"hi I'm Hannah and welcome to the a 16z podcast our bio fun team often wonders if one day in the future we might be shocked that we once relied only on something as backwards and often toxic as pills f..."

"episode on digital health includes Omata health CEO Sean Duffy a 16 Z partner Vijay Pandey and is moderated by our own malinka well Elliott a maybe we'll start with what is digital health it's a prett..."

"of software in healthcare where software has to be a solution to make the big change versus kind of a second order of operations to make something real yeah the way I see it especially is that softwar..."

"new ways as well and in digital adjuncts where it's digital is a complement to something that could be a you know a drug it amplifies the outcome that you're working to achieve I think historically wh..."

"accommodate there were a whole host of new you know regulatory pathways that had to be created there is a you know commercialization pathways manufacturing pathways ways to inject and administer the m..."

"type 2 diabetes these are behavioral problems for which our behavioral solution is very natural you know I can imagine that there will be things for which digital therapy just don't make any sense lik..."

"to be talking about that and so for behavioral problems of behavioral solution is very natural well yeah I completely agree and it's you know it's I think it's very hard to find someone who doesn't ag..."

"the part I think that's particularly intriguing is that we can assess efficacy using basically identical metrics have they been head-to-head comparisons against existing pharmaceutical products in the..."

"oh for sure and you might even imagine that when drugs were commercialized if there's nuances to the medication that require behavioral support you know maybe the pills really big and it tastes bad ma..."

"this transformative new wave in you know in behavioral medicine it's also intriguing I think culturally people are very comfortable texting and you actually might be much more comfortable texting a st..."

"can do that through measurement yeah I mean you look at what we don't we've amassed about eleven and a half million weight readings it's the largest longitudinal data set of these sorts of programs in..."

"them as internal randomized controlled trials where we reduce the latency with which we gave people feedback on the food after they entered it in that section of the program were that's most relevant ..."

"was one that was really counterintuitive but it's still very new it's it's difficult for those in the traditional healthcare system to wrap their mind around this they don't completely get it yet what..."

"sense clinically for the person it just needs to be done in a way that actually delivers a result which increasingly companies are doing traditional medicine had it's a long history of dealing with sn..."

"on face to face interactions with pcps between PCBs and patients or what do you think about the concern that we're losing something here by by you know reducing the amount of that face to face interac..."

"there are people who actually would prefer yes type of interaction yeah I agree in addition to creating really rich feel for users you can actually add efficiency and efficacy because you can use data..."

"sometimes when it's you know so when it's when it's off it doesn't cross the uncanny valley closer to r2d2 exactly close to r2d2 because you can't you've got a like its first principles of like social..."

"like health system to do that I know this because of a real interesting point what do you think about startups innovating within the existing healthcare system versus being completely outside well it'..."

"accelerating them exactly and having them do so much more I'm pretty sure we'll see that first just like you don't think a word process over the grammar checker it's gonna replace a writer anytime soo..."

"that we've been talking i think implicitly about a sort of a us or at least first world approach to healthcare and there's a lot more of the globe than just the US and you know when i think about othe..."

"I think that'll that'll start to happen in certain kind of pockets especially pockets where the current existing healthcare in the u.s. might be just slightly uncomfortable with like how different som..."

"more fulfilling profession yeah absolutely my friends that go into the profession they go there to save people yeah not to do paperwork or not to that make sense so let's maybe let's shift over a litt..."

"figure out how to use their existing infrastructure to do this in a different way as a for instance prices on outcomes I think digital companies are better equipped to do that because they're better a..."

"the enterprise healthcare can be tough because it's a very appropriately risk-averse buying market I mean yet they want to make sure to do right by their members their patient's etcetera so the areas ..."

"that's a little bit of an oversimplification I mean vaccines are preventive you know the US has something called the US Preventive Services Task Force which is one of the most illustrious like positio..."

"bio and software what do you think the next few years look like it'll be a lot of infrastructure building I think the you know more companies are gonna continue to realize that evidence is gonna be im..."