Digital Health Vitals, Ep 7: Doctronic Prescription Renewals, Oura's IPO, Doximity Clinical AI Suite

In this live episode of Digital Health Vitals, recorded during our Health2Tech Tech Week event in New York, we bring our monthly digital health news discussion to the stage. Our panel — Alex Koshykov, Sergei Polevikov, Stephanie Davis, and Guy Milhalter — discusses the latest health tech news, public digital health company earnings, AI in healthcare, wearable health tech, Google Health, Doximity, Anthropic, and recent private funding rounds in digital health. We break down what is happening across healthcare AI, digital health startups, health tech investing, public markets, direct-to-consumer healthcare, AI health companions, care navigation, and administrative automation. We are now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/1gm37WV... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Host/Moderator: Alex Koshykov — CEO @ YODD, COO @ BeKey.io   / alex-koshykov   Experts: Sergei Polevikov ‪@sergeiAI‬ — Founder of AI Health Uncut   / sergeiai   AI Health Uncut https://sergeiAI.substack.com Stephanie Davis — Healthcare Industry Analyst   / stephjdavis   Guy Milhalter - Partner at Pearl Cohen   / guymilhalter   🔎 What We Cover in This Episode: 00:00 Intro 00:27 — Speaker introductions Sergei Polevikov, Stephanie Davis, and Guy Milhalter introduce themselves and share their backgrounds in digital health, healthcare investing, advisory, legal work, and Health2Tech. 03:22 — Digital health public market earnings Stephanie Davis gives an overview of the latest public digital health earnings season, including Teladoc, Veeva, Hinge Health, Omada, Progyny, Doximity, and Hims & Hers. 12:08 — Doctronic and AI prescription renewals The panel discusses Doctronic’s Utah pilot, where AI recommended prescription renewals and physicians agreed with most of the AI recommendations. The conversation covers autonomous AI in healthcare, clinical oversight, legal risk, trust, and the future of AI-assisted prescribing. 18:29 — Oura files for IPO Oura’s IPO filing leads to a conversation about wearable health tech, consumer health devices, Apple acquisition rumors, profitability, Fitbit comparisons, and whether wearables actually make people healthier. 26:07 — Fitbit becomes part of Google Health Google Health brings Fitbit data, wearable data, Apple Health, medical records, and Health Connect into one health app. The panel discusses data privacy, consumer health platforms, Google’s healthcare strategy, and whether Fitbit is making a comeback. 31:01 — Doximity Clinical AI Suite Doximity announces its clinical AI suite, including Ask, Scribe, Dialer, and prescribing-related tools. The panel discusses Doximity’s physician network, AI strategy, clinician workflow, OpenEvidence competition, and whether doctors are actually using these tools. 34:24 — Anthropic Opus 4.8 and healthcare AI benchmarks Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 and adds a dedicated healthcare section to its system card. The panel discusses HealthBench Professional, OpenAI vs Anthropic in healthcare AI, medical benchmarks, clinical AI evaluation, and patient use of chatbots for health questions. 38:47 — Digital health funding game: thumbs up or thumbs down 39:20 — Garner Health raises $100M Garner Health raises a Series B for digital care navigation and doctor analytics. The panel debates whether care navigation is a strong category or at risk from AI-powered health search and chatbots. 40:23 — Commure raises $70M Commure raises funding at a major valuation. The discussion covers healthcare administrative automation, General Catalyst, M&A-driven growth, and whether backend healthcare infrastructure can become a massive company. 43:05 — Nourish raises $100M Nourish, a virtual metabolic health and nutrition platform, raises Series C funding. The panel discusses GLP-1 support, nutrition, metabolic care, and long-term weight management after GLP-1 treatment. 44:15 — Forus (formerly Tandem) raises $160M The panel discusses a newly renamed healthcare AI company focused on insurance authorization and prescription processing, including automation, pharma revenue, prior authorization, and legal concerns. 46:26 — Closing remarks Thanks for watching this live episode of Digital Health Vitals from Health2Tech Tech Week. Subscribe to Digital Health Inside Out for more conversations on AI in healthcare, digital health startups, health tech investing, value-based care, healthcare innovation, and the future of care delivery. Leave a comment with your take: Which story mattered most — Oura’s IPO, Google Health, Doctronic’s AI prescribing pilot, Doximity’s AI suite, Anthropic’s healthcare benchmark, or the latest digital health funding rounds? Previous episode of Digital Health Vitals:    • Digital Health Vitals Ep 6: Payer Earnings...   #healthtech #aiinhealthcare #aiinnovation #digitalhealth