The Digest for Health Transformers & Changemakers
CMS manages roughly $1.75 trillion in annual healthcare spending -- and right now, it is actively looking for health tech companies willing to take on outcome-based risk. Abe Sutton, Deputy Administrator at CMS and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, joined 50 StartUp Health community members for a live fireside chat on where federal healthcare payment is heading and what it means for founders building in the Medicare space. He covered the ACCESS model and Geo AHEAD, what makes a CMS proposal worth taking seriously, and why businesses built on genuine clinical value are the only ones that last.
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“I think the StartUp Health community is so vibrant. You get them together or you get them collaborating, and the creative juices flow and ideas are so powerful. It's something that needs to be leveraged. So that's just that alone. And then working with other founders and collaborating; there shouldn't be any barriers. Working with like-minded founders, especially in healthcare, is so valuable. It's support. It's problem solving. It's coming up with new ideas. And there's the important question that I think good founding teams keep asking: What if?” says Christopher Jue, CEO & Co-founder of CAREgivers Insight.
StartUp Health community member 9amHealth closed a $26M Series B to extend its AI-enabled virtual specialty care platform beyond cardiometabolic health – while a $2.1B raise for Isomorphic Labs led one of the most active global digital health funding weeks in recent memory.
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Kim Fisher has spent her career building things, backing things, and translating science into impact. Now she's bringing all of it to bear as Chief Impact Officer of StartUp Health's Food as Medicine Moonshot, and she believes the wave entrepreneurs have been waiting for is finally here.
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Yair Saperstein, MD, MPH, CEO & Co-founder of Avo, on the company’s AI-powered clinical decision support platform going live on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
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André Diamant, PhD, CEO & Co-founder of Gray Oncology Solutions, on the company’s partnership with Gustave Roussy to deploy GrayOS to orchestrate patient pathways in radiation therapy.
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Yusuf Henriques, CEO & Founder of IndyGeneUS Bio, on the company’s partnership with Nigeria’s National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency to establish a national platform for genomic data to accelerate the discovery of new drug targets, novel biomarkers, and precision therapeutics.
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Keith Tsui, MD, CEO & Co-founder of Medwise AI, on the company passing a million clinical queries answered.
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Michael Harris, PhD, Program Director & Founder of Novel Interventions in Children's Healthcare (NICH), on being named to the American Diabetes Association's 2026 National Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) Committee.
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