Breaking Health

Stephanie Tilenius, CEO and co-founder of Vida, brings her tech experience to building a powerful digital health company. They discuss the challenges in healthcare, the importance of technology and coaching, their customizable programs and success stories, and the potential of AI and machine learning in transforming healthcare.

Brigham Hyde, CEO of Precision Health AI, explains the company is building out a data platform for oncology treatment. The firm is building products to serve pharma, life science companies, providers, and payers. In this podcast, Hyde explains how Precision Health AI can help oncologists determine stage of cancer and identify adverse effects. Visit dhis.net/register to register for the October 11 Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit

Mick Farrell’s father questioned his son’s double degree from MIT when he didn’t immediately see the opportunity facing the sleep apnea company. But the younger Farrell quickly came around and helped build ResMed into a $15 billion company, with the last five years at the helm as CEO. Today, however, Farrell has ResMed beginning to take a very different path, migrating away from pure medical device sales and into selling software and other tech services to physicians.

In this dual podcast, we talk with leaders from the American Heart Association, Philips, UPMC, and Aphelion Capital about Cardeation Capital, a new venture fund aimed at funding start-ups in the digital health and medtech fields. How did the four entities join forces? What can they offer start-ups looking to disrupt healthcare? For more information go to aphelioncapital.net. You can also learn more about Aphelion Capital, the firm managing the fund, in this Medtech Talk Podcast. We also highlight one of its first investments, ExplORer Surgical in this Breaking Health Podcast.

Founder and CEO Joel Wishkovsky created Simple Contacts’ phone-based app to save contact lens wearers time and money when they need a new supply of lenses but not a new prescription. Ophthalmologists are funding the company and conducting the remote examinations. But the firm isn’t seen favorably by optometrists, who stand to lose a steady stream of business.

MedCrypt CEO Mike Kijewski is playing a long game. At the moment, he recognizes Medtech execs aren’t placing a high priority on cybersecurity of their devices. But as technology becomes more advanced – and hospitals grow more wary – he expects demand will grow. The time is coming for Medtech to take a cue from the iPhone, he says.

Verana Health, formerly known as DigiSight, is hoping to partner with clinical societies to build a deep cache of EHR data for pharma and medtech companies. The firm already is working with the American Academy of Ophthalmology, making its IRIS database available to commercial partners. Verana expects to create similar relationships with other clinical societies.

CareZone manages a mobile app that enables users to keep their medications, health information, and contacts all in one place. CEO Jonathan Schwartz shares the company’s origin (and early contact with PillPack, now an Amazon company).

In this week’s Breaking Health Podcast, Anita Pramoda, CEO of Owned Outcomes, digs deep into the joint venture between her company and Vizient Inc. Ediom, LLC, a cognitive computing and data science company solely focused on the needs of health care.

In this week’s Breaking Health Podcast, recently installed Aetion CEO Carolyn Magill visits with BH host Steve Krupa to share the value-based healthcare story that helped the company raise $36.4 million in a Series B from investors including New Enterprise Associates.