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Americans face a mental health crisis made worse by COVID stress and lockdowns. Will tech ride to the rescue of employers?
The mental health crisis has never been greater with growing demand, strained care resources, and a growing problem of junk care -- and employers are looking for answers.
In this show we'll cover:
The crisis of supply and demand for mental health careNovel solutions for employers enabled by techWhat's working now and what does the future holdAnd we'll answer your questions.
Jarred Bressner, MD, is a principal at Activate Venture Partners.
Pierce Crowley is an associate at Activate Venture Partners.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Director of Wardell Advisors, a digital health business development consulting firm and the author of The Future of Digital Health.
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What are the new capabilities of modern AI and where can they be best used in healthcare to solve problems?
There's been a flurry of healthcare AI startups since the arrivel of ChatGPT, and the sector is white hot with investors. What are the problem areas in healthcare that are amenible to the capabilities of generative AI?
In this show we'll cover:
- The capabilities of generative AI
- The problem areas where AI can help and where startups are buidling products
- The obstacles like keeping personal healthcare data private
And we'll answer your questions.
Chad Pytel is the founder and CEO of thoughtbot, which helps companies with strategy, design, product management, and development.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Director of Wardell Advisors, a digital health business development consulting firm, and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow him on X.com/StevenWardell.
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Tech can help the Silver Tsunami age in place. Here's a framework for what is needed at each level of care.
Aging is the biggest demographic trend in the US and the world. There isn't enough skilled care available so tech will fill the gap.
Seniors want to age in place, and there is a greater opportunity than ever to meet the needs of aging seniors in-home with technology.
In this show we'll cover:
- What are the needs of seniors as they age
- What are the different levels of care that seniors need and go through
- Where can tech play a role in helping seniors age in place
And we'll answer your questions.
Neal Shah is the CEO of CareYaya and America's Chief Elder Officer. You can follow him at: X.com/NealKShah
Steven Wardell is the Managing Director of Wardell Advisors, a digital health business development consulting firm and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow uim at X.com/StevenWardell.
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In the show we’ll dive into:
- How the employer healthtech sector is evolving
- Trends at employer benefit leaders and their changing buying preferences
- Signs that a consolidation wave is building
And we'll answer your questions
Marcus Osborne is the executive chairman of Rightmove Health, a virtual movement health company. He is a former SVP of Walmert Health. You can follow him on X.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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What are the changing priorities of the software budgets of the major healthcare sectors?
The problems facing healthcare incumbents keep changing and so their budget strength and priorities also change. We take a look at the problems and budget strengths today for buying tech by Providers, Payers, Employers, and Pharma.
In this show we'll cover:
- Today's significant problems facing the different sectors of healthcare.
- The strength of healthcare budgets and spendiness on tech.
- Conclusions investors are drawing and where they're putting their chips.
And we'll answer your questions.
Adam Kaufman is the publisher of BearingOn.Health and an adjunct professor of economics at USC. Follow him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adkaufman/.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Director of Wardell Advisors, a digital health business-development consulting firm, and the author of The Future of Digital Health.
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Digital health sectors are maturing and consolidators are circling. Have some recent acquisitions kicked off the game of musical chairs?
In the show we’ll dive into:
- There has been tremendous entry of innovators into healthcare since 2009 but consolidation has typically been weak
- Some recent acquisitions like Virgin Pulse & HealthComp and Veradigm's acquisition of ScienceIO show that the pace is picking up
- We look at the different subsectors of digital health, the consolidators in each subsector, and the potential for big tech and other outsiders to pounce
And we'll answer your questions
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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We've lived through an unprecedented period of new digital health products and companies. Consolidation follows.
In the show we’ll dive into:
- There has been tremendous entry of new products and companies into all the subsectors of digital health since 2009 but sector consolidation has been consistently weak
- As the sector matures, we're seeing product buyers move toward the enterprise buy and suite-level functionality, driving new consolidation activity
- Will we see a seller's market for digital health companies or a buyer's market
And we'll answer your questions
Ari Tulla is the Founder and CEO of Elo Health, an AI personalization engine delivering the exact nutrients to live better. And he is an investor in byFounders Collective, an early-stage venture fund. You can follow him on X.com/Umbar.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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Why we need a new city for our biggest innovations, what a health innovation city should include, and how it's going in Vitalia
In the show we’ll dive into:
- What it takes to build a new health innovation city and how this new foundation will enable fast clinical trials, patient right-to-try, and much more
- What's going on at Vitalia City (vitalia.city) and what is the agenda for their "pop-up city" in Jan.-Mar. 2025 in Honduras.
- What are some of their recent achievents in implants, longevity, and plasmid gene therapy
And we'll answer your questions
Niklas Anzinger, founder & CEO of Vitalia the health innovation city in Roatan, Honduras.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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Americans spend more than anyone on their healthcare. There are only 4 ways to get costs down but breakthroughs are tough.
In the show we’ll dive into:
- The only way to cut heatlhcare costs are cut prices, cut use, reduce unnecessary services, and replace higher cost services with lower priced ones
- We look at each way to cut costs with policy innovation promising to reduce unnecessary services and tech innovation promising to introduce lower cost services
- But each move in healthcare is opposed by entrenched interests; who is budging first?
And we'll answer your questions
Matthew Holt is the President of SMACK Consulting and a healthcare curmudgeon. He is best known as the founder of Health 2.0 and The Health Care Blog (https://thehealthcareblog.com/).
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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Consumers have more options than ever, conglomerates are looking for weakness, what will happen to the drug store?
In the show we’ll dive into:
Consumers now have more choice than ever before including telehealth prescription companies like Ro and Hims that can cherry-pick the industry Amazon is re-inventing pharmacy-by-mail while CVS and Walgreens are bringing primary care clinics on premises Independent pharmacies are closing at record numbers, turning rural America and inner cities into pharmacy deserts. A volatile mix of labor unrest in the large chain pharmacies plus robotics and AI is creating an uncertain future for a large portion of the country’s registered pharmacists.And we'll answer your questions
Harry Travis is the President of Travis Group and a former senior executive at CVS and Aetna.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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New tech is capturing more kinds of data, more continuous data, and data in new care settings that is transforming how we provide care.
In the show we’ll dive into:
How new technologies are offering a better understanding of disease - more data, more continuous data, and clinical data in more local settings. How better data is offering opportunities to improve care delivery. How rigidities like regulations and payment models are are slowing down more effective care.And we'll answer your questions
Tomer Bentzion is the founder and CEO of LiveMetric, the first FDA-cleared wrist-based continuous blood pressure monitoring solution, and a serial entrepreneur.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow him for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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Who stands to eat the most wedges of cheese from the digital health wheel? Payers, Patients, Pharma, software vendors, Providers?
In the show we’ll dive into:
- The digital health category is maturing as technology stops being shocking and becomes mundane
- Competition heats up and differentiation fades; the different actors jocky for position
- Who will win the digital health market and be the big cheese?
And we'll answer your questions
Adam Kaufman is the publisher of BearingOn.Health and an adjunct professor of economics at USC. Follow him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adkaufman/.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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Optimal fitness and longevity are an increasingly realistic goal, a lifestyle, and a business opportunity. We discuss.
In the show we’ll dive into:
Is it possible to achieve optimal fitness as we age? What kind of longevity will be possible in the future? How do we monitor ourselves and maintain a healthy lifestyle? What are some goals for optimal wellness? What are the markets and business opportunities for optimal fitness and longevity?And we'll answer your questions
Gil Blander is the Founder and CSO of InsideTracker, an optimal fitness and nutrition company. He is internationally recognized for his research in the basic biology of aging and translating research discoveries into new ways of detecting and preventing age-related conditions. You can follow him at X.com/GBlander1
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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In the show we’ll dive into:
How AI adds to reading and interpreting genomic information from blood or biopsy Pros & cons of “black box” vs “explainable white box” AI algorithms Where the opportunities are to diagnose and manage disease better What is holding us back from curing inflammatory & autoimmune diseases today?And we'll answer your questions
Amrie Grammer, PhD is the Co-Founder and President of Ampel BioSolutions, a precision medicine company that uses RNA analytics and predictive AI to manage disease. Follow her at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrie-grammer-phd-1351551b/
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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Consumers are increasingly spending their own dollars and becoming the decision makers in healthcare
In the show we’ll dive into:
New technologies like telehealth and smartphones have created a supply shock of healthcare options for consumers New products and business models are gaining traction But will consumer behavior change fast enough and will consumers really pay?Todd Pietri and Jarred Bressner are partners at Activate Venture Partners.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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Not all digital health companies and strategic transactions are equal. Some have more sizzle and get more attention.
In the show we’ll dive into:
How does the fundraising and acquisition market look and where is it headed? What is the steak and the sizzle that wins attention for young digital health companies? How do company leaders position themselves now to get ahead?And we'll answer your questions
AJ Loiacono is the CEO of Capital Rx, which provides enterprises with a platform to manage their pharmacy benefits. Follow him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/capitalrx/.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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In the show we dive into:
What are the hubs of digital health benefits solutions -- like wellness, navigation, care management, and more What do the point solutions do in response to the emergence of these marketplaces? What are the Solution Aggregators doing next, and what should we know about Accolade, Quantum, Collective, Solera, Vera Whole Health, and Virgin Pulse? And we'll answer your questionsMichael Pace is the CEO of PalmHealthCo, a healthtech commercialization consulting firm and he is the former head of Market Access at Pear Therapeutics. You can follow him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpace-dtx/.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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After an unprecedented wave of software innovation, where are digital health products creating clinical and financial value for buyers?
In the show we’ll dive into:
There has been a tremendous amount of software innovation in healthcare since 2009 across all subsectors But the digital health sector frequently suffers from weak product adoption We look at those markets in healthcare where digital health products are working to deliver clinical and financial value to buyers We also look at the latest fundraising trendsAlexander Lennox-Miller is a healthcare IT analyst at CB Insights where covers how emerging technologies are changing front desk and back office workflows in healthcare. You can follow him on LinkedIn.
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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The boom of digital health venture funding has not produced the returns investors hoped. What's next?
In the show we’ll dive into:
What problems plague the digital health sector: higher costs, slower scaling, longer sales cycles Are there areas where the venture model works in healthcare software and services? What are the future opportunities?Sam Toole is a Partner at Primary Venture Partners, an early-stage venture fund. You can follow him on Twitter @SamDToole
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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Editor's note: there was an audio problem (low volume) for the first 6 minutes of the show.
In the show we’ll dive into:
- What is going on in the early-stage digital health fundraising market
- How to prepare for your next fundraise and position yourself
- How to figure out which investors add value
Michael Kisch is the managing partner of The Range, a global health tech advisory firm, and a 3-time digital heatlh CEO. Follow him at X.com/SurfSki
Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.
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