Breaking Health
The Breaking Health Podcast features the innovators, investors and entrepreneurs who are building the technology and tools to break down and build up the country’s ailing health care system. With seasoned health care investor Steve Krupa, CEO of the Psilos Group, as host, Breaking Health delivers the earliest insights on the ongoing Digital Health Revolution.
Episodes
171 episodes
Episode: 171 - Heart Health Month: Jeffrey Wessler on Providing Virtual Cardiovascular Healthcare
In this year’s first episode of Breaking Health and to celebrate Heart Health Month, guest host Payal Agrawal Divakaran, partner at .406 Ventures, speaks with Jeffrey Wessler, MD, MPhil, CEO of Heartbeat Health, about virtual cardiovascular hea...
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Episode 171
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Episode: 170 - Kate Condliffe on Accessible Maternity Care and the Future of Women’s Health
In this episode of Breaking Health, guest host Payal Agrawal Divakaran, partner at .406 Ventures, and Kate Condliffe, CEO and co-founder of Diana Health, discuss providing accessible maternity care and the future of women’s health. Condliffe sh...
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Episode 170
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Episode: 169 - Kristina Saffran Discusses Accessible Eating Disorder Treatments, Choosing Cofounders, More
In this special video episode of Breaking Health / In this episode of Breaking Health, guest host Payal Agrawal Divakaran, partner at .406 Ventures, speaks with Kristina Saffran, cofounder and CEO of Equip about providing accessible eating diso...
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Episode 169
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Episode: 168 - Jon Maschmeyer on Private Equity and Investments in the Healthcare Space
In this episode of Breaking Health, host Steve Krupa speaks with Jon Maschmeyer, partner at Permira. Maschmeyer discusses what it’s like working with executives and what they learn from him about investments, what sector has the most activity t...
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Episode 168
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Episode: 167 - Generative AI in Healthcare: Hype or Hope?
At the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit WEST 2024, leaders of the AI technology industry discussed the tangible progress that’s been made, identified which tools are useful (and not so useful), and charted the realities—and sensationalism—a...
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Episode 167
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Episode: 166 - Andrew Adams On How to Find the Right Opportunities to Invest
When is the best time to make an investment? In the healthcare industry, this can be tricky to determine. In this episode of Breaking Health, host Steve Krupa speaks with Andrew Adams, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Oak HC/FT, about organiz...
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Episode 166
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Episode: 165 - Kyle Kiser Talks About Providing Patients Access To Medication Information And “Real Time Benefits”
When patients receive prescriptions, many find themselves at a loss over the lack of information on the medications’ clinical uses, costs, and more. In this episode of Breaking Health, host Steve Krupa speaks with Kyle Kiser, CEO of Arrive Heal...
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Episode 165
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Episode: 164 - Navigating Healthcare Rates with Price Transparency
From sports goods salesman and stand-up comedian to co-founder and CEO of a software company, Chris Severn is helping patients by providing price transparency in healthcare through an easy-to-use platform. In this episode of Breaking Health, ho...
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Episode 164
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Episode: 163 - Women, Families, and Health: Understanding the Market, Its Impact, and How You Measure Success
For the past few years, digital health has made great strides in providing new ways of healthcare access for patients. But this also means new challenges and obstacles have emerged. This year, at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, leader...
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Episode 163
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Episode: 162 - Creating Market Pathways for Effective, Validated Digital Therapeutics
Kamal Jethwani began his medical training in India and soon found himself more intrigued by solving of the administrative issues around care delivery. This interest came to a head when he found himself on the front lines of crisis response when...
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Episode 162
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Episode: 161 - Tomorrow Health CEO Vijay Kedar on the Coordination and Delivery of High-Quality and High-Efficiency Home Healthcare in Today’s Medical Landscape
Vijay Kedar, co-founder and CEO of Tomorrow Health, was raised in a family of physicians, often joking that he was “pre-med coming out of the womb.” However, it wasn’t until he took on managing his mother's care through stage III colorectal can...
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Episode 161
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Episode: 160 - A. J. Loiacono on Capital Rx’s Mission to Remodel the American Drug Pricing System as a Tech-Based Pharmacy Benefit Manager
AJ Loiacono’s experience in supply chain consulting for pharmaceutical manufacturing afforded him a world-class education in supply chain logistics, drug pricing, and software implementation. However, it wasn’t until he worked with healthcare p...
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Episode 160
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Episode: 159 - Dr. Jennifer Schneider on Homeward Health’s Mission to Bring Affordable and Accessible
Dr. Schneider’s interest in medicine began when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a preteen living in a small rural Minnesota town. After becoming a physician, her journey to CEO started with a return to her roots and a desire to help d...
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Episode 159
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Episode: 158 - HLM General Partner Steve Tolle on How to Spot a Winning Investment and the Ever-Changing Needs in the Tech-Enabled Healthcare Space
From working nights in the Prudential mailroom during college to securing leadership roles at big names like IBM Watson Health, Allscripts, and Pfizer, Steve Tolle, now general partner at HLM Venture Partners, has seen it all. With a multi-face...
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Episode 158
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Episode: 157 - Dr. Julian Harris on How ConcertoCare Reshapes Healthcare Delivery and Provides Holistic Care to Vulnerable and Senior Patients with Multiple Complex Conditions
Healthcare’s most vulnerable patients meet a fragmented system when they seek to simultaneously address chronic comorbidities, behavioral health challenges, and social needs (i.e., navigating access to food, transportation, and housing). In res...
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Episode 157
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Episode 156: CEO Siva Namasivayam on Cohere Health’s Mission to Use Digital Health Technology for the Transformation of Utilization Management into Proper Care Management
Payers and providers spend unnecessary time and energy approving medical and diagnostic procedures. CEO and Co-Founder Siva Namasivayam, believing that the digital health market has yet to leverage the full power of technology, launched Cohere ...
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Episode 156
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Episode: 155 - Bill Taranto on Merck’s Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund and Using Multiple Assets with Groundbreaking Technology to Solve Major Digital Health Problems
When Bill Taranto pitched the Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund, he envisioned an independent venture that mimicked a private firm but maintained the backing and power of a big health company. The Fund's partnership with Merck allows th...
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Episode 155
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Episode 154: Dan Brillman on Unite Us’ Impressive Mission to Bridge the Gap Between Americans and Access to Social and Health Services
After several deployments in the Middle East as a US Air Force Pilot, Unite Us CEO Dan Brillman served as a trusted confidant and aid to fellow veterans looking to secure housing, employment, sustenance, and healthcare. However, he became incre...
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Episode 154
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Episode: 153 - Panel Discussion on Access and Transformations in Complex and Specialty Care
While the pandemic may have dramatically advanced our virtual care ambitions, even pre-pandemic many people noted that care outside of the hospital resulted in improved outcomes for some groups of patients. In a recent conversation at the Digit...
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Episode 152: Sid Viswanathan on Truepill’s Vision for Virtual Healthcare and Finding New Passions to Drive Entrepreneurial Success
Sid Viswanathan doesn’t believe that a pre-existing passion is essential to entrepreneurial success, instead he recommends choosing an area with plenty to learn. “Find something you can spend a lot of time obsessing over,” he told the Breaking ...
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Episode 152
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Episode 151: Enam Noor Talks About Insightin Health’s Vision to Use Healthcare Data As An Asset to Drive the Next Best Action for Customer Health
Enam Noor has been an entrepreneur since he graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. After honing his skills in digital analytics and digital workflow, he’s taking what he learned and applying it to the healthcare field. Hi...
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Episode 151
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Episode 150: Entrepreneur Panel Explores the Market—and the Medicine—Driving Behavioral Health
Reimbursement coverage for behavioral health services hit a milestone in 2008 when Congress passed the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) which required insurers to equalize coverage for behavioral health and medical health ...
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Episode 150
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Episode 149: Founder & CEO Lucienne Ide of Rimidi Has a Vision for Value-Based Care That Truly Empowers Patients and Physicians To Achieve Continuous Care
“A lot has happened in healthcare in the past two years,” Lucienne Ide, Founder and CEO of Rimidi, says. “We went from a miniscule adoption of telemedicine—much less remote monitoring—to now everybody’s looking at the future and saying, ‘This i...
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Episode 149
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Episode 148: Special Episode: The Evolving Site of Care Landscape & The New Frontier of Care at Home
Doctors making house calls might seem like a relic of the past, but the act of caring for patients in their own home is experiencing a revival. Only this time, it’s highly dependent on technology. This special episode features a panel discussio...
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Episode 147: Chairman & CEO Walter Jin on how Pager is Providing a “Doctor-in-the-Family” Experience so People can Easily Find Care, Get Care, and Follow Up
Like many healthtech leaders, Walter Jin didn’t start his career in this industry. He began as an investment banker and then joined what was a much smaller Carlyle Group based in Washington DC in the 90’s. The firm had originally focused on aer...
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