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Breaking HealthEpisode 137: Aver CEO Bill Nordmark on Changing the Reimbursement Models to Drive Value from CareHost Steve Krupa chats with Aver CEO Bill Nordmark about Bill’s career in the healthcare payer and reimbursement space, including his decision to take over the reins at Aver. Hear Bill share helpful insights on retrospective vs. prospective payment systems and how he is leading Aver on the quest to increase quality of care while reducing costs by helping payers expand and bundle payment programs.
2020-08-2031 min
Breaking HealthEpisode 136: Zipari CEO Mark Nathan on Building a Health Insurance Consumer Experience PlatformSteve sits down with Zipari Founder and CEO, Mark Nathan to discuss how his career set him up for entrepreneurship, as well as the motivation and inspiration for starting a health insurance consumer experience platform. Mark shares the challenges associated with taking a homegrown business technology and creating generally available software and gives his best advice for entrepreneurs starting a company.
2020-05-1239 minBreaking HealthEpisode 135: The Burgess Group CEO, Greg Burgess: From Music Career to Crisis Leadership, and the Journey in BetweenGreg discusses his early days as a professional musician and shows how creativity and problem-solving helped transition his career into software development, and led him to working in healthcare, helping providers and patients by innovating payment data. He discusses developing new, data-enabled products and using advancements in tech to expand a company footprint.
2020-04-2137 min
Breaking HealthSmithRx CEO Jake Frenz Explains How the Start-Up Is Using Tech to Take on the PBM IndustryNo fan of traditional PBMs, Steve Krupa talks with Jake Frenz, founder and CEO of SmithRx, creator of a new tech-based PBM player.
2019-12-0927 min
Breaking HealthLetsGetChecked CEO Peter Foley Shares the Roots of this Fast Rising Start-Up; Hear More at DHISBreaking Health Host Steve Krupa catches up with Peter Foley, founder and CEO of LetsGetChecked, a company that’s empowering patients to monitor their own health through diagnostic tests. Hear how Foley and his team built patient convenience into a powerful business.
2019-12-0322 minBreaking HealthArmy Vet Chris Molaro Uses Tragic Loss to Drive Him in New Mission – Helping Mental Health Patients with NeuroFlowChris Molaro calls his six years in the US Army leading a Field Artillery platoon his biggest honor. But he says his “biggest leadership failure” came after his platoon redeployed back home. In this episode of the Breaking Health podcast, Host Steve Krupa connects with a young veteran who is using inspiration from a tragic loss of one of his soldiers to depression to improve mental healthcare for everyone. “We could have intervened if we had a better system in place,” Molaro says.
2019-10-2330 min
Breaking HealthAetion CEO Carolyn Magill Explains How the Data Company Raised a New Round Without Really TryingOur Host Steve Krupa has a visitor. Aetion CEO Carolyn Magill pops by Steve’s office at HealthEdge to explain how Aetion raised a round of capital it wasn’t seeking. She also delves deeply into how Aetion’s analysis of different types of data – genomic, socioeconomic, EHR’s – can change how healthcare is delivered and how are costs covered.You can WATCH this Breaking Health podcast interview here.
2019-05-2435 min
Breaking HealthCEO Ardy Arianpour Says Seqster Will Unite Healthcare Data, Empower Patients, and Lower CostsIn this podcast, Ardy Arianpour, CEO of Seqster (pronounced Seekster), shares the origin story for creating what he calls, “the Mint.com of health care. Seqster is creating a clear, direct, one-password-only channel between patients and ALL their healthcare data – EHR, genetic and fitness, etc. The start-up is marking its offering to payers and providers and already has secured access to data from 3,000 hospitals and 45,000 physician offices as well as DNA Labs and data-collecting Medtechs like ResMed and DexCom. Hear Arianpour vision for the future of healthcare data.
2019-05-0121 min
Breaking HealthVitalConnect CEO Nersi Nazari Discusses Company’s Fully Disposable, Functionally Indispensable TechVital Connect CEO Nersi Nazari talks data with Host Steve Krupa in this episode of the Breaking Health podcast. VitalConnect has developed a line of sensors capable of tracking conditions of patients at home and in the hospital. According to the company, its VitalPatch wearable biosensor is a lightweight, wireless, and records eight patient vital signs. The VitalConnect Platform integrates the VitalPatch biosensor with mobile and cloud-based software and analytics. The company closed on $33 million in a Series C last year, drawing capital from Baxter Ventures and MVM Life Sciences.
2019-04-1927 min
Medtech TalkNuvaira’s Dennis Wahr Gives Presenting Tips, IDs his Role Models, Talks About Possibly Going PublicYou’ll have a hard time finding a more modest man than Dennis Wahr, president and CEO of Nuvaira. But when asked what company he sees as being poised to establish the Interventional Pulmonology industry Wahr says Nuvaira might be the one. Nuvaira’s Targeted Lung Denervation, or TLD, is a non-surgical procedure that interrupts overactive nerve signals and may reduce obstructive airway symptoms, helping you to breathe easier. Could Nuvaira be the company to finally set the cement in the foundation of Interventional Pulmonology? Or will Nuvaira build upon the success of Pulmonx and Inspire, two other respiratory comp...
2019-04-1228 min
Breaking HealthGoodRx Co-CEO Doug Hirsch Flipping Pharmacy Pricing on Its Head Through Transparent Price ShoppingA few years ago, technology veteran Doug Hirsch was given a prescription that he wasn’t 100% sure he needed, especially after the first pharmacy he brought it to told him the drug would cost over $400. Hirsch walked out with the unfilled prescription and decided to shop around. What he discovered was a prescription marketplace that seemed to offer little rhyme or reason. This mystery led to the creation of GoodRx and an app that allows patients to shop around more easily. Six years later, GoodRx users have saved over $10 billion and one-third of prescribing physicians recommend it to their pa...
2019-04-0534 min
Breaking HealthCan Suki Be the Largest, Most Interesting Tech Company Ever Built? Ask CEO Punit SoniPunit Soni’s LinkedIn profile includes Intel, Google, and Motorola. But Soni tells the Breaking Health podcast that he believes the “largest, most interesting” tech company will be in health care. Can Suki be that company? Soni sees an enormous opportunity to help physicians be physicians by replacing keyboards with AI-enabled digital assistants that can record electronic health record (HER) documentation. Can this digital assistant improve patient care and reduce physician burnout by getting docs away from data entry and back to doctoring? “We want the doctors to be the bosses of their own lives,” Soni says. “They need to rediscove...
2019-03-2238 min
Breaking HealthLark Health CEO Julia Hu Seeks to Bring Relief and Assistance to People Managing Chronic IllnessLark CEO and Founder Julia Hu had launched two cleantech start-ups early in her career, but a childhood managing a chronic disease predestined her to start Lark Health, developer of an AI-empowered “coach” that can help people with chronic disease manage their own health.
2019-03-0831 min
Breaking HealthCEO Arvind Rajan Says Cricket Health Can Deliver Important, Transformative Care to Renal PatientsArvind Rajan left his managing director post at LinkedIn intent upon two things – taking some time off with his family and finding a new venture that would be hard, important, and transformative to the world. Rajan and his co-founders, James Chaukos and Vince Kim – saw an imbalance in how patients with late-stage kidney disease were being treated. Cricket Health – identified as one of the Fierce 15 Companies in healthcare – is working to balance the scales in favor of patients by building teams of nephrologists, dieticians, even experienced patient mentors to help people before they reach kidney failure.
2019-02-2227 min
Breaking HealthCEO Tony Miller Explains How Bind Combines Past Successful Strategies to Upend Healthcare InsuranceBreaking Health Host Steve Krupa returns to the Big Chair, reconnecting with old friend and former portfolio company CEO Tony Miller. In this podcast, the pair unpack the strategy of Bind, the “on-demand healthcare insurance” company working to change how employers insure their employees. Find out more at yourbind.com.
2019-02-0544 min
Breaking HealthInsider Susan DeVore on Reducing Waste and the Path to Alternative Payments in HealthcareSusan DeVore has been in and around the healthcare industry for most of her life – long before she became president and CEO of Premier Inc., a company that unites an alliance of more than 4,000 hospitals and health systems and approximately 165,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare. It’s a little-known fact that Susan’s roots at Premier date back to her childhood when her father, a biomedical engineer, worked for a predecessor to the company. After working at Ernst & Young – including time as a partner and senior healthcare industry management practice leader, among other roles – she got the cal...
2019-01-2141 min
Breaking HealthWhat Nursing Shortage? IntelyCare CEO David Coppins Explains How IntelyCare Is Filling ShiftsIntelyCare CEO David Coppins details his company’s solution for nursing staffing shortages. The company makes its own nurses available to providers through a software scheduling tool, removing a lot of the juggling and guesswork. Earlier this month, IntelyCare announced a $10.8 million round led by Leerink Revelation Partners with participation from Longmeadow Capital, previous investor LRVHealth and Bill Mantzoukas, an entrepreneur who has owned and operated a series of skilled nursing facilities.
2018-11-2932 min
Breaking HealthBH Three-fer: Get an Apology, an Aural Peek at Our New Podcast, Hear Andy Slavitt Drop Some TruthWe like you. We really do. That’s why we’re sorry we haven’t posted a new Breaking Health Podcast in a few weeks. But we’re back on track sharing Andy Slavitt’s striking keynote commentary from DHIS. We’re also excited to share a snippet from our new podcast – Healthcare Is Hard, a Podcast for Insiders – which will bring insights from executives at the most innovative healthcare systems and payors. So you’re actually getting two podcasts this week. You’re welcome. Please subscribe to Healthcare Is Hard on iTunes and other prominent podcast platforms.
2018-11-1536 min
Breaking HealthDHIS Co-Chairs Mittendorff, Geary Recall Slavitt, Farr, DigitalRx, Risk Taking and other HighpointsRobert Mittendorff, MD, partner at Norwest Venture Partners, and Bill Geary, co-founder and partner at Flare Capital Partners, review the highlights of the successful Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit held on October 11 in Boston.In this interview they discuss:The most important takeaway from the State of Healthcare by Sam Baker of Axios.An important address by Andy Slavitt of Town Hall Ventures (and speculation as to where the new firm will invest).The advances in Digital Therapeutics and Telehealth.The one technology leader traveling under the Digital Health radar.Two conversations led by CNBC’s Chrissy Fa...
2018-10-1716 min
Breaking HealthOn the Eve of DHIS, Flare Capital’s Bill Geary Shares Top Seven Health Tech/Digital Health TruismsBill Geary, co-chair of the upcoming DHIS, does Digital Health entrepreneurs a favor by spelling out what he sees as signs of a strong pitch. (See below.) We also review the highlights of the upcoming DHIS.The most profound Health Tech/Digital Health companies are either: (1) taking on novel clinical and financial risk for those highest cost and most in need or (2) providing critical solutions and services to those new and legacy risk-bearing organizations working to deliver on the opportunity in (1).I'm an optimist. Our industry is nowhere near overfunded and the market/need is enormous/largely unmet...
2018-10-0320 min
Breaking HealthVida CEO and Co-Founder Stephanie Tilenius Brings Tech Experience to Building Digital Rx PowerhouseStephanie Tilenius, CEO and co-founder, brings her tech experience (PayPal, eBay, Google) to Vida, a data and tech-driven supplier of coaching and guidance. Hear how the company is building out a formidable digital offering.
2018-09-2529 min
Breaking HealthPrecision Health AI’s Brigham Hyde Explains How Company Is Bringing Insight to Treating CancerBrigham Hyde, CEO of Precision Health AI, explains the company is building out a data platform for oncology treatment. The firm is building products to serve pharma, life science companies, providers, and payers. In this podcast, Hyde explains how Precision Health AI can help oncologists determine stage of cancer and identify adverse effects. Visit dhis.net/register to register for the October 11 Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit
2018-09-1738 min
Breaking HealthResMed CEO Mick Farrell Balances Career, Family, and Bringing Tech, Software, and Data into MedtechMick Farrell’s father questioned his son’s double degree from MIT when he didn’t immediately see the opportunity facing the sleep apnea company. But the younger Farrell quickly came around and helped build ResMed into a $15 billion company, with the last five years at the helm as CEO. Today, however, Farrell has ResMed beginning to take a very different path, migrating away from pure medical device sales and into selling software and other tech services to physicians.
2018-09-0737 min
Breaking HealthWhy Do the Principals of Cardeation Capital Think Joining Forces Makes Sense for Innovation?In this dual podcast, we talk with leaders from the American Heart Association, Philips, UPMC, and Aphelion Capital about Cardeation Capital, a new venture fund aimed at funding start-ups in the digital health and medtech fields. How did the four entities join forces? What can they offer start-ups looking to disrupt healthcare? For more information go to aphelioncapital.net. You can also learn more about Aphelion Capital, the firm managing the fund, in this Medtech Talk Podcast. We also highlight one of its first investments, ExplORer Surgical in this Breaking Health Podcast.
2018-08-2332 min
Breaking HealthSimple Contacts CEO Joel Wishkovsky – App Isn’t for EveryoneFounder and CEO Joel Wishkovsky created Simple Contacts’ phone-based app to save contact lens wearers time and money when they need a new supply of lenses but not a new prescription. Ophthalmologists are funding the company and conducting the remote examinations. But the firm isn’t seen favorably by optometrists, who stand to lose a steady stream of business.
2018-08-1729 min
Breaking HealthMedcrypt CEO Mike Kijewski Says Medtech Cybersecurity Is a Growing Concern for Hospitals, PatientsMedCrypt CEO Mike Kijewski is playing a long game. At the moment, he recognizes Medtech execs aren’t placing a high priority on cybersecurity of their devices. But as technology becomes more advanced – and hospitals grow more wary – he expects demand will grow. The time is coming for Medtech to take a cue from the iPhone, he says.
2018-08-1034 min
Breaking HealthNew Verana CEO Miki Kapoor Explains Why He Couldn’t Resist the Opportunity to Lead the Data CompanyVerana Health, formerly known as DigiSight, is hoping to partner with clinical societies to build a deep cache of EHR data for pharma and medtech companies. The firm already is working with the American Academy of Ophthalmology, making its IRIS database available to commercial partners. Verana expects to create similar relationships with other clinical societies.
2018-08-0329 min
Breaking HealthCareZone CEO Jonathan Schwartz Discusses the Potential Power of Online Prescriptions, Health DataCareZone manages a mobile app that enables users to keep their medications, health information, and contacts all in one place. CEO Jonathan Schwartz shares the company’s origin (and early contact with PillPack, now an Amazon company).
2018-07-3040 min
Breaking HealthOwned Outcomes CEO Anita Pramoda Doubles Down, Leads Data Science Company, EdiomIn this week’s Breaking Health Podcast, Anita Pramoda, CEO of Owned Outcomes, digs deep into the joint venture between her company and Vizient Inc. Ediom, LLC, a cognitive computing and data science company solely focused on the needs of health care.
2018-07-1932 min
Breaking HealthAetion CEO Carolyn Magill Explains How Aetion Will Collect Evidence to Prove What Medicines WorkIn this week’s Breaking Health Podcast, recently installed Aetion CEO Carolyn Magill visits with BH host Steve Krupa to share the value-based healthcare story that helped the company raise $36.4 million in a Series B from investors including New Enterprise Associates.
2018-07-1332 min
Breaking HealthSpry CEO and Co-founder Pierre-Jean Cobut Shares Strategy to ‘Loop’ in Chronically Ill PatientsCo-founder Pierre-Jean Cobut shares the story of Spry Health, the developer of the Loop wristband that will continuously track the Vital Signs of chronically ill patients while they’re living life outside the hospital. “Care is moving to the home,” Cobut says. “But you can’t do that without knowing what is happening to people.” Hear where Spry sees opportunity in healthcare and how the FDA factors into its plan.
2018-07-0631 min
Breaking HealthCurisium CEO Peter Kim Explains How Blockchain Start-up Can Help Track Value in HealthcareCurisium CEO Peter Kim explains how his start-up will use blockchain technology to help payers, providers, and life science companies to engage in innovative payment agreement tied to patient care. Nearly a third of the payments in the $3 trillion US healthcare market are already tied to some form of innovative payment model. The company recently raised $3.5 million in seed financing from Flare Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Shuttle Fund, Sanofi Ventures, and Green Bay Ventures.
2018-06-2935 min
Breaking HealthNancy Brown, partner at Oak HC/FT, Revisits her Atypical Path to a Successful Healthcare CareerEntrepreneur. Corporate Leader. Venture Capitalist. Owner of Multiple Dogs. Nancy Brown once wanted to be a veterinarian, but instead she followed an atypical path to healthcare where she found success early and often. Now as a partner at one of healthcare’s top firms, Oak HC/FT.
2018-06-2129 min
Breaking HealthCan an Apple a Day Score You a Gift Card? NovuHealth Brings Loyalty-Style Approach to HealthcareTom Wicka, CEO and co-founder of NovuHealth, brings his consumer-engagement story to healthcare. The company's patient-engagement system combines performance analytics, behavior science, and comprehensive technology solutions to enable health plans to better understand, motivate, and connect with members.
2018-06-1343 min
Breaking HealthEden Health CEO Matt McCambridge Says Start-Up Is Using Apps and Clinics to Personalize Primary CareMatt McCambridge, CEO and co-founder of Eden Health, discusses the state of primary care with Breaking Health host Steve Krupa. The start-up is working with employers to augment healthcare coverage by providing more personalized care to workers with apps and access to a small chain of NYC-based clinics.
2018-05-2935 min
Medtech TalkHealthegy's Medtech Conference Bringing Together Pols, VCs and Executives to Discuss Sector's FutureJoin us on Thursday at the Medtech Conference in Minneapolis to hear from Congressman Erik Paulsen.A longtime proponent of the Medtech industry, Rep. Paulsen most recently co-authored a letter asking the Trump administration to remove medical technology products from a list of Chinese imports subject to protective tariffs.The five-term Congressman also has fought against the Medical Device Tax.The Medtech Conference co-chairs and advisory board also are pleased to honor Dave Amerson, CEO of NeoTract, as the recipient of this year’s Dealmaker of the Year Award.The award recognizes Am...
2018-05-2907 min
Breaking HealthCEO Daniel Nathrath Explains How AI-Guided Ada Health Gives Patients Insights Before Connecting to MDDaniel Nathrath, CEO of Ada Health, tell Steve Krupa how the company's AI-infused app - one of the fastest growing apps in healthcare - will help patients triage their own ailments and connect to physicians. The company recently raised $47 million from investors.
2018-05-1827 min
Breaking HealthPropeller Health CEO David Van Sickle Explains How Sensors, Data Can Help Manage Respiratory DiseaseDavid Van Sickle, CEO & Co-Founder of Propeller Health, brings his public health background to health tech start-up Propeller Health. The company has created a line of sensors that work in conjunction with inhalers and spirometers to measure medication intake and breathing capacity of people with asthma. The start-up has undertaken some bold projects with entire cities including Louisville to demonstrate how tools such as these can benefit communities. In this podcast Van Sickle discusses the company's unique origins, its technology and a small hiccup involving the company's former name. Van Sickle will be speaking on an innovative panel at the...
2018-05-1132 min
Breaking HealthRubiconMD Co-Founder Addo Explains How Start-Up Creates eConsult Connection to SpecialistsPrior to closing on a $13.8 million round from venture investors, Gil Addo, CEO and Co-Founder of RubiconMD, spoke with Breaking Health'sSteve Krupa about what drove him to create a start-up to connect primary care, patients, and specialty physicians.
2018-05-0130 min
Breaking HealthIn 100th Episode, BH Host Steve Krupa Discusses Podcast, New CEO Role at Fast-growing HealthEdgeThree years ago, Steve Krupa signed on to host this podcast for Healthegy. Today, things are much different. Now CEO of HealthEdge, a fast-growing healthcare IT company, Krupa discusses the transition and shares his unique VC-CEO perspective. In this podcast he discusses how HealthEdge established the Five Pillars of the company's culture, how he works with his board of directors, and what its plans are for the future.
2018-04-1031 min
Breaking HealthWhat Can VisitPay Do That Credit Cards Can't? Understand When Patients Will Pay Their Hospital BillsKent Ivanoff, Co-Founder and CEO, of VisitPay built a career starting or running credit card businesses for firms like CapitalOne. But healthcare expenses are something credit card companies couldn't figure out. Credit scores don't suggest when a patient might pay their portion of a medical bill. VisitPay says it can while also making life easier for the patient by consolidating their medical bills into one account.
2018-03-2131 min
Breaking HealthCan Tiber Health CEO David Lenihan Disrupt How We Teach Our Future Physicians?In the eyes of Tiber Health CEO David Lenihan, MD, the "medical school model" is broken. Can his venture-backed startup Tiber Health teach future physicians more effectively and help avoid the coming global doctor shortage? The Problem: Tiber Health says we'll need an additional 14 million medical professionals by 2039.Tiber's Solution: Tiber is building what it hopes will be a reproducible education model.Side note: David Lenihan was at Tiber's school in Puerto Rico during the interview. We got disconnected twice.
2018-03-0629 min
Breaking HealthLRVHealth Tapping Providers for New $100 Million FundTripp Peake co-founded Long River Ventures in 2000, just before the tech and venture capital industries took a dive. The firm survived, thrived, and is very much alive raising a $100 million fund under a new brand, LRVHealth. The new name and tight healthcare focus reflects the firm's strong connections to hospital networks and other healthcare institutions making up its limited partner base. With a broader investment team and new purpose, LRVHealth is looking to connect healthcare innovators and end-users. Overview: More money for Series A rounds. Good news!Surprises: I didn't know the origin of the Long River...
2018-02-1936 min
Breaking HealthKiio CEO Dave Grandin Explains How the Company’s Pivot Puts it in a Position to SucceedThis week Steve Krupa chats with Dave Grandin, president and CEO of Kiio, about the company’s work to help payers and providers manage patient care. Dave Grandin brings an outsider’s perspective to healthcare, finding great success leading sports technology companies like Avid Sports. Following a short break, Dave returned to the start-up world to help healthcare tackle its own problems by leading Kiio. The company has a unique focus on evidence-based care pathways and low back pain, two areas that likely don’t receive enough attention from Digital Health start-ups.Overview: Kiio seems to be wor...
2018-01-2930 min
Breaking HealthWhat Did Bill Geary Hear During JP Morgan Week? Let’s Ask Him. Also, We Picked a Date for DHIS 2018Bill Geary, cofounder and partner of Flare Capital Partners, muscles through a strained voice to discuss the growing trepidation over Digital Health. But he emphasizes the many reasons for enthusiasm in 2018 including new capital and likely consolidation.
2018-01-1218 min
Breaking HealthJeff Immelt Ready to Move from Disrupted to DisruptorJeff Immelt gained a unique perspective from high atop his CEO chair at GE.In this interview at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, Bill Geary, co-chair of the conference and co-founder of Flare Capital Partners, leads the high-profile executive through the many challenges facing healthcare.
2017-12-1549 min
Breaking HealthCo-Chairs Geary, Mittendorff Share High Notes from a Successful Digital Healthcare Innovation SummitIn this week’s podcast, Breaking Health co-host Tom Salemi catches up with summit co-chairs Bill Geary and Robert Mittendorff, MD, immediately after the close of the sold-out Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit. The trio share their highlights from the summit including lessons from former GE CEO Jeff Immelt and broader observations about the maturation of Digital Health.
2017-12-0508 min
Breaking HealthCEO Rajeev Singh Says Accolade Working to Put the Human Touch Back into HealthcareFollowing a successful run as a tech entrepreneur and executive, Rajeev Singh heard numerous warnings about joining a healthcare start-up. But Singh, like many, saw the opportunity to affect true change in healthcare too tempting to ignore. Two years ago, he assumed the CEO role at Accolade, a company using phone calls, AI, and Machine Learning to help self-insured employers understand their healthcare needs.
2017-11-2235 min
Breaking HealthLong River’s Figlioli Shares Lessons Learned Running Companies, Buying Start-ups, and Playing CricketKeith Figlioli found himself on a senior management track, helping to run some of healthcare’s more impactful companies including Premier, the purchasing network of close to 200 hospitals. Now he is a partner at Long River Ventures, a smaller venture firm with an extensive, successful history of investing in healthcare IT companies. In this Breaking Health Podcast, Figlioli shares the lessons learned on his lengthy path to Long River and explains what’s next for the growing venture capital firm.
2017-11-1837 min
Breaking HealthLeaders from GE, CVS to Take Stage at Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit on November 30 in BostonDHIS co-chair Bill Geary, partner and cofounder of Flare Capital Partners, announces the final additions to this year’s Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit. Jeff Immelt, former GE CEO, and Troyen Brennan, MD, CMO of CVS Health, will sit down to discuss their respective views on the future of Digital Health.
2017-11-1705 min
Breaking HealthMittendorff Says Digital Health Is Alive, Well. Talks iRhythm, DHIS, and His Investment in VisitPayFew can make a stronger case for the health of Digital Health then Robert Mittendorff, MD, general partner at Norwest Venture Partners, co-chair of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, and emergency room physician. In this episode, Dr. Mittendorff talks up the strength of iRhythm, the wisdom of the FDA, and areas where he’d like to invest more capital. He also discusses the company’s recent investment in VisitPay.
2017-11-1141 min
Breaking HealthWEGO CEO Barrette Says Influential Patients Can Help Strengthen the Message of Healthcare CompaniesWEGO Health CEO and president Jack Barrette explains how the company is building a network of the most influential patient leaders to help firms validate their products and services.
2017-11-0337 min
Breaking HealthPaging Dr. Alexa: Worrell Testing Potential of Voice-enabled Tech in Healthcare and the HomeDesign firm Worrell is asking how Alexa and other voice-enabled devices might treat chronic disease, manage clinical trials, and restore bonds between patients and physicians. The firm also is tracking advances in virtual and augmented reality, with an eye toward demonstrating how this tech can be useful first in the hospital and then in the home.
2017-10-2936 min
Breaking HealthCEO Darin Brannan Shares How ClearDATA Is Building a Safe Place in the Cloud for Healthcare PlayersClearDATA Co-founder, CEO and President Darin Brannan – a Silicon Valley VC and entrepreneur - went from being his healthcare family’s black sheep to potential savior. In this podcast, Brannan introduces ClearDATA, provider of a secure, HITRUST-certified healthcare managed cloud system that serves more than 350,000 healthcare professionals looking to safeguard healthcare data.
2017-10-2041 min
Breaking HealthSavonix CEO Mylea Charvat Working to Fill Huge Physician Gap in Testing Cognitive FunctionFaced with an unacceptable disagnosis after her husband was seriously injured in an accident, Savonix CEO Mylea Charvat created a digital tool to measure cognitive function to help her husband recover. Now Savonix seeks to fill a huge gap facing healthcare by gauging cognitive function, organizing and storing data at the population level, improving patient outcomes, and accelerating medical innovation.
2017-10-1442 min
Breaking HealthBigfoot Biomedical Stalking a Cloud-based Treatment for Type 1 DiabetesJeffrey Brewer left the start-up realm to focus on understanding and aiding his young son after a diabetes diagnosis. But a “hack” of a glucose monitor brought him back into the CEO role of Bigfoot Biomedical, a company working to build a networked system of glucose detection and insulin delivery.To Learn more about the Breaking Health Podcast, visit: https://goo.gl/ecYaUL
2017-10-0636 min
Breaking HealthGuided by Early Life Experiences, Flare Capital’s Geary Committed to Finding Ways to Fix HealthcareBill Geary, general partner of Flare Capital, who serves as co-chair of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, explains how a very personal – and ultimately traumatic – experience with the healthcare system made a permanent impression upon him.
2017-09-2939 min
Breaking HealthReputation.com CEO Bhatia Wants to Help Providers Understand What Patients Are SayingReputation.com is moving into healthcare to help providers understand what patients are saying online about their care and practice. CEO Shrey Bhatia explains how the company can help hospitals and doctors better manage the word on the online street.
2017-09-2236 min
Breaking HealthHackathon Fan Andrea Ippolito Shares the Opportunities for Innovation at the VAThe VA is undergoing a sweeping innovation effort. Andrea Ippolito, who brings experience from Medtech, MIT, and healthcare IT, explains how the VA Innovators Network is working to identify innovation that can improve care for veterans.
2017-09-1534 min
Breaking HealthPersonal Tragedy Puts AUM Founder and CEO Marie Johnson on Journey to Create a Device, Save LivesMarie Johnson, CEO and founder of AUM Cardiovascular, lost her husband, Rob, to a heart attack. The tragedy led her to develop CADence, a handheld device that she believes will save lives by identifying telltale signs of cardiovascular disease.
2017-09-0849 min
Breaking HealthCan Patientory Harness the Power of Blockchain to Secure Access to Patient Health Records?When Chrissa McFarlane saw an underserved niche in the PHI space and heard about a new technology called blockchain, she put two and two together and created Patientory, a groundbreaking provider of digital healthcare solutions.
2017-08-2430 min
Breaking HealthMacro-Eyes CEO Benjamin Fels Sees Patterns for Success in Using AI to Mine Healthcare DataMacro-Eyes CEO Benjamin Fels sees great promise bringing the lessons learned using data in decision-making at a quantitative hedge fund to diagnose patients and manage healthcare practices.
2017-08-1747 min
Breaking HealthCEO Barad Explains How Osso VR Uses Virtual Reality to Solve a Problem No One Knew ExistedJustin Barad talks about taking VR out of the gaming space with innovative software that will transform how orthopedic surgeons train in the OR.
2017-08-0842 min
Breaking HealthCan Sansoro Health Simplify EMRs and “Fix Healthcare IT?” We Ask CEO Jeremy PierottiSansoro Health, strengthened by $1.2 million in new capital, is developing an EMR-agnostic web services middleware platform that allows providers to better integrate their records.
2017-08-0438 min
Breaking HealthCory Kidd Reveals How Catalia Health and Mabu Can Help Patients Care for ThemselvesCatalia Health Founder and CEO Cory Kidd, PhD, who has spent two decades working at the intersection of healthcare and technology, explains the power of Mabu, an electronic healthcare assistant.
2017-07-2835 min
Breaking HealthFollowing $50 million raise, CEO Duffy Explains How Omada Will Help People Control Their DiabetesOmada Health recently closed on a $50 million fundraising round led by Cigna. In this follow-up call with Breaking Health host Steve Krupa, Duffy says Omada is continuing to build a meaningful business helping people control their diabetes.
2017-07-2135 min
Breaking HealthPatient Diagnose Thyself: How Start-Up Buoy Health Will Help People Identify What Ails ThemKnowledge may be power, but incorrect medical information can be dangerous. Andrew Le, MD, founded Buoy Health to use artificial intelligence to help patients pull useful and accurate information from the Internet.
2017-07-1342 min
Breaking HealthCan Multisensor Diagnostics Create a Working Medical Tricorder? CEO Elumalai Lays Out Path to YesSathya Elumalai spent more than 10 years in the healthcare field, working in everything from data analytics to research. But when he learned about the MouthLab device, he was drawn to the opportunity to directly affect patient care.
2017-07-0737 min
Breaking HealthBreaking Health Replay: Hear How Omada CEO Sean Duffy Is Building a DigitalRx LeaderDigitalRx diabetes start-up Omada Health recently secured $50 million. In this 2015 interview, hear why CEO and co-founder Sean Duffy opted to leave medical school to start the company and learn how it plans to help people lose weight and manage disease.
2017-06-2340 min
Breaking HealthAledade CEO Mostashari Explains why Power Should be put Back into Hands of Primary Care PhysiciansAledade Co-Founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari, MD, the former national coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services, is leading a start-up to help restore power to primary care physicians.
2017-06-1639 min
Breaking HealthCEO and Founder Weingard Shares His Personal Path to Creating Fit4D to Aid People with DiabetesAn avid triathlete, David G. Weingard sat on the top of his physical game when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The disease slowed, but didn’t stop Weingard, who learned to train and race while managing the disorder. He then decided to help others with diabetes by founding Fit4D to create a platform to provide customized coaching.
2017-06-0840 min
Breaking HealthScreen Time Rx? Akili CEO Martucci Explains How Video Games Can Ease Cognitive DisordersAkili Interactive – a start-up growing out of the PureTech Health group – may pick up where pharmaceuticals have left off in developing new treatments for behavioral health disorders.
2017-05-3141 min
Breaking HealthCan Wellthie Build the “Zillow” for Healthcare Insurance?Sally Poblete, founder and CEO, spent her career at large insurance companies before starting Wellthie, a start-up dedicated to changing the way individuals and small businesses find the right insurance policy.
2017-05-1934 min
Breaking HealthA Little Bit Medtech, A Little Bit Tech: Murj CEO Butka Explains How Murj Combines Best of BothTodd Butka, the CEO and founder of Murj, personifies the much ballyhooed crossover between Medtech and Tech. The start-up is developing a software application that enables providers to efficiently manage data from implantable cardiac devices.
2017-05-1236 min
Breaking HealthCEO Langshur Explains how AVIA is Helping Innovative Hospitals Develop Their own Digital SolutionsEric Langshur, co-founder and CEO, explains how AVIA leads a network for health systems seeking to innovate and transform through digital strategy. He’s also the author of a best-selling book, Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing.
2017-05-0339 min
Breaking HealthAetion Founder Shares How the Data Company Is Arming Healthcare Stakeholders with Hard EvidenceIn this interview, co-founder, president, and chief scientific officer Jeremy A. Rassen discusses the company’s origins, technology, and impact on developing the data necessary to deliver value-based healthcare.
2017-04-2837 min
Breaking HealthExplORer Surgical Writing the Digital Playbook to Get OR Teams on the Same PageCEO Jennifer Fried explains how start-up ExplORer Surgical is delivering a high precision workflow tool for surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses in the OR. Fried says ExplORer can not only make surgery run more smoothly, but also can save hospitals millions in wasted supplies.
2017-04-2133 min
Breaking HealthBH Replay: Arun Gupta On Why Healthcare Start-ups Need to be “Passion Projects” for EntrepreneursIn this replay of our popular podcast we learn that Quartet Health is building a platform to support behavioral health. The company partners with health systems to provide consistent online support for their patients. Investors include former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, GV (formerly Google Ventures), F-Prime Capital Partners, Polaris Partners and others.
2017-04-1345 min
Breaking HealthBH Podcast Double Play: Brandon Hull and Jonathan Bush on the Past, and Future, of Digital HealthBrandon Hull, Managing Director of Cardinal Partners, delivers a heaping pile of context to the digital health revolution (or evolution) and offers his expectations for the future. In our second part of this podcast, Hull goes up against Jonathan Bush, CEO and president of athenahealth, the digital healthcare giant pushing for change to EHRs and working to create the first cloud-based hospital.
2017-04-0649 min
Breaking HealthProvidence Ventures’ DelloRusso Shares Provider’s Charge to Be Consumer, Digital LeaderChristiana DelloRusso, partner, Providence Ventures, explains what Providence Ventures is doing to help Providence St. Joseph Health, the third largest non-profit health system in the country, become “the most consumer focused and digitally enabled health system in the country.”
2017-03-3115 min
Breaking HealthMandira Singh Explains How athenahealth Is Building an Innovation Platform for Digital HealthMore Disruption Please Director Mandira Singh explains how athenahealth is using influence and investment to help build a Digital Health platform. Singh also serves as the company’s director of corporate development.
2017-03-2414 min
Breaking HealthImagine Health Works to Lower Employers’ Healthcare Costs by Building Better Physician NetworksImagine Health’s belief is simple – better physicians ultimately cost the healthcare system less money.“We believe strongly if you create a network where the default option is the quality option that people will be much better off,” Cigarran says.
2017-03-1736 min
Breaking HealthWhy Does Oak HC/FT’s Annie Lamont Think This is an “Amazing Time” to be Investing in Healthcare?OAK HC/FT is reportedly targeting $500 million for a second fund. At last year’s DHIS, we chatted with Managing Partner Annie Lamont about the firm’s origins as well as the many great opportunities facing healthcare investors and entrepreneurs.
2017-03-1015 min
Breaking HealthAvizia CEO Mike Baird Sees Telemedicine Perched at the Start of a Supernova of Healthcare InnovationHost Steve Krupa delves deep into Avizia’s history and its approach to developing the right products for hospitals. How does it identify the features providers want, as well as those they may not know they even need?
2017-03-0342 min
Breaking HealthCan Halo Unleash the Power of the Brain to Help Top Athletes Achieve Their True Potential?Competitive rower Brett Wingeier helped build one of the most ambitious Neurotech companies to aid people with epilepsy. Now he and another NeuroPace alum have created Halo, a neurological device that could give athletes another gear in their workouts.
2017-02-2643 minBreaking HealthArcadia’s CEO Sean Carroll Talks Greenheads, EHRs and Building A Leader in Data ManagementSean Carroll, CEO of Arcadia Healthcare Solution, shares his favorite beer and his strategy for Arcadia Healthcare Solutions, a data management leader that drew a $30 million new round from investors including newcomers Merck GHBi and GE Ventures.
2017-02-1738 min
Breaking HealthFrom Farmville To Pharma: How Alpha’s Thor Ernstsson Studies Small User Tests for Better ResultsAlpha CEO Thor Ernstsson talks on the importance of making smarter product decisions through the right kind of user insight. Alpha builds a universal tool that tests the small incremental changes needed to improve engagement. With big name clients like Prudential, Pfizer, and Spotify, Alpha is proving the need for product versatility – within and outside of patient care.
2017-02-1241 min
Breaking HealthEliminating the Pain Points: How Bright Health Works to Re-shape the Stress of Healthcare CoverageBob Sheehy, CEO and co-founder of Bright Health and veteran of the insurance game, shares his vision for a better healthcare system.
2017-02-0536 min
Breaking HealthA Taste of Their Own Medicine: How HealthPrize is Building a Winning Medication Adherence ToolHealthPrize CEO Tom Kottler explains how we can save lives – and billions of dollars – by helping patients take their prescribed medications.
2017-01-0949 min
Breaking HealthBlue Mesa Building Digital Rx Tool to Help Diabetics Manage Their ConditionCurtis Duggan, Co-Founder and CEO of Blue Mesa, explains how the start-up is using mobile tech, wearables, and other tools to help people take control of their disease.
2016-12-1644 min
Breaking HealthCan Twiage Cut the Static for Communications between Ambulance and ER?Yiding Yu, MD, founder and chief medical officer of Twiage, explains how her start-up is using mobile technologies to clear the line between the EMTs and ER personnel.
2016-12-0935 min
Breaking HealthSolveBio Building “Intelligence Platform” for Companies, Providers in Precision MedicineOn this week’s installment of Breaking Health, Host Steve Krupa – CEO of the Psilos Group – dives into the intriguing story behind SolveBio, a company working to disrupt precision medicine.In this interview, Mark Kaganovich, PhD, CEO, and co-founder, discusses the benefits of SolveBio’s innovative data layer – called the “Genomic Intelligence Platform” – aimed at enabling pharma, biotech, and diagnostic organizations to effectively interact with genomic information.Founded in 2013 by graduate school classmates David Caplan, David Gross, and Kaganovich, SolveBio recognizes that isolated DNA sequencing technology has become increasingly essential in medicine and health care. But the process lacks accessible reference data t...
2016-12-0548 min
Breaking HealthCirculation – the “Uber of Health Care” – Brings Ease and Convenience to Patients Who Need a RideCirculation co-founder and CEO Robin Heffernan explains how her start-up is working with the transportation giant to make it easier for patients to see a doctor.
2016-11-2141 min
Breaking HealthAnalytics Double Shot: Hear Where Major Players like Optum and Start-Ups Like analyticsMD See Opportunities in HealthcareBreaking Health Host Steve Krupa hears some exciting news from Optum’s Michael Weintraub and talks Analytics with Mudit Garg, founder and CEO of analyticsMD.
2016-11-1339 min
Breaking HealthDHIS Wrap Up: Health Catalyst Leader Dan Burton Grateful to Receive Company’s Innovator AwardCEO Dan Burton, receiving the DHIS Innovator Award on behalf of the data warehouse company, speaks to strengths and values that have driven the company’s success.
2016-11-0627 min
Breaking HealthOne Caring Team’s Kim on Using Virtual Reality to Combat LonelinessInspired by the sad tale of one patient, Kim founded One Caring Team to create a way to keep patients better connected through Virtual Reality.
2016-10-3034 min
Breaking HealthDHIS Preview: Co-Chair Mittendorff Says Conference Reflects Maturation, Impact of Digital HealthNorwest Venture Partners’ Robert Mittendorff, MD, and host Steve Krupa discuss the “proof points” that demonstrate how technology is beginning to change how health care is delivered.
2016-10-2135 min
Breaking HealthCan IORA Health Restore the Soul to the Delivery of Primary Care?IORA’s co-founder and CEO Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, has spent the past decade trying to improve primary care. Hear how IORA Health is delivering on that long-time pursuit.
2016-10-1445 min
Medtech TalkJustin Klein, MD, JD, Partner at New Enterprise AssociatesJustin Klein, MD, JD, sits down with Healthegy TV to provide details on where his firm, New Enterprise Associates, sees the greatest opportunities in Medtech. He also explains how a firm with $3 billion to manage still makes early-stage investments.
2016-02-2924 min
Breaking HealthThe DHIS Post Game ShowThe Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit brought together over 300 leaders in Digital Technology and Health Care to dig into what will finally bring real change to health care. The message is clear – change is coming. EMRs are up and running. Health care workers are demanding mobile technologies. And physicians find telehealth visits to be a viable – and cost effective way – of managing patient health. All discussions as well as private interviews with health care leaders will be available at digitalhealthcaresummit.com. Until they arrive, listen to Healthegy Content Director Tom Salemi and Steve Krupa, CEO of Psilos Group and host of Breaki...
2015-11-0525 min