Breaking Health

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.

In the eyes of Tiber Health CEO David Lenihan, MD, the "medical school model" is broken. Can his venture-backed startup Tiber Health teach future physicians more effectively and help avoid the coming global doctor shortage? The Problem: Tiber Health says we'll need an additional 14 million medical professionals by 2039.Tiber's Solution: Tiber is building what it hopes will be a reproducible education model.Side note: David Lenihan was at Tiber's school in Puerto Rico during the interview. We got disconnected twice.

Tripp Peake co-founded Long River Ventures in 2000, just before the tech and venture capital industries took a dive. The firm survived, thrived, and is very much alive raising a $100 million fund under a new brand, LRVHealth. The new name and tight healthcare focus reflects the firm's strong connections to hospital networks and other healthcare institutions making up its limited partner base. With a broader investment team and new purpose, LRVHealth is looking to connect healthcare innovators and end-users. Overview: More money for Series A rounds. Good news!Surprises: I didn't know the origin of the Long River name.Regrets: A question or two about LRVHealth's existing portfolio would have been niceEnjoy this podcast!

This week Steve Krupa chats with Dave Grandin, president and CEO of Kiio, about the company’s work to help payers and providers manage patient care. Dave Grandin brings an outsider’s perspective to healthcare, finding great success leading sports technology companies like Avid Sports. Following a short break, Dave returned to the start-up world to help healthcare tackle its own problems by leading Kiio. The company has a unique focus on evidence-based care pathways and low back pain, two areas that likely don’t receive enough attention from Digital Health start-ups.Overview: Kiio seems to be working an untapped market. Surprises: Dave Grandin is candid about the company’s strategic pivot.Regrets: I didn’t get Steve Krupa’s Super Bowl prediction.

Bill Geary, cofounder and partner of Flare Capital Partners, muscles through a strained voice to discuss the growing trepidation over Digital Health. But he emphasizes the many reasons for enthusiasm in 2018 including new capital and likely consolidation.

Jeff Immelt gained a unique perspective from high atop his CEO chair at GE.In this interview at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, Bill Geary, co-chair of the conference and co-founder of Flare Capital Partners, leads the high-profile executive through the many challenges facing healthcare.