AWS Health Innovation Podcast
Amazon Web Services showcases startups that are advancing healthcare & life science by leveraging cloud computing technology.
#84, Empowering Scientists with Voice-Assisted Workflows with Steve Soccorso-McCoy from LabVoice
LabVoice develops a hands-free voice assistant that provides a common human-lab interaction for scientists, enabling voice-assisted workflows and hands-free access to lab software and data.
April 16, 2024
#83, Designing Optimal Drug Molecules from Scratch with Dave Longo from Ordaōs
Ordaōs, a human-enabled machine-driven drug design company leveraging GenAI and AI/ML to design and build mini proteins as therapeutics for biomedical research and drug discovery.
April 2, 2024
#82, Closing Care Gaps with Predictive Analytics, Aneesh Chopra from CareJourney and Mirza Baig from AWS
CareJourney provides healthcare analytics solutions that leverage claims data to enable value-based care delivery organizations, hospitals, health plans, and life sciences companies to improve care quality and reduce costs.
March 26, 2024
#81, Thinking Big to Improve Liver Disease Outcomes, Quin Wills from Ochre Bio
Quin Wills, Co-Founder & CSO of Ochre Bio, joins us to discuss their use of deep analysis of liver genetics and precision RNA design to develop new therapies for liver diseases like hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer.
March 20, 2024
#80, Closing the Loop on Hospital Drug Supply Chains, Kevin MacDonald of Bluesight
Bluesight's software platform connects data across medication manufacturing, ordering, inventory, dispensing and administration to help hospital pharmacies reduce costs, ensure compliance and improve safety. Kevin shares how this unprecedented visibility enables customers to reduce waste, ensure compliance and detect drug diversion.
March 12, 2024
#79, Predicting Future Health Events With AI with Eric Chung from Prospection
Prospection is a healthcare analytics company that converts data into actionable insights by applying machine learning to hundreds of millions of patient histories to predict future health events years in advance.
March 5, 2024
#78, Uncovering New Treatments For Severe Mental Illness with David Newton from Akrivia Health
Akrivia Health provides research data, clinical trial optimization, and molecular characterization for mental health and dementia. We speak with David Newton, COO & Co-Founder of Akrivia Health, about how they use AI to process free text notes into structured data, all while safeguarding patient privacy.
February 27, 2024
#77, The App Store for Healthcare with Oron Afek from Vim
Vim is building an ecosystem to connect healthcare applications and workflows. Co-founder and CEO Oron Afek shares the story behind Vim's evolution into a healthcare "app store" now reaching over 20 million patients.
February 21, 2024
AWS Health Innovation Podcast
The AWS Health Innovation Podcast is the first and only Amazon/AWS podcast featuring healthcare and life science startups and investors. We showcase innovative teams and people, providing a view into how they operate and drive progress. Our goal is to tell the stories behind health innovators, not just talk about technology. The intended audience are health innovators, investors and employees from healthcare & life sciences startups.
Host
Alex Merwin
Alex Merwin is an operations executive with over ten years of experience building and scaling high-performance teams at startups and global tech companies. He is passionate about helping healthcare innovators apply digital technologies to make their solutions more customer-centric, cost-efficient, and effective. He studied at the University of Colorado Boulder, earning a Bachelors in Marketing with an International Business Certificate. He also attended executive development courses at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He works at Amazon Web Services as Head of Growth for their Healthcare & Life Sciences Startups business.
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