Digital Checkup (624)

Neil Patel, head of ventures at Redesign Health, discusses the rise in mergers and acquisitions across the digital health landscape in 2026 and the market forces driving companies and investors toward greater industry consolidation.

Neil Patel, head of ventures at Redesign Health, discusses the current digital health landscape, how investment has evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic and what investors look for when evaluating the next generation of healthcare companies.

Zaw Thet, cofounder and CEO of Exer AI, explains how the company uses computer vision and everyday device cameras, such as an iPad camera, to analyze human movement and provide clinicians with objective data to assess patients’ mobility.

Kevin Ritter, Altera Digital Health's CareInMotion EVP, explains why more connectivity doesn't always translate to sustainable rural outcomes. He says focusing on clinical data access is more likely to improve the value of interoperability funding.

Max Silber, VP of mobility and IoT at MetTel, says recent Federal Communications Commission mandates to retire legacy copper voice service lines could pose unexpected safety risks to rural providers. Don't wait until the fax machine breaks, he warns.

Dr. Matthew Herrmann, an infectious disease specialist and the chief medical officer at Pacific Oaks Medical Group, discusses ViiV Healthcare's HIV awareness campaign and the barriers associated with HIV patients achieving viral suppression.

Business associates vetted for the CMS Medicare App Library must still consider their third-party risk requirements, says Scott Stuewe of DirectTrust. However, vetted FHIR-based data exchange apps are helping to improve the comfort of data holders.

New artificial intelligence models have unpredictable consumption-based costs, says Rhett Alden, Elsevier's CTO of health markets. But "all you can eat models" and inclusive pricing can avoid the need for clinicians to meter tool use.

The underlying challenge is how to fund an industry that's very important but is also perpetually on the brink of bankruptcy, says Kunal Sarda, CEO of Arya Health.

It's a struggle to provide an explanation and clarity on why a claim was denied with the level of detail required, says Fawad Butt, CEO at Penguin Ai.

Operational and medical device challenges that follow health system consolidations can be mitigated by creating a zero trust footprint, says Cletis Earle, healthcare field chief technology officer at Citrix.

Baxter Lee, president of Clearwater, says building organizational resilience in an AI-driven threat landscape is a must despite critical national coordination efforts to patch healthcare vulnerabilities swiftly.