By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Kurbo just became a wholly owned subsidiary of WW (aka WeightWatchers) with its app that helps kids lose weight. Co-founder Thea Runyan explains how the digital health solution is changing unhealthy lifestyles for teens and kids everywhere and talks about her company’s successful exit to the weight loss giant.
Filmed at HIMSS/Health 2.0 Europe in Helsinki, Finland in June 2019.
On Episode 3 of HardCore Health, Jess & I start off by discussing all of the health tech companies IPOing (Livongo, Phreesia, Health Catalyst) and talk about what that means for the industry as a whole. Zoya Khan discusses the newest series on THCB called, “The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both?”, which follows & discuss the legislation being passed on data privacy and protection in Congress today. We also have a great interview with Paul Johnson, CEO of Lemonaid Health, an up-and-coming telehealth platform that works as a one-stop-shop for a virtual doctor’s office, a virtual pharmacy, and lab testing for patients accessing their platform. In her WTF Health segment, Jess speaks to Jen Horonjeff, Founder & CEO of Savvy Cooperative, the first patient-owned public benefit co-op that provides an online marketplace for patient insights. And last but not least, Dr. Saurabh Jha directly address AI vendors in health care, stating that their predictive tools are useless and they will not replace doctors just yet- Matthew Holt
Matthew Holt is the founder and publisher of The Health Care Blog and still writes regularly for the site.
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Barcelona has emerged a global hot-spot when it comes to healthcare innovation and health tech startups. And now, finally, Spanish startups with digital health apps, digital therapeutics, novel med devices, and other tech-enabled therapies can call the Barcelona Health Hub their home. What’s all the hype about? Barcelona Health Hub co-founder and VP, Josep Carbo, gives us the scoop on who’s there, what they’re doing, and how you can get plugged in.
Filmed at HIMSS/Health 2.0 Europe in Helsinki, Finland in June 2019.
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
From Obama’s budget guy to the CEO of Financial Advisory at Lazard (which recently consulted on the CVS-Aetna merger), Peter Orzag is more than qualified to weigh in on what can be done to bend the $3.5 trillion dollar healthcare cost curve in the US. This interview kicks off with Orzag confessing that he’s skeptical that the “consumerization’ of healthcare – the idea that shopping around for care – is going to be enough to do it. Is vertical integration like that CVS-Aetna merger the answer then? Tune in for one (really smart) economist’s take…
Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.
Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
With the “the largest set of LIVE connected health data in the country” and just shy of $11M in funding, b.well is a health tech startup on a mission to help health plans and employers do more with the abundance of health data their members and employees are creating. CEO Kristin Valdes stopped by the Atrium Health Backstage Studio at Healthdatapalooza to talk about the future for the startup and what her company is learning from looking at all that health data.
Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.
Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
The future of work in healthcare starts with transformation leaders and Simmi Singh has coached her fair share of C-suite healthcare execs as they strive for that next level. What’s her best advice for the rest of us climbing to the top?
Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.
Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
I heard a rumor that Microsoft’s healthcare play is enterprise, enterprise, enterprise…is it true? Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Healthcare tells us what’s really going on at the tech giant and their “169,000 commercial relationships in healthcare, across 140 companies.” Cloud at-scale? Interoperability at-scale? Listen in to find out!
Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.
Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Are the lines between health IT and digital health starting blur? President & CEO of HIMSS, Hal Wolfe, shares his macro-level perspective on what’s changing in the big wide world of health technology – and how health system incumbents need to change their ways in the struggle to innovate.
Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.
Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Patient health data is headed for the smartphone so says Congress, the President and the 21st Century Cures Act. Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health IT, US Department of Health & Human Services, talks through all things standards and APIs so health tech developers can figure out what they’ll need to do to unlock the HUGE market this opens up for health data management and analysis.
Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.
Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
One of Europe’s top health tech startups, Infermedica out of Poland just closed a $3.65M funding round for its suite of tools that help patients figure out the best place to go to get care. It’s a patient-routing / symptom-checker with “AI under the hood” that is delivered via an app, chatbot, and voice application for Alexa. (In fact, they “own” the symptom checker that opens when you ask Alexa to “open symptom checker.”) Piotr Orzechowski talks about the full range of ways Infermedica is engaging patients and how they are scaling up their provider facing products as a result of this influx of funding.
Filmed at HIMSS/Health 2.0 Europe in Helsinki, Finland in June 2019.
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