HealthTech Remedy

Carrot co-founder Dr. Asima Ahmad on preconception health, menopause care, and the approach behind a 24% higher IVF live birth rate than average. Episode Resources: Learn more about Carrot Carrot started out helping employers offer fertility and family-building benefits. Today it supports people from the months before conception through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause, with men...

Curology founder Dr. David Lortscher explains why physician-founded health companies outperform and how doctors can build or join high-impact startups. Episode Resources: Learn more about Curology “Why Doctors Win” by Dr. David Lortscher Connect with Dr. David Lortscher Investors often say they won't back physician founders. Dr. David Lortscher, dermatologist, founder of Curology, and author of Wh...

LinusBio CEO Dr. Manish Arora explains how robots and lasers turn a few strands of hair into a 30-day record of lead, arsenic, and other toxic exposures. Episode Resources: Learn more about LinusBio Learn more about traced.life A blood test tells you what's in your body today. But what about last Tuesday, or the week a wildfire rolled through your neighborhood? In this episode of HealthTech Remedy...

IgniteData CEO Zach Taft explains how the Archer platform moves clinical trial data straight from the EHR to sponsors, cutting queries by 90% and delays by weeks. Episode Resources: Learn more about IgniteData Anyone who has worked on a sponsored clinical trial knows the pain of the swivel chair: pull up the electronic health record in one window, open the sponsor's data capture system in another,...

epocrates president David Minkin on turning 25 years of clinician trust into an AI-powered clinical intelligence platform without disrupting the workflow. Episode Resources: Overview of epocrates AI Assist and Clinical Decision Support Official epocrates Product Page and athenahealth Integration Analysis of epocrates’ Role in Reducing Clinician Cognitive Load Video Discussion on Ethical Guardrails...

Hospitals can't reliably get their own protocols to the bedside. Dr. Ido Zamberg of C8 Health on the 17-year evidence gap and fixing clinical knowledge chaos. Episode Resources: Official Website for C8 Health Every clinician knows the feeling: you need a protocol, and you have no idea where it lives. Maybe it's a PDF on a shared drive. Maybe it's an intranet page nobody's updated since 2019. Maybe...

apree health CMO Dr. Marla McLaughlin on merging Castlight navigation with Vera advanced primary care – and why prevention pays off by year three. Episode Resources: Official Website for apree health apree health’s Expansion of Clinical Advocacy Services What if fixing employer healthcare isn't about adding another point solution, but about connecting the ones you already have? This week, Trevor a...

Discover the future of longevity medicine with Cenegenics. Learn how advanced diagnostics, hormone optimization, and coaching can maximize your healthspan. Episode Resources: Cenegenics JAMA Study on VO2 Max and Long-Term Survival Medicine 3.0 and Healthspan Optimization by Peter Attia Understanding Lp(a) and Advanced Cardiovascular Risk Markers Medicare Guidelines for Preventive and Wellness Serv...

CEO Alok Tayi shares how Vibe Bio uses AI in drug development to automate due diligence, solve the biotech funding cliff, and accelerate rare disease cures. Episode Resources: Official Website for Vibe Bio Nature Article on the "Valley of Death" in Drug Development "Chasing My Cure" by David Fajgenbaum While most AI biotech startups focus on discovering new molecules, the industry's real bottlenec...

Can AI reverse metabolic disease? Discover how Twin Health uses digital twins to safely reduce GLP-1 reliance and personalize care in this podcast episode. Episode Resources: Twin Health NEJM Catalyst Study on AI-Enabled Diabetes Remission Genome Medicine Article on Digital Twins in Personalized Medicine ADA Consensus Report on Defining Type 2 Diabetes Remission JAMA Study on Weight Regain After G...

Discover how Cedar uses AI to fix broken healthcare billing, automate revenue cycle management, and improve the patient financial experience. Episode Resources: Cedar KFF Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker Kora AI Agentic Voice Assistant for Patient Billing KFF 2024 Employer Health Benefits Survey Analysis of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" and Medicaid Impacts National Cancer Institute Re...

Hospitals lose millions to medical billing errors. Discover how AKASA uses AI in revenue cycle management to cut claim denials and capture lost revenue. Episode Resources: Against the Rules Podcast - Six Levels Down AKASA Official Resource Library CMS Guide to MS-DRG Classifications and Logic With hospital operating margins often sitting in the single digits, the complex maze of medical billing is...

Discover how Marathon Health is solving the primary care shortage. CEO Dr. Jeff Wells reveals how advanced primary care lowers costs and improves outcomes. Episode Resources: Marathon Health Study on Advanced Primary Care ROI 2024 AAMC Report on Physician Shortage Projections News on the Marathon Health and Everside Health Merger Overview of the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) for Integrated Healt...

Discover how the Pittsburgh health tech ecosystem drives healthcare innovation. Leaders from UPMC and PLSA reveal the exact playbook for building AI unicorns. Episode Resources: Abridge Clinical AI Platform UPMC Enterprises Venture Arm Pittsburgh Life Sciences Alliance Krystal Biotech Precision Therapeutics ElevateBio’s Biomanufacturing Expansion in Pittsburgh CMU Computational Biology Department...

Discover how Stedi CEO Zack Kanter built a modern healthcare clearinghouse after the Change Healthcare outage. Learn how API-driven EDI and AI transform RCM. Episode Resources: Stedi Stedi Documentation for Healthcare EDI and APIs Timeline of the 2024 Change Healthcare Cyberattack Guide to X12 Standards and HIPAA Regulations CAQH Index Reports on Healthcare Transaction Costs About Zack Kanter: Jou...

Learn how RevealDX uses AI and radiomics to characterize lung nodules, reduce false positives, and accelerate early cancer detection in this expert interview. Episode Resources RevealDX The Fleischner Society ACR Lung-RADS National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) I-ELCAP Research HeartFlow Lung nodules are one of the most common "incidentalomas" found in modern imaging, yet the path from detection to...

Learn how athenahealth is building the AI-native EHR to reduce clinician burnout. Paul Brient shares insights on ambient dictation and revenue cycle management. Episode Resources athenaOne: All-in-One Health Software Paul Brient, Chief Product Officer Profile athenahealth Ambient Notes Traditional electronic health records often feel like a digital burden rather than a helpful tool. Paul Brient, C...

Is the EHR causing physician burnout? Wellsheet CEO Craig Limoli joins HealthTech Remedy to discuss reducing "pajama time," integrating UpToDate, and using AI to transform clinical documentation. Episode Resources: Learn more about Wellsheet Follow Craig Limoli on LinkedIn Details on the Wellsheet & UpToDate Partnership In this episode of HealthTech Remedy, hosts Dr. Tim Showalter, Dr. Paul Ge...

What were the biggest health tech trends in 2025? After a year of conversations with dozens of founders, clinicians, and investors, we're cutting through the noise to reveal what actually changed, where the hype fell flat, and where real momentum is building. We unpack the surprising gap between private equity investment and medical AI, debating whether AI is truly making healthcare faster and che...

How does a pharmacist become a venture capitalist? Hear Meg Powell's story on the transition from big pharma to startup and her advice for women in healthcare leadership. Episode resources: Learn about 501 Ventures Follow Meg Powell on LinkedIn Have you ever wondered if your clinical training could lead to a career in high-stakes investing? This episode charts the incredible journey of Meg Powell,...

Most doctors have brilliant ideas, but why do 98% of them fail before they ever reach a patient? The brutal truth is that a clinical mindset is not an entrepreneurial mindset, and the skills that make a great doctor are not the same ones that build a successful company. In this episode, we sit down with the ultimate physician entrepreneur, Dr. Arlen Meyers, to uncover the harsh realities of medica...

Is the traditional academic path failing doctors who want to innovate? For many physicians, the dream of impacting patient care on a massive scale feels out of reach within the slow-moving world of grants and publications. This episode explores the alternative: the dynamic and rapidly evolving physician career paths in health tech. We're joined by Dr. Shrujal Baxi, a physician executive and former...

Is a "normal" mammogram result enough to truly protect your health? What if your standard scan is missing crucial information that could predict your risk for both breast cancer and heart disease years in advance? This episode challenges the one-size-fits-all approach to medical imaging and explores the future of AI in radiology for personalized patient care. We uncover how machine learning is mov...

How does a successful academic cardiologist leave a prestigious career to build a pioneering virtual mental health company from the ground up? This episode unpacks the incredible physician transition to health tech with Dr. Reena Pande, a cardiologist turned innovator who scaled a startup to a major acquisition and is now shaping the future of clinician executive leadership. If you've ever wondere...

What if the millions of hours of video captured during medical procedures weren't thrown away? A revolution in AI in endoscopy is underway, turning this once-wasted data into a powerful tool to predict disease and accelerate cures. In this episode, we talk to Matt Schwartz , CEO and co-founder of Virgo Surgical Video Solutions , a company at the forefront of this transformation. Every year, over 2...