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Fred Vogelstein

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Biztech/biotech journo. Coedit CrazyStupidTech.com w/ @Om.co. ex @Wired, @NYTMag, @FortuneMagazine, @USNews, @WSJ. Author: "Dogfight:How Apple and Goog…”
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How an argument with Om about Wired spawned this newsletter. RIP brother.

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By Fred Vogelstein
| Crazy Stupid Tech
Om – I hope this finds you well. Your post about Wired tickled just the right group of neurons to make me write something. It’s kind of a rant. But also something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Would love to reconnect. best fv Hi Fred Thanks for the note. I would love to chat — where are you posted up these days? More importantly, it would be great just to see you. Also, where did you publish this piece, so I can link to it? It will be fun to respond to you on this one.
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Abridge's AI Solutions and Impact

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By Fred Vogelstein
| Crazy Stupid Tech
Silicon Valley has been trying to come up with solutions to the U.S.’s health care bureaucracy for generations. But the administrative burden on patients, doctors … everyone, really, has only gotten worse. Myriad studies over the years have identified doctor burnout as a critical problem. It’s been so hard to fix partly because software historically hasn’t been good at transcribing and analyzing one of healthcare’s biggest data sources: doctor/patient conversations.
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Enveda's AI makes drugs from plants. It could revolutionize pharma.

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By Fred Vogelstein
| Crazy Stupid Tech
It’s easy to be skeptical when you first hear about Enveda and its 30-something founder Viswa Colluru. The business he’s in – making medicines from plants and other natural products – is filled with charlatans. And Colluru lately has been making not just bold claims but ones that seem flatly ridiculous. He says his five-year old biotech company has found a way to develop medicines from nature four times faster and for a tenth the cost of traditional pharmaceuticals.
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