Digital Health Review : Conversations with a Black Health Tech Nerd

There has been a tremendous effort in digital health put towards women's health. With the overturning of Roe v Wade, what now? Where will women's health and healthcare in general go from here? Our guest today is Mitzi Krockover, M.D., a leader in the area of women’s health and women’s issues through her work in investment, consulting, media and entrepreneurship. As CEO and founder of Woman Centered, LLC, she launched the Beyond the Paper Gown podcast, which aims to inform, inspire and engage women to achieve optimal health. She is a Partner at SSB Solutions, a health care management consulting, development and investment firm, where she focuses on women’s health services. She is also a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel investment  organization dedicated to funding early-stage women-led companies; she serves as co-chair of the Golden Seeds Health Care Sector Group and is a founding member and co-leader of the Arizona Chapter of Golden Seeds. Attend the upcoming Aftershock Aftershocks: Unexpected Consequences of the Roe v Wade Decision: https://www.beyondthepapergown.com/event-details/aftershocks-unexpected-consequences-of-the-roe-v-wade-decision

80% of health outcomes are driven by non-medical events. Yet, there's still a question of whether building for digital health equity is not only the right thing to do but also profitable.  Our guest today is Kavitha Gnanasambandan, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Blooming Health. In this episode we discuss patient centricity in age tech - how it can empower our elders to age on their own terms and improve outcomes of value.

Health data has tremendous value for those who have access to it. In fact, it is estimated that a medical record with genetic information is worth $6500. Today, most of that value is captured by large industry leading companies and their investors. But where does that leave consumers who provide the data? And what benefits can consumers get from having equal access to their own information? In this episode we sit down with Estelle Giraud, Co-Founder of Trellis Health, to discuss consumer health data and how having access to your data is an act of health equity.

There is so much content and product out there for the healthcare patient, but what about the caregiver? In this episode, we speak with Melissa Miller who has worked as a certified nurse for 15+ years and is now a spousal caregiver and toddler mom trying to balance it all. The goal of this episode is to discover the story behind caregivers, their biggest needs and if technology could be used to help them in their journey.

What do the growing effects of healthcare consumerization and Web3 have on the future of telehealth?  In this episode, we speak with Sid Jawahar who is the founder of Swiftarc Ventures. Sid has launched Swiftarc Ventures’ one-of-a-kind $75MM Telehealth-focused Fund dedicated to harnessing breakthrough innovation in the field of enterprise telemedicine & digital health.   *Forgive the audio quality. Due to a platform error, we had to recover a secondary recording to not lose this amazing episode. 

Social determinants of health are not all directly related to health, so how can we harness innovation across all sectors for the greater good?  In this episode, Digital Health Review speaks with Kim L. Hunt from Aids Foundation of Chicago about opportunities to serve the LGBTQ+ community with tech, innovation in public health and the beauty in trying to not build all of a solution but just a piece of it. 

If an individual's health can have larger effects on their community, then isn't all health public health? And what does this mean when we think about rebuilding healthcare - with tech? In this episode, Digital Health Review speaks with Alessandro Ciari from CUNY School of Public Health about social impact, innovation and why public health needs digital health and digital health needs public health in order for each to succeed.