It's Time To Build in Healthcare

A collection of pontifications on this topic...

Julie Yoo

Jan 03, 2021

Hey Tech, It's Time To Build. In Healthcare. | Andreessen Horowitz

writings / videos

2024/10/30 - Health tech investments are picking up steam. Here are 5 VC leaders behind the biggest recent deals (STAT)
2024/09/05 - Implementation, Data, Impact of Healthcare AI
2024/08/27 - Consumers as a New Class of Payor
2024/08/20 - Why Will Healthcare Be the Industry That Benefits The Most From AI?
2024/07/30 - Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI
2024/06/17 - Oversight of health AI must be democratic, not done by the big tech companies (STAT)
2024/05/22 - Healthy Savings with Sasha Gribov
2024/01/08 - The New Drug Delivery Challenge: How Will Cures Reach Patients?
2023/12/09 - 2024 Big Ideas: Enabling Access to Miracle Drugs Without Bankrupting or Breaking our Healthcare System (video / podcast / blog)
2023/11/14 - The Next WebMD
2023/08/31 - ‘We’re in the 1999 of the internet era’: a16z’s Julie Yoo on fintech’s potential and the digital health market (Healthcare Dive)
2023/06/21 - AI at the Intersection: The a16z Investment Thesis on AI in Bio + Health
2023/05/25 - State of Venture Capital Investing - Cooley
2023/05/10 - The Opportunity for Healthcare x Fintech
2023/05/09 - When Two Giants Intersect: Healthcare Meets Fintech
2023/04/07 - Healthcare Marketplaces, Where Art Thou?
2023/03/27 - Healthtech: Show Your Magic
2023/03/20 - 1 big thing: Food-as-medicine is next frontier (Axios)
2023/02/07 - Healthcare x Fintech’s Biggest Prize: The Financial OS of Healthcare
2023/01/26 - Strategics Enter the Digital Health Chat (Axios)
2023/01/24 - Changing Employer Market Leaves Digital Health Companies Rethinking Strategy (Modern Healthcare)
2023/01/18 - Will Shrank, a16z bio + health Venture Partner
2023/01/ - Big Ideas in Tech for 2023: An a16z Omnibus
2023/12/30 - 8 top dealmakers share their biggest 2023 healthcare predictions, from new ways to use AI to a surge of new health insurance startups
2022/12/06 - Consumer Health: Areas of Opportunity
2022/11/11 - The Biggest Company in the World
2022/11/07 - a16z Bio + Health and Bassett Healthcare Network Leverage Digital Health to Address Rural Healthcare Needs
2022/07/11 - Health tech funding is down. Here’s what investors make of the market
2022/06/02 - Payvidors, Unbundled: Opportunities in Healthcare Fintech
2022/04/29 - With digital health go-to-market strategy, consumers increasingly come first (Modern Healthcare)
2022/02/04 - How Andreessen Horowitz competes for the best health tech startups (STAT)
2022/01/10 - New Year, New Fund, New Opportunities in Bio + Health
2021/01/08 - The New Tech Stack for Virtual-First Care
2021/01/08 - It’s Time to Heal: 16 Trends Driving the Future of Bio and Healthcare
2020/08/07 - Healthcare: The Great Unlock
2020/04/22 - The Unbundling of Primary Care
2020/02/04 - Announcing Bio Fund III
2020/02/01 - Quora Sessions on Company Building in Healthcare
2019/10/29 - Joining a16z
2019/10/28 - a16z Bio Manifesto
2019/07/31 - Software is Eating Care Delivery
2013/09/25 - A Patient a Day Keeps the Doctor in Play

podcasts

2024/10/24 - The Freedom to Choose Your Own Insurance
2024/07/30 - Implementation, Data, Impact of Healthcare AI (answering listeners’ questions about Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI)
2024/06/25 - Regulation as a Catalyst for Company Creation in Healthcare
2024/06/12 - The Science and Supply Behind GLP-1s (3-Part Series)
2024/04/09 - Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI
2024/02/27 - The Most Interesting Healthcare Platform Companies You've Never Heard of, with Julie Klapstein
2024/02/06 - Transitioning from Gymnast to Investor with Aly Raisman
2024/01/30 - Finding PMF in Healthcare (After Tasting it Elsewhere) with Max Cohen and Eren Bali
2023/12/06 - 2024 Big Ideas: Democratizing Access to Miracle Drugs
2023/11/28 - Building an AI-Native Health Plan with Mario Schlosser
2023/10/17 - CMO and CPO Relations with Dr. Reena Pande and Peter Shalek
2023/08/15 - Path of a Healthtech CTO with Margaret McKenna
2023/08/01 - Putting the “Pro” in Provider Networks, With Dan Rosenthal
2023/07/12 - Curing the Trust Problem, With Mark Cuban
2023/06/08 - The Founders Reinventing Healthcare With Fintech
2023/05/22 - How Fintech is Reshaping our $4T Healthcare Industry
2023/04/20 - Shaping Channel Partnerships with Sean Duffy
2023/04/19 - Strategizing Channel Partnerships with Florian Otto
2023/03/30 - Health System Partnerships with Tommy Ibrahim
2023/01/20 - Payors and Providers Post-Pandemic with Paul Keckley
2022/11/03 - The Consolidated Drug Channel and Cash Pay Drugs with Adam Fein
2022/07/26 - Day Zero: Conversation with Don Trigg
2022/04/07 - Julie Yoo on Becker’s Healthcare Podcast
2022/02/21 - Like the Internet in 1999 on AI in Health Podcast
2021/11/22 - A Look At How Andreessen Horowitz Invests in the Future of Health on StartupHealth
2021/06/22 - Building Digital Health’s GitHub with Jonathan Bush
2021/02/09 - May I Have Your Insurance Card Again, Please with Senator Bill Frist
2020/11/24 - Food as Medicine with Dr Andrea Feinberg, Josh Hix
2020/11/20 - 16mins - Our Take on the HHS Price Transparency Rule for Payors
2020/11/09 - We, The Patients with Dr Freda Lewis-Hall
2020/09/25 - Healthcare’s Great Unlock on Wharton Pulse
2020/08/10 - 16mins - Our Take on Teladongo
2020/07/15 - Healthcare: At What Price? with Dr Marty Makary
2020/06/12 - Home as a Primary Site of Care with Dr Sachin Jain, Vijay Kedar
2020/06/12 - Primary Care is the New Black with Dr Ivor Horn, Jeffrey Kaditz
2020/04/16 - When Bad Policy Meets Bad Business Models and Bad Public Health
2020/03/18 - When Medicine Goes Virtual
2020/03/14 - 16mins - Our Take on the HHS / ONC Data Interoperability Rules
2020/02/18 - 16mins - Our Take on Coronavirus Impact on Care Delivery
2020/02/06 - 16mins - Our Take on Epic’s Letter Heard Round the World
2019/11/28 - Future of Nursing with Dr Iman Abuzeid, Jeff Jordan
2019/11/15 - 16mins - Our Take on Pharmacy Delivery Drones
2019/09/29 - 16mins - Our Take on Amazon in Healthcare
2019/08/12 - 16mins - Our Take on Healthcare Claims Data

speaking

2024/09/24 - Fireside Chat: “Best in Class Digital Health Engagement Insights from Other Industries” @ AHIP
2024/05/20 - Panel: “What’s Next in Generative AI’s Revolution in Medicine“ @ Fortune Brainstorm Health
2024/02/27 - Panel: “Gen AI in Healthcare" @ Cedar CEO Council
2024/02/07 - Panel: “Generative AI in Healthcare: Hype or Hope” @ DHIS West
2024/01/08 - Panel: “Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare – The Opportunity Ahead” @ JPM Healthcare Conference
2023/10/11 - It’s Time To Build: Japan
2023/10/06 - Panel @ KFS West Coast Summit
2023/09/27 - Panel: “Building Products That Deliver” @ Rock Health Summit
2023/09/18 - Panel: “AI in Healthcare, Where are we now? A primer on the state of artificial intelligence in the healthcare space.” @ Nashville Healthcare Sessions
2023/09/13 - Panel @ McKinsey Annual Digital Health Conference
2023/05/19 - Panel: “The Current Investment Landscape: Views from across the Investing Lifecycle” @ SVB Securities Healthcare Transformation Summit
2023/03/27 - Panel: “A Little Change Would Do Incumbents Good” @ ViVE 2023
2023/02/01 - Panel: “Areas Ripe for Disruption in Healthcare – What's Next?” @ DHIS West
2023/01/24 - SVB Healthcare - Exits and Investments Webinar; Navigating the Current Down Cycle in Healthcare
2022/12/08 - Panel: “Betting on the HealthTech Innovators” @ Forbes Healthcare Summit
2022/11/15 - Panels: “Pivot or Spiral: Remaining Agile as a Founder”; “Fireside Chat with Amazon Health Services” @ HLTH
2022/09/27 - Pear Female Founders Circles
2022/09/27 - AWS Healthcare Accelerator
2022/09/22 - Panel: “Market Reaction: Venture Capital Healthcare Investing in the Face of Economic Uncertainty” @ Piper Sandler Heartland Summit
2022/06/23 - Panel; “Venture Capital Predicts the Future” @ Aspen Health Ideas Summit
2022/05/24 - Panel: “4 Big Ideas to Transform Healthcare” @ STAT Health Tech Summit
2022/04/20 - Panel: “Follow The Money - Capital Markets” @ Scottsdale Institute 2022 Annual Conference
2022/04/07 - Panel: “Future Fortunes: The Competitive Landscape for Primary Care Five Years Out” @ HES 2022
2022/04/04 - Panel: “Investing in Innovation: Market Dynamics to Watch” @ AcademyHealth / HealthDatapalooza 2022
2022/03/17 - Panel: “Investing in the Fringe” @ HIMSS 2022
2022/02/01 - Panel: “Breakthroughs in Digital Health Enabler Technology, Connectivity, and Middle-Ware Solutions” @ DHIS West
2021/12/8 - Panel: “Investment Trends in Healthcare” @ Carta Equity Summit
2021/11/19 - Panel: “Transform: Innovation” @ The Conference Board / Willis Towers Watson Annual Employee Health Care Conference
2021/11/18 - Panel: “Raising the Curtain on Healthcare in America” @ ACHE MA
2021/11/16 - Panel @ Becker’s CEO/CFO Roundtable
2021/10/14 - Panel: “Money on Health's Mind” @ HLTH
2021/09/28 - Keynote: “The New Healthcare Technology Stack (Redux)” @ Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit
2021/09/22 - Panel: “Hacking US Healthcare: How a Simple Platform Can Help Solve Some of America’s Most Complex Healthcare Problems” @ Techcrunch Disrupt
2021/09/18 - Panel: “Building the Highway for Digital Health “ @ Rock Health Summit
2021/09/10 - Keynote: “The Industrialization of Virtual-First Care” @ What’s Next For Healthcare
2021/09/09 - Panel: “Do We Need a New Tech Layer?” @ What’s Next For Healthcare
2021/07/22 - Keynote: “Innovation as a Cultural Mindset” @ Scottsdale Institute Innovation Summit
2021/01/27 - Panel: “Investing in the Future of Healthcare & Medicine” @ MIT Future of Healthcare Conference
2020/11/12 - Panel: “HLTH GoLive: Trending Towards a Record-Breaking Year in Digital Health” @ HLTH
2020/06/24 - Healthcare: The Great Unlock @ Databricks Spark + AI Summit

digital health builders diaries

investments

2024/10/22 - Investing in Counsel Health
2024/10/15 - Investing in Alchemy
2024/03/11 - Investing in Milu Health
2023/11/15 - Investing in Fortuna
2023/05/16 - Investing in Hippocratic AI
2023/02/15 - Launching Thatch
2023/02/09 - Investing in Marker Learning
2022/05/11 - Investing in Turquoise Health
2022/04/04 - Investing in Season Health
2022/01/19 - Investing in Topography Health
2021/10/21 - Investing in Patina
2021/10/14 - Investing in Marley Medical
2021/10/13 - Investing in Sprinter Health
2021/07/12 - Investing in Bayesian Health
2021/06/17 - Investing in Zus Health
2021/04/07 - Investing in Firefly Health
2020/06/10 - Investing in AKASA
2020/04/28 - Investing in Tomorrow Health
2020/02/26 - Investing in Ribbon Health

a16z bio / healthcare newsletters

Aug 2024 - A summer of deep dives
Jan 2024 - Big Ideas 2024
Aug 2023 - AI in the sun
May 2023 - Rethinking our approach to AI
Jan 2023 - Expert AI and Big Ideas for 2023
Nov 2022 - VBC tech stack
Dec 2021 - every healthcare company is a fintech company
Dec 2020 - price transparency
May 2020 - unbundling of primary care, virtual-first care
March 2020 - virtual care
Feb 2020 - the year of primary care; Epic’s pushback on interoperability rules
Jan 2020 - the circle of life for healthtech startups
Aug 2019 - VBC in North Carolina
Sept 2019 - food as medicine
July 2019 - software is eating care delivery
June 2019 - digital health formularies

oldies

2018/10/17 - Funding the Future of Healthcare with Aaron Martin
2018/06/25 - “Solving the Patient Access Paradox” @ MIT Sloan
2018/03/10 - Julie Yoo, Co-Founder of Kyruus on VentureFizz
2017/08/07 - “Doctors Are Not Airplanes” @ MassTLC ReDev
2016/03/02 - Load Balancing Healthcare with Matt Holt
2015/04/17 - Big Data Helps Hospitals And Doctors Care For Patients with Josh Wolfe
2013/09/25 - A Patient A Day Keeps the Doctor in Play
2012/05/01 - Kyruus Brings Big Data to Healthcare with David Williams

other resources

Healthcare Reading List / Slack Groups / Pods
Digital Health Tech Stack Airtable - database of infra companies powering virtual-first care

healthtechbuilders

It's Time To Build in Healthcare

A collection of pontifications on this topic...