HealthTech Remedy

In this special bonus episode, we explore the world of venture capital for medical diagnostics with an industry titan. Ever wondered what it takes to get an early-stage health tech startup funded? We're sitting down with Michele Colucci , the founder and managing partner of DigitalDx Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on personalized medicine and diagnostics. Michele, a serial entrepreneur a...

Is new hospital technology making clinicians' jobs harder instead of easier? While a wave of digital tools promised to revolutionize care, many have only added to the administrative burden, leading to widespread clinician burnout. This episode dives into a company aiming to reverse that trend with the Artisight smart hospital platform , a system designed to give hospitals digital eyes and ears to...

How does a physician’s clinical experience become the blueprint for systemic change? What does it take to pivot from the exam room to the C-suite of a health tech company? This episode is a masterclass for any physician who believes the healthcare system is broken and wants to be part of building the solution. We're joined by Dr. Melissa Welch , Chief Medical Officer of Sprinter Health , a physici...

Is the traditional healthcare system broken? Hims & Hers is betting on it. In this episode, we do a deep dive into the disruptive Hims & Hers business model, a vertically integrated virtual care platform that has grown from a niche startup to a profitable public company with millions of subscribers. We explore how their approach to direct-to-consumer healthcare challenges the brick-and-mor...

Have you ever felt the pressure to follow a traditional career path, even when your gut tells you to forge a different one? For many doctors, the path is clear: train, practice, repeat. But what happens when your passion for impact extends beyond the bedside? This episode features one of the leading physician innovators who faced this exact dilemma and made the difficult choice to leave clinical p...

In a world of increasingly complex cancer care, how can oncologists ensure they have the most accurate, up-to-date information at the exact moment of need? For years, life-saving clinical guidelines have been buried in dense, hard-to-search PDF documents, creating a significant barrier to evidence-based decision-making. This episode dives into a groundbreaking solution that uses AI for oncology gu...

How can a full-time academic surgeon launch not one, but two successful health tech companies? This episode features one of the leading physician innovators, Dr. Jim Daniero , who shares the real story of how he went from a traditional NIH-funded academic path to a serial entrepreneur. We uncover the "aha" moments and chance encounters that led him to found two startups while maintaining his clini...

Hospitals are a critical, yet incredibly expensive part of our healthcare system. So why are so many operating on razor-thin margins, with some even facing bankruptcy? The answer lies in a massively complex and broken billing system, leading to billions in hospital revenue leakage every year. This episode explores a groundbreaking solution: using AI for hospital revenue cycle management to ensure...

Is a detailed career plan the key to success, or is the secret to follow your curiosity and build what's missing in the world? In this episode of HealthTech Remedy, we explore the nontraditional career path of a true physician innovator, Dr. Gaurav Singal . He shares why abandoning a rigid plan in favor of serendipity and a passion for building led him from medicine to the forefront of health tech...

Is the healthcare system drowning in paperwork and phone calls? The U.S. healthcare system spends over $80 billion annually on administrative tasks, a hidden tax that slows down patient care and burns out clinicians. Much of this cost comes from endless, inefficient phone calls for things like prior authorizations and benefits verification. This episode explores a transformative solution using AI...

Is the pursuit of peak physical ability a noble goal or a dangerous game? This episode confronts the controversial world of human performance enhancement by taking a deep dive into Enhanced , a company poised to revolutionize sports, medicine, and our understanding of human potential. Joined by Enhanced CEO Dr. Aron D'Souza , we explore the razor-thin line between natural talent, medical treatment...

Why do patients have to wait months, or even years, for dementia care while their condition worsens? The current system is failing families, but our guests today have developed a new dementia care model to fix it. This episode of HealthTech Remedy dives deep into Isaac Health , a company using a technology-enabled services platform to deliver scalable, specialist-level brain health and dementia ca...

Clinical trials are notoriously slow, expensive, and inefficient, creating a major bottleneck that delays getting life-saving treatments to cancer patients. What if we could build a new research engine from the ground up, leveraging data and technology to run trials 6x faster and at a significantly lower cost? In this episode, we explore the groundbreaking work of the Flatiron Health clinical rese...

Is the current clinical trial system fundamentally broken? With an estimated 95% of cancer patients unable to participate in clinical research, a new model is urgently needed. This episode dives deep into the world of Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs), a revolutionary approach that brings research directly to patients, breaking down long-standing barriers of geography, cost, and convenience. We...

Could a cure for your disease already be sitting on a pharmacy shelf? In this episode, we explore the revolutionary work of Every Cure, a nonprofit on a mission to unlock the hidden potential of existing drugs through a groundbreaking approach to drug repurposing . We sit down with co-founder Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a physician-scientist who saved his own life by discovering a new use for an old dru...

Uncover how AccessHope is revolutionizing cancer care by tackling the persistent inequity and overwhelming complexity patients and local oncologists face nationwide. Tune in as we discuss AccessHope's innovative remote expert opinions, bridging top subspecialists with community teams to deliver cutting-edge, patient-centric insights. Don't miss this insightful conversation with Chief Medical Offic...

Discover how Atropos Health is revolutionizing healthcare by using AI and real-world evidence to close the critical evidence gap faced by physicians and patients. This game-changing approach delivers unprecedented insights, transforming clinical decision-making from months to minutes. Tune in to hear Dr. Brigham Hyde , CEO and co-founder, discuss their innovative solutions and impact on medicine....

Explore how RespondHealth is revolutionizing clinical research and healthcare using cutting-edge AI, real-world data, and knowledge graphs. Join us as we delve into the company's innovative platform and interview founder Dr. Vicki Seyfert-Margolis about bridging data gaps and accelerating evidence generation. Watch or listen now to learn how this tech is transforming trials and patient care. Join...

Dive into the transformative world of Color Health , a company revolutionizing how millions access preventative care and cancer management. In this episode, the three physician hosts explore how Color evolved from genomic testing to running COVID programs across multiple states, to now powering virtual cancer clinics through partnerships with leading institutions like Memorial Sloan Kettering and...

"I need an MRI for my knee. How much will it cost?" For decades, American healthcare's shocking answer has been: "We'll bill you after." Carol Skenes of Turquoise Health joins HealthTech Remedy to reveal how her company is dismantling this absurdity by aggregating the once-secret negotiated rates between hospitals and insurers. Discover why identical radiation treatments can cost $20,000 at one fa...

Dr. Andrew Norden reveals his journey from Dana-Farber neuro-oncologist to OncoHealth's Chief Medical Officer, where he now oversees prior authorization decisions for cancer treatments that can cost $400,000 per patient. When the emotional toll of watching his brain cancer patients suffer became unbearable, Dr. Norden sought broader impact on the lives of cancer patients through technology that co...

When COVID-19 shut down elective surgeries in 2020, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Brian Covino faced a career crossroads after nearly 30 years in practice. His unexpected pivot to join Cohere Health's leadership team accelerated a revolution in healthcare's most burdensome administrative process. Dr. Covino reveals how physician-guided AI is now reading medical records (eliminating those dreaded fax mach...