The Health Innovators Show

Jennifer Krippner, Chief Experience Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Excellence, is your guide to cultivating an innovative culture in healthcare. Explore how innovative leadership is changing patient care and outcomes, blending compassionate care with game-changing strategies.

"Richard Palarea, CEO and Co-Founder of Kermit, is a trailblazer in healthcare. Dive into this thought-provoking dialogue as we explore how Kermit is transforming the way medical devices are managed during surgeries, revolutionizing billing processes, and leveraging AI for smarter decision-making."

Eli Packouz, CEO and Co-Founder of Instafloss, is a serial inventor and entrepreneur who took a solution already on the market and supercharged it into something that will change the way the world thinks about flossing. Show highlights: How flossing and oral health influences health overall (2:28) The one trick for successful campaigns (15:18) Crowdfunding is the first step towards getting to market (17:50) Propose hypotheses, not answers, in meetings (22:12) Putting together a go-to-market plan (24:19) The importance of having a good product (30:04)

Sometimes, being an entrepreneur can keep you so busy, you wake up one day and wonder just how the heck you got where you are. But when you build an organization with a culture steeped in customer discovery and research, you start to see the patterns. Nicola Brown, founder of Kokoro, explains to our viewers how patterns, research, and customer discovery are vital components to her company’s philosophy around healthcare and wellbeing. Refreshing and candid, Nicola’s animated discussion about the drops and gains she’s experienced over the last three years is sure to resonate with health innovators worldwide. Whether it’s debunking assumptions, finding the right support system, or just finding five minutes to breathe, we’re sure you’ll find a tip (or two) you can take with you! Here are the show highlights: Why validating your market will help avoid pitfalls (and drops!) (3:15) Conducting continuous research is key to debunking costly assumptions (7:35) You don’t always have to be first to market - sometimes it’s better to be second (14:44) Why the right support and guidance is critical to your product launch (20:36) Try a different approach to your differentiation strategy (30:18) Why you need to take a 5-minute personal reset, every day (33:27) Guest Bio Nicola Brown is the Founder of Kokoro, an integrative health data management company and practice community serving all levels of business leadership. She leverages her community development career in government, universities, and nonprofits to explore new ways of tackling complex challenges facing marginalized communities around the world. Nicola has earned a Masters of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Georgia and a BS in Family, Youth & Community Sciences from the University of Florida. If you’d like to reach out to Nicola, you can reach her through the contact page on her website at www.joinkokoro.com or on LinkedIn at Nicola Brown. If you contact Nicola on her website, mention you heard her on Dr. Roxie’s show and Kokoro will do a free assessment for you.

Author and AI transformation advisor Tom Lawry, goes over how AI will impact health and medicine - and then how to leverage and channel it to solve the healthcare problems that everyone's talking about.

Kyle Swinksy, CEO of AMOpportunities shares his company’s story on transitioning from B2C to B2B - and the struggles of maintaining balance between supply and demand on both models to benefit growth.

Historically, the ability to share healthcare data quickly, efficiently, and effectively has been hampered by the industry’s slow movement to adopt new technologies. Over the past two decades, data collection was streamlined, cleaned up and then shared with lightning speed - from banking to fitness, but in healthcare, it was still being done through fax machines. So, when the 21st Century Cures Act was passed in 2016, and the biggest hurdle to health information access was removed, Troy Bannister saw an opportunity to leverage the same capabilities being utilized in other industries, and apply it to healthcare. Because healthcare can be a hard industry in which to launch new technologies, Troy knew he’d need to be persistent and ready for the marathon. So he trained for the long haul. If you’ve ever wondered what it might look like to build, commercialize, launch and scale a tech based solution within the healthcare field, you might want to get comfortable and tune in to this week’s episode. From inception to finding the right customers, it’s all here and, just like the data his solution gathers and shares, Troy was ready to share his experiences with our listeners!   Here are the show highlights: The evolution of health data access (1:59) Liberating health data (5:01) How connected data is better data (9:53) Does AI have a future role in risk management? (11:53) The holy grail of strategic partnership (19:10) Integrating consumer data with healthcare data (23:14)   Guest Bio   Troy Bannister is the Founder and CEO at Particle Health, a company aimed at making healthcare data access easy to leverage - improving outcomes across the healthcare continuum. Troy has over a decade of experience in the healthcare field including working as an EMT, a clinical researcher, and also as an investor & entrepreneur.  His focus on disruptive technologies, healthcare regulation and innovative healthcare models led to the founding of Particle Health. Troy earned his MS in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University, his BS in Biology and Physiology from the University of Washington, and Certification as an Emergency Medical Technician from North Seattle College. If you would like to reach out to Troy, you can find him on LinkedIn at @Troy Bannister, or if you would like to learn more about Particle Health, visit their website at ParticleHealth.com.

When it comes to health data monitoring devices, society has a host of choices: phones, watches, apps galore - but what if you could just relax and use your phone to surf TikTok videos instead of checking your fitness app? Sound good to you?   It sounded good to Nick Conn as well. So good, in fact, that he parlayed that thought into a whole new level of health data monitoring. You might want to sit down for this one: The toilet seat.   Yes, the toilet seat - because, honestly, where else can we gather health data with minimal effort on the patient’s behalf - not once a month, but daily (sometimes more than once a day!)?   The more frequent the data, the better the clinical decisions will be - and that’s a win win for everyone - patient, doctor, health system, and entrepreneur!   Of course, selling the idea came with its own set of challenges, but Nick is here in this week’s episode to walk our listeners and viewers through how getting the right data, in the right ways can fuel a company’s success, instead of gathering sporadic data that risks, well, flushing that success right down the toilet.   Here are the show highlights: How to refine your story and secure investors (2:47) Gathering the right data for clinical decision making (5:13) A better way to collect data (6:33) Traditional data collection versus consistent data collection (9:20) Co-creating in data collection (15:09) Why you shouldn’t outsource core competencies (18:42)   Guest Bio Nicholas Conn, PhD is the Founder and CSO of Casana, a company obsessed with improving patient outcomes and reinventing healthcare at home. Nick completed his PhD in Engineering in 2016 at Rochester Institute of Technology. While in his PhD program, he developed a new form of health data monitoring technology – a toilet seat-based cardiovascular monitoring system.  That technology led to the founding of Casana in 2018 Nick’s broad expertise includes business development, algorithm development, cardiovascular monitoring, medical devices, ultra-low power systems, physiology, and signal processing.  He also holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from RIT. If you want more information about Casana, you can visit their website at CasanaCare.com, visit their page on LinkedIn at  @Casana, or reach out to Nick on LinkedIn at @Nicholas Conn.

If you could get the insider scoop on how to really sell your healthcare tech to providers, you’d want it, right?  Secrets like: The positive effect empathy has on patients, or how implementing empathy in healthcare tech can be key to dominating your market.  That’s gold right there! And when the past 3 to 4 years have been a whirlwind of technological advances in every aspect of healthcare from delivery to administration, we don’t have to look far for proof.  Empathetic advances have had a profound impact on patient experience and positive outcomes. Ed Marx can give you concrete examples of the positives that can be cultivated when empathy and technology merge - including an increased chance at making that sale. And this week, he’s doing just that. So, if you’re looking for some inside secrets on how empathy can increase your sales prospects, this episode was tailor made just for you.    Here are the show highlights: Ratcheting up viable opportunities (3:39) Improving interoperability (5:58) Why interoperability in healthcare technology matters (8:11) The positive results of empathy in patient culture (17:12) Tips on how to break through the healthcare provider ecosystem (23:07) The value of being a listener (29:59)   Guest Bio Ed Marx is an author, serves as an advisor to organizations on the digital transformation journey, and is the CEO at Divurgent, a healthcare consulting firm that is focused on redefining consulting and transforming healthcare. Ed’s rich experience in the healthcare industry has been focused on patient experience and the power of empathy to transform technology in healthcare. If you want more information about Divurgent or wish to reach out to Ed,  you can get in touch with him on LinkedIn at  @Ed Marx.

Many startups mistakenly treat their customers like business models. They’re not. They’re end users and, what they think - their willingness to adopt your product, matters. Digital health can be a confusing tangle of marketing, pitching, and raising capital, but none of it matters if your end user isn’t using what you’re selling. Ravi Komatireddy gets it. His diverse background has given him all the tools he needed to circumvent the system and deliver a product that his target market not only wants, but is willing to purchase and (key point) CONTINUE using. If that sounds like a worthy goal for you, Ravi has a few tips, tricks and insights that can help you map out a winning business model and help breathe life back into your startup. Check it out!    Here are the show highlights: Behavior based marketing (8:06) Motivation for value based care (13:08) Customers are not business models - they’re end users (16:11) Does your product pass the “turnaround” test for value (22:09) Raising money going direct to consumer (25:31) Defining consumer engagement (28:02)   Guest Bio   Ravi Komatireddy is a serial digital health entrepreneur, disrupter, board-certified internal medicine physician, and the Founder and CEO of Daytona Health, a concierge system that helps members adopt a healthier lifestyle, mindset, and optimize their performance at home and work. Ravi leveraged his unique experiences with everything from salmon fishing in the Bering Sea, to earning his FAA pilot’s license, to his medical degree and training to shape his view of health potential and the healthcare ecosystem as a whole. Using these diverse perspectives, paired alongside his scientific background, he has set his sights on a goal to think big, push boundaries, and deliver solutions that will reshape healthcare and improve human potential. If you want more information about Daytona Health or wish to reach out to Ravi,  you can get in touch with him on LinkedIn at  @Ravi Komatireddy MD.