#42, Vijay Kedar, Tomorrow Health

Discover the world of movement health with Dr. Phil Wagner, Founder & CEO of Sparta Science. Learn how next-gen sensors can optimize performance, speed up recovery, and reduce workplace injuries.

Cédric Kovacs-Johnson, CEO & Founder of Flume Health, discusses how Flume enables payers to launch innovative health plans, integrating a variety of point solutions seamlessly. They aim to provide personalized benefits and address the gaps in the incumbent payer system, while emphasizing the importance of customer feedback and a clear product vision.

Adrian Aoun, CEO of Forward Health, shares his vision of how to build a healthcare system capable of scaling up to a billion covered lives. Discover how Forward Health challenges conventions, prioritizes motivation over skills, and leverages a diverse network of advisors and investors to accelerate healthcare innovation. Adrian shares details on the remarkable work Forward Health is already doing through its futuristic primary care clinics across the US. Forward Health's body scanners might remind you of Star Trek, which turns out not to be by accident, and Adrian envisions a future where healthcare is democratized and accessible to all. We also explore how to build an effective startup advisory board and the power of collecting intelligence and ideas from a wide range of experts. Adrian also explains how Forward Health fosters a culture of constant learning, diligently evaluating ideas, and uncovering ground breaking solutions to the complex challenges of healthcare.

In this episode, we explore the success story of RadAI, a digital health company that provides AI-powered radiology solutions. We discuss how the company’s co-founders created a strong and complementary partnership, prioritized platform customization and time to value to drive adoption, and continue to navigate emerging trends in the radiology space to improve the lives of patients and clinicians.

In this episode, Curt Medeiros (CEO) and Barry Wark (Co-Founder & CSO) from Ovation join Eric Zimmerman (Principal Healthcare & Life Sciences BD, Venture Capital & Startups at AWS) to discuss the importance of genomic data in advancing precision medicine. They share insights on how to build a successful genomic data business, innovation in precision medicine beyond oncology, and the importance of mapping genomic data to longitudinal phenotypic data.

On this episode, we're joined by Heather Mirjahangir Fernandez, CEO and Co-Founder of Solv, a startup that's transforming the healthcare industry by making access to high-quality, convenient care simple, friendly and transparent for consumers. Heather shares her insights on the importance of convenience in healthcare, the challenges Solv faces, and their mission to empower consumers to simplify their day-to-day healthcare needs.

Episode Re-Release. Alex Merwin hosts a group of health innovation leaders from startups, investors, media and startup enabling organizations for a special HLTH compilation episode. We asked each innovator two questions: what is special about convening in-person at events in this post-covid world, and if they could wave a magic wand to eliminate any hurdle to health innovation what would they change and why. Thanks to our guests from Redesign Health, Maven Clinic, Luma Health, Health Gorilla, Matter, Mission Based Media, Keep Labs, Memora Health, Unseen Capital, BioFourmis, and Brightside Health. Learn more about how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive at https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/.

On this re-release, Seth Sternberg discusses the need to care for care professionals and how they’re developed, how to acquire & integrate a company into a high-growth startup and lessons learned managing a two-sided marketplace in the digital health space.

On this re-release, Michelle Wagner, CEO of Mindstrong, discusses why integrating data collected between treatment sessions can be a game changer for behavioral health, why selling digital health products via large employers can look a lot like direct-to-consumer sales, and why entrepreneurs in healthcare must learn to embrace iterative change as part of a large and complex system.

This is re-release of Dr. George Church and Barghavi Govindarajan discussing how technology, innovation, and education can come together in a single product, to what extent users need to understand a complex technology to use it effectively, and how basic science researchers can leverage startups to speed up the time to making a massive impact on the world.