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Amen Clinics puts a picture at the center of psychiatry
Daniel Amen built a national clinic network around the promise of seeing the brain. The appeal is easy to understand. The argument over what those pictures prove is harder to settle.
Health-E Commerce built a business on money you might lose
FSA Store turned the confusion around tax-free health benefits into a shopping business. Now its parent company is moving from the medicine cabinet into virtual care.
Henry DePhillips Put the House Call on a Screen - Then Followed the Data
Before virtual care became ordinary, Henry DePhillips was arguing that convenience still needed clinical discipline. His career traces healthcare's long migration from the exam room to the screen, and from the screen to the spreadsheet.
AdvancedMD Bet on the Boring Machinery of Medicine - Then Sold for $1.13 Billion
The company began with a medical office manager who was fed up with clumsy billing software. Twenty-five years later, its single-database bet runs the daily machinery of 13,000 practices - and reveals both the appeal and the cost of buying the whole stack.
Noom Took Nine Years to Find Its Formula. Then Ozempic Rewrote the Recipe.
The company that taught dieters to examine their habits is now prescribing medicine, scanning faces and mailing blood-test kits. Its second reinvention asks whether behavior change can remain the product when the drug works faster.
Qualifacts Built a Behavioral-Health EHR Empire. The Bet Is That Three Platforms Beat One.
Qualifacts assembled three EHRs for three different kinds of behavioral-health provider. Now it is using AI, interoperability, and targeted acquisitions to turn that portfolio into something closer to an operating system for care.
The Psychiatrist Who Refused to Make Mental Health Fit a Medical Checkbox
Valant spent two decades turning one psychiatrist’s frustration with generic software into an operating system for behavioral-health practices. Its advantage is specialization - and its history shows the cost of wandering away from it.
Maven Clinic Spent a Decade Selling Women’s Health to Bosses. Now It’s Coming Back for Everyone
Maven’s first consumer clinic arrived before patients were ready. Employers funded the long detour - and 28 million covered lives later, the company is reopening the front door with a broader bet on women’s health.
Caregility Put a Second Nurse in the Room - Without Adding Another Pair of Shoes
Hospitals bought telehealth cameras during the pandemic. Caregility is trying to turn that hardware into a new labor model - one virtual nurse, many rooms, and fewer clerical miles for the people at the bedside.
Ian Shaffer Built a Career Between the Exam Room and the System
For decades, the physician executive moved between clinical practice, corporate operations and public policy - turning frontline judgment into programs built to work at scale.
The Mental-Health Company You Used Without Knowing It - and the Cost of Disappearing Into the Parent Brand
For decades, MHN sat between an insurance card and a therapist's door. Then Health Net moved much of the machinery under its own name - a case study in what happens when a useful company becomes infrastructure.
Matthew Wetschler Treats Company-Building Like a Creative Practice
The Plume co-founder took a scenic route through art, athletics, public service, medicine and startups. The thread connecting it all is a stubborn belief that systems should be designed around the people who actually use them.
Andrew Flanagan Is Making Telehealth Disappear
The Iris Telehealth CEO has spent a career turning technology into ordinary infrastructure. The idea at its center is simple: virtual care wins when nobody has to call it virtual anymore.
Jeff Beck Put the Clinician in the Room - Even When the Room Is Miles Away
A social worker, a school clinician and a string of 7 a.m. Panera meetings became AnswersNow. Jeff Beck's useful obsession is turning scarce expertise into support families can actually reach.
Sandra Abrevaya Knows How to Turn a Public Mission Into an Operating System
Before she built a company, Sandra Abrevaya learned how power actually moves - through campaigns, coalitions, city halls and the stubborn work of getting people into the same room.
Nicholas Barbara Is Building for the Other 167 Hours
A product operator and a speech therapist built Expressable around a stubborn idea: progress depends on what happens between appointments. Nicholas Barbara's job has been turning that insight into a company that can travel.
Peter Arn Learned to Make Growth Wait
The ROMTech co-founder built his playbook around unglamorous things: listening closely, testing early, raising patiently and knowing when more revenue is the wrong answer.
Suzie Devine Built BINTO by Treating Confusion as a Product Brief
The Philadelphia nurse-turned-founder built a company from questions nobody owned - then learned that the durable kind of growth begins when you stop confusing motion with progress.
Anna Lindow Built for the Patients the Startup Playbook Forgot
She took lessons from media, education and one stubborn Miami launch, then built a national company around an unfashionable question: who gets left out when convenience becomes the product?
Bruno Van Tuykom Is Building for the Patient the Market Forgot
An electrical engineer learned to see access as a systems problem. Now he and co-founder Amy Fan are turning an unfashionable constraint - serving people commonly ignored by digital care - into Twentyeight Health's operating design.
Tiffany Mullen Left the 10-Minute Visit and Built a Company Around Time
The Vytal Health founder traded a large health system for the unruly work of building a company - and made the unscalable act of listening the center of its model.
DoctorHere Learned Telehealth's Hard Lesson: Sometimes the Winning App Is a Clinic
The Korean-American health startup began by putting doctors on a screen. Its more revealing move was opening doors in Manhattan, New Jersey and inside major employers - a hybrid-care playbook built around access, continuity and the stubborn usefulness of a room.
Opción YO Thought Spanish Was the Product. Culture Built the $4.5 Million Business.
The Miami platform began as a marketplace for Spanish-speaking therapists. Its sharper insight - that migration, family and identity shape care - turned cultural fluency into a five-stage subscription business.
Onto Health Bet $28 Million That Fertility Care Should Start Before the Panic
Most fertility businesses sell a treatment after something goes wrong. Onto Health is trying to sell clarity earlier - then use clinics, software and a $20 million Series A to carry patients through what comes next.
Carenet Health Turned Healthcare’s Messiest Phone Calls Into a 500-Client Operating System
Carenet’s bet is that the most expensive gap in American healthcare is often a missed call, a confusing benefit or an appointment never booked. It sells the people, software and clinical workflows to close that gap - at a scale that now reaches one in three Americans.
Embla Wants Employers to Buy Less GLP-1 - and Better Weight Care
The Danish-founded health company built a weight-care business around an unfashionable proposition: the expensive drug should be a temporary tool, not the entire product. Its next test is whether a 2,694-person real-world study can persuade American benefits buyers.
THREAD Moved the Clinical Trial to the Patient's Kitchen Table
For decades a clinical trial meant a patient driving to a site. THREAD bet the visit could come to them instead - and then bought four companies to prove it.
GrandPad Built a Tablet for the People Silicon Valley Forgot - and Found a Business in the Friction
A failed family video call became a contrarian product brief: fewer choices, no passwords and a human on call. GrandPad shows what happens when accessibility is treated as the whole business, not a settings menu.
BeCareLink Put a Neurologic Exam in Your Pocket - Now It Has to Prove the Data Travels
A family tragedy sent two founders after one of medicine's most subjective rituals. Their bet: short phone tests can make the months between neurology visits visible - if patients, doctors and drug developers trust the measurements.
Vytal Health Bet Patients Would Pay to Be Heard - Then Built a $300-a-Month Alternative to the 10-Minute Visit
The Milwaukee telehealth practice asks patients to pay outside insurance for time, continuity and deeper testing. Its early obstacle was convincing people that a video visit could still feel human; its sharper 2026 answer is a two-tier membership with unusually clear boundaries.