Bob Kocher is a Partner at Venrock and focuses on healthcare IT and services investments. He currently serves on the Board of Castlight Health and the Advisory Boards of Harvard Medical School Health Care Policy Department, USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics where he is also a Senior Fellow, National Institute of Healthcare Management, and ChildObesity180. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Engleberg Center for Health Reform and Co-Chair of the Health Data initiative, a joint effort of HHS and the Institute of Medicine, to release healthcare data to spur private sector innovation to improve healthcare cost and quality.
Prior to Venrock, Bob served in the Obama Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Healthcare and Economic Policy on the National Economic Council. In the Obama Administration, Bob was one of the shapers of the healthcare reform legislation focusing on cost, quality, and delivery system reform and health IT meaningful use policy. He was one of the leaders of the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” childhood obesity initiative, led the formation of the Partnership for a Healthier America, and served on the Federal Advisory Panel charged with developing a national obesity strategy. Prior to the White House, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Company where he led McKinsey Global Institute’s healthcare economics work and Center for U.S. Health Reform as well as worked with the various constituencies across the healthcare system to improve health policy, productivity, clinical outcomes, and patient experience.
Bob received undergraduate degrees from the University of Washington and a medical degree from George Washington University. He completed a research fellowship with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health, and went on to complete his internal medicine residency training at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard Medical School. He is also a member of the Health Affairs Editorial Board and the not-for-profit Hope Street Group Board.
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Health care consumers are in the dark. Here's how data can help via @VentureBeat http://t.co/8TJYuGnsfq
6:32pm May 23rd from Bob Kocher -
Niall Brennan is excited about the “data-geek nerd-prom apocalypse”@hdpalooza Watch: http://t.co/QI3LoxSmbh
4:28pm May 23rd from Bob Kocher -
Congratulation to Liviam for winning the HealthBeat $250K seed note from @Venrock!
12:02am May 22nd from Bob Kocher -
A Hospital CEO Promises More Pricing Transparency—and Makes Rivals Squirm http://t.co/6e0ATSQu9Z via @BW
11:45am May 21st from Bob Kocher -
We are thrilled to fund ConsultingMD to help patients get great fast 2nd opinions, better care, and save money too! http://t.co/GmuCb5vHDL
11:41am May 21st from Bob Kocher -
Too cute by half approaches by some employers to offer super skinny plans that may satisfy ACA requirements: http://t.co/Hm9KhdSPge
1:45pm May 20th from Bob Kocher -
EXCHANGE BIDS COME IN LOW FOR WA AND OR! This is a surprise given all the doomsday rate shock predictions: http://t.co/PvkDC7TUaW
1:44pm May 20th from Bob Kocher -
The highest price hospital in the US is in…NJ and run by ex-Blackstone guys. Not exactly Hopkins! http://t.co/3ZFQxTVEYP
3:11pm May 17th from Bob Kocher -
Rather then voting for a 38th repeal the House should pass a bill they like better that adds 30M people+lowers debt http://t.co/RNP07AuDXj
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Congratulations to @CastlightHealth for making the @cnbc "top 50 disrupter" list! http://t.co/JuH5B2pNCP
11:46pm May 16th from Bob Kocher -
Congratulations to Marilyn Tavenner on being confirmed as CMS Administrator!
5:22pm May 15th from Bob Kocher
