I see lots companies that try to compete with existing healthcare giants at their own game by trying to win on a metric that doesn’t matter (UI/UX, NPS, etc.). Buyers are risk-averse - if your offering is the same as a healthcare incumbent and your pitch is “we use tech” or “we have a better UX” you will not win.

Rather than trying to improve them, the most exciting health tech companies will ignore the parts of healthcare that have become obviously anachronistic, actively discarding convention. The seeds of this difference have been sown in a handful of companies started in the last few years. They are painstakingly taking relationships from incumbents,... See more