Breaking Health

WEGO Health CEO and president Jack Barrette explains how the company is building a network of the most influential patient leaders to help firms validate their products and services.

Design firm Worrell is asking how Alexa and other voice-enabled devices might treat chronic disease, manage clinical trials, and restore bonds between patients and physicians. The firm also is tracking advances in virtual and augmented reality, with an eye toward demonstrating how this tech can be useful first in the hospital and then in the home.

ClearDATA Co-founder, CEO and President Darin Brannan – a Silicon Valley VC and entrepreneur - went from being his healthcare family’s black sheep to potential savior. In this podcast, Brannan introduces ClearDATA, provider of a secure, HITRUST-certified healthcare managed cloud system that serves more than 350,000 healthcare professionals looking to safeguard healthcare data.

Faced with an unacceptable disagnosis after her husband was seriously injured in an accident, Savonix CEO Mylea Charvat created a digital tool to measure cognitive function to help her husband recover. Now Savonix seeks to fill a huge gap facing healthcare by gauging cognitive function, organizing and storing data at the population level, improving patient outcomes, and accelerating medical innovation.

Jeffrey Brewer left the start-up realm to focus on understanding and aiding his young son after a diabetes diagnosis. But a “hack” of a glucose monitor brought him back into the CEO role of Bigfoot Biomedical, a company working to build a networked system of glucose detection and insulin delivery.To Learn more about the Breaking Health Podcast, visit: https://goo.gl/ecYaUL

Bill Geary, general partner of Flare Capital, who serves as co-chair of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, explains how a very personal – and ultimately traumatic – experience with the healthcare system made a permanent impression upon him.

Reputation.com is moving into healthcare to help providers understand what patients are saying online about their care and practice. CEO Shrey Bhatia explains how the company can help hospitals and doctors better manage the word on the online street.

The VA is undergoing a sweeping innovation effort. Andrea Ippolito, who brings experience from Medtech, MIT, and healthcare IT, explains how the VA Innovators Network is working to identify innovation that can improve care for veterans.

Marie Johnson, CEO and founder of AUM Cardiovascular, lost her husband, Rob, to a heart attack. The tragedy led her to develop CADence, a handheld device that she believes will save lives by identifying telltale signs of cardiovascular disease.

When Chrissa McFarlane saw an underserved niche in the PHI space and heard about a new technology called blockchain, she put two and two together and created Patientory, a groundbreaking provider of digital healthcare solutions.