Breaking Health Podcast

Lark CEO and Founder Julia Hu had launched two cleantech start-ups early in her career, but a childhood managing a chronic disease predestined her to start Lark Health, developer of an AI-empowered “coach” that can help people with chronic disease manage their own health.

Arvind Rajan left his managing director post at LinkedIn intent upon two things – taking some time off with his family and finding a new venture that would be hard, important, and transformative to the world. Rajan and his co-founders, James Chaukos and Vince Kim – saw an imbalance in how patients with late-stage kidney…

Breaking Health Host Steve Krupa returns to the Big Chair, reconnecting with old friend and former portfolio company CEO Tony Miller. In this podcast, the pair unpack the strategy of Bind, the “on-demand healthcare insurance” company working to change how employers insure their employees. Find out more at yourbind.com.

Susan DeVore has been in and around the healthcare industry for most of her life – long before she became president and CEO of Premier Inc., a company that unites an alliance of more than 4,000 hospitals and health systems and approximately 165,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare. It’s a little-known fact that…

IntelyCare CEO David Coppins details his company’s solution for nursing staffing shortages. The company makes its own nurses available to providers through a software scheduling tool, removing a lot of the juggling and guesswork. Earlier this month, IntelyCare announced a $10.8 million round led by Leerink Revelation Partners with participation from Longmeadow Capital, previous investor…

We like you. We really do. That’s why we’re sorry we haven’t posted a new Breaking Health Podcast in a few weeks. But we’re back on track sharing Andy Slavitt’s striking keynote commentary from DHIS. We’re also excited to share a snippet from our new podcast – Healthcare Is Hard, a Podcast for Insiders –…

Robert Mittendorff, MD, partner at Norwest Venture Partners, and Bill Geary, cofounder and partner at Flare Capital Partners, review the highlights of the successful Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit held on October 11 in Boston. In this interview they discuss: The most important takeaway from the State of Healthcare by Sam Baker of Axios. An important…

Bill Geary, co-chair of the upcoming DHIS, does Digital Health entrepreneurs a favor by spelling out what he sees as signs of a strong pitch. (See below.) We also review the highlights of the upcoming DHIS. The most profound Health Tech/Digital Health companies are either: (1) taking on novel clinical and financial risk for those…

Stephanie Tilenius, CEO and co-founder, brings her tech experience (PayPal, eBay, Google) to Vida, a data and tech-driven supplier of coaching and guidance. Hear how the company is building out a formidable digital offering.

Brigham Hyde, CEO of Precision Health AI, explains the company is building out a data platform for oncology treatment. The firm is building products to serve pharma, life science companies, providers, and payers. In this podcast, Hyde explains how Precision Health AI can help oncologists determine stage of cancer and identify adverse effects.