Breaking Health

Co-founder Pierre-Jean Cobut shares the story of Spry Health, the developer of the Loop wristband that will continuously track the Vital Signs of chronically ill patients while they’re living life outside the hospital. “Care is moving to the home,” Cobut says. “But you can’t do that without knowing what is happening to people.” Hear where Spry sees opportunity in healthcare and how the FDA factors into its plan.

Curisium CEO Peter Kim explains how his start-up will use blockchain technology to help payers, providers, and life science companies to engage in innovative payment agreement tied to patient care. Nearly a third of the payments in the $3 trillion US healthcare market are already tied to some form of innovative payment model. The company recently raised $3.5 million in seed financing from Flare Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Shuttle Fund, Sanofi Ventures, and Green Bay Ventures.

Entrepreneur. Corporate Leader. Venture Capitalist. Owner of Multiple Dogs. Nancy Brown once wanted to be a veterinarian, but instead she followed an atypical path to healthcare where she found success early and often. Now as a partner at one of healthcare’s top firms, Oak HC/FT.

Tom Wicka, CEO and co-founder of NovuHealth, brings his consumer-engagement story to healthcare. The company's patient-engagement system combines performance analytics, behavior science, and comprehensive technology solutions to enable health plans to better understand, motivate, and connect with members.

Matt McCambridge, CEO and co-founder of Eden Health, discusses the state of primary care with Breaking Health host Steve Krupa. The start-up is working with employers to augment healthcare coverage by providing more personalized care to workers with apps and access to a small chain of NYC-based clinics.

Daniel Nathrath, CEO of Ada Health, tell Steve Krupa how the company's AI-infused app - one of the fastest growing apps in healthcare - will help patients triage their own ailments and connect to physicians. The company recently raised $47 million from investors.

David Van Sickle, CEO & Co-Founder of Propeller Health, brings his public health background to health tech start-up Propeller Health. The company has created a line of sensors that work in conjunction with inhalers and spirometers to measure medication intake and breathing capacity of people with asthma. The start-up has undertaken some bold projects with entire cities including Louisville to demonstrate how tools such as these can benefit communities. In this podcast Van Sickle discusses the company's unique origins, its technology and a small hiccup involving the company's former name. Van Sickle will be speaking on an innovative panel at the May 31 Medtech Conference in Minneapolis.

Prior to closing on a $13.8 million round from venture investors, Gil Addo, CEO and Co-Founder of RubiconMD, spoke with Breaking Health'sSteve Krupa about what drove him to create a start-up to connect primary care, patients, and specialty physicians.

Three years ago, Steve Krupa signed on to host this podcast for Healthegy. Today, things are much different. Now CEO of HealthEdge, a fast-growing healthcare IT company, Krupa discusses the transition and shares his unique VC-CEO perspective. In this podcast he discusses how HealthEdge established the Five Pillars of the company's culture, how he works with his board of directors, and what its plans are for the future.

Kent Ivanoff, Co-Founder and CEO, of VisitPay built a career starting or running credit card businesses for firms like CapitalOne. But healthcare expenses are something credit card companies couldn't figure out. Credit scores don't suggest when a patient might pay their portion of a medical bill. VisitPay says it can while also making life easier for the patient by consolidating their medical bills into one account.