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AWS Health Innovation Podcast

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The AWS Health Innovation Podcast showcases entrepreneurs and investors who are driving progress in healthcare and life science across the globe.

Episodes

#48, Adrian Aoun from Forward Health on how to get healthcare to billions for free

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 remi...

May 25, 202332 min

#47, Doktor Gurson from RadAI on finding the right co-founder, improving clinician time to value and opportunities to innovate in radiology

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.

May 03, 202339 min

#46, Unlocking the Potential of Human Genomic Data: A Conversation with Curt Medeiros & Barry Wark from Ovation

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.

Apr 26, 202324 min

#45, Heather Mirjahangir Fernandez, Solv Health

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.

Apr 19, 202332 min

#37, New Year’s Special – HLTH Conference (re-release)

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, Ma...

Mar 27, 202322 min

#39, Seth Sternberg, Honor (re-release)

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.

Mar 20, 202334 min

#33, Michelle Wagner, Mindstrong (re-release)

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.

Mar 13, 202332 min

#18 Dr. George Church & Barghavi Govindarajan, Digid8 (re-release)

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.

Mar 06, 202326 min

#34, Ken Mayer , Safe Health

Ken Mayer from Safe Health discusses how cloud computing helps startups develop faster and in a more agile way, the importance of aligning your business model to solutions that are reimbursable, and how to improve provider and patient workflows as they interact with digital health solutions.

Feb 28, 202333 min

#27, Dr. Jean Drouin, Clarify Health Solutions

Dr. Jean Drouin, CEO and co-founder of Clarify Health Solutions, discusses how a fee-for-service model combined with actionable data can lead the healthcare system toward value-based care, why building a system to understand every patient journey is important, and what baseball can teach us about optimizing value-based arrangements.

Feb 28, 202333 min

Season Two Wrap Up

We want to hear your feedback about the Podcast! Let us know what you think here: https://airtable.com/shrF0QmQUU8xGvlIO --------- This week we're doing something different, as we wrap Season 2 and get ready to launch Season 3 later in the spring. Given we'll be taking several weeks off to cook up our next season of content, this is a great opportunity to showcase a few episodes from our catalog by republishing them on the feed over the coming weeks. Joe and Alex talk about why they selected the...

Feb 28, 202311 min

#44, Jonathan Bush, Zus Health

Jonathan Bush, CEO and co-founder of Zus Health, shares his thoughts on why he sees duplication as core to what frustrates so many with the US health system, how his experience leading athenahealth has shaped his team’s approach at Zus, and what his advice is for first time founders in health tech.

Feb 20, 202328 min

#43, Alessio Signorini, Evidation Health

Alessio Signorini, CTO and co-founder of Evidation Health, shares how the founders’ experience in data-driven advertising led them to Evidation Health, how the rise of wearable technology has dramatically increased available healthcare data, and why transparency, privacy, and trust are essential when working with healthcare data.

Feb 13, 202332 min

#42, Vijay Kedar, Tomorrow Health

Vijay Kedar, CEO and co-founder of Tomorrow Health, discusses how stakeholder value compounds across the healthcare ecosystem, why he prefers “support” to “empowerment” when building solutions for patients and caregivers, and why he believes so much of the newest technology in healthcare must be custom built with an insider’s view.

Feb 06, 202328 min

#41, JPM Special, Health Tech Bio - Trends from Across the Pond

Recorded at AWS & Wellington Partners “Health.Tech.Bio - Trends from Across the Pond” symposium at JPM, we welcome industry experts from the Israel Innovation Authority, Exscientia, Sofinnova Partners and Wellington Partners to share their insights on Europe’s unique contributions to healthcare & life sciences innovation. 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/.

Jan 30, 202337 min

#40, Alon Joffe, Eleos

Alon Joffe, CEO and co-founder of Eleos, discusses how he and his team have identified and addressed the barriers to receiving behavioral health treatment, why Eleos sees quality and administration as inextricably linked, and why he believes healthcare products must have both a financial and clinical ROI to be viable.

Jan 23, 202327 min

#39, Seth Sternberg, Honor

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.

Jan 16, 202334 min

#38, Dr. Mary Rozenman & Dr. Chris Probert, insitro

Dr. Mary Rozenman, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer at insitro, and Dr. Chris Probert, senior machine learning scientist at insitro discuss how insitro’s discovery process can start on either the clinical or cellular side, why scale is so important in every aspect of insitro’s model, and why diversity of experience and background can be a powerful tool in solving hard problems.

Jan 09, 202330 min

#37, Voices of Change: A Compilation of Perspectives from HLTH 2022

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 ...

Jan 03, 202322 min