Entrepreneur Rx

Welcome back to another edition of Entrepreneur Rx! This week, John has a conversation full of insights with Rachel Mertensmeyer, CEO & Founder of Rivia Health. Rivia Health works with healthcare provider organizations to make it easier for patients to pay and understand their bills and benefit from available payment plans. Rachel got crushed by a revolving door, suffering a severe head and sp...

Welcome back to Entrepreneur Rx! This week on the podcast, John is delighted to chat with Allisa Song, Founder and CEO of Nanodropper. Nanodropper reduces the cost of eyedrop medications with an adapter that delivers smaller drops, making it pragmatic for patients to buy brand names instead of generic, something ophthalmologists prefer. Allisa provides insight into Nanodropper and the entrepreneur...

Welcome back to another episode of Entrepreneur Rx! This week, John is glad to interview Dr. Jennie Byrne, Chief Patient Officer at Belong Health, about her entrepreneurial journey leading to Belong Health and the lessons she has learned throughout her career as a healthcare leader. Belong Health is a company that works with regional health systems to create dual-eligible insurance plans and provi...

Welcome back to another edition of Entrepreneur Rx! This week on the podcast, John is impressed by Sahil Diwan, Co-Founder & CEO of SafKan Health. SafKan Health is a medical technology company with a mission to improve ear care with a pair of headsets that clean people's ears in thirty seconds. Sahil and his brother persevered for years with the idea of OtoSet®, an automated ear-cleaning devic...

Welcome back to Entrepreneur Rx! This week on the podcast, John sits down for a chat with John Criswell, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Porter. Porter is a company that uses AI and data analytics to help people connect with the resources they need to navigate their complex at-home healthcare journey. John Criswell details his entrepreneurial journey from his first healthcare startup, Righttime Medi...

This week on the podcast, John interviews Ryan Grant, founder and CEO at Vori Health. Vori Health is a virtual offering that practices musculoskeletal medicine with evidence-based care that holistically treats patients in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Ryan Grant is no amateur in entrepreneurial venturing, with a successful healthcare staffing company called Nomad Health and now Vori...

Welcome back to Entrepreneur Rx! This week on the podcast, John interviews John Cordier, founder and CEO at Epistemix. Epistemix is a company that uses computational modeling and mathematics for decision support in public health through synthetic population data, testing interventions to improve outcomes with infectious diseases. Epistemix understands that even a small behavior change can affect t...

Welcome back to Entrepreneur Rx! This week on the podcast, John sits down to talk with Elizabeth Clayborne, emergency medicine physician, and founder and CEO of NasaClip. NasaClip is an easy-to-use, convenient device that quickly stops bleeding in any setting, be it medical or at home. The device holds a customized external nasal compression with Oxymetalozine pre-medicated sponges that go into th...

Welcome back to another episode of Entrepreneur Rx! This week on the podcast, John talks about physician leadership, digital health, and burnout with Dr. David H. Berger, CEO of University Hospital at Downstate and the main teaching affiliate of Downstate Health Sciences University. Mentorship and networking have been pillars present in the opportunities that led David toward a leadership role in...

Welcome again to another episode of Entrepreneur Rx! This week on the podcast, John has a packed conversation with Emilio Galan, co-founder, and CEO of Robin Healthcare. Robin is a medical technology company that improves the experience of both doctors and patients by removing the healthcare billing and insurance-related paperwork through a smart recording device. Emilio dropped out five months be...

Welcome back again to Entrepreneur Rx! This week on the podcast, John has a very awe-inspiring conversation with Stacy Blain, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Concarlo Therapeutics. The team of scientists at Concarlo is developing new medications that use p27, a natural inhibitor, to stop cancer cells from multiplying in drug-resistant patients. A discovery made in a university setting l...

This week on Entrepreneur Rx, John has a very valuable conversation with Dr. Orrin Aillioni-Charas, Founder and Managing Director at Cura Capital. Cura Capital is a venture fund that is raising $50 million dollars to invest in Seed and Series A US-based digital health and MedTech companies. As an anesthesiologist, Orrin felt commoditized and followed his gut from medicine into the venture capital...

In this week’s episode on Entrepreneur Rx, John is delighted to have Steven Charlap, founder and CEO of SOAP Health. SOAP, standing for Subjective Objective Assessment Plan, is a company that focuses on reducing misdiagnosis and improving early disease detection. Steven went down a non-traditional path in medicine after losing his brother to a late cancer diagnosis, event that ignited his mission...

For this episode of Entrepreneur Rx, John is delighted to interview Dr. David Albert, a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and MD, that has founded three successful companies: InnovAlarm, Lifetone Technology, and AliveCor, and has worked in several startups. David shares how he started down the inventor path while still at college, what his experience has been like in the world of health entrepreneurs...

n this week’s episode of Entrepreneur Rx, John has the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Andrew Le, CEO and cofounder of Buoy Health, a Boston-based digital health company that uses AI technology to provide personalized clinical support. Andrew tells us the story of Buoy’s foundation, his entrepreneurial journey within healthcare, taking a leap of faith when not following the traditional physician jour...

This week’s guest on Entrepreneur Rx is Katrina Firlik, a neurosurgeon turned digital health entrepreneur, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of HealthPrize, whom John is honored to have on the show. HealthPrize is a company that brought education, behavioral science, and way to improve health outcomes together in one single place. Katrina didn’t initially think she would dedicate her life to me...

In this episode of Entrepreneur Rx, John Shufeldt is pleased to introduce Lyndsey Harper, an entrepreneur, board-certified gynecologist, founder, and CEO of Rosy. Rosy is an app that helps women with decreased sexual desire, other sexual issues, and concerns around women’s health. Lyndsay not only shares her beginnings as a physician but also as an entrepreneur and how still working as a hospitali...

Welcome back to Entrepreneur Rx! In this episode, John Shufeldt is honored to host Jamie Colbert, Senior Vice President of Care Delivery at Memora Health. Memora seeks to deliver better guidance and connectivity to patients through technology automating manual tasks and allowing providers to focus on patient journeys. Jamie recalls the career path he took as an entrepreneur with Memora Health, and...

Welcome again to Entrepreneur Rx! In this episode, John Shufeldt is honored to host Uli Chettipally, an emergency physician, researcher, innovator, and author, founder of InnovatorMD and Sirica Therapeutics. Uli walks us through his career and the different entrepreneurial ventures he’s had over the years in the healthcare technology space. Most prominently, he talks about his work at Kaiser Perma...

Welcome to yet a new edition of Entrepreneur Rx! In this episode, John Shufeldt is honored to host Mary O’Connor, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vori Health, a virtual musculoskeletal company led by physicians whose mission is to guide humanity to a better and healthier life. Mary talks about her journey as an entrepreneur and physician, how her whole life has been themed-centered, and th...

Welcome to another episode of Entrepreneur Rx, in which John Shufeldt has the privilege of interviewing Dr. Michael Abramoff, Founder and Executive Chairman of Digital Diagnostics, the first AI diagnostics company to receive the FDA authorization for autonomous AI in the nation. Michael reflects on his journey as an MD as well as the applications AI has had in patient outcomes and in research. He...

In this episode of Entrepreneur Rx, John has a delightful conversation with a friend, the CEO of MeMD, and entrepreneur Bill Goodwin. MeMD is a company that provides high-quality, convenient, and affordable healthcare on-demand, and was recently acquired by Walmart Health. Even though Bill is not a physician, he is an incredible entrepreneur that has the power of scaling any business he touches. H...

Welcome to another edition of Entrepreneur Rx, where John Shufeldt has the honor of speaking with Dr. Gregory Charlop, a philanthropist, wellness expert, author, father, and co-founder of Women’s Sports Forum, and founder of Retired Athlete Health. Gregory reflects on how he chose his preferred field of medicine that could give him time to attend to his entrepreneurship desires. He also shares wha...

In this episode of Entrepreneur Rx, John has the privilege of chatting with Dr. Keith Matheny, a medical entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of US ENT Partners, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Septum Solutions, Otolaryngologist, and Head & Neck Surgeon. US ENT Partners is a consulting company that works to improve practice operations, elevate patient care and engage as an industry-leading partn...

In this episode of Entrepreneur Rx, John has the honor of talking to Dr Priyanka Mathur, CEO & Founder at MediPocket. MediPocket is an online platform that increases accessibility to healthcare through artificial intelligence and connecting patients to top specialists and top hospitals in the US. Priyanka shares her experience working in three different healthcare systems in three countries: R...