Great week HLTH Inc.! Our Chief Medical Officer Omar Manejwala, M.D. reflects on some of the most relevant takeaways including the overall consensus (or rather lack thereof) on GLP-1s. He also highlighted one of the coolest aspects of HLTH: the art gallery. It was an oasis of calm in the HLTH swirl and a quietly powerful experience. #Dario #HLTH #HLTH2024
Had a great time at HLTH Inc. this year with the Dario team —I earned my “caricature” last year when I brought a patient on stage to share her experiences but this year I was free to be an attendee and bounce between booths and sessions. A few quick hits from this year: •Very glad to finally see patients represented more broadly. Feel like we led in this area. •Massive focus on glp1 and quite a bit of disagreement around optimal strategy, but somewhat predictably aligned to financial incentives. The “right” answers are more complex and require optimal member selection, preservation of user choice and massive behavioral support either way. •General acceptance that consumerized experiences will win the day. (More to follow on this with an interview I did there for the BPD No Normal podcast with Stephanie Wierwille •Mostly folks are reluctantly accepting that the standard playbook for engagement is broken. Customers often don’t fully participate in models that drive engagement due to fear, and approaches are fairly siloed. Novel engagement strategies are needed like peer and community based. •Digital health continues to be held to a standard that more expensive traditional healthcare isn’t—this asymmetry is shrinking though. But a few analytic reports continue to widely miss the mark with narrow approaches to measuring real value. •Bonus: I was really struck by this piece showing a Māori woman. I found myself very affected by this art in the HLTH art gallery. So compelling and powerful.