The Health Technology Podcast

Curiosity didn’t kill the cat. Instead, it led to compassion, self-regulation, and conflict resolution when applied in the workplace. According to Liz Kislik , Harvard Business Review and Forbes contributor, curiosity is the first step toward conflict management. If you don’t want to know what’s wrong, how can you fix it? We are excited to speak with Liz about her journey into the management consu...

How do people function at work? It’s a question on everyone’s mind, but especially for people like CEOs whose job is to manage their teams. Our guest today is Jay Johnson . He is is a renowned expert on empowering teams for entrepreneurs and leaders. His career is about how entrepreneurs and leaders can empower their teams. He’s a TEDx speaker and Forbes Business Council Member and has given keyno...

It’s not easy breaking out into the unknown. Being one of the first to try something new or different is challenging, especially as an entrepreneur. Lindy Fishburne, a Managing Partner at Breakout Ventures, knows exactly what this is like.    “Breaking out” from the traditional translational research mold and venturing into a new space, Lindy has opened new avenues into the creative bioscience sec...

Arvind Rajan has “hit a six” with his latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Cricket Health. From being part of the executive leadership team at LinkedIn to now founding a transformative healthcare company, Arvind is an entrepreneur and leader of many flavors. Curiosity, a desire to make an impact, and a hunger to learn from industry leaders across various sectors have driven Arvind toward his venture i...

We’re doing it wrong, and we’re not seeing change. “Workplace diversity” has been at the forefront of every diversity, equity, and inclusion conversation for the past few years, but mandatory bias training once a year as the solution just isn’t cutting it. So, what makes the cut? We welcome returning guest Professor Frank Dobbin , Chair of Sociology at Harvard University, as he gets to the root of...

If you’re in the healthcare space, you’re probably here because you want to help people. So here at The Health Technology Podcast we are constantly asking: what is the best way to help? Guy Friedman , the co-founder, and CEO of SteadyMD, has his answer: by making telehealth more streamlined. Steady MD is a technology company and healthcare platform that offers telehealth services in all 50 states....

Our guest today, Lorin Gu , is literally putting his money where his mouth is. As the founder of Recharge Capital , he invests thematically and focuses on important issues like women’s health. Lorin is an investment expert and has previously worked with Cyrus Capital and the Blackstone Group. He’s also the founder of the Recharge Foundation and the Founding Chair of the Global Future Council at th...

At the UCSF Rosenman Institute , we aim to uplift entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities because we know firsthand how important diversity is. Our guest today is Nada Hanafi . She’s also part of the fight to make our community more equal. Nada is an incredible industry leader with a fantastic career. Today, she serves as the Board Director at Medtech Colors, as well as the CSO of Experien...

Healthtech isn’t just about science, it’s also about communications. As a company, you have a story to tell. And our podcast guest today, Maureen Shaffer , might just teach you how to tell your story well enough, so people really sit up and listen. Maureen is the founder and CEO of Mingletoe LLC, and a sales expert in the field of healthtech. As CEO, she engineers winning marketing strategies for...

Memora is a name you should remember, because it’s headed towards being the care support platform of the future. Our guest today, Manav Sevak , founded Memora in 2017 originally to help people remember to take their medication, but today it has grown to so much more. Today, Memora’s platform aims to make all complex care delivery systems simple, not just the ones centered on medication. In additio...

Why are drug prescriptions so expensive? The answer is complicated and involves payers, providers, and patients. And even industry professionals sometimes have a hard time explaining it. Our guest today, Kyle Kiser, is working towards making these expensive prescriptions a thing of the past. Kyle is the CEO and founder of Arrive Health (formerly RxRevu), a “real-time prescription benefits service....

Investors are important people to listen to in this industry. They’re the ones whose opinions mean you get funded, or not. That’s why Julie Wroblewski is our podcast guest in this week's episode. Julie is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Magnify Ventures. She has more than a decade of investing experience under her belt, including leading the venture capital investment portfolio at Pivotal V...

If you’re not a leader, you can learn. At least, you can if you listen to a couple of key lessons from our podcast episode with Rajit Kamal . Rajit is the Worldwide President for Sports Medicine and Shoulder Reconstruction at Johnson & Johnson. In his career with Johnson & Johnson since 2008, he’s held a number of prestigious leadership roles. Some of those include Vice President Asia Pacific, Vic...

What does a depressed person sound like? I don’t know, and neither does any living person. But Kintsugi ’s AI technology does. Our guest today, Prentice Tom is the CMO of Kintsugi Health, a company developing this revolutionary way of diagnosing mental health disorders. Before his work with Kintsugi, Prentice led groundbreaking mental health programs at Vituity, and served as the president of Gale...

Our guest today is a real political maverick as well as an incredible business leader.  Anne Tumlinson started her career in government working as a healthcare advisor to the one and only Congressman John Lewis. Today, she is the Founder and CEO of ATI Advisory , and the founder of Daughterhood. Both organizations aim to address aging and disability issues in our country.  Unfortunately, there are...

One of the subjects we keep coming back to here on the Health Technology Podcast is healthcare inequities. COVID-19 revealed a lot of very stark racial inequities in our systems. And a lot of our podcast guests are out there doing the incredibly difficult work of addressing these disparities. Our podcast guest Marcus Whitney is one of them. Marcus created Jumpstart Nova in 2020 to fund historicall...

Most of us help our mothers, especially as they age. But for my guest today John Kao , it’s a little bit more literal. John is the founder and CEO of Alignment Healthcare  a platform delivering customized health care to seniors and other vulnerable populations. John has an amazing resume, including CareMore Medical, The TriZetto Group, PacifiCare Health Systems, and FHP International. But his real...

In the healthtech industry, we tend to be very science-oriented. But my guest today, Nagraj Kayshap , says the science of investing in healthtech companies is actually more of an art. it's contradictory. But if there’s anyone qualified to say so, it’s Nagraj. As managing partner at SoftBank, Nagraj decides what companies are best to form long-term investment relationships. So if you’re an entrepre...

What is “the promise of precision health”? It was almost the title of this podcast, because our guest today, Vivian Lee , answers that question every day through her work at Verily . As President of Health Platforms, she creates healthcare systems that work with their patients’ unique lives. Vivian has also done similar work with the University of Utah Health Care, as the CEO and the Dean of their...

As listeners of this podcast know, innovators build our healthcare system, but they also disrupt it. My guest today, Mike Snyder is a big believer that our care systems need a serious overhaul. As an author and Chair of Genetics, Director of Genomics & Personalized Medicine at Stanford University, and a serial entrepreneur, Mike has a lot of insight into the industry. He’s founded or co-founded ni...

Our guest today is Congresswoman  Allyson Schwartz . She is the former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 2005-2015 and was also the founding president and CEO of the Better Medicare Alliance. Allyson is a huge advocate for accessible healthcare. She’s remained committed to healthcare reform from her days in government to her current position as a Senior Advising at...

If you’re in medicine, or you’ve seen Grey’s Anatomy, you know it’s important for doctors to know their patient’s history. It can mean the difference between effective and ineffective treatment. This is why Troy Bannister is focused on making healthcare data usable, not just accessible. As CEO and Co-founder of Particle Health , he’s using a digital platform to make all this information both simpl...

Mental Health Awareness month was in May, but as some of you may know too well, mental health problems last all year. However, many people still continue to devalue mental health conditions, especially compared to physical health conditions. Our guest this week, Lucia Huang , is hoping to change that. She is the founder and CEO of Os Mind , a company providing digital platforms for mental health r...

Many years ago, Dan Trigub ’s parents came to the US from the city of Odesa in what’s now Ukraine. They settled in New Jersey, but his grandmother lived by herself in Queens. And Dan’s experience being her caretaker and connection to the outside world helped create his career. Today, Dan is the CEO and Co-Founder of MedArrive . There, he works to help vulnerable patients get essential care in thei...

Entrepreneurs we talk to are always wondering: how do you catch an investor’s eye? To answer that, we’re talking to Nicole Walker , a partner at venture capital firm Arboretum Ventures. Nicole will walk us through her time working abroad in Hong Kong, her tips for entrepreneurs seeking funding, and her experiences as an African American woman in a male-dominated field. In this episode, we also dis...