A Healthy Idea podcast is dedicated to exploring the digital health space. We interview founders to learn how technology and entrepreneurship are driving innovation in health.
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How Your Relationships are the Biggest Predictor of Happiness in Life, Creating an App as a Non-Technical Founder, and How to Understand your Customers, with Ali Maggioncalda, Founder/CEO of Lovewick
Today we sit down with Ali Maggioncalda, the CEO and founder of Lovewick. Lovewick is an app centered on creating deeper relationships for couples. Ali started off her exploration of love and relationships at Stanford doing extensive resear…
Jackson Square Ventures Partner Victor Echevarria on Why the Best Founders are Incredibly Humble; why SPACs are Overhyped, and Why the First $100B Healthtech Company is Closer Than You Might Think.
Today's special guest is Victor Echevarria! Victor is a Partner at Jackson Square Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses. A founder turned investor, his investments include 1upHealth, WELL Health, …
The Importance of Building Community to Promote Healthy Behaviors with co-founders of MindthruBody Elsa Jimenez and Arelys
Elsa and Arelys are the co-founders of MindThruBody, an online community focused on empowering Latinx women to pursue physical activity through the power of community and sharing experiences. Topics we talk about today: What made you want t…
Next Generation Dental Care Using AI, with Dr. Wardah Inam, CEO & Co-founder of Overjet
Dr. Wardah Inam is the CEO and co-founder of Overjet. Overjet is a software company that develops a platform designed to reduce costs and improve the quality of dental care. It uses artificial intelligence and analyzes dental data to determ…
Why Dental Care Needs to be Better and How Wally Health is Reinventing The Dental Care Experience, with Tyler Burnett, CEO and Co-Founder Of Wally Health
Wally Health is the one-stop shop for oral care. Wally is reinventing the end-to-end dental care experience with personalized, accessible, and affordable dental products delivered to your front door. Consider Wally Health the Hims & Her…
Building a First Class Sales Organization and Truly Understand Your Customer’s Needs with Ryan Hungate DDS, CEO and Co-founder of Simpleye
Today we sit down with Ryan Hungate, CEO of Simplifeye. Simplifeye is building an all-in-one suite of products to help dental offices manage their patients. Simplifeye provides an out-of-the-box solution that offers Live Chat, Payments, Sch…
Using Software as a Drug: An Introduction to All Things Digital Therapeutics (DTx), with Danny Kim, Head of Corporate Development @ WELT
Today, we have part two of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT! WELT was founded in 2016 as a spin-off of Samsung to explore the intersection of healthcare and technology. WELT creates personalized digita…
The Importance of Being an Operator & Patient-Centric Design: A Pill-Pack Case Study with Danny Kim, Head of Corp Dev @ WELT
Today, we have part one of our interview with Danny Kim, the Head of Corporate Development at WELT. WELT creates “Personalized digital therapeutics for the treatment of diseases with high unmet medical needs.” WELT is currently focused on c…
Digital Health News: The Prince and the Digital Health Startup, plus Digital Health's $7.1 Billion Fundraising Glow-Up.
New podcast format alert! Iman and I are trying something new this week. In this episode, we will be discussing some of the most recent and interesting news in the digital health space! In today's episode, we talk about: Prince Harry's new …
“With Great Personal Data, Comes Great Responsibility": Managing Your Personal Data in a World with Vaccine Passports, with David Lucatch, CEO of KABN Network
David Lucatch is theCEO, President & Chair of the Corporation at Liquid Avatar Technologies. Hehasspent over35 years as a serial entrepreneur in the international marketingarena and over 25 years of that developing technologies and taki…
Burnout, Leadership, and Toxic Work Cultures with Hamza Khan, Managing Director of Student Life Network
Today’s episode is going to be slightly different from our previous episodes. Rather than focus explicitly on a company tackling a problem in the digital health space we have a guest whose work is focused on tackling a problem that we all f…
Building Companies with a Product Manager Mindset and Health, E-commerce, and Entrepreneurship in Dubai, with Tony Pagliocco, Fmr. CPO of Hello Chef
Today’s special guest is Tony Pagliocco, the Former Head of Product for Hello Chef. Tony formally served as a Product Manager for Wizards of the Coast and as Head of Product for the Analytics division at Boeing. Hello Chef is a Dubai-based …
The 16 Billion Dollar Market in Healthcare that is Often Overlooked, How AI Can Save Insurers and Patients Billions of Dollars Every Year, with Andrew Lockhart, CEO & Co-Founder of Fathom Health
Today, we spoke to Andrew Lockheart, CEO of Fathom Health, about the world of medical coding. Medical coding is the process of assigning standardized codes that tell health insurers what services they used and how that service should be rei…
How to Build a Top-Rated Digital Health Companion, with Omri Shor, CEO of Medisafe
Today’s interview is with Omri Shor, the Chief Executive Officer of Medisafe, a digital health application that has over 49K top ratings on the App Store. Medisafe is an evidenced-based digital therapeutics company providing medication mana…
Innovation in Orthopedic Care, with Ben Schwartz, CIO of Healent
Today’s interview is with Ben Schwartz, the Chief Innovation Officer of Healent and a LinkedIn 2020 Top Voice. Healent is a remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform that is dedicated to supporting patients with Musculoskeletal issues (think…
Telehealth for Pets and Connected Pet Care with Bobby Reddy, COO and Co-Founder of Anipanion
Today we sit down with Bobby Reddy, COO, and co-founder of Anipanion, a telehealth product for pets! Bobby has been an entrepreneur since his time in college where he and his roommate (later co-founder) were intrigued by the combination of …
The Future of Orthopedic Surgery, with Scott Day, CCO of Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics
Today, we spoke to Scott Day, CCO of GramercyOrtho (also known as GEO), about the challenges behind supplying and managing orthopedic surgical equipment. Prior to joining GEO, Scott was the Head of Sales at Black Forest Medical Group and a …
The Digital Disruption in Health with Justin Norden, VC Investor and Partner at GSR Ventures
In this episode, we sit down with Justin Norden, a Partner at GSR Ventures. GSR Ventures is one of the world’s most successful early-stage venture firms, with over $3B under management and with investments in Kinsa, Deep 6 AI, DataVisor, Pl…
Patient-Centered and Preventive Healthcare 2.0 with Unmesh Srivastava, CTO of P3 Health
Today, we sit down with Unmesh Srivastava, CTO at P3 Health. P3 is a value-based care organization that’s bringing digital solutions to the healthcare space. We learn about Unmesh’s experience with partners in the P3 network and how they us…
Your Health with Only a Camera + Creating the Foundation of the Brain-Computer Interface @ DARPA with Dr. Phillip Alveda, CEO of Brainworks
We sit down with Dr. Phillip Alveda, the founder of Brainworks, an AI company that can calculate your heart rate, oxygen levels, breathing rate, and heart rate variability only using the camera on your phone or laptop! It’s incredible tech,…
The Cognitive Power of VR - Brain Games for Brain Health with Amir Bozorgzadeh, CEO of Virtuleap
We sit down with Amir Bozorgzadeh, the founder of Virtuleap, a health and education VR startup based in Lisbon, Portugal. Virtuleap aims to take cognitive assessment and brain training to the next level using VR and AI. We learn about how V…
Using Behavioral Economics to Improve Patient Outcomes with Matt Loper, CEO of Wellth
Have you ever wondered why human beings tend to do things that are against their best interests, especially when it comes to taking care of their own health? The team at Wellth definitely did! We sit down with Matt Loper, CEO, and founder o…
Upgrading Clinical Care through Telemedicine in a Post-COVID World with Ijaz Arif and Dr. Arshad Ali
In our latest episode, we spoke with the founders of VeeMed, Ijaz Arif and Dr. Arshad Ali on how telemedicine is filling the gaps that exist in the clinic, especially post the outbreak of COVID-19. VeeMed is a telehealth platform that enabl…
Leveraging Global Demand for US Medical Expertise with Telehealth Services, with Babak Movassaghi and Christopher Lee, co-founders of InfiniteMD
Interested in a doctor's opinion from a world-renown Mass General Hospital on a head injury? InfiniteMD has you covered!InfiniteMD is a platform that lets patients around the world access healthcare specialists (think Oncology, radiology, d…