Provider's Edge | Peak Performance Guide for Healthcare Entrepreneurs

If you’ve ever thought, “I need to be more ready before I pitch,” this episode is your wake-up call. In this live panel from the Venture Vitality Roundtable, you’ll hear from four powerhouse women who are reshaping startup capital—from DFX funding strategies to investor readiness, go-to-market scaling, and how to avoid founder burnout. We’re talking real traction, real funding conversations, and t...

Tired of cold-pitching investors who don’t get what you’re building? What if capital started chasing you? In this episode, I sat down with a panel of seasoned investors during our Venture Vitality Roundtable to unpack what truly makes a startup irresistible to aligned capital. We’re talking beyond pitch decks—this is about market readiness, community-first traction, and the kind of 2-minute pitch...

What happens when six bold women founders get two minutes to pitch life-changing health innovations… and three minutes to prove they’re investor-ready? You get this episode. Real traction. Real questions. Real feedback. And the blueprint for turning your pitch into a strategic partnership. From point-of-care diagnostics to digital therapeutics for fibroids, non-hormonal contraception, and military...

Why do some founders raise with ease—while others, equally talented, get ghosted? In this episode, we reverse the roles: three HealthTech investors answer real questions from early-stage founders on what makes them say “yes.” If you’ve ever poured your heart into a pitch only to hear crickets, this conversation will make you feel seen—and help you shift from being overlooked to oversubscribed. Tun...

When you’re building a healthcare startup, there’s one resource you can’t afford to waste—your people. Too often, founders lose top talent because they rely on quick fixes instead of designing compensation and incentives that keep employees engaged for the long haul. In this episode, I sat down with Scott Trumpolt, a compensation consultant with 30+ years of HR experience, including 12 years advis...

Burnout isn’t just a clinical issue—it’s a leadership one. And most clinicians-turned-founders are burning the candle at both ends while trying to serve, scale, and stay sane. Monica McKitterick, PA-C, did it differently. When she stopped leading from adrenaline and started building from alignment, everything shifted—her visibility, her support system, and her ability to scale without chaos.“You’r...

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕. But what happens after the go-live? Too many health tech companies lose momentum right when they should be deepening trust and adoption. In this episode, I sit down with Sandra Johnson, SVP of Client Services at CliniComp, to talk about how their “system as a service” model keeps clinicians front and center, embeds users in every stage of product creation, and delive...

What if a single piece of technology could improve patient healing rates by 35%—without adding extra work for clinicians? That’s exactly what Swift Medical is proving with their AI-powered wound care platform. With over 30 million wound assessments and 40+ peer-reviewed studies, their solution integrates directly into existing EHR workflows, predicts complications before they happen, and enables p...

You have under 2 minutes to win an investor’s attention. Most VCs decide in the first 30–90 seconds whether to keep listening. If you’re a women-led healthtech founder, that window is your make-or-break moment—and your science-heavy pitch could be costing you the “yes” you deserve. In our latest guide, you’ll learn how to transform complex, data-driven solutions into investor-ready pitches that ge...

What if building your HealthTech solution was only half the battle, because the real game is connecting humans and data across an entire ecosystem? That’s the challenge Eugene Pozdnikov, CEO of CYBX, is tackling head-on. In this episode, we unpack how to move beyond single-point care and build ecosystems that serve patients, families, physicians, and long-term care teams—without losing fidelity or...

When your frontline workers are burnt out, and your admin team is buried in spreadsheets… it’s not a staffing issue. It’s a system issue. In this episode of Provider’s Edge, I sat down with Adam Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Apploi, to unpack why long-term care organizations can’t solve workforce burnout by hiring alone—and what it actually takes to retain the people doing the hardest jobs in healt...

In this episode, I sat down with Phil Beckett to unpack the true complexity of making health data work. From mismatched baby names and identity errors to AI-powered community simulations, we explored why data usability—not just availability—is key to lasting change. We talked about aligning economic models with upstream care, empowering patients with understandable records, and the multidimensiona...

You’re doing all the things. Running from call to call, showing up at every pitch, every investor dinner, every headline tech week. It feels like momentum—but is it? In this episode, we unravel one of the most dangerous illusions in startup culture: mistaking chaos for progress.🧠 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE:1️⃣ Why “chronic busyness” is the new burnout badgeFounders are over-scheduling and...

In this episode, I sat down with Dr. Ronn Berrol to unpack how a single hospital pilot became a 21-site success story—not by replacing Epic, but by solving the one thing it couldn’t do well: surfacing the right data, at the right time, for the right patients. We dove deep into how high-risk patients can be flagged before they escalate into crisis, and how real-time data sharing across emergency de...

We keep saying we want value-based care. But why do most models still fall short? In this episode, I sat down with Hamad Husainy, a clinician-turned-HealthTech leader at PointClickCare, to explore the hidden reasons value-based systems collapse—and what it actually takes to build one that works. We unpacked why data timing, team collaboration, and cultural transformation—not just more tech—are ess...

Ever handed off a patient with a thick discharge packet… only to get a call two days later that they’re back in the ER? That’s not just a clinical failure—it’s a system breakdown. In this episode, I sat down with Brian Drozdowicz from PointClickCare to talk about building tools that actually improve care transitions. Not just more data—but smarter data, delivered at the right time, to the right pe...

You'd think a founder who's already exited TWO companies, has partnerships with global giants like Siemens, and technology tracking 10 MILLION medical samples would have investors lined up around the block. You'd be wrong. In today's episode, I break down exactly what went wrong in Javier Cuello's pitch for H+Trace—his medical traceability platform that's solving a $500M problem in healthcare. His...

Everyone’s excited during the demo. No one’s using it six months later. Most HealthTech founders don’t realize the real problem isn’t adoption. It’s overbuilding before your frontline champions are even heard. This week, I sat down with Jonathan McCoy, founder of vCare, and Rachel West, a nurse and clinical collaborator, to discuss how they co-created a robot assistant—CC—that’s transforming the d...

What if the biggest blocker to your product’s success isn’t the tech—but the fear-filled culture it’s stepping into? That’s exactly what Varsha Chaugai discovered while building Evoke Health, a platform designed to digitize and streamline communication between long-term care facilities and families. Despite building the platform in just five months, the real challenge wasn’t technical—it was cultu...

Most HealthTech founders collect loads of patient data…But let’s be honest: dashboards don’t change care plans—decisions do. I sat down with Karen Josswick to uncover how HealthTech companies can stop spinning in data loops and start building real post-acute care value. We talked workflow integration, remote care planning, and how to activate the right team talents inside your org and your buyers'...

Why Most Startups Fail to Land Investors (Until This Happens) Most healthtech founders don’t fail because of a bad product. They fail because they’re pitching the right idea in the wrong language. This week, we pulled back the curtain on a live coaching session inside our Pitch Perfect Workshop. Here’s what really separates fundable startups from ignored ones 👇 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:...

Healthcare doesn’t end at the clinic—and Luke O’Brien of Brook. AI knows that better than most.  After navigating care for his father’s leukemia, Luke realized just how much support patients and caregivers need after leaving the doctor’s office.  In this episode, we unpack how Brook. AI built a wraparound solution combining remote monitoring, 24/7 clinical care teams, EHR integration, and operatio...

Many startups overlook hidden vulnerabilities in their pursuit of innovation. In this episode, George Pappas, SVP of Security at Health Catalyst, discusses how healthcare systems inherit security risks through mergers, poor integrations, and neglected IT. When cyberattacks lead to patient deaths, it's not just a technical issue—it’s a leadership failure. This conversation challenges the idea that...

How does a company built on virtual second opinions become a system-wide impact engine? By blending data, empathy, and results—not just tech. In this episode, we explored what it really means to close care gaps—without forcing health systems to adopt yet another "new thing." Scott explained how they plug into existing infrastructures, using a results-based approach that leads to treatmen...

SHOW ME THE MONEY? Not if you're a woman in HealthTech. Less than 2% of VC dollars go to women-led healthcare companies—and even fewer to women’s health solutions. I spoke with Mayra Hurtado, CEO of Prelude Health, who’s scaled her menopause testing startup internationally. But like so many underrepresented founders, she’s still fighting for investor attention, burning time and energy trying to ex...