Bite the Orange

This Medication is usually essential for good outcomes, how can we help patients adhere to theirs? In this episode of Bite the Orange, we have the pleasure of talking to a neurosurgeon turned health-tech entrepreneur, Dr. Katrina Firlik! She talks about co-founding HealthPrize Technologies, gamification, and education as solutions for medication non-adherence in patients.  Listen to this episode n...

Venture capital is about technology and money, but most importantly: about the people behind it.  In this episode of Bite the Orange, Julien Pham talks about how Third Culture Capital invests in ventures with individuals that have unique lived experiences and skill sets to create an impact in health tech through software-driven solutions. He also discusses how 3CC ensures the companies they invest...

The health industry can collaborate with academia toward a more equitable healthcare system. In this episode of Bite the Orange, Geoffrey Roche talks about the intersection of healthcare, academia, and workforce development with strategic partnerships and conversations with industry leaders that bring change to the entire ecosystem. Tune in to learn more about how partnership, collaboration, and t...

Technology can help you be more efficient with many of your healthcare processes.  In this episode of Bite the Orange, we host Jared Meyers, Co-Founder and CEO of Augment Health, who shares his entrepreneurial journey with a device that helps patients improve their outcomes! Tune in to this short and sweet conversation! 

Healthcare occurs in our everyday lives outside the buildings we usually visit for care.  In this episode of Bite the Orange, Rosanne Warmerdam, co-founder of HealthBlocks BV and The Pando Network, discusses how health data can help transform the ecosystem from reactionary care to a preventative model. 

The biggest problem in healthcare is not the lack of innovation, it is the lack of its adoption. In this episode of Bite the Orange, Manny interviews Christian Milaster, founder and president at Ingenium Digital Health Advisors, who talks about helping healthcare organizations and systems adopt digital health solutions quickly to optimize care delivery and produce better outcomes. Chris explains h...

When things die, we tend to forget. Well, not this time! In this episode of Bite the Orange, Dr. David Nash discusses the key things that need to change in the American Healthcare system to improve the quality of care it’s delivering.  Tune in, and don’t forget to grab a copy of his most recent book!

Mental Health is a public health priority. In this episode of Bite the Orange, Kevin Dedner, CEO and Founder of Hurdle, talks about the evolving mental healthcare space and their work to ensure access for people of color. Kevin explains Hurdle’s business model and how it trains and supports its therapists to keep improving the mental healthcare space. Tune in to learn from Kevin how race and menta...

Did you know cancer cells sound sick? In this episode of Bite the Orange, Scott Haiges, CEO at Digital Harmonic, talks about his company's innovative developments in signal processing technologies, focusing on CytoAcoustics, which allows acoustic analytics of cell signals to discern between cancer and healthy cells. Scott discusses some of Digital Harmonic’s plans for scaling and taking it to mark...

Cancer affects both diagnosed patients and those who take care of them. In this episode of Bite the Orange, Andrea Wilson Woods, CEO and co-founder of Cancer University and founder and president of the non-profit Blue Faery, shares her work to educate patients and caregivers to prevent, treat, and cure primary liver cancer after her 15-year-old sister was diagnosed with it, changing her life as we...

Trillions of bacteria live within us and are essential for our health. In this episode of Bite the Orange, Dorottya Nagy-Szakal, Chief Medical Officer at Biotia at Biotia, talks about the human microbiome and how novel technologies can use AI to improve precision in infectious disease diagnostics. She explains why microbiomes affect the human body’s health and how they leverage AI to translate the...

In today’s world, where inequalities live left and right, how can we leverage AI to help us solve food disparities? In this episode of Bite the Orange, Dr. Ilias Tagkopoulos, Founder and Chairman of PIPA LLC, talks about how AI can be a powerful tool to target food insecurity, negative environmental impacts from non-optimal agriculture methods, and production chain gaps in the food industry that i...

How can you trust the health care or advice that you receive online? In this episode of Bite the Orange, Geoffrey W. Rutledge, co-founder and chief medical officer at HealthTap, talks about how this digital platform can bring trustworthy answers to any medical inquiry, delivering high-quality virtual primary care. He explains the benefits of building their own platform and its business model, brea...

The Parkinson’s Disease Pandemic is man-made, and these are the current efforts to end it. In this episode of Bite the Orange, Manny is glad to interview Ray Dorsey about Parkinson’s disease, how to improve its treatment, and how to mitigate its extent, based on his work as a professor of neurology and director of the Center for Health and Technology at the University of Rochester Medical Center....

This platform is making a broad impact on clinical trials. In this episode of Bite the Orange, Manny is happy to have Irene Meier, Senior Lead of Sponsor Transformation at Reify Health, a company that helps pharma companies and sponsors with faster, more accessible patient enrollment in clinical trials across different phases and areas. Having experienced different healthcare systems worldwide, Ir...

Improving the mental healthcare experience can be done through the use of technology. In this episode of Bite the Orange, we are joined by Jonathan Knights, Head Of Applied Science at Mindstrong, an end-to-end digital healthcare provider focused on upgrading mental healthcare with technology and a twist: using a human-centric approach. Mindstrong improves patients’ access to care by using digital...

There are still great barriers to participating in clinical trials, which need to be brought down! In this episode of Bite the Orange, we have Brad Hightower, CEO of Hightower Clinical, a company focused on increasing access to clinical trials by creating community partnerships and reaching out to physicians, hospitals, and medical groups to offer no-cost research infrastructure. Brad talks about...

The train has left the station to value-based care, and through digital therapeutics, Kaia is well on its way there! In this episode of Bite the Orange, we are glad to talk with Nigel Ohrenstein, president of Kaia Health, a digital therapeutics company with value-based treatments for musculoskeletal conditions, long-term COVID, and COPD. Nigel considers himself a recovered lawyer and an entreprene...

There is something to have in mind when you work in the clinical trial space: we all are patients at some point in our lives. In this episode of Bite the Orange, we are happy to have Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance Co-Chair Craig Lipset on the show. As a patient with pulmonary sarcoidosis himself, Craig has let his experience influence his work in clinical trials around patient engage...

VR has a huge role to play in the future of healthcare and many still don’t know much about it. In this episode of Bite the Orange, we are glad to have digital health expert Denise Silber on the show. She is the founder of Basil Strategies, a digital health communications consultancy company, and the co-founder of VRforHealth, an online platform expanding access to the wellness and therapeutic use...

How is it in healthcare that so much vital information is lost, buried, locked, or out of reach? In this episode of Bite the Orange, we are excited to have Aaron Liebtag on the show. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pentavere, a digital health company that has developed an artificial intelligence engine that provides insights from buried information within clinical documentation to help improve hea...

There is so much outdated provider information out there. In this episode of Bite the Orange, we are joyful to have Kit Kieling on the show. He is the founder and president of Orderly Health, a startup company that uses AI and machine learning to automate and improve provider data workflows across the healthcare ecosystem. Orderly started as a patient navigation tool, but they made a wise decision...

What does it take to really understand population health? In this episode of Bite the Orange, we have the privilege of having Gretchen Shanofsky on the show. She is an independent consultant that collaborates with organizations to develop programs and services that improve healthcare costs and outcomes in vulnerable populations. She explains what population health is and what it entails in our ind...

Investing in your own health is not about avoiding death; it's about living your life. In this episode, William Cooper, founder and chairman at PRIMO Health Partners, talks about how PRIMO is changing the game with their telemedicine platform offering low-cost access to second opinions from specialists and virtual primary care to everyday people. For some users, access to healthcare can be obstruc...

Think of Sesame as the Expedia of healthcare services. In this episode, Dr. Michael Botta, co-founder, and president at Sesame, talks about this health services marketplace platform that works with thousands of clinicians across the country for a combination of in-person and telehealth care services. Sesame has the infrastructure to connect patients and clinicians with transparent, affordable pric...