Maven was named to FierceHealthcare’s Fierce 15 of 2020 list today, which recognizes 15 “companies around the U.S. that are trying to change the world by changing the healthcare industry”. We’re thrilled to be recognized among other leading health startups focused on building better care delivery models and improving outcomes. For the second annual awards list, FierceHealthcare highlights companies that are “embracing the patient as a consumer who is seeking a better experience from healthcare”.

FierceHealthcare highlights that Maven tripled in size last year to offer care to 5 million women and families, opening access to 1,700 providers in 20 different specialties in our virtual clinic.

Maven is recognized for filling critical gaps in care for women, who “make up the dominant customer base in healthcare”, by providing on-demand access to providers, and partnering with employers and health plans to deliver better member experiences, improve outcomes, and lower costs. FierceHealthcare calls out Maven’s “end-to-end support” that provides personalized platforms to support members through preconception, egg freezing, IVF/IUI, adoption, surrogacy, miscarriage, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, return-to-work, and breast milk shipping.

“We take care of the whole person,” Maven Founder and CEO Kate Ryder told FierceHealthcare. “That’s the big issue driving us.”

Read more in the FierceHealthcare Fierce 15 of 2020 special report.

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For many of you, the start of a new year means new benefits policies and new laws to set the stage for supporting and retaining employees and attracting talent in the year ahead. Fortune 500 insurance and investment company The Hartford kicked off 2020 with expanded family benefits—it has doubled paid parental leave and adoption benefit reimbursements, increased fertility coverage by 150%, and introduced Maven to support employees and their partners as they navigate diverse paths to parenthood.

The Hartford teamed up with Fairygodboss, the leading career site for women, to highlight our partnership and how Maven’s personalized platforms for every family will make a difference for The Hartford’s employees.

“Delivering this level of personalized care during one of the most transformative times in life is an important way a company can illustrate its commitment to diversity and create an inclusive culture,” our Founder & CEO, Kate Ryder, shared with Fairygodboss. “By building a healthcare infrastructure to better support families in the workplace, The Hartford is investing in the health and well-being of their employees.”

The Hartford is recognized as a leading company for working parents, largely because of their supportive culture and their commitment to providing inclusive and innovative family benefits. They were recently named to Fairygodboss’ 2019 Best Companies for Women list, which is based on company reviews from current and former employees.

We’re thrilled to partner with The Hartford to bring Maven’s specialized, holistic support to their employees navigating pregnancy, fertility, adoption, miscarriage, egg freezing, or surrogacy, and the transition into the new normal as working parents.

Read more in Fairygodboss’s Q&A here.

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“Isn’t it funny that women’s health is an underserved category of healthcare given that women are half of the population? We’re determined to change this.” - Kate Ryder

Last week’s Forbes Healthcare Summit in NYC was not your average industry conference, with diverse speakers like former NFL wide receiver Brandon Marshall and radio personality Charlamagne Tha God. We had the pleasure of attending as the media giant convened scientists, CEOs, investors, providers, inventors, and others to discuss approaches for delivering better care, lowering costs, and improving health outcomes. Maven Founder and CEO Kate Ryder was featured on a panel on transformative tech with Glen Tullman, Founder and Executive Chairman of Livongo, and Kuldeep Singh Rajput, Founder and CEO of Biofourmis. Moderator Alex Knapp, Forbes Associate Editor, focused their conversation on the whole category of digital health including apps, AI, and machine learning, and how digital health is helping to improve access to care, manage patient data, and drive outcomes.

Among other things, Kate emphasized that she founded Maven to create an entirely new healthcare experience for women and families: “Data is at the crux of every digital product but for us, in a traditionally underserved market like women’s health, it’s about changing the entire care delivery model.”

Here are four phrases that took center stage throughout the day at the Forbes Healthcare Summit that have us most excited for the industry’s future.

1. Detect and prevent

There’s no surprise here, but leaders from many different areas of healthcare—tech, genetics, biopharma, AI, and beyond—pointed to the industry’s major focus on improving detection and prevention at the Forbes Healthcare Summit. Janice Chen, co-founder of diagnostics platform Mammoth Biosciences and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum, posed a question that really pointed to just how critical this is: “How can we expect a cure if we can’t detect, predict and prevent?” In the world of digital health, it’s great to see a shift in understanding around how tech and humans need to work hand-in-hand to detect risks, manage care, prevent emergencies, and improve overall health.

2. Address holistic needs

Many conversations throughout the day centered around the need to put patients’ holistic needs at the center of new models of healthcare delivery. There was a resounding recognition that care must address behavioral, physical, and emotional needs in order to drive outcomes and lower costs—which is at the foundation of Maven’s approach to women’s and family healthcare. One powerful conversation on breaking the stigma around mental health with media and radio personality Charlamagne Tha God is worth calling out, as he had some powerful words to share: “When you go out there and express that you’re dealing with these [mental health] issues, you give everybody else the power to tell their stories.”

“When you go out there and express that you’re dealing with these [mental health] issues, you give everybody else the power to tell their stories.” - Charlamagne Tha God

3. Empower patients

Many industry thought leaders spoke about giving patients more power and control over their own health. While it’s not earth-shattering, it still made our ears perk up. Leaders recognized that while we continue to produce new tech for managing health, we also need to create vehicles for patient education so we can use different findings or pieces of our own data to better advocate for the healthcare we need. And of course, as Kate recognized during her panel, when it comes to women’s healthcare and understanding women’s bodies more broadly, this gap in access to information and resources has historically been a barrier to improving outcomes—and changing this is core to Maven’s mission.

4. Collaborate

A lot of the dialogue at the Summit focused on data and the question of how it can be collected in a smarter way. The idea of collaborating to streamline data collection and ensure patient privacy came up quite a bit, along with the desire to facilitate better information exchanges to drive outcomes. Many leaders pointed to the need for more partnerships across the industry, especially to fill gaps in highly-specialized areas of tech and pointed to patient data as an area ripe for improvement.

Empowering patients, addressing holistic needs, and improving outcomes is a future we can fully get behind. At Maven, we will continue to make strides in changing the entire care delivery model with women and families at the center.

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