Breaking Health
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Macro-Eyes CEO Benjamin Fels Sees Patterns for Success in Using AI to Mine Healthcare Data
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Macro-Eyes CEO Benjamin Fels sees great promise bringing the lessons learned using data in decision-making at a quantitative hedge fund to diagnose pa...
CEO Barad Explains How Osso VR Uses Virtual Reality to Solve a Problem No One Knew Existed
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Barad talks about taking VR out of the gaming space with innovative software that will transform how orthopedic surgeons train in the OR.
Can Sansoro Health Simplify EMRs and “Fix Healthcare IT?” We Ask CEO Jeremy Pierotti
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sansoro Health, strengthened by $1.2 million in new capital, is developing an EMR-agnostic web services middleware platform that allows providers to b...
Cory Kidd Reveals How Catalia Health and Mabu Can Help Patients Care for Themselves
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Catalia Health Founder and CEO Cory Kidd, PhD, who has spent two decades working at the intersection of healthcare and technology, explains the power ...
Following $50 million raise, CEO Duffy Explains How Omada Will Help People Control Their Diabetes
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Omada 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...
Patient Diagnose Thyself: How Start-Up Buoy Health Will Help People Identify What Ails Them
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Knowledge may be power, but incorrect medical information can be dangerous. Andrew Le, MD, founded Buoy Health to use artificial intelligence to help ...
Can Multisensor Diagnostics Create a Working Medical Tricorder? CEO Elumalai Lays Out Path to Yes
07 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sathya Elumalai spent more than 10 years in the healthcare field, working in everything from data analytics to research. But when he learned about the...
Breaking Health Replay: Hear How Omada CEO Sean Duffy Is Building a DigitalRx Leader
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
DigitalRx diabetes start-up Omada Health recently secured $50 million. In this 2015 interview, hear why CEO and co-founder Sean Duffy opted to leave m...
Aledade CEO Mostashari Explains why Power Should be put Back into Hands of Primary Care Physicians
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Aledade Co-Founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari, MD, the former national coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services, is lea...
CEO and Founder Weingard Shares His Personal Path to Creating Fit4D to Aid People with Diabetes
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
An 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...
Screen Time Rx? Akili CEO Martucci Explains How Video Games Can Ease Cognitive Disorders
31 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Akili Interactive – a start-up growing out of the PureTech Health group – may pick up where pharmaceuticals have left off in developing new treatm...
Can Wellthie Build the “Zillow” for Healthcare Insurance?
19 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Poblete, founder and CEO, spent her career at large insurance companies before starting Wellthie, a start-up dedicated to changing the way indiv...
A Little Bit Medtech, A Little Bit Tech: Murj CEO Butka Explains How Murj Combines Best of Both
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Butka, the CEO and founder of Murj, personifies the much ballyhooed crossover between Medtech and Tech. The start-up is developing a software app...
CEO Langshur Explains how AVIA is Helping Innovative Hospitals Develop Their own Digital Solutions
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Langshur, co-founder and CEO, explains how AVIA leads a network for health systems seeking to innovate and transform through digital strategy. He...
Aetion Founder Shares How the Data Company Is Arming Healthcare Stakeholders with Hard Evidence
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, co-founder, president, and chief scientific officer Jeremy A. Rassen discusses the company’s origins, technology, and impact on d...
ExplORer Surgical Writing the Digital Playbook to Get OR Teams on the Same Page
21 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
CEO Jennifer Fried explains how start-up ExplORer Surgical is delivering a high precision workflow tool for surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses in...
BH Replay: Arun Gupta On Why Healthcare Start-ups Need to be “Passion Projects” for Entrepreneurs
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this replay of our popular podcast we learn that Quartet Health is building a platform to support behavioral health. The company partners with heal...
BH Podcast Double Play: Brandon Hull and Jonathan Bush on the Past, and Future, of Digital Health
06 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Hull, Managing Director of Cardinal Partners, delivers a heaping pile of context to the digital health revolution (or evolution) and offers hi...
Providence Ventures’ DelloRusso Shares Provider’s Charge to Be Consumer, Digital Leader
31 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Christiana DelloRusso, partner, Providence Ventures, explains what Providence Ventures is doing to help Providence St. Joseph Health, the third larges...
Mandira Singh Explains How athenahealth Is Building an Innovation Platform for Digital Health
24 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
More Disruption Please Director Mandira Singh explains how athenahealth is using influence and investment to help build a Digital Health platform. Sin...
Imagine Health Works to Lower Employers’ Healthcare Costs by Building Better Physician Networks
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine Health’s belief is simple – better physicians ultimately cost the healthcare system less money.“We believe strongly if you create a netw...
Why Does Oak HC/FT’s Annie Lamont Think This is an “Amazing Time” to be Investing in Healthcare?
10 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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’...
Avizia CEO Mike Baird Sees Telemedicine Perched at the Start of a Supernova of Healthcare Innovation
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Host Steve Krupa delves deep into Avizia’s history and its approach to developing the right products for hospitals. How does it identify the feature...
Can Halo Unleash the Power of the Brain to Help Top Athletes Achieve Their True Potential?
26 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Competitive rower Brett Wingeier helped build one of the most ambitious Neurotech companies to aid people with epilepsy. Now he and another NeuroPace ...
Arcadia’s CEO Sean Carroll Talks Greenheads, EHRs and Building A Leader in Data Management
17 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Carroll, CEO of Arcadia Healthcare Solution, shares his favorite beer and his strategy for Arcadia Healthcare Solutions, a data management leader...
From Farmville To Pharma: How Alpha’s Thor Ernstsson Studies Small User Tests for Better Results
12 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Alpha CEO Thor Ernstsson talks on the importance of making smarter product decisions through the right kind of user insight. Alpha builds a universal ...
Eliminating the Pain Points: How Bright Health Works to Re-shape the Stress of Healthcare Coverage
05 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Sheehy, CEO and co-founder of Bright Health and veteran of the insurance game, shares his vision for a better healthcare system.
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: How HealthPrize is Building a Winning Medication Adherence Tool
09 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
HealthPrize CEO Tom Kottler explains how we can save lives – and billions of dollars – by helping patients take their prescribed medications.
Blue Mesa Building Digital Rx Tool to Help Diabetics Manage Their Condition
16 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis 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...
Can Twiage Cut the Static for Communications between Ambulance and ER?
09 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
SolveBio Building “Intelligence Platform” for Companies, Providers in Precision Medicine
05 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s installment of Breaking Health, Host Steve Krupa – CEO of the Psilos Group – dives into the intriguing story behind SolveBio, a c...
Circulation – the “Uber of Health Care” – Brings Ease and Convenience to Patients Who Need a Ride
21 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Circulation co-founder and CEO Robin Heffernan explains how her start-up is working with the transportation giant to make it easier for patients to se...
Analytics Double Shot: Hear Where Major Players like Optum and Start-Ups Like analyticsMD See Opportunities in Healthcare
13 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Breaking Health Host Steve Krupa hears some exciting news from Optum’s Michael Weintraub and talks Analytics with Mudit Garg, founder and CEO of ana...
DHIS Wrap Up: Health Catalyst Leader Dan Burton Grateful to Receive Company’s Innovator Award
06 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
CEO Dan Burton, receiving the DHIS Innovator Award on behalf of the data warehouse company, speaks to strengths and values that have driven the compan...
One Caring Team’s Kim on Using Virtual Reality to Combat Loneliness
30 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by the sad tale of one patient, Kim founded One Caring Team to create a way to keep patients better connected through Virtual Reality.
DHIS Preview: Co-Chair Mittendorff Says Conference Reflects Maturation, Impact of Digital Health
21 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Norwest Venture Partners’ Robert Mittendorff, MD, and host Steve Krupa discuss the “proof points” that demonstrate how technology is beginning t...
Can IORA Health Restore the Soul to the Delivery of Primary Care?
14 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Burton Explains the Importance of Identifying Core Values and Always Remaining Humble
08 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton will be in Boston on Nov. 2 to receive the Digital Healthcare Innovator Award on behalf of the analytics company. Liste...
TalkSpace Wants to Change How People Seek – and See - Therapy
02 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Oren Frank knows therapy saved his marriage. He and his wife, Roni, founded talkspace to make therapy an accessible, approachable and affordable optio...
DHIS Preview: Co-Chair Bill Geary Talks Innovation Holes, the Government’s Role, and What This Election Means for Health Care
24 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Host Steve Krupa of the Psilos Group interviews Bill Geary, general partner of Flare Capital Partners, about his new firm, opportunities in health car...
Can CrowdMed’s Medical Detectives Prove the Dx Power of the Crowd?
17 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jared Heyman founded CrowdMed to turn diagnostics on its head. Rather than asking patients to find one physician with the right answer, CrowdMed is tr...
Why Is Mert Iseri Riled? & How Does He See SwipeSense Reducing One of Health Care’s Most Unacceptable Risks?
27 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly two million people a year acquire infections while hospitalized. Five percent of those patients die. SwipeSense’s CEO says it has the tech, p...
OnShift Makes a Difference by Finding and Managing the Right People to Deliver Care
19 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
OnShift CEO Mark Woodka knows better management of health care professionals can improve care. And he practices what he preaches, explaining how HR a...
Music as Medicine? The Sync Project Hopes to Help You Find the Right Music to Make You Well
12 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
CEO Marko Ahtisaari brings a rich background of design and music to a new quest to identify music that can actually help people maintain or regain the...
Looking for Secure Mobile Communications within Hospital Walls? PatientSafe Has an App for That
05 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The business of building mobile networks that can operate safely and securely within hospital walls is complicated and competitive. President and CEO ...
Can ZappRx Replace the Fax and Create a Digital Platform to Cut Prescription Fulfillment by 90%?
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by the problems facing her youngest brother, Zoë Barry founded ZappRx to streamline the process to secure prescription meds, especially for ...
Can Evidation Health Identify Where the Digital Rubber Is Meeting Health Care’s Road?
22 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah Kilpatrick, PhD, CEO of Evidation Health, explains how the company is creating a way to validate the efficacy of digital tools in health care....
Can Wellframe Employ Digital Tools to Help Payers with Case and Care Management?
15 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Wellframe co-founder and CEO Jacob Sattelmair on how his company intends to win the race to create the most effective digital tools to engage patients...
How Can Patients Improve Their Care While Reducing Costs? Canary Health Answers the Call
08 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Canary Health is working with payers, providers, and Medtech suppliers like Medtronic to give patients – and their caregivers – the tools necessar...
Medtronic’s Geoff Martha on How the Medtech Giant Will Transform Health Care
24 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Martha, executive vice president, Restorative Therapies Group, shares Medtronic’s view of Medtech. In this interview with Stacy Enxing Seng, v...
Music as Medicine? PureTech Explores How Sounds, Video Games Can Diagnose & Treat Disease
18 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
PureTech historically has focused on creating new biotech and medical device technologies. CEO and founder Daphne Zohar explains PureTech’s move int...
Turning the Tables: Host Steve Krupa of Psilos on Becoming a VC & Why Health Care Needs to Change
12 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Psilos CEO Steve Krupa gets some well deserved time in the spotlight after hosting half a year’s worth of podcasts. In this interview we ask Steve w...
Quartet Health CEO Arun Gupta on the Behavioral Health Venture That’s got the Attention of High Profile Strategic & VC Firms
03 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Quartet Health recently closed on a $40 million second round to build a support platform for behavorial health patients. The company partners with hea...
Pager Bring Back the House Call in Bid to Keep Patients Out of the Hospital
27 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Telemedicine player Pager is working with insurers and physicians to allow sick people to get treated in their homes. CEO and Co-founder Gaspard de D...
Grand Rounds’ CEO Owen Tripp on why the company set out to build a “League of Super-Powered Doctors.”
20 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
CEO and co-founder Owen Tripp goes back to share the origins of Grand Rounds’ mission, a meeting over coffee and pastries with co-founder Lawrence “...
How Pear Therapeutics is Creating Digital Therapeutics to Treat Substance Use Disorders
15 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Pear Therapeutics CEO Corey McCann, MD, PhD delves into the potential digital therapeutics have in helping people who abuse drugs and alcohol. The com...
Harken Health Hearkens Back to the Old Days of HMOs, Personal Touches in Health Care
05 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With the blessing of UnitedHealthcare, CEO Tom Vanderheyden left the insurance giant to create a company that puts primary care front and center. With...
Healthify: There’s More to Health Than Health Care.
29 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Health care doesn’t just happen at hospitals. Start-up Healthify is building a software platforms to help patients stay healthy after they’ve left...
Meds Won’t Work If You Don’t Take Them. Can AiCure Make Sure You Do?
16 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
AiCure is taking a simple, but critical step to ensuring people get healthier. Its system of ensuring meds are taken can improve care and help bolster...
Care Management Technologies on Tracking the Behavioral Health of Patients on the Mend
06 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Behavioral health isn’t always seen as an integral part of health care, but Care Management Technologies is breaking down those walls.
CEO Bond: How CareSync is `family-tizing’ health care data.
24 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
CareSync founder and CEO Travis Bond speaks with Steve Krupa of the Psilos Group about CareSync’s bid to enlist physicians and relatives into better...
Can Syapse Bring "Omics" and "Precision Medicine" to its True Clinical Potential?
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Just prior to being feted at the White House, Jonathan Hirsch, co-founder and president of Syapse, lays out the company’s aggressive plans to domina...
Athenahealth’s Bush Sees Lots of Work Ahead for Health Care Internet
04 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s podcast features an interview between Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, and long-time backer, health care VC Brandon Hull. The pair di...
Zipnosis Turning Smart Phone into Part of a Doctor’s Office Staff
26 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Zipnosis doesn’t just bring the doctor to your phone. The company’s app also includes a set of questions geared toward diagnosing your problems an...
xG Health Helps Health Systems Get Healthier
18 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Geisinger Health System, recognized as one of the better-run health care systems, created xG Health to export the model it used to earn the recognitio...
Can Health Care Use a “Digital Payer?” HealthEdge CEO Rob Gillette Says Yes
11 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
HealthEdge has built and automated claims processing system for payers, a precursor to the “Digital Payer” that will make insurance and health car...
Weinberg Has Blueprint For Better Healthcare
04 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With capital and a broad network of notable mentors, Blueprint Health is helping to build out the Digital Health sector in New York. Founding Partner ...
Accolade Earning Kudos from Payers, Patients
28 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Spann, co-founder, vice chairman and chief operating officer, left a “pretty good job” at Ac-centure to create a company that helps patients m...
How TigerText Is Making Mobile Tech Legit
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
TigerText’s secure messaging app promises to improve com-munications between health care workers who can’t use standard technology. Chief Medical ...
Why Omada’s Sean Duffy Joined the “Left Harvard” Club
10 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Digital therapeutics companies are taking root in health care as companies like Omada Health establish a track record – and clinical data – demons...
Reisman Reveals Details on Return to Start-Up
03 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Lonnie Reisman, MD, returns to the start-up life after several years as chief medical officer of Aetna. In his new venture, Reisman is continuing his ...
Teladoc’s Jason Gorevic Shares Insight on Career and Life on the Public Market
19 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Innovator Award Winner CEO Jason Gorevic tells how Teladoc is blazing trails for the telehealth industry.
Pramoda On How Bundled Payment Benefits Patients
09 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Anita Pramoda,CEO of Owned Outcomes, a health analytics company that has worked with more than 100 hospitals implement value based care initiatives an...
The DHIS Post Game Show
05 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit brought together over 300 leaders in Digital Technology and Health Care to dig into what will finally bring r...
Mequilibrium's Bid to Boost Productivity by Lowering Stress
29 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
People enduring chronic stress are less likely to eat right, exercise, sleep enough, or do many of the basic things necessary for good health, says Ja...
Remedy's Bid for Bundled Payments
22 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A serial entrepreneur, Steve Wiggins made his bones in health care two decades ago running Oxford Health Plans, a company he describes as being a mix ...
Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton on Tackling Analytics
08 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Host Steve Krupa of Psilos Group interviews Dan Burton, CEO of Data Warehousing powerhouse Health Catalyst about fund-raising, resisting early strateg...
Chairman Mittendorff Hits on the High Notes of Upcoming DHIS
01 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Norwest Venture Partners’ Robert Mittendorff, MD, and Breaking Health Host Steve Krupa of Psilos Group bring their considerable experiences to bear....