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Following Axios' Future of Health Summit on Wednesday, I left with a full notebook from panel conversations.

Attendees discussed interoperability, reimbursement and the current regulatory landscape.

✨ An ACCESS bright spot: Wearables companies are hoping the new Medicare program can unlock future payor reimbursement.

Whoop — most recently valued at $10 billion and a much-watched IPO candidate — aims to use ACCESS data to show improved patient outcomes, says Emily Capodilupo, SVP of data science and research.

Success there could drive other payors to subsidize device costs and ultimately bring in more users, she says. 

"We are one of the more expensive wearables out there," Capodilupo says. "We also think we're the best. ... It is in an insurance company's best interest to pay for Whoop."

🛫 Clear's next lane: The air travel identity verification company sees health care authentication driving more long-term growth, CEO Caryn Seidman Becker says.

The company has been notching wins in health care, including a recent contract with CMS, to help the agency verify Medicare beneficiaries and providers. The aim is to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in health care.

"Travel is our first vertical — like books was to Amazon," Seidman Becker says. 

"I actually think health care is a bigger market [long term] for us than travel."

👀 Not a silver bullet: David Goldhill, CEO of cash-pay marketplace Sesame Health, is skeptical of AI's promise in health care.

"I think the idea that AI is going to reduce cost without a major reform of the payment system is naive," he says.

Investors have poured hundreds of millions into companies that pitch AI tools aiming to improve admin workflows.

But previous tech advancements like EMRs haven't meaningfully reduced cost to date, he argues.

Axios' Future of Health talks ACCESS, AI and regulatory environment

Clear sees health care authentication driving more long term growth than its travel business.

Brock E.W. Turner, reporter left, interviewing Clear chairman and CEO Caryn Seidman Becker.

Brock E.W. Turner interviews Clear chairman and CEO Caryn Seidman Becker. Photo: Lord Made and Mikael Selassi for Axios

<p>Following Axios&#x27; Future of Health Summit on Wednesday, I left with a full notebook from panel conversations.</p><ul><li>Attendees discussed interoperability, reimbursement and the current regulatory landscape.</li></ul>

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Axios' Future of Health talks ACCESS, AI and regulatory environment

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