Alex Cohen, CEO of Hello Patient, gives his outlook on incumbent EHR dominance and why new AI-native platforms will take time to replace them.
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Cohen: Anthropic's Claude is too slow for real-time phone calls
“We've tried Gemini, Claude and Anthropic are a little bit too slow for a phone call, unfortunately.”
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Cohen: Hello Patient has a 2-3 year head start over EHR incumbents
“I think we still have a two to three year head start to like really get good and ingrain and go sell and be like best in class at patient engagement because they're really that last 10% really does matter.”
Insight
Cohen: Every man over 30 should get hormone levels tested
“TRT, which is not a peptide, but again, I think every guy like over 30 should get tested for their hormone levels and then decide if they want to do it.”
Insight
Cohen: Taking GLP-1s for weight loss is no different than taking creatine
“I don't think people should be judged for taking it either. I think there's a lot of like stigma around it and people are like, you cheated at losing weight. And it's like, I don't see how it's different than taking creatine to put on, you know, water weight a…”
Assertion Supported
Cohen: Hello Patient raised a $22.5M Series A
“We've raised a 22 and a half million dollar Series A.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2028
Cohen: Jony Ive and Sam Altman will announce AI glasses
“I think it's gonna be a pair of glasses. I think, like, that's the only form function that my, again, like, Johnny genuinely, like, understands the future, I think, of, god, I'm, like, going into acting mode, but, like, he genuinely understands the like, hardw…”