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The Healing Healthtech Mini Accelerator - The Consult - was absolutely incredible. Thrilled to be doing the next ones with Scrub Capital in SF in December and Paulo Machado in Chicago this Spring. I’ll have application links shortly.

I’m going to be experimenting with a bunch of new event formats this year. My theme overall is to distill the most interesting and highest value elements of accelerator programs and community events into high impact, deeply engaging meetups.

If you’ve got an event format that you’d like to experiment with or are interested in volunteering, providing space, or sponsoring a get-together, reach out to me via DM here on Substack.

I’m not the only one cooking though. NYC digital health peers communities Pepper, Health2Tech, OneHealth and many others have a bunch going on these next two months. 40 events total.

-Vadim

🏠 My September and October events

🎧 Just Listen: A zero talking event

• Thu, Sep 10, 6–8 PM · Dumbo, Brooklyn · Free, 20 seats by lottery

  • After two days of intense communication at The Consult, my next event will be the exact opposite.

  • My passion project this summer was to restore a pair of vintage large format Urei studio monitors (big loudspeakers used in recording studio)

  • October 10th, I’ll be setting them up in an acoustically treated space with comfy couches.

  • Zero talking, zero screens allowed.

  • Two surprise albums will be played end-to-end.

  • Bring takeout, bring a book, or just sit.

  • Twenty attendees will be drawn at random from applicants.

🍷 Medicare + Medicaid Founders and Funders Dinner

• Thu, Oct 1, 6–9 PM · Personal penthouse of a 3x IPO’d super-angel, NYC · Approval required

  • Building for the social safety net brings its own challenges, economic, operational, and clinical realities and struggles. Connect with founders and investors building and thriving in that space.

  • Twelve founders and twelve investors will be accepted to participate.

  • Part one will be a mixer-style dinner with a gorgeous view of the city.

  • Part two will bid farewell to the investors and be a group office hours for founders led by an exited YC CEO where we help one another work through our respective hurdles.

  • The founder side is open to any company that has not yet raised a priced seed and serves a predominantly Medicare or Medicaid population.

  • Investor side is open to VCs and angels who have written at least two checks into Medicare or Medicaid-focused value props in the past 24 months.

🗣️ Negotiation for Non-Lawyers

• Thu, Oct 15, Cct 22, 6–9 PM · Tribeca NYC · capped at 25 participants

  • Learn strategies and tactics to become effective at driving negotiations

  • A two-part workshop on the skill most operators assume is innate. I’m proof that it can in-fact be learned.

  • Each evening runs two short didactic sections and two peer role-plays built from real digital health and venture scenarios.

  • I’ve spent years developing and teaching this workshop and have previously taught it to rave reviews at NYU, the SOSA International Accelerator, and many others.

  • This will sell out quickly.

  • $350 per attendee

📑 Priced Round Bootcamp

• Tue, Oct 27, 1–5 PM · Flatiron, NYC · Approval required

  • Raising your first priced round is a completely different beast than stacking SAFEs.

  • Four part afternoon workshop will cover

    • Cap table and data room hygiene

    • Finding, pitching, and closing your first institutional investors

    • Words that matter in a term sheet and deal docs

    • Panel / Q&A with 4 active VCs working at priced seed

  • This workshop / bootcamp is a distillation of the best parts of multiple different programs I’ve run previously to support founders’ first institutional raise.

  • This one is domain agnostic - not just digital health.

Peer community events in NYC Digital Health

⚡ This Week: Sept 1–6

☕ September Healthcare Coffee Meet Up

• Fri, Sep 4, 8:30–10 AM · Laughing Horse Coffee & Tea Co., Harrison · Free

  • One for those in Westchester!

  • Sixth Borough Health’s monthly coffee and co-working session for digital health leaders, run by Julia Bernstein, COO of Brightside Health.

🔥 Week of Sept 7

🍽️ Seed2Table: Pitch + Dinner for Health Tech & AI Investors

• Tue, Sep 8, 5–10 PM · NYC, address on approval · Ticketed, tiers vary

  • A seated pitch dinner with Tower Capital, presented by KPMG.

🏦 The Ecosystem Behind Innovation: The Neion Bio Journey

• Tue, Sep 8, 5:30–8:30 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required

  • The Ford Center Incubator at Rockefeller University with J.P. Morgan, tracing Neion Bio from stealth to a Series A.

  • The founders, their Caffeinated Capital investor, and Rockefeller leadership on the table, moderated by J.P. Morgan.

  • Networking after.

🧬 From Bench to Boardroom: James Rothman on Cellular Logistics

• Tue, Sep 8, 6 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required

  • SOSV brings the Nobel laureate whose vesicle-trafficking work underwrites a generation of nanobiology companies.

  • Conversation with Sean O’Sullivan on what actually converts bench science into a fundable company.

🩺 Health2Tech NYC

• Thu, Sep 10, 5:30–8:30 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required

  • Bailey Morgan, Perrin Joel, and Alex Koshykov’s recurring digital health evening.

  • Investor Panel will include Margette Davidson of Company Ventures, Michelle Wang of Wavemaker 360, and Jesse Gentil of Health Enterprise Partners

🌶️ Pepper NYC Healthtech Founder Meetup

• Thu, Sep 10, 6–8:30 PM · Tap Haus 33, 14 E 33rd St · Free, approval required

  • Founders and operators building in healthcare, drinks and bites covered by Lemma.

🏃 NYC September Run: Bio-Health Athletic Club

• Sat, Sep 12, 10–11:30 AM · Pier 46, Hudson River Park · Free

  • Conversational pace, biotech and healthtech talk, drinks after. All levels.

🔥 Week of Sept 14

🌇 Health Tech Founders & Funders: Rooftop Happy Hour

• Tue, Sep 15, 5–7 PM · NYC, address on approval · Free, approval required

  • Distributed Ventures, Inflect Capital, and Wilson Sonsini putting founders and funders on a roof together.

  • Inflect writes $250K to $2.5M and is backed by a physician group of 8,000 clinicians across 500 sites;

  • Distributed does seed and Series A across health, wealth, and insurance.

  • Curated guest list rather than open door.

⚛️ No Free Lunches: Why Physics Still Matters in an AI-Driven Drug Discovery World

• Wed, Sep 16, 6–8 PM · NYU Silver Building, Rm 32, Waverly Pl · Free

  • The New York Area Group for Informatics and Modeling on where physics-based methods still beat learned ones in drug discovery. Technical room.

🗽 Digital Health NY Summit

• Thu, Sep 17 · Quorum by Convene, 1221 Sixth Ave · Registration by application

  • DHNY’s annual summit.

⚓ Ship It: A Healthcare Software Engineering Conference

• Thu–Fri, Sep 17–18 · NYC · $950, invite-only

  • Out-Of-Pocket’s engineering summit.

  • 80 curated guests,

  • 12 workshops,

  • hands-on sessions on FHIR, HIPAA, and AI. Debates and breakouts rather than hour-long keynotes.

🧠 Materna Mind Series: Managing Anxiety in Pregnancy and Postpartum

• Thu, Sep 17, 6:30–8 PM · Materna Health, 130 7th Ave S

  • Lillian Rishty, LCSW, PMH-C on the 3am spiral and the worry that asking too many questions makes you a difficult patient.

🌍 Project Dandelion: Health is the Headline

• Sun, Sep 20, 2 PM · NYC, address on approval · Approval required

  • Women, climate, and health as one problem rather than three.

  • Opens the Climate Week stretch.

🔥 Week of Sept 21

Climate Week NYC runs Sep 20–27.

🎓 From Lab to Market: Adaptation and Resilience Tech from Universities

• Tue, Sep 22, 8:30 AM–12 PM · Cisco Systems, 1 Penn Plaza · Approval required

  • Tailwind Futures on commercializing university-originated research.

🏛️ The State of Play: How Global Governance Reform Will Reshape Health and Climate

• Tue, Sep 22, 10:30 AM–12 PM · The Sidebar, 134 W 29th St · Private event

  • The global health architecture is currently undergoing significant institutional change, with several parallel reform initiatives underway, including UN80, the WHO Joint Process, and other financing processes, set against a broader backdrop of shifting multilateralism and geopolitics.

  • This is the session that maps them against each other.

🚑 When the Road to Healthcare Is the Barrier

• Tue, Sep 22, 11 AM–12:30 PM · The Sidebar, 134 W 29th St

  • The event looks at SDOH elements of distance, travel time, and unreliable transport as the determinant nobody funds towards healthcare outcomes.

  • Emergency obstetric care and immunization completion will be the worked examples for the conversation.

⚖️ States Under Pressure: Resisting Federal Climate Rollbacks

• Tue, Sep 22, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM · 113 W 60th St · Free

  • ​As the federal government moves to accelerate fossil fuel infrastructure and roll back environmental protections, states, local governments, Tribal nations, and communities are confronting a fundamental question:

  • Who gets to decide what is built, where it is built, and whose health and environment are put at risk?

🌱 From Climate Commitments to Health Impact

• Tue, Sep 22, 4:30–6 PM · The Sidebar, 134 W 29th St

  • The implementation gap between a pledge and a health system that can absorb it.

  • Panel representing academia, government, philanthropy, and industry discuss the path forward.

💪 The Core Truth: Movement, Pelvic Floor, and Birth Prep

• Tue, Sep 22, 6:30–8 PM · Materna Health, 130 7th Ave S

  • Jenny Hoofnagle of Freya Movement Studio on diastasis, prenatal strength, and postpartum recovery.

📰 Newsweek AI Health Summit

• Wed, Sep 23, 7 AM · Newsweek HQ, 1 WTC 72nd Fl · $799

  • Jennifer Cunningham and Alexis Kayser convene hospital leaders on moving AI past isolated pilots.

⚡ AEG NYC Health, Energy & Resilience Action Challenge

• Wed, Sep 23, 11:30 AM–4:30 PM · WSP USA, 250 W 34th St · $295–$2,544, some passes free

  • Advanced Energy Group’s working session with WSP and the NYC Department of Health’s Air Quality program.

  • Gov and nonprofit passes are comped.

🌾 Scaling Resilience through Whole-System Innovation

• Wed, Sep 23, 2–3:15 PM · NYC, address on approval · Approval required

  • REGEN HOUSE on regenerative agriculture inside planetary boundaries.

  • Food-as-health adjacent.

🔀 Shifting Power in Climate and Health

• Thu, Sep 24, 8:30–10 AM · The Sidebar, 134 W 29th St

  • A small working conversation on who decides what gets funded when the expertise sits in the countries bearing the risk and the capital does not.

👵 HITLAB September Digital Health Symposium

• Thu, Sep 24, 11 AM–2 PM · NYC · Registration open

  • Healthy aging, longevity, and caregiver technology.

  • RPM and AI applied to the population that actually generates the spend.

🧘 Mental Health in a Disastrous Climate

• Fri, Sep 25, 11 AM–1 PM · The Climate Imaginarium, Governors Island · $10 suggested, nobody turned away

  • Climate Cafe NYC on converting climate grief into action. Governors Island in late September is its own argument.

🔥 Week of Sept 28

🧫 NewYorkBIO Innovation Summit

• Wed, Sep 30, 8:30 AM–6 PM · Cure, 345 Park Ave S · $99-$800

  • New York’s life science advocacy body running its annual innovation day at Deerfield’s Cure.

🩻 Klinikum+: How AI is Reshaping Medicine

• Wed, Sep 30, 7–9 PM · Manhattan, exact venue to registrants

  • Part two of the Klinikum+ series.

🍂 October

🫂 The Check In: Men’s Mental Health

• Thu, Oct 1, 7–9 PM · Harlem, address on registration

  • Dre Steinberg’s monthly peer circle. Every first Wednesday normally; this one runs Thursday.

👶 The Future of Fertility

• Tue, Oct 6, 9 AM–12 PM · 115 Broadway, FiDi

  • Five experts on where fertility care, law, and coverage are heading. Hosted by IVF Law Group, so the regulatory angle will be sharper than the usual femtech panel.

🧪 Biolabs@NYU Langone Investor & Innovator Exchange

• Tue, Oct 6, 12–7 PM · Hunters Point, Queens, address on approval · Approval required

  • Seven hours of founders and investors in the room at NYU Langone’s incubator. The Sep 15 pitch practice session feeds this.

🍴 AI in Healthcare: From Pilot to Production, An Executive Dinner

• Wed, Oct 7, 6:30–9 PM · Kyma, 15 W 18th St · Free, approval required, 12 seats

  • CIOs and technology executives from regional health systems and payers seated with the CTOs building for them. No slides, no recording, off the record. Will Naylor of Sentro IT hosts.

🤝 Agents on Call: Live AI Agents in Healthcare Ops

• Thu, Oct 8 · Venue TBD · #AIWeekNY

  • Prior auths, intake, and the rest of the operational surface where agents either work or quietly don’t.

🌐 Global Health Congress 2026

• Fri–Sun, Oct 9–11 · The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave · $1,500–$2,500

  • Three days of clinical leaders, innovators, and capital. Priced for institutions.

🔗 2026 Healthix Conference

• Wed, Oct 14, 8:30 AM–4:30 PM · Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl · Ticketed

  • City & State NY convenes New York’s largest health information exchange. If your product touches interoperability in this state, the buyers and the data stewards are both here.

🦠 Gut Feelings: A Panel on the Mind-Body-Belly Connection

• Wed, Oct 14, 6–8 PM · Parsley Health, 126 5th Ave · Registration required

  • Our Kind Therapy and Parsley on the gut-brain axis and the patient whose labs come back normal.

🔬 NY Metro Builds Bio+ 9th Annual Symposium for Life Science Innovation

• Thu, Oct 15, 8 AM · Union League Club, 38 E 37th St · $349

  • The tri-state life sciences economy, including eastern New Jersey and southern Connecticut, treated as one market. Science, real estate, and capital in the same program.

🍸 Fall 2026 Healthcare Happy Hour

• Thu, Oct 15, 5:30–7:30 PM · Moquette, Scarsdale · Free

  • Sixth Borough Health’s first quarterly happy hour. Julia Bernstein again, this time north of the city.

🏆 Medical Innovation Olympics: Live Finals

• Fri, Oct 16 · Rockefeller Center · Attendee $500 early, $650 regular

  • Finals and closing ceremony for the competition whose Sep 18 trials are listed above. Hybrid.

♀️ Claude & Longevity Health

• Sun, Oct 18, 2–5 PM · Everything’s Jake, 54 E 13th St · Free

  • World Menopause Day, framed around femtech, AI, and longevity as a women’s health question. 31 going.

🩺 Health2Tech NYC

• Thu, Oct 22, 5:30–8:30 PM · NYC, address to registrants · Free, approval required

🏥 Smart Technology Transformation in Healthcare (ConV2X)

• Thu, Oct 29, 9 AM · NYC Conference Center at Cornell ILR, 570 Lexington Ave

  • Partners in Digital Health’s summit on smart tech, clinical practice, and policy.

⚙️ Responsible Tech Summit 2026: From Principles to Power

• Thu, Oct 29, 10:30 AM–7:30 PM · The Times Center, 242 W 41st St · $150–$300, approval required

  • All Tech Is Human on moving AI accountability from principle to enforcement. University and nonprofit rate available.

Fifteen NYC events between this weekend and the end of August: happy hours, hackathons, summits, and a picnic. July 30 triple-books you: a mental health summit at NYU Langone by day, then the Central Park picnic or the Out-Of-Pocket happy hour by night.

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Warmly, Vadim

Only new mistakes.

📣 Mine First

🩺 The Consult - Free Mentorship for NYC Healthtech Founders

🗓️ Wed–Thu, Aug 26–27 · NYC · ⏰ Applications due July 30

Intensive mini accelerator for digital health founders who have raised less than $250k and done less than $500k of revenue.

Mentors are some of the best digital health operators and investors in NYC.

Two afternoons of 1:1 mentorship for 30 curated NYC healthcare founders: 18 mentor sessions per team, 40+ operator mentors, six tactical workshops, happy hours to close each day. $0 cost, sponsored by Rho.

🎙️ Right to Exist, Ep. 2: Otto Sipe of Photon Health

30 Minute listen.

Otto Sipe and Photon are building and executing against an incumbent with >95% market share.

Otto watched SureScripts’ closed network block the product his Thirty Madison team wanted to build, so Photon inverts the rail: the prescription goes to the patient, who picks the pharmacy with price, stock, and delivery in view.

In the interview we dig into the strategies and tactics through which Otto found their wedge, moat, and drove their Right to Exist.

📗 How to Own Risk Without Getting Pwned (Part 2 of 2)

20 Minute Read. Part II of my essay and recipe for owning risk.

Part I followed Kinetic Insurance and its story arc living the VC healthtech dream. Kinetic creating and now dominates a new category where it owns risk and drives economic and human outcomes.

Part II uses that framework to look at how 4 very different companies found commercial success with upside and downside risk in pregnancy (Fetal Pillow, Maven Clinic, Pomelo Care, Ouma + MedArrive),

Part II closes with a nine-question diligence memo for scoring any healthtech company in thirty minutes.

⚡ This Week: July 19–24

🎛️ Sound and Movement Hackathon

Sun, Jul 19 · Fractal Tech, Brooklyn · Free

Music Community Lab’s day of building music through gesture and dance: artist talks, workshop, open presentations at 7:30 PM.

🎤 Pitch Your Way Into the Hacker House

Mon, Jul 20 · Brown Rudnick, NYC · Free, pitching invite-only

~5 curated pre-seed frontier-AI founders, 3-minute pitches with live VC Q&A, and a fast track into the OnlyExit Seattle hacker house cohort.

💼 My Worst Day as a CFO

Tue, Jul 21 · NYC · Finance leaders only

The NY Tech CFO Group’s panel with the CFOs of Public.com and Lerer Hippeau on the misses and crises that shaped how they lead. Four spots remained when I saved the page.

🍹 Multi-School Summer Mixer

Wed, Jul 22 · Rooftop, NYC · Waitlist

Alumni clubs of Berkeley, Brown, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Oxford, Stanford, UChicago, and more on one rooftop. 500 going.

💄 AI-Native Women: Beauty, Health, Wellness

Wed, Jul 22 · G-Gallery, NYC · Free / $15 guaranteed spot

Build a Claude Projects brand assistant live in the room, then a panel on AI in trend intelligence, sales enablement, and GTM.

🦷 Convergence Health Summit NYC

Fri, Jul 24 · AIC Wall Street, NYC · $250

An all-day summit judging innovation on implementation readiness, reimbursement alignment, and adoption feasibility, with dentistry and oral-systemic health at the center of the room.

🔥 Week of July 26

🛠️ Builders NYC Demo Day: Roast & Roast

Sun, Jul 26 · Fractal Tech, Brooklyn · Free

A morning demo day where builders present real projects and half-baked ideas, then take 3-5 minutes of honest feedback and lighthearted roasting over coffee.

📄 Papers We Love Brooklyn: DeepSeek-R1

Wed, Jul 29 · Mindspace Williamsburg, Brooklyn · Free

Espresso AI’s Edwin Jain walks through the DeepSeek-R1 paper on reinforcement-learned reasoning, for engineers who like their LLM claims with methods sections.

🙏 5th Annual Faith Summit: Mental Health is Physical Health

Thu, Jul 30, 8 AM–3:30 PM · NYU Langone, 550 1st Ave · Few tickets left

The Institute for Excellence in Health Equity’s day-long summit bringing community members, clinicians, and faith leaders together on mental health stigma, access, and support.

🌳 NY’s Healthcare & Lifesci Central Park Social

Thu, Jul 30, 5–8 PM · Central Park · BYO blankets & beverages

One Health Collective’s fourth annual Central Park edition of its ~250-person quarterly ecosystem gathering: clinicians, startups, pharma, payers, investors.

🍻 Out-Of-Pocket x Bunkerhill Health Happy Hour

Thu, Jul 30, 5:30–8:30 PM · Location TBD · Approval required

A small, curated group of FDEs, product people, and consultants building in healthcare, from Nikhil Krishnan’s Out-Of-Pocket crew and Bunkerhill Health.

☀️ August

🤖 Build with Gemma NYC: On-Device AI for Healthcare

Sat, Aug 1, 10 AM–6 PM · NYC · Free, $2,000 prize pool

Bond AI’s one-day hackathon on Google’s Gemma 4 models, built for healthcare’s privacy constraints: voice for care, agentic admin copilots, fully offline patient-data tools. Beginners welcome.

🚀 NYC HealthTech Launchathon

Sat–Sun, Aug 1–2, 9 AM–6 PM · NYC · $50 early bird by application, $250 regular

MedStartr’s two-day launchathon hosted by Alex Fair: form teams and find a problem worth solving on day one, build on day two, then every project continues into a MedStartr.ai showcase and a Founder’s Day with investors.

🧬 Biotech Happy Hour with 2048 Ventures × Rho

Wed, Aug 5, 5:30–7:30 PM · Brown Rudnick, NYC

A mid-summer break for the NY biotech community. No slides, no agenda; drinks sponsored by Rho.

🩺 Health2Tech NYC

Thu, Aug 20, 5:30–8:30 PM · NYC · Approval required

An investor panel (”Beyond Borders”) and two hours of networking, hosted by Bailey Morgan, Christopher Martinez, and Alex Koshykov with Orrick as partner.

🗺️ Make-With-Data: Mapping Mental Health

Thu, Aug 27, 5:30–7:30 PM · Pier 57, 25 11th Ave · Donation-based

Edenas Children’s workshop teaching mapping and data-science skills in service of community mental-health challenges.

Healthtech venture is hard, a fact I’ve learned firsthand as an operator, accelerator director, and investor. I’ve watched too many good teams repeat avoidable mistakes others have already paid for. I write Healing Healthtech to distill research and the experiences of top-tier operators into actionable tactics and frameworks, so we can all aim to make only new mistakes.

• Part 1 covers what I published this month on Substack.

• Part 2 covers NYC Healthtech events that I’m hosting.

• Parts 3 covers the most impactful and informative things that I read in the past month.

• Part 4 covers other NYC healthtech events worth a spot on your calendar.

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✍️ Part 1 — What I Wrote This Month

• 🎬 Venture Funding for Fun and Profit - Part 1 The Narrative — Free — 20 minutes

  • The heart of this video is how to build a successful pitch deck for raising angel and preseed funding.

  • More broadly, its a workshop that I’ve given many times focusing on the meta narrative that creates a fundable company.

  • My approach to pitch decks and narrative works - 80% of my final 12-team accelerator cohort raised follow-on funding within 3 months of graduation. One got into YC and another has already exited. Historically, we had 300+ teams raise 2.7B into 44 exits.

• 📊 Join an Accelerator or Nah? — Free — 10 minute read

  • When a program is worth the equity and when it isn’t; the comet distribution of accelerator outcomes, the hedging-accelerator model, two diligence checks for founder, and my advice from getting the most out of a program that you decide to participate in.

• 💰 Venture Funding for Fun and Profit - Part 2 The Process — Paid — 45 minute read

  • Deep dive into the process of running an effective raise.

  • How to find, qualify, engage with, and close angels and early funds.

  • How to measure and re-calibrate your raise against benchmarks as you go.

  • I combine my own anecdotal experiences, data from Docsend, Carta, and Angellist, along with the writings of the best venture investors of the past 20 years into a deeply actionable and practical field guide.

• 📱 SMS vs. Apps for Effective Digital Health Interventions — Paid — ~30 min

  • A field guide on when to reach for SMS versus an app in chronic care, built from 75+ clinical trials and operators who delivered at population scale.

• 🏛️ Anthropic’s Future Looks More Like Oracle Than Google — Free — ~15 min

  • Argues open weights are compressing frontier API margins, with OpenAI on a Cisco path and Anthropic on an Oracle one, and what that means for healthtech builders.

• ⚖️ Will My SMS Architecture Survive Scrutiny or Create Liability? — Free — ~5 min

  • The free, abbreviated edition of the SMS field guide: the four regulatory regimes governing healthcare SMS and six tripwires that turn a compliant program into a class action.

📅 Part 2 — My Events This Month

• 🍽️ Self-Funded Employer Founders & Funders Dinner | Tribeca, New York City

  • If you’re building or investing in angel or pre-seed self-funded employer healthcare, please apply to attend. Sponsored by Rho.

  • Historically, 70%+ of the founders at my F&F dinners have follow-on meetings after the event with 1 or 2 checks resulting.

  • 🗓️ Tuesday, July 7, 2026

• ⌚ HealthTech Watch Club | TIME+TIDE Watches NYC, 460 Broome St, New York City

  • One Health Collective x MarkOne Health x Time+Tide gather NYC’s healthcare-ecosystem watch enthusiasts for horology, no pitches. Wear your most interesting mechanical, automatic, or quartz piece (no smartwatches).

  • 🗓️ Thursday, June 25, 2026

✍️ Part 3 — The Best Things I Read in Healthtech This Month

• 📉 340B Wasn’t Stolen From Rural Hospitals. It Was Built On Their Graves. — — ~15 min

  • Follows where the 340B spread actually landed, naming five publicly traded chains and PBMs rather than the safety-net communities Congress wrote the program for, plus the dual-classification loophole that let urban hospitals qualify as rural.

• 🐄 How Farmers are Smarter than Doctors — — ~3 min

  • Uses livestock veterinary practice to show how far human medicine lags on women’s reproductive and vaginal health.

  • This one really isn’t as off-color as it might seem. A founding patriarch of reproductive endocrinology once gleefully walked me through how both the devices and procedures in his field owe more to animal husbandry than human medicine.

  • Lara is a heck of a clinician scientist and well worth the follow and read.

• 🏗️ It’s time to build (in Medicaid) — — ~13 min

  • Makes the operator case for building inside an $880B program most founders avoid, with field notes on navigating the bureaucracy.

  • Youssef isn’t an idle bystander. As healthtech investment principal at AlleyCorp, he led investments into several current rocket ships in the portfolio that work with Medicaid-heavy panels, including Altitude, Birches, and Stepful.

• 🧠 Mental Health AI Is Operating Without Clinically-Informed Safety Standards. That Should Alarm Us — — ~15 min

  • Proposes a seven-part architecture of enforceable safety standards for mental health AI, grounded in documented patient deaths and existing clinical frameworks like ASL-MH.

• 🩺 The Dangerous Practitioner: on miscalibrated confidence in medicine — Graham Walker MD — ~10 min

  • Defines the “dangerous” clinician as one whose confidence outruns competence with no outward signal of the gap, and shows why medicine’s safety systems (consults, escalation, supervision) all depend on someone recognizing where their competence ends. The calibration frame maps directly onto the question of when to trust a confident AI.

  • I’m placing this Scott and Graham’s piece above right next to Byron’s piece on purpose, as a counterpoint: the case for caution right before the case for urgency.

• 💊 Our Penicillin Moment — — ~7 min

  • Argues the evidence for medical AI’s benefit is now strong enough that continued delay carries its own moral cost.

  • Byron is CMO of Doctronic, which runs the first state-approved autonomous AI prescription program in the U.S., currently limited to prescription renewals in Utah under a graduated-autonomy model.

• 🎓 The Old World Is Dying — — ~12 min

  • Career advice for the class of 2026 entering an AI-disrupted job market, useful for anyone weighing where durable work comes from.

  • I graduated during the last recession and now teach digital health venture design to graduate students pursuing MPA, MHA, and MPH degrees. Like many, I’ve been struggling with what to advise new alums in the face of AI emergence. This piece reached me by way of Youssef (above).

• 💸 How much I’ve made angel investing — an update — — ~5 min

  • Publishes a full deal-by-deal angel track record (0.89x cash returned on $2.9M across 53 investments) and benchmarks it against Carta fund data, a rare unvarnished look at returns.

  • Halle is easily the best-connected US healthtech angel of the past 25 years, and her openness about portfolio performance (or lack thereof) is badass.

  • Get her book.

📅 Part 4 — NYC Healthtech Community Events

• 🤖 Healthcare in the Age of AI | New York City

  • UJA’s Healthcare Division hosts a panel on how AI is reshaping care across clinical, technical, and business functions.

  • 🗓️ Monday, June 15, 2026

• 🏛️ Civic Health Forum 2026 | Civic Hall, New York City

  • A half-day convening of providers, policymakers, investors, and founders built around one question: how do we keep people healthy before they enter the healthcare system? Co-hosted by Fedcap, Digital Health Hub Foundation, and StartUp Health.

  • 🗓️ Tuesday, June 16, 2026

• 🍹 NY–IL Digital Health Community Happy Hour | New York City

  • An evening bringing together Israelis and allies building healthcare software, with rapid-fire startup pitches alongside the drinks and networking.

  • 🗓️ Wednesday, June 17, 2026

• ❤️ An Evening of Courage, Connection & Purpose (KuraHealth) | New York City

  • An intimate talk on grief and resilience at the residence of economist Nouriel Roubini, featuring Kevin Hines, one of the few to survive a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge.

  • 🗓️ Thursday, June 18, 2026

• 🎨 Art in the Education Lab: “The Shape of Memory” by Maya Ciarrocchi | New York City

  • The unveiling of the 2026 Art in the Education Lab commission by artist Maya Ciarrocchi.

  • 🗓️ Thursday, June 18, 2026

• 🥂 The Art of emPOWERment: Ultimate FO Happy Hour | New York City

  • The 13th event in the Art of Empowerment series, a curated family-office happy hour where founders, allocators, and investors discuss where they put capital and energy to work. Hosted with EisnerAmper.

  • 🗓️ Thursday, June 18, 2026

• 😎 Summer Chill (HIVE) | New York City

  • A HIVE healthcare networking evening for clinicians, administrators, and healthcare leaders built around intentional conversation and connection.

  • 🗓️ Thursday, June 18, 2026

• 🧠 BrainHealth: VC Panel + GTM Bootcamp | FINN Partners, 1675 Broadway, Midtown NYC

  • A practical session on go-to-market strategy for brain-health innovation, with lessons from CEOs and institutional BrainHealth VCs. Moderated by Richard Hatzfeld of FINN Partners.

  • 🗓️ Monday, June 22, 2026

• 🚀 AI Engineers Presents: Founders to Follow | New York City

  • Intimate conversations with NYC startup founders about their journeys, including Tyler Johnson (Tennr) and Aditya Maru (Blacksmith).

  • 🗓️ Wednesday, June 24, 2026

• ⚖️ Digital Health Market NYC Symposium | Nixon Peabody, 55 W 46th St, New York City

  • A CTeL and Nixon Peabody roundtable bringing together digital health leaders, investors, and policymakers on the regulatory, data, and AI deployment dynamics shaping market growth and M&A.

  • 🗓️ Thursday, June 25, 2026

• 🌇 Pepper Community Hang: Vessel Sunset Walk + Tapas | Vessel, Hudson Yards, New York City

  • A golden-hour walk around the Vessel followed by tapas and drinks, hosted by Pepper NYC’s health/tech community.

  • 🗓️ Thursday, June 25, 2026

• 💻 Healthcare x AI Hackathon | NYC | New York City

  • A 1.5-day hands-on hackathon to build real AI tools and agents for healthcare, for engineers, PMs, and founders working in regulated spaces. Partners include Baseten, Lovable, ElevenLabs, Upfront Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, and Aegis Ventures.

  • 🗓️ Friday–Saturday, June 26–27, 2026

• 🏙️ Health Tech Startup Networking Rooftop Happy Hour | New York City

  • Rooftop networking for health tech startup professionals over drinks and skyline views.

  • 🗓️ Tuesday, June 30, 2026

• 🧬 NeuroNYC GP/LP Happy Hour | New York City

  • A curated evening for GPs and LPs active in or exploring neurotech, mental health, brain-computer interface, and neurodegenerative disease, held the night before the NeuroTech Summit.

  • 🗓️ Wednesday, July 15, 2026

• 🌟 Health2Tech NYC | New York City

  • An exclusive digital health gathering hosted by Bailey Morgan, with a guest talk and extended networking.

  • 🗓️ Thursday, July 16, 2026

• ⚓ Ship It 2026 (Healthcare Software Engineering Conference) | New York City

  • An invite-only Out-Of-Pocket summit for software engineers in healthcare: 80 curated guests, 12 hands-on workshops, and tactical talks over panels. Two-plus years of healthcare experience expected.

  • 🗓️ Thursday–Friday, September 17–18, 2026

  • ⏰ Deadline to apply: July 1, 2026