AWS Health Innovation Podcast
Amazon Web Services showcases startups that are advancing healthcare & life science by leveraging cloud computing technology.
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#106, Precision Medicine for Neurodegenerative Diseases, with Brian Pepin from Rune Labs
Rune Labs leverages real-world data and digital biomarkers to revolutionize the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, enabling personalized and data-driven care.
October 29, 2024
#105, Reducing Healthcare’s $1 Trillion Admin Burden with AI, Abdel Mahmoud, Anterior
Anterior is transforming healthcare with AI that understands clinical jargon, delivering value by automating administrative tasks like prior authorization that cost over $1 trillion annually.
October 23, 2024
#104, Decoding the Immune System with AI, Adam Laing from IMU Biosciences
Leveraging an AI-powered immune profiling platform, IMU Biosciences creates unprecedented insights into health and disease by measuring and analyzing the immune system at an unparalleled scale and resolution.
October 15, 2024
#103, Revolutionizing Surgery with Physical AI, Gabriel Jones from Proprio
Proprio's proprietary platform provides surgeons with insightful, responsive information in the operating room, aiming to significantly improve patient outcomes and surgeon wellbeing by enhancing surgical performance and precision.
October 8, 2024
#102, Decoding Human Biology with Single-Cell Insights, with Lindsay Edwards from Relation
Relation leverages single-cell multi-omics, functional assays, and machine learning to better characterize diseases and develop transformational medicines.
September 24, 2024
#101, Improving Lab Workflows with Robotics and AI, Mostafa ElSayed of Automata
Automata's LINQ platform integrates lab instruments, robotics, and cloud software to streamline scientific workflows and accelerate drug discovery research.
September 17, 2024
#100, Enabling Personalized Medicine with Virtual Biopsies, Rajarshi Banerjee from Perspectum
Perspectum enables non-invasive "virtual biopsies" that provide safer, more accessible disease monitoring for conditions like liver disease, diabetes, and cancer.
August 27, 2024
#99, Soothing Cries & Saving Lives with Innovative Baby Tech, Dr. Harvey Karp from Happiest Baby
Happiest Baby's SNOO Smart Sleeper is an FDA-approved cradle that tracks baby's sleep, sends alerts, and automatically soothes with womb-like motions.
August 20, 2024
#98, Advancing Adaptive Clinical Trials with Causal ML, with Raviv Pryluk from PhaseV
PhaseV is pioneering the use of reinforcement learning, causal ML, and adaptive trial design to optimize resource utilization and time efficiency in drug development.
August 13, 2024
#97, Preventing Adverse Drug Events at Scale, with Avishai Ben-Tovim from MDI Health
MDI Health has developed an innovative AI solution used by payers and value-based providers to optimize medication management, identify high-risk patients, and reduce overall healthcare expenditure.
August 6, 2024
#96, Unlocking Precision Health with Oculomics, with Carlos Ciller from Ikerian
Ikerian is pioneering the use of non-invasive retinal imaging and AI to identify biomarkers that can predict disease progression and treatment response.
July 30, 2024
#95, Boosting Pathologist Productivity with AI, with Joseph (Yossi) Mossel from Ibex AI
Ibex AI's Galen™ platform demonstrated outstanding outcomes in clinical studies and helps pathologists and providers reduce diagnostic errors, implement real-time quality control, reduce diagnosis time and boost productivity.
July 24, 2024
#94, Decoding Infant Cries to Enable Timely Interventions with Roberto Iannone from Zoundream
Zoundream's solution uses AI to analyze infant cries and sounds in real-time, pinpointing reasons such as hunger or tiredness with remarkable accuracy, and detecting early signs of conditions like autism.
July 17, 2024
#93, Harnessing Data to Scale Innovations, Part Five of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Featuring Mendel, Akrivia Health, Epistemix, Ovation, and Evidation Health, this episode explores how innovative companies are leveraging real-world data and AI to drive precision medicine, uncover new treatments, and improve population health outcomes.
July 8, 2024
#92, Uplifting the Clinician & Patient Experience, Part Four of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Explore how CareJourney, Aidoc, Forward, CLEW, and Thyme Care leverage cutting-edge technologies to optimize clinician and patient experiences, driving better outcomes and transforming healthcare delivery.
June 26, 2024
#91, Transforming Clinical Trials, Part Three of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Featuring Deep6 AI, Lokavant, and Science 37, this episode explores how these companies are leveraging AI, data analytics, and decentralized models to revolutionize clinical trial recruitment, operations, and patient accessibility.
June 19, 2024
#90, Innovations in Biomarker & Diagnostic Development, Part Two of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Explore how Us2.AI, Truvian Health, and Sparta Science leverage AI, cloud, and novel biological insights to revolutionize diagnostics and biomarker discovery, enabling accessible and precise care pathways.
June 12, 2024
#89, Accelerating Drug R&D, Part One of the Health Innovation Compilation Series
Dive into the groundbreaking approaches of companies like VivoDyne, Seer, Ordaos, Insilico Medicine, and Alchemab, who are pushing boundaries in drug R&D through microfluidic bioengineering, proteome mapping, AI-driven drug design, and resilient antibody discovery.
June 5, 2024
#88, Reconciling Conflicting Data for Coherent Patient Journeys, with Karim Galil from Mendel
Mendel enables life sciences to index patient journeys at scale and learn from them at the speed of real-time dialogues. The journey started in 2017 from a two-person office in Silicon Valley with commitment to building novel technology and not to be another “Boy Who Cried Wolf” AI company. To do that, we have invested 4 years and millions of dollars in R&D before launching our first model in 2020. Today, Mendel is the most-funded clinical NLP startup with a team of 100+ members, blue chip investors, and some of the world’s leading life sciences companies as customers.
May 21, 2024
#87, Modeling Integrated Human Physiology with Microfluidics with Andrei Georgescu from Vivodyne
Vivodyne, a biotech firm employing bottom-up self-assembly principles to grow complex tissues that better mimic human physiology, enabling the study of systemic effects like immune responses and linking multiple tissue systems.
May 14, 2024
#86, Unleashing AI’s Power to Design Drugs with Medicinal Chemistry, Yann Gaston-Mathé from Iktos
Iktos is an innovative company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence solutions applied to chemical research and new drug design, enabling major productivity gains in upstream pharmaceutical R&D.
May 7, 2024
#85, Unlocking the Secrets of Cells with AI, Jonathan Baptista from DeepLife
DeepLife uses machine learning to curate and annotate single-cell RNA-seq datasets, enabling downstream bioinformatics analysis and target identification.
April 30, 2024
#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
#76, Supercharging BioTech’s Digital Transformation with Guru Singh of Scispot
Scispot offers a no-code workflow automation platform for BioTechs to digitize and automate their workflows. The company's platform automates mundane administrative tasks, centralizes company-wide data, templatizes routine research and collaborative documentation, enabling companies to make processes more efficient and reproducible.
February 14, 2024
#75, Top 10 Episodes of All Time, Part 2
Discover the future of healthcare with DeepScribe's AI scribe, Cohere Health's pre-auth solutions, Zus Health's interoperability platform, Bayesian Health's AI clinical data platform, and Iterative Scope's AI GI tools on Part 2 of our Top 10 Episodes of all time countdown.
January 23, 2024
#74, Top 10 Episodes of All Time, Part 1
Discover the future of healthcare with Artera’s communication solutions, Insitro’s AI in drug discovery, Canvas Medical’s EMR technology, Forward Health’s primary care advancements, and Us2.AI’s advanced echocardiography tools in Part 1 of our Top 10 Episodes of all time countdown.
January 16, 2024
Happy Holidays!
A special end of year episode highlighting our growth in 2023. See you next year!
December 12, 2023
#73, Reducing Maternal Mortality in Africa with Allison Howard-Berry from Touch Foundation
Learn how Touch Foundation deploys sustainable and scalable transportation and healthcare programs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
December 5, 2023
#72, Finding Needles Instead of Building Bigger Haystacks, Transforming Clinical Trials with Wout Brusselaers from Deep 6 AI
In this episode, Wout Brusselaers, CEO & Founder of Deep 6 AI, shares how their AI technology is revolutionizing patient recruitment for clinical trials, shaping the future of research.
November 28, 2023
#71, Simulating the Future of Public Health, with John Cordier of Epistemix
Explore Epistemix's innovative approach to population health management with CEO John Cordier on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast, learning all about how their simulations are changing the healthcare landscape.
November 20, 2023
#70, 8 Drops to Diagnosis, the Future of Blood Tests with Jay Srinivasan of Truvian
Imagine the convenience of getting a full suite of blood tests completed in just 30 minutes during a routine visit to your GP. Truvian Health's CEO Jay Srinivasan presents their breakthrough blood testing technology for faster, lab-accurate blood diagnostics in the clinic.
November 14, 2023
#69, Creating Care Capacity with AI-Powered Predictive Analytics, Paul Roscoe from CLEW
CLEW's CEO, Paul Roscoe, introduces their clinical command center which harnesses AI to enable earlier interventions, improving patient & business outcomes for hospitals.
November 7, 2023
#68, Transforming Cancer Care with Thyme Care’s Robin Shah
Robin Shah, Co-Founder & CEO of Thyme Care, a leader in oncology care navigation, discusses how to transform cancer care with Alex Merwin, Head of Growth for Healthcare & Life Science Startups at AWS.
October 31, 2023
#67, The AI Behind 1,000 Medical Centers, Elad Walach from Aidoc
Learn about an AI platform which is processing data from more than 1 million patients across over 1,000 medical centers per month from Elad Walach, CEO of Aidoc, who joins Guy Spigelman of AWS for a candid and insightful conversation about AI's potential to transform how hospitals operate.
October 24, 2023
#66, Using AI to decipher the immune system, Young Kwon of Alchemab
Young Kwon, CEO of Alchemab Therapeutics, joins Dr. Amrita Sarkar from AWS to discuss Alchemab's innovative approach to leveraging AI and insights from the immune system to develop antibody therapeutics for hard-to-treat diseases.
October 17, 2023
#65, Health Innovation Crossover, Tjaša Zajc of Faces of Digital Health
Tjaša Zajc & Alex Merwin present the AWS Health Innovation and Faces of Digital Health podcasts, their professional journeys and the challenges health systems & entrepreneurs face as they embrace digital transformation.
October 10, 2023
#64, Decoding & Navigating the Proteome with Serafim Batzoglou, Chief Data Officer of Seer
Seer is pioneering new ways to decode the secrets of the proteome, leveraging engineered nanoparticles to provide unbiased, deep, and large-scale access to this incredibly detailed landscape. Learn more on the latest episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast.
October 3, 2023
#63, World-Class Customer Service in Healthcare: Guillaume de Zwirek of Artera
Discover how Artera is making healthcare the best industry for customer service. Alex Merwin from AWS welcomes Guillaume de Zwirek, Co-Founder & CEO of Artera, to the show.
September 26, 2023
#62, Healthcare’s AI Revolution, Insights from 10 Top Startups
Did you know AI can reduce echocardiography wait times from 12 months to just 6 weeks? Learn more on the latest episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast. We've compiled insights from 10 leading startups for a 360-degree tour of Health AI innovation. Covering a broad range of use cases, from genomics to dentistry and musculoskeletal to cardiology, this is a must listen for anyone interested in how AI can improve healthcare.
September 19, 2023
#61, AI, Cardiology & Next-Gen Echocardiograms with James Hare & Dr. Carolyn Lam of Us2.ai
Dr. Terence Tan from AWS sits down with Dr. Carolyn Lam and James Hare of Us2.ai who are democratizing echocardiograms through AI. Learn about their regulatory & technical strategy, global impact, and advice for founders.
August 29, 2023
#60, Revolutionizing Dentistry with AI, Ophir Tanz from Pearl
How is AI shaping the future of dental care? Ophir Tanz of Pearl shares his vision and journey on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast.
August 23, 2023
#59, Bridging health data silos in Europe with Dali Kilani, CTO of LIfen
Discover how Lifen is unlocking the potential of health data in Europe. Join Guy Spigelman from AWS and Dali Kilani from Lifen as they discuss data interoperability, clinician empowerment, and the future of health innovation.
August 15, 2023
#58, Using AI to Transform Medical Documentation, DeepScribe’s Akilesh Bapu
Akilesh Bapu, Co-Founder & CEO of DeepScribe, joins Alex Merwin on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast to discuss how AI is reshaping medical documentation, the importance of having humans in the loop to improve model accuracy, and their fundraising journey.
August 8, 2023
#57, Pioneering Next-Generation Biologics Testing with Jean Francois Brepson, CEO of Pathoquest
Learn about Pathoquest's next-generation sequencing based QC solution for biologic manufacturing on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast with host Dr. Amrita Sarkar and guest Jean Francois Brepson, CEO of Pathoquest.
August 1, 2023
Revisiting #20, redefining gastrointestinal diagnostics with AI: A Conversation with Jonathan Ng, CEO of Iterative Scopes
Explore how Iterative Scopes, led by CEO Jonathan Ng, is pioneering the application of artificial intelligence-based precision medicine to gastroenterology with the aim of establishing a new standard of care for the detection and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. Part of our "Revisiting" series where we republish top episodes from our back catalogue.
July 18, 2023
#56, Alex Zhavoronkov and the GenAI Revolution in Drug Discovery at Insilico Medicine
Discover how Insilico Medicine is accelerating drug discovery using Generative AI in the latest episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast. CEO Alex Zhavoronkov joins AWS' Dr. Yin He to discuss their journey and how they are accelerating drug development.
July 11, 2023
#55, Harnessing AI for Smarter Healthcare Analytics: Insights from Sachin Patel, CEO of Apixio
Join AWS Startups' Eric Zimmerman and Apixio CEO, Sachin Patel, as they explore the transformative role of AI in healthcare analytics on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast. Sachin shares how Apixio is making patient care more personalized and cost-effective with actionable data.
July 4, 2023
#54, AKASA’s Vision for Transforming the Revenue Cycle in Healthcare with Ben Beadle-Ryby
AKASA's Ben Beadle-Ryby shares AI's transformative impact on healthcare revenue cycle management. Learn how AKASA improves the patient experience by creating solutions that seamlessly address the revenue cycle needs of payors & providers.
June 27, 2023
#53, Unifying Data to Accelerate Scientific Discovery: Mike Tarselli, Chief Scientific & Knowledge Officer at TetraScience
Mike Tarselli, Chief Scientific & Knowledge Officer at TetraScience discusses accelerating drug development through a unified data platform and fostering a learning culture on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast.
June 20, 2023
Revisiting #8 for more Insights on Clinical Trial Innovation: Rohit Nambisan, CEO of Lokavant
In this episode of AWS Health Innovation Podcast, revisit #8, a Season One classic with Rohit Nambisan, CEO of Lokavant. Rohit discusses Lokavant's drive to harness overlooked clinical trial data and the crucial role of diverse teams in startup success.
June 13, 2023
#52, Accelerating Clinical Trials & Making Research More Accessible: Darcy Forman, Chief Delivery Officer of Science 37
Learn how Science 37 is revolutionizing clinical trials in this episode with their Chief Delivery Officer, Darcy Forman. Hear about the pioneering technologies they're using to deliver trials directly to patients' homes.
June 6, 2023
#51, Challenging Stereotypes & Advancing Mental Health: Swatee Surve, Founder & CEO of Litesprite
Discover how Litesprite challenges gaming stereotypes, clinically validates their software, and aims to make mental health support accessible to all. Join Founder & CEO Swatee Surve in a special episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast with host Danielle Morris, AWS Global Social Impact, Global Public Health- Health Equity Lead.
May 30, 2023
#50, Exploring the Impact of Movement on Disease: Insights from Dr. Phil Wagner of Sparta Science
Discover the world of movement health with Dr. Phil Wagner, Founder & CEO of Sparta Science. Learn how next-gen sensors can optimize performance, speed up recovery, and reduce workplace injuries.
May 25, 2023
#49, Behind-the-scenes health plan innovation from Cédric Kovacs-Johnson, CEO & Founder of Flume Health
Cédric Kovacs-Johnson, CEO & Founder of Flume Health, discusses how Flume enables payers to launch innovative health plans, integrating a variety of point solutions seamlessly. They aim to provide personalized benefits and address the gaps in the incumbent payer system, while emphasizing the importance of customer feedback and a clear product vision.
May 25, 2023
#48, Adrian Aoun from Forward Health on how to get healthcare to billions for free
Adrian Aoun, CEO of Forward Health, shares his vision of how to build a healthcare system capable of scaling up to a billion covered lives. Discover how Forward Health challenges conventions, prioritizes motivation over skills, and leverages a diverse network of advisors and investors to accelerate healthcare innovation. Adrian shares details on the remarkable work Forward Health is already doing through its futuristic primary care clinics across the US. Forward Health's body scanners might remind you of Star Trek, which turns out not to be by accident, and Adrian envisions a future where healthcare is democratized and accessible to all. We also explore how to build an effective startup advisory board and the power of collecting intelligence and ideas from a wide range of experts. Adrian also explains how Forward Health fosters a culture of constant learning, diligently evaluating ideas, and uncovering ground breaking solutions to the complex challenges of healthcare.
May 25, 2023
#47, Doktor Gurson from RadAI on finding the right co-founder, improving clinician time to value and opportunities to innovate in radiology
In this episode, we explore the success story of RadAI, a digital health company that provides AI-powered radiology solutions. We discuss how the company’s co-founders created a strong and complementary partnership, prioritized platform customization and time to value to drive adoption, and continue to navigate emerging trends in the radiology space to improve the lives of patients and clinicians.
May 3, 2023
#46, Unlocking the Potential of Human Genomic Data: A Conversation with Curt Medeiros & Barry Wark from Ovation
In this episode, Curt Medeiros (CEO) and Barry Wark (Co-Founder & CSO) from Ovation join Eric Zimmerman (Principal Healthcare & Life Sciences BD, Venture Capital & Startups at AWS) to discuss the importance of genomic data in advancing precision medicine. They share insights on how to build a successful genomic data business, innovation in precision medicine beyond oncology, and the importance of mapping genomic data to longitudinal phenotypic data.
April 26, 2023
#45, Heather Mirjahangir Fernandez, Solv Health
On this episode, we're joined by Heather Mirjahangir Fernandez, CEO and Co-Founder of Solv, a startup that's transforming the healthcare industry by making access to high-quality, convenient care simple, friendly and transparent for consumers. Heather shares her insights on the importance of convenience in healthcare, the challenges Solv faces, and their mission to empower consumers to simplify their day-to-day healthcare needs.
April 19, 2023
#37, New Year’s Special – HLTH Conference (re-release)
Episode Re-Release. 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/.
March 27, 2023
#39, Seth Sternberg, Honor (re-release)
On this re-release, Seth Sternberg discusses 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.
March 20, 2023
#33, Michelle Wagner, Mindstrong (re-release)
On this re-release, Michelle Wagner, CEO of Mindstrong, discusses 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.
March 13, 2023
#18 Dr. George Church & Barghavi Govindarajan, Digid8 (re-release)
This is re-release of Dr. George Church and Barghavi Govindarajan discussing how technology, innovation, and education can come together in a single product, to what extent users need to understand a complex technology to use it effectively, and how basic science researchers can leverage startups to speed up the time to making a massive impact on the world.
March 6, 2023
#34, Ken Mayer , Safe Health
Ken Mayer from Safe Health discusses how cloud computing helps startups develop faster and in a more agile way, the importance of aligning your business model to solutions that are reimbursable, and how to improve provider and patient workflows as they interact with digital health solutions.
February 28, 2023
#27, Dr. Jean Drouin, Clarify Health Solutions
Dr. Jean Drouin, CEO and co-founder of Clarify Health Solutions, discusses how a fee-for-service model combined with actionable data can lead the healthcare system toward value-based care, why building a system to understand every patient journey is important, and what baseball can teach us about optimizing value-based arrangements.
February 28, 2023
Season Two Wrap Up
We want to hear your feedback about the Podcast! Let us know what you think here: https://airtable.com/shrF0QmQUU8xGvlIO --------- This week we're doing something different, as we wrap Season 2 and get ready to launch Season 3 later in the spring. Given we'll be taking several weeks off to cook up our next season of content, this is a great opportunity to showcase a few episodes from our catalog by republishing them on the feed over the coming weeks. Joe and Alex talk about why they selected these episodes, share some other highlights from season 2 and a give listeners a sneak peek for what we have planned for Season 3. --------- We want to hear your feedback about the Podcast! Let us know what you think here: https://airtable.com/shrF0QmQUU8xGvlIO --------- 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/)
February 28, 2023
#44, Jonathan Bush, Zus Health
Jonathan Bush, CEO and co-founder of Zus Health, shares his thoughts on why he sees duplication as core to what frustrates so many with the US health system, how his experience leading athenahealth has shaped his team’s approach at Zus, and what his advice is for first time founders in health tech.
February 20, 2023
#43, Alessio Signorini, Evidation Health
Alessio Signorini, CTO and co-founder of Evidation Health, shares how the founders’ experience in data-driven advertising led them to Evidation Health, how the rise of wearable technology has dramatically increased available healthcare data, and why transparency, privacy, and trust are essential when working with healthcare data.
February 13, 2023
#42, Vijay Kedar, Tomorrow Health
Vijay Kedar, CEO and co-founder of Tomorrow Health, discusses 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.
February 6, 2023
#41, JPM Special, Health Tech Bio – Trends from Across the Pond
Recorded at AWS & Wellington Partners “Health.Tech.Bio - Trends from Across the Pond” symposium at JPM, we welcome industry experts from the Israel Innovation Authority, Exscientia, Sofinnova Partners and Wellington Partners to share their insights on Europe’s unique contributions to healthcare & life sciences innovation. 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/.
January 30, 2023
#40, Alon Joffe, Eleos
Alon Joffe, CEO and co-founder of Eleos, 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.
January 23, 2023
#39, Seth Sternberg, Honor
Seth Sternberg discusses 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.
January 16, 2023
#38, Dr. Mary Rozenman & Dr. Chris Probert, insitro
Dr. Mary Rozenman, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer at insitro, and Dr. Chris Probert, senior machine learning scientist at insitro 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.
January 9, 2023
#37, Voices of Change: A Compilation of Perspectives from HLTH 2022
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/.
January 3, 2023
#36, Dr. David Parke, Verana Health
Dr. David Parke, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Verana Health, 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.
December 19, 2022
#35, Emilio Galán, Robin
Emilio Galán, CEO and founder of Robin, shares how Robin is addressing the administrative burden on providers and how reimbursement models play a role, why he 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.
December 12, 2022
#33, Michelle Wagner, Mindstrong
Michelle Wagner, CEO of Mindstrong, discusses 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.
November 28, 2022
#32, Andrew Eye, ClosedLoop & Amanda Goltz, AWS Accelerator focused on health equity
Andrew Eye, CEO and co-founder of ClosedLoop, and Amanda Goltz, lead for the AWS Accelerator focused on health equity, join the podcast for the 3rd and final episode of our mini-season featuring startups addressing health equity. Hear 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.
November 21, 2022
#31, Baha Zeidan, Azalea Health
Baha Zeidan from Azalea Health discusses the unique operational challenges rural providers face delivering care & managing their practices, health inequities facing 1 in 5 Americans who live in rural environments, and how cloud technology enables Azalea to rapidly iterate and improve its products in a secure & compliant fashion.
November 18, 2022
#30, Kevin Dedner, Hurdle Health
Kevin Dedner, CEO and co-founder of Hurdle Health, joins the podcast as part of our mini-season featuring startups addressing health equity. Kevin shares his insights on why he is optimistic about the future of health equity, how COVID-19 impacted how we think about mental health, and why Hurdle Health focuses on cultural humility, cultural responsiveness, and cultural intentionality, instead of cultural competency.
November 14, 2022
#29, Warren Ratliff, AdaptX
Warren Ratliff, CEO and co-founder of AdaptX, discusses why he doesn’t want to create super users among his provider customers, how he thinks about building momentum with customers during long sales cycles, and when focusing on positive deviants can be a powerful adoption driver.
November 7, 2022
#28, Caitlin Donovan, Uber Health & Jacob Laufer, ShiftMed
Caitlin Donovan, Global Head of Uber Health, and Jacob Laufer, COO of Shiftmed, discuss the implications of more care moving outside the hospital, the role of transportation in driving retention among providers, and the way complementary, tech-enabled solutions can combine forces to solve healthcare’s most pressing challenges.
October 31, 2022
#26, Dr. Sam Asgarian, Scipher Medicine
Dr. Sam Asgarian, CMO of Scipher Medicine, shares his insights on how Scipher grew out of the Human Genome Project, when it makes sense for a company to hire a chief medical officer (and what he or she should do once they join!), and why innovation in healthcare is different from other industries and verticals.
October 17, 2022
#25, Kyle Kiser, Arrive Health
Kyle Kiser, CEO of Arrive Health, discusses why fostering trust in the provider-patient relationship is essential, how he and his team think about connecting the right decision with the right information for providers, and why founders should obsess over the healthcare value chain.
October 10, 2022
#24, George Netscher, SafelyYou
George Netscher from SafelyYou discusses the benefits of using technology to detect and see critical care moments for those living with dementia, clinical teams driving continuous improvement with tight feedback loops, and how founders can de-risk their business by focusing on key hires throughout their growth journeys.
October 3, 2022
#23, Adam Odessky, Sensely
Adam Odessky, CEO and co-founder of Sensely, discusses why engagement matters for individual patients and systems as a whole, how text to speech technology has advanced in recent years, opening up additional opportunities for virtual patient engagement, and what it meant to him and his team for Sensely to be patients’ primary point of contact following a diagnosis with COVID-19.
September 26, 2022
#22, Marina & Eugene Borukhovich, YourCoach Health
Marina & Eugene Borukhovich from YourCoach Health discuss their recent partnership with Twill (formerly Happify Health), the strengths of founding a business with your life partner, and how health coaches bridge the gap between digital health solutions and patients who want to live healthier, happier lives.
September 19, 2022
#21, Dr. Ruben Amarasingham, Pieces
Dr. Ruben Amarasingham discusses the evolution of AI in care delivery, the importance of thinking holistically about each patient, and what he and his team took away from being part of AWS’ inaugural healthcare accelerator.
September 12, 2022
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September 2, 2022
#20, Dr. Jonathan Ng, Iterative Scopes
Dr. Jonathan Ng discusses why healthcare entrepreneurship is so often a winding path, how skepticism can be an asset for a founder, and why raising large amounts of money is often a double-edged sword for startup teams.
May 16, 2022
#19 Andrew Hines, Canvas Medical
Andrew Hines, CEO and founder of Canvas Medical, shares his thoughts on how the medical record should better reflect a person’s clinical journey, why the digital health market is still in its earliest days, and why sometimes focusing purely on technological solutions is not the best approach for health tech startups.
May 9, 2022
#18 Dr. George Church & Barghavi Govindarajan, Digid8
Dr. George Church and Barghavi Govindarajan discuss how technology, innovation, and education can come together in a single product, to what extent users need to understand a complex technology to use it effectively, and how basic science researchers can leverage startups to speed up the time to making a massive impact on the world.
May 2, 2022
#17 Duncan Reece, Cohere Health
Duncan Reece, COO and co-founder of Cohere Health, discusses why prior authorization is an ideal area for innovation, why thinking in terms of patient journeys is such a powerful framing, and how startups should look to the past for inspiration but still leverage modern technology.
April 25, 2022
#16 Craig Limoli, Wellsheet
Craig Limoli, CEO and co-founder of Wellsheet, discusses how Wellsheet identified the most relevant end user pain points when developing their product, why they focused on large health systems as their target customer segment, and what health tech entrepreneurs should know about the importance of staging when tackling complex healthcare markets.
April 18, 2022
#15 Mike Meng, Stellar Health
Mike Meng, CEO and co-founder of Stellar Health, discusses why supporting and rewarding front line providers and staff is so important to succeeding in value-based care, how technology facilitates behavior change in healthcare, and what he saw as an investor that has informed his approach to running a high growth startup.
April 11, 2022
#14 Adam Tebbe, Goldfinch Bio & Bobby Mukherjee, Loka
Adam Tebbe, VP of Computational Data Science and Technology at Goldfinch Bio, and Bobby Mukherjee, CEO and founder of Loka, share their thoughts on when it makes sense to use and develop open source tools, what the impact of cutting edge data analysis is on developing new treatments, and how working with a partner can accelerate a project.
April 4, 2022
#13 Dr. Tamir Wolf, Theator
Dr. Tamir Wolf, CEO and co-founder of Theator, shares his thoughts on how unnecessary variation in care can have major consequences, why capturing intraoperative data is so valuable, and what becoming a patient himself taught him about the value proposition of his own company.
March 28, 2022
#12 Dr. Venky Soundararajan, nference
Dr. Venky Soundararajan, Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of nference, shares his insights into why asking tough questions and trying to solve big problems is important in startups and biomedical research, how to identify which focus areas will have the greatest impact in healthcare, and when to work with partners to accelerate progress.
March 21, 2022
#11 Dr. Michael Lesh, Syntegra
Dr. Michael Lesh, CEO and founder of Syntegra, provides his insights into navigating a career in academic medicine as a repeat founder, identifying when an idea or project grows into a potential business, and understanding the differences between developing and commercializing medical devices and software startups.
March 14, 2022
#10 Dr. Jim Min, Cleerly
Dr. Jim Min, CEO and founder of Cleerly, shares his insights on why cardiac imaging has become the standard of care, why specialty care is ripe for value-based care models, and how to keep your team focused on long term goals.
March 7, 2022
#9 Ardy Arianpour, Seqster
Ardy Arianpour, CEO and founder of Seqster, shares his thoughts on why DNA is the ultimate tool for healthcare interoperability, what opportunities exist at the intersection of digital health and life science, and why a strong mission trumps a traditional business plan.
February 28, 2022
#8 Rohit Nambisan, Lokavant
Rohit Nambisan, President at Lokavant, shares his insights into how technology can further enable drug development, why identifying internal challenges can be a potent innovation driver, and how clinical trial data is currently underutilized.
February 21, 2022
#7 Bronwyn Spira, Force Therapeutics
Bronwyn Spira, CEO and founder of Force Therapeutics, shares her experience building high impact teams in healthcare, being early to digital pathways for care delivery, and serving multiple stakeholders in the healthcare universe effectively.
February 14, 2022
#6 Amihai Neiderman, Nym
Amihai Neiderman, CEO and founder of Nym, shares his insights on the advantages of coming into healthcare as an outsider and how to build trust with customers as a way to cut through healthcare’s interminable sales cycles.
February 10, 2022
#5 Dr. Ryan Grant, Vori Health
Dr. Ryan Grant, CEO and founder of Vori Health, shares his experience as a repeat founder and thoughts on what limits the healthcare system when it comes to developing new and innovative models.
February 10, 2022
#4 Edwin Miller, Sitka
Edwin Miller, Chief Product Officer at Sitka, shares his insights on the role of technology in value-based care models and what we should be expecting from electronic health records.
February 10, 2022
#3 Sumeet Bhatia, Aiva Health
Sumeet Bhatia, CEO and founder of Aiva Health, shares his thoughts on the role voice technology can play in reshaping the healthcare experience for patients, providers, and caregivers - whether that’s in the hospital, a senior living facility, or home.
February 10, 2022
#2 Aditya Bansod, Luma Health
Aditya Bansod, CTO and co-founder of Luma Health, shares his perspective on how consumerism is rising in healthcare, how Luma scaled to meet the challenges of vaccinations for COVID-19, and why health tech startups should focus on driving top line revenue growth for their customers.
February 10, 2022
#1 Dr. Suchi Saria, Bayesian Health
Dr. Suchi Saria, CEO and founder of Bayesian Health, shares her thoughts on the role of machine learning to derive insights from reams of healthcare data and how leading in academia differs from running a high growth startup.
February 10, 2022
About 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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