Michael Morgan is Healthcare Weekly’s podcast guest of the day. He is the CEO of Updox, a health tech collaboration platform that offers appointment reminders, secure texting and messaging, e-faxing, live video interoffice chatting, and a recently announced telehealth platform that can be used by doctors and physicians all over the country. Updox allows health professionals to communicate more efficiently with both practicing colleagues and patients. The company offers integrated solutions...

America’s original response to the coronavirus was a total disaster. In January and February, no one thought twice of this epidemic - at least, no one in a position to actually do something meaningful about it. With so much fake news floating around, from both sides of the aisle, it’s really difficult to figure out what’s real and what’s speculation. Today’s guest is Dr. Rishi Desai, Chief Medical Officer of Osmosis. Dr. Desai joins us today to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, how the...

Today’s guest on Healthcare Weekly is Jeff Arnold. He founded WebMD in 1998 and is now the CEO of Sharecare, a digital health company. Sharecare provides personalized content to help people manage their health, adjust their behavior, and improve their overall health. When Jeff started WebMD, only 26% of Americans had internet access. Since then, the number has increased to 90%, thus making content consumption much more accessible and opening up so many healthcare opportunities. Jeff...

On today’s episode, our guest is Dave Chase, Cofounder and Creator of Health Rosetta. His company provides a blueprint to benefit brokers and managers on how to spend less on employee health benefits while still providing better outcomes for these employees. In theory, self-insured employers should be saving a portion of their normal expenses on health care, but their carriers are preventing that from happening via price gouging and surprise bills. Health Rosetta started working as a...

Today’s guest is Terrance Ryan, CEO of HealthChampion, a digital health analytics company focused on returning us to a people-driven healthcare ecosystem. HealthChampion is focused on digitizing and analyzing healthcare, empowering consumers to have greater control over their health data and decisions. HealthChampion works like a digital health passport. They currently offer their app for free, with a goal of rolling out a premium edition in the future. Many individuals have multiple...

Today’s guest is Dr. Lucienne Ide. She is the founder of Rimidi, a digital healthcare company that provides cloud-based software and clinical analytics for chronic disease management. Rimidi is now offering a new application to help support clinics during the new COVID-19 outbreak. The app works to screen patients for symptoms or risk factors before they come into the healthcare system. With this enhanced pre-screening, clinics can identify at-risk patients earlier in the process and take the...

Today’s guest is Kali Durgampudi, chief technology and innovation officer at Greenway Health, a leading health information technology and services provider. He is working on Project Polaris, a technology which uses machine learning, AI, and natural language processing to save doctors time, increase their productivity, and improve patient satisfaction. This technology functions as a next generation electronic medical record, which reduces physician burden through machine learning that allows...

Today’s guest is Nate Pelzer, founder of Clinify. Clinify is a cloud-based health analytics platform that combines socioeconomic factors with applied health signals and machine learning, allowing providers to improve patient outcomes through enhanced communication and personalized care. Clinify uses a combination of data points and facts given directly by the patient regarding the state of their health and socioeconomic situation, giving providers a better understanding of their needs from...

In this episode, Codrin Arsene is joined by Kevin Costa. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Novoheart, a company that creates three-dimensional heart constructs which drug manufacturers can use to test out various drugs and treatments. The current drug development process can take ten years or more to complete. Kevin describes this very inefficient process and the costs incurred by manufacturers. He talks about the inaccurate results that testing animals provides and...

Today’s guest is Neri Lavi. He serves as Managing Director in the United States for Qualitest, the largest quality engineering company in the world. In the US, most of Qualitest’s business activities revolve around the healthcare industry. Neri describes what to know before testing a device for V&V approval. He talks about the most common challenges that device manufacturers have to deal with, paying special attention to documentation and access. We also learn about the different areas...

Today we're chatting with Rajiv Kumar, Chief Medical Officer and President of the Virgin Pulse Institute. Virgin Pulse is the largest employee heath and well-being company in the world. They have a high-tech approach to engaging employees who work for large corporations to prevent health issues. Virgin Pulse has taken health and well-being and boiled it down to what Rajiv believes is the root of everything they want to accomplish. This root is the daily routine of employees, and Rajiv...

Today’s podcast guest is Jared Taylor. He is the CEO and co-founder of BlocHealth, which is a blockchain-based healthcare company taking on the licensing and credentialing process in the industry. BlocHealth has created a solution that will streamline this entire process. BlocHealth leverages a universal common application and blockchain technology to make the process go much faster without sacrificing security. Jared shares the roles of these two aspects and provides an explanation of how...

Matt Johnson is the CEO of EarlySense and our guest in this podcast episode. The company makes a contact-free continuous patient monitor that turns any bed into a smart bed. Their clients are typically hospitals and nursing facilities, along with some home applications, too. In a typical day at a hospital, heart and respiratory rates are collected from patients about six times per day. EarlySense can collect this data twice per second, giving an earlier indication of patient deterioration...

Rimidi is a digital health company that provides software and clinical analytics for chronic disease management. The CEO of Rimidi, Josh Claman, is on the podcast today to educate us about the platform. Healthcare is currently a reactive system that is episodic and in-clinic. To manage chronic diseases effectively, Josh insists that we need to move towards an approach that virtualizes healthcare and delivers it to where the patient is. He explains how Rimidi can accomplish this. Rimidi does...

Zain Rama, the CEO of Pharmeum, joins the podcast in this episode. Pharmeum claims to be the first blockchain company in artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare. Zain tells us that Pharmeum is trying to create a more intelligent healthcare system. By doing so, patients will be able to access healthcare more affordably through their smartphone anywhere in the world. He educates us on why blockchain is useful in this application. Doctors often face challenges when identifying...

Dan Malven is today’s podcast guest. He is the Managing Director at 4490 Ventures, an investment group out of Madison, Wisconsin. Investments that involve piecing data together have been of high interest to Dan as of late. He explains what this process looks like and comments on FDA-approved algorithms. Another investment that Dan is excited about features a new way to pay for healthcare patients. When trying to get a consumer to change their behavior, the new solution must be drastically...

Today we talk to Charlie Kim, CEO @ Soom, a health tech startup that offers medical device manufacturers a simple solution that enables master data accuracy, data governance, and error correction. This means eliminating backlogs in the supply chain caused by data errors, improving IT efficiency and productivity, maintaining regulatory compliance, avoiding adverse events like product recalls, and, most importantly, improving patient safety. Listen to the podcast to learn about: The Soom App...

Meet doctor Ian Tong, Chief Medical Officer @ Doctor On Demand, a video consultation service that raised $74 million last year to scale up its operations and reach more patients. Doctor On Demand's telemedicine model is unique, hiring doctors full time versus tapping into the physician gig economy. Each doctor sees approximately 4 patients per hour. Listen to Doctor Tong to learn about: What makes Doctor on Demand different from all other telemedicine providers How Doctor on Demand has...

Meet Dr James Burnstone, CEO @ Elucid Mhealth, a Manchester-based technology company working to support patients to improve care. Elucid has developed a smart pill dispenser exclusively dedicated to medical trial management. The locked container can be used for solid oral dose medication and it electronically dispenses 1 or more doses. The container can be locked down remotely and it is paired to a single smartphone. Listen to the podcast to learn about: How Elucid smart pill dispenser...

Can an iPad application help detect dementia and Alzheimer's at an early stage? One healthcare startup is betting on it! Listen to doctor Thomas Sawyer, COO @ Cognetivity talk about an innovative digital platform platform (leveraging image recognition and Artificial Intelligence) that can detect brain deterioration to help patients and physicians define a course of treatment at an earlier stage. The startup can detect users' cognitive function and determine if it is within a normal range...

Join Codrin Arsene and Stuart Long, CEO @ Infobionic, a healthtech company that recently secured $50 Million in Financing to Support Continued Growth of the MoMe® Kardia System for Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection. MoMe® is an Apple mouse-like smart heart monitor which gives doctors and patients 24/7 access to ECG data collected on the go. The MoMe® device uses Artificial Intelligence to interpret massive amounts of data and provide actionable insights to physicians in order to improve the...

In the latest episode of the HCW podcast, Codrin Arsene talks to Samir Manjure, CEO of KenSci, a healthtech company that provides automated insights to major hospitals and care facilities all over the US. KenSci helps hospitals predict the number of patients showing up at a hospital at any given point, the percentage of patients who will be committed & discharged and the percentage of patients who will return to a hospital in a given timeframe. Listen to this episode to learn how...

Meet Care Coach: the game-changing innovation for aging care that leverages the best of both human and technological capabilities. Care Coach is a smart assistant avatar assuring continuity of care, offering psychosocial support and assistance with the management of chronic conditions for the elderly. This unique avatar technology is used in patients' hospital rooms and homes to support them and provide companionship. Listen to Victor Wang, CEO @ Care.Coach talk about this innovative...

In this episode, Codrin Arsene talks to Jani Tuomi, one of the co-founders of imaware.coach, a blood testing platform which allows patients to test for celiac disease & Rheumatoid Arthritis from the comfort of their homes. The global health self-monitoring technology market will reach $19 billion by the end of 2019.

Listen to Codrin Arsene interview Michael Klein, the CEO @ iCAD, one of the few FDA-approved artificial intelligence solutions for radiologists. iCAD's AI analyzes hundreds of data-points to deliver powerful software solutions for breast tomosynthesis, breast density and 2D mammography. In simple terms, the iCAD software (Profound AI) analyzes mammogram images and correlates them to demographic data to produce cancer probability scores for radiologists. Whereas iCAD cannot officially...