🔥 News: Pills for Profit — The Dark Side of D2C Health Startups

0:00 Intro

0:20 DEA comes after DTC health startups

3:18 How DTC health startups hacked customer retention

10:30 Will this kill the economics of D2C health startups?

12:57 How would we solve the problem

15:30 New LLM Paper in Nature

28:18 Audience feedback and outro

Links Mentioned

Cerebral Pushed ADHD Prescriptions And Failed To Report Data Breaches, Ex-Executive Alleges In Lawsuit (Forbes): https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiejennings/2022/04/28/cerebral-pushed-adhd-prescriptions-failed-to-report-data-breaches-ex-executive-alleges-in-lawsuit/DEA's proposed telehealth rules pull back COVID-era remote prescribing flexibilities: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/telehealth/deas-proposed-telehealth-rules-tighten-covid-era-remote-prescribing-regulations

DEA extends telehealth prescribing flexibilities for 6 months: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/telehealth-providers-cheer-dea-moves-temporarily-extend-virtual-prescribing

Health system-scale language models are all-purpose prediction engines (Nature): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06160-y

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