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The 5 Signals a Health Tech Company Will Actually Scale
April 7, 2026

The 5 Signals a Health Tech Company Will Actually Scale

After years on both sides of the table, building health tech products and running the delivery systems that had to decide whether to sign the contract, a recognizable pattern emerges. Companies that scale share five signals. The ones that don't are missing at least three of them.

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The Borderless Healthcare Revolution: Why Geography Is Still American Healthcare's Most Persistent Design Flaw

The Borderless Healthcare Revolution: Why Geography Is Still American Healthcare's Most Persistent Design Flaw

A telehealth login does not make a system borderless. Geography remains the most persistent design flaw in American care, and closing it is a governance decision, not a technology one.

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Is Your Clinical AI a Medical Device? The FDA Question Physicians Must Ask

Is Your Clinical AI a Medical Device? The FDA Question Physicians Must Ask

Most physicians cannot say which AI tools in their workflow are FDA-regulated medical devices. Everything about liability, validation, and oversight changes once the answer is yes.

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Why Hospital Leaders Quit: The Structural Pattern Behind the Personal Story

Why Hospital Leaders Quit: The Structural Pattern Behind the Personal Story

Physician leaders take administrative roles expecting clinical strategy. The actual job is translating between three actors who do not share incentives. The exit interview reads personal; the pattern is structural.

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The Contract Clause Your Legal Team Missed

The Contract Clause Your Legal Team Missed

Clinical AI agreements are drafted by technology lawyers for technology companies. Almost everything in the document is negotiable. Almost nobody negotiates it. Five clauses worth fighting for.

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The Exit Criteria Your Clinical AI Vendor Hopes You Never Write

The Exit Criteria Your Clinical AI Vendor Hopes You Never Write

By month five post-go-live, the sunk cost trap is already working against you. Five signs it has started, and the governance move that closes it before it costs you a quarter.

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Five Questions to Ask Your AI Scribing Vendor Before You Sign

Five Questions to Ask Your AI Scribing Vendor Before You Sign

A five-question framework for evaluating clinical AI scribing vendors: validation data, liability position, deployment evidence, day-one operator readiness, and what happens when the scribe is wrong.

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The ACCESS Model Just Made Your AI Strategy an Outcome Problem

The ACCESS Model Just Made Your AI Strategy an Outcome Problem

CMS accepted 150-plus organizations into the ACCESS Model, with a July launch. Here is what the announcement does to your clinical AI roadmap, and the advisory question it forces.

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The AI Evaluation Health Systems Are Not Doing

The AI Evaluation Health Systems Are Not Doing

Health systems vet clinical AI hard before deployment. Then the tool goes live and the evaluation stops. What happens next, and what a real post-deployment monitoring program looks like.

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The 5 Signals a Health Tech Company Will Actually Scale

The 5 Signals a Health Tech Company Will Actually Scale

After years on both sides of the table, one pattern is unmistakable. Companies that scale share five signals. Here's how to read them before you sign the contract.

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The Change Readiness Gap: Why Your Pilot Worked and Your System Didn't

The Change Readiness Gap: Why Your Pilot Worked and Your System Didn't

Two pillars score lowest across every health system assessed. Not technology. Not scheduling infrastructure. Change readiness. Here's what that actually means.

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What Hospital Boards Get Wrong About Healthcare AI

What Hospital Boards Get Wrong About Healthcare AI

Hospital boards are asking the wrong AI question. The real governance problem isn't whether to adopt: it's whether your organization can actually deploy what it buys.

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The Five Contract Clauses Every Physician Should Demand Before Signing a Clinical AI Agreement

The Five Contract Clauses Every Physician Should Demand Before Signing a Clinical AI Agreement

Most AI vendor contracts put all liability on physicians. Five critical clauses to renegotiate before signing, from a clinical leader who has negotiated them.

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The Accountability Gap in Clinical AI Governance

The Accountability Gap in Clinical AI Governance

When a clinical AI tool gives a wrong recommendation, who is accountable? A framework for closing the governance gap before it costs a patient.

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ACHE 2026: What the Hallways Reveal About AI That the Keynotes Won't

ACHE 2026: What the Hallways Reveal About AI That the Keynotes Won't

I've been in Houston for less than 24 hours and ACHE is already telling two different stories. The keynote stage says AI is transforming healthcare. The hallways say something else entirely.

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The Grace Period is Over

The "Grace Period" is Over (New Laws as of Jan 1)

The regulatory landscape shifted at midnight. Here's what health technology leaders need to act on immediately.

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CMS Drops $50B for Rural Health

Breaking: CMS Drops $50B for Rural Health (And What It Means for Tech)

The policy signal everyone in digital health needs to understand, and the access opportunity hiding inside it.

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2025 Retrospective: The Year of the Borderless Healthcare Revolution

2025 Retrospective: The Year of the Borderless Healthcare Revolution

A year-end audit of the moves that mattered, the tech that delivered, and what the scorecard actually says going into 2026.

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The $100M Pivot: CMS Funding Root Cause Medicine

The $100M Pivot: Why CMS is Finally Funding "Root Cause" Medicine

This isn't incremental. It's a structural bet that the downstream cost of not addressing root causes finally outweighs the political cost of paying for them.

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Why I Traded the OR for a Boardroom

Why I Traded the OR for a Boardroom... for Impact

The career move nobody understood until they did. What it actually takes to go from practicing medicine to changing the systems that deliver it.

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Deep Dive: The CMS ACCESS Model

🔴 Deep Dive: The CMS ACCESS Model Is the "Subscription for Health" We've Been Waiting For... Maybe?

A full read on whether this model is the care delivery paradigm shift it's being marketed as, or another pilot that won't survive contact with operational reality.

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The Access Revolution Hidden in FinTech

The Access Revolution Hidden in FinTech

During the 8th China International Import Expo (CIIE) last week, Sino Biopharm and MediTrust Health signed a landmark strategic agreement, and almost nobody in US healthcare noticed.

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How Digital Twins Are Revolutionizing Healthcare

The Ultimate Personalization: How Digital Twins Are Revolutionizing Your Healthcare

For decades, medicine has operated on a foundation of averages. The digital twin changes the unit of analysis from population to individual, and the implications are enormous.

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Two Sides of the Burnout Coin

Two Sides of the Burnout Coin: Can AI Fix Documentation and Culture?

For the last decade, we've talked about clinician burnout as a problem. Let's be blunt: it's no longer a problem. It's an existential crisis.

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Your Watch is Watching. Who Else Is?

Your Watch is Watching. Who Else Is?

Take a moment and look at your wrist. There's a very good chance you are wearing a device that is, at this exact second, counting your steps, logging your sleep, and transmitting your biometrics.

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The New Medtech Equation

The New Medtech Equation: Why Economic Proof Now Defines Both Fundraising and Hospital Sales

Good morning from San Jose. Being here this week has been incredibly energizing, and clarifying. The market has shifted. Clinical efficacy alone doesn't move the deal.

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Is Your Personalized Health Tech Actually One-Size-Fits-All?

Is Your "Personalized" Health Tech Actually One-Size-Fits-All?

Here at the MERGE Built '25 conference, "personalization" is the word on everyone's lips. So why does every product on the floor look like it was built for the same hypothetical patient?

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How Digital Twins Are Predicting Autoimmune Flares

The End of Reactive Care? How Digital Twins Are Predicting Autoimmune Flares

For years, the conversation around remote patient monitoring has been anchored in familiar territory: tracking vitals post-discharge. This is a different conversation.

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Beyond Compliance: Why Trust is Health Tech's Most Critical Asset

Beyond Compliance: Why Trust is Health Tech's Most Critical Asset

We are in the golden age of health innovation. From AI-driven wellness platforms to surgical robotics, our work is fundamentally changing care. But trust is the scarce resource none of it works without.

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Cracking the US Healthcare Code: A Playbook for Founders

Cracking the US Healthcare Code: A Quick & Dirty Playbook for Founders

Last night, I gave a workshop to a group of international founders about the US healthcare landscape. The looks on their faces confirmed what I already suspected: this system is genuinely incomprehensible from the outside.

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The $10,000 App: Reimbursement for Digital Therapeutics

The $10,000 App: Cracking the Code on Reimbursement for Digital Therapeutics

Imagine your doctor concludes your visit not just with a prescription for a pill, but also one for a specialized app. That future is closer than most people realize, and the path to reimbursement is finally starting to clear.

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Surviving the Squeeze: HealthTech's Messy Middle

Surviving the Squeeze: A Clinician's and Builder's Guide to HealthTech's Messy Middle

Whether you're on the clinical front lines or building the technology that supports them, 2025's healthcare market looks the same from both seats: brutal, full of opportunity, and absolutely unforgiving of misaligned incentives.

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Beyond the Breakroom: Digital Health Tools and Nurse Burnout

Beyond the Breakroom: How Digital Health Tools Can Stem the Tide of Nurse Burnout

Our healthcare system is facing a critical shortage of its most essential professionals: nurses. The statistics are alarming. The causes are structural. And the technology window to address them is closing fast.

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