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Healthcare deals and tech trends, decoded for everyone

Last year, private equity deployed over $60 billion into healthcare services. Your therapist's practice might have been acquired. Your doctor could be part of a value-based care network. AI is being embedded into clinical workflows at scale. But most of these deals and trends get buried in jargon-heavy press releases that don't explain why any of it matters.

I'm starting this blog to change that.

A bit about me: I spent ~2.5 years at Alma as a Product Marketing Manager, helping scale a mental health platform during one of the biggest growth periods in behavioral health. Currently, I work at a speech therapy startup leading strategy and operations for their revenue cycle management—the operational backbone that makes healthcare actually run. I started my career in Abbott Nutrition's Leadership Development Program, where I learned how large healthcare organizations make strategic decisions.

What I’ll cover: Healthcare services M&A (especially behavioral health), tech trends that actually matter, how AI unlocks value, value-based care economics, and where consumerization is changing delivery.

What makes this different: I focus on the ‘so what?’ from an operator’s perspective. No jargon for jargon’s sake. Accessible to finance and non-finance folks alike.

Coming up: why behavioral health remains a private equity magnet, how AI is being deployed in clinical workflows, and how the GLP-1 boom is reshaping consumer healthcare delivery

Let’s get into it.