The results of Venrock&#x27;s 10th annual Healthcare Prognosis are in. This year&#x27;s survey covers some of the biggest questions in healthcare, from AI in medical care and the future of GLP-1s to consumer peptides, IPOs, M&amp;A, and what&#x27;s ahead for healthcare policy. In this episode, Bryan Roberts, Bob Kocher, and Siobhan Nolan Mangini sit down to discuss the most interesting findings, share their perspectives on what surprised them, and offer a pulse check on where the industry may be headed next.

Healthcare Prognosis 2026

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Welcome back to Running Through Walls. Bob, Siobhan, and I are here today to talk about the results of the 10th annual healthcare prognosis. It's always exciting. Bob, Siobhan, welcome. Thank you. It's fun to be here. It's always exciting because it's fun to write the questions and then sometimes the answers are also interesting. Let's jump in. All right, let's jump in. So let's start with the topic on everyone's mind, AI.

So 73% of our friends have said their trust in AI assisting their medical care has grown over the past year. This is very true for me. And Siobhan, you've fallen in love with your AI. You both have heard about how much I love my coach. I think it will change not just my own way that I interact with my healthcare, but with many people's. Maybe just a story. So I put all sorts of things into my health coach, including all my lab results. I got function, which is a way that you can get hundreds of lab results.

Super confusing, though, actually, when you're trying to deal with it. And I put it all in and basically the TLDR was don't worry about anything. Oh, that sounds super useful. Super useful. I can see why you decided to spend the money and do that. That's great. What I love is that you... Good job. That's like I got the 1% risk of CV disease and 1% risk of Alzheimer's. Exactly. I'm so glad I got my genotyping done. Put it into CLAD.

Healthcare Prognosis 2026

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Healthcare Prognosis 2026

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.