Sean Duffy
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Fireside Chat with Sean Duffy
Amada Health, rebranding as Raising Health, recently celebrated reaching one million patients by leveraging a proprietary dataset of 25 million messages to deploy AI that augments care teams while addressing the limitations of GLP-1 medications through a dedicated lifestyle track. Co-founder Sean Duffy highlights how the company evolved from skepticism about "provider without clinics" into a foundational digital infrastructure that utilizes artificial empathy to mitigate provider shortages and lower long-term healthcare costs. By pivoting from pure software replication to a hybrid tech-life sciences model, the organization now positions itself as an essential "between-visit" partner capable of offloading longitudinal management from overwhelmed primary care clinicians.
- Milken Institute57 min
Confronting the Obesity and Diabetes Epidemics
William Dietz, Kelly Close, Sean Duffy, Mark Hyman, Joshua Riff, Hugh Waters
This panel addresses the $3.4 trillion annual economic burden of chronic diseases in the U.S., where obesity drives nearly half the costs and disproportionately affects underserved populations through a broken primary care capacity. Experts from organizations like Cleveland Clinic, Omada, and OnDuo demonstrated that community-based food pharmacy models and digital health platforms can dramatically reverse conditions like diabetes and heart failure while reducing costs by up to 80%. To scale these life-saving interventions, the discussion emphasized an urgent need to shift from episodic "sick care" to value-based reimbursement systems that fund "food as medicine" and community health workers.