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This week on the podcast, John has an insightful talk with Matt Lashey, Co-Founder and CEO of Treatment Technologies & Insights and Creator of chemoWave and Wave Health. Treatment, Technologies & Insights is a health technology company with a portal that provides insight for physicians to receive reports and data on their patients, while chemoWave and Wave Health are two AI apps that generate personalized health insights based on patients’ experiences.

After using Matt’s partner’s experience with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma to gather data and insights, their doctor encouraged them to create an app for other patients, thus beginning an entrepreneurial journey. Matt talks about how TTI’s platform and apps collect data and generate reports for physicians to read as a guide, identifying characteristics and possible relationships between their symptoms and medications throughout their treatments. He also discusses the perception of data in the healthcare industry as he’s witnessed it venturing into the current health tech space, where systems are siloed and integration seems to be difficult.

Tune in to learn more about Matt and Ric’s journey and how TTI is helping so many patients! 

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This week, John interviews Casey Grage, founder, and CEO of Hubly Surgical, a company that developed a medical single-use electric cranial drill that monitors resistance to ensure a safe autostop before hitting brain tissue, reducing error margins, costs, and operating room dependence.

Drilling a hole into the skull is the most common neurosurgical procedure and most tools available for this are hand-crank drills or pressure-sensing drills, which are either archaic or not as precise and effective as they should be in ensuring patients’ safety. Casey and her teammate Tyler created the single-use Hubly Electric Drill and disposable drillbits achieving the desired force-driven autostop system that let the product stand out in the market and overcome its funding challenges.

Tune in to learn from Casey’s entrepreneurial story and the development process of the medical device she was destined to bring into reality!

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This week, John has a conversation full of insights with Rachel Mertensmeyer, CEO & Founder of Rivia Health. Rivia Health works with healthcare provider organizations to make it easier for patients to pay and understand their bills and benefit from available payment plans.

Rachel got crushed by a revolving door, suffering a severe head and spine injury that resulted in 38 medical bills across 11 different healthcare providers and over $10,000 in medical debt, an experience that made her realize how difficult it is for patients to pay their bills without the help of modern technology. She put her past entrepreneurial experience to use and founded Rivia Health, a journey that took her through an entire process to find the right product-market fit and business model. Rachel explains the value Rivia brings working in the background of healthcare practices to their patients and reflects on the challenges it faced with investors along the way.

Tune in to learn how Rivia Health is making healthcare bills less scary!

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This week on the podcast, John is delighted to chat with Allisa Song, Founder and CEO of Nanodropper. Nanodropper reduces the cost of eyedrop medications with an adapter that delivers smaller drops, making it pragmatic for patients to buy brand names instead of generic, something ophthalmologists prefer.

Allisa provides insight into Nanodropper and the entrepreneurial journey she embarked on while still enrolled in medical school, and explains how micro-volume delivery solutions can bring the desired efficacy of eyedrop medications with reduced side effects, better tolerability, and greater adherence for patients. She discusses general waste in the healthcare industry, other applications for waste reduction where Nanodropper could be used, and lessons she’s learned from being an entrepreneur.

Tune in to how smaller eyedrops represent a bigger change in healthcare!

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This week, John is glad to interview Dr. Jennie Byrne, Chief Patient Officer at Belong Health, about her entrepreneurial journey leading to Belong Health and the lessons she has learned throughout her career as a healthcare leader. Belong Health is a company that works with regional health systems to create dual-eligible insurance plans and provide value-based care to the patients who qualify for them.

Jennie Byrne, brain and behavior expert, was inspired to become a “solopreneur” after working with adult psychiatry practices and has focused her career towards providing patients with high-quality behavioral and mental whole-person care, which led her to become Chief Patient Officer at Belong Health. She discusses the different entrepreneur archetypes she’s identified, ways to be empathetic, and the importance of self-introspection and teamwork.

Tune in to learn from Dr. Jennie Byrne about the entrepreneurial journey she took and what she learned along the way that makes her a great leader in healthcare!

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This week on the podcast, John is impressed by Sahil Diwan, Co-Founder & CEO of SafKan Health. SafKan Health is a medical technology company with a mission to improve ear care with a pair of headsets that clean people's ears in thirty seconds.

Sahil and his brother persevered for years with the idea of OtoSet®, an automated ear-cleaning device, building prototypes in a college apartment and cold messaging physicians on LinkedIn. Throughout this inspiring conversation, Sahil details the entrepreneurial process of coming up with the idea, creating prototypes, getting feedback from ENTs, clinical trials, and going through the 510(k) process with the FDA. Sahil talks about why raising money in MedTech is miserably hard and shares several tips for those who might want to venture into this industry.

Tune in to this episode to learn how hard work and persistence made the development of the OtoSet® possible!

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This week on the podcast, John sits down for a chat with John Criswell, Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Porter. Porter is a company that uses AI and data analytics to help people connect with the resources they need to navigate their complex at-home healthcare journey.

John Criswell details his entrepreneurial journey from his first healthcare startup, Righttime Medical Care, going through the healthcare analytics company Pulse8, to end his current and most personal venture at Porter. As he talks about his past and current experiences, he shares lessons learned about leadership and entrepreneurship. He breaks down the pivot Pulse8 had to take after the 2016 presidential election that directly affected the ACA, and the significant work he has done with Porter since June 2020 to make healthcare simpler and easier for every American citizen.

Listen to this episode and look back at John’s career to learn from the victories and mistakes he’s had along the way!

This week on the podcast, John interviews Ryan Grant, founder and CEO at Vori Health. Vori Health is a virtual offering that practices musculoskeletal medicine with evidence-based care that holistically treats patients in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Ryan Grant is no amateur in entrepreneurial venturing, with a successful healthcare staffing company called Nomad Health and now Vori Health, he knows that there’s always something more important than pain. In this conversation, Ryan not only explains how Vori Health approaches back, neck, and orthopedic care integrated but also shares his journey in business and medicine. He provides very valuable advice and insights for physicians who might feel inspired by his story and decide to challenge the status quo by becoming entrepreneurs.

Tune in to this episode to learn about Vori Health and things to have in mind if you’re a doctor who’s thinking of starting their own innovative business!

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This week on the podcast, John interviews John Cordier, founder and CEO at Epistemix. Epistemix is a company that uses computational modeling and mathematics for decision support in public health through synthetic population data, testing interventions to improve outcomes with infectious diseases.

Epistemix understands that even a small behavior change can affect the greater outcome. So, they have built a platform where researchers can test out different interventions and policies and simulate outcomes to inform decision and policymakers about the potential results. John also shares insights on the journey Epistemix underwent to get to their current business model and talks about finding the right way to monetize it.

Listen to this episode to learn more about how synthetic data can bring precision to the masses and help decision-making in public health matters!

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This week on the podcast, John sits down to talk with Elizabeth Clayborne, emergency medicine physician, and founder and CEO of NasaClip. NasaClip is an easy-to-use, convenient device that quickly stops bleeding in any setting, be it medical or at home. The device holds a customized external nasal compression with Oxymetalozine pre-medicated sponges that go into the nose.

Working as an emergency medicine physician resident, Elizabeth couldn’t believe there was nothing in the market that helped people treat nosebleeds easily by combining compression and medication simultaneously, which led her to create and patent the NasaClip device. In this conversation, she shares her journey of developing the idea from the ground up as a black female entrepreneur and mother. She discusses how she came up with her idea and made it real, and also subjects like funding, work-life balance, and the pandemic as factors that were key along the way.

Tune in to this episode to listen to Elizabeth’s entrepreneurial journey and how she’s soon bringing to the world what may as well be the band-aids for nosebleeds!