Recorded live at HLTH, this episode of Bright Spots in Healthcare takes you inside Health2047, the venture studio founded by the American Medical Association to tackle some of healthcare's gnarliest problems. Host Eric Glazer sits down with Warren Templeton, Managing Director at Health2047, to explore how the AMA is backing founders at the earliest stages to reshape physician workflows, chronic disease management, and data liquidity.

Warren shares how Health2047 partners with science- and clinician-led startups at the pre-seed and seed stages, wrapping founders with commercial strategy, clinical and billing expertise, and an evergreen capital model that matches healthcare's longer time horizons. He also unpacks why humility and conviction are the two non-negotiable traits he looks for in founders.

You'll hear real-world examples from Health2047's portfolio, including:

• Zing Health – a Medicare Advantage plan built for underserved communities, rooted in social determinants of health and community-based design

• Phenomics Health – an obesity phenotyping company born from a "failed" diabetes prevention bet, now helping match patients to the right GLP-1s, procedures, and care pathways

• ScholarRx – a global medical education platform partnering with the WHO to enable high-quality "tertiary care in the wild" for clinicians around the world

Warren and Eric also dig into:

• Why traditional 5–7 year VC timelines often clash with healthcare reality

• How to balance breakthrough science with practical workflow integration and commercial viability

• The impact KPIs Health2047 tracks beyond IRR, including lives and care teams impacted

If you're a founder, investor, or healthcare leader trying to build something that actually works in the real world—not just on a pitch deck—this conversation offers a candid look at what it takes to design, fund, and scale the next generation of healthcare companies.

Bio:
https://health2047.com/leadership/warrentempleton/

References:

Health2047's portfolio companies mentioned in the episode:

• Zing Health - https://www.myzinghealth.com/

• Phenomics Health - https://www.phenomicshealth.com/

• ScholarRx - https://scholarrx.com/

Partner with Bright Spots Ventures: If you are interested in speaking with the Bright Spots Ventures team to brainstorm how we can help you grow your business via content and relationships, email hkrish@brightspotsventures.com

About Bright Spots Ventures:

Bright Spots Ventures is a healthcare strategy and engagement company that creates content, communities, and connections to accelerate innovation. We help healthcare leaders discover what's working, and how to scale it. By bringing together health plan, hospital, and solution leaders, we facilitate the exchange of ideas that lead to measurable impact. Through our podcast, executive councils, private events, and go-to-market strategy work, we surface and amplify the "bright spots" in healthcare—proven innovations others can learn from and replicate. At our core, we exist to create trusted relationships that make real progress possible. Visit our website at www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Visit our website: www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

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Guests:

• Louis DeStefano, Chief Growth Officer, Oscar Health

• Jon Van Der Veer, DO, Founder & CEO, Hy-Vee Health

In this special HLTH interview, Bright Spots in Healthcare host Eric Glazer speaks with two leaders shaping one of the most innovative payer–provider–retail collaborations in the country:

• Louis DeStefano, Chief Growth Officer, Oscar Health

• Jon Van Der Veer, DO, Founder & CEO, Hy-Vee Health

Together, Oscar Health and Hy-Vee Health are building a new kind of health plan, one that blends local access, convenient care, primary care-first design, and tech-enabled member experience. Think of it as a hybrid model: part direct primary care, part advanced digital platform, part community-rooted retail ecosystem.

This conversation dives into how the two organizations are integrating brick-and-mortar clinics, urgent care, pharmacy, SDOH-friendly retail access, and Oscar's tech stack, including "Oswald," Oscar's AI-powered clinical support tool, to deliver a personalized and coordinated experience.

Topics We Cover:

• Why healthcare must be local, convenient, and relationship-driven

• How the partnership blends a supermarket chain, primary care clinics, and a tech-enabled health plan into one member experience

• How ICHRA is opening new doors for employer-driven personalization

• The role of AI and tools like Oswald in interpreting labs, improving communication, and augmenting care

• What a modern, scalable direct primary care model could look like

• The 10-year vision for this collaboration and where it expands next

This episode offers a first look into a payer–retail–provider model that could reshape consumer expectations, and redefine how employer-sponsored and individual coverage works in the coming decade.

References and Mentions:

• Learn more about the partnership between Oscar Health and Hy-Vee Health - https://www.hioscar.com/hy-vee-health

• Dr. Garrison Bliss, widely recognized as the "Godfather of Direct Primary Care" - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrisonblissmd/

Bios:
Louis DeStefano: https://hlth.com/events/usa/speakers/2025/louis-destefano
Dr. Jon Van Der Veer: https://hlth.com/events/usa/speakers/2025/jon-van-der-veer

Partner with Bright Spots Ventures: If you are interested in speaking with the Bright Spots Ventures team to brainstorm how we can help you grow your business via content and relationships, email hkrish@brightspotsventures.com

About Bright Spots Ventures:

Bright Spots Ventures is a healthcare strategy and engagement company that creates content, communities, and connections to accelerate innovation. We help healthcare leaders discover what's working, and how to scale it. By bringing together health plan, hospital, and solution leaders, we facilitate the exchange of ideas that lead to measurable impact. Through our podcast, executive councils, private events, and go-to-market strategy work, we surface and amplify the "bright spots" in healthcare—proven innovations others can learn from and replicate. At our core, we exist to create trusted relationships that make real progress possible. Visit our website at www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Visit our website: www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Follow Bright Spots in Healthcare: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shared-purpose-connect/

In this episode of Bright Spots in Healthcare, recorded live at the HLTH 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Eric Glazer sits down with Scott Arnold from Tampa General Hospital, one of the nation's leading academic health systems, to explore their ambitious digital transformation journey. The conversation dives deep into how TGH built a unified digital foundation across a large, geographically dispersed system, enabling them to scale AI solutions that deliver measurable impact on operations, patient care, and the clinician experience.

Scott shares his blueprint for modernizing a major health system, moving AI from pilot project to enterprise-wide tool, and provides practical lessons for health system and health plan leaders seeking to reduce burnout, improve satisfaction, and bring innovation to scale.

• Why a single digital operating system, standardizing the EHR, analytics, and phone systems, is the non-negotiable foundation for scalable AI and consistent patient experience

• The function of TGH Ventures, the dedicated venture arm used to fund and rapidly implement market-vetted digital health solutions

• The strategy for prioritizing AI deployment by focusing on human-centric problems, such as clinician burnout and nursing staff turnover

• How TGH partnered with Palantir to create an AI-enabled Care Coordination Operating System (CCOS) that uses real-time data to optimize patient flow and predict risk

• The critical need for operational governance to prevent AI from being layered on fragmented infrastructure, which often leads to "faster chaos"

• Building a culture that is grounded in trust, speed, and experimentation to ensure the organization can keep pace with rapid technological evolution

This discussion offers a pragmatic, replicable blueprint for any health system ready to modernize with intention and urgency, demonstrating how digital transformation can be grounded in practicality, not just hype.

References:

• Charlie Munger's famous quote "Trust is one of the greatest economic forces on Earth"

• Learning from outside healthcare: Scott's view on "taking a page out of Apple" and applying consumer-grade principles to hospital system design

Scott Arnold's Bio: https://www.tgh.org/about-tgh/tampa-general-hospital-leadership/scott-arnold

Partner with Bright Spots Ventures: If you are interested in speaking with the Bright Spots Ventures team to brainstorm how we can help you grow your business via content and relationships, email hkrish@brightspotsventures.com

About Bright Spots Ventures:

Bright Spots Ventures is a healthcare strategy and engagement company that creates content, communities, and connections to accelerate innovation. We help healthcare leaders discover what's working, and how to scale it. By bringing together health plan, hospital, and solution leaders, we facilitate the exchange of ideas that lead to measurable impact. Through our podcast, executive councils, private events, and go-to-market strategy work, we surface and amplify the "bright spots" in healthcare—proven innovations others can learn from and replicate. At our core, we exist to create trusted relationships that make real progress possible. Visit our website at www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Visit our website: www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Follow Bright Spots in Healthcare: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shared-purpose-connect/