HITea With Grace

On this glorious HITea Tuesday, we sit down with Susannah Fox, author of "Rebel Health," to explore the transformative world of patient-led research and innovation. Susannah explores the inspiration behind her book and delves into the concept of the "health rebel alliance." She shares how healthcare consumers can become part of this alliance and discusses the four archetypes driving the patient-le...

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation in this HITea episode of "Fund Like a Girl" with Cat Middleton, a seasoned investor committed to shaping the future of digital health. Cat talks with us about her investment thesis, emphasizing the empowerment of individuals to become active stewards of their health.  Beyond the realm of traditional investment talk, Cat explores the crucial role investo...

On this episode of HITea, we dive into an insightful conversation with Christine Von Raesfeld, Founder and CEO of People with Empathy. Christine, a rare disease warrior, shares her deeply personal journey about how she's championing her own care and research. Discover the transformative power of pharmacogenomics testing in Christine's own diagnosis and treatment journey and learn how she's spearhe...

HITea With Grace's "Fund Like a Girl" is honored to host Alyssa Jaffe, Partner at 7wire Ventures on the pod. Alyssa takes us on her journey leading to her investor role at 7wire Ventures, sharing insights on why she focuses on building businesses empowering healthcare consumers to take control of their health. Discover success stories of individuals positively impacted by digital health solutions...

Welcome to HITea Pod's "Fund Like a Girl" series! In this episode, we are pleased to host La Keisha Landrum Pierre and Naseem Sayani, partners at Emmeline Ventures. La Keisha and Naseem share their insights as investors in women's health technology, addressing specific research gaps and the identification of areas in need of innovation. Explore their perspectives on gender diversity in clinical tr...

Welcome to HITea With Grace’s “Fund Like a Girl” series where we're thrilled to feature Cheryl Cheng, founder of Vive Collective, a dynamic VC in health IT. Join us as Cheryl shares her career journey that led to Vive Collective and delves into the Vive Collective survey conducted via LinkedIn, revealing the top 4 "Digital Health Mafia Companies" and sharing surprising findings. Listen in as Chery...

In this episode of HITea With Grace’s “Fund Like a Girl”, we have a very special guest - Halle Tecco - a pioneering VC in the health IT space.  In this episode, Halle shares her career journey, insights into the evolving healthcare landscape, and invaluable advice for women venturing into healthcare entrepreneurship and venturing into venture. She discusses key challenges and effective strategies,...

In this episode, Grace Vinton asks Joy Rios, HIT Like a Girl's podcast host and now founder of Like a Girl Media, to sit in the HITea hot seat. Joy opens up about how she got started in health IT back in 2010 and what motivated her to shine the spotlight on women who work in the industry in 2018. Spoiler alert: she turned a complaint about women not getting enough industry credit into an opportuni...

Join us today on HITea Pod as we sit down with Seli Fakorzi, Director of Mental Health Operations at TimelyCare (formerly TimelyMD), a virtual health and well-being solution for higher education. Seli shares her journey as a practicing clinician and how she became passionate about making behavioral healthcare more accessible through virtual care. Seli dives into the mental health crisis facing you...

In this episode, we sit down with Elena Iakovleva, a leading digital health industry analyst who has extensive experience in healthcare innovation. We discuss her path to Chilmark, the latest trends in healthcare innovation, and which ones may fade away over time. We also dive into the healthcare policies that are most likely to impact digital health, as well as the recent Chilmark Hospital at Hom...

Let’s talk about death. Today we have Tatiana Fofanova, PhD, on the show to talk about healthcare technology disruption happening in the advanced care planning industry. Tatiana is deeply passionate about health equity and brings that passion into her company and business to improve patient end of life care and decision making for both the patient and caregiver. Thanks for joining us Tatiana and f...

In this episode, Dr. Sherry McAllister details the findings of four new research studies led by David Elton, DC, who is VP of Musculoskeletal R&D at Optum Labs (a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group). The research team utilized its massive claims database primarily to investigate the links between the type of healthcare provider initially contacted, service utilization and total episode cost for mana...

Angela Radcliffe is a clinical research expert and data ethics evangelist with over two decades of experience driving transformation and organizational agility at the intersection of health, tech, and data. Angela’s work has impacted more than 100 global clinical research efforts across almost every therapeutic area. As an author and speaker, Angela uses her personal journey to demonstrate how inc...

On this episode of HITea With Grace, we are pleased to have Rebecca Gwilt and Carrie Nixon join us to speak on the intersection of healthcare technology policy and law. Rebecca and Carrie are very interested in industry innovations happening in the metaverse and how it will change the paradigm of how we see and receive healthcare. That said, there will be many legal, logistical, and policy conside...

Welcome to this special podcast cross collaboration with HITea With Grace, Parents as Rare, One Upon a Gene Podcast, Simply Unbreakable podcasts on Rare Disease Day - February 28th!  Grace Vinton moderated a panel with Effie Parks, Adam Johnson, and Kristy Dickinson on the topic of “Parents, Patients, & Podcasts - Incorporating the Rare Disease Community in HITMC“ at the annual HITMC (healthcare m...

Join us in welcoming Charlene Son Rigby, CEO of RARE-X to the pod! Charlene is a seasoned informaticist, accomplished business woman, and passionate mother to two, including one with a rare disease. In the fight to find her daughter’s diagnosis, she brought her tech savvy to the table and soon after the diagnosis was chosen to head up the company RARE-X which provides a collaborative platform for...

On this episode of HITea, Grace Vinton talks with Mary Jo Barthmaier, President of Insightin Health, about how the time has come for Medicare Advantage plans to take a page out of retailers’ playbooks and deliver highly personalized experiences for their members. She touches on the series of drivers currently converging that will make member engagement a crucial factor in determining the long-term...

Dr. Geri Landman is a pediatrician who recently founded a nonprofit, Moonshots for Unicorns, which is committed to curing curable single-gene disorders, like her daughter Lucy's. While each gene is unique, they all share the fact that these children are missing one single protein in their cells to function appropriately. Science exists to fix this; it just takes passion, focus, funding, and innova...

On this episode of HIT Like a Girl, Grace Vinton talks with Jane Myles, Vice President of Clinical Trial Innovation at Curebase, about how the time has come for the research community to take a page out of healthcare providers' playbooks and deliver care with a greater focus on the patient experience. Jane explains how a patient-centered view will help with improved trial compliance, better divers...

From nurse to informaticist to Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, in this episode of HITea With Grace, Cindy Gaines discusses the career journey that led her to her current position at Lumeon, a care orchestration platform.  Cindy shares with us her experience on the front lines of nursing and highlights the barriers to technology implementation and the healthcare industry’s many challenges an...

On this episode of HITea, Grace Vinton sits down with Anna Dover, PharmD, director of Product Management at FDB (First Databank), about her prescription for combatting the epidemic of alert fatigue that contributes to the industrywide problem of clinician stress and burnout. Dr. Dover tells us how to flip the script on medication decision support to eliminate the noise, increase patient centricity...

We are excited to welcome Dr. Sonya Sloan to the podcast to talk about innovation and empowerment. She’s a traveling orthopedic surgeon, a locum tenens physician, an author, a speaker, and a mother. In her work across the U.S. for more than a decade, she has seen and treated just about everything.  She was the first African American female intern in general surgery and the first African American f...

Actionable, real-time, and precise data has the potential to improve countless inefficiencies that we see across the industry, and Mary Lantin, President and Chief Operating Officer at Diameter Health has made a career out of putting healthcare data to work. Mary speaks with us about the value of upcycled, clean, data across the care continuum, her journey that led her to Diameter Health, and how...

It is a pleasure to welcome Marina Borukhovich to the podcast. As a CEO, Founder, Mom, and Cancer Survivor, Marina shares with us how her terrifying personal health journey inspired her to found YourCoach. Health, a full health coaching practice management platform. She is passionate about amplifying the role that health coaches bring to holistic care and demystifying digital health for the coachi...

COVID brought telehealth into the mainstream, but most providers still underutilize the technology, failing to apply it in ways that can truly enhance their practices. Let’s welcome Juli Stover, Chief Strategy Officer at eVisit. Juli speaks with us about the state of the industry, reimbursement models, and policies, and presents a new controversial way in which hospitals and health systems should...