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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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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
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🔸 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.
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Our guest on this show is Dr. Rachel Kuperman MD, the CEO and Founder of Eysz, a medtech/AI startup that is transforming neurological care. Eysz has developed innovative software that analyzes eye movements and uses those movements as biomarkers to assess brain health across a range of neurological conditions, with an initial focus on epilepsy.
We get to hear from Rachel how the combination of her experiences caring for children with epilepsy combined with her understanding of technology and medicine as well as sheer persistence, resilience and willingness to adapt has led to her current business success.
We discuss topics such as:
- Epilepsy and AI innovation - measuring and managing neurological diseases
- Building a Team/Networking for your startup
- Entrepreneurship, funding, and confidence as a woman in tech.
- Creating an MVP or Minimum Viable Product and adopting the Lean Startup methodology
- The power of storytelling and igniting emotion in the health tech world
- Combining persistence and resilience with openness and adaptability
Host Ranjani Rangan provides important context and draws out Dr. Kuperman’s very personal narrative – from her love of treating patients to her frustration with the limits she encountered when it came to effectively improving their quality of life.
Interested in learning more? Visit this link to read her blog, including “Journey of a Burnt Out Neurologist,” and contact Eysz for more information about progress in the treatment of epilepsy.
Visit this link to listen to, rate and review Digital Health Disruptors on your preferred streaming platform. You can also click here to schedule a demo of Charm Health’s innovative suite of healthcare products.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- (01:20) NEUROLOGIST ON A MISSION: About Dr. Rachel Kuperman and how she came to devote herself to developing a leading-edge medical device to treat epilepsy.
- (03:06) THE PROMISE OF EYSZ: Understanding a world in which 1 in 26 people have epilepsy and defining the uncertainty and stigma they face as a result of seizures.
- (04:10) BREAKING DOWN TYPES OF SEIZURES:
- Convulsive seizures – involving the whole brain, the body dropping to the floor.
- Absence seizures – involving the whole brain, brief loss of consciousness.
- Focal seizures – involving only part of the brain, impairing consciousness.
- (05:17) FROM NEUROLOGIST TO MED TECH ENTREPRENEUR: How the limits of medicine inspired Dr. Kuperman to embrace start-up innovation.
- (07:00) DATA IS THE FIRST STEP! About the power of quantifying not just numbers of seizures but related symptoms to create targeted treatments and measurable results.
- (09:50) IDEA INTO ACTION: How Dr. Kuperman migrated from innovating diagnostic tools in her practice to leaping into start-up culture – and personal growth!
- (12:16) LOOKING AT EYSZ: About how the team is building an FDA-approved Hyperventilation Recorder that leverages predictive data about Absence seizures.
- (14:00) BREAKING BOUNDS: A look at the technological advances and key partners that are accelerating Eysz’s remarkable med tech solutions.
- (15:07) MAKING THE MVP (Minimum Viable Product) JOURNEY: What it looks like to use rapid iterations and ongoing customer feedback for agile product development.
- (18:14) MORE ABOUT EYSZ’S DEBUT PRODUCT: A phone app that diagnoses childhood seizures and is continuously evolving to become more user-friendly for kids and valuable for diagnosticians.
- (19:00) SYSTEMIC BIAS: What Dr. Kuperman has observed as a female entrepreneur and why the disparity in funding for women in tech is unmistakable – and unacceptable.
- (22:23) STAYING INTEGRAL: A closer look at the tension between serving public health and making money for investors, who are eager to scale .
- (23:00) THE IMPORTANCE OF STORYTELLING: Why Eysz’s messaging emphasizes the experience of children with epilepsy to improve communication with their physicians as well as increase resonance and impact among the public at large.
- (24:50) KEY GOALS ON EYSZ’S RADAR:
- Empowering patients to communicate more clearly – and measurably – what they are experiencing as a result of their seizures and related symptoms.
- Providing valuable data to support and lower risk for pharmaceutical companies undertaking the development of new drugs.
- (25:50) DR. KUPERMAN’S INGREDIENTS FOR SELF-TRUST – AND SUCCESS!
- Be willing to fail – and be rejected – repeatedly!
- Be willing to hear feedback, even when it bites.
- Have the humility to accept that you don’t know everything.
- Trust in your gut that what you know, you know.
- Keep on going – even when it’s hard!
- (27:40) INFO INTO ACTION: Why Dr. Kuperman believes getting out there and talking to people is the best way to bust through analysis paralysis, fill in critical data points and validate what you need to support your product, its purpose and claims.
RELEVANT LINKS/FURTHER RESOURCES
- Click here to get more stats and insights about women in business.
- Further info about the referenced PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor.
- More about Steve Blanks’ MVP (Minimum Viable Product) thought leadership available at this link.
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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.
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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.
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
We speak with Dr. Art Wallace MD, PhD, a cardiac anesthesiologist, Chief of Anesthesia at the San Francisco VA, and a distinguished professor and vice chairman at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Wallace's vision is poised to revolutionize healthcare with a non-contact, remote monitor that promises to reduce the risk of respiratory and cardiac emergencies in hospitalized and nursing home patients.
Visit this link on Apple Podcasts to listen to, rate and review Digital Health Disruptors on your preferred streaming platform. You can also click here to schedule a demo of CharmHealth’s innovative suite of healthcare products. Find out more of what we do here at CharmHealth Innovation Challenge!
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
∙ (01:20) Introducing Our Guest: About Dr. Wallace’s background and his most recent innovation, the Atapir non-contact hospital patient monitoring platform.
∙ (04:50) The Power of AI: How the Atapir platform harnesses machine vision and learning to track crucial vital signs through the use of advanced camera and sound technologies.
∙ (06:51) State of the Art: About Atapir’s groundbreaking SaaS (software as a service) tools – the first significant advance in patient monitoring equipment in decades.
∙ (07:56) Removing the Mystery: What Atapir technology can do to mitigate the sense of powerless, isolation and anxiety many hospitalized patients experience.
∙ (09:15) HIPAA Concerns: Why creating “smart” hospital rooms need not raise red flags with regard to privacy, personal security or confidentiality.
∙ (11:20) Real-Time Tracking: How “smart” technologies can interrupt the slow (sometimes subtle) deterioration of patient health with constant monitoring of vital signs.
∙ (13:06) Vigilance Through AI: About the costs associated with providing machine-driven monitoring 24/7 in-hospital. It’s a subscription-based and affordable technology.
∙ (14:05) Considering Atapir’s Market Challenges:
o Raising capital to support development.
o Bootstrapping expensive, complicated trials.
o Shouldering all the development and go-to-market risk.
o Penetrating with investors who want to hang back until success is assured.
∙ (18:44) About Events that Shaped Dr. Wallace’s Life Journey and Mission:
o His mother’s deadly brain tumor diagnosis when he was just 11 years old inspired Dr. Wallace to pursue medicine and biomedical engineering.
o The callous disregard with which a girlfriend was treated following a cancer diagnosis further propelled Dr. Wallace to change the practice of medicine.
∙ (24:35) About His Work at the VA: How the vast history and epidemiological database offer a potential goldmine of information to support improvements in patient care.
∙ (25:40) Making a Mark: About the structured protocol, education and monitoring Dr. Wallace evolved to enable progress within a medical establishment resistant to change.
∙ (27:50) Next-Gen Mentoring: Why Dr. Wallace is so committed to sharing his passion for medicine and innovation with students who might not otherwise be exposed.
NOTABLE QUOTES:
∙ “Hospitals have all these sensors in the room for property control, but they don’t know that the patient is doing okay. That’s a problem.” (Dr. Wallace)
∙ “People want to give really good care and try to give really good care. But if you don’t give somebody a way to see the data, they don’t get it. They don’t see the problem.” (Dr. Wallace)
∙ “(Investors) want other people to take all the risk in device development, so we’re doing it. It’s painful, but we’re doing it.” (Dr. Wallace)
∙ “Of course I was a Boy Scout … (and) we try to teach people to think about the future, plan about stuff, be prepared!” (Dr. Wallace)
RELEVANT LINKS/FURTHER RESOURCES
∙ More about the American Society of Anesthesiology and their work available at this link.
∙ Click here for a “Nurse’s Eye” video tour of Atapir’s ground-breaking AI-driven monitoring technology.
ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Art Wallace, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of Anesthesia Service, San Francisco, CA is a cardiac anesthesiologist, biomedical, control system, and electrical engineer, software designer, and clinical researcher. Dr. Wallace has worked on preoperative risk reduction including design, development, testing, implementation, and quality improvement. He developed and assisted in the implementation of preoperative beta blockade and alpha-2 agonists. Dr. Wallace has also worked on device design including the ECOM & AVD systems, off-pump CABG, and left ventricular aneurysm repair. Art began his research career working on cardiac imaging, then worked on systems based cardiovascular physiology and autonomic control; he then progressed to clinical outcomes, device, and finally implementation research.
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ABOUT OUR HOST:
In the realm of digital health, Ranjani Rangan reigns as a masterful Corporate Storyteller and Marketing and Partner Communications Strategist. As the host of the Digital Health Disruptors podcast, she takes listeners on a captivating journey through the lives of digital health innovators, sharing their trials, challenges, and triumphs.
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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.
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Get ready to dive into the future of healthcare with the Digital Health Disruptors Podcast by CharmHealth.
Join your host, Ranjani Rangan, as we explore innovations, inspiring stories, and the latest trends that are reshaping the world of digital health. Discover the visionaries who are changing the way we think about healthcare
Visit this link on Apple Podcasts to listen to, rate and review Digital Health Disruptors on your preferred streaming platform. You can also click here to schedule a demo of CharmHealth’s innovative suite of healthcare products. Find out more of what we do here at CharmHealth Innovation Challenge!
🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸
📣 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.