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Discover how the leading healthcare innovation law firm in the US walks founders, investors, and executives through the revenue model process.
In this episode, Carrie and Rebecca discuss:
What a minimum viable revenue model is
What 5 questions they ask every new revenue model client
Why healthcare business rules are different from every other industry
Why determining a revenue model must include designing a compliant business arrangement
What happens when your revenue model is noncompliant
In this episode you’ll discover:
How to define digital health-connected devices
How the privacy and security and data use challenges for these companies are distinct from the challenges facing other digital health companies
What trends they are seeing among external bad actors in the space
What the biggest threat to digital health companies is right now from a security/privacy perspective—and what’s the worst that could happen
How companies make the risk/benefit tradeoff
In this episode you’ll discover:
What the significance of the new bill, H.R. 4040, that was recently passed by the US House of Representatives, is and its chances of being signed into law
What this new bill left out with respect to priorities within the telehealth stakeholder community
How the proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule could shape virtual care in 2023
What kind of movement we’re seeing in all 50 states around telehealth and virtual care policy
Listen to discover:
How TelePet has evolved over time
What challenges currently exist
What need TelePet fills in veterinary care
What stakeholders can do to help expand access to TelePet services
Listen to discover:
How automated patient care/guidance supports patient-provider partnerships and eases burdens on providers/staff
How to address labor shortages with technology
How automating the right aspects of pre- and post-surgery care paths can provide better outcomes for patients with less burden on clinicians
In this episode you’ll discover:
What “Hospital at Home” means in the context of Medicare’s program and what the phrase can mean more generally
What role digital health companies and mobile health companies have to play in a Hospital at Home program
What both hospitals and digital/mobile health vendors need to consider in implementing a successful Hospital at Home program
What the future may hold as we shift towards healthcare at home, including acute care
Listen to discover:
What it is like to raise money in femtech from investors that are primarily men
What is it like to build a women’s health company, including tips and tricks for others in this space
How the company’s first emergency contraception product, Relaunch, came to be and the demand, access, and misconceptions around it
What the leaked Roe v. Wade decisions means for the future of women-centric healthcare companies
Why Stix decided early on to take a public stand on this issue and how other femtech founders can, too (even if they don’t know how yet)
In this episode you’ll discover:
How pharmacists can play a critical role in reducing the burden on primary care physicians who are managing the care of chronic disease patients
Why value-based entities are the ideal partners for RxLive
What role drug pricing transparency plays in pharmacists’ ability to help manage high spend on drugs.
In this episode you’ll discover:
Why it is important to shape health policy
Where to look for untapped resources to access funding for entrepreneurs and growing businesses
Why we need to address women’s health gaps and create a better ecosystem to support related health innovation
Listen to discover:
Why innovation and investing in pediatrics is often overlooked
Why digital health tools are so needed in the rehab industry, in particular
How Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) fits into that equation
In this episode you’ll discover:
How Dr. Manejwala got to DarioHealth and why
What the arc of digital health adoption and re-imagining of care looks like
What will emerge as novel in the digital health space and why
Listen to discover:
Where the idea for Wheel started
What role virtual providers play in the telehealth ecosystem and who benefits most from what Wheel is building
What the connection is to the future of work
How Michelle is thinking about the new “virtual first” models that have virtual provider networks embedding with traditional in-office providers
How clinicians are holding up under the strain of the past few years
In this episode you’ll discover:
How Empactful Capital’s investing model is different and why Sal believes it’s the best way to invest
Why they selected value-based care and behavioral health as two specific areas of focus
What they look for in companies pitching to them
What Sal sees in pitches that he wishes founders wouldn’t do
Sal’s predictions for the types of companies that will do the best in the health tech space over the next five years.
Listen to discover:
How companies are innovating specifically as it relates to Women’s Health
What the landscape around funding female-led companies in the healthcare space looks like
How to market an early or growth stage company (Marija’s tips and tricks!)
Listen to discover:
What the biggest challenges facing the behavioral health industry are today
Why more healthcare entrepreneurs don’t start with Medicaid
How the industry can help address the digital divide, including broadband access, in rural health
In this episode you’ll discover:
What opportunities exist for digital health companies to increase engagement in mental healthcare
How to use the latest technology tools to increase the quality of mental health care (and training)
What value-based mental health care can and should look like
In this episode you’ll discover:
What is DEIA (that “A” may be new to you)
How to distinguish “leading metrics” and “lagging metrics” when it comes to DEIA work and evaluating results
Why fostering inclusion and hiring diverse teams is absolutely vital to the success of companies, and why this is especially important in healthcare.
How can companies achieve this?
Where do they start?
In this episode you’ll discover:
What brought a Harvard Computer Science expert, ecommerce, and marketing tech veteran to this line of work
How training non-technical staff in data literacy and data skills supercharges innovation company-wide
What’s one thing digital health innovators should do right now, TODAY to supercharge their success
In this episode you’ll discover:
What algorithmic bias is—and its impact on health inequity
What the economic case is for investing in DEI/prevention of algorithmic bias
How technology can address so many of these societal inequalities
What the Medicaid of the future looks like
How he defines success for Circulo and for himself as CEO
In this episode you’ll discover:
How a political entrepreneur and an astrophysicist saw an opportunity for healthcare innovation
Why in-network and out-of-network physician coverage info is so cumbersome to find, use, and update for all parties involved
What spurred the “no Surprises” Act in Congress and how it changed VEDA Data Solutions’ business
How COVID impacted data companies like VEDA Data
How Meghan embraced her Silicon Valley outsider status to attract the right opportunities and employees
