Breaking Health

Canary Health is working with payers, providers, and Medtech suppliers like Medtronic to give patients – and their caregivers – the tools necessary to manage their chronic disease. Adam Kaufman, CEO and president, explains how his company is riding the “third wave” of health care.

Geoff Martha, executive vice president, Restorative Therapies Group, shares Medtronic’s view of Medtech. In this interview with Stacy Enxing Seng, venture partner/independent director, Martha lays out the Medtech giant’s strategy to grow a technology business while helping health care systems save money.

PureTech historically has focused on creating new biotech and medical device technologies. CEO and founder Daphne Zohar explains PureTech’s move into digital therapeutics, including companies that use sound and games to promote good health.

Psilos CEO Steve Krupa gets some well deserved time in the spotlight after hosting half a year’s worth of podcasts. In this interview we ask Steve why he agreed to host the podcast, how he become a VC, and how companies might pitch ideas to Psilos.

Quartet Health recently closed on a $40 million second round to build a support platform for behavorial health patients. 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.

Telemedicine player Pager is working with insurers and physicians to allow sick people to get treated in their homes. CEO and Co-founder Gaspard de Dreuzy explains how Pager is working to cut health care costs.

CEO and co-founder Owen Tripp goes back to share the origins of Grand Rounds’ mission, a meeting over coffee and pastries with co-founder Lawrence “Rusty” Hoffman, MD, to help patients find the appropriate doctor for their specific needs and diagnosis. Our Steve “Scoop” Krupa also digs up a bit of news.

Pear Therapeutics CEO Corey McCann, MD, PhD delves into the potential digital therapeutics have in helping people who abuse drugs and alcohol. The company’s product pipeline includes potential treatment for schizophrenia, combat-PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia and traumatic brain injury.

With the blessing of UnitedHealthcare, CEO Tom Vanderheyden left the insurance giant to create a company that puts primary care front and center. With doctors seeing fewer patients and health coaches leading the way, can the company create a healthier – and less expensive – patient population?

Health care doesn’t just happen at hospitals. Start-up Healthify is building a software platforms to help patients stay healthy after they’ve left the hospital or physicians office by tracking and managing their basic needs.

AiCure is taking a simple, but critical step to ensuring people get healthier. Its system of ensuring meds are taken can improve care and help bolster clinical trial performances.

Behavioral health isn’t always seen as an integral part of health care, but Care Management Technologies is breaking down those walls.

CareSync founder and CEO Travis Bond speaks with Steve Krupa of the Psilos Group about CareSync’s bid to enlist physicians and relatives into better caring for chronically ill patients.

Just prior to being feted at the White House, Jonathan Hirsch, co-founder and president of Syapse, lays out the company’s aggressive plans to dominate precision medicine and bring "-omics” to routine health care.

This week’s podcast features an interview between Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, and long-time backer, health care VC Brandon Hull. The pair discuss the current and future state of HER. Bush lays out his plan for the health care Internet.

Zipnosis doesn’t just bring the doctor to your phone. The company’s app also includes a set of questions geared toward diagnosing your problems and determining if a doctor’s visit is necessary. If an office visit is required, the app can even speed registration. Zipnosis recently raised a $17 million Series A round from Ascension Ventures, Fairview Health Services, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Arth...

Geisinger Health System, recognized as one of the better-run health care systems, created xG Health to export the model it used to earn the recognition. CEO Earl P. Steinberg explains how xG Health is successfully deploying Geisinger’s tried-and-true methods to help other health systems.

HealthEdge has built and automated claims processing system for payers, a precursor to the “Digital Payer” that will make insurance and health care easier and cheaper to manage. CEO Rob Gillette joins Breaking Health host Steve Krupa of the Psilos Group in telling how HealthEdge has built a powerful tool for the insurance industry.

With capital and a broad network of notable mentors, Blueprint Health is helping to build out the Digital Health sector in New York. Founding Partner Brad Weinberg, MD, explains how the group vets new companies and what it hopes to build long term.

Tom Spann, co-founder, vice chairman and chief operating officer, left a “pretty good job” at Ac-centure to create a company that helps patients manager their health care insurance. Accolade is hired by companies like Comcast to serve as a go-between its employees and health care insurers. The company goes far beyond understanding why health care bills costs what they do. It works to help patients...

TigerText’s secure messaging app promises to improve com-munications between health care workers who can’t use standard technology. Chief Medical Officer Andrew Brooks, MD, explains where current technologies fall short and how TigerText is spanning the gap. TigerText’s CEO Brad Brooks – brother of the CMO – spoke at our Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit.

Digital therapeutics companies are taking root in health care as companies like Omada Health establish a track record – and clinical data – demonstrating their benefits on patient health. CEO and Co-Founder Sean Duffy explains why he left Med School to help create a new class of health care company.

Lonnie Reisman, MD, returns to the start-up life after several years as chief medical officer of Aetna. In his new venture, Reisman is continuing his long-time pursuit of trying to find ways to keep the chronically ill as well as possible.

Innovator Award Winner CEO Jason Gorevic tells how Teladoc is blazing trails for the telehealth industry.

Anita Pramoda,CEO of Owned Outcomes, a health analytics company that has worked with more than 100 hospitals implement value based care initiatives and bundled payments. Breaking Health Host Steve Krupa, CEO of Psilos Group, delves into Owned Outcomes unique approach to helping health care systems – and patients – migrate to new forms of health care payment.