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Our hackathon focused on improving kicked off with a founder sharing the story of losing his mom in an ER waiting room.
We built demos in an hour to fix the ER experience. The participantsā backgrounds are diverse by design with one ER provider per team.
The perfect way to kick off our summit.
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Verifying AI in Medicine: Is Healthcare AI Actually Ready for Deployment? xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qKDzWqqzā¦
Is AI actually going to shrink healthcareās workforce or will we need more people than ever?
Munjal Shah, CEO of Hippocratic AI, joins Lifers to talk AI agents, the future of healthcare, and why AI might have a PR problem.
Watch and listen to the full conversation on Lifers on YouTube.
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Where are AI Agents Actually Working in Healthcare, and Why? xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1OxwbnAabā¦
When the solution you think should exist doesnāt, sometimes you have to build it yourself.
On Lifers, Garner Health founder Nick Reber shares what pushed him to take on healthcare, why he believed the system needed a different approach, and the startup mindset that helped turn that conviction into a company.
Watch the full conversation on the Lifers YouTube channel.
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Back story; I took a leap of faith in January by making the official shift to ābootstrapped founderā with three young kids at home. There are high highs and low lows, but thereās no better feeling than taking a bet on yourself.
In this saturated content environment, our bet with Second Opinion is that healthcare insiders want to hear from other insiders. We value analysis, opinions & perspectives you canāt hear anywhere else, versus chasing announcements and launches. And we have now expanded from newsletters to events, podcasts and more. Our first (sold out) summit on AI and healthcare is in October in NYC.
Massive thank you to @beehiiv highlighting new media companies like @second_op_media. It's an honor to be part of the group.
Goes without saying, Iād truly be nowhere without my tribe: my family, subscribers, partners, collaborators and supporters.
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Is healthcare AI actually ready for clinical deployment?
Dr. @zakkohane and Protegeās @engyziedan are tackling the hard questions:
ā Can benchmark performance translate to real-world care?
ā What evidence should health systems demand?
ā Are we holding AI to an impossible standard?
ā Where can AI safely improve diagnosis and treatment?
Join us Oct. 13 for a candid conversation on what it will take to trust AI in medicine.
šļø Free to attend. Register here: streamyard.com/watch/GwsSXwdā¦
ALT Is AI ready for real-world clinical care? Dr. Zak Kohane and Protegeās Engy Ziedan debate what it takes to safely trust AI in diagnosis and treatment, from benchmark performance and clinical evidence to whether weāre holding AI to a higher standard than humans.
Everyone is waiting for the first big employer to change healthcare.
Mark Bertolini thinks we might be watching the wrong story.
He believes the real change will start with small and mid-sized employers, the businesses that are already feeling the pressure and canāt afford to wait for the system to fix itself.
So what keeps him optimistic after decades in an industry that is notoriously resistant to change?
āThe dominoesā donāt have to fall all at once. They just have to start falling.
Bertolini of @OscarHealth joined us on Lifers to talk about what that change could actually look like, why small employers matter so much, and the ideas he hopes will outlast his time in the CEO seat.
Watch the conversation on Lifers.
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The average primary care doctor carries a panel of 2,000 to 4,000 patients. Less than half of their day is spent with any of them. The rest goes to charting, referrals, insurance verification, and prior auth.
On Lifers this week, I sat down with @DRZ_BAKER of Baker Health who spent five years at Optum before building a primary care company that now has around 40,000 members.
We got into what he took from the restaurant industry, why every doctor there has to be certified in lifestyle medicine, and where he thinks AI actually earns a place in a diagnosis.
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Lead In
(00:34) Intro
(01:36) 24 hour primary care
(03:16) Lifetime care vision
(04:19) Pediatrics and trust
(07:15) Why pediatrics is hard
(09:40) Async care and texting
(11:59) BakerHealth app workflow
(13:48) One Medical lessons
(16:02) Three pillars tech holistic hospitality
(17:58) Hospitality tricks no waiting room
(21:17) Specialist referrals without chaos
(26:14) Scaling specialist network
(28:04) Wearables data and coaching
(30:40) Patients data doctors together
(31:17) Myth of worried well
(32:21) Patients take the wheel
(35:45) AI listening finds diagnosis
(38:05) Doctors using AI wisely
(41:37) Midjourney scans hype vs harm
(44:45) Primary care shortage math
(47:01) AI cuts admin burden
(50:05) Dashboards value based targeting
(53:19) Messaging and payment fixes
(56:35) Making primary care cool
(59:09) Innovation needs humanity
(01:02:57) Wrap
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Dr. Baker (@DRZ_BAKER) spent weeks trying to understand how restaurants, which also run on thin margins, could manage such quick seating even with last min cancellations.
Then he applied it to primary care to get rid of the waiting room.
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The average primary care doctor carries a panel of 2,000 to 4,000 patients. Less than half of their day is spent with any of them. The rest goes to charting, referrals, insurance verification, and prior auth.
On Lifers this week, I sat down with @DRZ_BAKER of Baker Health who spent five years at Optum before building a primary care company that now has around 40,000 members.
We got into what he took from the restaurant industry, why every doctor there has to be certified in lifestyle medicine, and where he thinks AI actually earns a place in a diagnosis.
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Lead In
(00:34) Intro
(01:36) 24 hour primary care
(03:16) Lifetime care vision
(04:19) Pediatrics and trust
(07:15) Why pediatrics is hard
(09:40) Async care and texting
(11:59) BakerHealth app workflow
(13:48) One Medical lessons
(16:02) Three pillars tech holistic hospitality
(17:58) Hospitality tricks no waiting room
(21:17) Specialist referrals without chaos
(26:14) Scaling specialist network
(28:04) Wearables data and coaching
(30:40) Patients data doctors together
(31:17) Myth of worried well
(32:21) Patients take the wheel
(35:45) AI listening finds diagnosis
(38:05) Doctors using AI wisely
(41:37) Midjourney scans hype vs harm
(44:45) Primary care shortage math
(47:01) AI cuts admin burden
(50:05) Dashboards value based targeting
(53:19) Messaging and payment fixes
(56:35) Making primary care cool
(59:09) Innovation needs humanity
(01:02:57) Wrap
Everyone wants to talk about how AI will revolutionize healthcare.
But what if we just got patients seen on time?
No weeks-long wait for an appointment. No sitting around in a waiting room. Just care thatās actually convenient and accessible.
Because maybe the bigger problem isnāt a lack of technology. Itās that healthcare hasnāt been designed around the patient relationship.
What would you fix first?
Watch the full conversation with Dr. Baker (@DRZ_BAKER) at the link in bio.
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