Breaking Health

In this week’s podcast, Breaking Health co-host Tom Salemi catches up with summit co-chairs Bill Geary and Robert Mittendorff, MD, immediately after the close of the sold-out Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit. The trio share their highlights from the summit including lessons from former GE CEO Jeff Immelt and broader observations about the maturation of Digital Health.

Following a successful run as a tech entrepreneur and executive, Rajeev Singh heard numerous warnings about joining a healthcare start-up. But Singh, like many, saw the opportunity to affect true change in healthcare too tempting to ignore. Two years ago, he assumed the CEO role at Accolade, a company using phone calls, AI, and Machine Learning to help self-insured employers understand their healthcare needs.

Keith Figlioli found himself on a senior management track, helping to run some of healthcare’s more impactful companies including Premier, the purchasing network of close to 200 hospitals. Now he is a partner at Long River Ventures, a smaller venture firm with an extensive, successful history of investing in healthcare IT companies. In this Breaking Health Podcast, Figlioli shares the lessons learned on his lengthy path to Long River and explains what’s next for the growing venture capital firm.

DHIS co-chair Bill Geary, partner and cofounder of Flare Capital Partners, announces the final additions to this year’s Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit. Jeff Immelt, former GE CEO, and Troyen Brennan, MD, CMO of CVS Health, will sit down to discuss their respective views on the future of Digital Health.

Few can make a stronger case for the health of Digital Health then Robert Mittendorff, MD, general partner at Norwest Venture Partners, co-chair of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, and emergency room physician. In this episode, Dr. Mittendorff talks up the strength of iRhythm, the wisdom of the FDA, and areas where he’d like to invest more capital. He also discusses the company’s recent investment in VisitPay.

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