healthlink

🔥It took 2 men with AI and 20K, 2 years to scale a reported healthcare unicorn This week, a compelling story broke of how an AI-enabled "telehealth" startup scaled in 2 years to a reported $400M revenue. It has been making its rounds and excitedly shared with me by juniors and doctors that I mentor. It undeniably signals something truly exciting. AI is compressing the time, cost, and talent traditionally required to build and scale healthcare businesses. These are unprecedented times. However, in healthcare, speed comes with trade-offs. Alongside the growth narrative are equally important signals, with questions around deceptive marketing practices, regulatory gaps, and patient privacy violations. This is where many new innovators underestimate the domain. Healthcare is not "just another market" for entrepreneurs. 1. You are not just acquiring users. You are influencing patient decisions. 2. You are not just scaling software. You are designing care pathways for individuals while managing clinical risk. 3. You are not just iterating products. You are operating within regulated medical frameworks that provide protections for individuals. The “move fast and break things” playbook may work in consumer tech, but not in healthcare. Here, what breaks can be patient safety, public trust, and legal boundaries. We are entering an era where a single individual can build at unprecedented scale with tools like Claude and other AI systems. That is powerful. But the bar in healthcare is higher. Clinical safety, medical ethics, data governance, transparency, and regulatory alignment are not constraints, they are pillars of the product and moat. For new builders entering healthcare I would say this: Move fast, but validate faster, govern early, and design for patient safety from day one. Because in healthcare, how you build matters just as much as what you build. Links👇

Thank you @ApeComms and @HodlrCollective for the shout out of our AIP-374 thats ongoing voting till this valentines day! Look forward to joining y'all next week 😁 @healthlink_ @oceanprotocol – at Central Region, Singapore

Oops! Missed our AIP going up for voting while I was travelling 🇯🇵 We are looking to bring healthcare utility for all $APE stakers eith premium benefits for Apes, Doggos, Kodas, otherdeed NFT holders and more. Appreciate any support especially from anyone that would like to see some IRL benefits from these bags!🙏🏻 @machibigbrother @MocaverseNFT @BalouBAYC @baycsg @UKApeClub @HorizenLabs @KapitalCrypto snapshot.org/#/apecoin.eth/p… – at Central Region, Singapore

WEN UTILITY Maybe, Eye tests in the Metaverse? 👀 The WHO estimates 1 billion individuals globally have preventable Visual Impairment (VI). VI is increasing due to trends of increasing screen usage ang aging populations. Pleased to share our study evaluating a novel screening tool leveraging a Metaverse platform for the detection of visual field defects, a form of visual impairment. The Metaverse and other immersive media have the potential to aggravate trends in VI. Unfortunately, many patients with VI may not be aware and as a result, do not seek care - which can lead to irreversible loss of vision. Therefore, we developed this test in an effort to counter these trends. We sought to harness the immersive and distributed nature of the Metaverse to improve ease of access to this and other future upcoming functional eye screening tests in the works.