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a16z Bio + Health #16: Digital Health for Complex Care

Episode Summary

How can technology help us better care for our sickest, most complex patients? With Manav Sevak (CEO of Memora), Sachin Jain (President and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan), Tarun Kapoor (SVP and Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Virtua Health), and Rebecca Harrington (Cofounder and President of the Leadership Institute)

Episode Notes

• In what ways is digital health for complex care under or overrated? [4:04]
• Are digital health solutions better suited to tackling clinical or non-clinical needs for complex care? [17:32]
• The challenge of the physician's inbox [27:55]
• Have we meaningfully moved the needle on complex digital care? If so, where? [32:08]
• Should we focus on applying basic tech to easy optimization and automation problems or advanced tech to more complex problems? [41:48] 

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