

The O'dark hundred crowd

Out of Control

Employed doctors are flying without a net

Event: How to be successful physician entrepreneur

Biggest catcher mistakes

How to Create the Big Fix

Are you over connected yet?

Go to the technoquad shows to see what's next in medicine.

Want to save thousands in your startup budget? Get a free library card

Wikitexts, POCs and Vlogs

There is no Chief Healthcare AI Officer School

10 Things to Consider When Testing Your Sick Care Business Model

How to close your Series A funding gap

Syzygy

Data, Data Everywhere: The Solutions

So what? Who cares? Who pays? How much?

How to channel your creativity

Smart financial moves for physicians with non-clinical roles or careers

See you at MI10 office hours

Digital health product regulatory risk management

A new cast of characters on the sick care stage

What if we created a health EMR instead of a sick care and billing EMR?

Purr-pare now. Join the MEOW (Medical End of Work) Club

Welcome to the 2025 Epic Digital Health Bowl

Are there too many doctor coaches?

Bumps Along the Digital Health Innovation Road

The Big Fix: How to get patients and doctors to change

Podcast: How to break down innovation silos

Precision Marketing Meets Precision Medicine

Why non-sick care entrepreneurs fail in sick care

Top sick care entrepreneurial challenges

How to make time to engage on social media when you are already too busy seeing patients.

The sick care contrarian's guide to 2026

What Physician Entrepreneurs Should Know About Value

What I learned selling SoPE

The 4 Foundations of Medical Entrepreneurship

How to get your idea to patients

Dear Dr Dalrymple

How to balance clinical duties with building a startup

10 Social Media Tips for Biomedical Entrepreneurs

Things Nobody Taught Me About Private Practice

Practicing medicine is the practice of clinical judgement. So is entrepreneurship.

Will Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Bend the Cost Curve?

Why turning sick care into a data industry that takes care of patients doesn't work

It's time for David to slay the EMR Goliath

Patients are terrible consumers of sick care and unreliable early evangelists

Patients are not reliable early evangelists

What sick care AIntrepreneurs should learn from the EMR Fiasco

The future of sick care leadership

What Separates One Telemedicine/Telehealth Product from Another?

Add physician educator entrepreneurs to the list

Pitch your startup at AImed25

How to Find Innovation Champions and Pilot Partners from Outside In

How to overcome the barriers to Global Physician Entrepreneurship

Saving Private Practice

Don't worry. Be human.

Welcome to the American Academy of Employed Physicians

Are certain medical specialists more entrepreneurial than others?

Wellness Envy

Myths about physician entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship

How to overcome change, decision, and innovation fatigue

Future directions in health innovation and entrepreneurship education, training, and development

The rise of academic accelerators

Coherentcare

Here's your startup lineup

Physician entrepreneur demographics

A startup is not a residency

Can you really learn entrepreneurship in school?

Metaclusters

The American dream has turned into a sick care nightmare

Doctorology: Tell don't sell

How to listen to patients

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Welcome to Medical Staff Orientation Day

The 2nd and 3rd acts are coming earlier

Caution: Physician Entrepreneur Ahead

Innovative academic medical centers are not entrepreneurial ones

Invite your friends to read Arlen’s Substack

Personal Strategic Planning

Fitting the digital health development, testing/validation, and deployment pieces together

The Business of Teaching the Business of Medicine

Prime week at the clinic

The 4 Cs of the MBA: Worth the price for a doctor?

Customer community x channels x connections x content=cash, collaborators, and customers

Would McSickcare be so bad?

Entrepreneurs create value, not just companies

Your AI minute: How to get a board seat at a private biomedical, digital health, or care delivery company

What keeps me up at night?

Mentors advise. Sponsors invest.

Why more doctors are leaving clinical practice and how it helps health care

Sick care tech support, how may I help you?

What would "disruptive" sick care look like?

Advice to a failed sick care intrapreneur

Can your patients make an APPointment?

Why doctors have lost the public trust

STEAM is out of steam

Doctors don't want to just see patients anymore

The non-AI accelerator

The two courses in the hidden curriculum

Make it Personal, But Don’t Take It Personally

Is The White House serious about innovation?

Are you ready to be a physician entrepreneur?

There is no silver bullet to fix sick care

Big Pixels

How doctors can regain control of our profession

The patient hierarchy of involvement

How to compete against big box care

How to Transform your "Waiting Room"

How to Create the Big Fix

Linkedinnovation

What happened to the valedictorians and salutatorians?

Privatize the VA

Revision intrapreneurship

Medical knowledge technicians are dead. Be a wisdom worker instead.

Don't screw with my curriculum: how to upskill the sick care workforce

Threats and opportunities in longevity entrepreneurship

AI for healthcare financial management: Take home points

Mobile medical apps and AI software should have package inserts and warning labels

The State of The Physician Entrepreneurial Economy: Who Knows?

Operations v innovation

What is patient engagement anyway?

When biomedical engineering innovation goes dark

How should you measure innovation?

Will the money really follow?

10 Intrapreneurial Exit Strategies

Webinar: Longevity Entrepreneurship

10 Ways to Beat Commoditycare

What is your exit strategy?

Why are you sending me a cartoon image of yourself?

12 Reasons Why Your Doctor Won't Text You

Video: Opportunities in Longevity Entrepreneurship

Fundamentals of private practice entrepreneurship

When a physician leaves practice, do we really all lose?

The physician entrepreneur's guide to non-clinical careers: Part 4

Fulbright's Fantasy: How I Spent My Summer Minding The Gap

Applecare 10 years later

The physician entrepreneur's guide to non-clinical careers: Part 3

Join the conversation at the SoPE WhatsApp group chat...members helping members get their ideas to patients

The physician entrepreneur's guide to non-clinical careers: Part 2

The Physician Entrepreneur's Guide to Non-Clinical Careers: Part 1

The dead doctor directory

How to divorce yourself

Video: AI governance, risk management, and compliance

We need your help

Why digital health startups fail

The Push and Pull of Career Change

Please join our SoPE WhatsApp channel to get engaged with our international innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem

How to Improve Academic-Industry Knowledge Exchange

The four boxes of time

Is it time to quit medical practice?

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Podcast: What Nobody Teaches Physicians About Private Practice with Arlen Meyers MD

Death comes to the Gold Coast

The 5 Phases of Physician Entrepreneurship Development

Restore the Meditocracy:5 ways doctors can take back their profession

Longevity entrepreneurship: threats and opportunities

The Patient Guide to Color Coded Care

Video: “Physician burnout with a focus on radiology burnout and how AI can help with this epidemic”

Crucial Conversions: Converting prospects to patients

Screen time or face time?

Give promotion and tenure credit to reward entrepreneurship

Video:How to find a doctor digital health or device technology job

Video: Highlights from 10x 2025

Can solo physician practice survive?

The AI circus has come to town

Would you raise your teenager like a toddler?

Event tomorrow: Harnessing the power of AI in life science and healthcare

When your brand is damaged, you need to ACT

Video: Confluence of MedTech and AI | MDG 265 featuring Arlen Meyers

What is the future of the D2C model in healthcare?

Health Insurance University

Your next innovation opportunity is sitting in your examining room

BEET Camp: Fundamentals of BioEntrepreneurship Education and Training

Just pay us and stop complaining

It's not just dirty money, but fattening too

Friends, I'll be Sean Smith’s featured #MedicalDevices #MDGpremium guest on Friday, May 16, 2025 at 8 a.m. Pacific discussing, “How to find a doctor digital health or device technology job”.

Bioentrepreneurship Education Update

I'm an otolaryngologist. I've helped cure patients.

How to overcome the barriers to physician-medtech/techmed/digital health collaboration

How to overcome the barriers to physician-medtech/techmed collaboration

The two faces of necessity-based entrepreneurship

How to fill the medtech innovation pipeline

Improve your patient selection

We need more startup euthanators

A Message From the CEO

Trailblazer Award for Building Global Entrepreneurship Ecosystems.

The Digital Health 10 Commandments

FFS sick care v bundled well care: What is the role of doctors?

How to create a medical student or resident innovation and entrepreneurship special interest group

When is good enough good enough?

The stylist medical business model

The SoPE Box May 2025

So You Want to Be an Investment Banker, Doctor?

Register now for www.AImed25.com

A letter to your Doctor in Congress

It's about time

Did you make innovation rounds today?

How to talk to strangers

The Medical Paperwork Reduction Act of 2025

Why you should do things for free...for a while

Opportunties in MedEd Technopreneurship

Is finishing DFL enough?

The SoPE creation story

What ever happened to "The Doctor's Wife"?

Ophthalmology Technology Event

Neurotech AI Update Video

Favorite Stupid Business Tricks

Death, taxes and much more

You are cordially invited to our medical staff stag party

Entrepopeneurship:Lessons from the other guy in white from 2015

Stop calling it "medical practice management"​

Will your doctor be deported?

How should we repair damaged doctor-patient relationships?

Becoming Power Pointless

Watching the parade go by

7 Habits of highly effective advisors

Sick care is a team sport. We should measure it like it is

Who should measure your doctor's performance and how?

Navigating the digital health last mile

Health Entrepreneurship Pop Quiz

The New War on Drugs

Generational stereotyping is not generalizable.

When AI meets Techmed

The big picture

Are you a clinician or one of "those"?

Advice to a banking dropout

How clinicians can participate in digital health design, development, and deployment

Corporate determinants of health: Are physician entrepreneurs the problem or the solution?

The Mythical Perfect Resume

Entrepopeneurship:Lessons from the other guy in a white coat

How to find GSD Club members

Bought not Sold

What Mr. Trump does not understand about treating sick patients

Informed v understood consent

Welcome to sick care charm school

The Sick Care Gig Economy

Memo From the Hospital Office of Truth

Questions When Selling to Doctors

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10 Lessons from selling SoPE

How much is your startup worth?

If practicing medicine is so awful, why do students want to do it?

Fundamentals of edupreneurship

AI liability and risk mitigation resources

Bioentrepreneurs sit on a four-legged stool

How to manage technology risk and corporate growth?

Docs need to ratchet up their 'clock speed'

Looking forward to participating in PDA event

Welcome to the Cosmetic Surgery Executive Club

How to make AI sausage? Tune in

How to choose an AI vendor?

Sick care operations management challenges

How to land the planes on time

Gawkers, talkers, stalkers, and walkers

The 3"​ x 5"​ card medical record

Coffee care: What if Starbucks were run like your university hospital?

Fasten your seat belts

I said a rich doctor

A clipboard eulogy

Letter from the Birmingham Clinic

'Happy accidents' can provide the biggest opportunities

Where is the best physician entrepreneurship program?

Dr. Whistleblower

How to be a compensated connector

What private practioners can learn from Joyce Meskis

Doctor surthrival skills

10 reasons why biomedical associations should embrace physician entrepreneurs

Recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of craniorectal syndrome

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Change Sick Care to Health Care

How to create and scale a lean medical society

Learning from the Wright Brothers

Has sick care entrepreneurship become harder or easier?

Crossing the COI line

The App Gap

Drucker missed one

Digital Pharmamedtech

What is a venture studio?

Stoned students

How do you get marketing, sales, and operations/service to play nice together?

9 Reasons Why You Read Articles that Start with 10 in the headline

Preference Sensitive Prescribing

The new patient relationship manager

The $5 million medic

Do you think in the past, present or future?

The physician intrapreneurship learning management system

It's called "physician entrepreneur" for a reason

Unaware, unconvinced, unable, unclear

Bridging the business of medicine education gaps

What have we created?

The entrepreneurial attending

What if EMRs were medical devices?

The Future of Academic Technology Transfer

I cancelled your surgery for this morning because I worked last night.

Use the physician side gig speed to value matrix to pick your spot

Sick care consolidation raises prices and lowers quality

Why are you ignoring employed, retired and senior doctors?

For Valentine's Day, love your spouse or partner, not your idea

Sick care is a loss leader

Learn the 4Ms from the Donald

Has telemedicine reached the tipping point?

Why is it so hard to be a physician intrapreneur?

What Entrepreneurs Will Watch for at the Super Bowl

Fighting couples

Sick care marketing is not healthcare marketing

10 Sick Care Marketing Problems

Seeker, solver, builder, teller, investor, connector

Why People Fear Physician Entrepreneurs

The GSD paradox: The perils and pitfalls of delegating your life

Medical schools should teach entrepreneurship

Do you remember studying systems science in medical school?

How to teach the business of medicine

How to market and sell your ideas

How to make yourself disappear

How to spot the snipers and neutralize them

Forget the men

Mentorpreneurship

When will medical schools pivot?

Welcome to Premed Boot Camp

Nattering Nabobs of Negativity

It's time to close accelerators

When it comes to AI in medicine, career opportunities — and risks — abound

Unprofessional courtesy

Did you make innovation rounds today?

Repeal birthright citizenship: impact on sick care spending?

Find candidate-market fit

Why is it so hard to kill fee for service medicine?

Three HR policies that should be shown the door

Where are the digital health path creators?

Helpers, bosses, and observers

What does your doctor wear to work?

Fail it. Nail it. Scale it. Sale it

Don't You Just Love My Idea?

Is your hospital safe and private?

Patient Centered Digital Health Postmarket Surveillance

We need to improve patient health, data, and AI literacy

Fix triage, STAT

Clear or blurry vision?

Slipping on SOAP

We need to reset primary care

What is leaderpreneurship and who cares?

Anti-habits of successful entrepreneurs

How to be an intrapreneurial disruptor

Stop the MADness

Advisor M & Ms: Part 2