HealthBiz with David E. Williams

Mohan Giridharadas earned an MBA from Stanford and was a senior director for years at McKinsey, but it took an insight from a casual conversation at a Silicon Valley cocktail party to give him the direction for Lean TaaS, where he’s founder and CEO. A decade and $200 M of investment later, the company is leading the way in operational optimization of healthcare assets.  As of March 2025 HealthBiz...

Seqster co-founder and CEO Ardy Arianpour is bringing person-centric interoperability to the masses. With the 21st Century Cures Act, Ardy contends that Seqster essentially is the law. 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/podca...

Glympse Bio CEO Caroline Loew tells what it's like to lead a high-profile spinout from MIT, reflects on her time at big pharma, love for organic chemistry, and strong bond with her grandmother. 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.appl...

CytImmune Sciences is an emerging leader in cancer nanomedicine. It is a platform company with products of its own in development. CEO Saba explains the technology and why he is confident it will ultimately help patients. The company has a Phase II development collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, and is scaling up its manufacturing to be ready. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of Ca...

Kevin Coloton always knew he’d be in healthcare. After all, both of his parents and all of their friends worked in the field. Three years ago he founded Curation Health to help providers make the shift to value based care. 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 App...

Eosera CEO Elyse Stoltz Dickerson turned a 10 minute meeting with a CVS executive into an order to stock 8000 stores with the company's earwax remover. Learn how a "very driven little child" overcame dyslexia and grew up to achieve corporate and entrepreneurial success. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  S...

With a name like Docktor, how could Michael Docktor grow up to be anything but a physician and CEO of Dock Health? Answer: He couldn't. 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/id15324023...

Brian Kim has made his career in the business of healthcare, from health plans to biotech to the early days of Internet health, and then on to claims processing.  As CEO of HighRoads for the past six years, Brian is helping plans exit the spreadsheet era and gain the ability to create, sell and manage a myriad of insurance offerings. In this edition of the HealthBiz podcast, Brian shares his progr...

Investors and management consultants often use expert networks like GLG and Guidepoint to arrange interviews with subject matter experts. These interviews are pricey so it's important to get the most out of them. My colleague, Karen Donovan and I offer five tips to help you succeed. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:...

Navigating Cancer focuses on enabling the best care for patients, with a particular emphasis on the 95+ percent of the time that they’re not in the office. 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-unfilt...

2Life CEO Amy Schectman has improved the lives of thousands of older adults with first-rate living quarters and activities. Under her leadership, 2Life is opening a new affordable housing complex annually and keeping the virus away. 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/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7...

Cantor Group CEO, Dr. Michael Cantor traces his career in medical practice,  policy and leadership across academic medicine, benefits managers, and start-ups. We discuss the impact of digital technologies in bringing healthcare closer to patients, how payment systems are changing to support telehealth and home care, what’s new in nursing homes, and how disparities are baked into the system. As of...

Papa --which offers Family on Demand-- was born from founder and CEO Andrew Parker’s experience arranging a youthful pal for his own Papa, a fairly demanding guy. When Papa was pleased with the service, Andrew knew it would appeal more broadly. 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/2GTY...

Ray Hill grew up on a farm and took up rowing in college. So he’s always been a hard worker and an early riser. In this edition of the HealthBiz podcast, Ray brings us up to date on progress at CorEvitas. As CEO and Chairman he’s led the company’s expansion from a singular rheumatoid arthritis registry to a broader autoimmune and inflammatory company with registries, real world evidence, bioreposi...

As an anesthesiologist, Jon Bloom was distressed to participate in so many foot amputations for diabetic patients. He vowed to do something to consign this barbaric, Civil War era procedure to the dustbin of history. Eventually, he met up with some like-minded co-founders at an early Hackathon and the result was Podimetrics. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered an...

 SonderMind CEO Mark Frank  helps make behavioral health more accessible, approachable and utilized.  In this episode, Mark describes how his upbringing in Atlanta, Japan and Germany shaped his outlook and how family members have influenced his enlistment in the military and his path with SonderMind. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the fol...

As founder and CEO of Proprio, Gabe Jones is helping surgeons see around corners. If all goes according to plan, the company’s innovations will infuse all of surgery, making great surgeons even better and bringing up the average as well. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, virtual reality --it’s all in there!  As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfi...

Jennifer Michelle has a master’s of public health and she’s also an EMT. So naturally she makes her living as a healthcare marketing consultant, as president of Michelle Marketing Strategies. She’s a podcast host, too. Her Leading with Health podcast features female healthcare leaders. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: ...

Joel Morse has devoted his career to building innovative companies that serve the pharmaceutical industry. His latest venture, Curavit Clinical Research runs decentralized or virtual trials, which have gotten huge in the pandemic.  In this episode of the HealthBiz podcast, Joel talks about decentralized trials and why they’re growing. He also opens up about his experience building C3i, and how it...

Prognos Health founder Sundeep Bhan’s family liked the idea of him becoming a doctor. But as long as he stayed as a pre-med in college they let him take whatever courses he wanted. He explored art history and communications, and eventually wandered back to healthcare as a company founder. It’s a good thing that he has that entrepreneurial streak, since one of his board members told him he was not...

Wolters Kluwer Health CTO, Jean-Claude Saghbini has been thinking a lot about how the pandemic will change healthcare. In this episode  we discuss his predictions about scaling telehealth, accelerating evidence, predicting and preventing with AI, the changing roles of healthcare workers, and moving beyond interoperability to supra-operability. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Health...

As a primary care physician and Chief Medical Officer of Aledade, Dr. Emily Maxson helps independent primary care physicians participate in accountable care organizations, preserve their independence and financial viability, and boost quality and access for patients. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links:  Spotify https://ope...

In this episode of the HealthBiz Podcast, ChartWise Medical Systems CEO, Steven Mason shares his journey from New Orleans to Nashville, explains how his background in organizational development and consulting prepared him for corporate leadership, and opines on the impact of President Joe Biden’s Administration on healthcare. We discuss CDI: clinical documentation integrity, and how it’s shifting...

After Taylor Justice was medically discharged from the Army, he learned firsthand about social determinants of health through working with other veterans. It led him to co-found Unite Us to digitally connect community services like housing, education and substance abuse counseling to meet the holistic needs of individuals. As Chief Operating Officer, Christina Mainelli brings her healthcare indust...

Jennifer Byrne has spent her whole career in clinical trials, working on more than 8000 studies. So she knows a thing or two about the needs of pharma sponsors, clinical sites and patients. As founder and CEO of Javara, Jennifer is spearheading a new concept: the integrated research organization or IRO, a novel model for bringing clinical research into the healthcare ecosystem.   As of March 2025...