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How Your Relationships are the Biggest Predictor of Happiness in Life, Creating an App as a Non-Technical Founder, and How to Understand your Customers, with Ali Maggioncalda, Founder/CEO of Lovewick
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Let Us Know What you Thought of the Episode! Amazing | Good | Meh | Bad Today we sit down with Ali Maggioncalda, the CEO and founder of Lovewick. Lovewick is an app centered on creating deeper relationships for couples. Ali started off her exploration of love and relationships at Stanford doing extensive research on the psychology of healthy relati…
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Jackson Square Ventures Partner Victor Echevarria on Why the Best Founders are Incredibly Humble; Why SPACs are Overhyped, and Why the First $100B Healthtech Company is Closer Than You Might Think.
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Today's special guest is Victor Echevarria! Victor is a Partner at Jackson Square Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses. A founder turned investor, his investments include 1upHealth, WELL Health, and Trust & Will. Prior to joining JSV in 2018, Victor founded Remedy Labs, a healthcare fintech company focus…
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The Importance of Building Community to Promote Healthy Behaviors with co-founders of MindthruBody Elsa Jimenez and Arelys
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Elsa and Arelys are the co-founders of MindThruBody, an online community focused on empowering Latinx women to pursue physical activity through the power of community and sharing experiences. Topics we talk about today: What made you want to start this organization? Why use Instagram as your main channel for distributing content? What's it like wor…
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Next Generation Dental Care Using AI, with Dr. Wardah Inam, CEO & Co-founder of Overjet
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Dr. Wardah Inam is the CEO and co-founder of Overjet. Overjet is a software company that develops a platform designed to reduce costs and improve the quality of dental care. It uses artificial intelligence and analyzes dental data to determine what treatments are necessary for the patient, enabling patients to get improved dental care. She has been…
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Why Dental Care Needs to be Better and How Wally Health is Reinventing The Dental Care Experience, with Tyler Burnett, CEO and Co-Founder Of Wally Health
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Wally Health is the one-stop shop for oral care. Wally is reinventing the end-to-end dental care experience with personalized, accessible, and affordable dental products delivered to your front door. Consider Wally Health the Hims & Hers of dental care. Tyler is a mission-driven entrepreneur who previously co-founded Western Canada's largest privat…
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Building a First Class Sales Organization and Truly Understand Your Customer’s Needs with Ryan Hungate DDS, CEO and Co-founder of Simpleye
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Today we sit down with Ryan Hungate, CEO of Simplifeye. Simplifeye is building an all-in-one suite of products to help dental offices manage their patients. Simplifeye provides an out-of-the-box solution that offers Live Chat, Payments, Scheduling, and connected telehealth to customers. Ryan provides some fantastic insights on sales, defining your …
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Using Software as a Drug: An Introduction to All Things Digital Therapeutics (DTx), with Danny Kim, Head of Corporate Development @ WELT
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Today, we have part two of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT! WELT was founded in 2016 as a spin-off of Samsung to explore the intersection of healthcare and technology. WELT creates personalized digital therapeutics that combine sensor and digital biomarker technologies with therapeutic contents for the treatm…
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The Importance of Being an Operator & Patient-Centric Design: A Pill-Pack Case Study with Danny Kim, Head of Corp Dev @ WELT
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Today, we have part one of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT. WELT was founded in 2016 as a spin-off of Samsung to explore the intersection of healthcare and technology. WELT creates personalized digital therapeutics that combine sensor and digital biomarker technologies with therapeutic contents for the treatm…
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Digital Health News: The Prince and the Digital Health Startup, plus Digital Health's $7.1 Billion Fundraising Glow-Up.
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New podcast format alert! Iman and I are trying something new this week. In this episode, we will be discussing some of the most recent and interesting news in the digital health space!In today's episode, we talk about:- Prince Harry's new job as an Executive at a Digital Health Company- The $7.1 Billion that digital health companies raised in Q1 2…
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“With Great Personal Data, Comes Great Responsibility": Managing Your Personal Data in a World with Vaccine Passports, with David Lucatch, CEO of Liquid Avatar Technologies
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David Lucatch is the CEO, President & Chair of the Corporation at Liquid Avatar Technologies. He has spent over 35 years as a serial entrepreneur in the international marketing arena and over 25 years of that developing technologies and taking them to market. Today, David’s focus is set squarely on Liquid Avatar (formerly The KABN Network), as its …
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Burnout, Leadership, and Creating Positive & Productive Work Cultures with Hamza Khan, Managing Director of Student Life Network
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Today’s episode is on Hamza Khan is a multi-award-winning marketer & entrepreneur. He’s the Managing Director of Student Life Network, Canada’s most comprehensive resource hub dedicated to helping and empowering millions of students across the country. He co-founded both Splash Effect, a boutique marketing & creative agency, as well as SkillsCamp, …
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The Product Manager Mindset to Health, E-commerce, and Entrepreneurship in Dubai, with Tony Pagliocco, Fmr. CPO of Hello Chef
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Today’s special guest is Tony Pagliocco, the Former Head of Product for Hello Chef. Tony formally served as a Product Manager for Wizards of the Coast and as Head of Product for the Analytics division at Boeing. Hello Chef is a Dubai-based meal-kit service, delivering chef-curated recipes and pre-portioned, fresh ingredients to thousands of custome…
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The 16 Billion Dollar Market in Healthcare that is Often Overlooked, How AI is Fundamentally Changing the World of Medical Coding, with Andrew Lockhart, CEO & Co-Founder of Fathom Health
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Today, we spoke to Andrew Lockheart, CEO of Fathom Health, about the world of medical coding. Medical coding is the process of assigning standardized codes that tell health insurers what services they used and how that service should be reimbursed. Fathom Health is focused on using AI to reduce the amount of time and errors made while assigning cod…
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How to Build a Top-Rated Digital Health Companion and the Future of Medication Management, with Omri Shor, CEO of Medisafe
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Today’s interview is with Omri Shor, the Chief Executive Officer of Medisafe, a digital health application that has over 49K top ratings on the App Store. Medisafe is an evidence-based digital therapeutics company providing medication management solutions for patients. Medisafe uses their application solution to help patients manage their medicatio…
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Innovation in Orthopedic Care, with Ben Schwartz, CIO of Healent
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Today’s interview is with Ben Schwartz, the Chief Innovation Officer of Healent and a LinkedIn 2020 Top Voice. Healent is a remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform that is dedicated to supporting patients with Musculoskeletal issues (think bone, muscles, joint pain, arthritis, orthopedic surgery, etc.). Healent uses technology to help patients mon…
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Telehealth for Pets and Connected Pet Care with Bobby Reddy, COO and Co-Founder of Anipanion
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Today we sit down with Bobby Reddy, COO, and co-founder of Anipanion, a telehealth product for pets! Bobby has been an entrepreneur since his time in college where he and his roommate (later co-founder) were intrigued by the combination of connected health systems and the pet care space, later leading into Anipanion. Bobby highlights the issues aff…
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The Future of Orthopedic Surgery, with Scott Day, CCO of Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics
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Today, we spoke to Scott Day, CCO of GramercyOrtho (also known as GEO), about the challenges behind supplying and managing orthopedic surgical equipment. Prior to joining GEO, Scott was the Head of Sales at Black Forest Medical Group and a VP at Orthofix. GEO’s flagship product is a mobile implant and instrumentation inventory system that uses RFID…
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The Digital Disruption in Health with Justin Norden, VC Investor and Partner at GSR Ventures
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In this episode, we sit down with Justin Norden, a Partner at GSR Ventures. GSR Ventures is one of the world’s most successful early-stage venture firms, with over $3B under management and with investments in Kinsa, Deep 6 AI, DataVisor, Plus AI, and Didi (the Uber of China), just to name a few. Prior to joining GSR Ventures, Justin worked on Apple…
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Patient-Centered and Preventive Healthcare 2.0 with Unmesh Srivastava, CTO of P3 Health
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Today, we sit down with Unmesh Srivastava, CTO at P3 Health. P3 is a value-based care organization that’s bringing digital solutions to the healthcare space. We learn about Unmesh’s experience with partners in the P3 network and how they use digital to manage patient lives. We learn about patient-centricity as a result of digital as well as the inf…
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Your Health with Only a Camera + Creating the Foundation of the Brain-Computer Interface @ DARPA with Dr. Phillip Alveda, CEO of Brainworks
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We sit down with Dr. Phillip Alveda, the founder of Brainworks, an AI company that can calculate your heart rate, oxygen levels, breathing rate, and heart rate variability only using the camera on your phone or laptop! It’s incredible tech, and we hear of Phillip’s journey to developing amazing technology from his time at MIT, NASA, DARPA, and inte…
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The Cognitive Power of VR - Brain Games for Brain Health with Amir Bozorgzadeh, CEO of Virtuleap
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We sit down with Amir Bozorgzadeh, the founder of Virtuleap, a health and education VR startup based in Lisbon, Portugal. Virtuleap aims to take cognitive assessment and brain training to the next level using VR and AI. We learn about how VR is impacting brain health as a new form of treatment and a method to deeper neuroscience research. There’s a…
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Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Patient Outcomes with Matt Loper, CEO of Wellth
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Have you ever wondered why human beings tend to do things that are against their best interests, especially when it comes to taking care of their own health? The team at Wellth definitely did! We sit down with Matt Loper, CEO, and founder of Wellth, a rising star in the digital health space! Using Behavioral Economics, Wellth inspires positive beha…
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Upgrading Clinical Care through Telemedicine in a Post-COVID World with Ijaz Arif and Dr. Arshad Ali
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In our latest episode, we spoke with the founders of VeeMed, Ijaz Arif and Dr. Arshad Ali on how telemedicine is filling the gaps that exist in the clinic, especially post the outbreak of COVID-19. VeeMed is a telehealth platform that enables physicians, nurses, and clinical experts to accompany the patient on each step of their healthcare journey.…
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Leveraging Global Demand for US Medical Expertise with Telehealth Services, with Babak Movassaghi and Christopher Lee, co-founders of InfiniteMD
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Interested in a doctor's opinion from a world-renown Mass General Hospital on a head injury? InfiniteMD has you covered!InfiniteMD is a platform that lets patients around the world access healthcare specialists (think Oncology, radiology, dermatology, hematology, etc.) in the US for second-opinions on their medical care. In this episode, we spoke w…
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Using the Power of Habit to Manage Chronic Disease, with Chris Lento, Head of Strategic Partnerships @ Noom
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In today's episode, we are interviewing Chris Lento, the Head of Healthcare Strategic Partnerships at Noom. Noom is a world-leading behavior change company. By combining AI, mobile, and psychology with the expertise of over 1,000 personal coaches, Noom helps people live healthier lives by changing their long-term habits. More than 50 million people…
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Bringing Psychiatry into the 21st Century with David Mou, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer @ Valera Health
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In today's episode, we are interviewing David Mou, the Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Valera Health.Valera Health is a one-stop-shop for patients to manage their mental health using a digital platform.Patients can access their therapist and psychiatrist in one place, with a dedicated health coach to help coordinate their care and support t…
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Serving Refugees through the Power of Technology with Zahra Al-Khateeb, COO @ Hikma Health
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In today's episode, Iman and I are interviewing Zahra, the Chief Operating Officer at Hikma Health. Hikma Health is a nonprofit start-up that creates customized data systems for nonprofit organizations providing healthcare to underserved and refugee populations. Their platform analyzes health data to support the delivery of personalized healthcare …
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Self Care Catalysts on Going Digital - Patients as Drivers of their Own Health, Part 1
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Today we sat down with Grace Castillo-Soyao, the Founder of Self Care Catalysts. Self Care Catalysts uses intelligence and analytics on patient real world evidence (RWE) to inform behavioral interventions, product life-cycle management, and clinical care. In Part 1 of this episode, we chatted on the power of digital apps in patient-driven care as h…
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How Technology can Help Women Take Control of their Sexual Health with Cassy Gibson, Co-founder and CPO @ Kliit Health
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In today's episode, Iman and I are hosting Cassy Gibson, the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Kliit Health. Kliit health a digital health platform dedicated to enabling women to talk to trusted sexual and reproductive health experts about their health. For as little as $10 a session, users are connected to OBGYNs, Nurse practitioners, sex th…
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IKONA Health, Using VR to Transform the Patient Experience
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Today’s podcast is on IKONA Health, a company using VR to deliver better patient care. We sat down with Tim Fitzpatrick; a US NAVY veteran turned trader on Wall Street + entrepreneur due to a life-changing back surgery early on in his career. We also have Todd Maddox, Ph. D, a learning scientist and former University Professor of Psychology and Neu…
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