The MATTER Health Podcast

Parkview Health , in collaboration with MATTER, is proud to present the 2022 Healthy Mom and Baby Innovation Competition 3.0. No matter their age, all children are babies to their mothers. This year, Healthy Mom and Baby 3.0 extends its scope into improving the lives of mothers and children through pre-teen. This look at pediatrics, with a lens of increasing equity for mothers and children who hav...

Eren Bali is a technology luminary with an entrepreneurial vision and a passion for human rights, chief among those are access to education and healthcare. It’s become his life’s mission to tackle disparities in these sectors, inspiring him to build Udemy and Carbon Health. As the co-founder and CEO of Carbon Health , Eren leads the company on its mission to make essential healthcare services more...

One in five Americans do not have adequate access to oral healthcare. And for many who do, the cost of care is insurmountable. Dental expenses account for a quarter of all healthcare out-of-pocket spending — that means, in aggregate, patients are personally paying $55 billion annually for dental care. Whether due to a lack of providers, high cost, social barriers or infrastructure challenges, gett...

Don Brown is a serial entrepreneur with a resume that speaks for itself. Throughout his career, Don has founded seven startups and brought three to a successful exit: he sold his first company to General Motors, another to IBM and most recently, sold Interactive Intelligence to Genesys for $1.4 billion in 2016. With a career that would satisfy most, Don had a nagging feeling that he wasn’t done ye...

To close the gaps within health equity we must consciously design and develop technologies to be inclusive, and that begins with the data. You can’t fix what you can’t measure. Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine recently launched the Health Equity Tracker, a data visualization tool that displays the scale of COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations across race,...

What will healthcare look like in 20 years? What should we invest in today to help us get there? MATTER and Hillrom present Healthcare 2040, an event series that invites industry leaders working in significantly transformative areas of healthcare to help us explore these questions. How will operating rooms enable more efficient, more effective and less risky surgeries over the next two decades? Pa...

Sheila Mikhail founded Asklepios BioPharmaceutical (AskBio) in 2001 and set out on a mission to bring life-changing drugs to patients in desperate need. Started during a time when gene therapy was not thought of as a realistic therapeutic approach, AskBio went without a round of funding for more than 15 years. With the belief that their therapeutics could change the world, Sheila, her co-founder J...

New York Times bestselling author and founder and CEO of Moves the Needle Brant Cooper teaches leaders how to empower people and their organizations to create new value and become more resilient, aware and dynamic. Due to the rapid pace of technological innovation in the digital age, massive structural change is happening throughout society. Faced with increasing complexity and endless disruption,...

At this event in MATTER and Trustmark’s event series, Insights on Innovation for Self-insured Employers, leaders from Trustmark, Aon and Teladoc Health discuss how virtual care options are changing the game for self-insured employers and employees, where the market is going, what self-insured employers are looking for in terms of innovative solutions and how to offer those solutions. For more info...

Sean Lane began his career as an intelligence officer in the Air Force, spending most of his government service at the NSA solving challenges as a software engineer and technology leader. After serving the U.S. military, Sean started his career as a healthcare entrepreneur, drawn in by the prescription drug abuse problem that engulfed his hometown. After founding several startups — ranging from bi...

Lihi Segal joined us for a conversation moderated by VillageMD Chief Marketing Officer Ellen Donahue-Dalton to discuss her experiences leading both startups and large public enterprises, the inspiration and motivation behind founding DayTwo and advice for fellow entrepreneurs. Lihi founded DayTwo in 2015 to bring personalized health solutions based on the gut microbiome into the mainstream consume...

For more than a year, healthcare heroes have put their lives on the line to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental Health America surveyed 1,119 healthcare workers about their mental health and well-being, and the results were resounding: 93 percent reported stress, 86 percent reported anxiety, 77 percent reported frustration, 76 percent reported exhaustion and burnout and 75 percent said they were o...

In 2014, Aneesh Chopra co-founded CareJourney: a digital health startup that provides clinically-relevant analytics for value-based networks, ultimately enabling its clients to coordinate better outcomes for their patients. Prior to founding CareJourney, Aneesh served as the first chief technology officer of the United States. Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009, Aneesh spent his three-yea...

Women control 80 percent of healthcare decisions in the U.S. and spend 29 percent more per capita on healthcare compared to men — yet solutions focused on women's health received only 3.3 percent of total digital health funding in 2019 and 1.5 percent in the first half of 2020. In a virtual conversation led by investor and serial entrepreneur Pamela York, co-founder and managing partner of Ca...

Eric Lefkofsky is one of Chicago's most successful technology entrepreneurs. His entrepreneurial ventures include Groupon , Echo Global Logistics , Lightbank and, most recently, Tempus . As the founder and CEO of Tempus , Eric has led the company — which uses machine learning and genomic sequencing to better understand cancer tumors — to become one of Chicago's most valuable technology s...

What is health equity? Where do care gaps show up in the American healthcare system? How can technology and innovation be consciously designed and deployed to positively make a change? Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady joins us to answer these questions and more, kicking off MATTER’s latest event series, Advancing Health Equity . The series aims to unravel the var...

In 2011, Matt Omernick co-founded Akili Interactive and set out on a mission to improve people’s lives by building clinically-validated cognitive therapeutics, assessments and diagnostics that look and feel like video games. Nearly a decade later, Matt and his team have seen their hard work pay off — this summer, Akili Interactive was awarded FDA clearance for EndeavorRx, the first-and-only prescr...

Todd Park is the co-founder and executive chairman of Devoted Health, a leader in the Medicare Advantage space that serves seniors by providing them with a next generation health plan. Todd has launched several healthcare startups and also served as the tech advisor to President Barack Obama and the CTO of the United States.  In a conversation moderated by VillageMD Co-founder and Chief Growth Off...