Shot of Digital Health Therapy

Happy New Year! This is our first 2021 episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy and Jim Joyce & I decided to start it off with a focus on #mentalhealth. Joshua Haynes at Masawa was kind enough to join us and chat all things brain: 🧠 Biology, technology, humans and impact of each to #mentalhealth 🧠 Some crazy stats on #startup founders and #mentalhealth 🧠 Funding into #mentalhealth space 🧠...

2020 is almost OVER!!! woot woot! In our longest episode EVER, Jim Joyce and I recap the crazy 2020 and why we started #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, its positive impact on our own #mentalhealth (and hopefully other's) plus: 🧠 Mental Health stats compliments of Joshua Haynes at Masawa 🧠 2021 #digitalhealth predictions 🧠 Our hopes for "return of the smile" (as well as hugs) 🧠 Jim Joyce's r...

This episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy felt like April Fools at times so Jim Joyce and I had loads of fun with the amazing Michelle Longmire. Growing up doing falconry with her dad and a mom who was a plutonium chemist, Michelle always loved experiments. We covered a lot of ground (like falcons): 🐧 Why entrepreneurship is an optimization problem? 🐧 World's awareness of "clinical tria...

On today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I hosted the man who lives on the bleeding edge of drug development AMIR KALALI, MD - we keep hitting new records and this is our longest episode though we probably spent way to much time talking about designer shoes 👠 but also: 👠 Travel hacks especially when FBI is involved 👠 CNS Summit and importance of community building 👠 Decentr...

Just when you thought you had enough... #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is back! Jim Joyce and I kicked off Season 4 with the ever-energizing Jamey Edwards, CEO of Cloudbreak Health and a new member to the UpHealth Inc company. We had lots of fun talking about: 🏥 How Jamey is on a mission to humanize care 🏥 Physician burnout is a real issue!!! 🏥 Did you know that there are 126+ languages spo...

And its a wrap 🎉🎉🎉 Jim Joyce & I recap S3 Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. The world has gone through some #digitalhealth IPOs 💸, SPAC attacks 😂 , US elections 🗳, positive C19 vaccine trials 💉 & ... Check out this recap, then come back to this post & click on 1 of 10 amazing guests we had this season. Speaking of vaccines: S03E11 was our 1st infomercial on #TheShot 😂.. but on a serious note....

Jim Joyce and I had our minds blown by the one and only Jane Metcalfe on this week's "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy". Launching and later selling WIRED, investing in a chocolate business (amongst others) and then diving into the neobiological revolution via NEO.LIFE, Jane was an amazing guest and we talked: 🧬 Intersection of Neuroscience - Nutrition - Longevity 🧬 Parabiosis, micro-dosing and me...

Jim Joyce and I had to dedicate our longest episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" to our first guest ever wearing a tie 👔 - Chris Coburn, Chief Innovation Officer at Mass General Brigham. We talked: 👔 Unremitting pressures on hospital systems 👔 Mental & Behavioral Health 👔 TheCoburn Hiring method: "Writing well = thinking clearly" 👔 Irish Authors, Arts, Movies (get your list here) 👔 Ma...

Today's episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" took Jim Joyce and I on a ride in the way-back machine to NYC circa 2008 and back to the future with Unity Stoakes from StartUp Health 🚀 How StartUp Health got started and the 25 year plan 🚀 Batteries-included #entrepreneurs 🚀 Importance of #mentalhealth 🚀 Streaming #Innovation 🚀 New administration and predictions for health innovation 🚀 oh...

In this #Election2020 & #COVID19-FREE-Zone episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy", Jim Joyce and I got some amazing insights from non other than Lee Shapiro from 7wireVentures / Livongo : 🎯 How to pronounce "SPAC" and a bit of SPAC-101 🎯 What do "Hash House Harriers" have to do with investing 🎯 Deep dive into 7wireVentures thesis & investment decisions 🎯 The daily routine of an ever-entre...

Wow so many great nuggets in today's episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" I don't even know where to start... Jim Joyce and I had the honor of having Gautam Gulati, MD,MBA,MPH - pronounced (Ga-Thumb 👍 Ga-Lotty) and we spent a lot of it on the art of storytelling amongst other things: 💡 Why health = story over time not just point in time 💡 Storytelling-as-Medicine 💡 Why silence is powerf...

It took way too long for Jim Joyce and I to have the godfather of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" on our show. Did you know that Daniel Couchman Kendall had a radio show in college and that he lived in UK for 18 years and still has no British accent? We had a blast and talked everything podcasts and more: 🎧 History of Digital Health Today 🎧 #JPM and Irish bar - yes all roads lead there 🎧 #DTx...

In this episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy", Jim Joyce and got to spend some awesome time with Mimi Billing a management consultant turned journalist at Sifted. We chat about: 🚀 the "old machinery" of Europe 🚀 scaling #digitalhealth #startups in EU 🚀 startup honeymoons and how long they last? 🚀 oh and should startups PR or not PR.. Fun mentions as always: Kry Babylon Health Johannes Sc...

Another episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" = another memory lane. Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of having Shwen Gwee, who despite his long career in #pharma has not lost any hair. We kicked off with Rock Health and StartUp Health digital health investment reports 📈, reimbursement news from Germany 🇩🇪 and then got deep into ☕️ Innovation vs. Structure ☕️ Played Buzzword Bingo ☕️ Shw...

On this #InternationalPodcastDay was great to have the corporate refugee Rashida Bobb joining Jim Joyce and I on "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" from New York City: 🥂 Barcelona 🇪🇸 - here I come and my #COVID19 test delivered by Ziphycare 🥂 Jim & Rashida on an island? 🥂 Rashida diving into pain recognition and management 🥂 Funding of under-represented founders 🥂 Can investors create new patte...

Welcome to Season 3 Premier of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" coming to you almost live from Florence 🇮🇹 & Dublin 🇮🇪. This season is all about "more fun, less pain" as Jim Joyce put it & there is no-one better to kick us into more fun than Martin Kelly, CEO of HealthXL: 🍋 My escape to Italy 🍋 Martin Kelly's trip down the memory lane as an inventor of SmartCamp 🍋 Genesis of HealthXL 🍋 Importa...

All good things come to an end and so did Season 2 of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy". We had a fun season recap with Laura Hamilton who says she volunteered (yeah right!), so if you don't have ~378 min to spare to binge the whole season then today's recap is for you .. (in other sad news: Jim Joyce and I lost out to Joe Rogan to host the presidential debate.. 1-liners: compliments of Laura: 🍾 J...

Wednesday means "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy Day" and today's guest the self-taught musician, pharmacy regulator turned entrepreneur - Leonora O'Brien called Jim Joyce and I the Statler and Waldorf of #digitalhealth - 😂😂😂😂. On today's final episode of Season 2 we explore the pharmacy industry: 💊 What do airlines and pharmacies have in common? 💊 Should startups take grant money? 💊 Pharmac...

Jim Joyce and I had an amazing guest on today that neither one of us met in person before and she definitely energized us for the week to come - Thanks Melinda Decker! We talked: 🍷 How it takes about a decade to build a "successful #DigitalHealth company? Right Sean Duffy, doug hirsch, Peter Hames 🍷 How making wine is almost like making drugs 😂 🍷 How to wrangle a sizable budget inside a pharma...

This week, Jim Joyce and I had some virtual drinks with Steve Seuntjens (well.. real drinks in a virtual setting) on "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy"... Even with drinks we mostly made sense but you will be the judge of that: 🍺 We talked about Jim Joyce's broken ribs... heal fast Jim! 🍺 Steve's investment thesis tied with individual's own engagement in health 🍺 We listened to Steve's 30 second...

Jim Joyce and I had a great time hanging with Milind Kamkolkar today on "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy". We went deep into human biology (well as deep as we can in ~40 min): ✅ Invention vs. Innovation ✅ Advances in understanding of cell behaviors ✅ Doing things better or doing better things! ✅ Drug Discovery and #AI ✅ TechBio or #Biotech ✅ Creating legacy when creating companies Fun mention...

In this birthday 🎂 edition of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy", Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of having Jacob LaPorte, Ph. D., Co-Founder of Novartis Biome, who turned 25 today 😂and still decided to join us on his birthday! (also happy birthday Glen Tullman!!!) We talked about: ✅ Jacob's path from molecular biologist -> organic chemist -> consultant -> CRO -> Pharma ✅ How Novartis Biome is...

I don't know about you but I love Wednesdays!! It's "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" Day and today Jim Joyce and I really enjoyed having Maneesh Juneja on the show. Maneesh took the video call from his car (first for us) and we chatted about what he has been struggling with for the last 119 days - #LongCovid ✅ How he was un-diagnosed with #COVID19 ✅ How he used #digitalhealth technologies for se...

Wow! We almost didn't make it today, but more on that next episode.. Today Jim Joyce and I spoke to Nicole Baker, CEO of biologit and an immunologist - this was a social experiment of its own in this virtual world (watch to find out why). Nicole broke the ice with a discussion of #Medbikini, then took us through her geographical journey: Brazil, Germany, UK, Ireland - I am still trying to figure o...

Jim Joyce and I had the honor of having Professor Shafi Ahmed on with us today - who is an amazing entrepreneur, futurist, surgeon and teacher! We first decided to have our avatars speak to each other using Loom.ai but quickly switched to: ✅ Front lines of health & care have and will continue changing ✅ Health education needs to be reinvented otherwise we will end up with projected shortage of 1...