3 Challenges That Require Innovators to Interlace Business and Clinical Skills w/ Erkan Hassan

Many innovators find themselves wearing blinders on either the business side or the clinical side, without catering to the overlaps between the two. But this often results in big issues, like spending unnecessary resources — or worse, building an innovation that clinicians don’t actually need or want. In this episode, independent healthcare consultant Dr. Erkan Hassan explains 3 critical challenges that innovators need to balance: The business challenge of making sure you’re a commercial success Ensuring that you have clinical validation to prove that your innovation does what you say it does (without biting off more than you can chew) After the sale, making sure that you adapt to the health system’s workflows for long-term success We talk about staying solution-focused vs. product-focused, the massive importance of using a patient context lens to present your clinical outcomes, how to make sure you have just the right amount of evidence, and more.   Guest Bio As an independent healthcare consultant, Dr. Erkan Hassan couples clinical expertise and business skills to help health systems and startups. He works to identify the clinical challenges these companies face, then use evidence-based clinical data to create innovative, intelligent solutions that drive patient-centered quality outcomes. Formally trained as clinical pharmacist, Dr. Hassan spent the first half of his career working in academic medical centers to help manage drug therapy for ICU patients. After taking the academic route and working as an associate professor, he switched gears to become the Director of Clinical affairs for an ICU telemedicine startup. To learn more about Dr. Hassan, visit his personal website at https://www.erkanhassan.com/, where you can read and subscribe to his monthly blog. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn.