Colin Rom

Jun 25, 2024 | a16z.com | Colin Rom |Julie Yoo |Kris Tatiossian |Olivia Webb

Jonathan Bush, founder and CEO of Zus Health, and Chris Severn, cofounder and CEO of Turquoise Health, joined Julie Yoo, general partner, and Colin Rom, head of public policy for a16z Bio + Health. We’ve long believed that regulatory change can be a catalyst for company creation. In this episode, Jonathan and Chris detail how that was true for them. They also outline a few key takeaways for founders hoping to leverage regulatory change themselves.

Mar 21, 2024 | aei.org | Colin Rom |Brian Miller |Colin Dueck |JAMES CAPRETTA

Despite over a decade of policy promises, patients still face myriad paper forms and PDFs while doctors spend up to 87 percent of their day typing. Care remains expensive, inaccessible, and incomplete, with a primary care physician’s day estimated at 27 hours if they complete all recommended tasks. Many processes in health care delivery remain human-driven and manual, akin to a Boeing 747 without digital controls or autopilot.

Aug 2, 2023 | a16z.com | Daisy Wolf |Vijay Pande |Colin Rom |Jeff Clark

Recently, we received an email about a healthcare panel entitled “Using AI with Modern Fax Capabilities to Reduce Administrative Burden.”We immediately thought, “wait, what?”But yes, we had read it correctly: There was a panel on integrating AI with fax machines in healthcare!Are we stuck in the 1980s? Shouldn’t healthcare just get with the times and stop using fax machines? We had to laugh. But under the surface, this email tells us a lot.