Breaking Health
183 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsThe Breaking Health Podcast features the innovators, investors and entrepreneurs who are building the technology and tools to break down and build up the country’s ailing health care system. With seasoned health care investor Steve Krupa, CEO of the Psilos Group, as host, Breaking Health delivers the earliest insights on the ongoing Digital Health Revolution.
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Episode: 167 - Generative AI in Healthcare: Hype or Hope?
February 20, 2024 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBAt the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit WEST 2024, leaders of the AI technology industry discussed the tangible progress that’s been made, identified which tools are useful (and not so useful), and charted the realities—and sensationalism—around how generative AI will reshape the future of health systems, care delivery, and personalized treatments. They also shared their thoughts on new challenges that have arisen, such as what characteristics are associated with organizations that can m...
Episode: 166 - Andrew Adams On How to Find the Right Opportunities to Invest
November 21, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBWhen is the best time to make an investment? In the healthcare industry, this can be tricky to determine. In this episode of Breaking Health, host Steve Krupa speaks with Andrew Adams, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Oak HC/FT, about organizing capital into the right companies, where the healthcare industry is going in terms of deployment of technology, and the state of the market today. With a broad and impressive portfolio, Adams provides valuable insight and techniques on finding the r...
Episode: 165 - Kyle Kiser Talks About Providing Patients Access To Medication Information And “Real Time Benefits”
October 24, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBWhen patients receive prescriptions, many find themselves at a loss over the lack of information on the medications’ clinical uses, costs, and more. In this episode of Breaking Health, host Steve Krupa speaks with Kyle Kiser, CEO of Arrive Health, about giving patients the ability to access information on medications to help them make better healthcare decisions. Kiser also delves into what real time benefits are, the company mantra “Lucy up,” and how Arrive Health calculates and provides va...
Episode: 164 - Navigating Healthcare Rates with Price Transparency
July 18, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBFrom sports goods salesman and stand-up comedian to co-founder and CEO of a software company, Chris Severn is helping patients by providing price transparency in healthcare through an easy-to-use platform. In this episode of Breaking Health, host Steve Krupa speaks with Severn about how he got the idea for a service that provided patients with upfront quotes, the value of such price transparency, and how to compare plans to help patients discern the best rates. Severn also shares his perspec...
Episode: 163 - Women, Families, and Health: Understanding the Market, Its Impact, and How You Measure Success
June 20, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBFor the past few years, digital health has made great strides in providing new ways of healthcare access for patients. But this also means new challenges and obstacles have emerged. This year, at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, leaders in women’s health talked about how they and their companies are finding ways to help patients access healthcare more easily, as well as the creation of sustainable business models, understanding the market, and how to measure success. They also share...
Episode: 162 - Creating Market Pathways for Effective, Validated Digital Therapeutics
April 19, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBKamal Jethwani began his medical training in India and soon found himself more intrigued by solving of the administrative issues around care delivery. This interest came to a head when he found himself on the front lines of crisis response when his 10-bed emergency department received—and treated—1,700 patients in 72 hours. Afterward, Jethwani realized that there was a whole field of medicine focused on the design of care delivery, he told Breaking Health host Steve Krupa. He knew he had fou...
Episode: 161 - Tomorrow Health CEO Vijay Kedar on the Coordination and Delivery of High-Quality and High-Efficiency Home Healthcare in Today’s Medical Landscape
March 21, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBVijay Kedar, co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow Health, was raised in a family of physicians, often joking that he was “pre-med coming out of the womb.” However, it wasn’t until he took on managing his mother's care through stage III colorectal cancer and acute respiratory distress syndrome that the idea for Tomorrow Health was born. In this episode, Kedar speaks with host Steve Krupa about using technology to coordinate high-quality home-based care for patients and families who find securing su...
Episode: 160 - A. J. Loiacono on Capital Rx’s Mission to Remodel the American Drug Pricing System as a Tech-Based Pharmacy Benefit Manager
February 21, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBAJ Loiacono’s experience in supply chain consulting for pharmaceutical manufacturing afforded him a world-class education in supply chain logistics, drug pricing, and software implementation. However, it wasn’t until he worked with healthcare payers that he realized the glaring problems in the U.S. drug pricing system and that pharmacy benefit managers retained much of the control and profit. He says, “The reason why our drug pricing is the way it is today… is because no one has either had t...
Episode: 159 - Dr. Jennifer Schneider on Homeward Health’s Mission to Bring Affordable and Accessible
December 20, 2022 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBDr. Schneider’s interest in medicine began when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a preteen living in a small rural Minnesota town. After becoming a physician, her journey to CEO started with a return to her roots and a desire to help decrease the exorbitantly high mortality rates observed in rural communities across the nation. In this episode, host Steve Krupa speaks with Dr. Jenny Schneider, CEO of Homeward Health, about the company’s recent launch, how it leverages technology ...
Episode: 158 - HLM General Partner Steve Tolle on How to Spot a Winning Investment and the Ever-Changing Needs in the Tech-Enabled Healthcare Space
October 04, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBFrom working nights in the Prudential mailroom during college to securing leadership roles at big names like IBM Watson Health, Allscripts, and Pfizer, Steve Tolle, now general partner at HLM Venture Partners, has seen it all. With a multi-faceted skill set and a wealth of knowledge in technology and healthcare, he eventually transitioned from an operator to an investor at one of the nation’s oldest and most established healthcare venture capital firms. Given his background, it is no surpris...
Episode: 157 - Dr. Julian Harris on How ConcertoCare Reshapes Healthcare Delivery and Provides Holistic Care to Vulnerable and Senior Patients with Multiple Complex Conditions
August 16, 2022 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBHealthcare’s most vulnerable patients meet a fragmented system when they seek to simultaneously address chronic comorbidities, behavioral health challenges, and social needs (i.e., navigating access to food, transportation, and housing). In response, ConcertoCare employs a multidisciplinary team and offers an integrated approach to clinical care, behavioral health, and social services. The organization takes its name from a musical composition involving a soloist and an orchestra. With Conce...
Episode 156: CEO Siva Namasivayam on Cohere Health’s Mission to Use Digital Health Technology for the Transformation of Utilization Management into Proper Care Management
July 19, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBPayers and providers spend unnecessary time and energy approving medical and diagnostic procedures. CEO and Co-Founder Siva Namasivayam, believing that the digital health market has yet to leverage the full power of technology, launched Cohere Health in 2019 to transform utilization management into proper care management. Cohere Health employs individual and cohort medical data, records, and proprietary algorithms to generate approvals for nearly 90% of authorization requests. Evidence sugge...
Episode 156: CEO Siva Namasivayam on Cohere Health’s Mission to Use Digital Health Technology for the Transformation of Utilization Management into Proper Care Management
July 19, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBPayers and providers spend unnecessary time and energy approving medical and diagnostic procedures. CEO and Co-Founder Siva Namasivayam, believing that the digital health market has yet to leverage the full power of technology, launched Cohere Health in 2019 to transform utilization management into proper care management. Cohere Health employs individual and cohort medical data, records, and proprietary algorithms to generate approvals for nearly 90% of authorization requests. Evidence sugge...
Episode: 155 - Bill Taranto on Merck’s Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund and Using Multiple Assets with Groundbreaking Technology to Solve Major Digital Health Problems
June 21, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBWhen Bill Taranto pitched the Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund, he envisioned an independent venture that mimicked a private firm but maintained the backing and power of a big health company. The Fund's partnership with Merck allows them to make groundbreaking investments in the digital health space. Following what is often known as "ecosystem investing," the GHI Fund matches two or more companies, each solving a portion of a healthcare problem, to solve the issue effectively and thoroug...
Episode: 155 - Bill Taranto on Merck’s Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund and Using Multiple Assets with Groundbreaking Technology to Solve Major Digital Health Problems
June 21, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBWhen Bill Taranto pitched the Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund, he envisioned an independent venture that mimicked a private firm but maintained the backing and power of a big health company. The Fund's partnership with Merck allows them to make groundbreaking investments in the digital health space. Following what is often known as "ecosystem investing," the GHI Fund matches two or more companies, each solving a portion of a healthcare problem, to solve the issue effectively and thoroug...
Episode 154: Dan Brillman on Unite Us’ Impressive Mission to Bridge the Gap Between Americans and Access to Social and Health Services
May 17, 2022 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBAfter several deployments in the Middle East as a US Air Force Pilot, Unite Us CEO Dan Brillman served as a trusted confidant and aid to fellow veterans looking to secure housing, employment, sustenance, and healthcare. However, he became increasingly frustrated with the fragmented and ineffective system most veterans navigate to secure social services and health resources. As a result, Brillman co-founded Unite Us, a leading innovator among digital health companies designed to build a bridg...
Episode: 153 - Panel Discussion on Access and Transformations in Complex and Specialty Care
April 19, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBWhile the pandemic may have dramatically advanced our virtual care ambitions, even pre-pandemic many people noted that care outside of the hospital resulted in improved outcomes for some groups of patients. In a recent conversation at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, leaders in care delivery for a variety of patient needs—as well as payer representatives—explored how innovative care models can better address complex diseases like eating disorders, can engage and empower home caregiv...
Episode 152: Sid Viswanathan on Truepill’s Vision for Virtual Healthcare and Finding New Passions to Drive Entrepreneurial Success
March 15, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBSid Viswanathan doesn’t believe that a pre-existing passion is essential to entrepreneurial success, instead he recommends choosing an area with plenty to learn. “Find something you can spend a lot of time obsessing over,” he told the Breaking Health podcast. When he co-founded Truepill, Viswanathan didn’t know much about healthcare, but now it is a passion. “It’s such a meaty industry; there’s so much stuff to do,” he said. Truepill launched as a virtual pharmacy in 2016, offering everythin...
Episode 151: Enam Noor Talks About Insightin Health’s Vision to Use Healthcare Data As An Asset to Drive the Next Best Action for Customer Health
February 15, 2022 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBEnam Noor has been an entrepreneur since he graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. After honing his skills in digital analytics and digital workflow, he’s taking what he learned and applying it to the healthcare field. His company, Insightin Health, brings vast healthcare data to bear on care decision-making, empowering health plans to use data as an asset—not just an operational byproduct. By tearing down silos and combining data from physician practices, pharmacies, ...
Episode 150: Entrepreneur Panel Explores the Market—and the Medicine—Driving Behavioral Health
January 26, 2022 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBReimbursement coverage for behavioral health services hit a milestone in 2008 when Congress passed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) which required insurers to equalize coverage for behavioral health and medical health benefits in terms of co-pays, deductibles, lifetime caps and access to providers. Fast forward to present day when demand for behavioral health services outpaces the availability of treatment and the COVID-19 pandemic ushers in unprecedented levels of ...
Episode 149: Founder & CEO Lucienne Ide of Rimidi Has a Vision for Value-Based Care That Truly Empowers Patients and Physicians To Achieve Continuous Care
December 10, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MB“A lot has happened in healthcare in the past two years,” Lucienne Ide, Founder and CEO of Rimidi, says. “We went from a miniscule adoption of telemedicine—much less remote monitoring—to now everybody’s looking at the future and saying, ‘This is here to stay. How are we going to do it in a scalable and sustainable way?’” Rimidi has the plan. Ide’s focus is patients with chronic diseases. Episodic care is not working for them, she says, and a once-a-year or once-a-quarter trip to the doctor f...
Episode 148: Special Episode: The Evolving Site of Care Landscape & The New Frontier of Care at Home
November 29, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBDoctors making house calls might seem like a relic of the past, but the act of caring for patients in their own home is experiencing a revival. Only this time, it’s highly dependent on technology. This special episode features a panel discussion from a Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit (DHIS) Spotlight Episode earlier this year. Moderated by Ellen Herlacher, Principal, LRVHealth, this panel offers insights from entrepreneurs who founded some of the most innovative tech startups that are b...
Episode 147: Chairman & CEO Walter Jin on how Pager is Providing a “Doctor-in-the-Family” Experience so People can Easily Find Care, Get Care, and Follow Up
September 21, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBLike many healthtech leaders, Walter Jin didn’t start his career in this industry. He began as an investment banker and then joined what was a much smaller Carlyle Group based in Washington DC in the 90’s. The firm had originally focused on aerospace defense but wanted to diversify, and since Walter happened to be doing healthcare deals for them, he was then asked to start their healthcare group. In 2008, he retired from Carlyle and started his own investment firm Three Fields Capital, but a...
Episode 146: Founder and CEO John Kao on how Alignment Healthcare is Taking Care of Seniors like You’d Want Your Parents Treated
August 17, 2021 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBJohn Kao is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive. After beginning his career at FHP International, he then started four other companies in succession: Secure Horizons USA, PacifiCare Health Systems, The TriZetto Group, and CareMore Medical Enterprises, before then being compelled to found Alignment Healthcare. Alignment’s origin is a bit more personal to John though, as the business idea arose from his and his mother’s experiences as she had a heart attack. After experiencing a lack of cons...
Episode 145: Co-Founder and CEO Mark Frank on how SonderMind is Making Mental Health More Accessible and Widely Utilized
July 19, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBMark Frank has what he calls “professional ADD.” He naturally likes trying different things and building new skills, which is ultimately what led him to become an entrepreneur. Even while serving in the Army after college, Mark still found entrepreneurial aspects as a platoon leader; after all, he was responsible for everything his unit either did or didn’t do. He used to think of himself as an operator or executive, which was his role at his first startup, but now he looks for ideas/opportu...
Episode 144: Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Raphael Rakowski on how Medically Home is Providing High Acuity, Complex Care at Home
June 28, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBAfter losing his Holocaust-survivor dad as a result of three medical errors at a US academic hospital, Raphael Rakowski was driven to start Medically Home. Trained as an engineer who then successfully launched a few prior companies, Raphael was prepared to try to address the problem of high fixed cost burdens at medical facilities that he felt affected quality of care. He and his co-founders started Medically Home almost 13 years ago with the vision to provide high acuity, complex care, in a...
Episode 143: Anthem’s CDO Rajeev Ronanki on Leveraging Digital Approaches to Transform Healthcare
May 24, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBAs a former Partner at Deloitte, Rajeev Ronanki established and led Deloitte's Life Sciences and Healthcare Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Innovation practices. He then was offered a chance to join Anthem and lead their transformation to becoming a digital-first enterprise. Rajeev viewed this a great opportunity to help transform healthcare, so he accepted the position. How did he start to tackle this challenge and develop a vision for this insurance giant? First, by simply...
Episode 142: CEO Fay Rotenberg on how Firefly Health is Striving for Half Priced Healthcare that is Twice as Good
April 28, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBHaving been both an operator and an investor in the healthcare industry, Fay Rotenberg knows the challenges and silos all too well. She was encouraged when she first met the co-founders of Firefly Health though. Initially, she had agreed to meet with them 1 day per week, then that grew to 2 days per week, then 3, and before she knew it, she joined the company as President and CEO about 3 years ago. Firefly is striving to shift healthcare from episodic to continuous care. They are a virtual-f...
Episode 141: CEO Andrew Le Explains how Buoy Health is Helping People Seek the Right Medical Care at the Right Time
March 30, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBIn his final rotation at Harvard Medical School, Andrew was baffled by how many patients were googling their symptoms to make decisions about whether to seek care. Things became personal though when his own father hesitated and waited too long to seek medical attention while experiencing a mini stroke (thankfully he survived). Andrew became convinced that there had to be a way to reduce the effort and hesitancy deterring potential patients from engaging with healthcare professionals. So, he ...
Episode 140: RxBenefits on Helping Mid-Sized Employers Reduce their Pharmacy Spend
February 08, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBHaving started working in the healthcare space directly after graduating, Bryan quickly learned the ins and outs of health insurers, broker distribution, and self-insurers. After a decade in the industry, Bryan decided to pivot to a much smaller company and became both the CEO and just the 3rd employee at RxBenefits in 2005. He then realized the opportunity to help smaller, self-insured companies handle their pharmacy benefits by carving those out. RxBenefits developed a platform connected d...
Episode 139: ClarisHealth on Helping Plans Tackle their Entire Payment Integrity Continuum
October 19, 2020 15:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBWhile working as a graduate student intern for a clinical documentation company, Jeff discovered his passion for the healthcare industry. He stayed there for 10 years and benefited from strong mentoring and development opportunities before seeing the company through its exit. Fast-forward 6 years- after another successful exit as a senior manager at a different business- Jeff was introduced to the concept of payment integrity and started ClarisHealth to help solve challenges in this area. Ha...
Episode 139: ClarisHealth on Helping Plans Tackle their Entire Payment Integrity Continuu
October 19, 2020 15:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBWhile working as a graduate student intern for a clinical documentation company, Jeff discovered his passion for the healthcare industry. He stayed there for 10 years and benefited from strong mentoring and development opportunities before seeing the company through its exit. Fast-forward 6 years- after another successful exit as a senior manager at a different business- Jeff was introduced to the concept of payment integrity and started ClarisHealth to help solve challenges in this area. Ha...
Episode 138: Upfront Healthcare’s “Caretraffic Control” Approach to Getting Patients to their next Medical Destination
September 14, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBStarting out as a minor league baseball broadcaster, Ben Albert realized he was better at the business side of his role than the on-air aspect. He then landed at a healthcare consulting company and became hooked on healthcare- so many silos and opportunities for automation! After a successful exit at the helm of Care Team Connect, Ben decided to start and lead Upfront Healthcare to help patients navigate the unending waters of their medical journeys. By applying analytics to scheduling, bill...
Episode 137: Aver CEO Bill Nordmark on Changing the Reimbursement Models to Drive Value from Care
August 20, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBHost Steve Krupa chats with Aver CEO Bill Nordmark about Bill’s career in the healthcare payer and reimbursement space, including his decision to take over the reins at Aver. Hear Bill share helpful insights on retrospective vs. prospective payment systems and how he is leading Aver on the quest to increase quality of care while reducing costs by helping payers expand and bundle payment programs.
Episode 136: Zipari CEO Mark Nathan on Building a Health Insurance Consumer Experience Platform
May 12, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBSteve sits down with Zipari Founder and CEO, Mark Nathan to discuss how his career set him up for entrepreneurship, as well as the motivation and inspiration for starting a health insurance consumer experience platform. Mark shares the challenges associated with taking a homegrown business technology and creating generally available software and gives his best advice for entrepreneurs starting a company.
Episode 135: The Burgess Group CEO, Greg Burgess: From Music Career to Crisis Leadership, and the Journey in Between
April 21, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBGreg discusses his early days as a professional musician and shows how creativity and problem-solving helped transition his career into software development, and led him to working in healthcare, helping providers and patients by innovating payment data. He discusses developing new, data-enabled products and using advancements in tech to expand a company footprint.
Episode 135: The Burgess Group CEO, Greg Burgess: From Music Career to Crisis Leadership, and the Journey in Between
April 21, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBGreg discusses his early days as a professional musician and shows how creativity and problem-solving helped transition his career into software development, and led him to working in healthcare, helping providers and patients by innovating payment data. He discusses developing new, data-enabled products and using advancements in tech to expand a company footprint.
SmithRx CEO Jake Frenz Explains How the Start-Up Is Using Tech to Take on the PBM Industry
December 09, 2019 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBNo fan of traditional PBMs, Steve Krupa talks with Jake Frenz, founder and CEO of SmithRx, creator of a new tech-based PBM player.
LetsGetChecked CEO Peter Foley Shares the Roots of this Fast Rising Start-Up; Hear More at DHIS
December 03, 2019 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBBreaking Health Host Steve Krupa catches up with Peter Foley, founder and CEO of LetsGetChecked, a company that’s empowering patients to monitor their own health through diagnostic tests. Hear how Foley and his team built patient convenience into a powerful business.
Army Vet Chris Molaro Uses Tragic Loss to Drive Him in New Mission – Helping Mental Health Patients with NeuroFlow
October 23, 2019 18:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBChris Molaro calls his six years in the US Army leading a Field Artillery platoon his biggest honor. But he says his “biggest leadership failure” came after his platoon redeployed back home. In this episode of the Breaking Health podcast, Host Steve Krupa connects with a young veteran who is using inspiration from a tragic loss of one of his soldiers to depression to improve mental healthcare for everyone. “We could have intervened if we had a better system in place,” Molaro says.
Aetion CEO Carolyn Magill Explains How the Data Company Raised a New Round Without Really Trying
May 24, 2019 16:00 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MBOur Host Steve Krupa has a visitor. Aetion CEO Carolyn Magill pops by Steve’s office at HealthEdge to explain how Aetion raised a round of capital it wasn’t seeking. She also delves deeply into how Aetion’s analysis of different types of data – genomic, socioeconomic, EHR’s – can change how healthcare is delivered and how are costs covered. You can WATCH this Breaking Health podcast interview here.
CEO Ardy Arianpour Says Seqster Will Unite Healthcare Data, Empower Patients, and Lower Costs
May 01, 2019 20:00 - 21 minutes - 9.92 MBIn this podcast, Ardy Arianpour, CEO of Seqster (pronounced Seekster), shares the origin story for creating what he calls, “the Mint.com of health care. Seqster is creating a clear, direct, one-password-only channel between patients and ALL their healthcare data – EHR, genetic and fitness, etc. The start-up is marking its offering to payers and providers and already has secured access to data from 3,000 hospitals and 45,000 physician offices as well as DNA Labs and data-collecting Medtechs l...
VitalConnect CEO Nersi Nazari Discusses Company’s Fully Disposable, Functionally Indispensable Tech
April 19, 2019 20:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBVital Connect CEO Nersi Nazari talks data with Host Steve Krupa in this episode of the Breaking Health podcast. VitalConnect has developed a line of sensors capable of tracking conditions of patients at home and in the hospital. According to the company, its VitalPatch wearable biosensor is a lightweight, wireless, and records eight patient vital signs. The VitalConnect Platform integrates the VitalPatch biosensor with mobile and cloud-based software and analytics. The company closed on $33 ...
GoodRx Co-CEO Doug Hirsch Flipping Pharmacy Pricing on Its Head Through Transparent Price Shopping
April 05, 2019 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBA few years ago, technology veteran Doug Hirsch was given a prescription that he wasn’t 100% sure he needed, especially after the first pharmacy he brought it to told him the drug would cost over $400. Hirsch walked out with the unfilled prescription and decided to shop around. What he discovered was a prescription marketplace that seemed to offer little rhyme or reason. This mystery led to the creation of GoodRx and an app that allows patients to shop around more easily. Six years later, Go...
Can Suki Be the Largest, Most Interesting Tech Company Ever Built? Ask CEO Punit Soni
March 22, 2019 18:00 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MBPunit Soni’s LinkedIn profile includes Intel, Google, and Motorola. But Soni tells the Breaking Health podcast that he believes the “largest, most interesting” tech company will be in health care. Can Suki be that company? Soni sees an enormous opportunity to help physicians be physicians by replacing keyboards with AI-enabled digital assistants that can record electronic health record (HER) documentation. Can this digital assistant improve patient care and reduce physician burnout by gettin...
Lark Health CEO Julia Hu Seeks to Bring Relief and Assistance to People Managing Chronic Illness
March 08, 2019 05:00 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MBLark CEO and Founder Julia Hu had launched two cleantech start-ups early in her career, but a childhood managing a chronic disease predestined her to start Lark Health, developer of an AI-empowered “coach” that can help people with chronic disease manage their own health.
CEO Arvind Rajan Says Cricket Health Can Deliver Important, Transformative Care to Renal Patients
February 22, 2019 05:00 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MBArvind Rajan left his managing director post at LinkedIn intent upon two things – taking some time off with his family and finding a new venture that would be hard, important, and transformative to the world. Rajan and his co-founders, James Chaukos and Vince Kim – saw an imbalance in how patients with late-stage kidney disease were being treated. Cricket Health – identified as one of the Fierce 15 Companies in healthcare – is working to balance the scales in favor of patients by building te...
CEO Tony Miller Explains How Bind Combines Past Successful Strategies to Upend Healthcare Insurance
February 05, 2019 05:00 - 44 minutes - 20.4 MBBreaking Health Host Steve Krupa returns to the Big Chair, reconnecting with old friend and former portfolio company CEO Tony Miller. In this podcast, the pair unpack the strategy of Bind, the “on-demand healthcare insurance” company working to change how employers insure their employees. Find out more at yourbind.com.
Insider Susan DeVore on Reducing Waste and the Path to Alternative Payments in Healthcare
January 21, 2019 05:00 - 41 minutes - 19 MBSusan DeVore has been in and around the healthcare industry for most of her life – long before she became president and CEO of Premier Inc., a company that unites an alliance of more than 4,000 hospitals and health systems and approximately 165,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare. It’s a little-known fact that Susan’s roots at Premier date back to her childhood when her father, a biomedical engineer, worked for a predecessor to the company. After working at Ernst ...
What Nursing Shortage? IntelyCare CEO David Coppins Explains How IntelyCare Is Filling Shifts
November 29, 2018 16:00 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MBIntelyCare CEO David Coppins details his company’s solution for nursing staffing shortages. The company makes its own nurses available to providers through a software scheduling tool, removing a lot of the juggling and guesswork. Earlier this month, IntelyCare announced a $10.8 million round led by Leerink Revelation Partners with participation from Longmeadow Capital, previous investor LRVHealth and Bill Mantzoukas, an entrepreneur who has owned and operated a series of skilled nursing fac...