Crossroads by Alantra – Details, episodes & analysis

Don Levy, Managing Director in Transaction Advisory Services at Kroll, joins David Waldstein, Managing Director, Industrials, Aerospace & Defense at Alantra, to discuss common challenges in M&A processes in the Industrials sector, emphasizing key issues such as time, financial projections, and sell-side due diligence.

Gadi Lachman, Founder and CEO of TriNetX, joins Frederic Laurier, Managing Director at Alantra, to delve into the essential role Real-World Data (RWD) plays in revolutionizing the healthcare industry. From unraveling the essence of RWD to illustrating its tangible impact through real-life examples, Gadi showcases TriNetX’s profound influence on pharmaceutical companies. TriNetX has continuously expanded its data repository while optimizing its customers’ clinical trial success, from protocol design to site selection, to patient recruitment.

Collaboration between payers and providers has not only technological but also behavioral roadblocks. Dan Wilson, Founder & CEO of Moxe Health, joins Frederic Laurier at Alantra to discuss overcoming historical trust issues between the two, how he has built a purely digital business in a historically services-oriented Release of Information (ROI) subsector, the Datavant / Ciox merger, his provider subsidization model, and the importance of fast implementations in healthcare IT.

The concept of scoring and normalizing health assessments, similar to FICO in FinTech, is being explored to establish a global standard for health. Peter Ohnemus, serial entrepreneur and CEO & Founder of Dacadoo, joins Alantra to discuss how his design for digital health assessments aids dynamic pricing for Life & Health Insurance, and the importance of digital health engagement in a member's lifetime.

Healthcare data as we know it today is siloed. Ardy Arianpour, CEO & Co-Founder of SEQSTER, joins Frederic Laurier at Alantra to discuss data refinement, standardization, and tokenization to pull various data sources into one place, how a digital front door impacts clinical trial dropout rates, and opportunities to incorporate other sources of medical data in the future.

Gerianne DiPiano, founder and CEO of FemmePharma joins Rusty Ray to discuss Consumer and Healthcare Practitioner education around Women’s Health topics, as well as industry trends.

Like AWS and Azure did for cloud, BrightInsight is building the infrastructure needed for digital health solutions. Kal Patel, CEO of BrightInsight, joins Frederic Laurier at Alantra to discuss digital adoption within pharma and medical device companies, how digital solutions help reduce patient churn, FDA regulations regarding Software-as-a-Medical Device (SaMD), and BrightInsight’s spending strategy in the current fundraising environment.

Women’s Health is an emerging market, and one that is still largely undefined today. Topics like menopause, vaginal health, or sexual wellness are sometimes still considered Taboo and avoided in conversations.

Sally Mueller, Co-Founder of Womaness, a Women’s Health brand pioneering the menopause category, joins Alantra to discuss the founding of her company and how trends are shaping the industry.

Over the last decade, virtual care has witnessed explosive growth. Drew Turitz, SVP of Corporate Development at Teladoc, joins Frederic Laurier at Alantra to discuss the increasing adoption of telehealth, its acceptance by payors and providers, M&A as a strategy to enter new markets, acquisition opportunities in 2023, and the development of value-based care.

Interoperability has been a major topic in Digital Health for over a decade, but initial progress was slow and enabling technologies have only taken off in the last few years.

Joe Gagnon, CEO of 1upHealth, a fast-growing data interoperability vendor, joins Alantra for a discussion on its evolution, namely the FHIR standard, how payers and ACOs are acting as agents of change, the potential for collaboration among Digital Health vendors, and how interoperability platforms could evolve over time into ecosystems.