HealthXL – The Digital Health Podcast

Do you want to learn from one of the top DTx companies in mental health? Join HealthXL for this exclusive fireside chat with Peter Hames, co-Founder and CEO at Big Health, where we will talk about the early days of DTx in mental health, Big Health’s differentiated commercialization models, industry-leading clinical evidence and the significant opportunity to address the mental health crisis by expanding access to mental health care.

Join HealthXL Advisor Eugene Borukhovich (Chairman & COO of YourCoach.Health) as he sits down with Glen Tullman (Chief Executive Officer at Transcarent) in NYC for an exclusive fireside chat with one of the industry's biggest movers and shakers. Watch the full event here. Do you want to be in the room or get access to events like these? - Find out more here.

In this month’s Digital Health podcast we are delighted to sit down with Jennifer Joe, MSL & Operations Barkey, Principal at Vanguard.Health. During the podcast, we dive into a number of areas including: How has she built a digital presence and influencer role within the healthcare community? How she hopes this role can bring together the disconnected physician community and combat fatigue and isolation. The importance of authenticity in everything you do. Her thoughts on the roles influencers and KOL’s can play in the expansion of digital health. How is she engaging physicians from around the world in the adoption of digital health?

This month’s Digital Health podcast sees us sit down with Brian Dolan, Founder and lead writer of Exits & Outcomes (E&O), following the highly successful launch of our latest industry report ‘Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDT) The Future of Digital Therapeutics’ co-created by HealthXL and E&O.

“A pool of money does not amount to success” Steve Seuntjens, Partner at Personal Health Solutions, tells us during our discussion in this month’s videocast. Steve has the know-how to back this statement up. From the early days of Health Tech to modern Digital Health, Steve is our podcast guest this month.

Join us for our latest podcast as we sit down with Ken Cahill, CEO at SilverCloud Health and Jim Joyce, CEO at HealthBeacon. During the podcast, we dive into a number of areas with both men including: Ken and Jim’s views on selling into the Irish, UK and US markets. What are the key differences and similarities they have experienced? Is Ireland one of the hardest markets in the world to enter and how do you crack it? What did an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence) role mean to Ken? And how have both men’s companies adapted and changed in a Covid-19 world and how do they see the future of the industry?

What can we learn from the Amish with regards to technology? A lot more than you may think according to today’s guest Glen Tullman (Founder/Managing Partner at 7wireVentures & former Executive Chairman Livongo). For nearly 25 years Glen has been behind some of the major businesses driving technological adoption and advances within the healthcare culture of the United States. Join us for our latest podcast as we learn more about Glen’s involvement in digital health advances throughout the United States, from combating 6,000 preventable medication error deaths per year, to founding Livongo following a personal upset. Learn about Glen’s 7wireVentures, how he feels Covid will impact digital health adoption and much more.

From Art School to EVP of Government Programs and Diversified Business at GuideWell and Florida Blue, Join us for our latest podcast as we catch up with Sarah Iselin.

Born and raised in New York, Francesca Wuttke needed to become a scientist, especially because she was once told that girls couldn’t be scientists. In spite of her catholic teacher, Francesca got her PhD in Pharmacology and embarked on a stellar international career. She successfully navigated the worlds of academia, private equity and consultancy before finding her feet in the pharmaceutical world. In 2015, after 4 years with Novartis in Basel, Francesca and her family relocated to Barcelona, where initially she headed up Almirall’s corporate strategy efforts before taking up a position at Merck’s Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund to lead their European investments. During her time at Merck, Francesca drank the digital cool-aid - an experience which defines her most recent career move. Today, Francesca is the Chief Digital Officer at Almirall, a Spanish pharmaceutical in the early phases of its digital transformation. Under her leadership, the company is poised to benefit from and fully embrace the many opportunities digital health offers. The company’s accelerator program, the Digital Garden, entering its second year (with a focus on medical dermatology and pharma process optimization), is instrumental in the company’s digital journey. We learn more about life in Barcelona, the city’s thriving start-up scene and how the Barcelona Health Hub is attracting big investment and sponsorship from some of the largest corporations in the world.

In our first ever videocast, we talk to Abir Sen, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Gravie. Entrepreneurship, consumer empowerment in healthcare decision making, and questioning the status quo are at the heart of this discussion.  Watch the video here.

In our latest podcast, we talk to Bill Taranto, President and General Partner of the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund. The son of a career Air Force pilot, Bill grew up in Florida. In the early 80s, Bill swapped sailing and boat racing for New York and Wall Street. After a couple of years in healthcare investment, Bill was offered to join Johnson & Johnson and started putting capital to work in digital health long before anybody else (though at the time it was vaguely known as ‘IT adjacency’). The move to Merck came years later in 2010, when Bill got the opportunity to open his own venture capital shop. Bill talks to us about the early days of health tech investment, the difficulty of putting data to proper use, the holy grail of physician adoption and his unique approach to investing in this space. We also learn about Bill’s passion for music and entertainment, and that even though he can’t carry a tune (so he says), in another life, he would have loved to be a musician.

In this podcast we talk to Kuldeep Singh Rajput, founder and CEO of Biofourmis. HealthXL and Kuldeep go way back! In fact, we first learned about a great entrepreneur based out of Singapore 5 years ago, well before anybody knew what a stellar takeoff Kuldeep would embark on.

In our first podcast of 2020, we talk to the Venture Valkyrie herself, Lisa Suennen.

In this podcast, we chat to Abhishek Shah, CEO of Wellthy Therapeutics, who talks to us about being the black sheep of the family and finding his calling as a healthcare entrepreneur.

John Brownstein is the Chief Innovation Officer of Boston Children's Hospital. He’s a busy man, to say the least. Martin and I managed to get some time with him in his ‘new’ hometown of Boston. Exciting things first - if not for this coveted gig at Boston Children’s, John would be off making movies, especially given his experience (cameos in Contagion and Grey’s Anatomy).

We meet with Chris Coburn, Chief Innovation Officer for Partners Healthcare and an old friend of HealthXL talks to us about how growing up in a large healthcare family (his father was a thoracic and general surgeon) not only taught him the Darwinian aspects of food, but more importantly prepared him to be a go-getter from an early age.

We met with Eugene Borukhovich in Boston earlier this year, always disrupting healthcare from the inside out wherever he goes and in this episode you will learn why, how and what is driving him.

In this podcast, Megan talks about her childhood and growing up years in Milwaukee that led her to becoming a pharmacist, and she just knew that this wasn't her gig from the get go.

In this episode, Robert talks about the firm's consumer health thesis and explores what companies like Livongo are doing to scale - how startups should work with corporates (and vice versa) and how to stop pilotious.

On the first episode of the HealthXL podcast, Chandana Fitzgerald, Chief Medical Officer and Martin Kelly CEO at HealthXL chat with Bill Zeruld - Director, Alliance Management from Otsuka.  Bill speaks of his journey from a child growing up in Philly to his pharma days with Otsuka. He addresses, through the examples of Proteus Digital Health and Click Therapeutics, how he views partnerships in Digital Health and what the dos and don'ts are.