The Rock Health Podcast

By Rock Health

What's The Rock Health Podcast about?

Hear from insiders across healthcare and technology and get the scoop on the latest trends in digital health.

Rock Health exists to fund and support entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Join us and build something useful. Visit us at www.rockhealth.com.

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The Rock Health Podcast episodes:

01.05.2021
Do Big Retail & Telecom Hold the Key to Healthcare’s New Front Door?
Recorded at Rock Health Summit 2020 Countless players have tried their hand at mastering the holy grail of healthcare: better care at lower costs. Big retail and telecom are next in the ring, and they just might have what it...
08.17.2020
The Inevitable Shift to Decentralized Clinical Trials
Evidation Health and Omada Health, two of Rock Health’s portfolio companies, are trailblazers in their respective domains in digital health. Both have heritage as evidence-driven and evidence-generation platforms, and together they’re designing the gold standard of decentralized clinical trials. As...
08.06.2020
Unprecedented Funding in an Unprecedented Time
Digital health funding had a wild ride through the first half of 2020—first hitting a record $3.1B in Q1, then hitting the brakes in April as COVID-19 spread rapidly around the globe. Despite this downswing, investors came roaring back in...
06.18.2020
Lowering Barriers to Care With Digital Strategies That Scale
How can healthcare stakeholders reach and sustainably engage patients with innovative, 21st-century technology? Hear from three leaders—HealthTech4Medicaid Executive Director Adimika Arthur, and Rock Health portfolio company founders, Podimetrics CEO Jon Bloom and Arine CEO Yoona Kim—to discuss the lessons they’ve...
06.01.2020
Healthcare Beyond The Pandemic
At Rock Health, we’re proud to fund and support entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology, and work alongside a diverse group of enterprise leaders making healthcare massively better—always, but especially now. We need collaboration as a rising...
05.21.2020
How Industry Heavyweights Are Fighting In The Match Against COVID-19
How are healthcare organizations navigating the pandemic response, and what lessons are they learning along the way? We recently spoke with leaders from three Rock Health corporate partners—Blue Shield of California Chief Innovation Officer Jeff Semenchuk, Banner Innovation Group Executive...
05.04.2020
Opportunities In Healthcare’s New Regulatory Era: Dr. Karen DeSalvo & Eric Hargan
Across administrations, there has been a concerted push toward empowering patients with access to the health data that are rightfully theirs. After much anticipation, in early March, HHS released two final rules to implement interoperability and patient access provisions of...
02.18.2020
How Consumers Are Navigating The Digital Healthcare Experience
There's Instagram and Instacart—but how close are we to Insta-health? While the healthcare experience is increasingly digital, privacy issues, the changing patient-physician relationship, and differences across population segments paint a more nuanced, complex picture of consumer behavior. And a critical...
01.27.2020
2020 Vision: A Look Ahead At Digital Health
Across the last decade, digital health has grown from a blip on the radar of investors to a robust sector receiving nearly one in ten venture dollars invested in the United States. In 2019, digital health saw six IPOs and...
08.12.2019
Startup-Enterprise Partnerships in Digital Mental Health
Digital health companies seeking to scale through large enterprise organizations have their work cut out for them—especially in an increasingly crowded space like digital mental health. To find out what makes for a successful partnership, we teamed up with Kaiser...
06.03.2019
Navigating Pharma-Digital Therapeutic Alliances
The industry is at a unique crossroads: pharmaceutical and digital therapeutic (DTx) companies have begun to act on their ambition to advance digital therapeutics—but the path to successful alliances and, importantly, scale remains uncertain. As a follow up to our...
05.28.2019
The Promises and Potential Pitfalls of Telemedicine
In 2018, digital health companies leveraging telemedicine received nearly $1.5B in investment. And although telemedicine adoption has grown across the board in recent years, the majority of users remain the urban and the young. How are different healthcare stakeholders thinking...
05.20.2019
The Current State of Digital Health Regulation
In 2017, the FDA launched its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan, detailing its plans to review and update regulation of software. Among the digital health programs is the Pre-Certification Program, also known as Pre-Cert, wherein FDA is working with innovators...
03.18.2019
How AI Can Get Medicine Back On Track: Dr. Eric Topol
Will artificial intelligence help humanize healthcare and get medicine back on track? Signs point to yes—with a few caveats. Rock Health Managing Director and CEO Bill Evans spoke with leading cardiologist and digital medicine researcher Dr. Eric Topol about his...
03.11.2019
Building Enterprise-Startup Partnerships in Digital Health
Even when serving patients is their primary goal, most digital health solutions go to market via large enterprises, whether through payers, providers, biopharma, or employers. That’s why effective digital health companies build expertise not just in their product, but in...
01.10.2019
Is Digital Health In An Investment Bubble?
Earlier this week, we released our annual funding report, which explored the “bubbliness” of digital health amidst record dollars and tempered exits. To expand on our findings and get to the heart of what the funding environment means for the...
12.03.2018
2018 Summit Series | Will Big Tech’s Bets In Healthcare Pay Off?: Dr. Toby Cosgrove
As the tech titans push forward with their entrance into healthcare, speculation surrounds their chances of successfully solving the industry’s myriad of maladies. Hear from Cleveland Clinic CEO-turned-Googler Dr. Toby Cosgrove and CNBC.com's Chrissy Farr on what’s notable—and what’s just...
12.03.2018
2018 Summit Series | How Oscar Is Shaking Up The Payer Landscape: Mario Schlosser
Free from the constraints of legacy operating systems, Oscar Health takes a full-stack approach to insurance—one where healthcare becomes a collaborative experience between the patient, payer, and provider. Rock Health's Megan Zweig sits down with Mario to understand how his...
07.02.2018
AI: Fact or Fiction?: Dr. Bob Wachter & Dr. Vineeta Agarwala
While the singularity is nowhere in sight, we’re inching closer to a world where more jobs are being replaced or augmented by machines—and industry sentiment ranges from praise to skepticism. In this live session, Professor and Chair of the Department...
04.09.2018
How Non-Traditional Players Are Shaping Healthcare Transformation
As one of the last industries to undergo technological transformation on an exponential scale, healthcare is ripe for change—and attracting the attention of diverse industries like never before. What opportunities do transportation, finance, food, and other companies see in healthcare?...
11.28.2017
Uncovering The Real Value of AI In Healthcare: Andrew Ng #RHS17
An expert in the field of AI, Andrew Ng shares what the digital health community needs to understand about trendy technology, by separating hype from reality, while discussing how these technologies are creating real value in healthcare—today and throughout the...
09.25.2017
Provider Adoption of Digital Health
In our recent survey digital health companies divulged their enterprise sales pain points. This week we went even deeper—with two executives at the center of technology innovation and adoption at leading health systems—to get their honest take on what hospitals want...
07.17.2017
Healthcare Investors' Take On Digital Health Funding
Last week we briefed you on the record shattering funding streak of the first half of 2017. Then we sat down with two other investors, Bessemer Venture Partners’ Steve Kraus and Kaiser Permanente Ventures’ Liz Rockett to bring you a...
06.12.2017
Gaps and Opportunities in Women's Health & Entrepreneurship: Leah Sparks & Julia Cheek
Despite persistent efforts by those in digital health, gender parity in leadership remains a huge issue. It’s not due to lack of attention. The front cover of The Atlantic’s April issue asked, “Why is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?”...
05.08.2017
Getting Clear About Healthcare Transparency: Lisa Maki & Noah Lang
What are players from around and outside healthcare doing to make this universal experience more understandable, clear—and even enjoyable? Two CEOs share their take on how transparency in healthcare is taking shape and what it really means for patients and...
04.10.2017
Adapting to Consumerism in Healthcare: Robin Thurston & Drew Schiller
The age-old power dynamics in healthcare are quickly shifting—away from providers as the primary touch point for care and toward tech-, and consumer-empowered decision-making. In a world where personal data is king and consumers expect things to be free—and are...
02.27.2017
Why Scientific Research Needs Technology: Saji Wickramasekara & Sridhar Iyengar
Medical research is a $200B industry—but is not conducted in a way that is searchable, machine-readable, or reproducible. We chat with Benchling cofounder and CEO Saji Wickramasekara and Elemental Machines cofounder and CEO Sridhar Iyengar to understand what's at stake,...
01.29.2017
Debunking Patient Data: Deb Kilpatrick & David Vivero
There's tremendous excitement about the potential of what data can do to change how healthcare really works. Simultaneously there's some confusion, and fear from patients around security and privacy. We talk to two entrepreneurs working heavily in the space, David...
01.03.2017
From Obamacare to Trumpcare: Questions for digital health with Jamie Robinson & Chrissy Farr
The President-elect vowed to repeal the ACA on his first day in office. Or will he just pick it apart and keep the pieces he likes? The water is murky and answers are forthcoming, but we can be certain of...
01.06.2016
Why Tech Titans Joined Government to Help Save Healthcare: DJ Patil, Susannah Fox & Leena Rao
Many of us associate innovative solutions and scalable technology with startups, Silicon Valley, and scrappy teams; but these experts are focusing their time and talents in Washington DC in order to harness technology's ability to solve healthcare's biggest problems. Hear...
01.06.2016
Non-Doctors on Demand: Alejandro Foung, Sandy Jen, Thea Runyan & Thomas Goetz
On demand services are all the rage and the first wave affecting healthcare included a plethora of doctor-driven services. But what's on demand in the rest of the healthcare stack? We'll sit down with Lantern, Honor, and Kurbo Health to...
12.14.2015
Chamath Palihapitiya on Rewiring the Crap Out of Healthcare
As the Founder and Managing Partner of Social+Capital Partnership, Chamath Palihapitiya is the "it" man of socially responsible investing. Hear his take on what needs to change in healthcare and how his investment thesis focuses on companies that are drastically...
12.13.2015
What the Former Facebook CFO is Doing in Digital Health: David Ebersman
Now that we have entered the age when technology is being applied to every aspect of our lives, it takes extra grit and dedication to build a company tackling one of our country's most entrenched and disjointed industries. David Ebersman...
12.13.2015
Virtual Reality: Just What the Doctor Ordered? With Adam Gazzaley, Mary Spio, & Sarah Buhr
Virtual reality has transformed the way we think of and create new worlds, but it also allows us to explore the inner-most workings of the human body. We'll discuss the very real implications virtual reality is having on healthcare—from how...
12.13.2015
Life After the Digital Health IPO: Frank Williams & James Park
They rang the bell, now what? We sit down with the CEOs of Evolent Health and Fitbit, who led two industry-changing IPOs to discuss how their companies deliver and grow in the wake of going from startup to public company.
12.13.2015
Eric Topol on Breaking the Paternalism of Healthcare
Leading American cardiologist, geneticist, author, and digital medicine researcher Eric Topol discusses the state of patient-centered and empowered healthcare, paternalism, and what the future holds for data and digital health.
12.03.2015
Where's the Next Digital Health Unicorn? With Leslie Bottorff & Ann Lamont
An early-stage company with the potential and followthrough to become a billion dollar paradigm-shifter can be as elusive, but hopefully not as mythical, as a unicorn. We pick the brains of investing heavy-weights to talk cold, hard facts: where can...
12.03.2015
J. Craig Venter on Outsmarting Death Through the Software of Life
An interview with J. Craig Venter at our 2015 Rock Health Summit

What's The Rock Health Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Rock Health Podcast episodes:

Do Big Retail & Telecom Hold the Key to Healthcare’s New Front Door?

The Inevitable Shift to Decentralized Clinical Trials

Unprecedented Funding in an Unprecedented Time

Lowering Barriers to Care With Digital Strategies That Scale

Healthcare Beyond The Pandemic

How Industry Heavyweights Are Fighting In The Match Against COVID-19

Opportunities In Healthcare’s New Regulatory Era: Dr. Karen DeSalvo & Eric Hargan

How Consumers Are Navigating The Digital Healthcare Experience

2020 Vision: A Look Ahead At Digital Health

Startup-Enterprise Partnerships in Digital Mental Health

Navigating Pharma-Digital Therapeutic Alliances

The Promises and Potential Pitfalls of Telemedicine

The Current State of Digital Health Regulation

How AI Can Get Medicine Back On Track: Dr. Eric Topol

Building Enterprise-Startup Partnerships in Digital Health

Is Digital Health In An Investment Bubble?

2018 Summit Series | Will Big Tech’s Bets In Healthcare Pay Off?: Dr. Toby Cosgrove

2018 Summit Series | How Oscar Is Shaking Up The Payer Landscape: Mario Schlosser

AI: Fact or Fiction?: Dr. Bob Wachter & Dr. Vineeta Agarwala

How Non-Traditional Players Are Shaping Healthcare Transformation

Uncovering The Real Value of AI In Healthcare: Andrew Ng #RHS17

Provider Adoption of Digital Health

Healthcare Investors' Take On Digital Health Funding

Gaps and Opportunities in Women's Health & Entrepreneurship: Leah Sparks & Julia Cheek

Getting Clear About Healthcare Transparency: Lisa Maki & Noah Lang

Adapting to Consumerism in Healthcare: Robin Thurston & Drew Schiller

Why Scientific Research Needs Technology: Saji Wickramasekara & Sridhar Iyengar

Debunking Patient Data: Deb Kilpatrick & David Vivero

From Obamacare to Trumpcare: Questions for digital health with Jamie Robinson & Chrissy Farr

Why Tech Titans Joined Government to Help Save Healthcare: DJ Patil, Susannah Fox & Leena Rao

Non-Doctors on Demand: Alejandro Foung, Sandy Jen, Thea Runyan & Thomas Goetz

Chamath Palihapitiya on Rewiring the Crap Out of Healthcare

What the Former Facebook CFO is Doing in Digital Health: David Ebersman

Virtual Reality: Just What the Doctor Ordered? With Adam Gazzaley, Mary Spio, & Sarah Buhr

Life After the Digital Health IPO: Frank Williams & James Park

Eric Topol on Breaking the Paternalism of Healthcare

Where's the Next Digital Health Unicorn? With Leslie Bottorff & Ann Lamont

J. Craig Venter on Outsmarting Death Through the Software of Life