Julia Hu is the CEO and co-founder of Lark Health, the leading AI-powered cardiometabolic health platform. Built over more than a decade with $120M in R&D investment, Lark has supported nearly 2.5 million members living with cardiometabolic conditions in their health journey. Lark’s clinical outcomes have been validated across 22 peer-reviewed studies, and it holds 10 AI and generative AI patents. Lark is the nation’s largest fully recognized CDC Diabetes Prevention Program provider, and Lark’s affiliated medical group has been approved as a Medicare ACCESS provider to deliver cardiometabolic outcomes at scale. Lark has been recognized as Apple's Top 10 Apps of the Year, one of the 10 Most Innovative Apps in the World by Business Insider, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, one of the CB Insights Digital Health 150, and one of Fierce Healthcare‘s Fierce 15.
The message to the industry is clear: If your business model is optimized only for FFS, you are the legacy. The future of healthcare belongs to those who can trade hours spent for improved patient lives.
If we’ve learned anything during this pandemic, it’s that the health care system needs to evolve so that people can receive care, including behavioral and mental health care, that fits their everyday lives.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
For a digital health revolution to occur, we have to stop being afraid of AI, we have to ensure that treatment is integrated not fragmented and care should be available 24/7 to chronic patients.