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Welcome! On DHD, our guests speak about the exciting but rugged terrain of the future of health, and the challenges they face as they disrupt the status quo and shape the trends of Digital Health. Dive deep into the soft underbelly of the healthcare industry and hear the real thing... raw and uncut. Brought to you by Ranjani Rangan and CharmHealth, a premier suite of health IT products built to address the application of cloud and mobile technologies for managing healthcare data and intelligent data analysis. We support health tech startups and invite them to participate in our annual CharmHealth Innovation Challenge!
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Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Digital Health Disruptors is back – and with health tech advancing, Season 2 is set to deliver even bigger stories from the healthcare disruptors shaping the future. If you’re new here, catch up on Season 1 where we brought you raw, unfiltered insights from healthcare’s most forward-thinking leaders.
What we discussed
(00:00) Thank you to our listeners!
(01:10) CharmHealth's Fourth Innovation Challenge
(01:38) Gain exposure to 50,000+ clinicians
(02:06) Season 1 recap
(02:21) Getting a license to leave residency behind - Dr. Kyra Bobinet (CEO of FreshTri)
(03:48) Find a $20B market - Professor Shahram Yousefi (CEO of Mesh.ai)
(05:09) Find a frustration - Dr. Joshua Tamayo Sarver (VP at Vituity and Inflect Health)
(05:56) Know the fund - Neil Littman (CEO of BioVerge)
(06:51) Keep decision loops short - Alex Lebrun (CEO of Nabla)
(07:47) Season 2 sneak peek
(07:51) Longevity technologies - Dr. Divya Chander (CEO of Lucidify)
(08:51) Treating obesity ethically - Dr. Paula Muto (CEO of UBERDOC)
Links
If you’re a health tech startup, reach out to marketplace@charmhealth.com to explore opportunities with CharmHealth.
Missed our first season? Check out previous episodes on all major podcast platforms and YouTube.
🔔 Subscribe 🔔 to our channel for more videos on a wide range of issues facing healthproviders – from day to day medicalpractice management to improving patientcare and health outcomes through innovative solutions and tools.
CharmHealth is a cloud-based #ElectronicHealthRecords, #Telehealth, #PracticeManagement and Medical Billing solution that helps healthcare organizations ranging from large multi-speciality groups to small independent medical offices function efficiently.👉 To that effect, CharmHealth’s pricing is simple, unique and helps practices budget and manage the cost of software acquisition.👉 Charm's award-winning API platform integrates with a range of third party healthcare solutions, offering additional functionality to our users.CharmHealth website: https://www.charmhealth.com/
💽 CharmHealth Innovation Challenge is a recurring competition and a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs and philanthropists in the digital health space to present their ideas, research and innovative health solutions.https://charmhealthchallenge.com/
Friday Jun 21, 2024
Friday Jun 21, 2024
Doctors are drowning in paperwork, spending half their time on low-value tasks instead of patient care. NABLA's AI co-pilot aims to change that, freeing physicians to focus on what matters most.
In this episode, we dive into:
- How NABLA went from idea to 46 employees in just three years
- Why running their own clinic was a "very expensive decision" that paid off
- The bottom-up approach that's making doctors champions of their product
We'll explore key questions like:
- Can an outsider really solve healthcare's biggest challenges?
- How is NABLA navigating the ethical minefield of AI in medicine?
- What lessons from Facebook are shaping their growth strategy?
What we discussed
(00:00) The focus dilemma
(00:32) Meet Alexander Lebrun (CEO of NABLA)
(02:54) Did he fall in love with a chatbot?
(04:10) Solving doctors’ nightmares
(07:04) Big mistake?
(11:12) Starting from the tech (big mistake)
(14:26) Don’t be Sun Microsystems.
(18:14) The 2 minute test (bottom-up approach)
(22:01) The golden question that he asks (weekly)
(24:00) Medical transcribers
(25:42) No 2 doctors do this the same
(28:13) Private data sets
(29:32) How AI works (and what’s wrong with it)
(34:27) Should we trust AI in healthcare?
(35:01) Racing to stay relevant
(38:34) Don’t judge AI
3 Key Lessons For Digital Health Entrepreneurs From Nabla’s Journey:
- Start with distribution idea, then find problem & tech. That's the ultimate way to build.
While conventional wisdom often suggests starting with a problem, Alex argues that distribution should be the starting point. This approach ensures that you're not just creating a solution, but that you have a clear path to get it to your customers.
- Ask weekly: Are we doing things we shouldn't? Entropy problem = loss of focus.
It's easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of opportunities and lose sight of your core mission. Alex's weekly self-check is a powerful tool for maintaining focus and avoiding the "entropy problem" that plagues many growing companies. By regularly questioning their activities and ruthlessly cutting unnecessary projects, NABLA stays agile and focused on what truly matters.
Sometimes, the key to success is not what you do, but what you choose not to do.
- When no one trusts you, get your hands dirty.
When Alex started, he didn’t know anything about healthcare and had no connections in the healthcare space. When he approached doctors, they didn’t trust him. So, he had to do something extraordinary: NABLA didn't just build tech ; they ran their own clinic to understand healthcare from the inside out. It was expensive. It was risky. It wasn’t the easiest way. But, at the end of the day, it paid off big time. They just secured a $24M series B round.
Links
Connect with Alex LeBrun: LinkedIn
Connect with Ranjani (Varadarajan) Rangan: LinkedIn
Innovating in digital health? Here's an opportunity:
Charm Health is organizing an innovation challenge from August 23-25 in Washington DC. The event provides a platform to present your ideas and network with healthcare providers and companies.
For more information or to participate, CharmHealth Challenge.
Location: Grand Hyatt, Washington DC
Entries close: August 1st
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
If you're an investor looking to make a significant impact while generating returns, biotech venture capital offers a unique opportunity. By investing in healthcare innovations, you contribute to groundbreaking advancements in medicine and address universal health challenges that affect us all. In this episode with Neil Littman, CEO of Bioverge, we explore the world of biotech venture capital, highlighting how impact investing in healthcare generates returns and drives transformative innovations. Join us and uncover the strategies, opportunities, and unique perspectives that make biotech investing a compelling and rewarding venture for you.
In Today’s Episode with Neil Littman, We Discuss:
- The world of finance and social impact
- [02:45] What is Neil's unique perspective on impact investing and investing for returns?
- [04:17] What is Bioverge’s investment strategy, and how does it work to impact the patient?
- [07:29] How does Bioverge invest in digital health and digital therapeutics to help combat chronic diseases?
- Health Tech Investor returns timeline
- [09:59] What strategies does Bioverge use to grow its LP base and secure high-quality deals?
- [10:47] How has Bioverge built a top-notch deal flow and filter for investing in new deals?
- [12:18] What is the timeline for generating returns in health tech investing based on data?
- Transparency and fund performance in the VC World
- [13:41] What is Bioverge's approach to enhancing transparency within its portfolio companies?
- [17:05] How do quarterly reports force function, and why is this valuable for investors?
- [18:08] What are Bioverge's typical investor profile minimum requirements?
- [20:51] What are the 3 main benefits investors gain by partnering with Bioverge instead of investing independently?
- [22:43] What funds does Bioverge raise annually, and how does it deploy the capital?
- [25:02] How does Bioverge help investors build a diversified portfolio to reduce volatility and enhance return potential?
- Collaboration between Bioverge and CharmHealth
- [27:54] What is the goal of the Digital Health Transmission Fund model and collaboration?
- [30:06] What are CharmHealth innovations and initiatives behind the Digital Health Transformation Fund?
- [33:19] Why is the Digital Health Transmission Fund model very unique?
- [33:49] What is Bioverge building, and where does Neil see it head in the next five years?
- [35:47] How is Bioverge changing its marketing strategy to adapt and maximize its returns in the evolving market?
RELEVANT LINKS/FURTHER RESOURCES:
- Learn more about Bioverge
- Learn more about Neil LIttman, Founder/CEO of Bioverge
- Learn more about Dr. Venky Chellappa, VP of CharmHealth
- Learn more about CharmHealth Innovation Challenge
- Learn more about Charmalot Conference
If you haven't tuned into part 1 yet, you're missing out on a treasure trove of insights that could redefine your approach to biotech investing.
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Neil Littman is the CEO of Bioverge and one of the driving forces behind its mission to democratize healthcare venture capital, making it more accessible, transparent, and affordable to a wider audience. His journey began with a personal quest to diversify his investment portfolio beyond the public markets, leading to the founding of Bioverge. However, the seeds of his passion for healthcare innovation were planted years earlier when he witnessed the groundbreaking cure of a young girl named Evie from a previously incurable genetic disease. Prior to Bioverge, Neil played pivotal roles at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), managing multimillion-dollar funds and spearheading investments in revolutionary clinical trials spanning cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and rare genetic disorders.
In Today’s Episode with Neil Littman, We Discuss:
- Neil's formative years and how they served as a blueprint for his career path
- [2:41] What did the young Neil Littman's ambitions look like?
- [3:30] What was Neil’s pivotal moment that changed his career trajectory to biotech?
2. What it is like to work for a philanthropy organization in Biotech
- [6:52] How did Neil come across CIRM and secure impressive business development opportunities
- [7:53] What did Neil take away from his encounter with Evie, a girl born with SCID? What impact did they have with the technology they were funding?
- [9:44] How did Evie's story inspire Neil to start Bioverge? What is Neil's vision for biotech?
- How to overcome the entrepreneurial startup hinges
- [11:17] What was Neil's biggest challenge in the early stages of building Bioverge? How did Neil overcome them?
- What holds promise in Biotech investments for 2024
- [14:11] What does Neil perceive as the game changer in seed investing? What investors cannot afford to overlook?
- [18:53] How did Neil identify start-up investment opportunities for significant return?
- [20:32] Why does Neil believe the key to finding top-tier investment opportunities is Founder Market Fit?
- [21:42] Why Neil emphasizes that start-ups should view things from the perspective and expectations of their investors?
- What Lessons can be drawn from startup setbacks and success
- [25:53] What are Neil’s biggest lessons on transparency and communication from a failed start-up?
- [28:08] What advice does Neil give to start-ups and aspiring entrepreneurs before approaching investors?
- [29:05] How does Neil support the success of the companies they invest in at Bioverge?
- Learn more about Bioverge
- Learn more about Neil LIttman, Founder/CEO of Bioverge
- Learn more about CharmHealth Innovation Challenge
- Learn more about Charmalot Conference
Stay tuned for part 2 and get more insights into the promising trends shaping the biotech industry and the opportunities it presents for the industry and entrepreneurs alike.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
We delve into the dynamic world of Dr. Kyra Bobinet, an international expert in healthcare innovation and best-selling author of "Well Designed Life." The episode takes a deep dive into Dr. Bobinet's AI digital health app, Fresh Tri, reshaping the behavior change landscape.
Join us as we explore cutting-edge neuroscience insights, spotlighting the Habenula's role in behavior control and its impact on health tech. Dr. Bobinet's unconventional startup journey with Walmart offers a fresh perspective for entrepreneurs, steering away from traditional venture capital models.
Unravel the roots of her success, deeply tied to her Ojibwe, Lakota, and Czech heritage. Discover the transformative power of personal experiences and compassion in fueling entrepreneurial drive.
Engage in a candid conversation about resilience, determination, and the exciting release of her upcoming book, "Unstoppable Brain."
Key Takeaways:
[00:52] Introducing today’s guest and topic.
[03:03] The crucial role of the Habenula & How Fresh Tri prevents failure.
[05:57] How Fresh Tri helps people overcome obesity and weight loss struggles.
[10:38] Dr. Bobinet’s experience overcoming fast food addiction, binging, and failure.
[12:50] How childhood trauma impacts social identity, health outcomes, & resilience.
[16:57] How Dr. Bobinet’s childhood trauma shaped her mission and vision.
[18:08] The moment that sparked her to transition from medical school to public health entrepreneurship.
[22:07] Dr. Bobinet’s startup journey with Walmart & How this collaboration enhances her app’s visibility/credibility.
[25:32] The Iterative Mindset Method: Fresh Tri’s strategies for behavior change.
[28:21] GLP-1 drugs for weight loss: Dr. Bobinet’s candid thoughts on Ozempic.
[29:46] What Dr. Bobinet looks for in prospective collaborations + Advice for digital health innovators.
[32:05] Top tips for designing apps for better health, life, and mindset.
[33:24] About Dr. Bobinet’s books + How to connect with her.
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Resources Mentioned:
Connect with our Host:
Ranjani Rangan
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📣 Attention clinician entrepreneurs and technologists! Are you ready to revolutionize healthcare at the point of care? Discover the CharmHealth platform, a perfect ecosystem where technologists and clinician entrepreneurs connect, ideate, and thrive.
Our CharmHealth Innovation Challenge is a recurring competition and a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs and philanthropists in the digital health space to present their ideas, research and innovative health solutions.
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ABOUT CHARMHEALTH
🔸 A cloud-based Electronic Health Records, Telehealth, Practice Management and Medical Billing solution that helps healthcare organizations ranging from large multi-speciality groups to small independent medical offices function efficiently.
🔸 To that effect, CharmHealth’s pricing is simple, unique and helps practices budget and manage the cost of software acquisition.
🔸 Charm's award-winning API platform integrates with a range of third party healthcare solutions, offering additional functionality to our users.
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
A Startup's Journey to Fixing a Broken System through Smarter Scheduling
Many parts of our healthcare system are broken. Can disrupting scheduling fix them?
Clinicians are leaving the profession faster than ever, wards are poorly staffed, and burnout is rampant. Smarter scheduling, or rather anti-scheduling, is MeshAI’s antidote to many of those problems. This is the story of how they’re building their company and how they’re contributing to fixing the healthcare system in doing so.
We touch on many topics including:
- Why did they decide to disrupt scheduling?
- How do they know they’re building an effective solution?
- How do they keep their company lean?
MeshAI was founded by Professor Shahram Yousefi, PhD, PEng, an engineer turned healthcare innovator. With a unique background of fleeing war and a career spanning telecommunications to academia, Yousefi brings a distinctive perspective to tackling healthcare challenges.
What we discussed
[00:00] Fact: clinicians are overworked
[01:30] How do we solve clinician understaffing?
[03:53] The mind behind MeshAI
[07:06] Shocking statistics: Why 900K nurses will QUIT !
[08:13] Stop calling healthcare professionals heroes.
[09:10] Overlooked method to solve clinician burnout
[10:32] Why are clinicians overbooked?
[12:24] To patent or not to patent
[13:18] Scheduling and equity
[14:29] Building MeshAI as a lean startup (and how their product evolved)
[19:05] How MeshAI achieved product-market fit
[21:43] Why your startup needs a clinician success team
[23:02] Disrupting medical scheduling OR Building an anti-scheduler
[25:09] Pricing strategy
[26:50] Not integrating with EMRs (here’s why)
[27:31] Are they building a feature or a product?
[29:37] Advice for digital health entrepreneurs + book recommendations
4 Key Lessons For Digital Health Entrepreneurs From MeshAI’s Journey:
- Involve healthcare professionals in your health-tech startup; position yourself as a partner, not a vendor. Mesh AI is not just built for healthcare professionals; it's built with them. The company is funded by doctors who believe in the solution's impact, and these professionals also serve on advisory boards and are integral to the product team. This direct involvement ensures the product meets the nuanced needs of its users.
- You’ll know you have product-market-fit when your product is imperfect, but clients still come and stay. To achieve product-market-fit you must get comfortable with making mistakes, acknowledging them, and addressing them. To do that, you must actively seek and genuinely listen to feedback.
- You don’t have to prioritize EMR integration. By building a product that is able to stand-alone from EMRs if necessary, you can iterate faster and more frequently. You’ll have to deal with less people, less processes, and less overall inefficiencies.
- Wear a 20 million market lens as you build your product. Find a solution that really makes a difference for 20 million THEN expand towards a 20 billion dollar market. To get traction early on, reach people, get them to support you, talk about you and become your ambassadors. Only then, will you be well positioned to capture a larger market share.
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Resources Mentioned:
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Friday Dec 29, 2023
Friday Dec 29, 2023
In this mid-season reflection, Ranjani warmly welcomes listeners to the Digital Health Disruptors Podcast by CharmHealth.
The episode highlights key innovators featured thus far, such as Dr. Art Wallace, whose personal experiences led to the development of a remote monitoring system leveraging AI to mitigate respiratory and cardiac emergencies. Additionally, insights from clinician entrepreneur Dr. Rachel Kuperman and Dr. Joshua Tamayo Sarver, VP of Innovation at Vituity & Inflect Health, enrich the discourse on innovation at the point of care and entrepreneurial journeys within healthcare.
Teasing the forthcoming episodes in 2024, Ranjani previews discussions with guests like Dr. Kyra Bobinet, CEO of Fresh Tri, diving into neuroscience-based health behavior change and embracing the Iterative mindset. Prof. Shahram Yousefi, co-founder of Mesh AI, shares his insights on transforming healthcare through seamless shift scheduling and the intersection of values and entrepreneurship in academia.
The episode concludes by hinting at the upcoming interview with Dr. Divya Chander, exploring the future of medicine and neurotechnology, discussing devices capable of reading and writing the brain for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
Credits:
- Dr. Kyra Bobinet - source: The Trauma Therapist Podcast
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- Spoken Segment: [SOUNDBITE: @ 9:31 “I was always curious about learned helplessness…powerful controller that has ever been found” 10:41]
- Prof. Shahram Yousefi - source Delta: HealthTech Innovators Podcast
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- Spoken Segment: [SOUNDBITE - @ 23:15 “ We are academics... they cannot be perfect 23:42]
- Dr. Divya Chander : Source: Digital Health and Biometrics: Hacking Humans at IEEE ISDPSM
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- Spoken Segment: [SOUNDBITE: @- “26:37...27:07 “This idea that mind reading might take off is actually a real thing... predict dreaming during sleep”]
Get ready for an insightful journey ahead in the Digital Health Disruptors Podcast!
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📣 Attention clinician entrepreneurs and technologists! Are you ready to revolutionize healthcare at the point of care? Discover the CharmHealth platform, a perfect ecosystem where technologists and clinician entrepreneurs connect, ideate, and thrive.
Our CharmHealth Innovation Challenge is a recurring competition and a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs and philanthropists in the digital health space to present their ideas, research and innovative health solutions.
🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸
ABOUT CHARMHEALTH
🔸 A cloud-based Electronic Health Records, Telehealth, Practice Management and Medical Billing solution that helps healthcare organizations ranging from large multi-speciality groups to small independent medical offices function efficiently.
🔸 To that effect, CharmHealth’s pricing is simple, unique and helps practices budget and manage the cost of software acquisition.
🔸 Charm's award-winning API platform integrates with a range of third party healthcare solutions, offering additional functionality to our users.
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Our guest on the third episode of DHD is Dr. Tamayo-Sarver MD PhD, VP of Innovation at Inflect Health and Vituity. In this capacity he wears many hats – from strategic health tech partnerships, investments, and internal incubation, to spearheading the development of ground-breaking health and wellness products
Dr. Tamayo-Sarver's incredible insights into healthcare problem-solving are informed by his diverse experiences. He's not just an executive in a national physician staffing company that provides technology solutions to over 400 hospitals; he's also a practicing emergency physician.
Our podcast host, Ranjani Rangan, and Dr. Tamayo Sarver discuss Vituity's 50 year long journey to becoming a leading national healthcare partnership network, encompassing 5,000 clinicians across specialties, as well as Inflect Health, Vituity healthcare hub that collaborates with multiple tech companies to drive innovation.
We highlight common challenges in healthcare innovation, such as barriers to development due to lack of common language and understanding between clinicians and engineers, or innovators not utilizing the human-centric approach before integrating technology, leading to in lack of flexibility and scalability.
[00:46] Introducing today’s guest and topic.
[02:11] The origin stories and missions of Vituity and Inflect Health.
[04:48] 3 ways Vituity is different from other healthcare innovation organizations.
[06:29] How does Vituity improve healthcare delivery?
[09:22] A major reason why health tech companies fail at innovating digital health solutions.
[11:52] How can tech developers find solutions that benefit stakeholders, patients, and healthcare professionals without adding stress?
[14:02] Decoded Health: How healthcare startups can balance patient wants with the physician’s moral, ethical, legal obligations.
[16:47] How to strengthen collaborations and bridge the gap between healthcare providers and technologists.
[19:56] Reflect & Engage: Where has miscommunication or differing perspectives hindered your progress?
[22:53] Inflect Health’s investment strategies & evaluation criteria for portfolio partners.
[25:54] Rely Health: Example of a successful healthcare startup investment.
[29:31] Emerging trends in digital healthcare & potential investment opportunities.
[31:32] Advice for clinician entrepreneurs.
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Resources Mentioned:
Inflect Health
Vituity
Decoded Health
Mark Hanson, CEO of Decoded Health
Rely Healthcare
Connect with Dr. Tamayo-Sarver on LinkedIn
Connect with our Host:
Ranjani Rangan
Follow Digital Health Disruptors on your favourite platform:
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
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📣 Attention clinician entrepreneurs and technologists! Are you ready to revolutionize healthcare at the point of care? Discover the CharmHealth platform, a perfect ecosystem where technologists and clinician entrepreneurs connect, ideate, and thrive.
Our CharmHealth Innovation Challenge is a recurring competition and a platform for innovators, entrepreneurs and philanthropists in the digital health space to present their ideas, research and innovative health solutions.
🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸
ABOUT CHARMHEALTH
🔸 A cloud-based Electronic Health Records, Telehealth, Practice Management and Medical Billing solution that helps healthcare organizations ranging from large multi-speciality groups to small independent medical offices function efficiently.
🔸 To that effect, CharmHealth’s pricing is simple, unique and helps practices budget and manage the cost of software acquisition.
🔸 Charm's award-winning API platform integrates with a range of third party healthcare solutions, offering additional functionality to our users.