Breaking Health

CareSync founder and CEO Travis Bond speaks with Steve Krupa of the Psilos Group about CareSync’s bid to enlist physicians and relatives into better caring for chronically ill patients.

Just prior to being feted at the White House, Jonathan Hirsch, co-founder and president of Syapse, lays out the company’s aggressive plans to dominate precision medicine and bring "-omics” to routine health care.

This week’s podcast features an interview between Jonathan Bush, CEO of athenahealth, and long-time backer, health care VC Brandon Hull. The pair discuss the current and future state of HER. Bush lays out his plan for the health care Internet.

Zipnosis doesn’t just bring the doctor to your phone. The company’s app also includes a set of questions geared toward diagnosing your problems and determining if a doctor’s visit is necessary. If an office visit is required, the app can even speed registration. Zipnosis recently raised a $17 million Series A round from Ascension Ventures, Fairview Health Services, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Arthur Ventures, Waterline Ventures, and Omphalos Ventures.

Geisinger Health System, recognized as one of the better-run health care systems, created xG Health to export the model it used to earn the recognition. CEO Earl P. Steinberg explains how xG Health is successfully deploying Geisinger’s tried-and-true methods to help other health systems.

HealthEdge has built and automated claims processing system for payers, a precursor to the “Digital Payer” that will make insurance and health care easier and cheaper to manage. CEO Rob Gillette joins Breaking Health host Steve Krupa of the Psilos Group in telling how HealthEdge has built a powerful tool for the insurance industry.

With capital and a broad network of notable mentors, Blueprint Health is helping to build out the Digital Health sector in New York. Founding Partner Brad Weinberg, MD, explains how the group vets new companies and what it hopes to build long term.

Tom Spann, co-founder, vice chairman and chief operating officer, left a “pretty good job” at Ac-centure to create a company that helps patients manager their health care insurance. Accolade is hired by companies like Comcast to serve as a go-between its employees and health care insurers. The company goes far beyond understanding why health care bills costs what they do. It works to help patients get the best bang for their buck by understanding what care people re-ally need.

TigerText’s secure messaging app promises to improve com-munications between health care workers who can’t use standard technology. Chief Medical Officer Andrew Brooks, MD, explains where current technologies fall short and how TigerText is spanning the gap. TigerText’s CEO Brad Brooks – brother of the CMO – spoke at our Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit.

Digital therapeutics companies are taking root in health care as companies like Omada Health establish a track record – and clinical data – demonstrating their benefits on patient health. CEO and Co-Founder Sean Duffy explains why he left Med School to help create a new class of health care company.