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Key Takeaways The systemic gaps in healthcare — caused by overstretched teams, outdated workflows, communication silos and resource constraints — are prime entrepreneurial opportunities.
These gaps are not “medical problems.” They’re product problems, workflow problems and design problems that entrepreneurs are uniquely equipped to solve.
Entrepreneurs don’t need to disrupt the entire healthcare industry. The biggest opportunities lie in the smallest pain points.
When you are lying in a hospital bed after major surgery, you see things you normally would never notice.
Not dramatic events, not headline-level failures, but the small, invisible gaps — the ones that happen quietly, repeatedly and almost acceptably within the system.
These are not caused by “bad people,” but by overstretched teams, outdated workflows, communication silos and resource constraints.
And from an entrepreneur’s perspective, that is precisely where innovation begins.
Over the past week, as I recovered from a major surgery, I observed something that many patients have experienced, but few executives ever get to analyze firsthand: Hospitals are filled with highly skilled individuals, yet many of the systems supporting them remain fragmented, analog or simply stretched beyond capacity.
And when systems struggle, even the strongest medical teams are forced to compensate.
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