Health Tech Nerds

For those #healthcare folks based in the Los Angeles area, last chance to sign-up for our happy hour tomorrow sponsored by Health Tech Nerds. We have over 70 people registered who are investors, founders, entrepreneurs, executives, MDs, RNs and more. For those interested, register here 👉 https://lu.ma/mf8eyksz Excited to see you all! #nursesonlinkedin

The Raleigh-Durham crew is getting together next month. If you're in the area, stop by to get to know some other local folks in the health tech space!

A few weeks ago we co-hosted our Founders in Health Tech Talk event in NYC alongside our friends at Redesign Health! We had the privilege of being joined by Toyin Ajayi (Co-founder & CEO of Cityblock Health) for an insightful conversation on the topic of Building Zero to One and Beyond. Toyin shared her insights and hard won lessons on the path to scaling Cityblock's care delivery system, which serves ~100,000 members across six markets today. We covered a range of topics during our discussion, including: 1️⃣ Getting to the Starting Line: from CCA to Sidewalk Labs 2️⃣ Key Inflection Points in Cityblock’s Early Journey 3️⃣ Approaching First Customer Contracts 4️⃣ Building in a Capital Constrained Environment 5️⃣ Evolution of Leadership, Culture, and Personal Success 6️⃣ Understanding Cityblock’s Model Across Various Markets 7️⃣ Navigating Medicaid Reimbursement Models Across States 🌟 Didn't make the live discussion? You can check out the full summary write-up with more of Toyin's insights and perspective here: https://lnkd.in/eSTCPbAB P.S. One of our favorite moments from the discussion:

📢 Health Tech Nerds at Medicarians Recap 📢 We had a wonderful few days in Las Vegas at Medicarians 2024! We hosted a series of panel discussions alongside our expert speakers and dug into various topics across VBC and AI's role in back office automation. Check them out below! 1️⃣ Managing Medical Spend via VBC: Moving from Primary to Specialty Care 🗣 Expert panelists include: Eugene Hsu, MD, MBA (CMO & RVP II, Elevance Health), Tej Motiwala (SVP, Medical Management, Oak Street Health), and John Petito (Chief Strategy Officer, TailorCare) ▪ Topic 1: Does VBC = Global Cap? ▪ Topic 2: VBC as a Clinical Strategy ▪ Topic 3: Shifts in the VBC Market 2️⃣ The Promise and Peril of Automation with AI 🗣 Expert panelists include: Zach Kosky (CFO, Gold Kidney Health Plan) & Jacob Goldstein Luria (President & Founder, N1 Health) ▪ Topic 1: Prioritizing AI Use Cases Inside of a Payer Org ▪ Topic 2: Avoiding the Downside Risks of AI ▪ Topic 3: Leveraging AI to its Fullest Potential A big thank you to the Medicarians team (Jay Weintraub & Sonya Larson for hosting the Health Tech Nerds crew, our brilliant panelists for sharing their insights, and all the community members who came out to see us! P.S. Full panel recap write-ups to come!

T-Minus 6 days! Join Health Tech Nerds at Medicarians! The HTN team is heading to Las Vegas for Medicarians April 8th-10th. In partnership with Medicarians, we are co-hosting a special programming event called: Medicarians HTN: Improving Healthcare for Seniors in Medicare Advantage. We’ll explore how #MedicareAdvantage payers and startups continue to work together to improve healthcare benefits for seniors amidst increasing competitive and financial pressures on health plans. Join us for small group dialogue and a series of insightful panel sessions with industry experts - such as on a range of topics, including: 1️⃣ Managing Medical Spend via VBC: Moving from Primary to Specialty Care 🗣 Expert panelists include: Eugene Hsu, MD, MBA (CMO & RVP II, Elevance Health), Tej Motiwala (VP, Population Health, Oak Street Health), and Rachel Winokur (Co-Founder & CEO, TailorCare) 2️⃣ The Promise and Peril of Automation with AI 🗣 Expert panelists include: Zach Kosky (CFO, Gold Kidney Health Plan) & Jacob Goldstein Luria (President & Founder, N1 Health) We will conclude the day with a happy hour event to mingle and continue conversations with your fellow attendees. Plus, you’ll have access to special HTN space in the expo hall to network and meet other health tech nerds for the entirety of the conference. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, network, and build alongside 2,500 fellow industry professionals working at the cutting edge of innovation and technology in the senior health, wealth, and agetech ecosystem! 🎟 Not registered yet? Be sure to use our HTN discount links below at sign-up: ⭕ Single Pass - Get $200 off your All Access ticket with this link: https://bit.ly/3VcwFFX ⭕ BOGO - Heading to Medicarians with a friend? Use this link to get a discount for multiple attendees: https://bit.ly/49NHen7

We had a great time co-hosting our Founders in Health Tech Talk event in NYC alongside Redesign Health! We had the privilege of being joined by an absolute rockstar founder and all around person, Toyin Ajayi (Co-Founder & CEO of Cityblock Health), for a sit down discussion on the topic of Building 0 to 1 and Beyond. Toyin reflected on the journey from building in the trenches during the early days of Cityblock to scaling the organization to 100,000 members to how the team is thinking about future growth. We covered tactical business topics including: 1️⃣ Key inflection points in Cityblock's success 2️⃣ Growth versus profitability tradeoffs 3️⃣ Best practices for signing first customer contracts 4️⃣ Keeping pace with an evolving company culture 5️⃣ Advice for founders building in a down market …As well as went beyond the day-to-day business dealings to reflect on broader life lessons learned while company building, such as: 6️⃣ Life as an early-stage founder 7️⃣ The evolving role of a CEO 8️⃣ Self-awareness and showing up as your best self And plenty more! It’s always an energizing experience getting to connect with so many Health Tech Nerds faces IRL. We are grateful to have you all in the community! A big thank you to Toyin for sharing the story of Cityblock, our co-host Redesign Health, Her Workplace for the beautiful venue, and all the attendees who joined us! Couldn’t join us in-person? Be on the lookout for our full summary write-up of the live discussion, coming soon! 👀 cc: Kevin O'Leary | Amanda DiTrolio | Meg Knox | Chelsea Schlacks

On March 27th in New York City, we are excited to co-host alongside Health Tech Nerds “Building Zero to One and Beyond with Toyin Ajayi,” a panel discussion on Toyin’s hard won insights and lessons learned through her journey as the CEO and co-founder of Cityblock Health. Cityblock Health is a primary health care provider that focuses on underserved populations who rely on Medicare and Medicaid which now serves serves ~100,000 members across six markets. The panel will be moderated by Kevin O'Leary, Co-Founder of Health Tech Nerds. The event just hit max capacity, but you can join the waitlist here! https://lu.ma/truin0hf

We recently attended the HealthNext Summit 2024: AI conference hosted at Cornell Tech and had the opportunity to listen in on several panel discussions to hear from leading experts sitting at the intersection of #AI and #healthcare. We were happy to see several members of the Health Tech Nerds community in attendance, getting to connect and learn from you all. For those who couldn’t attend, we wanted to share a recap of key takeaways from one of the panels titled, Investing in a Brave New World: The Generative AI Revolution and Beyond. The discussion was moderated by Ian Chiang (Partner, Flare Capital Partners), who was joined by Daisy Wolf (Investment Partner, a16z Bio Health), Chelsea Clinton (Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation), and Julian Harris, MD, MBA (Operating Partner, Deerfield Management). The group covered a range of topics, including: 1️⃣ AI's Potential Impact on Healthcare 2️⃣ The Need for Caution in AI Adoption 3️⃣ Investment Trends & Opportunities in Healthcare AI 4️⃣ Guidance for Aspiring Innovators A big thank you to the conference organizers: Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell Tech), Ian Chiang (Flare Capital Partners), Danish M. (Grey Matter Capital), and Derek Yach (Global Health Strategies).   We’re grateful for your efforts in bringing together the leading players working to build the future of AI in healthcare – giving us the chance to connect with, learn from, and build alongside these folks. 💡 Check out the full panel recap here: https://lnkd.in/ea5eKZug

A final THANK YOU to HLTH and Health Tech Nerds members for making #vive2024 so memorable! It was a joy to see folks reconnect and support one another throughout the conference. Being surrounded by incredibly smart, passionate, hardworking, and not to mention fun people (we could go on), is what it’s all about.

Join Health Tech Nerds at Medicarians! The HTN team is heading to Las Vegas for Medicarians April 8th-10th. In partnership with Medicarians, we are co-hosting a special programming event called: Medicarians HTN: Improving Healthcare for Seniors in Medicare Advantage. We’ll explore how Medicare Advantage payers and startups continue to work together to improve healthcare benefits for seniors amidst increasing competitive and financial pressures on health plans. Join us for small group dialogue and a series of insightful panel sessions with industry experts - such as on a range of topics, including: 1️⃣ Managing Medical Spend via VBC: Moving from Primary to Specialty Care 🗣 Expert panelists include: Eugene Hsu, MD, MBA (CMO & RVP II, Elevance Health) & Tej Motiwala (VP, Population Health, Oak Street Health), and Rachel Winokur (Co-Founder & CEO, TailorCare) 2️⃣ The Promise and Peril of Automation with AI 🗣 Expert panelists include: Will Johnson (VP & GM, Oscar) & Zach Kosky (CFO, Gold Kidney Health Plan) We will conclude the day with a happy hour event to mingle and continue conversations with your fellow attendees. Plus, you’ll have access to special HTN space in the expo hall to network and meet other health tech nerds for the entirety of the conference. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, network, and build alongside 2,500 fellow industry professionals working at the cutting edge of innovation and technology in the senior health, wealth, and agetech ecosystem! 🎟 Not registered yet? Be sure to use our HTN discount links below at sign-up: ⭕ Single Pass - Get $200 off your All Access ticket with this link: https://bit.ly/3VcwFFX ⭕ BOGO - Heading to Medicarians with a friend? Use this link to get a discount for multiple attendees: https://bit.ly/49NHen7