Explore how Iterative Scopes, led by CEO Jonathan Ng, is pioneering the application of artificial intelligence-based precision medicine to gastroenterology with the aim of establishing a new standard of care for the detection and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. Part of our "Revisiting" series where we republish top episodes from our back catalogue.
Jul 18, 2023•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Discover how Insilico Medicine is accelerating drug discovery using Generative AI in the latest episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast. CEO Alex Zhavoronkov joins AWS' Dr. Yin He to discuss their journey and how they are accelerating drug development.
Jul 11, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Join AWS Startups' Eric Zimmerman and Apixio CEO, Sachin Patel, as they explore the transformative role of AI in healthcare analytics on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast. Sachin shares how Apixio is making patient care more personalized and cost-effective with actionable data.
Jul 04, 2023•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast AKASA's Ben Beadle-Ryby shares AI's transformative impact on healthcare revenue cycle management. Learn how AKASA improves the patient experience by creating solutions that seamlessly address the revenue cycle needs of payors & providers.
Jun 27, 2023•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Tarselli, Chief Scientific & Knowledge Officer at TetraScience discusses accelerating drug development through a unified data platform and fostering a learning culture on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast.
Jun 20, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of AWS Health Innovation Podcast, revisit #8, a Season One classic with Rohit Nambisan, CEO of Lokavant. Rohit discusses Lokavant's drive to harness overlooked clinical trial data and the crucial role of diverse teams in startup success.
Jun 13, 2023•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Learn how Science 37 is revolutionizing clinical trials in this episode with their Chief Delivery Officer, Darcy Forman. Hear about the pioneering technologies they're using to deliver trials directly to patients' homes.
Jun 06, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Discover how Litesprite challenges gaming stereotypes, clinically validates their software, and aims to make mental health support accessible to all. Join Founder & CEO Swatee Surve in a special episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast with host Danielle Morris, AWS Global Social Impact, Global Public Health- Health Equity Lead.
May 30, 2023•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
May 25, 2023•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
May 25, 2023•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2023•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. David Parke, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Verana Health, discusses why certain medical specialties are ideal proving grounds for digital health innovation, how Verana grew out of the unique data collected by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and why knowing not only what customers value but also the nuance surrounding that value is so important for startups.
Dec 19, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast