Announcing…OUR HEALTHCARE HARDWARE HACKATHON!

Hello everyone! I am back from JPMorgan with a bunch of notes from my conversations while out there. Lots of cool stuff is happening in wearables particularly, which is why…

We’re very excited to announce our NEW upcoming hackathon focused on using hardware in healthcare.

Details below.

But first…LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR HEALTHCARE 101 LEARNING SUMMIT!

No PRESSURE…but, TODAY is the last day to sign up for our Healthcare 101 Learning Summit in New York (happening 1/29 - 1/30)

Allow me to get you or your employees up to speed quickly on healthcare. We’re going to teach you the basics of how healthcare works, the trends that matter, and you’ll meet some awesome people. 

We’re gonna go through everything from all the different payers, how pharma works, value-based care ops, are providers really as broke as they say they are, wait what are PBMs, and more!!!

Realistically idk if we’re going to run this one again, so if you want to come this is your chance.

You can sign up here, or email sales@outofpocket.health for a group discount. But it’s for real the last day!!

Healthcare Hardware Hackathon Applications are officially open

Our next hackathon is going to be in SF on 4/17 - 4/19!!!! You can learn more and apply here.

Also we put a ton of time into making this very cool site, please click it.

This hackathon is going to be focused on hardware in healthcare. Hardware is having its moment - we’re seeing more wearables, smart glasses, ambient listening pins, and more. We think there are some cool applications to be built on it.

Come to our hackathon where we’ll be combining hardware with AI tools to build healthcare applications in a weekend. You don’t need previous experience building with hardware.

We’ll supply the wearables, Raspberry Pis, AI tools, healthcare experts, and copious energy drinks. You show up with the building spirit. You don’t need healthcare experience or experience with hardware.

It’s a ton of fun, just google “Out-Of-Pocket Hackathon” and you’ll see all the nice things people say about it. It’s a fantastic way to meet other builders, get hands on with new tools + support to use them, and think of the most “out there” ideas with no pressure from the constraints of your day job.

You can see past projects on the site and apply here. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE 2/9, but you should fill them out sooner than later.

If you want to learn more about sponsorship, email sales@outofpocket.health. We’ve had a lot of awesome sponsors in the past, and you’d be a particularly good fit if you:

1. Have a piece of hardware or AI software that you want people to build on + showcase healthcare use cases.
2. Are an agency that helps customers build with devices/hardware/AI
3. Are trying to recruit people that are smart and high agency.

If you have any other questions about the event, email events@outofpocket.health

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Our new FREEEEEE Revenue Cycle course

Very excited about this one - announce a FREE course we're doing about Revenue Cycle Management for digital health companies with Joyful Health

I can't tell you the number of companies I've talked to that have issues with their collections or denials because they don't think about RCM as an end-to-end process from contracting, to intake, to claims, to collections. All of these pieces are deeply interconnected, so you need to know how they interact.

This course will teach you how billing actually works, common ways things start breaking as you scale (so you can get ahead of it), and real-world case studies of how companies dealt with billing challenges you should come

It's going to be virtual, 2/10 - 2/12 from 12-130 PM ET. You can sign up here: https://www.outofpocket.health/courses/intro-to-revenue-cycle-management-fundamentals-for-digital-health

Okay that’s all for now! We have a ton more exciting things in the pipeline for you all, they’re coming soon

Thinkboi out,

Nikhil aka. Hard for hardware

Twitter: ​@nikillinit​

IG: ​@outofpockethealth​

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