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 use digital to manage patient lives. We learn about patient-centricity as a result of digital as well as the influence of policy at care organizations. Lastly, we talk about what’s in store for the future of healthcare and how digital can contribute to preventive healthcare delivery! Enjoy!

Questions Answered

– What’s the process like to managing patient lives?

– What does digital add to the conversation on value-based care?

– What does the role of policy and Medicare / Medicaid have in the digital enablement of health?

– What do you envision the future of healthcare to look like? What are you most excited about?

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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, and we hear of Phillip’s journey to developing amazing technology from his time at MIT, NASA, DARPA, and interactions with neuroscience leaders like Elon Musk. We talk about singularity and how AI surpassing human intelligence may prove more good to society than what’s speculated today. This episode is certainly an interesting look at how AI, informed by neuroscience, is changing how doctors deliver care!

In today’s episode, we answer some of the following questions:

1.) What kind of work has DARPA done to establish the foundation of the computer-human interface? (Think Neuralink!)

2.) How “intelligent” is artificial intelligence? Do we have to worry about AI becoming smarter than humans any time soon?

3.) How does early-stage start-up pivot due to COVID? How do you take your base technology and apply it to a different use case?

4.) What does the future of AI in healthcare look like?

5.) What are your thoughts on neuroscience players and how they’ve been contributing to brain technology?

To see a demo of the technology and some of its use cases, check out Philip’s 10-minute pitch at VentureBeat here.

If you want to play with the technology itself, check out the product at https://health.medio.ai/login

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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 VR is impacting brain health as a new form of treatment and a method to deeper neuroscience research. There’s a ton we still don’t know about the development of brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, motivating the team at Virtuleap to keep researching and discovering new insights while building towards a solution through the power of VR brain games. You won’t want to miss this episode! 
In This Episode You Will Learn: 
1.) What connections does gameplay have with brain function? 
2.)How has big data changed the way we use biometrics for cognition? 
3.) Why did you base the company in Portugal when you grew up somewhere else? 
4.) How do you see VR impacting healthcare beyond brain diseases and neuro-health? 
5.) What is your vision for Virtuleap in finding a treatment for Alzheimer’s? 
Enjoy!

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 of Wellth, a rising star in the digital health space! Using Behavioral Economics, Wellth inspires positive behavior change for patients with chronic behavioral and physical health conditions. Medication non-compliance is such a large problem, that studies believe that medication non-compliance poses a $300B annual burden on the healthcare ecosystem.

To tackle such a large problem, the Wellth platform offers different features like personalized messaging, celebratory videos from family and…actual cash payments!

We talk about a variety of topics, everything from partnering with providers and health insurers, raising a $11M Series A, to Matt’s personal story on why he founded Wellth. We talk about the role of behavioral economics and gamification in digital health and how it is changing the lives of patients! We are so excited about this episode, and the future of Wellth! You can see the shortlist of the amazing results Wellth has produced here: https://www.wellthapp.com/outcomes

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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 enables physicians, nurses, and clinical experts to accompany the patient on each step of their healthcare journey. They offer a suite of products to healthcare providers to digitally connect to patients, so the continuum of care is never disrupted. Patients are at the center of their tech, aiming to always provide “care on time”!
VeeMed began with a spark of inspiration that brought together three forward-thinking men: a U.S. board-certified intensivist, a Duke and USC alumnus and technology entrepreneur, and a seasoned telemedicine evangelist. Since 2016 – only a year after two of the founders were recognized for innovation by President Barack Obama – VeeMed has worked hard to pair groundbreaking technology with deep clinical expertise, and operational excellence. They arrived at a turnkey telehealth solution that has been at the forefront of healthcare continuity during the coronavirus.
We talk about the two eras of telemedicine: Pre COVID-19 and Post COVID-19. This is due to the dramatic spike seen in telemedicine! We talk about how there’s been the rapid adoption and advancement of telemedicine in our society that would have taken us 5 years to achieve had the coronavirus not occurred. It’s an amazing accomplishment for healthcare and it’s being supported by companies like VeeMed leading the charge.
VeeMed’s current activities include partnering with Intel to provide a telehealth solution for Banner Health to fight COVID-19 — while also managing their current suite of technologies and supporting patients as active doctors themselves. What an unbelievable team and we so enjoyed talking to them!

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, dermatology, hematology, etc.) in the US for second-opinions on their medical care. 
In this episode, we spoke with the founders of InfiniteMD, Babak Movassaghi (PhD, MBA) and Christopher Lee (MSE, PhD) on how virtual care is expanding globally – especially on their platform! 
Since starting the company in 2015, InfiniteMD has brought on over 2,400 specialists onto their platform! In the US alone, 1.5 million people have access to the InfiniteMD platform.
In today’s episode, Babak and Chris discuss parts of the secret formula to building a successful telehealth platform. For example,

How do you get medical specialists to join your platform?
How do you create a platform that specialists and patients both love?
Customers or Providers? Which should you acquire first?

InfiniteMD also boasts some pretty amazing results. Over 20% of patients that use this platform are given a new diagnosis and ~82% of all cases at InfiniteMD have resulted in a change in treatment plan or additional diagnostic testing. 
Super interesting use of technology — even more so with a lens on the global patient population! Enjoy!