Breaking Health
Healthegy
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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Jun 18, 2016 • 36min
Music as Medicine? PureTech Explores How Sounds, Video Games Can Diagnose & Treat Disease
PureTech historically has focused on creating new biotech and medical device technologies. CEO and founder Daphne Zohar explains PureTech’s move into digital therapeutics, including companies that use sound and games to promote good health.
Jun 12, 2016 • 29min
Turning the Tables: Host Steve Krupa of Psilos on Becoming a VC & Why Health Care Needs to Change
Psilos CEO Steve Krupa gets some well deserved time in the spotlight after hosting half a year’s worth of podcasts. In this interview we ask Steve why he agreed to host the podcast, how he become a VC, and how companies might pitch ideas to Psilos.
Jun 3, 2016 • 44min
Quartet Health CEO Arun Gupta on the Behavioral Health Venture That’s got the Attention of High Profile Strategic & VC Firms
Quartet Health recently closed on a $40 million second round to build a support platform for behavorial health patients. 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.
May 27, 2016 • 49min
Pager Bring Back the House Call in Bid to Keep Patients Out of the Hospital
Telemedicine player Pager is working with insurers and physicians to allow sick people to get treated in their homes. CEO and Co-founder Gaspard de Dreuzy explains how Pager is working to cut health care costs.
May 20, 2016 • 56min
Grand Rounds’ CEO Owen Tripp on why the company set out to build a “League of Super-Powered Doctors.”
CEO and co-founder Owen Tripp goes back to share the origins of Grand Rounds’ mission, a meeting over coffee and pastries with co-founder Lawrence “Rusty” Hoffman, MD, to help patients find the appropriate doctor for their specific needs and diagnosis. Our Steve “Scoop” Krupa also digs up a bit of news.
May 15, 2016 • 52min
How Pear Therapeutics is Creating Digital Therapeutics to Treat Substance Use Disorders
Pear Therapeutics CEO Corey McCann, MD, PhD delves into the potential digital therapeutics have in helping people who abuse drugs and alcohol. The company’s product pipeline includes potential treatment for schizophrenia, combat-PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia and traumatic brain injury.
May 5, 2016 • 48min
Harken Health Hearkens Back to the Old Days of HMOs, Personal Touches in Health Care
With the blessing of UnitedHealthcare, CEO Tom Vanderheyden left the insurance giant to create a company that puts primary care front and center. With doctors seeing fewer patients and health coaches leading the way, can the company create a healthier – and less expensive – patient population?
Apr 29, 2016 • 48min
Healthify: There’s More to Health Than Health Care.
Health care doesn’t just happen at hospitals. Start-up Healthify is building a software platforms to help patients stay healthy after they’ve left the hospital or physicians office by tracking and managing their basic needs.
Apr 16, 2016 • 31min
Meds Won’t Work If You Don’t Take Them. Can AiCure Make Sure You Do?
AiCure is taking a simple, but critical step to ensuring people get healthier. Its system of ensuring meds are taken can improve care and help bolster clinical trial performances.
Apr 6, 2016 • 39min
Care Management Technologies on Tracking the Behavioral Health of Patients on the Mend
Behavioral health isn’t always seen as an integral part of health care, but Care Management Technologies is breaking down those walls.
