Breaking Health
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The 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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May 31, 2017 • 42min
Screen Time Rx? Akili CEO Martucci Explains How Video Games Can Ease Cognitive Disorders
Akili Interactive – a start-up growing out of the PureTech Health group – may pick up where pharmaceuticals have left off in developing new treatments for behavioral health disorders.
May 19, 2017 • 35min
Can Wellthie Build the “Zillow” for Healthcare Insurance?
Sally Poblete, founder and CEO, spent her career at large insurance companies before starting Wellthie, a start-up dedicated to changing the way individuals and small businesses find the right insurance policy.
May 12, 2017 • 37min
A Little Bit Medtech, A Little Bit Tech: Murj CEO Butka Explains How Murj Combines Best of Both
Todd Butka, the CEO and founder of Murj, personifies the much ballyhooed crossover between Medtech and Tech. The start-up is developing a software application that enables providers to efficiently manage data from implantable cardiac devices.
May 3, 2017 • 40min
CEO Langshur Explains how AVIA is Helping Innovative Hospitals Develop Their own Digital Solutions
Eric Langshur, co-founder and CEO, explains how AVIA leads a network for health systems seeking to innovate and transform through digital strategy. He’s also the author of a best-selling book, Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing.
Apr 28, 2017 • 38min
Aetion Founder Shares How the Data Company Is Arming Healthcare Stakeholders with Hard Evidence
In this interview, co-founder, president, and chief scientific officer Jeremy A. Rassen discusses the company’s origins, technology, and impact on developing the data necessary to deliver value-based healthcare.
Apr 21, 2017 • 33min
ExplORer Surgical Writing the Digital Playbook to Get OR Teams on the Same Page
CEO Jennifer Fried explains how start-up ExplORer Surgical is delivering a high precision workflow tool for surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses in the OR. Fried says ExplORer can not only make surgery run more smoothly, but also can save hospitals millions in wasted supplies.
Apr 13, 2017 • 45min
BH Replay: Arun Gupta On Why Healthcare Start-ups Need to be “Passion Projects” for Entrepreneurs
In this replay of our popular podcast we learn that Quartet Health is building a platform to support behavioral health. The company partners with health systems to provide consistent online support for their patients. Investors include former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, GV (formerly Google Ventures), F-Prime Capital Partners, Polaris Partners and others.
Apr 6, 2017 • 49min
BH Podcast Double Play: Brandon Hull and Jonathan Bush on the Past, and Future, of Digital Health
Brandon Hull, Managing Director of Cardinal Partners, delivers a heaping pile of context to the digital health revolution (or evolution) and offers his expectations for the future. In our second part of this podcast, Hull goes up against Jonathan Bush, CEO and president of athenahealth, the digital healthcare giant pushing for change to EHRs and working to create the first cloud-based hospital.
Mar 31, 2017 • 15min
Providence Ventures’ DelloRusso Shares Provider’s Charge to Be Consumer, Digital Leader
Christiana DelloRusso, partner, Providence Ventures, explains what Providence Ventures is doing to help Providence St. Joseph Health, the third largest non-profit health system in the country, become “the most consumer focused and digitally enabled health system in the country.”
Mar 24, 2017 • 15min
Mandira Singh Explains How athenahealth Is Building an Innovation Platform for Digital Health
More Disruption Please Director Mandira Singh explains how athenahealth is using influence and investment to help build a Digital Health platform. Singh also serves as the company’s director of corporate development.
