Breaking Health

Tom 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.

Matt 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.

Daniel 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.

David 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...

Prior 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.

Three 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 it...

Kent 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 me...

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 b...

Tripp 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....

This 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...

Bill 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.

Jeff 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.

In 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.

Following 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 healt...

Keith 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 lear...

DHIS 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.

Few 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 i...

WEGO 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.

Design 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.

ClearDATA 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.

Faced 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 innova...

Jeffrey 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

Bill 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.

Reputation.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.

The 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.