Breaking Health

Marie Johnson, CEO and founder of AUM Cardiovascular, lost her husband, Rob, to a heart attack. The tragedy led her to develop CADence, a handheld device that she believes will save lives by identifying telltale signs of cardiovascular disease.

When Chrissa McFarlane saw an underserved niche in the PHI space and heard about a new technology called blockchain, she put two and two together and created Patientory, a groundbreaking provider of digital healthcare solutions.

Macro-Eyes CEO Benjamin Fels sees great promise bringing the lessons learned using data in decision-making at a quantitative hedge fund to diagnose patients and manage healthcare practices.

Justin Barad talks about taking VR out of the gaming space with innovative software that will transform how orthopedic surgeons train in the OR.

Sansoro Health, strengthened by $1.2 million in new capital, is developing an EMR-agnostic web services middleware platform that allows providers to better integrate their records.

Catalia Health Founder and CEO Cory Kidd, PhD, who has spent two decades working at the intersection of healthcare and technology, explains the power of Mabu, an electronic healthcare assistant.

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 Omada is continuing to build a meaningful business helping people control their diabetes.

Knowledge may be power, but incorrect medical information can be dangerous. Andrew Le, MD, founded Buoy Health to use artificial intelligence to help patients pull useful and accurate information from the Internet.

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 MouthLab device, he was drawn to the opportunity to directly affect patient care.

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 medical school to start the company and learn how it plans to help people lose weight and manage disease.

Aledade Co-Founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari, MD, the former national coordinator for health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services, is leading a start-up to help restore power to primary care physicians.

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 stop Weingard, who learned to train and race while managing the disorder. He then decided to help others with diabetes by founding Fit4D to create a platform to provide customized coaching.

Akili Interactive – a start-up growing out of the PureTech Health group – may pick up where pharmaceuticals have left off in developing new treatments for behavioral health disorders.

Sally Poblete, founder and CEO, spent her career at large insurance companies before starting Wellthie, a start-up dedicated to changing the way individuals and small businesses find the right insurance policy.

Todd Butka, the CEO and founder of Murj, personifies the much ballyhooed crossover between Medtech and Tech. The start-up is developing a software application that enables providers to efficiently manage data from implantable cardiac devices.

Eric Langshur, co-founder and CEO, explains how AVIA leads a network for health systems seeking to innovate and transform through digital strategy. He’s also the author of a best-selling book, Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing.

In this interview, co-founder, president, and chief scientific officer Jeremy A. Rassen discusses the company’s origins, technology, and impact on developing the data necessary to deliver value-based healthcare.

CEO Jennifer Fried explains how start-up ExplORer Surgical is delivering a high precision workflow tool for surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses in the OR. Fried says ExplORer can not only make surgery run more smoothly, but also can save hospitals millions in wasted supplies.

In this replay of our popular podcast we learn that Quartet Health is building a platform to support behavioral health. The company partners with health systems to provide consistent online support for their patients. Investors include former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, GV (formerly Google Ventures), F-Prime Capital Partners, Polaris Partners and others.

Brandon Hull, Managing Director of Cardinal Partners, delivers a heaping pile of context to the digital health revolution (or evolution) and offers his expectations for the future. In our second part of this podcast, Hull goes up against Jonathan Bush, CEO and president of athenahealth, the digital healthcare giant pushing for change to EHRs and working to create the first cloud-based hospital.

Christiana DelloRusso, partner, Providence Ventures, explains what Providence Ventures is doing to help Providence St. Joseph Health, the third largest non-profit health system in the country, become “the most consumer focused and digitally enabled health system in the country.”

More Disruption Please Director Mandira Singh explains how athenahealth is using influence and investment to help build a Digital Health platform. Singh also serves as the company’s director of corporate development.

Imagine Health’s belief is simple – better physicians ultimately cost the healthcare system less money.“We believe strongly if you create a network where the default option is the quality option that people will be much better off,” Cigarran says.

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’s origins as well as the many great opportunities facing healthcare investors and entrepreneurs.

Host Steve Krupa delves deep into Avizia’s history and its approach to developing the right products for hospitals. How does it identify the features providers want, as well as those they may not know they even need?