Breaking Health

In 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...

Vital 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 Vit...

A 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 cr...

Punit 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) docum...

Lark 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. 

Arvind 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 1...

Breaking 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 .

Susan 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...

IntelyCare 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...

We 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...

Robert 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 Vent...

Bill 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 a...

Stephanie 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.

Brigham 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...

Mick 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 devic...

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 mo...

Founder 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.

MedCrypt 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.

Verana 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.

CareZone 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).

In 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.

In 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.

Co-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 factor...

Curisium 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 Ca...

Entrepreneur. 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.