AWS Health Innovation Podcast

Joe Shonkwiler is joined by Vijay Kedar, CEO and co-founder of Tomorrow Health, a company building technology that improves the way home-based care is ordered, delivered, and paid for. Vijay and I discuss how stakeholder value compounds across the healthcare ecosystem, why he prefers “support” to “empowerment” when building solutions for patients and caregivers, and why he believes so much of the newest technology in healthcare must be custom built with an insider’s view. Learn more about Tomorrow Health (http://home.tomorrowhealth.com/) and how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/).

Tune in for the latest episode of the AWS Health Innovation podcast, recorded live at the “Health.Tech.Bio - Trends from Accross the Pond” symposium AWS co-hosted with Wellington Partners at JPM. Europe and Israel are hotbeds of healthcare & life science innovation, with talent from top-class research institutes, leading pharmaceutical companies and VC’s all playing on the global stage. As the industry undergoes digital transformation via the adoption of cloud, high performance computing and machine learning, new opportunities for investment and collaboration are emerging. The episode combines: ✅ Interview with Dr. Dana Gourevich (Chief Technology Officer, Israel Innovation Authority) showcasing how Israel uses public/private partnerships to match leading talent from its universities to life sciences research challenges, highlighting AION Labs as an example. ✅ Expert panel with Dr. Richard Law (Chief Business Officer, Exscientia), Edward Kliphuis (Partner, Sofinnova Partners) and Dr. Amrita Sarkar (Principal, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS) covering Europe & America’s complementary roles accelerating healthcare innovation. ✅ Fireside chat with Dr. Rainer Strohmenger and Dr. Regina Hodits, Managing Partners at Wellington Partners detailing their investment approach, how they support startups, and pragmatic advice for founders. Learn more about how AWS enables healthcare and life science startups to grow & thrive (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/healthcare-life-sciences/) and how healthcare & life sciences industry leaders leverage the cloud to accelerate health innovation (https://aws.amazon.com/health/)

Joe Shonkwiler is joined by Alon Joffe, CEO and co-founder of Eleos, a company that integrates and automates the entire behavioral health workflow. Alon discusses how he and his team have identified and addressed the barriers to receiving behavioral health treatment, why Eleos sees quality and administration as inextricably linked, and why he believes healthcare products must have both a financial and clinical ROI to be viable. Learn more about Eleos (https://hubs.li/Q01yqDV10) and how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/).

Alex Merwin is joined by Seth Sternberg, Co-Founder & CEO from Honor who runs the world’s largest home care network and care platform for older adults. As the world’s aging population continues to explode, it’s imperative that we develop the means to deliver quality care to older adults everywhere. To meet the need, Honor built an advanced care platform and the world’s largest home care network. Their platform combines local care, centralized operations, and best in class technology to deliver the highest quality care. We discuss the need to care for care professionals and how they’re developed, how to acquire & integrate a company into a high-growth startup and lessons learned managing a two-sided marketplace in the digital health space. Learn more about Honor (https://www.honorcare.com/) and how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/).

Joe Shonkwiler is joined by Dr. Mary Rozenman, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer at insitro, and Dr. Chris Probert, senior machine learning scientist at insitro. insitro is a company re-imagining drug discovery and development by integrating machine learning and biology at scale. Dr. Rozenman and Dr. Probert discuss how insitro’s discovery process can start on either the clinical or cellular side, why scale is so important in every aspect of insitro’s model, and why diversity of experience and background can be a powerful tool in solving hard problems. Learn more about insitro (https://insitro.com/) and how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/).

Alex Merwin hosts a group of health innovation leaders from startups, investors, media and startup enabling organizations for a special HLTH compilation episode. We asked each innovator two questions: what is special about convening in-person at events in this post-covid world, and if they could wave a magic wand to eliminate any hurdle to health innovation what would they change and why. Thanks to our guests from Redesign Health, Maven Clinic, Luma Health, Health Gorilla, Matter, Mission Based Media, Keep Labs, Memora Health, Unseen Capital, BioFourmis, and Brightside Health. Learn more about how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive at https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/.

Joe Shonkwiler is joined by Dr. David Parke, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Verana Health, a company empowering physicians and life science companies with deeper data insights to accelerate medical research. Dr. Parke discusses why certain medical specialties are ideal proving grounds for digital health innovation, how Verana grew out of the unique data collected by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and why knowing not only what customers value but also the nuance surrounding that value is so important for startups. Learn more about Verana Health (https://www.veranahealth.com) and how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/).

Joe Shonkwiler is joined by Emilio Galán, CEO and founder of Robin, a company that combines AI technology and trained medical scribes to save time and deliver a seamless experience that integrates directly into the medical record. They discuss how Robin is addressing the administrative burden on providers and how reimbursement models play a role, why Emilo sees disentangling the medical workflow and administrative workflow as a key driver of reducing that burden, and why he believes that in the future patients will demand their providers leverage ambient listening technology. Learn more about Robin (https://www.robinhealthcare.com) and how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/).

Joe Shonkwiler is joined by Michelle Wagner, CEO of Mindstrong, a company that helps thousands of members manage anxiety, depression, PTSD, and serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, with quality care and cutting-edge technology. Michelle and Joe discuss why integrating data collected between treatment sessions can be a game changer for behavioral health, why selling digital health products via large employers can look a lot like direct-to-consumer sales, and why entrepreneurs in healthcare must learn to embrace iterative change as part of a large and complex system. Learn more about Mindstrong (https://mindstrong.com/). You can also learn about healthcare and life science startups on AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ or https://aws.amazon.com/health/)

Joe Shonkwiler is joined by Andrew Eye, CEO and co-founder of ClosedLoop, a company that gives providers, payers, and value-based care organizations the ability to make accurate, explainable, and actionable predictions of individual-level health risks; as well as Amanda Goltz, lead for the AWS Accelerator focused on health equity, for the 3rd and final episode of our mini-season featuring startups addressing health equity. Andrew and Amanda share how the AWS Accelerator supports healthcare startups, how the aims of health equity are aligned with Value-Based Care, and why Andrew believes local data is so essential to building powerful, unbiased predictive models in healthcare. Learn more about ClosedLoop (https://www.closedloop.ai/) and the AWS Accelerator focused on health equity (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/aws-announces-10-startups-selected-2022-aws-healthcare-accelerator-health-equity/) as well as the newly announced AWS Healthcare Accelerator Global Cohort for Workforce Development (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/aws-launches-aws-healthcare-accelerator-global-cohort-for-workforce-development/). You can also learn about healthcare and life science startups on AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ or https://aws.amazon.com/health/).