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September Edition of Healthie's Digital Health Newsletter is Live! This month’s edition is packed with insightful updates and industry highlights. Here’s a brief look at what we’re covering: 🗳️ As we approach a pivotal election cycle, we delve into key political shifts that could impact the healthcare landscape. 📊 We were intrigued by a comprehensive State of Telemedicine report, analyzing LinkedIn activity from over 115,000 clinicians. 👏 Candid Health, a proud partner within Healthie Harbor, just secured a Series B—congratulations to their team! 💊 In acquisition news, Truepill, the pharmacy and telemedicine leader, has been acquired, though it remains to be seen if the founders saw a return. 🎟️ The Healthie team will be in Las Vegas for HLTH 2024. Learn how you can connect with us IRL at the conference or one of our events. For a deeper dive into these stories, check out the full newsletter 👇

🍎 In recent years, nutritional care has emerged as a pivotal force in healthcare, following in the footsteps of physical therapy, chiropractic care, and behavioral health, and positioning itself as a cornerstone in the transformation of American healthcare. ➡️ 15 years ago: - The private practice physical therapy and chiropractic segments were experiencing significant growth. - These industries were supported by favorable market trends, leading to increased business size for practitioners. ➡️ 3-5 years ago: - Behavioral health emerged as a major focus. - The benefits of mental health professionals became widely recognized. - Employers and health plans began covering care due to positive ROI for members. - The pandemic accelerated the acceptance of behavioral health as a critical component of healthcare. ➡️ Today: - Patient-centered nutritional care is moving away from traditional healthcare practices where patients often felt unseen and unheard, offering a promising solution for improving the state of American healthcare. - Nutrition is becoming a key element in transforming American healthcare, playing an increasingly integral role in the next generation of healthcare. 👉 Read more → https://lnkd.in/e7UUp4Yr

Welcome Denish Patel, MBA to Healthie, who is joining as our new Senior Software Engineer. Together, we'll power healthcare outside of the hospital with Healthie's EHR, Scheduling, and Engagement Platform. Welcome Aboard!

Healthie is looking for our first Business Development Representative (BDR) in #NYC! 🚀 Join our growing healthtech team and help shape the future of healthcare. If you have 1-3 years of SaaS/tech sales experience (healthtech is a plus!), we want to hear from you. This is a hybrid role (2-3 days in the office at our MidTown HQ). Ready to make an impact? Apply now! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gf3j_WKf cc: Rohan Siddhanti #hiring #BDR #NYCjobs #sales #healthtech #SaaS #techsales #healthcaretech

🌟 Unprecedented tailwinds are igniting a new era in nutritional care. The industry is finally getting started, and we're here for it. 🚀 Since 2016, Healthie has been a vital support for nutritional care, empowering thousands of clinicians. Healthie was built to address the growing demand for a comprehensive solution tailored to dietitians, nutritionists, and health coaches. Unlike legacy EHRs, which often proved inadequate and burdened users with excessive administrative tasks, Healthie offers a more efficient and user-friendly alternative. 📈 Fast forward to 2024, and it’s amazing to see the momentum in nutritional care. There is so much innovation in the industry. We’re seeing outsized investment in this space, with VC and PE dollars flowing in to support this innovation. Builders are working to support nutritional care professionals—the experts in delivering personalized, recurring care, with an emphasis on preventative healthcare services—all of what healthcare needs more of! 🌍 It’s amazing to watch these organizations use Healthie to deliver this care, leveraging our API-first, customizable platform designed for health and wellness. 💡 This is exactly what healthcare needs more of; Nutritional Care = Preventative Care. Whole-person, collaborative care is the core of value-based care, and we are thrilled to see that America is finally waking up to this. 👉 Read more →https://lnkd.in/e7UUp4Yr

As infrastructure companies scale and mature, so too can digital healthcare delivery companies at unprecedented speed and scale; this is bolstered by an ecosystem that wants this tidal wave of change and innovation to happen. 🌊 The mentality of health tech has shifted considerably in the past 2 years. The floodgates  have opened, ushering in a new, overdue wave of healthcare innovation in care delivery, and as a byproduct, infrastructure companies. Here’s our main takeaways: - Open APIs provide near limitless capabilities to customize and integrate all aspects of your tech stack, without the cost of thousands of hours of development. - The setup of a modern, API-first infrastructure solution like @Healthie means Next Gen Healthcare companies no longer need to adapt their company to a vendor’s solution. - Rather companies have the ability to choose an infrastructure partner that can be built on top of – unlocking the potential for limitless customization and innovation. Next Gen Infrastructure companies will accelerate the pace of innovation and push the envelope forward on what healthcare experiences will look like for consumers, and force the system overall to re-think care delivery and care outcomes with the end patient in mind. This is exactly what our industry needs! We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again – Next Gen Healthcare companies should rarely exclusively build in house. Find the infrastructure that will work for you, so you can focus on building the differentiating parts of your technology, which is clinical care. Erica Jain, Co-Founder & CEO of Healthie, advises, “When we talk about this notion of API-first, it really enables this concept of headless EHR, and building your own member experience to extend the capabilities and focus on that business differentiation.” API-first companies like Healthie empower companies to focus on building toward an innovative, effective care paradigm without having to reinvent the wheel 🎡 See how Healthie supports the of Next-Gen Healthcare:  https://lnkd.in/ez27xaf3

We're thrilled to announce two new members to Healthie's team, as we continue to expand: 🌟 Ani Chan - Engineering Manager 🌟 Jae Lee - Staff Engineer Welcome aboard!

⭐ Save the Date Nothing like a little Healthie competition to kick off Healthtech’s biggest conference of the year,  HLTH 2024. Healthie, alongside Harbor Partners: adonis, Candid Health, Penciled (YC W24), Sully.ai, and Zoom, invite you to channel your inner Olympian (if dart throwing were an Olympic sport) for an evening of friendly competition and fierce networking at the Venetian’s newest venue, The Flight Club. Mark your Calendar: October 20, 2024 @ 5-8 pm, and start practicing! 🎯 Registration details coming soon! RSVP is required.

Traditional EHRs were designed for one-time, episodic, in-person only, physician only care. Organizations that use Healthie seek to build longitudinal, virtual-first, and collaborative care relationships with their patients, which drives lasting patient outcomes. Accordingly, in healthcare, not all EHRs are the same, and we believe that it’s important to pick an EHR that aligns with your philosophy of care, and allows you to extend the capabilities of what you’d like to offer. EHRs can help companies with the following: 📋 Charting and Intake: The ability to chart, send out intake forms, and tie charting to important capabilities like billing and reporting; some customers that use Healthie appreciate the ability to customize the UI 📅 Scheduling: Provider utilization planning, scheduling widgets for patients to book , tie-ins to matchmaking between providers and patients are crucial for an organization to be able to customize - handling timezone back-end logic isn’t! 🙋 Engagement: Organizations need the ability to customize the engagement experience as well as the modality of that experience. 🔗 Workflow Tooling Automation: Companies need the ability to customize clinician workflows, tasks, and the overall connectivity of their systems; but, they don’t need to build the underlying pipes for this. 🌱 Interoperability: Companies need the capability to do so, but don’t need to build direct integrations to CommonWell/CareQuality, etc. We recently sat down with a panel of experts in startups, and no surprise, there was heavy discussion on tech stack strategies – including when to take a build versus partner (aka buy) approach. The panelists from Emma Sugerman, Co-founder and COO Mavida Health, Jake Powell, Senior Director of Provider Partnerships Two Chairs, and Brittanie Kraft, VP of Operations Kaia Health reflected how much a company’s chosen vendors and solutions can support or hinder such growth. Here’s the highlights: 1️⃣ Flexible tech solutions are essential for adapting as your business evolves. 2️⃣ Choosing the right vendors and tools can support or hinder your growth. 3️⃣ Tracking vendor roadmaps and ensuring alignment with your long-term goals is crucial. Jake Powell Senior Director of Provider Partnerships at Two Chairs shared that “one of our first mistakes we’ve had in the past is that we underestimated the importance of flexibility.” He continued on that, “the reaction time and willingness to partner from the EMR side can not only stop innovation, but the day-to-day blocking and tackling can’t be handled.” Our advice? When building your modern tech stack, think ahead and ensure your tech stack will pivot and grow with your company. Healthie works with hundreds of Next-Gen Healthcare companies, of all sizes, pre-seed to Post IPO. More on a build and buy approach leveraging APIs, and our full panel discussion: https://lnkd.in/erqmsr3P

As companies scale, the investments in security, optimizations for speed as well as stability, become increasingly complex and important to get right – and that all starts with choosing their tech stack partners with care. Choosing an EHR? That's the easy part. The real work is in implementing an EHR correctly, organizing all of your internal stakeholders across product, dev, and clinical, and ensuring that providers can use the EHR effectively. Another important nugget: EHR implementation is one part of the equation. We’ve been working with some of our customers for years, and continuing to roll out new capabilities and optimizations is a normal and natural part of software, as your business evolves too. Brittanie Kraft, Director of Operations at Kaia Health thought about this extensively when selecting vendors, and how thinking long-term ultimately played into Kaia’s decision to choose Healthie.   Specifically:  1️⃣ Don’t underestimate the importance of flexibility in a tech partner; choose someone who is poised to scale alongside you. 2️⃣ Open APIs, like those from Healthie, enable limitless customization and integration, making implementation smoother and more impactful. 3️⃣ Consider the reaction time and willingness to partner from the EMR side; this will facilitate the day-to-day support needed particularly during implementation, but also the long-term collaboration needed to drive true innovation. One more tip from Brittanie, “Looking at the vendor roadmap is huge – where does it align? You can even have the same type of values as a company, but if you see that they’re actually heading in a different direction than where you are, then maybe that’s a good sign to reevaluate your tooling and the vendors that you’re using.” We say this at Healthie all the time, and share it with the companies we speak with - find the infrastructure that will work for you, so you can focus on building the differentiating parts of your technology, and finding a sustainable, scalable pathway to growth. More on a build and buy approach leveraging APIs, and our full panel discussion:  https://lnkd.in/erqmsr3P