HealthBiz with David E. Williams

Athersys CEO BJ Lehmann, Axogen EVP and CFO Peter Mariani and I gathered for a regenerative medicine roundtable discussion in advance of the 2022 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference.  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/ca...

Qualio's eQMS is a quality management system for pharma, devices, and cannabis is built on the 12 pillars of quality, 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:/...

Elucid is a non-invasive cardiac imaging company that competes with HeartFlow, but goes beyond by quantifying plaque based on histopathology. It’s an FDA-cleared tool that helps avoid invasive cath lab procedures and helps physician identify patients who need more aggressive treatments. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: ...

Dr. Sumir Sahgal is a pioneer of primary and specialty care for underserved patients. He has partnered with Verustat for remote patient monitoring. 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/id1...

Greg Schmergel and Keshav Singh don’t claim to have found the Fountain of Youth. But by founding Yuva Biosciences https://www.yuvabio.com/ they do intend to extend the “health span” --in other words, the length of time that people are leading healthy, energetic lives. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://op...

Larry Diamond is a competitive guy and has been successful in his career based on doing things he was told weren’t possible. As CEO of Mitesco he’s redefining primary care and prevention 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/pod...

When the Hebrew SeniorLife search committee interviewed Lou Woolf for the job as president, they were a little surprised that he brought up his experience working with the Children’s Television Workshop as a relevant qualification. But wait, he told them: Sesame Street and the Muppets gave kids a lot of credit for what they could understand and enjoy. HSL does the same for older adults: having hig...

Zak Holdsworth came all the way from New Zealand farm to help reform the US healthcare system. At Hint Health he’s enabling a direct care model that frees mostly primary care practices up from the overheads, hassles and misaligned incentives of third party reimbursement. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https:/...

Hong Tang grew up in rural China, and was encouraged by her pharmacist sister to become a physician. As co-founder of OnQuality, she is developing targeted cancer supportive therapy to address the root causes of oncology treatment side effects rather than just treating the symptoms As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spot...

Advanced Human Imaging CEO Vlado Bosanac oversees an impressive array of smartphone-based human scanning technologies, with applications in fitness, mHealth, life and health insurance, and apparel. You’ll find the technology embedded across many partner apps.  As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://open.spoti...

Entrepreneur Justin Davis leverages his background in math and football to help telemedicine companies identify the right interventions for patients. 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/i...

Better Health , a startup that takes urology and ostomy supply to the next level with simple processes, personal consultations with experts, peer coaching and education. It’s the kind of experience I would want for myself and loved ones.  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/2GTYhbNnvD...

Dr. Sanjay Prasad is on a mission to improve surgical outcomes. After many years as a surgeon, he’s founded a company that helps patients find the best surgeon for their condition and avoid surgeries they don’t need. He’s also laser focused on reducing racial disparities in surgical care. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links...

Aristea is developing drugs for inflammatory diseases, starting with palmoplantar pustulosis. James shares his journey from small town Scotland to big pharma and San Diego 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-h...

AdhereHealth  helps Medicare Advantage plans boost their star ratings by improving medication management and CAHPS scores. After a stint working with adolescent schizophrenia patients, Jason has been in healthcare technology his whole career. In his spare time he works with Operation Song in Nashville, helping military families tell their stories through songwriting.  As of March 2025 HealthBiz is...

Mike Rea is a self-professed bad scientist and bad musician but despite --and perhaps even because-- of those limitations, he’s built some pretty good companies. Mike runs a record company, aptly named Medical Records and hosts his own book club/ podcast about innovation in pharma. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spot...

Datavant is fostering an ecosystem of healthcare data to facilitate secure exchange of information and analytics that improve patient care. The company recently made headlines through a $7 Billion merger with Ciox , uniting Datavant’s world of de-identified data with Ciox’s domain expertise in patient identified records. In this episode of the HealthBiz podcast, Datavant’s Chief Strategy Officer J...

Regenerative medicine, Marine Corps, beer trucks. it's all covered in this interview with StimLabs CEO John Daniel. 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://w...

epocrates provides reliable information for clinicians, which has been particularly helpful during the pandemic. Diane has made her career in publishing and is married to author Neal Bascomb. 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/u...

Halo Health, which provides a cloud-based solution to unify all communication channels for efficient, role-based collaboration. It's designed by clinicians for clinicians. 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/caret...

 Shantanu  helps develop and launch balloons --not into the sky but into the stomach-- where they help patients feel full and lose weight. The product is on the market in Europe and the Middle East, and there are plans for the US and China as well. 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/...

Affinity Empowering  Chief Behavioral Health Officer and Chief Operating Officer Dr. Michael Tkach studies the linkage between inflammation and depression while pioneering a streamlined and powerful approach to pool testing. Two swabs anyone? 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/2GTYhb...

Joe Hernandez, Chairman and Founder of Blue Water Vaccines and Blue Water Acquisition Corp is leading the way toward a universal flu vaccine and joining the SPAC brigade. But why did he work for the Danish ministry of foreign affairs?  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/2GTYhbNnvDHri...

As General Manager at Wolters Kluwer,  Frank Jackson is deploying technology such as Natural Language Processing and code translation engines to help payers contend with the COVID-19 whipsaw. 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/u...

RxRevu helps doctors make the best prescribing choices for patients at the point of care. Founder Carm Huntress tells the tale behind the company's birth and massive growth. 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/car...