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Great article from Spencer Dorn that gets into the first principles of building in healthcare, but I have the same energy as the Epic tweet (see comments). You can do it even better! At Calvient we build tons and tons of tools. The platform is basic building blocks, some guidance/rails/playbooks, and Agent creation. It's not going to be the perfect "product" in all instances. That assumes to much of each context. But the key is in the management and implementation. Add in a great Customer Success partnership. Self-service and having support in a partnership should not be looked at as exclusive. If you deploy/test, do it with staff and admins alike. Have them drive. Watch them learn! Yes it's hard on margin. Yes it adds complexity (compared to pure SaaS). But those chosen constraints for us, because we know it works. The tradeoff is right. And it meets clinics where they are at. Which is much needed right now. https://lnkd.in/gJSDVtaT

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Former Drawbridge Health CEO Launches Manifold Health AI at JPM to Build the First Digital Health Index Twin for Chronic Disease. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Manifold Health AI today announced its launch at JPM Healthcare Week and the GMT MedTech Symposium, unveiling a first-to-market platform that combines a novel, precision-designed blood test with an AI-driven Digital Health Index Twin to translate biological data into financial risk intelligence for healthcare infrastructure. The announcement was delivered by Manifold's Founder and CEO, Jerome Scelza. This will fundamentally change health risk management, improve health outcomes, and make healthcare affordable again. For the complete press release: https://lnkd.in/e9NsnRiT Message me if you would like to know more!

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please share, applications close Wed! CALL FOR STARTUPS BUILDING IN BEHAVIORAL/MENTAL HEALTH AND/OR ADDICTION! https://lnkd.in/enE-s2zF Wave's upcoming HealthTech cohort, launching in October, is a special one, focused specifically on Seed/Series A companies focused on solving the mental health crisis, including addiction. If you're a founder building in the space, or know one, please take the time to learn more below: https://lnkd.in/enE-s2zF Besides the sub-vertical focus, this year's program (wrapping in Jan 2027 at the Behavioral Health and Addiction Summit taking place in Nashville on 1/21/27) is unique in being a dual-city program, leveraging the tremendous healthcare and technology communities in Florida as well as Nashville, along with unique mentors, advisors, and investors focused on helping founders grow their companies and grow quickly. The Tampa Bay Wave has been passionate about solving problems in the space for as long as I've been a part of the organization, with companies supported including Finni Health (YC W23), LunaJoy Health, Canopie, Goldfinch Health, NeuroFlow and more (led by incredible founders including Christopher Molaro, Anne Wanlund, Sipra Laddha, MD, Shama Rathi, MD, Brand Newland, John Greenwood, Bukhtar Khan, and more). To date, our 120+ HealthTech companies have raised nearly $600M, created over 2,100 jobs, and more. We have grown our organization, recently recognized as the #3 program in the United States, by supporting incredible founders solving real problems, and I would welcome any and all introductions and applications, so please share at your convenience! Applications close THIS WEDNESDAY

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Any GP Practice in the NHS they know the complexity of sending referrals! Anima's integration into eRS simplifies that. Referrals can be triggered across Triage, Document Workflow, Scribe - centralising the processing and actioning of them is a massive time saver! This is a massive step up and can't wait to start seeing it live with some of our pilot sites!

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Three incredible days at #JPM2026. Same conversation with 10+ health system execs: "We're building our AI strategy. Evaluating vendors. Need to pick the right partners." This sounds familiar. 2009-2012: The EHR decision. After the HITECH Act, health systems spent 18-24 months evaluating Epic vs. Cerner. Consultants. Committees. RFPs. Multi-year implementations. The logic made sense: EHRs were monolithic platforms with huge switching costs. You had to get it right. 2025: The AI decision. I'm watching health systems do the same thing. "AI steering committees." "Strategic AI partner" RFPs. Trying to pick winners. But there's a critical difference: EHRs were a single, massive platform decision. AI in healthcare is dozens of different problems that need dozens of different solutions. Here's what health systems are missing: They're looking for "the AI vendor" when they should be building "an AI portfolio." There's no single AI platform that solves:   → Documentation burden (ambient notes) → Radiology throughput (workflow optimization) → Clinical trials matching → Revenue cycle optimization (across specialties) → Clinical decision support These are different problems. Different technologies. Different vendors. Different timelines. Some need FDA clearance and 24-month validations. Some can pilot in 90 days. Some integrate with Epic. Some replace parts of Epic. You can't solve all of these with one "strategic AI partnership”....no matter that Anthropic is saying right now. <ducks> The AI landscape is evolving too fast for monogamous vendor relationships. 6 months ago: GPT-4 for clinical documentation. Today: Ambient listening, agentic workflows, multimodal imaging analysis. 6 months from now: Something else entirely. That's why you need exposure across the whole landscape—not a bet on one vendor. The mistake I see health systems making: Approach 1: "Strategic Partner" Strategy Pick one AI vendor → Enterprise deal → 3-year commitment → Hope they solve everything Result: You're locked in. Technology moves on. You're stuck in vendor negotiations while competitors move faster. Approach 2: "Portfolio Strategy" Deploy capital across multiple companies → Take equity → Co-develop solutions → Maintain optionality Result: You capture upside. You shape products. You're first to new capabilities. You have relationships across the ecosystem. After 20 years building innovation platforms at JPMorgan, Mousse Partners, Blueprint Health, Junto Health, Atlantic Health: In fast-moving markets, portfolio strategies beat single-vendor bets. Healthcare AI is moving fast. The question isn't "Which AI vendor should we pick?" The question is: "How do we build an AI portfolio that gives us the most optionality" If you're thinking about this, let's talk. 📩 douglas.m.hayes@gmail.com ☎️ 215-620-2032 #healthcareAI #digitalhealth #venturecapital #innovation

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Many brilliant engineers in HealthTech remain invisible. They build the platforms, algorithms, and systems that move medicine forward. Yet when founders, investors, and boards start searching for technical leaders, their names never appear. The problem is rarely ability. It is visibility. In regulated industries like MedTech, leadership opportunities often go to people whose thinking is visible to the market, not just those doing excellent work behind the scenes. If you want companies to find you rather than chase opportunities yourself, this shift matters. #HealthTech, #MedTech, #EngineeringLeadership, #CareerGrowth, #PersonalBrand

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Healthtech CMOs: want to take advantage of the Rural Health Transformation program? Guide your ICPs on how to apply for funding. There are plenty of providers currently actively trying to figure out how to tap into all of that cash. And it's not always the easiest or most obvious process. - Does a particular technology fit the RHT criteria? - How should I apply? - How do I evaluate the specific vendor or offering? - Does our organization qualify as a rural provider under the program rules? - Which funding stream is the right one for our use case? - What outcomes do we need to demonstrate in the application? - What documentation will we need to submit? - What internal resources are required to manage the grant? - Can this funding cover implementation and training, or only the software itself? - What reporting obligations come after we receive the funds? All of these, and many more, are questions CFOs | CIOs | CMIOs are asking right now. None of these execs wants their org be the one that gets it wrong. So if you're a healthtech vendor, provide them with that guidance and lower the friction for them to get funding. If you want to drive real adoption, offer a roadmap to funding as part of your marketing strategy. It will enable them to come back to you later for investments in your offering. I'm Abdul, the healthcare and life sciences marketer, and co-founder of Sirona Marketing. We focus on GTM and marketing support for healthcare and life sciences companies. If you need help with your marketing, including on how to tap into RHT funding, let us know. If we can't help you, we know people who can.

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Your HealthTech product is solid, but you aren’t getting traction. Pilot stalls Failed to scale Uninterested clinicians Ghosted by administrators Founders, why why oh why is this happening to you? If you are building in HealthTech, You have to build something you know will either - fit seamlessly into the current workflow OR - disrupts a current broken workflow and builds it back with true effectiveness And you can only do this if you talk to clinicians Boots on the ground Taking care of patients Doing the admin tasks In the trenches Not their bosses Not their C-suite Not the crusty old RN or MD MBA who hasn’t done a set of vitals in 23 years (sorry) Not your college roommate or golfing buddy. It doesn’t have to be hard. It doesn’t have to break your budget. But you desperately need to validate your implementation to communicate value and drive adoption.

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