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Post / share2026-07-21

Relocating to Washington, D.C. to advance proactive healthcare

I am relocating to the Washington D.C. area because I think we can build a more proactive healthcare system. This is a deliberate move toward the people, institutions, and ideas shaping the next era of health and healthcare. Advances in digital health, AI, diagnostics, precision medicine, medical technology, prevention, and longevity science are expanding what we detect, treat, and potentially prevent. But innovation does not transform healthcare simply because it exists. It must become clinically trusted, operationally usable, supported by evidence, aligned with payment and policy, and capable of scaling across complex institutions. The distance between promising innovation and meaningful impact remains one of healthcare’s most consequential challenges. That is the work I intend to pursue in this next chapter. I believe one of the defining opportunities of our time is to build a healthcare system that acts earlier, translates innovation into better care, and enables more people to live longer healthier lives. My work centers on healthcare transformation: advancing proactive care and facilitating innovation across digital health, AI, advanced medical technology, prevention, healthspan and longevity. The future of healthcare will be shaped not only by what we invent, but by whether we can turn innovation into better care - reaching people earlier and helping them live longer, healthier lives. I am eager to be back in the world’s most important intersection of healthcare, science, policy, and institutional leadership. I look forward to reconnecting with colleagues in the region, building new relationships, and contributing to the work ahead. If you are working toward that future: a more proactive, innovative, and effective future for healthcare, I welcome the conversation.

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Post / share~May/Jun 2026

Primary barriers to a more proactive U.S. healthcare system

We have the gold standard on one side of the healthcare equation - I want to discuss the other side, because a reactive system is often too late, and both sides are necessary to provide the highest standard of care. Thankfully, we have the capability to predict, prevent, and intervene (personalized and at scale) before it becomes a crisis. Knowing that 90% of annual healthcare expenditures are due to chronic disease and mental health, and considering the number of people suffering from preventable disease, or at least not thriving - what are the primary barriers holding the United Stated back from running on a more proactive form of care? Given the massive amount of progress in this space, where should energy now be focused to collapse the time horizon? #healthcareTranformation #digitalHealth #prevention #valueBasedCare

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Post / share2026-05-06

Healthcare innovation absorption as the next bottleneck

The next bottleneck in healthcare may not be innovation. It may be absorption. Healthcare is entering a period where we can detect more, measure more, personalize more, and intervene earlier. But a new capability is not the same as a new standard of care, and institutional interest is not the same as institutional readiness. A technology can be clinically meaningful and still fail to fit the workflow. A policy can be directionally right and still break down in implementation. A product can have a rational business case and still fail to earn clinical trust. A scientific insight can be compelling and still never become a care pathway. That gap shows up where adoption actually happens: physician trust, workflow fit, operational capacity, stakeholder alignment, and ownership after the pilot ends. Healthcare commercialization is not just demand generation. The strongest organizations understand how promising ideas become trusted, usable, and sustainable across clinical, operational, and institutional realities. They design for adoption from the beginning. Healthcare does not transform when innovation exists. It transforms when innovation can be absorbed.

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Post / share2026-04-22

Food as Medicine and the Future of Proactive Healthcare

American healthcare does not have a prevention awareness problem. It has a prevention infrastructure problem. The U.S. is the global leader in acute care. But the more consequential question is what happens before the acute event. We already know chronic disease is driving the burden. We already know nutrition influences risk across cardiometabolic disease, diabetes, and cancer. And we know far more than we did even a few years ago about individualized metabolic response, ultra-processed foods, and the economics of earlier intervention. The real question is whether the system is prepared to act on that knowledge before disease becomes clinically catastrophic. That is why Food as Medicine matters. Not because food is the whole answer, but because it is one of the clearest tests of whether healthcare is actually prepared to move upstream. Can we align evidence, workflow, reimbursement, and accountability around earlier intervention? Can we make prevention measurable, durable, and investable? Can we build for value, healthspan, and longevity instead of defaulting to delayed intervention? For too long, nutrition sat outside the core operating model of healthcare. That is beginning to change. Advances in digital health, wearables, diagnostics, and nutrition science are making proactive care more achievable, scalable, and economically viable. Food as Medicine is bigger than food. It is one of the clearest indicators of which institutions are prepared to redesign care around value, prevention, healthspan, and longevity. Institutions such as The Rockefeller Foundation have helped bring greater visibility to that broader shift. Attached is a short document on the current burden, the emerging evidence, the historical context, and why this may become one of the most revealing infrastructure questions in healthcare. #FoodAsMedicine #ValueBasedCare #Prevention #HealthcareTransformation #Longevity

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Post / shareMar/Apr 2026

TEMPO pilot for digital health devices

BIG NEWS in digital health and the future of healthcare. FDA - TEMPO for Digital Health Devices. Let’s use this to drive a more proactive form of care. This has the potential to help more people live longer, healthier lives. #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #HealthcareTranformation #PreventitiveHealth #ValueBasedCare

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Post / share2026-03-21

Prevention OS / A Proposed Operating Architecture

Healthcare does not have a prevention problem. It has an infrastructure problem. We can measure risk earlier than ever - through wearables, labs, imaging, claims, pharmacy data, behavioral signals, environmental context, and increasingly capable AI. But in most care environments, those signals still remain observational rather than operational. They do not reliably become: • accountable workflows • coordinated interventions • reimbursable actions • quality outputs • or evidence that improves future care That is the gap I have been working on. Today I’m sharing the blueprint for Prevention OS - a proposed operating architecture for continuous prevention. This is not a proposal for another prevention program, engagement layer, diagnostics wrapper, or AI risk tool. It is a proposal for the missing operating layer healthcare still lacks - the layer that can convert continuous signals into accountable workflows, coordinated interventions, economic artifacts, quality outputs, and continuously compounding evidence across time. At the center is a closed-loop model: Subject / Context → Signals / Measurement → Data Fabric → Risk & Decision Intelligence → Clinical OS / Orchestration → Intervention / Care Delivery → Outcomes / Learning The core idea is simple: Prevention fails not because we cannot detect risk, but because healthcare still lacks the architecture required to turn risk into coordinated, accountable action across time. Prevention OS is designed to define that architecture. It brings together: • multimodal measurement • a governed longitudinal data fabric • risk and decision intelligence • a true Clinical OS for routing, tasking, escalation, documentation, and follow-through • intervention pathways across clinical, behavioral, nutritional, and therapeutic care • reimbursement rails • quality and accountability outputs • evidence generation • portable identity / Health Graph infrastructure • multichannel deployment across app, SMS, IVR, and community-supported pathways • ecosystem APIs and marketplace extensibility Why this matters now: The surrounding stack is becoming more real - precision-health data environments, healthcare-grade AI reasoning, workflow automation, and more longitudinal personal-health surfaces are advancing quickly. What still remains missing is the operating architecture that makes prevention executable. That is what this blueprint is trying to define. I’m sharing the full system openly because I think this category needs to be built more explicitly. If you’re working on health systems, payer strategy, clinical AI, or prevention infrastructure, I’d value your perspective. #Prevention #DigitalHealth #AIinHealthcare #ValueBasedCare #HealthcareInnovation #PopulationHealth

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Post / share2026-03-09

Healthcare’s Missing Infrastructure: Prevention - article-link post

Healthcare does not have a prevention problem. It has an infrastructure problem. I've been thinking for some time about what prevention would look like if it were built as infrastructure rather than treated as a collection of disconnected programs and products. I wrote about that here: what a Precision Prevention Operating System could look like, and why the next transformation in healthcare may depend on building the stack prevention actually runs on. Curious how others are thinking about the infrastructure required to make prevention truly operational at scale. #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #PrecisionMedicine #Longevity

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Post / share2026-03-06

AI-enabled proactive care, physician involvement, supplements and longitudinal data

Digital health technologies and AI are driving discovery and enabling a shift from reactive care to proactive intervention - personalized, predictive, and patient-led. But, who is providing decision support to individuals, and how do we ensure that physicians remain in the loop? My passion for supplements began 20+ years ago, continued throughout college as I worked at GNC, and remains strong today. The opportunity to extend healthspan and lifespan has never been greater. Wearables, digital twins, and longitudinal data can be used to monitor clinical impacts - including nutraceuticals, peptides, and across the rapidly growing supplement market. #Longevity #DigitalHealth #AIinHealthcare #HealthcareInnovation

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Post / share~Mar 2026

Japan’s proposed iPS-cell approvals for heart failure and Parkinson’s disease

An advisory panel to Japan’s health ministry has recommended limited marketing approval for therapies utilizing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells aimed at treating heart failure and Parkinson’s disease. This development marks a significant advancement in the application of iPS cell technology in regenerative medicine, potentially offering new treatment options for patients affected by these conditions. Additionally, the field of stem cell medicine is evolving with other trials harnessing embryonic stem (ES) cells made from human embryos, rather than adult cells. Alan Trounson, a pioneer in the stem cell field and professor emeritus at Monash University, states that stem cell-based medicine has “come of age.”

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Post / share2026-02-18

Digital health, consumer choice and supplement/nutraceutical regulation

Digital health is changing the landscape of healthcare, peptides are advancing, mushrooms are undergoing trials, and alcohol (lowest consumption in 90 years) is being replaced by plants like Kava. As individuals are empowered to take charge of their health, they are becoming more conscious of how different variables impact their health due to innovations like wearables, digital health apps, blood-tests, etc. These insights are extremely valuable and can drive both awareness and behavior change - great news as diet and exercise make their way to the forefront of healthcare. But we are also witnessing a continuous rise in the supplement industry. As someone who worked in this space for years, this is both exciting and concerning. We now have the opportunity to track and measure supplement / nutraceutical impacts to drive research; however, the market still remains largely unregulated. Safety concerns must be addressed, but what is the best strategy when many nutraceuticals / supplements are ineffective or harmful, companies do not hold themselves to appropriate standards, and public trust in government (especially surrounding healthcare) isn’t at its peak? How do we ensure appropriate safeguards while simultaneously allowing consumers to make the health decisions that they deem most appropriate?

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Post / share2026-02-05

Scientific innovation, digital twins, federal programs and proactive health management

Scientific innovation, breakthroughs in medicine, and emerging technologies are shaping the future of healthcare and redefining what’s possible. From artificial intelligence, self-powered wearable sensors, and brain mapping to wellness apps, novel compounds, and healthcare policy - we are seeing dramatic change and paradigm shifts across healthcare. + Reactive (crisis management) to proactive (health promotion) and value-based care + Digital health, AI, continuous monitoring, and less siloed data + Food as medicine, exercise, and mental health priorities FDA TEMPO Pilot & CMS CMMI ACCESS - digital health to address chronic disease management and reversal U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Great American Recovery to address addiction / SUD This could look like: + Leveraging AI and digital phenotyping to create personalized digital twin simulations that enable highly precise prediction, intervention simulation, and outcome forecasting for real-time and longitudinal health trajectory visualizations to drive behavior change + Combining real-time biometrics, multi-omics data, and personalized protocols to predict, prevent, and reverse disease - while aligning incentives through outcome-based reimbursement workflows, enabling health systems, payers, and providers to shift from reactive care to proactive health management. + AI powered risk prediction and detection of mental health crises, potential relapses, and life-threatening emergencies; alerts, red flags, and escalations routed to virtual psychiatrists / therapists or emergency services; potential integrations with virtual medication dispensers and smart pill bottles. The potential to tackle chronic disease and addiction has never been greater. #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #AIinHealthcare

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Post / share2026-01-27

From Reactive Care to Prevention-First Healthspan

Most healthcare systems are designed to treat disease. Very few are designed to extend healthy years of life. Over the past decade, I’ve worked inside operating rooms, academic medical centers, and complex health systems supporting advanced clinical and digital technologies. One pattern has become clear: Longevity doesn’t fail because of technology. It fails because systems, incentives, and care models aren’t designed for prevention. I put together a short, one-page framework outlining what needs to be true for prevention-first healthspan to become real healthcare - embedded in care delivery, reimbursement, and governance, not isolated as wellness or pilots. The core idea is simple: longevity will be won in care models, incentives, data, and system design - not supplements or apps alone. For those building in digital health, care delivery, prevention, or policy - what do you see as the biggest barrier to scaling healthspan inside real health systems: measurement, reimbursement, ownership, or workflow adoption? #Healthspan #Longevity #DigitalHealth #PreventionFirst #HealthcareSystems

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Post / share~Nov 2025

Chronic disease, prevention economics and lifestyle intervention

3 out of 4 U.S. adults live with a chronic disease — and most of it is preventable. The Numbers Are Staggering: 76% of adults have at least one chronic disease; 51% have two or more (CDC, 2023) Chronic disease causes 7 in 10 deaths (CDC, 2023) 103M adults have diabetes or prediabetes — 90% don’t know it (CDC, 2023) Obesity affects 42% of adults and 20% of children (CDC, 2023) Only 10% of Americans eat enough fruits & vegetables (NHANES, 2021) Physical inactivity & poor diet cost $1,678/year combined (J Am Heart Assoc, 2022) Yet only 2.9% of U.S. healthcare spending goes to prevention (CDC, 2023) The Opportunity: Lifestyle interventions reduce diabetes risk by 58% — outperforming medication (31%) (DPP, NEJM, 2002) Up to 80% of premature heart disease & stroke is preventable (WHO/CDC, 2023) Every $1 invested in lifestyle-focused wellness can return $6 in savings (RAND, 2020) The Reality: We spend more than any other nation, yet preventable mortality is 50% higher than OECD average (OECD, 2023) The Question: If we know what works, why aren’t we prioritizing prevention? Comment below: What’s the single most impactful lifestyle or policy change we should implement today?

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Post / share~Nov 2025

Michael Jordan, StrengthsFinder and team design

Michael Jordan was NOT GREAT at baseball. How about basketball - and what does this have to do with healthcare or business? Nothing... or everything. Yesterday, I took Gallup’s StrengthsFinder for the fifth time (over 10+ years) with some minor fluctuations. I have watched people review their top 5 strengths and then immediately go to the area(s) where they ranked lowest. Have you ever mentioned Michael Jordan and had the response be about baseball? Or, was the response about him being one of the GOATS in basketball? We all have specific strengths. Would you want a neurosurgeon operating on your heart? Would you even care about their capacity to do so, or would you just care about how they perform within their specialty, where they are GREAT? The same philosophy applies to individuals and teams. We all have a place. Focus on where you excel - that is your GIFT and your SUPERPOWER; hire to cover the weaker areas. This will elevate the overall performance of your business and teams and drive top-tier results, regardless of industry. Strategic | Learner | Ideation | Achiever | Belief

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Post / share2025-10-17

Connecting device-level insights to upstream prevention and downstream value

Devices are smarter than ever, yet so much of this data lives in silos. I believe the next frontier is about helping systems see around corners. The companies and health systems who win long-term will be those who connect device-level insights to upstream prevention and downstream value. Integrating these insights with EHRs, population analytics, and AI could detect patterns that point to prevention. With biometrics, multi-omics, and advancements in digital phenotyping, the ability to monitor, predict, and develop personalized interventions is greater than ever. That’s not just innovation - that’s transformation. What partnerships or platforms do you think will make this a reality? #MedicalDevices #DigitalHealth #PredictiveAnalytics #AIinHealthcare #HealthcareTransformation

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Post / share2025-10-15

Preventative surgical care, AI and making surgery less necessary

I’ve spent my career supporting top-tier surgical teams with cutting-edge tools. The precision technologies deployed in the OR are incredible, but we’re still treating disease too late, relying on reactive pathways, and measuring success by what happens after the patient shows up with issues. Are we winning the war or just fighting better battles? Surgical excellence is important, but the system must evolve to prioritize prevention-first pathways - driven by data, powered by AI, and aligned with outcomes. The future of care will be defined not just by tools that make surgery faster or more precise, but by systems that make surgery less necessary. That means surfacing risk earlier, personalizing interventions before the first symptom, and aligning the incentives so prevention scales. What if we connected surgical outcomes data with upstream patient behavior, wearable tech, and AI-driven risk prediction? What if post-op recovery insights could power pre-op prevention for future patients? Always interested in discovering how others are navigating this change and building the infrastructure that make this shift a reality, especially where clinical insight meets tech innovation - at the intersection of AI, data, and care delivery. #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth #MedTech #PreventativeCare #AIinHealthcare

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CommentJun/Jul 2026

Robert Pearl, M.D. — Healthcare affordability moonshot, capitation and operating-model transformation

Dr. Pearl, this is the right moonshot frame because affordability will not be solved at the margins. Fear and financial reward can create pressure to change. But healthcare’s challenge is translating that pressure into the capacity to deliver care differently. Payment reform can alter the economics; the operating model determines whether those incentives become lower costs, better outcomes, and fewer preventable crises. Capitation may create the financial rationale for managing longitudinal risk, but clinicians cannot do that with episodic workflows, fragmented data, limited care-team capacity, unclear accountability, and economics that still reward downstream intervention. The next leap in value-based care may be operational as much as financial: organized physician groups, aligned incentives, trusted data infrastructure, AI-enabled coordination, and accountable workflows that identify risk early, assign ownership, support follow-through, and close the loop before risk becomes high-cost utilization. The challenge is building a system where preventing disease progression becomes the economically rational, operationally supported standard. That is where affordability, prevention, and system transformation ultimately converge.

CommentJun/Jul 2026

Benjamin Schwartz, MD / DrD — Proper use of physician advisors in health-tech startups

Completely agree. Physician advisors are usually most valuable when they help pressure-test whether a solution is clinically credible, whether their peers would actually trust and use it, and whether it addresses a problem clinicians actually prioritize. That is a much better use of their expertise than asking them to spend time on lead generation and outreach.

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CommentJun/Jul 2026

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — Eat Real Food and chronic-disease spending

Simple, but one of the most powerful, often neglected, drivers of health. Wonderful to see nutrition placed back to where it has lived for much of human history - the center of healthcare

CommentJun/Jul 2026

National Institutes of Health (NIH) — Long-term lifestyle intervention and multimorbidity risk in adults with prediabetes

Proactively addressing lifestyle and nutrition are critical to tackling the chronic disease epidemic

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CommentJun/Jul 2026

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — Mental health, school phone restrictions and MAHA strategy

Addressing nutrition, physical exercise, and mental wellbeing is a great way to combat the obesity, addiction, and disease rates our country has recently seen. Changing it relies on physically and mentally resilient individuals. While we have the gold standard of acute care, we have unfortunately seen what happens when the other side of the equation is left in the periphery.

ReplyJun/Jul 2026

Secretary Kennedy — Nutrition education across medical education and residency

Michael Bankowski - it is great to see nutrition being funded and integrated into policy and the curriculum. As food as medicine scales, care moves closer to home, and clinically viable wearables / digital health capabilities expand and become clinically viable, behavior change will become the next frontier. Patients will have more data / personalized insights, more education, and more / different questions. I think we are on the right track to be prepared for this. Exciting to see the focus on proactive care as the ability handle longitudinal measurement (opposed to episodic) takes hold - this synergistic combination has the power to transform the face of healthcare.

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Secretary Kennedy — Nutrition education across medical education and residency

Joseph A. Bauer, Ph.D. Thank you - I appreciate you saying that!

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Secretary Kennedy — Nutrition education across medical education and residency

Joseph A. Bauer, Ph.D. Love what you are saying!! These are the exact issues I am discussing in the posts featured on my profile. I’d love your thoughts.

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Secretary Kennedy — Nutrition education across medical education and residency

Joseph A. Bauer, Ph.D. Insurance reform is critical! There is still work to be done, but the integration of nutrition, which has historically been considered central to care, is a monumental win. Behavior change, education, and payment reform are still critical areas of focus. If a largely inactive, morbidly obese pt with T2D logs (personalized/prescription) nutrition, incorporates walking, exercise, and other lifestyle interventions (that can be tracked via RPM/wearables - further driving data generation and research), there is certainly an argument around risk reduction - I believe rewarding behavior change is a potential avenue forward. How do you think we can address this?

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Secretary Kennedy — Nutrition education across medical education and residency

This is exactly what you would hope to see when tackling the chronic disease epidemic. As care shifts more toward proactive care and closer to home, nutrition will become a more central part of the discussion - behavior change is the next frontier. That starts with and is driven by education. Amazing to see and a monumental win for healthcare and public health!

ReplyJul 2026

Stephen Phillips — Relocating to Washington, D.C. to advance proactive healthcare

Thank you, Jason!

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Stephen Phillips — Relocating to Washington, D.C. to advance proactive healthcare

Thank you, Austin (Atul Pundir)!

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Stephen Phillips — Relocating to Washington, D.C. to advance proactive healthcare

Thank you, Keith McGorisk!

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CommentJul 2026

Sarah Porter — Global Leaders in AI luncheon and Partnerships Powering the Future of Healthcare panel

Innovations in digital health and AI have the potential to transform healthcare in the United States and globally, but trust and safety must be embedded at a foundational level. Wonderful to see so many great leaders and thinkers shaping this exciting future. These events and conversations are of critical importance. Thanks to all for not only the events, but for driving healthcare and technology forward.

ReplyJul 2026

Health2Tech — TechChicago Week Health2Tech event

Thank you, Alex Koshykov!

CommentJul 2026

Health2Tech — TechChicago Week Health2Tech event

Digital health and AI are steering the future of healthcare. Thanks for another phenomenal event!

Top-level commentJun 2026

World Brain Mapping Foundation — BTIP / neuroscience policy initiative

As the brain economy grows, it is great to see the World Brain Mapping Foundation driving these initiatives forward. The future of healthcare can be reshaped by policy supporting digital health, brain / mental health, proactive care, and rapid technological advancement.

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Top-level commentJun 2026

Health2Tech / Jeffrey Johnston — Brightn mental-health and digital-health event

Digital health innovations can empower individuals to take charge of, bolster, and improve their physical health, mental resilience, and overall wellbeing. As care moves closer to home, the brain economy grows, and preventative, whole-person health becomes more heavily integrated into care, the continuous acceleration and scaling of digital health technologies make it entirely feasible to identify risk signals, escalate issues, and intervene before avoidable crises occur. While we have the gold standard in acute care, a reactive system is often too late. Building out the proactive side of medicine, enabling longitudinal monitoring, and driving awareness, education, and behavior change are crucial. Advances in - and the promotion of - AI, digital health, N-of-1 trials, nutrition, and physical activity can transform the healthcare landscape and improve health outcomes at scale. Thank you to Health2Tech and Jeffrey Johnston with Brightn for a fantastic event and evening. #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth

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Comment~Apr/May 2026

Health2Tech — Patient voice, chronic disease and POTS

Hearing patient perspectives on chronic disease / POTS is powerful - it also highlights the necessity to switch from reactive, episodic to proactive, longitudinal monitoring. Wonderful group of individuals who recognize the power of digital health and the critical role it will play in the future of healthcare. Great event and excited for more in the future.

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Reply~Apr/May 2026

Wasu Mekniran — e3-value framework, prevention economics and digital-health incentive architecture

Hi Wasu Mekniran, I think that’s exactly the right distinction. Validated endpoints and agreed-upon outcomes may be more portable than any single clinical flow across heterogeneous care systems.

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Top-level comment~Apr/May 2026

Wasu Mekniran — e3-value framework, prevention economics and digital-health incentive architecture

Fascinating work. The e3-value framework highlights something that often gets overlooked in prevention discussions: the challenge is not only clinical, but structural and economic. One tension increasingly visible across digital health is that the entities generating continuous health signals (devices, monitoring platforms, digital therapeutics) are often not the care-delivery systems equipped, incentivized, or reimbursed to act on them. As measurement becomes more continuous, prevention is becoming far more observable - but not necessarily more operational within clinical workflows. The next design challenge may therefore be not only programmable incentive architectures, but the care-delivery infrastructure required to convert longitudinal signals into accountable workflows and reimbursable action. Curious how you see that operational layer evolving alongside programmable incentive architectures.

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CommentApr/May 2026

S2G Investments — The Food as Health Opportunity

This framing is spot on. “Food as Health” becomes truly scalable when it’s treated as care-delivery infrastructure - not a wellness add-on. The models that win will link nutrition interventions to measurable outcomes (clinical + cost), with clear ownership, workflow integration, and reimbursement pathways. Where do you see the biggest near-term bottleneck: evidence/measurement, payment, or implementation inside health systems?

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CommentApr/May 2026

Eziah Syed / The Rockefeller Foundation — From Farm to FIM: Food is Medicine, local agriculture and regional economics

Food is Medicine sits at a unique intersection of clinical care, agricultural systems, and regional economic resilience, which gives it unusual potential as both a health intervention and an economic development strategy. The opportunity is not simply to fund isolated programs, but to build durable infrastructure that connects local food systems, clinical workflows, payment models, and measurable outcomes.

CommentApr/May 2026

American Medical Association — SXSW discussion: AI, continuous patient data and care outside hospital walls

Important conversation. Continuous, context-rich patient data may ultimately reshape where and how care happens. The opportunity isn’t simply collecting more signals outside hospital walls, but building the infrastructure that can translate those longitudinal signals into earlier detection, coordinated action, and accountable outcomes. When that layer matures, AI moves from an analytical tool to an operational engine for prevention and proactive care.

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CommentApr/May 2026

Innovation Institute for Food & Health, UC Davis — Food science, agriculture, metabolic health and innovation translation

Exciting to see this momentum. The convergence of food science, agriculture, and metabolic health is opening an important new frontier for prevention. Initiatives that bring together academia, industry, and early-stage innovation will be critical for translating emerging discoveries into meaningful health impact.

Comment~Apr 2026

The Rockefeller Foundation — School meals and Food is Medicine

Food is Medicine sits at a unique intersection of clinical care, public health, education, and economic resilience, which gives it unusual leverage as an intervention. If policymakers begin to treat nutrition as foundational rather than peripheral, the broader opportunity may be to embed these models into durable prevention infrastructure rather than continue treating them as isolated programs.

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Reply~Apr 2026

Nicholas A. Gnan — Longevity market convergence and a longitudinal HealthOS

Thanks, Neil Panchal, DO - I’ll take a look. I’m particularly interested in how platforms translate longitudinal signals into trusted decisions and prevention pathways. That’s where precision prevention moves from interesting data toward real clinical infrastructure. The test may be which models can actually operationalize that at scale.

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Top-level comment~Apr 2026

Nicholas A. Gnan — Longevity market convergence and a longitudinal HealthOS

Wearables, diagnostics platforms, and longevity clinics appear to be converging toward the same destination: a longitudinal health layer built around continuous sensing, diagnostics, interpretation, and guidance. The long-term differentiator may be which platform can translate those signals into trusted decisions and continuous prevention, rather than simply collecting more signals.

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Comment~Apr 2026

Geoffrey Ginsburg / addiction-science post — Genomics, wearables and EHR data in addiction science

Exciting to see how genomic insights, behavioral signals from wearables, and EHR data are beginning to converge in addiction science. The long-term value may not just be better retrospective insight, but the ability to identify risk earlier and enable more proactive personalized prevention models. The real opportunity may be translating insights like these into earlier intervention pathways in clinical care.

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Reply~Apr 2026

Sally Ann Frank / CueZen / Microsoft for Startups — AI personalization across the health journey

Sunil Shinde agreed - ongoing, continuous, and at scale are the key shifts. The real distinction emerges when personalization evolves from a feature into an operating layer for longitudinal prevention and support.

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Top-level comment~Apr 2026

Sally Ann Frank / CueZen / Microsoft for Startups — AI personalization across the health journey

Compelling to see AI personalization applied across the health journey rather than at a single point in time. The broader opportunity may be to build systems that can turn ongoing signals, context, and behavior into more continuous prevention and support at scale.

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Comment / linkMar/Apr 2026

Columbia University research / external article — Neural representations of uncertainty, confidence and perceptual curiosity

Neural Representations of Sensory Uncertainty and Confidence Are Associated with Perceptual Curiosity

Author comment / linkMar/Apr 2026

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) — Wearable patch and cancer treatment

How a Wearable Patch Could Revolutionize Cancer Treatment

CommentMar/Apr 2026

Longevity.Technology / NBRAIN / Microsoft — NBRAIN, Microsoft and a spinal-implant technology signal

Exciting news! You may find this interesting as well.

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CommentMar/Apr 2026

Generation Lab — Fasting, cellular senescence and longevity interventions

Excited to see how strategies targeting cellular senescence such as fasting, senolytics, exercise, etc. will work synergistically to impact healthcare and shape the future of anti-aging / longevity.

CommentMar/Apr 2026

StartUp Health / Virta Health — Type 2 diabetes, lifestyle intervention and scalable chronic-disease reversal

Clinical evidence shows chronic disease, such as Type 2 Diabetes, can be dramatically improved through nutrition and lifestyle interventions. The challenge is making these approaches accessible, scalable, reimbursable, and integrated into everyday care.

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CommentMar/Apr 2026

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — VITAL human digital twins for treatment simulation

Digital twins could move medicine from observation-driven care toward simulation-informed care. It will be interesting to see how these systems incorporate continuous real-world physiological data streams while maintaining sufficient model fidelity for clinical decision support.

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Author commentMar 2026

Stephen Phillips — Healthcare’s Missing Infrastructure: Prevention - article-link post

I've updated the article with expanded analysis and additional research on the infrastructure required to operationalize prevention across data, workflows, reimbursement, and governance.

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Author commentMar 2026

Stephen Phillips — Healthcare’s Missing Infrastructure: Prevention - article-link post

One thing that stood out to me while mapping this architecture is how many pieces already exist. We already have wearables generating continuous signals. We already have increasingly rich biomarker and omics data. We already have AI models that can help with prediction and personalization. What still feels missing is the operating layer that connects those capabilities into real clinical workflows, reimbursement models, and longitudinal care. Curious where others think the biggest bottleneck is right now: clinical workflow integration, reimbursement, interoperability, regulation, or something else?

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Author commentMar 2026

Stephen Phillips — Healthcare’s Missing Infrastructure: Prevention - article-link post

Most of healthcare has built the ability to measure risk. Very little of healthcare has built the ability to act on it longitudinally. The gap is not detection. It’s execution.

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Author comment~Feb 2026

Stephen Phillips — From Reactive Care to Prevention-First Healthspan

Healthspan scales only when measurement is longitudinal, detection is actionable, prevention is reimbursable, ownership is explicit, and workflows support adoption.

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Reply~Dec 2025

Stephen Phillips — Babak Kateb, SBMT and World Brain Mapping Foundation

Excited to partner with an organization that is pushing the boundaries of science, technology, and medicine.

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Stanford University School of Medicine — Personalized prehabilitation coaching before major surgery

*A 2019 meta-analysis found patients undergoing prehabilitation had a 27% lower risk of surgical site infections and cardiopulmonary complications. *Prehabilitation programs consistently report a reduction in LOS by 1–3 days, depending on surgery type and patient risk profile. *Readmission rates drop by 15–30% with effective prehabilitation, particularly by improving physical fitness and nutritional status before surgery. *Hospitals typically see a 10–30% reduction in perioperative costs due to fewer complications, shorter stays, and reduced readmissions. *Patients who undergo prehabilitation report faster return to baseline function and higher quality of life scores up to 6 months post-surgery. Evidence shows that prehabilitation reduces complication / readmission rates, shortens hospital stays, and improves patient outcomes. Despite this, adoption remains limited, in part, due to fragmented clinical workflows and insufficient integration of lifestyle interventions. I am very excited to see this makes its way into surgery!

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Allen Institute / University of California, San Francisco — CellTransformer AI model for neuroscience and mouse-brain mapping

https://alleninstitute.org/news/scientists-create-chatgpt-like-ai-model-for-neuroscience-to-build-detailed-mouse-brain-map/

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