Today’s guest is Dr. Jeremy Orr, CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Medial EarlySign, a company that hopes to create widespread AI and machine learning integration in diagnostics. Medial EarlySign aims to help their clients deliver better patient care by identifying individuals at risk of high burden disease who might benefit from the earlier detection of deterioration trajectories. They are leading the charge in augmenting healthcare providers and increasing automation in healthcare...

On today’s episode of Healthcare Weekly, Larry Cohen, the CEO of Health 2047 talks about his company’s goal to transform the medical industry from the ground up. Health2047 focuses on four main groups: data liquidity, chronic care, radical productivity, and healthcare value. They tackle some of the biggest healthcare challenges in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA), the parent company of Health2047. Why the name Health2047? Because in 2047, America will lead the world...

Today’s guest is Glen de Vries. He is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Medidata, a platform for professionals and patients involved in clinical trials to simply and comprehensively collect data. Medidata is the most used platform for clinical trials in the world and has powered tens of thousands of trails, with millions of patients and billions of patient records. Medidata aims to create and improve precision medicine by utilizing data collected in clinical trials to improve treatment...

On today’s episode we are joined by Jon Zimmerman, the CEO of Holon Solutions. Holon Solutions has built a patented technology software, CollaborNet®, which provides healthcare practices with patient insights so that they can focus on delivering optimal patient care. Jon has over 35 years in the healthcare industry and was part of pioneering Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) process which can be used by companies to share data securely in an electronic format in the late 1980s. In 2014, he...

This week on the Healthcare Weekly podcast, Codrin Arsene interviewed Bryan Statham. He is the CEO of RxBenefits, a pharmacy adviser to employee benefits consultants and an established pharmacy benefits solution provider for self-insured employers. The company was founded in 1995 and Bryan began working there in 2005. This episode gets stated by discussing the difference between a PBM and a PBO. We hear about 3 things self-insured companies should look for when negotiating benefits...

Today’s guest is Michael O’Neil, Sr. Vice President of Strategy & Development for Healthcare Bluebook. Healthcare Bluebook, started in 2007, is a digital platform that combines objective price and quality data with industry-leading usability helping employers and employees get the best price for their upcoming medical procedure. Healthcare Bluebook provides people and organizations with everything they need to be more effective healthcare consumers. Michael joins us today to discuss...

Darren Schulte, CEO of Apixio, joins Codrin Arsene to talk about the present and future of artificial intelligence in healthcare in this episode of the Healthcare Weekly Podcast. Founded in 2009, Apixio is a data science and advanced analytics company dedicated to unlocking actionable, relevant and timely insights for health providers all over the US. Apixio uses a patented computing platform that analyzes health records and gives a deep insight into patient health. A big problem in the...

Today’s guest is Tracy Warren, CEO and Co-Founder of Astarte Medical. Astarte Medical is a precision medicine company using software and predictive analytics to improve preterm infant outcomes. Astarte utilizes data collected during treatment of preterm infants to help caregivers create treatment protocols based on optimizing the health of the microbiome within the first 1000 days of life. They offer the NICUtrition platform that allows professionals to streamline their process and have easy...

On today’s episode of Healthcare Weekly, we are talking to Rachel Jones, Vice President of Cotiviti, a software company that leverages unparalleled clinical and financial datasets to deliver deep insight into the performance of the healthcare system. Cotiviti’s main focus is on payments, risk and quality. Understanding health plans is increasingly difficult for self insured employers, insurance brokers and even third party administrators. Cotiviti helps all these agents ensure they are...

On today’s episode of the Healthcare Weekly Podcast, we are joined by Ron Chiarello from Alveo Technologies. Listen to Ron and learn about his exciting company which is closing the loop on at-home testing kits allowing patients to get near-instant test results. In the current at-home testing market, the usual process requires customers to take a blood sample and send it back to a lab for testing. Results are often available online within 3-5 business days after the lab receives the...

Today’s guest is Dr. Loubna Bouarfa, CEO of Cambridge-based AI productization company OKRA Technologies. Founded in 2015, OKRA Technologies aims to create easily explainable and actionable data sets for healthcare workers. Utilizing the Okra Explainability Engine, the company empowers users by explaining the outputs behind AI systems. They offer solutions to existing teams in the Life Sciences industry to enable quick and decisive action to be taken by employees. Loubna joins us today to...

Today’s guest is Matt Michela, CEO of Life Image. Life Image is the world’s largest medical evidence and image exchange network, providing access to points of care and curated imaging data. Life Image was founded in 2008 and provides medical organizations and patients with centralized access to data via the use of their Interoperability Suite. The platform allows for seamless integration into existing EMR systems and offers a way to democratize data via a vendor-agnostic tool. Matt joins...

Today’s guest is Dr. Jud Brewer, Director of Research and Innovation, Mindfulness Center at Brown University and senior scientific and medical advisor for behavioral health at Sharecare and the creator of MindSciences. Reminiscing on how MindSciences began at Yale, Dr. Brewer takes us back to 2012 when smartphones started becoming more prevalent. The good doctor tells us about how he aspired to develop digital-based therapeutics and how he spent almost one decade achieving this...

Today’s guest is Dan Brillman, co-founder and CEO of Unite Us. Dan is a Yale graduate who, after starting a career in finance, joined the Air Force Reserves as a pilot. After several combat deployments, Dan realized the transition for veterans back into the civilian life was not as seamless as it should be. This inspired him to create a solution. Unite Us is a platform that acts as a unifying infrastructure between health care entities and community-based organizations. By utilizing...

Today’s guest is Dr. Anand Srivastava. He is the Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of GIOSTAR. GIOSTAR is the Global Institute of Stem Cell Therapy and Research. Under Dr. Anand’s leadership, scientists and clinicians have developed and established stem cell therapies for various types of autoimmune diseases and blood disorders. Dr. Anand joins us today to discuss his experience in the field of stem cell research, the uses for stem cells and how they could be employed to...

Today’s guest is Ashish Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Dina. Dina is an AI-powered care coordination platform aimed to help the elderly population that live at home independently on their own terms. Dina organizes different ways to access care options in the community, such as nutrition and medical equipment needs, allowing for greater individual autonomy. With Dina, Ashish hopes to be able to educate home caregivers and individuals about what is available in their community while reducing the...

Getting Venture Capital in Healthcare: Everything You Need to Know Today’s podcast guest is Richard Lim. Richard is co-founder and Managing Director of GSR Ventures. His company is a global investment firm with $3 billion under management and consists of independently managed funds in China, Singapore, and the US. GSR Ventures invests in early stage technology companies across the globe helping transformative companies change the healthcare ecosystem with their innovations. Richard joins...

Today’s guest is Eric Peck, co-founder and CEO of Swoop Aero. Swoop Aero is an Australian-based medical supply logistics company that utilizes drones to deliver critical medical supplies to doctors and patients in need across the world. In addition to Australia, they also operate in Malawi and Mozambique to deliver high value, in-demand medical supplies cutting down delivery time and costs associated with moving medical supplies from point A to point B. With Swoop Aero, Eric hopes to...

Today’s guest is Ahmer Inam. Ahmer serves as Chief AI Officer at Pactera EDGE and has a background working with industry leaders in his field of AI and predictive analytics. Ahmer has worked previously for the International Institute of Analytics, Cambria Health Solutions and NIKE. As an excellent AI generalist, Ahmer joins us today to discuss various use cases on how artificial intelligence can improve the delivery of care in the healthcare industry. He also includes some thoughts on how AI...

In this episode we welcome Greg Malpass, CEO of Traction on Demand. His company has launched a free, open-source mobile application for healthcare providers that are fighting the COVID-19 outbreak. The app is called Traction Thrive and helps to manage healthcare equipment during the pandemic. Traction Thrive is a new initiative which came about as a reaction to the ongoing epidemic, so Greg takes us through his thought process on why this app was prioritized and built over any other ideas....