For years we’ve tracked investment trends at StartUp Health and talked quarter after quarter about how women’s health has been underfunded. Finally, that is changing, and more founders and more funders are actively bridging that divide, creating new, necessary solutions for women, whether in fitness, pre- and post-natal care, chronic conditions, fertility, or menopause. Our podcast guests this week are two Health Transformers who have been dedicated to FemTech before the new surge in interest in women’s health innovation. First we'll talk to Wendy Powell, CEO & Founder of MUTU System, a UK-based fitness platform that helps women recover from pregnancy and regain independence and confidence – focusing on core and pelvic floor reconnection, recovery, and strengthening. Wendy’s been in business for more than a decade and joined StartUp Health last year to help expand her reach. Then we’ll hear from Missy Lavender, CEO & Founder of Renalis, about how she’s helping women with below-the-belt conditions like overactive bladder get the care they need through an AI chatbot called CeCe. Missy's company – which joined StartUp Health in 2019 – is bringing therapy to women who have suffered in silence with pelvic health conditions. She’s not just extending a lifeline to women, but to their doctors as well, who have struggled to figure out how to manage these challenging conditions. Enjoy the episode, which was recorded at the ViVE 2023 conference in Nashville, with these two founders breaking through the stigma around women's pelvic health. Founders: Health Transformer University fuels your health moonshot Funders: Become a Health Moonshot Champion Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox. Looking to break down health barriers? If you’re an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our Health Equity Moonshot. Passionate about Type 1 diabetes? If you’re an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our T1D Moonshot.  

A groundbreaking transformation is taking place, revolutionizing the way health plans operate and cater to the needs of their members. This new era is driven by the AI paradigm shift, which has opened up new avenues for innovation, efficiency, and personalized care. Join Michael Pacolay, Manager of CX Analytics and Outcomes from Highmark Health and host Alan Tam as they discuss the potential for AI to reduce costs, improve patient outcomes, and enhance the overall quality of care. As a result, health plans can be better equipped to meet the evolving needs of their members and stay competitive in an increasingly complex and dynamic healthcare landscape. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Technology solutions can improve access to care for some populations. In this episode, Naveen Kathuria discusses how GoCheck Kids leverages an iPhone to access low-cost, high-quality vision screenings for vulnerable populations. He also advises healthcare providers interested in starting a vision screening program. Tune in to learn how GoCheck Kids is helping children and vulnerable populations with easy-to-use technology! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Thanks to our guest today, #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy has been augmented by Fireflies.ai - Jim Joyce and I had the plasure of hosting the awesome Justin Norden, MD, MBA, MPhil, Partner at GSR Ventures: 🤖 #digitalhealth investments & the current market 🤖 #ChatGPT and #LearningModels 🤖 Dr. Watson Who? 🤖 Autonomous vehicles and autonomous RX 🤖 oh and... confabulating AI .... Fun mentions as always: Medable, Inc Michelle Longmire Limbix Benjamin Alouf MD, MBA, FAAP AppliedVR Josh Sackman Corey McCann Brian Dolan

Operations are crucial to health outcomes, and AI can upgrade them. In this episode, Deloitte’s Hashim Simjee and Morgann Carlon talk about healthcare operations and the potential of AI to improve them. They also advise listeners to develop a clear data strategy and start small when implementing AI solutions. Tune in and learn more about the power and potential of data and AI in healthcare operations! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Join Matt Schwabel, Executive Director of Marketing Technology & Operations at UNC Health, and host Alan Tam as they explore the benefits of embracing consumerism in healthcare and how it can transform your patient experiences. With an increasing number of patients seeking out healthcare services online, it's critical for healthcare providers to embrace consumerism to create a more patient-centered experience. By focusing on patient satisfaction, healthcare providers can build trust, loyalty, and ultimately, improve patient outcomes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recorded live from the floor of HIMSS at the GE HealthCare booth, Joy Rios interviews Dr. Elizabeth Bergey, President and CEO of Quantum Imaging, a private practice radiology group. Dr. Bergey discusses her experience leading a radiology group serving multiple hospitals and imaging centers. The conversation covers Dr. Bergey's journey from pediatric radiologist to private practice, her childhood aspirations, and her passion for math and science. They delve into her path to becoming the president of her organization, highlighting her proactive nature and the challenges she faced as a woman in radiology. The podcast sheds light on the unique obstacles Dr. Bergey encountered and emphasizes the importance of women's representation and empowerment in health IT.

Health equity and quality in care are two sides of the same coin. In this episode, Theresa Demeter, Managing Director at Tegria, talks about how healthcare should approach technology solutions that address equity by working directly with undermined communities. She shares Tegria’s experience of bringing technology and education to a remote southeast Alaskan community and explains how health advocates and partnerships can help during that process. Tune in to learn more about Tegria’s techquity work! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

What does transformational change look like in healthcare? In this episode, Bruce Brandes talks about how care.ai addresses challenges, like caregiver burnout and unsustainable costs in the healthcare industry, through transformative technology solutions. He also encourages healthcare professionals to partner with agile and innovative companies like care.ai to drive faster scalability and navigate the industry’s transformation. Tune in to learn about care.ai’s transformative solutions for healthcare’s current challenges!  Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Some startups provide tools directly consumers and patients while others tackle issues in the hospital, at the other end of the care journey. Our two guests today, Dr. Scott Kaiser from Determined Health and Nick Lockett from Pear Suite, occupy a sort of middle ground. They empower communities and community-based organizations to provide better care for vulnerable people. It doesn’t take much to see the need for more empowered communities in healthcare. Every day we see more headlines about an epidemic of loneliness and the role of social connection in health outcomes. That data is in, and it’s not good. We know from our own experience that there are health concerns you might share with a friend before turning to a doctor. Nowhere is the need for community-based health intervention more clear than with seniors. According to our guests today, that process starts with empowering authentic, actionable communication. So they’ve built unique tools and platforms designed make that process scaleable, replicable, and easy. Our first guest today is Scott Kaiser, MD, CEO & Co-founder of Determined Health, a company that joined StartUp Health in 2022. Dr. Kaiser, a trained geriatrician, along with this team, was recently recognized by CHIME and ScaleHealth as a finalist in their patent engagement challenge. After receiving the award in the “digital front door” category, he likened his company to being the Walmart greeter for the healthcare system. Our next guest is Nick Lockett, CTO & Co-founder at Pear Suite. As you’ll hear, Pear Suite – also a StartUp Health company since 2022 – gives organizations the tools necessary to track community-driven care and identify social determinants of health. Their data-driven approach upgrades a life-saving process that has often been relegated to pen and paper. Enjoy the episode, which was recorded at the ViVE 2023 conference in Nashville. Founders: Health Transformer University fuels your health moonshot Funders: Become a Health Moonshot Champion Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox. Looking to break down health barriers? If you’re an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our Health Equity Moonshot. Passionate about Type 1 diabetes? If you’re an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our T1D Moonshot.  

Space exploration and research are rapidly advancing, and life sciences is a key component of this progress. Learn more about the opportunities and developments in space R&D and manufacturing, particularly in the life sciences sector, from Maureen Haverty, VP of Investment at Seraphim Space/Generation Space. 

There’s a platform that gives you access to medical services at your pocket’s reach and will also save you money! Promising, right? In this episode, Priyanka Mathur talks about how her company, MediPocket USA Cross-Border Care, helps patients access care internationally and save money on their medications, all with the help of AI technology. She explains MediPocket’s products and services and highlights how they stand out against the competition, as they offer a full-suite service and use AI to provide insights and advice on health and wellness to each user.  Tune in and learn more about how MediPocket leverages data and AI to give patients the best healthcare experience! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

What are the momentum killers in clinical research and innovation? In this episode, Ted Trafford discusses key issues that can kill site momentum on clinical trials and the adoption of innovation. He dives deep into the challenges that DCTs bring to sites, the flawed protocol feasibility model, and the barriers that sites and professionals face when entering the research industry. Ted believes in great potential for innovation but recognizes the industry too often forces solutions that are looking for problems that may not exist, creating unintended risk. Listen to this episode where Ted Trafford reveals the secret to getting sites to pay attention to your trial. Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

In this episode Joy welcomes Julie Wolk from Carium. Julie shares her background in advertising and health tech startups, emphasizing her diverse skill set. She discusses Carium's successful rebranding efforts and their focus on collaboration between care teams and patients. Joy and Julie provide valuable insights into Julie's career journey and Carium's innovative work in improving the healthcare experience.

During these changing times, don’t stop your work on business strategy! In this episode, Managing Directors of L.E.K. Consulting, Kevin Grabenstatter, and Joe Johnson talk about strategy work for health systems, disruptive models, technology, and what to do now that retailing companies have entered the healthcare game field. L.E.K. prepares and sets up healthcare businesses for key inflection or decision points when navigating the current environment’s changing pressures. They also help companies with challenges around value-based care, data integration, and telehealth. Kevin and Joe discuss what they believe are critical areas healthcare systems should invest in to improve patients’ care experience and companies' revenue. They also speak about how it will be primordial for health businesses to learn from other industries and adapt to the changes that are taking place now that big retailers have entered the game. Tune in and learn how important strategy is when navigating a changing industry like healthcare!

Welcome to StartUp Health NOW, the podcast where we celebrate the entrepreneurs and innovators who are transforming health. So when you go to the hospital for care, you accept that the outcome isn't completely under your or your doctor's control. Even with textbook healthcare, bad things can happen for a variety of reasons and your health can decline. Put another way, it's hard enough when good care results in a bad outcome. But what about when a preventable error occurs? It can seem incomprehensible, bewildering. This idea that mistakes can happen in the hospital – mistakes that can take an already tenuous situation and make it even worse – and yet to err is human and hospitals are full of humans, so mistakes happen. Thankfully, there are brilliant people out in the world working to reduce these preventable hospital errors in creative ways like our first guest on today's show: Fox Holt, CEO of Vigilant. This startup – which joined StartUp Health in 2022 – is digitizing medication tracking by doing away with handwritten medication notes. No more scribbling instructions on the side of an IV bag or, worse, on a syringe. With Vigilant’s easy-to-launch system, nurses can immediately start labeling and tracking meds in automated ways. This ensures patients get the right dose every time and no preventable medication errors occur. As a bonus, hospitals reap the benefits of all that medication data on the back end, data they were missing with handwritten labels. Our second guest is also streamlining operations in the hospital, but with more of a mind towards provider satisfaction versus direct patient safety. Although it's easy to see where the two intersect downstream. Sanji Silva is the Chief Product Officer & Chief Technology Officer at Mocingbird, a startup upgrading and streamlining the provider credentialing process. If Mocingbird  – which joined StartUp Health in 2020 –  has their way, gone will be the days lost to credentialing paperwork and hospitals having to scramble to find qualified workers as these standards shift from state to state. It will all be one unified system that keeps providers up to date with continuing education and keeps hospitals fully staffed. It's not just about paperwork, as onerous credentialing processes lead to burnout which push providers out of the profession entirely, leading to poorer quality care due to fewer available physicians. Listen in to this week’s podcast to hear these vastly different approaches with one goal: improving healthcare.   Founders: Health Transformer University fuels your health moonshot Funders: Become a Health Moonshot Champion Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox. Looking to break down health barriers? If you’re an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our Health Equity Moonshot. Passionate about Type 1 diabetes? If you’re an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our T1D Moonshot.

Angela Radcliffe is a clinical research expert and data ethics evangelist with over two decades of experience driving transformation and organizational agility at the intersection of health, tech, and data. Angela’s work has impacted more than 100 global clinical research efforts across almost every therapeutic area. As an author and speaker, Angela uses her personal journey to demonstrate how inclusive research can impact the root causes of our most challenging social issues. She is committed to the pursuit of more authentic patient engagement, giving data ownership back to humans, the promotion of health and data literacy for all, and normalizing clinical research as a care option.

Opening up to technology in healthcare can bring creative solutions for important issues. In this episode, Peter Rasmussen talks about leveraging different layers of technology to cover specialty care deserts around the country and improve the quality of life for patients whose access to care sites may be difficult. He also discusses the Cleveland Clinic Second Opinion program, as everyone has a right to a second opinion when facing complex health situations. Tune in and learn more about some important uses for digital health solutions! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

In this episode of the HIT Like A Girl podcast, host Joy Rios welcomes Dr. Nick Van Terheyden, a principal at ECG Management consulting and host of the podcast shows "The Incrementalist" and "Healthcare Upside Down." While Dr. Van Terheyden is not a woman, he joins the show as a special guest to discuss his experience with healthcare data, insurance, and the patient experience. He shares a personal story about his struggle with hip pain and how his family practitioner suggested he may be vitamin D deficient. After being prescribed a year's supply of vitamin D supplements, his insurance provider, Cigna, rejected the claim for being "medically unnecessary." Dr. Van Terheyden fought the denial and ultimately had it reversed, but was shocked to learn that his case was just one of 199,999 others that had been rejected by the same physician over a two-month period. The denial process was automated and patients had only a slim chance of successfully appealing the decision. Dr. Nick’s experience led to an important piece published by ProPublica. This conversation highlights the need for better healthcare data management and a more patient-centric approach to healthcare.

Join Jeff Stewart, System Director of Strategic Marketing at CHRISTUS Health and host Alan Tam as they delve into the reasons why adopting "always-on" outreach programs is crucial for healthcare providers to stay ahead of the curve, ultimately delivering exceptional patient experiences and driving business growth. It's no longer enough to merely offer healthcare services and hope patients will come knocking at your door. The key to success in this highly competitive environment is adopting an "always-on" outreach approach, ensuring a constant and proactive connection with your target audience. This strategy is essential as it not only helps healthcare providers build lasting relationships with their patients but also fosters trust and loyalty among the community. But why are these programs so vital? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Technology plays a heavy role in driving equitable care delivery. In this episode, Dr. Maulik Majmudar, shares about his company’s platform, which enables health systems and provider groups to scale their programs at the patients’ homes. Even before the COVID pandemic, the transition of care out of the brick-and-mortar sites into patients’ homes was starting, but many health systems still lack the technology and the teams to support this successfully. Dr. Majmudar explains how the Biofourmis platform can manage patients’ care remotely and uses digital tools that can drive better outcomes. Tune in to learn how the Biofourmis platform is making waves in remote patient management and health equity!

One of the words that gets thrown around so much at StartUp Health that you might get tired of hearing it is 'collaboration.' We say it a lot. However, you’ll only get sick of the word if you think it’s just startup jargon or lip service. But at StartUp Health that’s just not the case. StartUp Health was designed from day one to promote a collaborative ecosystem in health innovation. For more than a decade we’ve been bringing like-minded founders together to learn from each other and support each other. It can be lonely out there as a founder, and StartUp Health has made it a top priority to connect people in meaningful ways. So that companies can grow faster, yes. But also so that founders survive and thrive in the face of the day-to-day grind of entrepreneurship. We say all of that because it explains why our StartUp Health NOW guests today resonate so much for our team. David Nguyen, PhD, CEO & Co-founder of BrainScanology, and Ismail Badjie, PharmD, CEO & Founder of Innovarx Global Health, are from two very different health sectors – and two very different regions of the world. But they met at a StartUp Health event. And because they were fellow Health Transformers they knew they shared certain values. That prompted a connection and a conversation, which then allowed them to leapfrog into a business partnership. In the interview we’ll get into how they met and what they’ve building together to help patients thrive into old age in West Africa. And we’ll also talk about the role of creative collaborations in achieving audacious health moonshot goals. Enjoy! Founders: Health Transformer University fuels your health moonshot Funders: Become a Health Moonshot Champion Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox. Looking to break down health barriers? If you’re an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our Health Equity Moonshot. Passionate about Type 1 diabetes? If you’re an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our T1D Moonshot.

In this podcast episode Joy welcomes Karley Yoder (GM and Chief Digital Officer for ultrasound business at GE Health) and Vaishali Kamat (GM of New Ventures in the ultrasound digital organization at GE Health) live from the GE Healthcare booth at HIMSS to discuss the concept of intrapreneurship and the challenges of driving new ideas within a large company. They emphasize the importance of having a clear vision, building trust, and being humble, while also leveraging the power of cross-divisional collaboration and diversity to achieve success. Joy also asks about the technology of ultrasound, which Kamat explains is a real-time diagnostic imaging modality that is cost-effective, portable, and non-radiation. They discuss its various applications, from obstetrics to cardiovascular systems, and its ability to provide immediate results at the point of care. Yoder then touches on the incorporation of AI into ultrasound technology and how it can help automate certain tasks and improve accuracy.

In this episode with Biotricity CEO and Founder Waqaas Al-Siddiq, PhD, discover how AI is transforming healthcare and how Biotricity's Bioheart device is helping to manage and prevent cardiac conditions.