DigitalHealth InvestorTalk Show

Why we need a new city for our biggest innovations, what a health innovation city should include, and how it's going in Vitalia In the show we’ll dive into: - What it takes to build a new health innovation city and how this new foundation will enable fast clinical trials, patient right-to-try, and much more - What's going on at Vitalia City (vitalia.city) and what is the agenda for their "pop-up city" in Jan.-Mar. 2025 in Honduras. - What are some of their recent achievents in implants, longevity, and plasmid gene therapy And we'll answer your questions Niklas Anzinger, founder & CEO of Vitalia the health innovation city in Roatan, Honduras. Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell.

Americans spend more than anyone on their healthcare. There are only 4 ways to get costs down but breakthroughs are tough. In the show we’ll dive into: - The only way to cut heatlhcare costs are cut prices, cut use, reduce unnecessary services, and replace higher cost services with lower priced ones - We look at each way to cut costs with policy innovation promising to reduce unnecessary services and tech innovation promising to introduce lower cost services - But each move in healthcare is opposed by entrenched interests; who is budging first? And we'll answer your questions Matthew Holt is the President of SMACK Consulting and a healthcare curmudgeon. He is best known as the founder of Health 2.0 and The Health Care Blog (https://thehealthcareblog.com/). Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell. Follow on Eventbrite to hear about new events and live shows: StevenWardell.EventBrite.com. Subscribe to the podcast! Apple Podcasts (new show link): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digitalhealth-investortalk-show/id1739850633 Spotify (new show link): https://open.spotify.com/show/42dV5Wnag97l2rtIDpxmlJ

Consumers have more options than ever, conglomerates are looking for weakness, what will happen to the drug store? In the show we’ll dive into: Consumers now have more choice than ever before including telehealth prescription companies like Ro and Hims that can cherry-pick the industry Amazon is re-inventing pharmacy-by-mail while CVS and Walgreens are bringing primary care clinics on premises Independent pharmacies are closing at record numbers, turning rural America and inner cities into pharmacy deserts. A volatile mix of labor unrest in the large chain pharmacies plus robotics and AI is creating an uncertain future for a large portion of the country’s registered pharmacists. And we'll answer your questions Harry Travis is the President of Travis Group and a former senior executive at CVS and Aetna. Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell. Follow on Eventbrite to hear about new events and live shows: StevenWardell.EventBrite.com.

New tech is capturing more kinds of data, more continuous data, and data in new care settings that is transforming how we provide care. In the show we’ll dive into: How new technologies are offering a better understanding of disease - more data, more continuous data, and clinical data in more local settings. How better data is offering opportunities to improve care delivery. How rigidities like regulations and payment models are are slowing down more effective care. And we'll answer your questions Tomer Bentzion is the founder and CEO of LiveMetric, the first FDA-cleared wrist-based continuous blood pressure monitoring solution, and a serial entrepreneur. Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow him for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell. Follow on Eventbrite to hear about new events and live shows: StevenWardell.EventBrite.com. Subscribe to the podcast! Apple Podcasts (new show link): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digitalhealth-investortalk-show/id1739850633 Spotify (new show link): https://open.spotify.com/show/42dV5Wnag97l2rtIDpxmlJ

Who stands to eat the most wedges of cheese from the digital health wheel? Payers, Patients, Pharma, software vendors, Providers? In the show we’ll dive into: - The digital health category is maturing as technology stops being shocking and becomes mundane - Competition heats up and differentiation fades; the different actors jocky for position - Who will win the digital health market and be the big cheese? And we'll answer your questions Adam Kaufman is the publisher of BearingOn.Health and an adjunct professor of economics at USC. Follow him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adkaufman/. Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell. Follow on Eventbrite to hear about new events and live shows: StevenWardell.EventBrite.com. Subscribe to the podcast! Apple Podcasts (new show link): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digitalhealth-investortalk-show/id1739850633 Spotify (new show link): https://open.spotify.com/show/42dV5Wnag97l2rtIDpxmlJ

Optimal fitness and longevity are an increasingly realistic goal, a lifestyle, and a business opportunity. We discuss. In the show we’ll dive into: Is it possible to achieve optimal fitness as we age? What kind of longevity will be possible in the future? How do we monitor ourselves and maintain a healthy lifestyle? What are some goals for optimal wellness? What are the markets and business opportunities for optimal fitness and longevity? And we'll answer your questions Gil Blander is the Founder and CSO of InsideTracker, an optimal fitness and nutrition company. He is internationally recognized for his research in the basic biology of aging and translating research discoveries into new ways of detecting and preventing age-related conditions. You can follow him at X.com/GBlander1 Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell. Follow on Eventbrite to hear about new events and live shows: StevenWardell.EventBrite.com. Subscribe to the podcast! Apple Podcasts (new show link): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digitalhealth-investortalk-show/id1739850633 Spotify (new show link): https://open.spotify.com/show/42dV5Wnag97l2rtIDpxmlJ

In the show we’ll dive into: How AI adds to reading and interpreting genomic information from blood or biopsy Pros & cons of “black box” vs “explainable white box” AI algorithms Where the opportunities are to diagnose and manage disease better What is holding us back from curing inflammatory & autoimmune diseases today? And we'll answer your questions Amrie Grammer, PhD is the Co-Founder and President of Ampel BioSolutions, a precision medicine company that uses RNA analytics and predictive AI to manage disease. Follow her at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrie-grammer-phd-1351551b/ Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell. Follow on Eventbrite to hear about new events and live shows: StevenWardell.EventBrite.com. Subscribe to the podcast! Apple Podcasts (new show link): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digitalhealth-investortalk-show/id1739850633 Spotify (new show link): https://open.spotify.com/show/42dV5Wnag97l2rtIDpxmlJ

Consumers are increasingly spending their own dollars and becoming the decision makers in healthcare In the show we’ll dive into: New technologies like telehealth and smartphones have created a supply shock of healthcare options for consumers New products and business models are gaining traction But will consumer behavior change fast enough and will consumers really pay? Todd Pietri and Jarred Bressner are partners at Activate Venture Partners. Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell. Follow on Eventbrite to hear about new events and live shows: StevenWardell.EventBrite.com. Subscribe to the podcast! Apple Podcasts (new show link): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digitalhealth-investortalk-show/id1739850633 Spotify (new show link): https://open.spotify.com/show/42dV5Wnag97l2rtIDpxmlJ

Not all digital health companies and strategic transactions are equal. Some have more sizzle and get more attention. In the show we’ll dive into: How does the fundraising and acquisition market look and where is it headed? What is the steak and the sizzle that wins attention for young digital health companies? How do company leaders position themselves now to get ahead? And we'll answer your questions AJ Loiacono is the CEO of Capital Rx, which provides enterprises with a platform to manage their pharmacy benefits. Follow him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/capitalrx/. Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell. Follow on Eventbrite to hear about new events and live shows: StevenWardell.EventBrite.com. Subscribe to the podcast! Apple Podcasts

In the show we dive into: What are the hubs of digital health benefits solutions -- like wellness, navigation, care management, and more What do the point solutions do in response to the emergence of these marketplaces? What are the Solution Aggregators doing next, and what should we know about Accolade, Quantum, Collective, Solera, Vera Whole Health, and Virgin Pulse? And we'll answer your questions Michael Pace is the CEO of PalmHealthCo, a healthtech commercialization consulting firm and he is the former head of Market Access at Pear Therapeutics. You can follow him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpace-dtx/. Steven Wardell is the Managing Partner of Wardell Advisors, a consulting firm focused on growth, fundraising, and strategic alternatives for digital health companies. He is the host of DigitalHealth InvestorTalk and the author of The Future of Digital Health. Follow for digital health insights at X.com/StevenWardell. Follow on Eventbrite to hear about new events and live shows: StevenWardell.EventBrite.com. Subscribe to the podcast!