Breaking Health

CEO Jennifer Fried explains how start-up ExplORer Surgical is delivering a high precision workflow tool for surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses in the OR. Fried says ExplORer can not only make surgery run more smoothly, but also can save hospitals millions in wasted supplies.

In this replay of our popular podcast we learn that Quartet Health is building a platform to support behavioral health. 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.

Brandon Hull, Managing Director of Cardinal Partners, delivers a heaping pile of context to the digital health revolution (or evolution) and offers his expectations for the future. In our second part of this podcast, Hull goes up against Jonathan Bush, CEO and president of athenahealth, the digital healthcare giant pushing for change to EHRs and working to create the first cloud-based hospital.

Christiana DelloRusso, partner, Providence Ventures, explains what Providence Ventures is doing to help Providence St. Joseph Health, the third largest non-profit health system in the country, become “the most consumer focused and digitally enabled health system in the country.”

More Disruption Please Director Mandira Singh explains how athenahealth is using influence and investment to help build a Digital Health platform. Singh also serves as the company’s director of corporate development.

Imagine Health’s belief is simple – better physicians ultimately cost the healthcare system less money.“We believe strongly if you create a network where the default option is the quality option that people will be much better off,” Cigarran says.

OAK HC/FT is reportedly targeting $500 million for a second fund. At last year’s DHIS, we chatted with Managing Partner Annie Lamont about the firm’s origins as well as the many great opportunities facing healthcare investors and entrepreneurs.

Host Steve Krupa delves deep into Avizia’s history and its approach to developing the right products for hospitals. How does it identify the features providers want, as well as those they may not know they even need?

Competitive rower Brett Wingeier helped build one of the most ambitious Neurotech companies to aid people with epilepsy. Now he and another NeuroPace alum have created Halo, a neurological device that could give athletes another gear in their workouts.

Sean Carroll, CEO of Arcadia Healthcare Solution, shares his favorite beer and his strategy for Arcadia Healthcare Solutions, a data management leader that drew a $30 million new round from investors including newcomers Merck GHBi and GE Ventures.