Our guest today is Michael Favet. His current work at NeuroPace, where he serves as President and CEO, focuses on their new and innovative technology tracking brain waves to predict epileptic attacks and prevent them by electrically stimulating the brain. Although Michael was actually an engineer straight out of college, he has had a long and storied 30-year career in the medical device field. He has served as CEO of multiple different companies and spent three years as a venture investor. This gives him an interesting perspective on his work at NeuroPace as well as his career as a whole, in understanding both the business and the medical side.

In this episode, Michael explains how he went from an engineer from the University of Illinois to a CEO of a revolutionary medical device company in the Bay Area.

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Colonel Nicole M. E. Malachowski is a retired fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. She was among the first group of women allowed to fly a modern fighter plane and was recognized for her accomplishments in the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2019. With over 21 years of experience in the United States Air Force including 188 hours in combat and more than 2,300 logged flight hours, she built an incredibly successful military career as a leader, an officer, and a fighter pilot.

But in her life, she’s built two careers — one in the United States Air Force, and one in advocacy and government service after a tick bite forced her into medical retirement.

Today, she’s the Commissioner of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, a board member of the LivLyme foundation, and a fierce advocate for individuals with Tick Borne illnesses.

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Stephanie Tilenius is the founder & CEO of Vida Health, a licensed virtual medical care platform with therapists, coaches, and nutritionists operating in all 50 states. Vida allows consumers with multiple diagnoses to receive care uniquely suited to their needs by addressing a range of medical conditions, rather than singling any one condition out.  Before she launched Vida Health, Stephanie ran consumer experience platforms in big-name companies like Google, eBay, and PayPal. 

We talk about how Vida got its start, the importance of addressing mental and physical health together, and the future of virtual medicine. 

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Joel Klein is the Chief Information Officer of Maryland Medical System, where he oversees the operation of medical information technology for over 29,000 employees in fourteen different hospitals and fifteen different practice locations. As CIO, he uses his experience as an emergency physician and his technological expertise to make medical technology work for the people who use it every day. We discuss a day in the life of the CIO of such a large company, and how experience as a physician can give senior officers an advantage. Joel also talks about how COVID vaccination programs work on the IT side— both in the early days of the pandemic, and now.  

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Chris McFadden, Managing Director at KKR, a leading global investment firm working with healthcare companies. Chris is also a founding member of the COVID Patient Recovery Alliance, a contributing author to MedCity, and a board member of several medical and healthcare companies.  

In this episode, Chris discusses what it means to work at a global investment firm, which leads to some big questions about medicine in a post-pandemic world. What are the benefits and drawbacks of telemedicine? How will increased awareness of mental illness affect medical systems? And how can healthcare companies continue to adapt as the world re-opens?   

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Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures and cofounder of Sun Microsystems. Vinod is an entrepreneur, investor, and technologist as well as a mentor to entrepreneurs building technology-based businesses. Vinod discusses the differences between the practice of medicine and the science of medicine. We also explore the value of exercising two extremes: hubris and paranoia.  

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Welcome to the 100th episode of the Health Technology Podcast!

Hemant Taneja is the managing partner of the venture capital firm General Catalyst. Hemant is a visionary leader in the healthcare space. He is an investor, founder, and author of several books including Unscaled and his 2020 book UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance. We talk about what it means to truly deliver access to health rather than just access to care. Hemant advocates for Responsible Innovation, which means engineering for growth and good with greater intention.  

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Our guest today is Kevin Coloton, founder and CEO of Curation Health, an advanced clinical decision support platform. Kevin founded Curation to simplify care delivery after he observed the challenges of shifting to value-based care reimbursement structures. Kevin talks about his experiences as the healthcare CIO for a Fortune 20 organization. He advocates for meeting providers where they are on the maturity curve towards value-based care.  

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Dave Kuraguntla is the co-founder and CEO of Alio. Alio is a remote monitoring platform for managing chronic conditions. David attended West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine on a Health Professions Scholarship from the United States Air Force. He was preparing to begin a surgical residency when he was confronted with the need for the Alio remote monitoring platform. In this episode, David explains Alio’s mission to take the internet of things and transform it into the internet of the body. We also discuss the importance of finding investors whose goals and incentives are aligned with those of the company.  

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Paddy Padmanabhan, author of the best-selling book Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future. Paddy is also the founder and CEO of Damo Consulting, a digital transformation advisory firm, the author of The Big Unlock, and the host of the podcast also called The Big Unlock. We discuss the evolving role of CIOs, telehealth reimbursement rates, and the role of consumerism in shaping healthcare experiences.