Breaking Health Podcast

ClearDATA Co-founder, CEO and President Darin Brannan says his father, uncles and brother are all physicians. “I’m sort of the black sheep out in Silicon Valley,” Brannan tells Steve Krupa in this week’s Breaking Health podcast. But he found honorable work, first as a venture capitalist at firm’s like Norwest Venture Partners, and then as…

Do you know your cognitive number? This is a question that is seldom asked, but according to Mylea Charvat, PhD, CEO of Savonix, knowing the answer is important. Savonix is a digital and cost-effective cognitive assessment platform that can be used to monitor mental cognition. If you’re wondering what exactly mental cognition is, it isn’t…

Jeffrey Brewer couldn’t accept the limits on technology when his son first was diagnosed with diabetes. Back in 2002, commercial airliners could almost land themselves and nuclear plants were automated. Yet the process of measuring glucose blood levels and injecting insulin were still determined by patients and families who were forced to do the math…

Geary Shares What Drives Him to Invest in Healthcare Few VCs have been investing in health IT companies longer than Bill Geary, cofounder and partner of Flare Capital Partners, one of the more prolific investors in this arena. In this podcast interview, Geary, who serves as co-chair of the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, explains how…

Reputation.com Moving into Healthcare Reputation management is nothing new. “Five thousand years ago, when trading was going on the Silk Road, businesses cared about their reputation,” says Shrey Bhatia, CEO of Reputation.com. “And nothing has changed in the past 5,000 years.” What has changed is how quickly information can be spread and, if the information…

Innovation has come slowly to the US Department of Veterans Affairs, but the largest single healthcare system in the US is seeing the flow of new ideas on the rise. The increase can be connected to the creation of internal entities like the VA Innovators Network at the VA Center for Innovation that work to…

Tech innovators and entrepreneurs enter the digital health space because they seek work with a purpose. Marie Johnson’s purpose found her in a most tragic way. Johnson, CEO and founder of AUM Cardiovascular, lost her husband, Rob, to a heart attack. He was 41, fit, and had just cleared a nuclear cardiology stress test. Prior…

How Patientory is Effectively Bringing Blockchain to the PHI Space A few years back, Chrissa McFarlane was running the insurance department of a digital health start-up and growing increasingly frustrated over the long and tedious process required to simply access patient information, let alone share it. A Cornell grad with a masters in management from…

Macro-Eyes Digging into Healthcare’s Data Benjamin Thelonious Fels always had an eye for pattern recognition. The skillset served him well when he secured a degree in art history from Wesleyan University. He carried that degree and perspective into investing as he served as senior trader at WH Trading, a hedge fund where he managed quantitative…

Justin Barad Brings VR into OR Training Early in his career as a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, Justin Barad got hold of a virtual realty (VR) headset and found himself in a Tuscan villa throwing around furniture. The experience may change the way doctors and surgeons learn their craft for decades to come. As a young…