Jonathan Baktari MD is CEO of e7 Health (vaccine-based prevention) and US Drug Test Centers (a nationwide network). He's a lively voice among physician entrepreneurs. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https:...
Mar 16, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Kermit CEO Rich Palarea share his company's approach to enabling hospitals and health systems to keep the cost of implantable medical devices under control. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.care...
Mar 09, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 128
Matt Schwartz founded Virgo to improve patient outcomes and clinical workflows in endoscopy with automation and AI tools. It was a logical progression from seeing videos of surgeries as a kid and then working in the field at NuVasive and Intuitive Surgical. And yes, this is the same guy who invented a penile implant for his senior engineering project. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/s...
Mar 02, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 127
Ethan Bechtel, CEO and Co-Founder of OhMD, a HIPAA compliant texting and telehealth platform discusses challenges of communication between patients & doctors through text messaging. We dive into Ethan's entrepreneurial upbringing and personal journey through healthcare, which has shaped his vision for an ideal healthcare experience. We explore the early days of developing patient portals and the challenges with getting users to adopt them, leading to the eventual shift towards text messaging...
Feb 23, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 126
Jason Matuszwewski is CEO and Andrew Van Vurst is COO of BioStem Technologies, which develops and makes placental-derived tissue allografts for wound healing applications. From racing cars to building biotech companies they have exciting stories to share. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfilte...
Feb 16, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 125
One of the worst things that can happen is when a curable cancer case falls through the cracks causing needless pain, suffering, expense, and even premature death. Yet it happens all the time in the US healthcare system, for example when incidental findings discovered during an examination for another reason are not followed up due to labor shortages or confusion about who’s responsible or what the findings mean. Guest Chris Cashwell is CEO and Founder of Azra AI, whose technology interprets uns...
Feb 09, 2023•34 min•Season 1Ep. 124
GENIXUS co-founders Kendall Foster and Seth Coombs combined their expertise and mobilized investors and partners to develop a platform to reinvent how critical care medicines are manufactured and delivered. The first product, a ready to administer Propofol is already shipping to customers. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...
Feb 02, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Ready for artificial intelligence to make an impact in healthcare? Meet Encord CEO Eric Landau. His company provides a comprehensive AI-assisted active learning platform for computer vision, enabling AI in radiology and beyond. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube htt...
Jan 26, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 122
Dry January sounds like a great idea, an opportunity to sober up after an overindulgent holiday season. But complete abstinence doesn’t always work and is falling out of vogue. Instead, harm reduction is the new mantra. Ria Health CEO Tom Nix talks about his company's approach to treating Alcohol Use Disorder. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://p...
Jan 19, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 121
Healthmap Solutions helps patients with early stage kidney disease slow its progression so they don't "crash" into dialysis. In this episode, CEO Eric Reimer walks through his 25 years of experience in technology enabled healthcare. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTub...
Jan 12, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Health Business Group president David Williams delivers 6 health care industry predictions in this rapid-fire episode to kick off 2023. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host...
Jan 10, 2023•59 sec•Season 1Ep. 119
Emergency physician Brian Fengler found it impossible to get real-time, evidence based guidance to make fast treatment decisions in challenging, life-threatening cases. He founded EvidenceCare to fill that gap. Today, the company's software is available in leading health systems, providing real-time, contextual information right in the workflow. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2G...
Jan 05, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 118
Erica Jain started Healthie in 2016, when she was a first-year student in business school. For the last several years she's been building a company that builds infrastructure for the next generation of digital health. As you can imagine, the pandemic radically increased the need for what Healthie provides. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podca...
Dec 22, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Attorney Jonathan Tycko represents whistleblowers under the False Claims Act and is a podcast host to boot. Whistleblowers play a useful function and can be well compensated for their service. But the road is long, arduous and not to be traveled alone. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered...
Dec 15, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Smileyscope uses virtual reality neuromodulation to take the fear out of needle procedures for kids. Founder and CEO Evelyn Chan is a Rhodes Scholar and medical doctor with an inspiring life story. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalk...
Dec 08, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Brigham Hyde lost his mother to cancer at 14 and has been on a quest to help patients ever since. Atropos Health brings the promise of real world data to the point of care, helping doctors and patients make personalized treatment decisions. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id153240235...
Dec 01, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Learn all about actigraphy and its role in clinical trials from Actigraph CEO Jeremy Wyatt. You'll also hear about his role in the Farmers' Opry! And he's the first guest to take me up on my offer to share a suggestion of a book to avoid. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 ...
Nov 23, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 113
Learn about the past, present and future of Real World Evidence (RWE) in this interview with two of its leading practitioners. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E....
Nov 17, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 112
As the National Coordinator for Health IT, Micky Tripathi leads the federal government's efforts in IT strategy and implementation. I've known Micky for two decades and am excited to see him in this role. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@C...
Nov 10, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Brad Kittredge cut his teeth in digital health at ComplexDx, Jawbone and 23andMe before founding Brightside, which provides life-changing telehealth care to people with serious mental health conditions As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Care...
Nov 03, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Reza Sanai had a great start to his career as a cardiologist but eventually became dissatisfied with his role. He saw 20 patients per day but realized that about 40 percent of them didn’t need to be in his office. He tried an experiment with a large primary care practice --offering instant access to his expertise. Results were astonishing: ER visits dropped to almost zero and referrals to specialists fell by more than 40 percent. That experiment became PicassoMD. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is pa...
Oct 27, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Srulik grew up in Israel and almost became a saxophonist but ended up as an electrical engineer. As co-founder and CEO of TailorMed, he is focused on affordability of drugs in the US healthcare system. The company matches patients with financial assistance programs offered by drug companies. That helps patients afford their meds and drives higher revenues for providers administering specialty drugs. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the fo...
Oct 20, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Sharon L. Rogers, PhD is leading the development of a new treatment for Alzheimer's. AmyriAD, where Sharon is CEO is in late stage trials for a drug that is designed to improve global function and cognition when used in combination with donepezil (Aricept). As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfil...
Oct 13, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 107
Rob Coleman grew up in a family of entrepreneurial scientists and down the street from the Cold Spring Harbor Lab. So it was a pretty straightforward path for Rob to go from youthful intern to co-founder and CEO of a synthetic biology company. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id153240...
Oct 06, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Jean Drouin worked at McKinsey before going to medical school, giving him unusual insights into production optimization that he applied to the patient journey. After several more years at McKinsey, including a stint reforming the UK's National Health Service, Jean co-founded Clarify Health. Fast forward seven years, and Clarify is deploying a platform to enable value based care at scale. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following link...
Sep 29, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 105
YPrime helps simplify the management of clinical trials for the life sciences industry. CEO and co-founder Shawn Blackburn started off in the construction industry before shifting to the life sciences field. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com...
Sep 22, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Vim connects data from health insurers and other sources into existing electronic medical record workflows, helping doctors make better cost and quality decisions during patient visits. The company is backed by tens of millions from Optum, Walgreens and other industry heavyweights so they’re clearly doing something right. It’s not the most obvious path for someone who grew up in Israel and served in the special forces there before founding telecoms, gaming, real estate and education. But in this...
Sep 15, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Science 37 is a publicly traded pioneer in decentralized clinical trials, which offers an end-to-end 'operating' system for trial sponsors and CROs. The company leverages its various networks to enable hybrid and fully decentralized trials. The decentralized model also helps foster diversity and inclusion, which has become an important selling point. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/sh...
Sep 08, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Gabriele Brambilla is an unconventional guy. As an Italian with 5 kids who's faithful to his wife and doesn't eat pasta it's only natural that he'd set his sight on the big goal of "humanizing healthcare." Oh and he also played basketball for Italy's national team. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthca...
Sep 01, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 101
In this 100th episode of the HealthBiz podcast, Florence Healthcare CEO Ryan Jones describes the pain points in clinical trial workflows and what Florence is doing to help. Let's hope Florence continues to succeed, since that will mean more sites participating in trials, and faster introduction of useful therapies. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple http...
Aug 25, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 100
