1/ I've spoken with several #hospital executive colleagues recently and here are 5 trends emerging that impact how #startups sell into hospitals... 2/ Trend 1: 2024 and '25 will be even worse years financially for hospitals that 2023. 2023 was a bad year but at least there was still CARES Act money at the beginning. '24 and '25 won't have any funds to offset operational challenges (staffing, inflation).

1/ Report on #telehealth from GAO has reasonable methods but draws the wrong, negatively skewed conclusion toward telehealth reimbursement that compromises health equity. Below is an elaboration why...gao.gov/assets/gao-21-… 2/ First, the researchers methods are reasonable. They primarily rely on CMS reports, which have limited utility given lack of granularity of those data, especially around disparities. But the researchers did supplement with interviews with providers, consumers, state leaders.

1/ Had conversation with a senior exec at publicly traded health insurance company who had some scathing insights about future of the industry from working at his company for the last several years. Bottomline: new-entrant tech-enabled insurers are going to each incumbents' lunch 2/ "No one has any idea of how to do innovation. They have no understanding of tactical care delivery. The closest to innovation is tiering their networks." This isn't generalizable to all publicly traded health insurers, but is consistent w/ my experience with this company.