The Beat

In 2014, women made 80% of the healthcare decisions in the US. Yet innovation in the digital health space largely ignored their unique needs. That's when Kate Ryder launched Maven Clinic, a digital-first platform designed to support women and families with holistic care around fertility, pregnancy and parenting. Today, Maven is the largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health, serving 10M...

Health happens inside and outside the four walls of a hospital. Precision health uses data from a wide variety of non-clinical sources to arrive at the best treatment for a person or a community. But how do we use technology to improve the quality of life of a patient? By putting the patient front and center in the data. Dr. Jess Mega is a cardiologist and the Co-Founder and Chief Medical & Scient...

The same way that a company like Stripe provides payment processing infrastructure for eCommerce, Zus Health is building the infrastructure for digital health. CEO Jonathan Bush and his team are doing the dirty work to make electronic health records more accessible and accelerate innovation in the patient relationship management space. Prior to Zus, Jonathan spent 22 years as CEO of Athena Health,...

About Michael Clark: Michael Clark is committed to building organizations that simplify healthcare complexities and put the patient and provider first. As CEO of DeliverHealth, he guides a team of healthcare experts in clearing the way for essential, resilient connections among providers, clinicians, and patients. For more than 25 years, Michael’s “patient and provider first” mindset has helped he...

If we want to get healthier and reverse chronic conditions, we can only get so far doing it alone. So, what can we do and who can we work alongside, to reverse chronic disease not only in ourselves but in the entire U.S.? Jahangir Mohammed is the Founder and CEO of Twin Health. Twin is transforming the way the industry approaches chronic disease management by utilizing its Whole Body Digital Twin™...

General Catalyst differentiates itself by including established companies in their portfolio, tackling problems holistically and having an appetite for long-term, multi-year commitments. One of their guiding principles includes building deep relationships while, simply, listening. And it’s working; their approach is affecting major change in the healthcare technology sphere. Chitra Nawbatt is the...

At present, America has a sick care system where we wait until people are ill before we intervene. But what if wearable technology could serve as a kind of check engine light, letting us know when our health data is off? What if wearables could help us prevent disease and make better decisions for our health on a daily basis? Harpreet Singh Rai is the CEO of Oura , a health technology company on a...

About Melissa Sherry: Melissa Sherry is the VP of Social Care Integration at Unite Us and designs payment technology to increase funding for community programs. She holds an M.P.H and a Ph. D. from the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Things You’ll Learn: Unite Us is building coordinated care networks to make sure individuals’ basic nee...

Early in her career as a nurse practitioner, Dr. Kristi Henderson realized that many of her patients didn’t have access to care early enough. And she set out to get healthcare to the people who needed it. Dr. Henderson found a solution in technology and launched the first telehealth program in conjunction with the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2003. Today, Dr. Henderson is the CEO of...

With all the buzz of new innovations, it's easy to forget that healthcare is a people business in need of technology, not a technology business in need of people. Consensus Cloud Solutions is using new technology solutions to help doctors continue to communicate in a way that’s comfortable for them, then processing that data and making it usable for the entire healthcare team. It’s about putting t...

About Kristen Valdes Kristen Valdes is the founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health. She is a transformative force in today’s healthcare marketplace, spearheading the conversation on how empowering consumers can transform healthcare delivery.  Kristen is a seasoned healthcare executive with over 20 years in the industry and has dedicated her life to pioneering inventive solutions. Her powerful p...

About Richard Scarfo Richard Scarfo is the president of HLTH, a leading platform bringing together the entire health ecosystem, focused on health innovation and transformation. Before leading HLTH, he was the Vice President of PCHAlliance at HIMSS. He has also had positions in Sales, Marketing, and Strategic Alliances in several renowned healthcare industry companies.  Things You'll Learn Events a...

Over time, drug development has become more and more challenging. Success rates of clinical trials hover in the single digits, and the cost of developing a new treatment is greater than $2.5B. So, what can we do to make drug discovery faster, less expensive and more successful? How might advancements in machine learning and the availability of biomedical data revolutionize the drug design process?...

Even before the pandemic, mental health was the #1 cause of disability worldwide. Yet most people didn’t feel comfortable sharing their mental health struggles and many waited until they were in crisis to ask for help—if they asked for help at all. So, how can we destigmatize mental health and provide people all over the world with access to ongoing support? Alyson Watson is the Founder and CEO of...

How does access to healthcare data save lives?  Consider the story of a 28-year-old patient who died from an opioid addiction. After the fact, his healthcare team realized that the young man had visited seven different emergency departments in the two months prior to his death. But without access to that information, none of the EDs realized the full extent of the problem. With the right data, the...

For the last decade, telemedicine has been dominated by urgent care—and it’s delivered a great deal of value for patients in need of quick access to a doctor for something like the stomach flu. But for the technology to reach its full potential, the experience needs to expand beyond ‘blind date’ telehealth. What if we used telecare to enable established clinician-patient relationships? How might f...

Most of us would define longevity in terms of the length of our lives. But what if there’s more to it than that? What if quality matters as much as quantity? What if we could extend our healthiest, most productive years? Alex Zhavoronkov is the Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine , a venture-backed company that seeks to extend healthy longevity through innovative AI solutions for drug discovery a...

A lot of people are hesitant to reach out to a doctor for help. And when the issue they face is a stigmatized one like hair loss, birth control or erectile dysfunction, they’re even less likely to engage. So, how can we normalize conversations around care for these very common health concerns? Melissa Waters is the Chief Marketing Officer at Hims & Hers , a health and wellness startup out of San F...

Dr. Roy Smythe likens our current healthcare system to medieval warfare. We address only the most acutely ill individuals, the flaming objects flying over the castle walls, rather than finding a way to stave off the endless supply of catapults. But what if we had a better method for assessing health and predicting disease? With innovations in AI and machine learning, his team is leveraging proteom...

The academic environment is ideal for innovation, while tech companies excel at scaling solutions. But somewhere in the handoff between academia and industry, things seem to break down. How can we learn to collaborate in a seamless way? A way that allows us to apply the best technology and translate biomedical discoveries into new diagnostics or therapeutics? Dr. Lloyd Minor is the scientist, surg...

The Beat - Episode 3 Partnerships + Prevention = Value-Driven Care—featuring Katie Adamson of YMCA of the USA An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And as we make the shift from volume-based to value-driven care, the formal healthcare system needs to partner with community organizations like the YMCA to implement the prevention programs that will both save money and improve patient outc...

HLTH Matters EP02 Integrated Care Built Around the Human Being—featuring Mark Ganz of Cambia Health Solutions In every other area of our lives, service providers are accountable to their customers. If they fail to provide both quality and value, people vote with their feet. But in healthcare, we’ve traded away that control to the insurance company, and the result is an increasingly dehumanizing sy...

HLTH Matters EP01 Advancing NEMT with Ride Sharing—featuring Megan Callahan of Lyft Business When we think about access to healthcare, insurance tends to be top-of-mind. But coverage won’t do you much good if you don’t have a way to get to and from the services you need. Transportation is one of the social determinants of health that keeps inequity alive in our broken healthcare system. So, what c...