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🧠💉 AI & MedTech: What We’ve Learned from This 9-Part Exploration
🧠💉 AI & MedTech: What We’ve Learned from This 9-Part Exploration
“The future is here - it’s just undergoing FDA review.” Over the past few weeks, I’ve shared a series of reflections on…
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📍From Hype to Stewardship - What AI Really Means for the Future of MedTech
📍From Hype to Stewardship - What AI Really Means for the Future of MedTech
Post #9 in my series about AI and US Healthcare 🧭 We don’t need more AI visionaries in healthcare. We need more AI…
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📍AI & the Commercial Frontier - Reinventing Customer Engagement and Service Models
📍AI & the Commercial Frontier - Reinventing Customer Engagement and Service Models
Post #8 in my series about AI and US Healthcare. 🤝 AI won’t just change what we build.
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📍The Landmines Beneath the Hype - Ethics, Law & Regulation in AI-Driven MedTech
📍The Landmines Beneath the Hype - Ethics, Law & Regulation in AI-Driven MedTech
Post #7 in my series about AI and US Healthcare ⚖️ AI is moving faster than law, ethics, and regulation combined - and…
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📍Real - World Data + AI - From Compliance Requirement to Competitive Advantage
📍Real - World Data + AI - From Compliance Requirement to Competitive Advantage
📊 Data used to be a record of what happened. Now, paired with AI, it’s becoming a blueprint for what could happen next.
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📍AI’s Impact on R&D - Rethinking the MedTech Innovation Pipeline
📍AI’s Impact on R&D - Rethinking the MedTech Innovation Pipeline
🧬 In traditional MedTech R&D, innovation meant better hardware. With AI, innovation may come not from building…
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📍AI in Diagnostics – Augmentation vs. Automation
📍AI in Diagnostics – Augmentation vs. Automation
🧠 Just because a machine can make a clinical decision doesn’t mean it should. And even when it shouldn’t — there’s…
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📍Why a Cautious Strategy May Win the Long Game in AI & MedTech
📍Why a Cautious Strategy May Win the Long Game in AI & MedTech
🧩 There’s a reason we don’t run clinical trials at the speed of software sprints. In medicine, the cost of being wrong…
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📍Why Medical Device Companies Should Be Bullish on AI
📍Why Medical Device Companies Should Be Bullish on AI
⚙️ In the history of medical technology, there have been very few moments where the economics, the technology, and the…
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AI in Healthcare: Are We Finally Ready to Fix What’s Broken?
AI in Healthcare: Are We Finally Ready to Fix What’s Broken?
🧠 “The system is broken.” We say that so often about U.
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Amit Shafrir shared thisHow cool is that !Amit Shafrir shared thisIntroducing our new design system, built for a world without waiting. We're giving people back time: for their family, their friends, for better healthcare, to live how they want – one delivery at a time. Thanks for being here from the start.
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Amit Shafrir reposted thisAmit Shafrir reposted thisIf you want to join a strong team, focused on impacting people’s lives, working for a great company - check this out. We will expect you to be great at bringing systems, product, business, and people together. Amit Shafrir
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Amit Shafrir reposted thisAmit Shafrir reposted thisApril 1st, 2026 marks 50 years of Apple. A “journey" that changed everything, including my personal “journey” In early 2000, I was about to move to Texas to join Dell. Contract signed, house rented, boxes packed: the safe, obvious choice. Then I got a call from Steve Jobs. On Jan 31, 2000 "Stevie Wonder!" made Fortune’s cover. Apple was refining its Aqua interface and launched the first iMac. He was looking for someone to lead Europe operations. Apple wasn’t what it's today. Very small market share, doubts about survival. Everyone except ONE told me not to go. Dell was the winner, Apple the outsider. I still went to meet Steve. We spent hours walking on a Hawaii beach, challenging each other on technology, product, strategy. I liked his intensity, clarity, and obsession with building something “different." I trusted my instinct, cancelled everything and joined Apple. From 2000 to 2012, I had the privilege to lead Apple EMEIA. What we built was unique: ➡️ Revenue multiplied by 30, from $1.3B to over $40B ➡️ Expansion across 120+ countries, opening 20+ offices ➡️ Iconic products launches: iPod (23/10/2001), iPhone (9/01/2007), iPad (27/01/2010) ➡️ Distribution & brand, developing Apple Premium Resellers & Apple Stores. Beyond numbers, what made Apple unique was its culture & focus on doing “insanely” great product. We challenged everything: how it looks, feels, works, turning everyday problems into simple, elegant solutions. Looking back, I think of what Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford commencement speech 🎓 : “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” Today, I see how that decision shaped not only my career, but how I think about product, leadership and life. When in 2014 I co-founded C4 Ventures with Boris Bakech, we asked the same questions: is there a product vision? The courage to go against the market? With C4 Industries, investing in lifestyle craftsmanship companies, we apply the same attention to detail Faïencerie de Gien, Lelièvre Paris, DUVIVIER CANAPES. As France Ambassador for International Investments 🇨🇵, meeting companies investing in France, we look for purpose and ability to build over time. Today, Apple is a $4T+ company and one of the most iconic brands. Apple didn’t just follow the digital revolution. It defined it. Shaped a generation. Empowered creators, entrepreneurs, students, families. Made technology personal, intuitive, human. This anniversary isn’t just about a company. It’s about all those who believed early, took risks, built, designed, sold, supported, pushed forward over 50 years. Incredibly grateful to have worked alongside such talented and committed people: thank you all. Never underestimate the power of belief: in product, vision, people. The crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The ones who see things differently. Because “the people crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do”. #Apple50 #ThinkDifferent
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Amit Shafrir shared thisThis is really cool!Amit Shafrir shared thisWhen this veteran video game developer's 5-year-old daughter was diagnosed with diabetes, he found himself facing a terrifying new reality: Becoming his child's stand-in "pancreas," making life-or-death insulin decisions with only "confusing" instructions to guide him. So, he did what game designers do best. He built an app that turns the complex science of diabetes management into an intuitive interactive game. More here: https://cnn.it/4bFGrqt
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Amit Shafrir shared thisGood insights from Alex Schultz like - “You cannot just present the numbers; you have to package them in a way that respects the emotional and cognitive load of your audience” - I have learned this the hard way many years ago 😎Amit Shafrir shared thisI spend a lot of time on here talking about marketing but analytics is at the core of who I am. The analytics team asked me to do a Q&A to talk about how my career came together in analytics (as part of our recruiting etc...). One really interesting theme was how to think about changing functions, mid-career. It was really fascinating to think about. Another large section is how AI is shaping the industry and what books shaped my views here. I hope this is interesting and, especially if you are an agentic first analytics person, please consider joining us! https://lnkd.in/eRTWUBySBeyond the Numbers: Meta’s CMO and VP of Analytics Alex Schultz on Career Shifts, and the AI…Beyond the Numbers: Meta’s CMO and VP of Analytics Alex Schultz on Career Shifts, and the AI…
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Amit Shafrir shared thisExcellent write-up by John McKinley - worth a few minutes of your timeFrom $1,000 Drones to $1 Trillion Selloffs: Mapping the Real AI DisruptionFrom $1,000 Drones to $1 Trillion Selloffs: Mapping the Real AI Disruption
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Amit Shafrir liked thisAmit Shafrir liked thisI’ve been using a pattern that has become hard to ignore: • Claude Code writes the feature. • Codex reviews the work product using the adversarial review as part of my Claude Code workflow thanks to the Codex plugin. • Pause my flow and change terminals into Gemini to review and improves the visual design. While that division of work has been producing meaningfully better results for me (fewer bugs, better implementation decisions, and UI work that feels less like “technically correct Tailwind” and more like an actual designed product), I hated the context switch of jumping between Claude Code and Gemini and back. It really was frustrating when I started driving subagent teams and full Agent Teams because it was a completely separate execution context. Or at least it used to be. So I built `gemini-plugin-cc` to pull Gemini into Claude Code. This gives Claude Code and agent-skill users a Gemini-powered visual design companion: • Generate a Google Stitch DESIGN.md from screenshots and UI source • Review rendered UI against brand fidelity, colors, typography, spacing, accessibility, and component variants • Ask Gemini for alternative visual directions • Run a three-pass second opinion: advocate, critic, synthesis The point is simple: the model that created the UI is usually not the best model to judge whether the UI is visually good. Code review and visual design review are different jobs. I want my agent team to reflect that while still being able to work together as one agent team. Article: https://lnkd.in/e-_imCtE GitHub: https://lnkd.in/e5edUtsW Install Today: npx skills add voodootikigod/gemini-plugin-ccGitHub - voodootikigod/gemini-plugin-cc: Visual design companion for AI coding agents. Uses Google Gemini to review UI brand fidelity, tokens, and accessibility via screenshots and source code.GitHub - voodootikigod/gemini-plugin-cc: Visual design companion for AI coding agents. Uses Google Gemini to review UI brand fidelity, tokens, and accessibility via screenshots and source code.
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Amit Shafrir liked thisThanks, Sohin Shah, for today's "Beyond The Case podcast". I enjoy our discussions and OPM reflections, and I hope you will find them interesting and that they might lead you to HBS or to creating your own company.Amit Shafrir liked thisIn this episode, Marc Goldberg and Christine Carville share their journey from individual entrepreneurial paths to co-founding Resilience Lab and now leading at Cerebral. Christine’s career evolved from early entrepreneurship into clinical psychology, while Marc brought deep experience in software and systems thinking. Together, they saw an opportunity to fix a fragmented mental health system by scaling clinician training and introducing a data-driven standard of care. They built Resilience Lab on the belief that mental health outcomes could be improved through measurement-informed care and AI, well before AI became mainstream. Their model focused on training early-career clinicians at scale (700+ trained) and using data to enhance treatment, despite regulatory hurdles and cultural resistance within the field. Following the acquisition by Cerebral, they are now scaling this vision further, supporting 500+ clinicians and reaching networks covering 100M+ lives. The conversation also explores their unique experience as a married couple building a company and attending HBS OPM together. They reflect on how the program added structure, rigor, and global perspective to their leadership. The episode closes with insights on resilience, continuous learning, and the importance of simply showing up, even when most efforts fail. Here are the Top 10 Takeaways from the conversation: 1) Entrepreneurship Can Start from Necessity: Christine’s first company came from needing a job - action often precedes clarity. 2) Reinvention Is a Superpower: Her pivot into clinical psychology shows it’s never too late to build domain expertise. 3) Big Opportunities Hide in Broken Systems: Marc targeted healthcare because it’s massive, inefficient, and lacks standardization. 4) Mental Health Is Human, but Can Be Systematized: While therapy is deeply personal, training + data can scale quality. 5) They Bet on Data Before AI Was Popular: Their early conviction: better data leads to better care. 6) Owning the Tech Stack Matters: Building their own systems enabled innovation and control over outcomes. 7) Regulation Is a Double-Edged Sword: It protects patients but slows innovation and scalability. 8) Working as a Couple Requires Clear Roles: They invested in coaching early to define lanes and avoid conflict. 9) HBS OPM Accelerates Leadership Growth: It gave Christine frameworks and Marc a rare space to learn and reflect. 10) Success = Showing Up Consistently: Marc’s philosophy: most attempts fail, but persistence compounds into results. https://lnkd.in/e-ktEK6eThey’re Solving Mental Health at Scale Using AI & HBS Is Taking Notes - Marc Goldberg & Christine Carville - Beyond the CaseThey’re Solving Mental Health at Scale Using AI & HBS Is Taking Notes - Marc Goldberg & Christine Carville - Beyond the Case
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Amit Shafrir liked thisAmit Shafrir liked thisExcited to share a new professional milestone at abra 🚀 After a meaningful period as Delivery Manager, where I had the privilege of leading impactful projects and working with an exceptional team - I’m stepping into my new role as VP Salesforce Solutions at abra. I strongly believe that great technology is the kind that simplifies complexity and helps organizations see the bigger picture. Today, it’s no longer just about managing data - it’s about the powerful combination of Salesforce and AI, turning information into real business value. In my new role, my goal is to continue building solutions that not only centralize data, but leverage AI to generate strategic insights, enable better forecasting, and drive tangible business growth. On a personal note, I want to express my deep gratitude to Eyal Zarankin, whom I’m honored to succeed. Thank you for your guidance, trust, and for sharing so much of your knowledge with me. I’d also like to thank the incredible abra team for the support, collaboration, and partnership. I’m excited for what we’ll achieve together. Looking forward to this next chapter.
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Amit Shafrir liked thisHarvey is valued at $11B. Legora just raised at $5.5B. I built their entire web application in two weeks and I'm making it open-source and free for everyone to use. Say hi to Mike: mikeoss.com. When I got the chance to try Harvey and Legora, I was surprised by how simple they were. A thought came to mind: I could probably build something similar in no time at all with Claude. And so I did. Features: Mike has feature parity with the Harvey and Legora web applications: 1. An assistant that can create, edit, or review documents, powered by Claude or Gemini 2. A projects vault where you can upload your files and share them with colleagues 3. Tabular review for bulk-reviewing documents 4. Workflows containing instructions for the assistant or presets for tabular review On top of that, I added a few features unique to Mike: 1. Version control: you can save documents as new versions, and edits by the assistant are automatically saved as a new version too. So Mike can work as a full DMS like iManage. 2. A coding IDE-like interface for assistants that you can run within a project. This lets you work with the assistant while keeping full visibility of the files and documents. Why open source: Mike's surname is OSS, for Open Source Software. Mike brings a philosophy and approach different from those of Harvey and Legora. Harvey and Legora are black boxes. They want your firm to store your client documents, precedents, and templates with them, and to share your domain knowledge so they can help you build workflows on top of their closed applications. It's convenient, but it means you become locked into their ecosystem and their enterprise contracts. Meanwhile, you have no visibility into the code or its security. Their pitch has always been that the application layer is complicated and hard to build. I built Mike to prove it really isn't. Mike offers law firms an alternative, where they own the application layer and aren't stuck with a vendor they're renewing forever. You can try Mike in the demo on the website, or go to the GitHub link on the site to download the code and run a local version yourself.
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Amit Shafrir liked thisAmit Shafrir liked thisCongratulations to Vinted on their €880M secondary share transaction! Goldman Sachs is honored to have served as sole placement agent.
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Amit Shafrir liked thisThank you Ravit, Ryan, Emily and Liz for a great panel!Amit Shafrir liked thisWhat a strong lineup at POSSIBLE ☀️🌴 Start.io CRO Ravit Ross was joined by Ryan Bricklemyer (T-Mobile Advertising Solutions), Emily Ray (Yahoo DSP), and Liz Rawson (Samsung Ads) for a masterclass on identity, diving into how the space is evolving and what it means. Thanks to everyone who joined us! We're ready to kickoff day 2! Stop by Cabana #18 to connect with us, and join us later today at the South Tropez Cabanas lawn from 5–7 for sunset drinks 🌅🍹
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Amit Shafrir liked thisA little while ago, Natalia and I were invited to The Fat Duck The Fat Duck Group to share a meal with Heston Blumenthal his wife Melanie and an old friend, Matthew Fort . The evening was so full of happiness. We were celebrating a special moment in Heston’s life. The dinner was whimsical, a magical journey created by the most intuitive, creative chef, with his great knowledge of science, as much as his approach to food with childlike wonderment. Heston is still completely relevant in the landscape of world gastronomy. Oh, what true gastronomy can be! His team is extraordinarily gifted, too. One of the best meals I’ve had for a long, long time.
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Amit Shafrir liked thisAmit Shafrir liked thisWaldorf Astoria London - Admiralty Arch What a day, welcoming back Chef Daniel Boulud and Sebastien Silvestri ! Guillaume Marly FIH MI Marie-Charlotte Gauter MIH IS Dominic Teague Stephen Moran #hilton #waldorfastoria #hiltonforthestay Hilton Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts
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Amit Shafrir liked thisConrad Athens The Ilisian A very important day for hospitaility in Athens and Greece. Congrats Nassos Papazoglou and team!✨️🙏 Hilton #hilton #conradathens #hotels #athens #greeceAmit Shafrir liked this23 April 1963, the beginning of a legacy. 23 April 2026, a new chapter unfolds. Today, Conrad Athens The Ilisian opens its doors, reimagined as an iconic landmark and a true urban resort, at the epicentre of everything Athenian. #conradathenstheilisian #conradhotels #athensreborn #discovertheilisian
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Sergei Bogdanov PhD🚀
How AI Makes Medicine More Humane: An Analysis by Chatfuel CEO A new article from Fedor Pak, CEO of our portfolio company Chatfuel, has been published. Pavel wrote a column in MedCity News about how AI is transforming patient interactions in clinics. Key points from the article worth taking note of: ▪️ AI shouldn't replace doctors; it should assist. Medical clinics don't need an "all-knowing digital doctor." A much more useful tool is a "polite assistant with maximum functionality," who reminds patients about appointments 24/7, forwards instructions, answers common questions, and helps with scheduling. ▪️ Time savings and revenue growth. In real-world cases, communication automation allows clinics to process 3-5 times more requests without hiring new staff, reduces the number of patients who don't show up for appointments without warning by up to 45%, and increases the volume of paid procedures by 20-40% per week. ▪️ Automation makes clinics more humane. Doctors spend an average of almost 6 hours maintaining electronic medical records for every 8 hours they spend seeing patients. When AI takes over routine tasks, doctors arrive at their appointments less burned out and more focused. ▪️ It's not just about chatbots; communication automation is just the first step. AI support for clinical decision-making, predictive follow-ups, automated documentation, and more innovative anamnesis collection processes will follow. If you work in HealthTech or clinics, I recommend reading the entire article. It's an efficient and insightful look at the implementation of AI in healthcare. 🔗 Read the article on MedCity News: https://lnkd.in/eW8Nr-s6
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Darian Shirazi
Nice quote from one of our Partners Andrew Brackin in TechCrunch: “This was one of the biggest use cases of ChatGPT,” Andrew Brackin, a partner at Gradient who invests in health tech, told TechCrunch. “So it makes a lot of sense that they would want to build a more kind of private, secure, optimized version of ChatGPT for these healthcare questions.” https://lnkd.in/gY3TV5VD
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Enke Bashllari, Ph.D.
Clinicians want to use AI but don’t have the bandwidth to evaluate all the different models. Meet Health Olymp, an AI tool purpose-built for clinicians. Here’s why this matters 👇 1. Health and life science experts gain instant access to frontier models for free. No procurement hoops or IT bottlenecks. Every clinician gets their own sandbox to explore. 2. Clinicians can compare models side by side and pick the one that works best for their use case. That transparency builds trust and sparks ideas for novel AI applications in care delivery, diagnostics, and research. 3. Most AI benchmarks are too generic or disconnected from clinical reality. Health Olymp brings frontline feedback into the loop, helping the industry identify models that perform reliably in real world clinical environments. Congrats to Ruslan Nazarenko and the Lumos team as they put AI model benchmarking directly into the hands of healthcare professionals. ⬇️ (link in comments)
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Rami Kalish
Congratulations to Guy Ezekiel, Maya Perl, and the entire Zorro team on their $20 million Series A funding round to continue their mission to revolutionize healthcare benefits by making high-quality, affordable healthcare accessible to all! This is especially exciting since Guy and Maya used to be at Pitango. They've now build this incredible company, and I'm proud to support them from day one and see them grow the next-generation benefits administration platform that is transforming how America’s workers plan, pay and save for healthcare. As Guy said: “Healthcare [in America] is not one-size-fits-all, and we’re past due for an alternative to the skyrocketing costs of group health plans. Zorro is building a new future where health and wealth planning are integrated, giving employers predictability without sacrificing quality and individuals the autonomy to make smart, personalized decisions for themselves and their families.” LINK to Axios article: https://lnkd.in/d8XN9TXP #Pitango Pitango Entrée Capital , 10D
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Richey Hansen
Longevity isn’t about living longer at any cost, it’s about living better for longer. Yet, the gap between healthspan and lifespan in the US is the highest in the world and has grown to over 12 years. This gap is 29% higher than the global average and means that, in general, we are living over a decade of life in a diseased state. I spend a lot of time thinking about how this shift from reactive to proactive care is evolving and what emerging strategies from the elite performance world can be applied to accelerate this transition. The focus becomes less about how long can we live, and more on how long can we maintain strength, cognition, metabolic health, and independence? I’m really looking forward to this conversation with three outstanding people operating in this space. Hope you can join us live, but if not, be sure to register to receive a recording of our conversation. Registration link in comments.
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Rod Alexander
Health tech startups are scrambling to adapt as labor shortages and pricing pressures loom large. With EHR giants like Epic calling the shots, how are founders supposed to keep their heads above water while navigating this chaotic landscape? #HealthInnovation #DigitalHealth https://lnkd.in/gYbCjspE
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Jonathan Friedman
Too many startups assume: 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙖 𝘾𝙋𝙏 𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙚 → 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙖 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. Reality is rarely that linear. Viability tends to unfold in fits and starts, shaped by payer coverage, provider workflows, and the real operational burden behind reliable billing. ⚙️📉 Inspired by Matt Kamen's excellent post on CPT adoption curves & the recent ACCESS discussion, we’re sharing our internal framework: 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 It goes deeper than payment policy — covering clinical and documentation requirements, enrollment and service mechanics, operational readiness, and the maturity of the CPT pathway. 🧠📋 If you’re evaluating a CPT-driven business model — or working with someone who is — comment “𝘾𝙋𝙏” below + DM me & I’ll share the document. 📄➡️ #startups #HealthcarePolicy #HealthTech #CMMI #ACCESSModel #Medicare #DigitalHealth
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Inna Sheyn
𝗗𝘂𝗼𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 $𝟭𝟯𝟬𝗠 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Duos has secured $130M in growth equity led by FTV Capital and Forerunner Ventures to expand its AI platform and partnerships across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and ACA plans. The funding will enhance Duos’ Chat 2.0 AI, which uses Retrieval Augmented Generation to deliver multilingual, CMS-compliant, and personalized guidance for seniors while combining automation with a human touch. The company already serves more than 15M Medicare Advantage members through collaborations with Humana (HUM), Magellan Healthcare, and Geisinger Health Plan. The investment underscores AI’s growing role in the $9T longevity economy. Duos helps older adults live independently by connecting them to health plan benefits, community programs, and support services that improve access, coordination, and confidence in managing their care. https://lnkd.in/eW4sYSNA
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