A Healthy Idea
By A Healthy Idea
A Healthy IdeaJul 02, 2020
How Your Relationships are the Biggest Predictor of Happiness in Life, Creating an App as a Non-Technical Founder, and How to Understand your Customers, with Ali Maggioncalda, Founder/CEO of Lovewick
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Today we sit down with Ali Maggioncalda, the CEO and founder of Lovewick. Lovewick is an app centered on creating deeper relationships for couples. Ali started off her exploration of love and relationships at Stanford doing extensive research on the psychology of healthy relationships and how that plays into the health of our daily lives.
Throughout her research, she noticed there was a huge difference in finding and retaining satisfied relationships in the digital age. Her works focuses on addressing the many differences in how couples interact and think about love.
Lovewick has an average of 4.8 stars on the App Store, over 150+ reviews, and has over 20,000 active users. Truly an episode to listen to if you’re interested in the science of healthy relationships (new love, married, or even with friends or family) and finding deep relationships.
Topics we cover:
1) What Ali has learned after interviewing over 200 couples for user research
2) Ali's process on deciding to pursue a start-up idea
3) How to understand if the problem you're solving requires a digital solution
4) Growing your audience by using TikTok
5) The Power of Community as a Founder
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Jackson Square Ventures Partner Victor Echevarria on Why the Best Founders are Incredibly Humble; Why SPACs are Overhyped, and Why the First $100B Healthtech Company is Closer Than You Might Think.
Today's special guest is Victor Echevarria! Victor is a Partner at Jackson Square Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses. A founder turned investor, his investments include 1upHealth, WELL Health, and Trust & Will.
Prior to joining JSV in 2018, Victor founded Remedy Labs, a healthcare fintech company focused on patient and payer billing accuracy. He was also a very early team member at TaskRabbit, where he ran marketing and business development, conceptualizing and launching the company's B2B offering.
Topics we talk about today:
1) How did being an early leader at TaskRabbit change the way you think about operating startups?
2) Victor's insane luck of graduating into two different recessions after finishing undergrad and B-school.
3) Why there's "never a good time" to start a company.
4) What is interoperability and why now might finally be the time to achieve it.
5) Are SPACs worth the hype?
6) How start-up founders can hack hyper-personal growth
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The Importance of Building Community to Promote Healthy Behaviors with co-founders of MindthruBody Elsa Jimenez and Arelys
Elsa and Arelys are the co-founders of MindThruBody, an online community focused on empowering Latinx women to pursue physical activity through the power of community and sharing experiences.
Topics we talk about today:
- What made you want to start this organization?
- Why use Instagram as your main channel for distributing content?
- What's it like working completely remotely?
- What does it mean to build community?
- What does the final version of Mindthrubody look like in your mind?
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Next Generation Dental Care Using AI, with Dr. Wardah Inam, CEO & Co-founder of Overjet
Dr. Wardah Inam is the CEO and co-founder of Overjet. Overjet is a software company that develops a platform designed to reduce costs and improve the quality of dental care. It uses artificial intelligence and analyzes dental data to determine what treatments are necessary for the patient, enabling patients to get improved dental care.
She has been ranked among the 32 most influential people in dentistry by Incisal Edge. Prior to founding Overjet, she led product development at a Silicon Valley-based healthcare startup, Q Bio, working on biomedical imaging.
Topics we discuss today:
- Wardah's journey into entrepreneurship
- How do you go about finding early customers?
- Overcoming challenges working with dental care data
- Advice on recruiting high-quality engineering talent
- How do you manage patients over time?
- How do you think about how much money you should raise for your company?
You can pick up a copy of the book Wardah is currently reading here!
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Why Dental Care Needs to be Better and How Wally Health is Reinventing The Dental Care Experience, with Tyler Burnett, CEO and Co-Founder Of Wally Health
Wally Health is the one-stop shop for oral care. Wally is reinventing the end-to-end dental care experience with personalized, accessible, and affordable dental products delivered to your front door. Consider Wally Health the Hims & Hers of dental care.
Tyler is a mission-driven entrepreneur who previously co-founded Western Canada's largest private digital OOH media company (exit to Canada's 3rd largest co). After receiving a dental treatment plan for 8 fillings, when he actually only needed one, he and his co-founders began building a solution to solve the current oral care crisis.
Topics we discuss today:
- Why proper oral care starts at home
- The Billion Dollar Market for Unnecessary tooth fillings
- Why is dental health so important?
- Differences between Canadian and US dental care.
- What does an “ideal” dental experience look like?
- What dental products should consumers avoid?
- As a B2C product, how do you get yourself in front of customers?
Shocking Facts about Dental Care:
- According to the CDC, an estimated 1 in 4 adults aged 20 - 44 have an untreated cavity. (Source)
- A study in 2011 found that an estimated fifty percent of Americans avoid going to the dentist out of fear or anxiety. (Source)
- In 2018, 42% of surveyed Americans don't see a dentist as often as they would like (Source)
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Building a First Class Sales Organization and Truly Understand Your Customer’s Needs with Ryan Hungate DDS, CEO and Co-founder of Simpleye
Today we sit down with Ryan Hungate, CEO of Simplifeye. Simplifeye is building an all-in-one suite of products to help dental offices manage their patients. Simplifeye provides an out-of-the-box solution that offers Live Chat, Payments, Scheduling, and connected telehealth to customers. Ryan provides some fantastic insights on sales, defining your company's value proposition, and his mindset on how he approaches creating a product that users actually want.
Topics we discuss today:
1.) Ryan’s first attempts at creating a start-up and what he learned.
2.) How to convince your customers that they should use your product.
3.) What does it take to create a strong sales organization?
4.) How you might be talking your way out of a sale rather than talking yourself into one when speaking with customers.
5.) How do payment companies like Affirm work?
6.) How can dental care providers leverage their business model to provide more flexible financing in dental care?
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Using Software as a Drug: An Introduction to All Things Digital Therapeutics (DTx), with Danny Kim, Head of Corporate Development @ WELT
Today, we have part two of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT!
WELT was founded in 2016 as a spin-off of Samsung to explore the intersection of healthcare and technology. WELT creates personalized digital therapeutics that combine sensor and digital biomarker technologies with therapeutic contents for the treatment of diseases with a high unmet medical need.
In the past, Danny served as the Director of Business Development at Soundable Health, VP at Contrary Capital, Corporate Development Analyst with Pear Therapeutics as an operator at PillPack (PillPack's biggest fanboy—Danny's unofficial title at the company); the company was acquired by Amazon for $1B during his stay.
What you will learn about today:
1.) What are digital therapeutics?
2.) How do you prove efficacy for a digital therapeutic?
3.) How is data driving the world of healthcare? Who should be in charge of that data?
4.) How will people manage their healthcare data in the future?
5.) What does corporate development look like at a digital therapeutics company?
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The Importance of Being an Operator & Patient-Centric Design: A Pill-Pack Case Study with Danny Kim, Head of Corp Dev @ WELT
Today, we have part one of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT. WELT was founded in 2016 as a spin-off of Samsung to explore the intersection of healthcare and technology. WELT creates personalized digital therapeutics that combine sensor and digital biomarker technologies with therapeutic contents for the treatment of diseases with a high unmet medical need.
In the past, Danny served as the Director of Business Development at Soundable Health, VP at Contrary Capital, Corporate Development Analyst with Pear Therapeutics as an operator at PillPack (PillPack's biggest fanboy—Danny's unofficial title at the company); the company was acquired by Amazon for $1B during his stay.
This week's episode will be slightly different from our typical interview structure. Next week’s episode will be more traditional, where we deep dive into Danny’s background and his work at WELT.
What you will learn about today:
1.) How working directly under TJ Parker (CEO & Co-founder of Pill Pack, acq. By Amazon) fundamentally changed how Danny approaches problems and entrepreneurship.
2.) How do you balance the different needs of the multiple stakeholders (patients, health insurance, provider, pharmaceutical companies) in the therapeutics space?
3.) Why Amazon acquiring Pill Pack makes so much sense
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Digital Health News: The Prince and the Digital Health Startup, plus Digital Health's $7.1 Billion Fundraising Glow-Up.
“With Great Personal Data, Comes Great Responsibility": Managing Your Personal Data in a World with Vaccine Passports, with David Lucatch, CEO of Liquid Avatar Technologies
David Lucatch is the CEO, President & Chair of the Corporation at Liquid Avatar Technologies. He has spent over 35 years as a serial entrepreneur in the international marketing arena and over 25 years of that developing technologies and taking them to market. Today, David’s focus is set squarely on Liquid Avatar (formerly The KABN Network), as its Chair, and its mission to empower individuals, through Self Sovereign Identity, to manage, control, and profit from the use of their identity and related personal data.
Topics We Discuss in Our Interview:
- Why will identity services be so important during and post-COVID?
- How are you partnering with companies to create a “digital passport” to track proof of COVID vaccinations and test results?
- How will you go about creating this “digital passport”?
- How will people get back to normal in a post-vaccine world?
- Why continue building in the technology space? What keeps the passion alive?
- Where do you see health and technology intersecting in the next 5 years?
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Burnout, Leadership, and Creating Positive & Productive Work Cultures with Hamza Khan, Managing Director of Student Life Network
Today’s episode is on Hamza Khan is a multi-award-winning marketer & entrepreneur.
He’s the Managing Director of Student Life Network, Canada’s most comprehensive resource hub dedicated to helping and empowering millions of students across the country. He co-founded both Splash Effect, a boutique marketing & creative agency, as well as SkillsCamp, a soft skills training company. Hamza recently released his latest book, “Leadership Re-Invented" on Amazon, discussing strategies leaders can use to grow their groups in a healthy and sustainable way.
Topics we cover in today’s episode:
- How is Student Life Network trying to fill the community void that COVID has created for students?
- What is the paradox of increased awareness? How do leaders architect effective professional development?
- How does Kawhi Leonard’s time at the Toronto Raptors relate to corporate team development?
- What are some behaviors that leaders should be doing to contribute to a healthy work environment?
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The Product Manager Mindset to Health, E-commerce, and Entrepreneurship in Dubai, with Tony Pagliocco, Fmr. CPO of Hello Chef
Today’s special guest is Tony Pagliocco, the Former Head of Product for Hello Chef. Tony formally served as a Product Manager for Wizards of the Coast and as Head of Product for the Analytics division at Boeing. Hello Chef is a Dubai-based meal-kit service, delivering chef-curated recipes and pre-portioned, fresh ingredients to thousands of customers across the UAE every week. Using analytics on customers, Tony talks about the importance of data to inform product decisions and deliver value. It’s what supported the success of products where he’s led the product roadmap, vision and strategy, and prioritizes that mindset in building a high-value company. An evangelist of a product-manager approach to startups, Tony frequently speaks on product management at organizations such as Product School and Wonsulting, geared to bring more bright talent into the tech industry.
Questions we answer in this episode!
1). What does the start-up ecosystem look like in the United Arab Emirates? How has it grown?
2). What has it been like working in a different country outside the US?
3). How does food and nutrition play a part in the world of digital health?
4). How do you create experiences that excite and delight your customers? If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe for more and leave a rating on whichever platform you listen to your podcasts!
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The 16 Billion Dollar Market in Healthcare that is Often Overlooked, How AI is Fundamentally Changing the World of Medical Coding, with Andrew Lockhart, CEO & Co-Founder of Fathom Health
Today, we spoke to Andrew Lockheart, CEO of Fathom Health, about the world of medical coding. Medical coding is the process of assigning standardized codes that tell health insurers what services they used and how that service should be reimbursed.
Fathom Health is focused on using AI to reduce the amount of time and errors made while assigning codes to medical procedures. Fathom currently powers coding operations at over 2,000 provider sites, spanning over 100 million medical encounters.
We talk about how medical coding has a huge financial cost on healthcare organizations and the valuable time of doctors. We discuss the importance of audits and how reducing these errors can protect patients.
A few topics you'll learn about today:
1) What exactly is medical coding?
2) How does it affect the health of a medical business? What is the size and impact of improper medical coding?
3) How did you go about acquiring your first customers? How do you acquire millions of data points to train your machine learning models?
4) When founders are first starting out, what’s the best way to develop a business model?
5)How do you start building a team?
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How to Build a Top-Rated Digital Health Companion and the Future of Medication Management, with Omri Shor, CEO of Medisafe
Today’s interview is with Omri Shor, the Chief Executive Officer of Medisafe, a digital health application that has over 49K top ratings on the App Store.
Medisafe is an evidence-based digital therapeutics company providing medication management solutions for patients. Medisafe uses their application solution to help patients manage their medication intake, and has gained over 7 million users across iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, who have recorded over 4 billion medication doses taken correctly. Nearly 250,000 users have rated the app an average of 4.6 out of 5 stars in the iTunes and Google Play app stores. The company also provides its partners the opportunity to engage each patient on an individual level, supporting them throughout the entire patient journey, and provides unique insights on patterns critical for improving the patient experience. Medisafe had shown over numerous studies, both retrospective with tens of thousands of patients, that its solutions improve adherence by up to 20%.
A few topics we cover:
1.) What inspired the idea of building a medication management application?
2.) How did you scale your user base and what kept users loyal to the platform?
3.) How did timing play in your growth as a digital therapeutics company, especially venture capital opportunities?
4.) How did you prioritize building a team over the course of scaling the company?
5.) What do you envision the future of healthcare to look like? How does digital therapeutics play a role in that?
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Innovation in Orthopedic Care, with Ben Schwartz, CIO of Healent
Today’s interview is with Ben Schwartz, the Chief Innovation Officer of Healent and a LinkedIn 2020 Top Voice.
Healent is a remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform that is dedicated to supporting patients with Musculoskeletal issues (think bone, muscles, joint pain, arthritis, orthopedic surgery, etc.). Healent uses technology to help patients monitor and manage their arthritis, deliver virtual physical therapy, support patients before and after surgery, and connects patients with their care delivery teams.
A few topics we cover:
1.) How virtual care can decrease rates of urgent care utilization while also improving patient outcomes.
2.) How does surgery need to evolve beyond the operating room?
3.) How do you convince doctors to use your platform when they have a negative bias toward technology?
4.) How can geography impact your business? Can it make or break your business model?
5.) How has COVID affected the pricing models for telehealth services?
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Show Notes
(1:36) Introductions to Ben Schwartz
(2:06) Transitioning from being a surgeon to Digital health
(3:45) What is Healent? Revamping hip surgery
(7:10) What makes Healent different from other telehealth providers?
(8:43) What will the future of telemedicine look like?
(10:08) Legal challenges with telehealth
(11:33) How do you sustain interest in online orthopedic services post COVID-19?
(14:19) How do you get doctors to use your platform?
(16:40) How has growing Healent in the Boston area affected the business?
(19:49) Delivering customized care to patients
(22:33) KPIs for Determining Surgery Success (23:45) Testing the Efficacy of Your Platform
(25:12) Pricing telehealth services
(26:40) How has the pricing of medical services changed because of COVID?
Telehealth for Pets and Connected Pet Care with Bobby Reddy, COO and Co-Founder of Anipanion
Today we sit down with Bobby Reddy, COO, and co-founder of Anipanion, a telehealth product for pets! Bobby has been an entrepreneur since his time in college where he and his roommate (later co-founder) were intrigued by the combination of connected health systems and the pet care space, later leading into Anipanion.
Bobby highlights the issues affecting the vet world on both the clinic and pet parent sides and where disruption can benefit both parties. We learn about the constraints of vets such as vet shortages given the rising needs of pet owners. We also learn about the need for convenient access to vet care and how consistent quality can be provided through telehealth services. Bobby certainly teaches us about the future of pet health and how telehealth will redefine it - we hope you learn as much as we did.
In this episode you will learn:
1. Where did you come up with the idea and how did you build a team around Anipanion?
2. What does telehealth for pets look like?
3. What are the issues affecting the vet space and how is digital enabling their industry?
4. What has been the highest value add of telehealth services like Anipanion to the pet health ecosystem?
5. How do you see the future of pet care evolving?
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The Future of Orthopedic Surgery, with Scott Day, CCO of Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics
Today, we spoke to Scott Day, CCO of GramercyOrtho (also known as GEO), about the challenges behind supplying and managing orthopedic surgical equipment. Prior to joining GEO, Scott was the Head of Sales at Black Forest Medical Group and a VP at Orthofix. GEO’s flagship product is a mobile implant and instrumentation inventory system that uses RFID technology to automatically track medical equipment usage. Essentially the Amazon Store of Surgical Equipment, just take what you need from GEO’s cart and you can expect new inventory and automatic billing in the next few days. We learn about the intensive amount of preparation that goes into a surgical procedure, ranging from device preparation, the sterilization process, and partnering with facilities to monitor supplies. We had a blast chatting with Scott.
In today’s episode you will learn:
1.) What happens behind the scenes during orthopedic surgery?
2.) How do hospital networks keep track of and stock their surgery supplies?
3.) How does RFID enable technology value in the operating room?
4.) What are Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs)? What is it like to work with Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) and develop a partnership model?
5.) What do med device sales representatives do? How has GEO changed the way they work?
6.) What are your plans for product development and does it look similar to the current offering? How are you incorporating digital?
7.) How do you grow your commercial team? What role has social media played? Have there been other positives from the growth of an online presence?
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The Digital Disruption in Health with Justin Norden, VC Investor and Partner at GSR Ventures
In this episode, we sit down with Justin Norden, a Partner at GSR Ventures. GSR Ventures is one of the world’s most successful early-stage venture firms, with over $3B under management and with investments in Kinsa, Deep 6 AI, DataVisor, Plus AI, and Didi (the Uber of China), just to name a few. Prior to joining GSR Ventures, Justin worked on Apple's digital health team, graduated from medical and business school from Stanford, and helped launch the Stanford Center for Digital Health (https://med.stanford.edu/cdh.html).
In Today's Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How has the world of digital health changed over the past 5 years?
2.) What was involved in standing up the Stanford Center for Digital Health?
3.) How has digital health been explored by large tech giants like Apple?
4.) What did your transition to Venture Capital look like?
5.) How do you best allocate time as a VC investor? How do you balance working between discovering startups and working with your portfolio companies?
6.) What common hurdles do healthcare entrepreneurs face?
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Patient-Centered and Preventive Healthcare 2.0 with Unmesh Srivastava, CTO of P3 Health
Today, we sit down with Unmesh Srivastava, CTO at P3 Health. P3 is a value-based care organization that’s bringing digital solutions to the healthcare space. We learn about Unmesh’s experience with partners in the P3 network and how they use digital to manage patient lives. We learn about patient-centricity as a result of digital as well as the influence of policy at care organizations. Lastly, we talk about what’s in store for the future of healthcare and how digital can contribute to preventive healthcare delivery! Enjoy!
Questions Answered
- What’s the process like to managing patient lives?
- What does digital add to the conversation on value-based care?
- What does the role of policy and Medicare / Medicaid have in the digital enablement of health?
- What do you envision the future of healthcare to look like? What are you most excited about?
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Your Health with Only a Camera + Creating the Foundation of the Brain-Computer Interface @ DARPA with Dr. Phillip Alveda, CEO of Brainworks
We sit down with Dr. Phillip Alveda, the founder of Brainworks, an AI company that can calculate your heart rate, oxygen levels, breathing rate, and heart rate variability only using the camera on your phone or laptop! It’s incredible tech, and we hear of Phillip’s journey to developing amazing technology from his time at MIT, NASA, DARPA, and interactions with neuroscience leaders like Elon Musk. We talk about singularity and how AI surpassing human intelligence may prove more good to society than what’s speculated today. This episode is certainly an interesting look at how AI, informed by neuroscience, is changing how doctors deliver care!
In today’s episode, we answer some of the following questions:
1.) What kind of work has DARPA done to establish the foundation of the computer-human interface? (Think Neuralink!)
2.) How “intelligent” is artificial intelligence? Do we have to worry about AI becoming smarter than humans any time soon?
3.) How does early-stage start-up pivot due to COVID? How do you take your base technology and apply it to a different use case?
4.) What does the future of AI in healthcare look like?
5.) What are your thoughts on neuroscience players and how they’ve been contributing to brain technology?
To see a demo of the technology and some of its use cases, check out Philip’s 10-minute pitch at VentureBeat here.
If you want to play with the technology itself, check out the product at https://health.medio.ai/login
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The Cognitive Power of VR - Brain Games for Brain Health with Amir Bozorgzadeh, CEO of Virtuleap
In This Episode You Will Learn:
1.) What connections does gameplay have with brain function?
2.)How has big data changed the way we use biometrics for cognition?
3.) Why did you base the company in Portugal when you grew up somewhere else?
4.) How do you see VR impacting healthcare beyond brain diseases and neuro-health?
5.) What is your vision for Virtuleap in finding a treatment for Alzheimer’s?
Enjoy!
Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Patient Outcomes with Matt Loper, CEO of Wellth
Have you ever wondered why human beings tend to do things that are against their best interests, especially when it comes to taking care of their own health? The team at Wellth definitely did! We sit down with Matt Loper, CEO, and founder of Wellth, a rising star in the digital health space! Using Behavioral Economics, Wellth inspires positive behavior change for patients with chronic behavioral and physical health conditions. Medication non-compliance is such a large problem, that studies believe that medication non-compliance poses a $300B annual burden on the healthcare ecosystem.
To tackle such a large problem, the Wellth platform offers different features like personalized messaging, celebratory videos from family and...actual cash payments!
We talk about a variety of topics, everything from partnering with providers and health insurers, raising a $11M Series A, to Matt's personal story on why he founded Wellth. We talk about the role of behavioral economics and gamification in digital health and how it is changing the lives of patients! We are so excited about this episode, and the future of Wellth! You can see the shortlist of the amazing results Wellth has produced here: https://www.wellthapp.com/outcomes
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Upgrading Clinical Care through Telemedicine in a Post-COVID World with Ijaz Arif and Dr. Arshad Ali
VeeMed began with a spark of inspiration that brought together three forward-thinking men: a U.S. board-certified intensivist, a Duke and USC alumnus and technology entrepreneur, and a seasoned telemedicine evangelist. Since 2016 – only a year after two of the founders were recognized for innovation by President Barack Obama – VeeMed has worked hard to pair groundbreaking technology with deep clinical expertise, and operational excellence. They arrived at a turnkey telehealth solution that has been at the forefront of healthcare continuity during the coronavirus.
We talk about the two eras of telemedicine: Pre COVID-19 and Post COVID-19. This is due to the dramatic spike seen in telemedicine! We talk about how there's been the rapid adoption and advancement of telemedicine in our society that would have taken us 5 years to achieve had the coronavirus not occurred. It's an amazing accomplishment for healthcare and it's being supported by companies like VeeMed leading the charge.
VeeMed's current activities include partnering with Intel to provide a telehealth solution for Banner Health to fight COVID-19 -- while also managing their current suite of technologies and supporting patients as active doctors themselves. What an unbelievable team and we so enjoyed talking to them!
Leveraging Global Demand for US Medical Expertise with Telehealth Services, with Babak Movassaghi and Christopher Lee, co-founders of InfiniteMD
InfiniteMD is a platform that lets patients around the world access healthcare specialists (think Oncology, radiology, dermatology, hematology, etc.) in the US for second-opinions on their medical care.
In this episode, we spoke with the founders of InfiniteMD, Babak Movassaghi (PhD, MBA) and Christopher Lee (MSE, PhD) on how virtual care is expanding globally - especially on their platform!
Since starting the company in 2015, InfiniteMD has brought on over 2,400 specialists onto their platform! In the US alone, 1.5 million people have access to the InfiniteMD platform.
In today's episode, Babak and Chris discuss parts of the secret formula to building a successful telehealth platform. For example,
How do you get medical specialists to join your platform?
How do you create a platform that specialists and patients both love?
Customers or Providers? Which should you acquire first?
InfiniteMD also boasts some pretty amazing results. Over 20% of patients that use this platform are given a new diagnosis and ~82% of all cases at InfiniteMD have resulted in a change in treatment plan or additional diagnostic testing.
Super interesting use of technology -- even more so with a lens on the global patient population! Enjoy!
Using the Power of Habit to Manage Chronic Disease, with Chris Lento, Head of Strategic Partnerships @ Noom
In today's episode, we are interviewing Chris Lento, the Head of Healthcare Strategic Partnerships at Noom.
Noom is a world-leading behavior change company. By combining AI, mobile, and psychology with the expertise of over 1,000 personal coaches, Noom helps people live healthier lives by changing their long-term habits. More than 50 million people benefit from the Noom platform, including its virtual diabetes prevention program, which was the first of its kind to be recognized by the CDC.
Noom is already being used by leading healthcare and pharma companies to improve treatment outcomes for patients worldwide, which is exactly where our guest Chris makes strides! Noom has raised $100 Million worth of funding and is backed by the likes of Sequoia and RRE Ventures.
Chris leads the partnership growth and commercial development of Noom. We sit down with him to talk through how Noom can create more effective solutions for the critical problem of treatment adherence today. We also discuss the power of the patient journey and where the Commercial side of the pharma world can learn more about value creation through patient empathy - he explains this is how Noom truly shined.
If you're bullish on the future of digital health, then you have to check this episode out - Noom really is at the forefront of the industry!
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Bringing Psychiatry into the 21st Century with David Mou, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer @ Valera Health
Valera Health is a one-stop-shop for patients to manage their mental health using a digital platform.
Patients can access their therapist and psychiatrist in one place, with a dedicated health coach to help coordinate their care and support their wellness goals throughout your treatment.
Valera Health also partners with providers to deliver real-time insights into patient needs, allowing care managers to deliver timely personalized interventions to patients.
In this episode, we cover topics like:
The issues with current mental health treatment
How Valera Health differentiates itself in a competitive market
The status quo of therapy before the use of technology
How Psychiatry regulation is changing due to COVID-19
This is an episode that you won't want to miss.
Enjoy!
Serving Refugees through the Power of Technology with Zahra Al-Khateeb, COO @ Hikma Health
In today's episode, Iman and I are interviewing Zahra, the Chief Operating Officer at Hikma Health. Hikma Health is a nonprofit start-up that creates customized data systems for nonprofit organizations providing healthcare to underserved and refugee populations. Their platform analyzes health data to support the delivery of personalized healthcare to refugees. We sit down with Zahra to chat about a few different topics. For example: What does it mean to be to a "nonprofit start-up"? How does Hikma operate when all employees are part-time? Which software features Hikma decided to focus on and why? What is Hikma Health's long-term strategy for revenue? How do you flatten the COVID-19 curve in refugee camps? Hikma Health was started with the support of the MIT Media Lab Refugee Learning Accelerator, it was the runner-up in the MIT $100K accelerator competition, and were the winners of the 2019 Harvard Business School's New Venture competition for social enterprises.
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Self Care Catalysts on Going Digital - Patients as Drivers of their Own Health, Part 1
How Technology can Help Women Take Control of their Sexual Health with Cassy Gibson, Co-founder and CPO @ Kliit Health
In today's episode, Iman and I are hosting Cassy Gibson, the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Kliit Health. Kliit health a digital health platform dedicated to enabling women to talk to trusted sexual and reproductive health experts about their health. For as little as $10 a session, users are connected to OBGYNs, Nurse practitioners, sex therapists, and other health experts through a secure live chat. Kliit is fully on-demand, meaning no contracts and no subscriptions. Before founding Kliit Health, Cassy was a UX designer at Sidebench, where she designed user experiences on the leading edge of healthcare innovation. Her previous client includes some of the largest healthcare systems in the world, including, the American Heart Association, The Texas Medical Center, and the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Accolades for Kliit Health They were participants in the Grid110 accelerator program in LA and were also participants in the Vital Voices incubator program They were the winners of the Afrotech Health Challenge @ the 2019 Afrotech Conference, one of the largest multicultural tech conferences in the United States They were one of 4 winners at the Harvard Business School's inaugural Black New Ventures Competition Today we touch on a few different subjects: The state of sexual health education in the US and how misinformation can lead to adverse health effects The Benefits and Growth of the Telemedicine industry How to Recruit Medical Professionals onto your Digital Health Startup The Power of Word of Mouth Recruiting Designing products for 2 distinct users Enjoy!
A breakdown of today's episode: 02:30 - 08:00: Introduction to Cassy and Inspiration to Kliit 08:30 - 12:30: Current State of University Sex Education/Healthcare 13:00 - 16:00: Examining Different User-Bases 16:00 - 17:45: Getting Healthcare Professionals on the Platform 18:00 - 20:00: The Effect of COVID-19 on Digital Health 21:00 - 26:00: Opportunities and Industry Hurdles in Prescribing Treatments 26:30 - 29:00: How to Run an Open Beta 30:00 - 33:00: Designing a Product for both Doctors and Patients 33:30 - 36:45: Assembling a Diverse Team 37:00 - 39:30: When to go to the OBGYN? 40:00 - 43:40: Favorite Customer Experiences 44:00 - 46:20: Designing for Patient-Centered Care 46:30 - 48:40: Next Steps towards Growth and Creating a Movement
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IKONA Health, Using VR to Transform the Patient Experience
Today’s podcast is on IKONA Health, a company using VR to deliver better patient care. We sat down with Tim Fitzpatrick; a US NAVY veteran turned trader on Wall Street + entrepreneur due to a life-changing back surgery early on in his career. We also have Todd Maddox, Ph. D, a learning scientist and former University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin. We talk about all things VR, patient-centered care and education, experiential learning, and trail-blazing a new product category.
Other Topics Discussed Today:
· The original motivation for IKONA Health (5:50)
· How to navigate selling to large institutions + smart pivots (22:47)
· The unique challenges of selling VR products (28:11)
· The future of VR businesses (36:07)
· Why every product team should have a psychologist (44:00)
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