What Medtech Can Learn from Big Tech (and Vice Versa)

Speaker: Alissa Hsu Lynch, Global Lead, Google Cloud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpkq8WeEEVU

Thursday, October 14, 1:00 to 2:00 PM PT

Join this interactive and insightful dialogue led by Alissa Hsu Lynch, who recently made the leap to Google after 20 years at a multinational healthcare company. Hear her perspective on the intersection of health and technology and what she sees as the future of medtech.

Fundraising Strategies that Make Investors Love You

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Speaker: SC Moatti, Founder & Managing Partner, Mighty Capital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXaFwJ5nIXs

Wednesday, October 6, 1:00 to 2:00 PM PT

How do you raise venture capital money on your own terms? Starting a business is fun, growing it is rewarding, but committing to hyper-growth often requires outside capital. What are early stage investors looking for? In the end, it’s all about exit and your ability to generate superior returns. So the success of your fundraising strategy depends on your ability to effectively communicate your business story to investors, including what makes you unique, how you’re already winning, when you’ll make them even richer and why they and their friends need to invest now. Silicon Valley investor and venture capitalist SC Moatti shares best practices that align your fundraising strategy to your desired exit and make every investor love you and want to invest in you.

Scaling Software & Growing a Client Base to Address the Mental Health Crisis

Speaker: Peter Hames, Co-Founder & CEO, Big Health

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HByVN9Tgr3k

Tuesday, August 31, 1:00 to 2:00 PM PDT

After a personal experience with insomnia, Big Health Co-Founder and CEO Peter Hames had a major revelation. Despite mounting clinical evidence that non-drug therapies, including behavioral medicine, are the most effective solution for insomnia and other mental health conditions, the most common treatment for these conditions are drugs. In fact, 82% of people diagnosed with mental health issues receive medication. In response, Hames founded Big Health, a digital therapeutic for poor sleep and worry and anxiety. Big Health delivers behavioral medicine in a fully digital format – without needing coaches or clinicians. Through a scalable approach, and more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and 13 randomized controlled trials, Big Health provides personalized care for those who wouldn’t otherwise receive it.

Big Health works with self-insured employers, including Comcast, Boston Medical Center,  and The Hartford, to provide proven mental health solutions to their employees. As part of the CVS Health Point Solutions Management program, Big Health simplifies billing and reimbursement for plan sponsors and their members. During this session, Hames will share his insights on using software to scale care solutions, the importance of clinical evidence, creating a delightful user experience, and how to best support clients in a crowded marketplace.

How and Why Should You Bring Your Health Technology into the Chinese Market?

Speaker: Lifei Cheng, Founder & CEO, MedTecX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qyVjxPXhY

Thursday, June 3, 3:00 to 4:00 PM PST

China’s growing economy is something that we can no longer ignore. With the largest population in the world, China is or will soon be the largest healthcare market. For decades, China has been of strategic interest to many large US medtech companies. Yet entering its market seems intimidating, especially to startups. The Chinese government wants to expand its healthcare reach and bring high-quality care to its billions of citizens. The Chinese medtech sector is looking for cross-border collaborations to jump-start innovation to serve their needs. Join this webinar to learn what it takes to bring your technology to China, what potential pitfalls to watch for, what’s real and what’s a myth about doing business in China.

How Effective Communications Can Help Scale to a Successful Company

Speaker: John Hallock, SVP of Communications, Transcarent; Former Head of Communications at Livongo, athenahealth, Imprivata

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M93io2_iv8

Thursday, April 29, 1:00 to 2:00 PM PST

Corporate communications, which includes internal communications, media relations, social media, customer and investor relations, are essential and can determine whether companies thrive or fail. Establishing and executing a solid corporate communications plan keeps your company on track to meet its various marketing, awareness and thought leadership goals. It helps you create brand awareness, boost employee engagement, spark innovation, improve employee productivity, establish a voice on social issues, and attract top talent.

During this talk, we will address how to create, plan and execute a winning corporate communications and thought leadership program and lessons learned from the two biggest healthcare technology IPOs and merger in digital health history: athenahealth and Livongo. John now leads communications for Transcarent, a consumer digital health company that is creating the first consumer-directed health and care platform, using a combination of software, technology, health guides, and data science.

Cross-Border Deals: A Guide to Cross-Border Deal Execution for High Growth Healthtech Companies

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Speaker: Neil Foster, Partner, Brown Rudnick

Tuesday, April 13, 1:00 to 2:00 PM PST

Even in a pandemic, technology and markets are global and many companies are interested in exploring opportunities in different geographies. Once a deal is established in principle, how does one go about a cross-border transaction that implicates the laws and nuances of multiple countries? This talk will cover cross-border M&A, international equity raising, and cross-border intellectual property licensing.

The Evolution of the US Coverage and Reimbursement Environment in Healthcare and the Impact on Innovation 

Speakers: Shefali Shah & Louis Jacques, ADVI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bk2By7kw4

Thursday, May 27, 1:00 to 2:00 PM PST

Ever-increasing costs have kept the topic of healthcare coverage, reimbursement, and pricing in the spotlight. While innovators must be sensitive to the short-term goals of their investors, those “quick wins” in the development or regulatory phases may stymie the efficient attainment of long-term goals for favorable coverage and payment by public and commercial health insurers.  Value has become a buzzword, but what does it mean? And what does it mean to different audiences? While some feel the assessment of value is opaque and challenging, health insurers (buyers) believe that the message is clear enough but largely ignored because it doesn’t match what developers (sellers) want to hear.

From Ideas to Impact: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About How US Healthcare Really Works – Session 1

Speaker: Sam Glick, Oliver Wyman Two-Session Event

Slide Deck Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpy_FTgnPAg

Thursday, March 11, 1:00 to 3:00 PM PST

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door,” the old saying goes.  Unfortunately, that’s not true in healthcare. Incumbent incentives, conservative cultures, regulations, reimbursement, and inertia all create obstacles to the best ideas having impact.  Healthcare entrepreneurs who succeed know how the system works, and how to work within the evolving system.

In depth topics covered will include the challenges different types of players are facing (and how to help them address those challenges), who buys what (and why), reimbursement dynamics, what drives adoption, and changing consumer healthcare preferences – with plenty of time for Q&A (so bring your questions!).

Sam Glick, partner at Oliver Wyman and leader of the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center, will draw on his work with payers, providers, employers, and life sciences companies to share an integrated view of the dynamics of the US healthcare system, and what entrepreneurs need to do to succeed.

From Ideas to Impact: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About How US Healthcare Really Works – Session 2

Speaker: Sam Glick

Slide Deck Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biParI3mZsY

Check out session 1 video recording and slide deck here.

Thursday, March 18, 1:00 to 3:00 PM PST

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” the old saying goes.  Unfortunately, that’s not true in healthcare. Incumbent incentives, conservative cultures, regulations, reimbursement, and inertia all create obstacles to the best ideas having an impact. Healthcare entrepreneurs who succeed know how the system works, and how to work within the evolving system.

In-depth topics covered will include the challenges different types of players are facing (and how to help them address those challenges), who buys what (and why), reimbursement dynamics, what drives adoption, and changing consumer healthcare preferences – with plenty of time for Q&A (so bring your questions!).

Sam Glick, partner at Oliver Wyman and leader of the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center, will draw on his work with payers, providers, employers, and life sciences companies to share an integrated view of the dynamics of the US healthcare system, and what entrepreneurs need to do to succeed.