
Breaking Health
The Breaking Health Podcast features the innovators, investors and entrepreneurs who are building the technology and tools to break down and build up the country’s ailing health care system. With seasoned health care investor Steve Krupa, CEO of the Psilos Group, as host, Breaking Health delivers the earliest insights on the ongoing Digital Health Revolution.
Latest episodes

May 15, 2016 • 52min
How Pear Therapeutics is Creating Digital Therapeutics to Treat Substance Use Disorders
Pear Therapeutics CEO Corey McCann, MD, PhD delves into the potential digital therapeutics have in helping people who abuse drugs and alcohol. The company’s product pipeline includes potential treatment for schizophrenia, combat-PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia and traumatic brain injury.

May 5, 2016 • 48min
Harken Health Hearkens Back to the Old Days of HMOs, Personal Touches in Health Care
With the blessing of UnitedHealthcare, CEO Tom Vanderheyden left the insurance giant to create a company that puts primary care front and center. With doctors seeing fewer patients and health coaches leading the way, can the company create a healthier – and less expensive – patient population?

Apr 29, 2016 • 48min
Healthify: There’s More to Health Than Health Care.
Health care doesn’t just happen at hospitals. Start-up Healthify is building a software platforms to help patients stay healthy after they’ve left the hospital or physicians office by tracking and managing their basic needs.

Apr 16, 2016 • 31min
Meds Won’t Work If You Don’t Take Them. Can AiCure Make Sure You Do?
AiCure is taking a simple, but critical step to ensuring people get healthier. Its system of ensuring meds are taken can improve care and help bolster clinical trial performances.

Apr 6, 2016 • 39min
Care Management Technologies on Tracking the Behavioral Health of Patients on the Mend
Behavioral health isn’t always seen as an integral part of health care, but Care Management Technologies is breaking down those walls.

Mar 24, 2016 • 48min
CEO Bond: How CareSync is `family-tizing’ health care data.
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.

Mar 11, 2016 • 44min
Can Syapse Bring "Omics" and "Precision Medicine" to its True Clinical Potential?
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.

Mar 4, 2016 • 38min
Athenahealth’s Bush Sees Lots of Work Ahead for Health Care Internet
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.

Feb 26, 2016 • 46min
Zipnosis Turning Smart Phone into Part of a Doctor’s Office Staff
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.

Feb 18, 2016 • 55min
xG Health Helps Health Systems Get Healthier
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.