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I think it's great that there's an increase in attention to the medical space from smart young folks. From my experience though, being smart and hard working have very little to do with success in the medical-tech space. It mostly has to do with 1) if you can show ROI with the least (can't emphasize this enough) change to anyone's daily workflow, and 2) having a very very hard working sales team

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Another critical aspect is to target the tech-savvy younger generation of students and residents, which Agile is doing with their recent offer of free lifetime access for participating medical schools. Almost all of us are using tools like Uptodate on a daily basis on the floors. Agile's algorithmic presentation of the same information makes a compelling case to use their product. Early adoption by trainees can lead to future paradigm shifts in the whole industry.

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