Breaking Health

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.

Macro-Eyes CEO Benjamin Fels sees great promise bringing the lessons learned using data in decision-making at a quantitative hedge fund to diagnose patients and manage healthcare practices.

Justin Barad talks about taking VR out of the gaming space with innovative software that will transform how orthopedic surgeons train in the OR.

Sansoro Health, strengthened by $1.2 million in new capital, is developing an EMR-agnostic web services middleware platform that allows providers to better integrate their records.