Seth Joseph

While it may not have generated the same pomp and circumstance as AI, HLTH featured several announcements, sessions and discussions about innovative models of care

Payor information is vitally important to interoperability. Prior auth. Payer to payer. Member APIs. All of those should be brought under the same umbrella.

Ambient scribe technology holds the promise of decoupling the bonds that bind clinicians to the EHR itself, at least to a large extent.

But despite having a first-of-its-kind device with the immense potential to “democratize” ultrasound use and access, hurdles remain for Butterfly.

After trading as high as $42, AmWell is now a penny stock. The company has been notified by the New York Stock Exchange that it could be delisted.

If anything, the cataclysm that has ensued with the shutdown of Change Healthcare is a testament to just how powerful and transformative networked business models can ...

Walking through the ViVE health conference last week, a common sentiment was that many companies appear more focused on their tech, rather than solving customers needs

In sum, it appears that Epic’s reach is not limited to thousands of its own employees, but to tens and perhaps even hundreds of thousands of health IT workers across the country.

All this to say that Epic has effectively established a durable monopoly representing more than 60% of total U.S. hospital net patient revenue.

Diagnosing and treating mental health among young people is not as easy as just scaling resources.

As last miles go, medication adherence – when patients take the medication that’s been prescribed to them – is among the toughest.

Will General Catalyst’s plans for health system acquisition come to fruition in 2024? Will GenAI live up to its hype as healthcare’s ultimate complexity liberator?

Epic’s $3.8 billion in revenue comes not only from its own efforts, but as a result of effectively a federal mandate and billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies.

Forum aims to tap the significant demand for group-based experiences with a network of expert facilitators who are looking to reach more people.

This year’s conference had perhaps a slightly more moderate tone than in years past. But perhaps we’re still in the investment phase of digital health.

Just like sharks and remora fish can have a symbiotic relationship, Epic can benefit from third party developers. But only if the shark doesn’t eat the remora.

Artificial intelligence and standards may help. But what the healthcare industry needs is a two-sided network platform business.

While influencers advocate for healthcare price transparency, adherence lags among hospitals, unsurprisingly, as competing interests and increasing oversight signal sh...

“I’ve been working for 40 years to get to this point,” says Halamka, who is excited and optimistic about seeing the technology he always envisioned become real. “I don’t want to leave this to the next generation to solve.”

For founders and investors focused on building marketplaces and platforms in digital health, 2023 may be the time to heed Buffett’s counsel: when everybody around seems fearful and focused on playing it safe, it just may be the right time to be audacious and even a little greedy.