HealthBiz with David E. Williams

Lots of businesses talk about solving consumer headaches, but it’s much more literal for today’s guest. Founder and CEO Eric Kinariwala woke up with a terrible headache one morning that was made even worse by trying to deal with the pharmacy. $600M and 7 years later, Capsule is taking the friction out of the consumer experience, driving improved fill rates, and saving physician offices dozens of h...

Convergent Therapeutics is a clinical stage startup company bringing a new approach to the deployment of radiopharmaceuticals to treat and possibly even cure certain cancers, starting with the prostate. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts....

Can AI fill the healthcare gaps left by the Great Resignation, enable the shift from episodic to value based care, make care at home viable and indicate when a patient is ready for hospice care? If you ask Jvion chief medical officer, Jonathan Frownfelter (which I did) the answer is an emphatic yes! As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the foll...

Spencer Hutchins got his startup experience right out of Colby College, with a senior role in John Kerry’s presidential campaign. From there he took on a series of government and policy roles before co-founding Reflexion, a rehab software company. And then in 2016 he founded Concert Health, which helps independent physician practices deliver integrated behavioral health services. In essence it’s a...

Ariel Katz founded H1, the largest global healthcare professional data ecosystem, and was named a 30 under 30 by Forbes, which he describes as embarrassing.   As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unf...

Raj Indupuri's company, eClinical Solutions provides infrastructure to process data and extract value. The pandemic has accelerated the transformation to digital, and decentralized trials in particular have been a boon for the company, As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNn...

Adial Pharmaceuticals CEO Bill Stilley is leading the development of a genetically targeted therapeutic agent for alcohol use disorder. Adial is currently completing a Phase III trial to determine whether this oral medication can reduce overall alcohol use and the number of heavy drinking days. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following...

Eliav Shaked is a biomedical engineer from Israel who once worked at a summer camp in upstate New York. A favorite staffer there developed dementia and went downhill so fast that Eliav couldn’t even visit her. That’s when he decided to focus his talents on early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease.  RetiSpec --short for retinal spectroscopy, is an innovative imaging company using artificial intellige...

Value based care is hard enough even in a well resourced setting. So just try making it work in a rural area without the scale, staffing and population density. But that’s the market Tim Gronniger, CEO of Caravan Health is addressing, bringing together safety net and community health systems to deliver high quality, low cost care in a culturally sensitive manner As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part...

Mental healthcare is still sometimes in the shadows, so what better way to bring it out than with a friendly, upbeat name like Happify Health?  Chief Medical Officer Dr. Murray Zucker explains why the company is ideally suited to these troubling times. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/s...

The end of the pandemic is the start of a perfect storm for surgical overutilization. Patients who postponed surgeries are having them now, other patients got sicker or fatter during the lockdowns, and surgeons are looking to recoup their losses by doing more cutting. Today’s guest, Dr. Randy Hawkins, is here to discuss what his company, Carrum Health is doing to eliminate unneeded surgeries and o...

Hari Prasad grew up in Madras, India and moved to a small town in West Virginia to go to school at age 19. From there he focused on healthcare economics and held a series of jobs where he analyzed the patient journey and created the infrastructure for success under accountable care. But the idea for Yosi Health https://yosi.health/ came from  his own experience. After dislocating his shoulder he h...

Digital access is now considered a Social Determinant of Health. Candoo CEO Liz Hamburg is addressing the need by providing tech support to older adults. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfilter...

Faith and resilience brought David Morales off the streets of Lynn, Massachusetts and out of poverty, helped him succeed at an elite college and in the worlds of government service and healthcare business. He’s a strong believer that his story can inspire other discounted youth to dream big and achieve those dreams. I first met David a decade ago when he was a senior executive at Steward Health Ca...

iCario is a Health Action company, which strives to go beyond the typical patient engagement approach to motivate patients to do something. Icario’s success has been driven by its ability to achieve results for health plans, the increasing need for outreach during the health emergency, and new competitive pressures on the company’s  customers from more consumer oriented organizations, like retaile...

Purveyor of Silver Sneakers  talks complementary medicine and striving for healthy aging during the pandemic. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube....

Abarca is a PBM with a difference. It emphasizes transparency, offers guaranteed drug trend, and has a flexible, modern platform.  As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube...

Noyo is a connections gateway for modern insurance. Co-founder Shannon Goggin started life in small-town Maine, then moved on to the tech world of Silicon Valley. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare...

Gidi Stein founded MedAware after the tragic, preventable death of a 9 year old from a medication prescription error. The company uses AI to dramatically reduce prescribing mistakes. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Chris Nicholson moved around a lot as a kid. He wasn’t an Army brat --his family just had a habit of building houses, selling them, and moving along. It probably wasn’t easy to shift schools all the time--especially middle school, but it helped him learn to adapt and become good at meeting new people. After a long stint at Humana, Chris led the spinout of mPulse Mobile as founder and CEO. The comp...

Ashok Subramanian believes that primary care is the key to affordable, high-quality healthcare. Centivo, where Ashok is CEO offers a primary-care focused plan to private employers. The company encourages employees to develop deep primary care relationships and rewards providers for achieving strong clinical and cost-effectiveness goals.  As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare....

Many computer engineers grew up playing video games, but Waqqas al-Siddiq had a more traditional Canadian upbringing, hunting and enjoying the cold, expansive outdoors. Maybe it was the tracking of game that led him into remote monitoring with design roles at IBM and Intel. Biotricity provides leading edge biometric monitoring for medical and consumer markets with an emphasis on diagnosis and post...

Jason Krantz set his career path at age 12, when he learned that he could make more money in his lawn mowing business by hiring other kids to mow the lawns.  Jason has led Definitive Healthcare, a healthcare commercial intelligence company from founding to IPO. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spot...

Kleanthis Xanthopoulos grew up in Greece, with an interest in science and business. His academic achievements gave him his choice of where to pursue his advanced studies. He chose Sweden, which enabled him to remain in Europe without switching to the local language. Eventually he relocated to the US where he played a key role in the Human Genome Project before turning to entrepreneurship. As of Ma...

Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, ALS, MS --these are all serious or fatal neurodegenerative diseases that lack effective treatments. Thankfully, innovative companies are developing promising, novel therapies in the field. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple...