The Health Technology Podcast

In healthcare, there are a lot of hard questions. Today, to answer some of them is Sachin Jain , the President, and CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan, and the former President and CEO of Aspire Health. Through his work, Sachin aims to reduce healthcare disparities in concrete ways. As an MD and an MBA, Sachin’s career experience is in medicine and business, giving him a unique perspective on healt...

Theranos promised to revolutionize healthcare with a charismatic founder, a boardroom of political titans, and billions in funding. At 22, fresh out of Stanford,  Tyler Shultz  joined the “Apple of healthcare” as a research engineer—only to discover its groundbreaking blood-testing technology was built on lies. Behind glossy magazine covers and Silicon Valley hype, data was falsified, results fabr...

COVID brought medicine and politics together on the national stage, and left many Americans wondering: how are healthcare decisions actually made in Washington? As an M.D., inventor, and veteran Congressional speaker, our guest today Dan Riskin has the unique insight into both politics and healthcare to answer this question. His Congressional testimony in the 21st Century Cures Initiative in 2014...

Andy Doraiswamy is the founder and CEO of Koya Medical. Koya is dedicated to addressing chronic lymphatic and venous diseases. Before Koya, Andy worked with various healthcare organizations to revolutionize medical technology and patient care. Most notably, he invented sight-restoring intraocular implants, which were used successfully on over 6 million patients across the globe. He’s an innovative...

Steve Wigginton is the CEO of iCario, a health action company, and he has over 20 years in the healthcare industry under his belt. Some companies he’s worked with include NoviHealth, Sutter Health, Valence Health, and Evolent Health. Steve knows, working successfully in the healthcare industry means having an excellent understanding of human behavior. In this episode, we talk about how behavioral...

We are kicking off 2022 with Nancy Lurker, a giant in the pharmaceutical industry. She has more than 30 years of experience in both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. She’s an accomplished businesswoman and leader with a track record of advancing new medical therapies and implementing very successful US and global drug launches. She also serves on many boards across public and private companies....

Adrienne Schneider is a veteran of the health benefits industry as well as newly minted CEO of the Camille Group. She spent a good portion of her career with American Airlines, where, as head of health benefits, she was in charge of the implementation and execution of health programs for over 100,000 beneficiaries. Now, as the founder and CEO of The Camille Group, she uses her years of experience...

Nicholas Conn is the founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Casana, where he developed the “Heart Seat,” the first toilet-seat-based cardiovascular monitoring system. He earned his PhD in Microsystems Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and worked as a research scientist while developing the “Heart Seat”. In this episode, he takes me through his career journey and how accessibl...

Dr. Kimberly Smith is a Senior Vice President and Head of Research and Development at ViiV Healthcare. She oversees the development of the ViiV Healthcare marketed and pipeline assets. Before joining ViiV Healthcare, she spent twenty years as an HIV clinician and researcher. Dr. Smith is the recipient of many awards over her career recognizing her HIV patient care and advocacy, including the Black...

Catalina Hoffman Muñoz-Seca, created the revolutionary “Hoffman Method” at only 26 years old, which changed the industry’s understanding of elderly care. Since then, she’s been appointed president of SECOT, awarded the Prince of Girona Foundation Award, and founded the Catalina Hoffman Holding Group. She’s also been in the top 100 Women Leaders in Spain and the top ten CEOs. Throughout her career,...

Professor Frank Dobbin is the Chair of Sociology at Harvard University, and author of the critically acclaimed book Inventing Equal Opportunity. Frank’s work on diversifying the workplace focuses on developing an evidence-based approach to understand how and why businesses often remain segregated. In this podcast, Frank talks about the roots of the diversity problem, and how better business divers...

Peter Hames is the co-founder and CEO of Big Health. Peter is also an NHS Innovation fellow, and holds a Masters in Experimental Psychology from Oxford.  As a former insomniac, Peter was frustrated by the limited treatments available for sleep difficulties. And so, inspired by his own success with cognitive behavioral therapy, he founded Big Health in order to deliver CBT-based insomnia treatment...

Chris Hemphill is the Vice President of AI at SymphonyRM and an expert in the field of healthcare data and analytics. In this episode, Chris explains how systemic biases in data collection can affect how companies care for their patients. We discuss how these biases can impact underserved communities and look towards some solutions.  Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at  hello@rosenmaninst...

Lindred (Lindy) Greer is the Associate Professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan who specializes in effective team organization strategies.  Lindy’s research has been published in numerous prestigious publications ranging from the Academy of Management Journal to the Journal of Applied Psychology. She has two degrees under her belt (one from the Leiden University Nethe...

Dr. Medhi Peikar is the inventor and founder of BRIUS Technology. Dr. Peikar started as a dental student in Iran, traveled to the United States for his PhD in Biomechanics from Johns Hopkins, and against all odds became a huge entrepreneurial success while in residency. BRIUS’ revolutionary tooth-straightening method doesn't show from the front or require constant checkups, which differentiates it...

Our guest today is Michael Favet. His current work at NeuroPace, where he serves as President and CEO, focuses on their new and innovative technology tracking brain waves to predict epileptic attacks and prevent them by electrically stimulating the brain. Although Michael was actually an engineer straight out of college, he has had a long and storied 30-year career in the medical device field. He...

Colonel Nicole M. E. Malachowski is a retired fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. She was among the first group of women allowed to fly a modern fighter plane and was recognized for her accomplishments in the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2019. With over 21 years of experience in the United States Air Force including 188 hours in combat and more than 2,300 logged flight hours, she bui...

Stephanie Tilenius is the founder & CEO of Vida Health, a licensed virtual medical care platform with therapists, coaches, and nutritionists operating in all 50 states. Vida allows consumers with multiple diagnoses to receive care uniquely suited to their needs by addressing a range of medical conditions, rather than singling any one condition out.  Before she launched Vida Health, Stephanie ran c...

Joel Klein is the Chief Information Officer of Maryland Medical System, where he oversees the operation of medical information technology for over 29,000 employees in fourteen different hospitals and fifteen different practice locations. As CIO, he uses his experience as an emergency physician and his technological expertise to make medical technology work for the people who use it every day. We d...

Chris McFadden, Managing Director at KKR, a leading global investment firm working with healthcare companies. Chris is also a founding member of the COVID Patient Recovery Alliance, a contributing author to MedCity, and a board member of several medical and healthcare companies.   In this episode, Chris discusses what it means to work at a global investment firm, which leads to some big questions...

Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures and cofounder of Sun Microsystems. Vinod is an entrepreneur, investor, and technologist as well as a mentor to entrepreneurs building technology-based businesses. Vinod discusses the differences between the practice of medicine and the science of medicine. We also explore the value of exercising two extremes: hubris and paranoia.   Do you have any thoughts?...

Welcome to the 100th episode of the Health Technology Podcast! Hemant Taneja is the managing partner of the venture capital firm General Catalyst. Hemant is a visionary leader in the healthcare space. He is an investor, founder, and author of several books including Unscaled and his 2020 book UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance. We talk about what it means to truly deliver access to hea...

Our guest today is Kevin Coloton, founder and CEO of Curation Health, an advanced clinical decision support platform. Kevin founded Curation to simplify care delivery after he observed the challenges of shifting to value-based care reimbursement structures. Kevin talks about his experiences as the healthcare CIO for a Fortune 20 organization. He advocates for meeting providers where they are on th...

Dave Kuraguntla is the co-founder and CEO of Alio. Alio is a remote monitoring platform for managing chronic conditions. David attended West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine on a Health Professions Scholarship from the United States Air Force. He was preparing to begin a surgical residency when he was confronted with the need for the Alio remote monitoring platform. In this episode, David e...

Paddy Padmanabhan, author of the best-selling book Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future. Paddy is also the founder and CEO of Damo Consulting, a digital transformation advisory firm, the author of The Big Unlock, and the host of the podcast also called The Big Unlock. We discuss the evolving role of CIOs, telehealth reimbursement r...