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Health Tech Knowledge Ecosystem

Paulius Mui, MD
Oct 30, 2022
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“How do you keep up with what’s going on in health tech?” This article is my response to the frequent inquiries I get from those dipping their toes into the ever expanding universe where healthcare and technology intersect. My particular take on this ecosystem is from the vantage point of a primary care physician. The identity crisis of primary care as a field has been exacerbated by health technology startups unbundling primary care to payers becoming payviders and retailers transforming customers into patients.

Making a list means someone is not going to be on it. What follows is not a comprehensive nor an objective compilation of something authoritative. This collection of my bookmarks makes up my information diet and may offer some “nutritional” value for the rest of healthtechivores out there.

Which blogs do we read?

Publication length and cadence from September 2021 to September 2022. Socials include LinkedIn and Twitter followers of primary author as of October 2022.
  • Differential Diagnosis by Nadav Shimoni

  • Hospitalogy by Blake Madden

  • Health Tech Stack by Jan Felix-Schneider

  • Out-of-Pocket by Nikhil Krishnan (strongest meme game in town)

  • Vital Signs by Jacob Effron et al

  • Health API Guy by Brendan Keeler

  • Waiting Room by Nikita Singareddy

  • The HealthCare Blog by Matthew Holt et al

  • Venture Valkyrie by Lisa Suennen

  • Hick Picks by Tejas Inamdar

  • Acute Condition by Olivia Webb

  • Second Opinion by Chrissy Farr et al

Relative number of subscribers as reported by authors October 2022.

Other content that’s not reflected in the visual but worthwhile to note:

  • The Medical Futurist by Bertalan Meskó

  • Healthcare Pizza by Andy Mychkovsky

  • Jay Parkinson Blog

  • Virtual First Health by Joe Connolly

  • Care Ops by Rik Renard

  • a16z Blog by Julie Yoo et al

Other publications not to miss with paid high-quality content:

  • Exits & Outcomes by Brian Dolan

  • Health Tech Nerds by Ryan Russell and Kevin O’Leary

  • STAT News by Casey Ross et al

Which podcasts do we listen to?

Production length and cadence from September 2021 to September 2022. Socials include LinkedIn and Twitter followers of primary author as of October 2022.
  • Breaking Health by Stephen Krupa et al

  • Pear Healthcare Playbook by Vivien Ho

  • The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health by Jing Chai et al

  • AWS Health Innovation Podcast by Joseph Shonkwiler

  • Slice of Healthcare by Jared S. Taylor

  • Beyond Medicine by Rami Wehbi

  • Health Tech Spotlight by Carlo Rich

  • Primary Care Cures by Ron Barshop

  • Relentless Health Value by Stacey Richter

  • The Heart of Healthcare by Halle Tecco

  • WTF Health by Jessica DaMassa

  • The Big Unlock by Paddy Padmanabhan

Not exactly a podcast, but highly recommend AHealthcareZ YT series by the prolific and legendary healthcare finance guru Dr. Eric Bricker.

Where do health tech innovators hangout?

There are many health tech and digital health groups across Slack, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Many incubators and accelerators also have their own community forums.

Paid Slack groups include:

  • Health Tech Nerds (HTN)

  • Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE)

  • DiME Society

  • Beyond Medicine Group (BMG)

  • On Deck

  • Out of Pocket (OOP)

Some other Slack groups to explore:

  • MD++

  • MDisrupt

  • NODE Health

  • Therapists in Tech

  • All Tech is Human

I find the quality of conversations and engagement to be highest on Slack groups, but I anticipate that some might migrate to other platforms because of recent Slack policy changes in the free plan. Communities to check out on other platforms:

  • Health Tech Community (Twitter)

  • Digital Health (LinkedIn)

  • Physician Entrepreneurs and Innovators (FB)

  • Digital Healthcare Tech Innovation (FB)

  • Future of Healthcare (FB)

  • Telemedicine, Digital Health & Innovation Group For Physicians (FB)

Who’s behind the content?

Bird’s eye view of thought leadership socials as of October 2022.

The exosphere
The thermosphere
The mesosphere
The stratosphere
The troposphere

Which conferences should be on your radar?

  • HLTH

  • Digital Health Technology Show

  • AMIA Annual Symposium

  • Digital Health World Congress

  • JPM Healthcare Conference

  • Value-Based Care Summit

  • DHIS West and East

  • SXSW Health & Medtech

  • ViVE

  • Shaping the Future of Healthcare Innovation for Health

  • STAT Breakthrough Summit

  • WSJ The Future of Everything

  • LSX World Congress

  • Reuters Digital Health

  • Virtual First Care Summit

  • HIMSS

  • Digital Health Rewired

and many more …

Thanks for reading! If you know of other resources that should be added to the health tech hivemind, send me a message.

Special thanks to Jake Ross and Celia ❤️ for helping put together the visuals.

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Matthew Shu
Oct 31, 2022Liked by Paulius Mui, MD

Phenomenal Paulius!

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Matthew Holt
Nov 1, 2022

After you've read that lot, no time to do any work!!!

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