Health Care Blog October 20, 2024
This is the week where the digital health landscape debunks to the HLTH Conference in Vegas to meet, do deals, listen to superannuated rappers and generally have a great time. Speaking as the guy who ran the digital health conference before HLTH emerged, I remain extremely jealous of how Jonathan Weiner, Rich Scarfo, Jody Tropeano and team have managed to pull 10,000 people together when Health 2.0 never got past 25% of that size! (And I won’t even mention the premium price they charge!).
I have written pretty extensively about how digital health has failed to develop an alternate to the incumbent hospital, specialty & procedure-based system. 90%+ of digital health companies are now desperately trying to get the incumbents...