This document discusses opportunities to hack and improve healthcare through automation and improvements to supply chain systems. It notes that 62% of the $2.3 trillion annual healthcare spending in the US is on hospitals and doctors. There is $600 billion wasted annually through inefficiencies, bad care, and fraud. Specific opportunities called out include improving medical waste management with smart trash cans, automating drug dispensing with systems like Pyxis, using robots to help with tasks like pharmacy automation, and improving communication systems to increase throughput and safety like Vocera's voice badge system. The document advocates visiting hospital basements to find ways to hack and accelerate impact in healthcare.

1. H@cking Healthcare Automation & Supply Chain ZEN CHU @ACCELMED ENTREPRENEUR-IN-RESIDENCE MIT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER HackingMedicine.MIT.edu

2. HACKABLE INTERSECTION OF HIGH TECH & MED TECH High Hackability

3. SCALE MEDICINE SO INCREDIBLY INEFFICIENT IDEAL FOR ENGINEERS BETTER FASTER CHEAPER

4. HACKABLE MEDICINE VERY SEXY USING EXISTING TECH SAVE LIVES & COSTS IMMEDIATE IMPACT

5. WHERE TO FOCUS?

6. FOLLOW THE MONEY 62% of $2.3 Trillion = Hospitals & Docs 2008

7. FOLLOW THE MONEY 62% of $2.3 Trillion = Hospitals & Docs 2008 BIGGEST PROBLEMS HOSPITALS PHYSICIAN PRACTICES

8. $600+B WASTED! BAD CARE,FRAUD, INEFFICIENCY

9. SUPPLY CHAIN & AUTOMATION HACKABLE EXAMPLES SMALL & LARGE

10. LITERALLY WASTE MedWaste 20+X Cost of Regular Trash Smart Trashcans to Change Behavior

11. PYXIS DRUG ATMs CONTROL ACCESS, REDUCE ERRORS, CHARGE, REPLENISH

12. REPLACE SURLY STAFF ROBOTS STARTING TO ROAM HALLS

13. AUTOMATE WHOLE PHARMACY 10K SCRIPTS/DAY, ZERO ERRORS, NO CONTAMINATION

14. SIMPLE HACKS SAVE LIVES RADIATION ONCOLOGY ERROR LIABILITY SOLUTIONS NEEDED NOW 49% of Mistakes = Wrong Dose, Wrong Patient (NYT)

15. STUDIES PROVE SPECIALTY HEALTHCARE FACTORIES SUPERIOR QUALITY & COST

16. MUST EVENTUALLY SOLVE PEOPLE ISSUES… LIMITED BY HANDS, TIME, CAPACITY & COMMUNICATION

17. STAR TREK COMMUNICATORS DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION INCREASES THROUGHPUT, SAFETY

19. OPENTABLE DOC APPOINTMENTS ZocDoc Raised $50MM @ $700MM Valuation 07/2011

20. DIGITIZED DATA PROMISE BETTER QUALITY, COST, QUANTITATIVE IMAGING TELERADIOLOGY

21. DIGITAL ENABLES NEW BIZ MODELS AUTOMATE ALGORITHMS DISRUPT WORKFLOWS PEAK LOAD BALANCE PORTABILITY OVERSEAS

22. DIGITAL PATHOLOGY SAME TRAJECTORY AS RADIOLOGY NOW COMING

23. CALL TO ACTION VISIT HOSPITAL BASEMENTS MUST BE HACKED ACCELERATED IMPACT ZEN CHU @ACCELMED ZENVEN @ MIT . EDU SLIDESHARE.NET/MEDICALVENTURES