AI's Echo Chamber: Validation Vs. Reassurance in Healthcare
One of the biggest problems with AI is it so often tells us what we want to hear. In healthcare, I can’t figure out if that means telling a patient they have a likely diagnosis — or that they don’t. Do people want to feel validated? Or reassured?
The Hidden Reason Doctor Appointments Are Impossible to Schedule
"In the real world, the post-it notes happen." @oliver_kharraz shares the surprisingly simple reason your doctor's appointment is so hard to book. FULL EPISODE ON LIFERS: Spotify: https://t.co/W086iI8W11 Apple: https://t.co/L6HSxNxiAf Youtube: https://t.co/sQrkMS3W9g https://t.co/bY9CAF9gTB
CEO Shares Winning Payer Pitch Strategies for Startups
Our second-ever premium-only webinar is coming up tomorrow. We talk to Providence Health Plan CEO @DonAntonucci for his advice on how startups should pitch payers for the best possible results. Expect Q&A as this event will be intimate. Register: https://t.co/GbnSxvi9jD @providence
Doctor Wait Times Rising: Hidden Healthcare Inventory Exposed
In 2007, it took 18 days to see a doctor. Today it's 31. "There is hidden inventory in healthcare." - @oliver_kharraz on why the doctor shortage isn't the whole story. WATCH / LISTEN: Spotify: https://t.co/u05FAZy03v Apple: https://t.co/RZx2r8ixFD Youtube: https://t.co/fr1PiqjSZl
Official Style Guide Resolves Long‑Debated Health Writing Detail
After YEARS of debate… It’s official- You know that one tiny detail you always second-guess when writing? Yeah… there’s finally an answer. Somewhere, every health journalist just breathed a sigh of relief 😅 Next up: payer vs payor… see you in 2035. #healthcare #payer...
CEOs Say AI-Driven Layoffs Are Exaggerated
This is not going to get the same attention that a dystopian memo would get, but there's a growing cohort of CEOs that are coming out to say the job cuts because of AI are totally overblown. That includes @levie...
Per‑Booking Pivot Saved Zocdoc’s Healthcare Apprenticeship Model
New Lifers episode with @oliver_kharraz, CEO of @Zocdoc, on why healthcare is a "lifelong apprenticeship" and how they survived a near-death business model pivot. We discuss: * Why early digital schedules failed because office managers were still blocking time with physical...
Prevention Beats Treatment: NYC Smoking Ban Saves Lives
"How can medicine save the most lives?" Most people ask this rhetorically. @Farzad_MD and Tom Frieden took it literally. From banning smoking in NYC bars to cutting teen smoking in half in 5 years, this is what happens when you stop treating diseases...
Profit Gap: Preventing Strokes Beats Treating Them
Is there a window in American healthcare where preventing strokes is more profitable than treating them? @Farzad_MD left his dream job at the HHS to find out. New Lifers this week: Spotify: https://t.co/sl8a6nuUlC Apple: https://t.co/yDarYoJcDz Youtube: https://t.co/UDbEjHA3cD
Amazon Teams with Grow Therapy for Employee Mental Health
Whoa... The employer behavioral health wars are heating up! Amazon is partnering with Grow Therapy on EAP. 👇 https://t.co/jVDA2xBhsE
VCs Should Admit Their Founder Preference Types
A good q. for VCs that needs to be asked more: Do you have a type? I mean, ofc, related to founders. Every VC has one or several. It's a real bias, but oftentimes based on experience. Anyone willing to share...
Guest Quality Beats Production Budget Every Time
Clipping strategies are effective but my number one rule is no amount of big budget production can make up for a guest that isn't informative and entertaining to watch. Be interesting. Everything else will follow.
AI Could Turn $30B Healthcare Data Into Value
We spent $30 billion digitizing American healthcare. It got used for billing. New Lifers episode with @Farzad_MD, physician, former National Coordinator for Health IT, and CEO of @AledadeACO, on what went wrong, and why AI might finally fix the incentives, with...
Closing Rural L&D Units Triggers Cascading Care Desert
Maternal care deserts don't happen overnight. A rural hospital closes its L&D unit. Deliveries stop. Then the mothers start going elsewhere for all their care. Pediatrics follows. Then the rest. That's the spiral Dr. Blake Porter of @AccessTeleCare described on Lifers: Spotify: https://t.co/ynEfLfzYQo Apple:...
Explore the Ubiquity of Peptides with Expert Jon Slotkin
Peptides are everywhere. Don’t miss this conversation with clinical expert @slotkinjr if you’re curious. Jon is my go to on this topic. Link here: https://t.co/luQcHXz3cQ https://t.co/FhsQNVv1Hp
Shift Budgets to Paid Video Content for Distribution Boost
Marketing teams need to shift budgets to paid content, particularly video, because the clips are everything. Partnering with a New Media company is the distribution lift.
Peptides: Unregulated, Risky, and Growing in Popularity
"What's your star sign?" "I'm a Taurus." "Cool, and what's your peptide stack?" Special Lifers episode on Peptides Part 1 with Sunita Mohanty Spotify: https://t.co/nRCBnLOjqm Apple: https://t.co/iibWpZHNZ7 Youtube: https://t.co/ijtPosgt4t Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:04) Peptides everywhere (00:42) Meet Sunita and Ultralight (01:08) Regulatory whiplash explained (01:58) Stacks and the gray area (03:34) Black market...
Why Female Influencers Rarely Promote Peptide Stacks
It was on this day that I learned what a Wolverine Peptide stack is! I spoke to @sunitasmohanty on the market demand for peptides, how she's experimenting with them & why we don't see as many female influencers hawking them. Full...
Inside Epic's Confidential Vendor Deal Reveals Innovation Barriers
Second Opinion just published its first scoop: And it's a look inside Epic's confidential vendor services agreement. A source shared it with @RuthReader to give us a sense of why it's so hard out there for healthcare innovators. View in...
New Market Map Highlights Agentic AI in Ambulatory Sector
Market maps have become a real focus of ours as LLMs are getting company categorization so wrong. Our latest, in partnership with Confido Health & @RMFnyc1, focuses on agentic AI for the ambulatory market. What's being deployed now? Our focus...
Guide AI‑Anxious Seniors Toward Future‑Proof Careers
Redoing this poll: Your high school senior is worried about their career prospects because of AI. What path do you advise:
Turn One Hour Podcast Into Three Short Episodes
Another podcast hack I'm trying that seems to be working well: Instead of a 1 hour block, I will record 30m with a guest, then two 15m episodes on different topics. So we have 3 episodes versus 1. There's a market...
Healthcare Innovates While Delivery Model Stagnates After Century
Two things can be true. Healthcare is genuinely world class at innovation. And the model of how it delivers care to patients has remained unchanged for over a century. New Lifers episode this week with @AccessTeleCare: Spotify: https://t.co/ynEfLfzYQo Apple: https://t.co/YGNFD6eNpP Youtube: https://t.co/DFgYyMx95q
Unexpected Surge: Many Companies Join CMMI ACCESS Model
Massive number of companies enrolled as participants for the CMMI ACCESS model. Way more than I expected, especially given comments around price being too low. Full list here: https://t.co/OAJPpzFtUk
Why Anthropic Chose Coefficient Bio Over Bigger Rivals?
Reading up on the Coefficient Bio deal. I totally get the industrial logic around why Anthropic should care about drug discovery. But why this particular company? There's lots of more scaled players doing this. Can anyone educate me? https://t.co/akFVmRUaYw
Round Size Alone Tells Nothing without Financial Context
Imagine a funding announcement with actual financials… Why did we all decide to include one number: Round size Meaningless. Means zilch without knowing burn rate, profitable/not, margin, pre/ post money valuation, revenue multiple relative to peer set, growth rate.
Virtual Subspecialty Care Can Cut Unnecessary Transfers
You can't snap your fingers and make more subspecialists. So how does America close the gap? New Lifers episode with Dr. Chris Gallagher and Dr. Blake Porter at @AccessTeleCare on what virtual subspecialty care can actually fix. We discuss: * Why 2025...
AI-Driven Car Hunt Saves Thousands Nationwide
We are buying a car and built an AI agent that’s crawling every listing within the right perimeters — not just locally, but around the USA. It factors in shipping fees & flags the best deals. My husband negotiates from...
AI Drives $1.8B Healthcare Startup in First Year
AI is helping healthcare companies hit exceptional revenue scale in year 1. @keatonbedell and Josh Tauber describe exactly the inflection point in healthcare infrastructure that made a 2-person, $1.8B company possible. WATCH/LISTEN: Spotify: https://t.co/hrs0ZbILVz Apple: https://t.co/e8IxsoZ2bB Youtube: https://t.co/ORjNyzcOli
Health AI's Real Gold Lies Beyond Prestige Hospitals
Health AI startups are chasing "prestige logos": the 400 big academic medical centers. That's only 7% of the market. Mark Sendak (VegaHealth) on why the other 93% is the real opportunity 👇 * $45B IT market * Faster buying cycles * 18% claim denial rates...
AI Poised to Transform Healthcare Into Supercharged General Practice
.@peteratmsr on why AI could shift healthcare away from subspecialties, and toward a supercharged version of general practice. Catch my episode with Peter (President of Microsoft Science) on Lifers: Apple: https://t.co/e5WslnfSee Spotify: https://t.co/TaqlqEsE3f YouTube: https://t.co/eAaMF0XEiB
Trust, Not Software, Drives GLP‑1 Startup Success
If anyone can build a GLP-1 company for $50K, what actually separates the winners? I asked Josh Tauber and @keatonbedell on Lifers, their answer: not software. Trust. WATCH/LISTEN: Spotify: https://t.co/hrs0ZbILVz Apple: https://t.co/e8IxsoZ2bB Youtube: https://t.co/ORjNyzcOli
AI Will Let CEOs Draft Their Own Emails
Would you have believed someone in 1975 if they told you every CEO would one day type their own emails? @peteratmsr uses that analogy to explain exactly where we are with AI and code right now. Lifers episode with Peter Lee (President...
Cash‑pay GLP‑1 Clinics: Easy to Copy, Unsafe, Unregulated
By now we have all read the piece in @nytimes about MEDVi's $1B+ business selling GLP-1s online with a ton of marketing, and very little ownership of infrastructure. I asked two friends @josh_tauber and @keatonbedell: - Is there any moat? (no) -...
Zero Staff, High Marketing Spend Drives Scalable Revenue
Some are saying this Medvi story is fraudulent. What others in the industry are saying is with zero headcount, all the $ can go into marketing (meta, affiliates, etc). All the infra is rented. Operating margins will be extremely low,...
Navigation 2.0: Smarter, ROI‑Focused Healthcare Guidance
A few years ago, we were all talking about healthcare navigation as the ultimate solution for a broken system. But then the hype cooled. Why? Navigation 1.0 was built on a model that was too human-heavy, too fragmented, and too focused...
Convenience Wins: Consumer Health Beats Traditional Systems
Traditional healthcare is truly losing the battle of convenience. Consumer health is the real competition. Not other health systems.
Medicine Turns Into Low‑Cost, Check‑Box VC Model
There's so many observations here: - This is the "check a box" era of medicine - These companies do not need to raise much VC b/c the development cost is near zero - Pick the prescription, target the user, simplify the process,...
Founders Take Minimal Parental Leave in U.S. Businesses
If you're a founder of a U.S.-owned business, how much parental leave did you take off:
AI Detects Its Own Signature, Exposing Authorship
Every contributed piece I get I run in reverse through AI to ask AI if AI wrote it, and not the author. AI can pickup on its own signature. This is the world we now live in.
Awarding “Baby‑friendly” Ignores Mothers’ Post‑birth Pain
Whatever marketer came up with the reframe of closing down newborn baby nurseries to shave hospital costs and then declaring that “baby friendly” should get an award. Meanwhile mothers recovering from surgeries, third degree tears & other childbirth outcomes get...
Is Healthcare Tech True Software? AI Safety Debate
Has healthcare tech ever really been software? And therefore is it more safe in an era of AI? I debate this topic with: Equities research Stephanie Davis & Omada Health's Sean Duffy #OMDA 👇 https://t.co/O7smcV1gkX
Revenue Cycle Elevates to C‑Suite Strategic Priority
Revenue cycle is the invisible backbone of every health system. It's finally getting the attention it deserves. New episode of Lifers this week: I sat down with Terri Meier (Assistant Vice Chancellor for Revenue Cycle at UAMS, 43-year industry veteran) live...
Calcium, Exercise, DXA Scans Prevent Costly GLP‑1 Surgeries
This is a very important study and I'm hearing from clinical experts in my network that the best prevention is calcium, weight bearing exercise and getting regular DXA Scans. Otherwise we're going to see a big increase in high-cost orthopedic...
AI‑Powered Recruiter Scam Uses Fake Jobs to Sell Software
PSA: There’s a new scam going around with exec search firms targeting people to say there’s a role they’re well suited for in order to sell resume software. The tell is AI: They essentially leveraged LinkedIn keywords to market these...
AI Will Reshape Healthcare; Leaders Must Drive New Thinking
Everyone agrees AI will change healthcare, but institutional momentum hasn't shifted to redeploy people. The question isn't "who gets left behind?" It's: Who leads the thinking? https://t.co/AyFMFqXwyL
AI Boosts Care but May Raise Healthcare Costs
AI is providing both immense utility to clinicians, but will also drive up costs if the incentives in our current system stay the same. This may be correct billing, but it's also still MORE billing. https://t.co/jmcWQ3q3EK
Questioning Rural Medicaid Inclusion in New Initiative
This is a great step and should be applauded. But is anyone on the list who lives in a rural area and qualifies for Medicaid? Love to suggest that for humble consideration.
AI Reshapes Development, but Liability Stays Unchanged
AI is changing how software gets built, but it isn't changing who's liable when it breaks. @seanduffy (CEO of @omadahealth) & Stephanie Davis on the Lifers podcast this week. https://t.co/i4nyyd1mtE
Health Tech Proves Resilient Amid SaaS Market Turmoil
Amidst the SaaS bloodbath fears, is health tech actually safer than people think? I sat down with @SeanDuffy (CEO of @OmadaHealth) and Stephanie Davis (Healthcare Industry Analyst) to dig into what's really happening in the markets and what it means for...