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If you haven’t checked out STAT’s new weekly video series led by multimedia legend Alex Hogan, I can’t recommend it enough. Today’s video is about Semler Scientific — the medical device company that recently pivoted to bitcoin. Click for the digestible breakdown of why the heck they did that. But stay to see the strange and unsolicited AI-generated cartoon rendering of the reporting team as Ghibli characters. Yes, you read that right.
Wellness companies are seizing on the MAHA ethos
As health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has surrounded himself with wellness entrepreneurs, providing a national stage to the growing class of companies aligned with the Make America Healthy Again movement. These companies tend to sidestep the traditional health care system — charging patients cash rates for visits, lab tests, and imaging instead of taking insurance, for example. At the same time, they can leverage trust in medical expertise by writing prescriptions from licensed providers, or offering collected “insights” from doctors on test results.
