Kyle Harrison
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Telehealth

Telehealth

One-line definition: Delivering medical care (consults, prescriptions) over digital channels — infrastructure matured and de-regulated through COVID, now the substrate for grey-market GLP-1 businesses like MEDVI.

How sources describe it

  • The actual business underneath the MEDVI “AI” headline: telehealth subscriptions. (source: The $1B Rorschach Test - Research)
  • A precondition that had to exist independent of AI: telehealth infrastructure mature enough that a random person could plug into a licensed physician network and compliant pharmacy supply chain with no healthcare expertise — built by OpenLoop Health and CareValidate. (source: The $1B Rorschach Test - Research)
  • Critiqued as “just Regulatory Arbitrage” — “a 60 second video ‘appointment’ with an MD in his living room asking everyone the same three questions.” (source: The $1B Rorschach Test - Research)
  • The legitimate comparable Hims & Hers (and Ro, Noom) run the identical model under real compliance spend. (source: The $1B Rorschach Test - Research)

Where it shows up

  • The $1B Rorschach Test - Research — the real engine of the “one-person billion-dollar company.”

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