Digital Health Builders

It's Time to Heal is a special package about engineering the future of bio and healthcare. See more at: https://a16z.com/time-to-heal/.

In this episode of 16 Minutes, a16z bio experts Justin Larkin and general partner Julie Yoo (who also interviewed Dr. Marty Makary, author of The Price We Pay, on a previous episode) join Sonal Chokshi to discuss the specifics of, and the impact of, the rules on consumers and on various industry players. As is the premise of the show, they also break down the gap between what's hype/ what's real when it comes to mandates and implementation; while the rules go into effect January 2021, the deadlines roll out through 2024.

Healthcare is perhaps unique in that the entire system exists entirely to serve the patient... and yet, in many ways, that same patient is not the customer. In fact, the patient—and the patient's voice—can often be lost...

In this episode of Bio Eats World, a16z founder and internet pioneer Marc Andreessen and general partner Jorge Conde zoom out to discuss the large scale societal effects of the current pandemic on society, healthcare, bi...

Almost exactly one year ago I was diagnosed with appendix cancer. It had unfortunately spread into my abdominal cavity -- a disease called pseudomyxoma peritonei. It’s an extremely rare form of cancer and without a massi...

In this conversation with a16z General Partner Julie Yoo, Makary and Yoo discuss what price transparency in the healthcare system could really do; how we can "steer" towards the good physicians who are not just highly skilled, but make the right judgment calls based on need and holistic health, not cost; how we might distinguish between high value and low value through medical appropriateness; and how we might gain clinical wisdom from other kinds of scientific discovery beyond randomized controls, especially during the wartime protocol of COVID-19.

In this conversation, Vijay Kedar, CEO and cofounder of Tomorrow Health, a tech platform that delivers the products and services needed for home-based care; Sachin Jain, physician, previous CEO of Caremore and Aspire Health; part of the founding team at CMMI, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, now incoming CEO of The Scan Group and Healthplan; and a16z General Partner Julie Yoo join a16z's Hanne Tidnam in conversation to talk about where we are today and where we are going in home-based healthcare.

In this episode of the a16z Podcast, we talk about what the primary care of the future should actually look like and new ways we can understand what patients and doctors truly need, when. Joining us for the conversation are General Partner Julie Yoo, physician entrepreneur Ivor Horn, a primary care pediatrician for more than 20 years, and Jeff Kaditz, CEO and founder of Q.bio, a platform that identifies and monitors each individual’s biggest health risks.

It used to be that when you got sick, your doctor would come to you. But as medical equipment, expertise and knowledge, and the entire modern healthcare system evolved, we created grand institutions to make granting heal...

Primary care was meant to be the front door to the healthcare system: the one-stop-shop we rely on for all of our general healthcare needs, and to help us navigate the rest of the convoluted care delivery ecosystem.

a16z General Partners Jorge Conde and Julie Yoo talk with Hanne Tidnam about some of those big forces and dynamics in the healthcare system, at the intersection of business, policy, and public health: how in healthcare like perhaps nowhere else, broken policy can lead to broken business models that, in the wrong circumstances, can then lead major failures in public health like the one we’re seeing today; where we’ve seen this before, in the markets of vaccines, antibiotics, and diagnostics; and what should be different next time, so that when a new pandemic hits we aren’t facing another perfect storm.

Dr. Bobby Green, MD (Community Oncologist and Chief Medical Officer, Flatiron Health) and Dr. Sumit Shah (Oncologist and Head of Digital Health, Stanford Cancer Center) join a16z's Vineeta Agarwala (physician and general partner) and Hanne Tidnam to talk about what is happening to oncology during the outbreak—how treatment is affected; what kind of clinical decisions oncologists and patients are having to make, and how they're making them; the tech tools that specialists are using, and how they could improve; and what happens to oncology as a whole when it's forced to go virtual.

All about what exactly virtual care and “telemedicine” is... and what it isn’t; what it works well for, what doesn’t (yet), and where there’s potential; and finally, the current pain points (including regulation), and what we’ll learn from this current moment for the next generation of virtual medicine tools.

The federal agency known as the FDA, or the Food and Drug Administration, was born over a 100 years ago—at the turn of the industrial revolution, in a time of enormous upheaval and change, and rapidly emerging technology...

Editor's note: Quartz asked some of the boldest thinkers how they envision the future for their The World in 50 Years series, with various experts across fields answering questions about the future of work and the econom...

It's that time of year again, where we share some of our most popular podcasts of the year. This is the year we also launched a NEW show, 16 Minutes -- where we cover recent news headlines, the evergreen a16z Podcast way...

Building a software company in healthcare is hard — and comes along with unique challenges no other entrepreneurs face. In this conversation, a16z bio general partner — and previous founder of genomics company Knome — Jorge Conde; and a16z bio partner and former founder Julie Yoo (of patient provider matching system, Kyruus) share their mistakes and hard earned lessons learned with a16z partner Hanne Winarsky.

Below are our 16 most popular a16z Podcast episodes + videos of 2018. And if you're new to the pod, be sure to check out our 2017, 2016, and 2015 lists, and our top videos from 2017 (and 2016), too. But this new year, we...

Below are more than 16 of our most popular, evergreen, and/or favorite episodes of 2017. Since so many of you who are new to the pod (welcome!) ask for where to start, you should check out our 2016 and 2015 lists, too. W...

Below are just some of the most popular, evergreen a16z Podcasts of 2016 ... Thank you: to all of our guests, from entrepreneurs to policymakers to book authors and more. But we are especially grateful to all of *you* --...

Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And "we are living under a collective delusion that burnout is the way to succeed," observes Arianna Huffington, author of The Sleep Re...

Today, we excitedly continue our investment in increasing inclusion and diversity in the technology sector. We will be providing a combined total of $275,000 in grants to four nonprofits: The COMMIT Foundation, VetsinTec...

Men and women who have spent decades in prison are being released into an iPhone-enabled world that they hardly recognize. Shaka Senghor is one of those people, imprisoned at age 19 for second-degree murder and released...

Here are just some of the most provocative, thought-provoking, and popular a16z Podcasts from 2015 ... thanks to our guests -- and to all of *you* who made our podcasts popular by listening to them, sharing them, writing...

We only have about a million physicians in the United States -- but they’re about to get reinforcements.

It never stops: Technology, and the people who make it. That’s what makes being in the thick of it so much fun.

At a16z, we bet on entrepreneurs who use software to go after the big problems. And the United States certainly has one on its hands: namely, the growing health care spending crisis. In 1970, the cost of health care acco...