In this insightful conversation, Paige Minemyer, Senior Writer at Fierce Healthcare, discusses the newly unveiled 2025 Fierce 15, a prestigious list of innovative healthcare companies. She highlights the evolution of the Fierce 15 project, spotlighting how the pandemic accelerated telehealth's rise to mainstream acceptance. Paige reveals the collaboration with the New York Stock Exchange and dives into the key criteria for selection, emphasizing the need for tangible impacts in healthcare innovation as AI and new technologies reshape the industry.
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Reimagining Healthcare
This year's Fierce 15 companies are reimagining existing healthcare solutions.
They address longstanding challenges by improving patient and provider experiences.
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Telehealth Integration
Telehealth, once novel, is now mainstream and incorporated by Fierce 15 companies.
Innovation lies in how they integrate it with traditional care models.
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Fierce 15 Flops
Olive, a healthcare automation company on the 2021 Fierce 15 list, shut down after raising $800 million.
Forward, a primary care startup from the 2020 list, also shut down.
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Children of time
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Fierce Healthcare unveiled its seventh annual Fierce 15 earlier this month, introducing the 2025 class of 15 companies bringing innovation and bold ideas to healthcare. Executive Editor Heather Landi and Senior Writer Paige Minemyer sit down to chat about the evolution of the Fierce 15 project over the past seven years, how it has become more competitive and how the virtual care boom during the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new generation of companies. Telehealth seemed novel in 2019 but has now become mainstream.
Paige and Heather also dive into Fierce Healthcare’s collaboration this year with the New York Stock Exchange and Senior Writer Anastassia Gliadkovskaya’s interview with NYSE TV on the trading floor. What companies will make the list next year and what trends will define the market? Stay tuned next year for the 2026 class of the Fierce 15.
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