Maitham Dib on LinkedIn: #yc #tryvital #wearables #labs #apis (2024)

We can't wait to attend NYC HealthCon and learn from the leaders in longevity, metabolic health, and nutrition.🌱Our APIs are powering the fastest growing longevity, metabolic health and nutrition companies so can't wait to meet other leaders in the space!Come meet our awesome Commercial Lead, Eric Stepansky this weekend! 🥳

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So you missed #HIMSS this year. Here's another key takeaways post in your feed so you feel like you were there ;) My 3 learnings👇1️⃣ AI in Health is at peak expectations on the Gartner Hype Cycle - that's not to say AI isn’t/will not be hugely influential but many of the promised use cases haven't been fully tested for feasibility nor risk. In the short-term AI for workflows e.g. Ambient Clinical Documentation seems to be gathering the most demand vs other use cases e.g. AI to capture and transcribe patient-provider interactions in real-time. The benefit? Reducing doctor's administrative workload.2️⃣ Patients love personalization… so forget the surveys. Patient engagement increases significantly with immediate value delivered using their own health data. Imagine: A survey asking 'How can we help?’ vs ‘I’ve been learning from your behaviors in this app + your digital biomarkers’ Here’s a suggestion’. 3️⃣Hospital-at-home: ‘Just because it's intuitive doesn’t it's easy.’ Richard Rothman, MD. Hospital-at-home has proven to be cost-effective AND improved patient outcomes however but health systems are implementing slowly. Love the analogy Richard made to EV market, if one EV were to blow up and have a bad experience, trust would be lost. 60% of health systems have stated that Hospital-at-home is a clinical priority BUT only 3% are 2-3 years into their execution. Setting up successful hospital programs takes careful planning and assessments across People (clinical and admin teams), Processes (implementation and workflows) and Technology (equipment and devices).What were your main takeaways? #himss2024

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Did you hear? CGMs are going mass market 👇The #fda has cleared Stelo by Dexcom – the first glucose biosensor that can be purchased over-the-counter without a prescriptionWhy does this matter?25 million That's the number of people with Type 2 diabetes in the US alone who do NOT use insulin CurrentlyDexcom G7 is available for them with a prescriptionNow with Stelo, it's even easier for those newly diagnosed with type 2 or not taking insulin to measure their glucose with CGMsProviding more options for those who don’t have insurance coverage Just another example of how CGMs are playing an integral role in the management of Type 2 diabetes Helping people understand the impact of different foods and activity on their glucose valuesThis is a big step forward in reducing the barrier to access careMy prediction? We'll see hardware costs for CGMs decrease in the coming years reducing barriers even further One step closer to solving the metabolic health crisis 💪#metabolichealth #tryvital #chroniccaremanagement #diabetes

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300 Post-it Notes,10 Nationalities Represented, 5 Days… a whole lot of fun 🕺🏽Just wrapped up an incredible offsite with team Vital (YC W20) and now off to #himss24 in Orlando - yes we move fast 😉 💨We’rea lean but mighty team (fast-growing and hiring atm!)This enables us to move with speed, a core value of VitalWhether that’s shipping code or answering our customers swiftlySpeed is very important to us... but what’s even more valued is velocity 🧭Being heads down and executing quickly is all well and goodBut not if you’re heading in the wrong directionOffsites are a great opportunity to collectively reflect and align on velocityGathering team feedback for this offsite, it’s clear it was a smashing success, so here are a few concious choices we made to make it the best one yet:✍🏽 Dedicated Slack Channel: Kept our other channels clear and focused.📆 Set & Share The Agenda: Each day had a distinct theme to avoid context-switching fatigue. We scheduled breaks and allowed for a few hours of buffer time for free mingling/personal downtime. ❌ No Meetings & OOO Set: Everyone's calendar and email was set to ‘At Our Offsite’. Only super urgent calls were permitted - it helped everyone stay present and assert the offsite was the priority.🌟 Define & Communicate the Purpose:What do you want to achieve with the offsite? We set this weeks before the offsite and asked the team what they wanted - this helped everyone get in the right state of mind and come prepared.💪 Create Ownership & Context Share: A lot of offsites consist of C-suite running through countless slides, creating a passive environment. We wanted everyone in the team to feel ownership. We delegated parts of our presentation to team leads with clear guidelines. The slides had to give everyone enough context for effective brainstorming. Every slide had to answer the questions... 'So what? and why would xyz team member care?🧠 More Time For Brainstorming: Being remote first we thought carefully about what couldn't do as effectively being remote, so we dedicated the largest blocks of time for focused brainstorming.📩 It's All About The Follow-Up: Every session had an appointed scribe to compile the action items. Each action item was given an accountable person & a clear time to action. This was written up, shared and signed by each team member. We also scheduled an offsite check-in 1 month after to assess our progress against our agreed action items.😍 The Highlight?Show & Tell Pot Luck Dinner 🥘In my experience, team icebreakers can feel (not always) a bit forced or artificial. I’ve always believed food and music serve as great connection points. So we decided to do a potluck dinner where each team member had to prepare and present a dish of their choice to their favourite song. Cooking alongside each other, I overheard conversations about people’s childhoods, when they last cooked this dish and organic chats about what else they did for fun.#tryvital

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We’re living in a time of Sickcare Not HealthcareHealthcare is preventative and proactiveSickcare is reactive and post-diagnosisFor Healthcare to truly come into existence, we need to think about the patient experienceWe want patients to CARE and make it as CONVENIENT as possible for them to careBetter patient experiences lead to better patient engagementPatient engagement requires small consistent actions over time … otherwise known as habitsHabits are formed byCue -> Routine -> Reward (in its simplest form)Let’s apply this to an essential part of many patient journeys in the 'Hospitals-at-home' movement... at-home lab testing1. Patient requires lab test to assess their health(Cue)2. Lab results will inform a personalized care program (Routine)3. Patient makes proactive changes in their life that improves health (Reward)The problem?Patients right now get stuck at 1 because of poor patient experiencesAt-home lab Testing was promised to increase patient NPS but executed poorly this is what happens instead…1. Test kits arrive to the home with no instructions leading to rejected samples or redraws2. Patients have zero visibility once they ship their labs - Did they make it to the lab? When will I get results?3. Results come with zero context -> Why should I care about this result? How does this relate to my care program?A lack of visibility and understanding of the ‘WHY’ increases the barrier for patients to careWhy would you take another lab test if it was such a hassle the first time?Without the PROPER INFRASTRUCTURE to support high-quality patient experiencesPreventative Health or rather Healthcare will never be. Happy Friday.#wearables#labtesting#himss24#himss2024

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Come and say hi at Booth #5974 👋See how our wearables, medical devices & lab integrations have 📌 Increased patient NPS📌 Decreased patient journey dropout rates📌 Decreased result & treatment turnaround times #himss24 #himss #himss2024

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Remote-first patient experiences don't have to suck. Excited to partner with Tellescope and improve ALL patient journeys. ⚡ Place and track lab orders with major (LabCorp, Quest etc) & speciality labs across 50 States⚡ Arrange a mobile phlebotomist, a walk-in appointment or ship an at-home test kit⚡ Receive the results in Tellescope’s UI and share it directly in the patient portal#patientexperience

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Assessing Wearables API integrators be like ... 'Meh aren't there 100s of those, who's cheapest?'How prospects SHOULD be evaluating wearable integration vendors: ↳How reliable are their APIs? ↳Are there SLAs in place?↳ Is there a guaranteed uptime?↳Do they integrate with wearables AND FDA medical devices?↳Do they integrate with bluetooth & cellular devices?↳ Do they give you historic data access?↳Is the data standardized and aggregated? How?↳Are they HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR and SOC 2 compliant?↳What if I need a device that you don't have?↳What's the time and process for adding a new device?↳What support do I get? Is it via Slack or email?↳Is that support directly with engineers or not?Bonus Tips: ⚡️Ask WHO their customers are. Are they more fitness-focused or health-focused - this will affect how they prioritize integrations in the future. Are you core on an edge case?⚡️Ask about their typical response times and who gives support- will you be shuffled from customer support rep to customer support rep or will you directly speak with an engineer⚡️Get your engineers to question WHY they've built certain integrations in that way (more to that in post II)#wearables #rpm

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Serious fomo that I can't make #vive2024 this yearBut our very own Naiara Dussan will be there to connect on all things wearables & lab testing ⌚️🧪Some of the talks I'll be pestering Naiara to get insights from & why ;) 👇1️⃣ How Do We Save Rural Healthcare?With Kevin Host, PharmD (Walmart Health), Amy Gleason (Main Street Health), Dr. Oralia G. Dominic (), Reyann Davis () and Bob Lindner, PhD (Veda Data Solutions)Why?I'm a big believer that platforms like Vital (YC W20) play a key role in solving the operational challenges facing rural health care. How? By solving the accessibility issue with remote data collection via wearables/medical devices populations already have OR lab testing via test-kits or at-home phlebotomy, to enable testing from the comfort of home.2️⃣ Nutritionally Scripted Care With Sarah Mastrorocco (Instacart), Josh Hix (Season Health), Rick Whitted (US Hunger), Lauren Driscoll (NourishedRx) & Caroline Carney (Curio Digital Therapeutics Inc.)Why?Food-is-Medicine is key solution to the chronic condition epidemic. Accessibility & patient adherence remain significant barriers. Working with a number of FIM companies we've seen how you can drive adherence by creating reward mechanisms triggered by real-time CGM/ glucometer data. Metabolic health testing is also key to measure the effectiveness of outcomes. 3️⃣ From Hospitals to Hollywood: The Rise of GLP-1’swith Anjalee Khemlani (Yahoo News), Cynthia Horner, M.D. FAAFP (Amwell), Vin Gupta, MD MPA (Amazon), Joe Murad (Vida Health) & Angela Fitch MD, (knownwell)Why?GLP-1s have taken the weight loss world by storm, but they're only part of the solution for creating lasting change. Prices for GLP-1s are through the roof with a number of health systems ending coverage for their employees.I think there should be a greater focus on exhausting other methods e.g. behavior change leveraging real-world data from wearables before/or in tandem with GLP-1s. If rolled out properly this is a cheaper option and equips the patient with lasting lifestyle changes. Which talks are you excited to see?#vive2024 #healthsystems #wearables #labtesting

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