The Must Join Digital Health Communities for 2025
Finding a community can help foster a sense of belonging, spark new ideas, and help forge great relationships.
However, finding great Digital Health communities, especially new ones, isn't always easy.
I've seen this firsthand as a founder of Tellescope, a CRM that helps digital health startups manage their patients.
I’ve been fortunate enough through referrals and hours of Google searching to have joined a number of great communities but haven’t been able to find a single source that references them in one place.
To help other Digital Health entrepreneurs and enthusiasts, we’ve put together a list outlining a number of great communities, their focus, member demographics, and why you should join.
Please note Tellescope does not have any affiliation with any of these communities and have not received anything to feature them,
We hope you enjoy it!
Communities in Alphabetical Order:
Code RX
Community Focus: Pharma, Healthcare, Technology
Overview: A collective of pharmacists and other healthcare professionals who have a skill set in tech and apply it towards building useful things.
Number of Members: 300+
Why you should join: CodeRx provides a nice blend of members with clinical and technical experience. For people looking to learn a new skill, are interested in tech, or transition from a traditional role in Pharma and Healthcare to PharmaTech or HealthTech, there are plenty of resources and people who are willing to help.
Digital Health LinkedIn Group:
(Over 100k members)
Community Focus: Advance knowledge and build relationships between people interested in digital health
Overview: The Digital Health group’s mission is to advance knowledge and build relationships between people interested in digital health and who are working to create this new era.
Number of Members: 100k+
Why you should join: Learn more about digital health, get frequent updates from Paul Sonnier(group founder and digital health insider), and have access to a large pool of people interested in the space.
Digital Medicine Society (DiMe):
Community Focus: Research, Clinical, and Education
Overview: DiMe is a professional society for the digital medicine community. They provide a professional home to a wide range of individuals, from interested students and recent graduates to emerging leaders in the field all of which are working to advance the field of digital medicine to optimize health.
Number of Members: 2,000+
Why you should join: If you want to engage in collaborative research, lively discourse, and purposeful networking as we learn from one another and build the future of digital medicine.
Design for Healthcare
Community Focus: UX, UI, Building Healthcare Products
Overview: Their group exists to aid members in building community, developing skills, and sharing common experiences around using design to address challenges that exist in the healthcare industry.
Number of Members: 500+
Why you should join: If you’re a design practitioner working in the healthcare industry who is interested in coming together to learn and share how design can be used to improve healthcare.
FemHealth Insights
Community Focus: FemTech, Women’s Health, HealthTech
Overview: FemTech Insights is a global community connecting individuals worldwide to opportunities in funding, collaboration, and job placements. Their free Slack community provides entrepreneurs, investors, and femtech professionals with the latest news, advice, and real-time feedback on projects from their supportive environment.
Number of Members: 900+
Why you should join: FemHealth Insights provides a safe space for professionals who are working in FemTech or would like to join the industry to receive helpful feedback and guidance from industry experts.
Community Focus: HealthTech, Startups, Digital Health, Networking
Overview: Community for healthtech founders, investors, and advisors
Number of Members: 300+
Why you should join: In addition to connecting with people online through their Slack Community, Healthcare Homies' members are very active about scheduling and sharing in-person healthcare networking events all across the U.S.
Healthcare Pulse Community
Community Focus: Healthcare, HealthTech, Healthcare Executive Leadership
Overview: Healthcare Pulse is an invite-only Slack community for executives in healthcare to connect informally, discuss news, and share perspectives on pressing industry topics.
Number of Members: 175+
Why you should join: Healthcare Pulse Community provides a space to connect one-on-one with other leaders across the healthcare space. They give members access to live discussions for expert insights and perspectives, updates on new innovations in healthcare, and feedback on new venture initiatives.
HealthDevHub
Community Focus: Software Engineering, Digital Health, FHIR
Overview: HealthDevHub is a private community for CTOs, VPs, solutions architects, and senior engineers in digital health. Their community is meant to help people forge new connections, gain actionable insights, and discuss how to design the best software solutions for healthcare.
Number of Members: 300+
Why you should join: HealthDevHub is a great community for engineers and people interested in healthcare software engineering, FHIR, and interoperability.
HealthTech Founders
Community Focus: HealthTech, Startups, Digital Health
Overview: Community for healthtech founders, investors, advisors, etc
Number of Members: 300+
Why you should join: If you’re a founder, investor, working on a startup, or just interested in the digital health space. They’re working on creating programs that will match founders and investors for 1:1 and Group mentoring programs, with the goal of helping to build relationships and provide earnest and constructive feedback and education on both sides of the table.
HealthTech Hang
Community Focus: Intentional events, network-powered services, and curated resources
Overview: HealthTech Hang is a community of founders, clinicians, investors, builders, operators, sellers, administrators, enablers, and students. We gather to have fun & connect, recruit & hire, raise & deploy capital, grow & operate businesses, and develop skills. With thousands of members across the US, anyone is welcome to sign up for free here: www.HealthTechHang.com
Number of Members: 2,500+
Why you should join: HealthTech Hang's founder Harry Goldberg organizes both large and curated in-person events monthly. Most of the events are in the Bay Area with special appearances in LA, NYC, Boston, DC, and more.
Health-Tech PM Mastermind
Community Focus: Product professionals in health-tech
Overview: Weekly session for PMs in Health-Tech to gather, share their challenges, and get help from each other.
Number of Members: 100+
Why you should join: PMs, especially in healthcare, have it tough. Join a Mastermind group to learn, commiserate, and share.
Health Tech Nerds
Community Focus: All things HealthTech (it really is)
Overview: Health Tech Nerds is the trusted perspective on all things health tech. Their content and community help you stay ahead of the news and trends in the industry.
Number of Members: 5000+
Why you should join: Their private slack community (well worth the $20 /mo IMO)
MedTech Militia
Community Focus: MedTech Sales, MedTech Marketing
Overview: MedTech Militia is a paid community and networking channel for sales, marketing, and clinical professionals in the MedTech industry. Their community provides bi-weekly 1:1 coffee chats, spirited discussions about the MedTech industry, and collaborations with well-known organizations in the space.
Number of Members: N/A
Why you should join: As part of their community, in addition to connecting and collaborating with other MedTech professionals you receive access to exclusive content, moderated discussions in the Slack group, a member directory, career workshops, a job board, and more.
Mental Health Startup Community by What If Ventures
Community Focus: Mental Health, Startups
Overview: Their Slack community was created to improve connectivity around the mental health startup and to help facilitate conversation for those working in the space.
Number of Members: 3,000+
Why you should join: If you’re building a mental health startup, looking to hire, find jobs, share news, look for funding, meet others who care about what you're passionate about, and fund support with like-minded peers.
Out-of-Pocket Slack Community:
Community Focus: Improving knowledge of healthcare
Overview: Out-of-Pocket’s community helps connect people in healthcare and helps them continue learning from each other using structured assignments and discussion. You must apply to join their private Slack Community ($20 / mo).
Number of Members: 100+
Why you should join: If you’re looking for a small to medium-sized group with high-quality discussions and an increased level of vetting for community members. Their criteria to join are having a broad knowledge of healthcare trends, specific technical knowledge, being open-minded, and being an active community member. Participation is required through short written assignments and occasional events. Added bonus, Nikhil makes good memes, is very knowledgeable in the space, and makes healthcare easier to understand.
Pepper
Community Focus: Startups, Digital Health, Founders, In-Person Networking (NYC)
Overview: Pepper is “NYC's Spiciest Healthcare Services Community”. They organize in-person meetups in NYC once a month at bars or company offices. Their community is pretty focused on early-stage founders and investors. To be a member currently costs $80/year/member.
Number of Members: 200+
Why you should join: I’ve personally been a member of Pepper for over a year now and have gotten a ton of value from their events and all of the people I’ve met. Rohan (Pepper’s founder) has done a great job of bringing together entrepreneurs in the healthcare space for high-quality conversations and networking.
Physician Innovator
Community Focus: Physicians, Entrepreneurship, Medical Innovation
Overview: Physician Innovator (PI) is a by physicians, for physicians community of entrepreneurs and innovators in medicine. They provide engaging programs, resources, and networking to support their efforts to improve healthcare. Their membership is open to all physicians in practice and in training around the world.
Number of Members: 250+
Why you should join: If you’re a physician or an aspiring physician (medical students), PI’s group is designed to connect you with others working in the field to discuss entrepreneurship, innovation, and business.
PMs in Healthcare
Community Focus: Product, Project Management, Digital Health
Overview: PMs in Healthcare bring together some of the top product leaders in digital health. The community provides vast insight into the different tech stacks and tools companies are using as well as feedback on new product ideas.
Number of Members: 1500+
Why you should join: If you're looking to connect with other product leaders, get feedback on your product ideas, and learn about new tools, this is definitely the place for you.
Product Leaders in Healthcare
(If you’re a Head of Product, VP Product, or CPO at a healthcare company, reach out to @dvasishtha on X to request to be added)
Community Focus: Healthcare Product Management, Tech-enabled Healthcare Services
Overview: Product Leaders in Healthcare is a community of healthcare product leaders who share notes, vent, soundboard, evaluate opportunities, and, more specifically, have built a space to discuss things such as hiring, managing CEOs and boards, managing teams, tech stack decisions, long term planning, etc. -- topics that are hard to discuss emergent thinking with peers and reports at your organization.
Number of Members: 90+
Why you should join: You should join if you would like an area to discuss challenges and topics specific to healthcare product executives that you may not be able to with your CEO or your own reports.
Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE)
Community Focus: Healthcare, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital
Overview: The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SoPE) is a global biomedical and healthcare innovation network with membership open to all healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, and industry stakeholders. SoPE was founded in 2011 by three physicians who shared a common vision – to empower physicians and other professionals to innovate healthcare through entrepreneurship. You must apply for their paid membership on their site.
Number of Members: 450+
Why you should join: SoPE connects you to like-minded entrepreneurs, support specialists, and industry leaders who catalyze the innovation commercialization process. SoPE is your premier resource for information, support, advice, and network connections.
Sparq NYC
Community Focus: Healthtech, NYC, Healthcare
Overview: Sparq NYC is an NYC-based community that hosts small curated events with a highly vetted & talented group of doctors, founders, & health-tech professionals. They also have their own app that gives members access to an online community and member directory.
Number of Members: 250+
Why you should join: Sparq not only hosts high-quality events, but they have a very sleek digital experience which makes it easy to connect with other healthcare professionals in the NYC area.
Tech Enabled Healthcare PMs
Community Focus: Healthcare Product Management, Tech-enabled Healthcare Services
Overview: TEH PMs is a group of product people connecting and collaborating around their work at tech-enabled healthcare startups. The intention is to learn from, and soundboard with each other on tech stacks, managing stakeholders, working with internal operations and clinical teams, evaluating vendors, sharing opportunities, etc.
Number of Members: 50 (adding 10-20 people in new batches every month)
Why you should join: You should join if you want an intimate and focused space to learn and uplevel within the specific context of working on technology teams at care delivery-focused companies. For example, TEH PMs get together once a month when a PM brings a problem for group support or discuss respective zones of genius and areas of development.
The Graduate Healthcare Club
Community Focus: Academia, Startups, Healthcare, Networking
Overview: GHC’s mission is to build a community that helps graduate students exchange insights and explore collaborations in ventures related to healthcare.
Number of Members: 700+
Why you should join: GHC enables graduate students to connect with others who have interests and experiences in specific fields, such as digital health, biotech, venture capital, startups, life sciences, consulting, private equity investing, and investment banking.
Redox Slack Community
Community Focus: EHR, Healthcare Developers, Redox, Healthcare Interoperability
Overview: Join other Redox users to discuss connecting and developing with the Redox API
Number of Members: 3,500+
Why you should join: If you’re using Redox, a healthcare developer, or are focused on EHR interoperability.
THEIA:
Community Focus: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Healthcare
Overview: Theia is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to inspiring and empowering the next generation of women entrepreneurs and investors in healthcare. Their community welcomes young professionals, entrepreneurs, and investors.
Number of Members: 200+
Why you should join: Their community hopes to shed light on different aspects of healthcare and strategies for entering the fray of innovation, increase the visibility of female entrepreneurs and investors in healthcare, and create a network where women support women and help them shine.
What Digital Health communities are we missing?
This list is comprised of communities that don’t require their prospective members to be a part of their organization such as Techstars and StartupHealth which also boast great Digital Health communities.
If we’re missing any Digital Health communities that should be included or if you’re building a Digital Health startup, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us at inquiries@tellescope.com!
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