Agreed. Even some of the replies to this message fail to realize TJ Parker⚡️ led one of the most successful healthcare disrupters in the last several decades. One that was unequivocally great for patients.

My controversial opinion is that if we live 10 more years, then we will be able to essentially choose when we want to die

Future health insurance industry is basically (1) Super low cost Catastrophic coverage and (2) A bunch of those NYC hotdog carts that just hand out GLP-1s.

These two things can be true: (1) The market-driven, capitalist approach to healthcare has driven countless innovations that saved lives of millions of people who never had an option for treatment. “Healthcare as a Private Good” (2) The baseline level of health care /

Two things that’s can be true at the same time: 1) Pharma companies should be celebrated for bringing new drugs to market, even at high prices. Without those high prices, those drugs would not have been made and their target population would have no options. 2) Pharma

Growth in healthcare administration headcount is correlated with the increasing complexity of our healthcare system. When you piecemeal the system with different products for different populations, you need administrators (or - soon - AI) to support it. This complexity is 10x

Using AI does not make you an AI company. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Healthcare conferences should be: 1) Demos 2) Debates on contentious topics 3) Happy hours. Anything else is marketing which you can get on a website.

Every innovative care delivery company goes through common phases: 1) Prove the Clinical Model 2) Make unit economics work 3) Lower CAC Each step is exponentially harder than the previous. A unique GTM approach that reduces CAC is often the predictor of scaled success

I have reached the age where I think Mini-Vans are pretty cool

Should we just replace Product, Engineering, and Design roles with “builders” at this point. Triple threats are the reality of the future.

Let’s be clear on what this likely means: Pros - Lower costs for existing therapies in the US - Shock to the Pharma pricing system which needs an overhaul given new realities of precision medicine / lower R&D costs due to AI Cons - Countries in the MFN index (mostly mid tier -

A few weeks of night time “vibe coding” led to my first App on the App Store. Incredible that you really can “just do things” now.

Wonder if this is the one of the leaks he mentions (as seen on Webcast). Lots more debris / gas cloud around the spacecraft after SECO. Thoughts Scott Manley Everyday Astronaut SpaceX Elon Musk ?

I feel lucky to be joining Hello Heart as SVP of Product. Hello Heart is a darling of our industry using software + hardware devices to drive incredible clinical outcomes, reduce medical costs, and reach patients in urban and rural populations.

Epic building their own AI scribe should have been the most expected outcome - not sure why many were blindsided. The key will be if they make it harder for other 3rd party AI scribes to integrate.

High risk patients tend to be older and lower income. ChatGPT user base tends to be younger and wealthier. This is why surfacing LLMs in digital health solutions will be really impactful for some time - introduces a new population to these amazing capabilities