To celebrate our 50th episode, we are sharing an internal conversation we had with Cheryl Rodenfels, CIO of US Heart & Vascular (USHV). USHV is a mergers and acquisitions healthcare business working to equip and empower cardiovascular physician practices. Cheryl recently joined one of Redox’s team meetings to share her expertise surrounding M&A in …

Staff shortages. Clinician burnout. Missed appointments. You’ve seen the headlines – providers and patients alike are struggling with our current healthcare system. What’s the solution? Last month, Redox’s Niko Skievaski delved into a topical discussion with Vinay Bhargava, president and co-founder of Mytonomy, a patient engagement company with a s…

Matt Vestal has spent more than 15 years in healthcare technology, and recently joined ConvergeOne to help transform the healthcare arm of their IT and cloud offerings. In our conversation, Matt offers a wealth of insights on the future of cloud strategy in the healthcare space, including his vision for how to modernize the composable patient exper…

Hello Redox podcast listeners! Today’s show will be a bit different. I'm actually sharing a new podcast that focuses on exploring how leaders create thriving workplace cultures in remote teams. It's called The People Everywhere Show and I hope you’ll find this departure interesting and applicable to your own work and life. We launched the podcast t…

Competing conferences, parties, and Niko's mullet. HIMSS is back, and damnit, we’re excited. Redoxers Matt Ripkey and Nick Hatt join the podcast to discuss their expectations for HIMSS, what they’re looking forward to, and tips on surviving the biggest healthcare event of the year.

WebMD is usually the resource you run to after noting a random hiccup in your body, but in today’s episode of The Redox Podcast we get to see how WebMD plays a part in the bigger picture of delivering healthcare. Niko chats with Ann Bilyew, the Senior Vice President of Health for Internet Brands, the parent company of WebMD and Medscape. They discu…

Kristen Valdes is the founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health. She is a transformative force in today’s healthcare marketplace, spearheading the conversation on how empowering consumers can transform healthcare delivery. With over 20 years in the industry, she lends her insight on paternalism in healthcare, b.well’s vision for the future of heal…

Move fast, and fix things. That should be the unofficial mantra of Olive. With nearly $1 billion dollars in funding, they are a dynamo in health tech. In this episode of The Redox Podcast, Olive’s founder and CEO, Sean Lane, takes us on a ride from the visit to his hometown that sparked his hunger for healthcare innovation to the one idea that chan…

Dr. Andrew Schutzbank is a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Harvard, Chief Product Officer at Cricket Health, and was formerly the SVP of Product at Iora Health. We discuss technology adoption and creation in primary care, payment models, business models, and what can be learned in the specialty space, with particular focus in the diabetes world …

You must have seen the story right? Judy Faulkner, Epic's Founder and CEO took a rare interview with Katie Jennings of Forbes. Long story short, Katie talks with Judy, Niko talks with Katie on this week's episode of the Redox podcast. We get into Epic culture, position in the market, and Judy's perspective on their longterm position in this quickly…

Kirk Barnes has spent his career working in the pharmaceutical industry: from drug discovery and development side, to distribution, and, now, aligning digital health strategies with pharma. This isn’t a space I know much about, given its impact in healthcare. Kirk was kind enough to let me get down into the basics around the space and what digital …

I'm going to say it, Withings makes the nicest looking smart devices on the market. And now they're coming onto the remote patient monitoring scene in a big way. Antoine Robiliard, Withing's VP of Health Solutions talks with Niko about their RPM strategy and why their experience in engaging patients will give them a huge advantage with, well, engag…

PointClickCare has about 70% market share in the long-term and post-acute markets. In the EHR world, this market share is unprecedented. AND, they're cloud-based. They have a truly unique offering and a culture to match. This show features PCC's co-founder and president, Dave Wessinger, along with their SVP/GM, B.J. Boyle. They're interviewed by Re…

This week we have the Founder and CEO of Healthify, Manik Bhat. No Niko this week. Our production interns took over for this interview getting into the origins of Healthify as well as the the future of the SDOH space. Q4 being the company’s highest point of growth since their inception, COVID has brought attention to this space, which has sparked b…

On today’s show, we have Damayanti Dipayana, the co-founder and CEO of Manatee Health, based in the Mile High city of health tech, Denver, Colorado. We get into the Manatee story and the big splash they made as they launched winning the HLTH pitch competition, Prime Health, and graduating from Techstars. We also get into how Dama manages running an…

As we live through the holidays in quarantine, Niko gets visited by the ghosts of health crises past, present, and future. How did we get here? What can we learn from prior pandemics and vaccine distribution? Are we entering the era of pandemics? Our ghosts, played and written by Rachel Desmond, share these and many more insights, giving us a broad…

Today on the show we have Dr. David Elkin. He is a pediatric clinical psychologist and founder and executive director of the Center for Advancement of Youth at University of Mississippi Medical Center. The center is a multi-disciplinary approach to coordinated for children with behavioral or developmental issues throughout Mississippi. I’ve got to …

What does the God particle have in common with the only FDA-cleared birth control app? The answer: Natural Cycles. CEO, Dr. Elina Berglund was once a part of the team that found evidence of the media-paraded God Particle, otherwise known as the Higgs Boson. Post this literal Earth-shaking discovery, Dr. Berglund and her team spent the better part o…

On today’s show we have Payal Agrawal Divakaran. She leads digital health investments as a partner at .406 Ventures in Boston who was, of course, the first institutional investor to bet on Redox, leading our Series A back in October of 2015. We discuss some of her journey as well as where she’s making (and has made) bets in healthcare technology. T…

We started doing this show back in November 2019, back before the world changed. Then, in March, we got the pandemic that really made everything we were talking about up until that point moot. On today’s show, we’re going to dive into some of those changes. I invited our early guests on the podcast to make a quick video answering the question: What…

In the near term, rapid and accessible covid testing will be much more important than an actual vaccine. With ample testing, we can identify who’s infected, contact trace, and dramatically reduce the spread. At Redox, we’ve been working with a variety of labs and diagnostic companies who are actively testing patients. I wanted to learn more about h…

Looking back at 2020, we might say that this was the year that changed everything in healthcare. If that’s the case, Vida will have likely played a big role in this change. They’re focused on some of the most costly areas of healthcare in chronic care management and mental health. And, they sell to payers and employers who, with incentives to keep …

Rachel Dixon is an expert in the clinical, operational, and technological implementation of telehealth and other innovative digital health solutions in Medicaid-focused organizations. Rachel has worked across the spectrum of care, successfully designing and implementing programs on behalf of payers, primary care providers, mental health centers, an…

I've known Greg Tracy since before founding Redox, connecting over civic hacking projects in Madison, Wisconsin. As the co-founder and CTO, Greg helped Propeller Health from its inception to serving patients across the globe and through its recent acquisition by ResMed (for $225M), where he now serves as the chief architect. Greg shares the Propell…

Nikita Singareddy and Nikhil Krishnan joined me on the show this week. You don’t often hear their last names as these two have rapidly earned their way into the ranks of first-name status in our industry. I wanted to have both of them on the show together as they have incredible rapport and both bring an absolutely refreshing and unique perspective…

Today’s guest is Danielle Ciofani. A data architect turned strategist, she leads the Broad Institute’s Data Sciences Platform team maximizing the impact of data science on the biomedical ecosystem. She also cares deeply about the startup community and serves as a mentor to early-stage companies at the intersection of healthcare and data. Prior to t…

Before 2020 spiraled into pandemic, social, economic, and political unrest, I expected interoperability to be the hottest topic in healthcare. There are a number of reasons for this. Consumers became unruly, asking simple questions like “in this modern era, why can’t my specialist see my electronic health record?” Providers and health systems have …

We’re thrilled to announce Shift+6, a developer-focused, health-tech podcast from Redox. Here we'll explore the ways amazing technologists are bringing new innovation to market, growing their teams, and dealing with an ever-changing landscape in one of the world's most complex industries. We believe that technology from diverse and empathetic creat…

Gil Addo is the co-founder and CEO of RubiconMD, the leading eConsults platform connecting primary care to specialists around the country. I've known Gil for years and have always felt a kinship of sorts with him as I feel like we came from the same era of health tech startups, seeing him over and over again at similar early-stage digital health ev…

It’s an honor to have Bronwyn Spira, CEO of Force Therapeutics, on the show today. Force is a leading episode-based digital care platform and is also one of Redox’s first customers from back in 2015. We were able to catch up on what they’re seeing in the marketplace including how the pandemic has affected the world of episodic care that they primar…

Dr. Sarma Velamuri is an Internal Medicine doc, hospitalist, sepsis expert, and co-founder and CEO of Luminare, a company focused on the early detection of sepsis. On this episode, we dive into sepsis detection and prevention, as well as how these systems can work to help prevent the spread of other viral infections, like COVID-19. Key Moments 01:3…

On Tuesday, we had to layoff 44 Redoxers. That was about 25% of our team. On today's episode, we're going to go into the conditions that brought us to this place, how we went about making the decision to reduce the size of the team, and finally how we attach names to that decision. Redox co-founders Luke Bonney (CEO) and Niko Skievaski (President) …

Professor James Robinson is a highly-regarded expert on health care economics and policy. He is currently a Professor of Health Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology. Dr. Robinson is also on the board of the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) and the National Institute for…

Redox CEO Luke Bonney was the featured guest on this week’s episode of Battery Venture’s “Powered by Battery” podcast series. The wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the company’s start as a digital-health incubator in Madison, Wisc. to its current position as an indispensable data exchange platform utilized by healthcare companies of …

Dr. Sylvia Romm is the chief innovation officer at Atlantic Health System, a 7-hospital organization based in northern New Jersey. A senior pediatrics resident at Harvard, Dr. Romm previously served as VP of Clinical Transformation with AmWell. She is also a highly-regarded author and speaker on topics related to healthcare, technology and health I…

Welcome to Part 2 of our discussion of Platforms in Healthcare. I was pleased to be joined by: Anurati Mathur, CEO of Sempre Health Carlo Perez, CEO of Swift Medical Dr. Mitesh Rao, CEO of OMNY Health Niko Skieavski, President of Redox Seth Joseph, managing director of Summit Health, served as our moderator. This portion starts with ideas on how to…

Redox is an example of a platform business model in healthcare. We connect healthcare organizations and software vendors with reusable technology, thus creating a scalable network of data exchange. In addition to Redox, there are a number of other really innovative companies using platform business models to solve major challenges in healthcare. Th…

Dr. Roxie Mooney is CEO & Healthcare Innovation Strategist of Legacy DNA, a company that helps health innovators move from idea to full market adoption. Legacy DNA is known for its COIQ System - which is a mash-up of the acronym COI, “commercialization of innovation,” with IQ. COIQ represents the knowledge and insights that health innovators need t…

With COVID-19 dominating world events, Dr. Geeta Nayyar generously shared her time, insights and advice with Niko Skievaski. Doctor Nayyar is the chief medical officer for Greenway Health and a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Prior to joining Greenway, she held positions as chief healthcare and innovation officer at F…

We're in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that will strain our healthcare delivery system beyond anything we've seen before. Those of us who work in healthcare technology have reprioritized to attempt to bring something novel--something of use--to the new challenges faced by health systems. This is a special episode of the podcast including guests…

Fred Holliday was diagnosed with metastatic kidney cancer in 2010. At one point, his wife Regina asked to see Fred’s medical records. Fred and Regina were astonished by what they experienced – how difficult, and in some cases impossible, it was to access crucial personal health data. Fred passed away in mid-June of that year, at only 39 years old. …

Pink Socks Life is a nonprofit organization focused on promoting human connection around the world by socially supporting other public charities. If you have been to a health tech conference in the last five years, you’ve likely seen people wearing pinksocks with mustaches on them. Well, the movement began – somewhat accidentally – at the HIMSS con…

The HIMSS20 Global Health Conference takes place next week in Orlando. Participants from all corners of the industry – from vendors, clinicians and health system executives to policymakers and patient advocates – will get together to learn, share ideas and socialize. The enormity of the conference – nearly 45,000 professionals from more than 90 cou…

At Redox, we might have a bit of a startup crush on Roundtrip. But that’s easy when you work with such impactful companies. Every day, 10,000 patients miss or delay necessary health care due to a lack of proper transportation. The cost to the United States healthcare system last year because of missed medical appointments and unfulfilled prescripti…

Aaron Patzer is founder and CEO of Vital, AI-powered software for hospital emergency rooms and patients. As an entrepreneur, Aaron has had success at a number of companies, most notably the ground-breaking Mint.com – which he founded in 2006 and eventually sold to Intuit. The success of Mint.com shook up the financial services industry and paved th…

With HIMSS 2020 coming up soon, Niko Skievaski spent some time chatting with Attorney Matthew Fisher, a partner at the law firm of Mirick O’Connell in Westborough, Massachusetts. Matt is the chair of the firm’s Health Law Group and one of the HIMSS top 10 Digital Influencers. Additionally, Matt is the host of the well-known Healthcare de Jure podca…

Aneesh Chopra is one of the foremost names in healthcare IT today. He was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the United States’ first Chief Technology Officer. After his three years as CTO, President Obama hailed his service, saying Chopra’s “legacy of leadership and innovation will benefit Americans for years to come.” In the years si…

As patients, the traditional pharmacy business seems to be a mess. It appears to be a jumble of information exchange, insurance contracts, middlemen, generics, phone calls, faxes, cross-subsidies, and misaligned incentives. The process can be frustrating, time-consuming, and expensive. As if that’s not bad enough, it can often result in patients no…

2019 was another eventful year for both Redox and the healthcare industry. Redox co-founders Luke Bonney, James Lloyd, and Niko Skievaski discuss a wide range of topics from the company’s remarkable progress in its first five years, notable market activity in the year past, and predictions for 2020 and the new decade ahead. Notable parts of the con…

Dr. Bill Hanson is Chief Medical Information Officer and Vice President at Penn Medicine and Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His distinguished career spans more than 30 years and he has consistently been a proponent for using technology to improve patient care. In this episode of The …