Who Would Have Thought - Digital Health Innovation

A recap of the progress at SmartTab for the year 2022 and challenges we’ve had to overcome. Most importantly celebrating the legacy of Robert Niichel, 2023 is about bringing his vision to life.  From the conversations we’ve had throughout 2022, the progress in the lab and what’s ahead for SmartTab and the future of digital health as we enter 2023.

SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance. Here's to building momentum in 2023!

Joining us in this episode of Who Would Have Thought is Victoria Donovan, Founder and CEO of Clinically Media, an award-winning full-service agency specializing in patient recruitment and retention in clinical research. Tune in to learn how Clinically Media is reinventing the recruitment and retention process to address the lack of diversity and inclusion in clinical trials.

Victoria talks about developing trust and engagement in clinical research for marginalized communities, how the world of digital healthcare can improve disparities in clinical trials, and what’s in store for the future of clinical research.

Victoria describes the key role of decentralized clinical trials in diversifying patient populations and how we can build more trust between clinical researchers and patients who are reluctant to engage in the healthcare system. Plus, she highlights the immense value of having a diverse group of patient advocates as part of the patient recruitment process.

To learn more about Clinically Media, visit: http://www.clinicallymedia.com

Resources Mentioned:

Article: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Patient Recruitment and Retention by Kate Schroeder, Seth Palmer, MBA, CDMP: https://bit.ly/3VX4ubn 

The Power of Patients: https://www.powerofpatients.com 

About Our Guest:

Sometimes your true calling in life isn’t entirely apparent until an opportunity appears right in front of you. For Victoria Donovan, this is partly how she founded Clinically Media in 2017. What started as freelance marketing jobs for pharmaceutical companies and biotech firms, turned into a network of companies needing assistance with larger projects, including the formidable task of recruiting patients for clinical trials. Now, Victoria is the Founder and CEO of Clinically Media, an award-winning full-service agency specializing in patient recruitment and retention in clinical research. Clinically Media helps drug development and device companies efficiently source patients using data-driven, cost-effective solutions, as well as prepare for fundraising and commercial launch. 

Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriadonovan 

In this very special episode of Who Would Have Thought, we welcome Kyle Kiser, CEO of Arrive Health (formerly RxRevu), an industry leader in real-time prescription benefit services. Kyle and his team focus on creating seamless, cost-effective prescribing experiences for patients and providers. Tune in to learn about the importance of price transparency and simplifying healthcare, as well as what it’s like growing an innovative healthcare technology company.

Kyle sheds light on solutions to the biggest challenges in effective healthcare delivery and the impact of policy and legislation on prescription price transparency and healthcare technology innovation. You’ll also learn how Arrive Health is directly improving the lives of patients, healthcare providers, and caregivers through innovation, ethics, and strategic partnerships.

To learn more about Arrive Health, visit: www.arrivehealth.com

About Our Guest:

Kyle Kiser is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Arrive Health. He is a student of the healthcare value chain and is passionate about solving impactful problems and creating change that makes healthcare work better for people.

Connect with Kyle on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-kiser-68ba218 

Quotes: 

“Ultimately, it’s the provider and patient relationship that is the most powerful and important moment in someone’s healthcare journey. What we see our role as is clearing the path for that sacred encounter to happen.”

“We want to solve the affordability issues, we want to solve the access issues, we want to do that with technology so that that patient and that provider can focus on health.”

“Price transparency is more important than ever because it’s a baseline requirement to delivering adequate care.”

In this episode of Who Would Have Thought, we welcome Amy Valley, Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Technology Solutions at Cardinal Health, where she works to bring technology and services to specialty physician practices to help them provide the highest quality and most affordable care. Tune in to learn about advances and innovations affecting clinical services right now and what she believes to be the next turning point in the health tech space.

You’ll gain insight into what clinical technology solutions are at the forefront of healthcare today, the role of AI in specialty care, and Amy’s candid thoughts on the evolving relationship between privacy and convenience in digital healthcare. Plus, Amy breaks down how she manages innovation within her team at Cardinal Health, the most promising innovations they’re working on right now, and her opinion on where the most research and development efforts should be allocated in the field of clinical strategy and technology solutions.

To learn more about Cardinal Health, visit: www.cardinalhealth.com/vitalsourcegpo

About Our Guest:

Amy Valley is Vice President, Clinical Strategy & Technology Solutions, for Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions. In this role, she works to bring technology and services to specialty physician office practices to help them achieve their mission of providing the highest quality, most affordable care. At her core, as a pharmacist, she is driven to help patients and their families achieve the best possible health outcomes from their medications.

Connect with Amy on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/amy-valley-446bb016

Quotes: 

“These clinicians on the front lines have massive amounts of information coming at them and they have very complex tasks that they have to complete in their everyday work. So, I think that the promise of clinical technology has the ability to bring a lot of efficiency to their daily work and ultimately to enhance the quality and the safety, the accuracy, of what they’re doing every day.”

“As all of these conveniences are coming and this technology continues to advance, I’m really interested to see how our desire for privacy kind of comes up against our desire for convenience.”

“One of the legacies that we got from the pandemic was that we’re still struggling with these incredible staffing shortages… So, it’s going to be really important that we leverage artificial intelligence, block chain, we advance on interoperability, because we have to bring efficiency or we’re not going to be able to care for everybody that needs care.”

In this episode of Who Would Have Thought, we welcome Shane Curd, Head of Healthcare Marketing at Connect America, the leading provider of connected health solutions that are dedicated to improving access to care, safety, and independence. Shane is also the Founder of Fresno Technology Affinity Group, a group that has consulted for dozens of startups on marketing and product strategy to successfully penetrate payer and enterprise health system markets. Tune in to learn about recent advances and innovation in medication adherence, remote patient monitoring (RPM), and artificial intelligence in the sector of healthcare known as “Age Tech”. 

You’ll gain insight into the impacts of RPM innovation on providers, patients’ quality of life, and payer acceptance as well as how RPM and AI can help with management of medication adherence. Shane also highlights a few recent AI advancements in Age Tech and what Connect America is focusing on in the coming years.

To learn more about Connect America, visit: www.connectamerica.com

About Our Guest:

Shane Curd is the Head of Healthcare Marketing at Connect America, the leading provider of connected health solutions that are dedicated to improving access to care, safety, and independence. Shane is also the Founder of Fresno Technology Affinity Group which has consulted for dozens of startups on marketing and product strategy to successfully penetrate payer and enterprise health system markets. 

Shane leverages his unique combination of marketing experience, technical expertise, and interpersonal skills to drive sales and market expansion within the healthcare space. He has built, launched, marketed and led commercialization efforts for over a dozen products in the healthcare space including remote patient monitoring (RPM), medical devices, outcomes analytics, and revenue cycle management.

Connect with Shane on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/shanecurd/

Quotes: 

“Today, Connect America monitors nearly a million people and then they support about 35,000 through remote patient monitoring. Then, about 250,000 senior living residents across North America…The fact that they’re embracing innovation and we’re talking beyond “pushing the button” and getting help is very exciting.”

“We studied the effectiveness of RPM around obesity, diabetes, and hypertension and we saw improvements across all categories. So, the fact that it’s effective and helping people in connecting them with their provider, we’re getting rave reviews all around.”

“Many people are aging with chronic conditions and if they’re managed appropriately, they have minimal impact on their life. So, I think the real challenge is to continue to enable seniors to age gracefully at home.”

In this episode of “Who would have thought?” Monica Roy, co-founder and CEO of Seascape Clinical, discusses a cloud-based clinical operations solution to assist clinical trial teams in more successfully managing trial data. Monica has worked in clinical operations for nearly 20 years and feels that by consolidating trial data and automating related workflows, teams can spend more time making data-driven trial decisions and on strategic work. Prior to founding Seascape Clinical, Monica has worked with companies including Bioclinica, Gilead Sciences, and AbbVie, in various therapeutic areas such as liver disease, women's health, and oncology.

Monica joins us today to talk about Seascape Clinical's specialty in the clinical research sector as well as her path to launching the company. She discusses existing clinical trial solutions, the data consolidation and automation gap she noticed in the clinical research industry, and how Seascape Clinical addresses this requirement. Monica also emphasizes the unpredictability that might come along with the business path, as well as the significance of accepting unexpected obstacles.

About Our Guest:
Monica Roy is the CEO and co-founder of Seascape Clinical. Seascape Clinical offers clinical trial management software that is hosted in the cloud.  Monica has extensive execution abilities from her 13+ years of experience in clinical operations. She talks about the data management gap she noticed in the industry and how her company addresses it. Monica emphasizes the importance of accepting unexpected obstacles as part of the business path.

Learn more about Seascape Clinical: https://seascapeclinical.com/

Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seascape-clinical

In this episode of Who Would Have Thought, we welcome Amnon Bar-Lev, a passionate healthcare advocate and the co-founder and CEO of Alike.Health, a healthcare startup harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing, and big data to empower patients, change healthcare, and improve lives. Tune in to learn how Amnon is making a powerful impact on digital healthcare through his new app, Alike, and why it’s considered to be “the Tinder for healthcare”. 

You’ll learn how Alike works, the benefits of the cost-free app, and what it’s like to use Alike  to connect to others with the same medical conditions as you. Amnon also shares the top 3 diseases/conditions talked about on Alike.Health, the benefits of the patient similarity model, and how the model addresses medication prescription and healthcare discrepancies.

Plus, Amnon highlights a story of how an IBD patient changed their life by using Alike.Health!

To download Alike.Health for FREE, visit: https://www.alike.health

About Our Guest:

Amnon is the co-founder and CEO of Alike, a healthcare startup harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing and big data to empower patients, change healthcare and improve lives. 

Amnon brings his deep management and execution skills from his 25+ years of experience in technology leadership roles to Alike – including as the former President of Check Point, a $15B publicly traded technology company, where he grew revenue from $500M to $2B over his 12-year tenure.

Amnon is also a passionate healthcare advocate and returned to pursue graduate studies at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University after his time at Check Point - an effort he embarked on in order to better understand medicine before founding Alike.

Connect with Amnon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amnonbarlev

Visit his website: https://www.alike.health

Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlikeHealth

Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alike.health/

In this episode, we welcome Raj Jhaveri, an Investor, Visionary Technologist, and Strategist in the healthcare and biotech industry, as well as in the clean energy sector particularly in EV charging. Tune in to learn how Raj is making an impact, in more ways than one, in digital healthcare innovation and the future of telehealth.

You’ll learn how artificial intelligence is being implemented in healthcare management and delivery systems, how ingestible capsules and wearables can be integrated with AI to enhance healthcare, and how the integration of emerging technologies is causing disruptive innovation throughout the world.

Raj shares his candid thoughts on the connection between AI, Theory of Mind, and the future of in-person healthcare, as well as potential opportunities to invest in healthcare and technology and even how he’s hacking his Tesla to give back to the energy grid.

Curious to hear Raj’s 5 Pillars of Unconventional Thinking to Achieve Unconventional Success? Tune in to find out! 

To learn more about Raj and his work, visit his website: www.rajjhaveri.com

About Our Guest:

Raj Jhaveri has over 16 years of experience in technology development and integration, and strategic technical business development in both the healthcare and cleantech industry. He was a CTO and founder of multiple healthcare startups (Notch, Canopy, Face2Face Health, Manethryn, Opu Labs) where he earned multiple patents, which lead to being rated as one of the Top Tech Innovators by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2014. He was also a Director for The Knowledge Society, a global community and a human accelerator program of the world’s most curious, driven, and ambitious people that want to make an impact.

Raj has also played a role as an advisor or investor at multiple companies such as EV Connect, Zoom Video, Pinterest, Chewy.com, Slack, Impossible Foods, 23andMe, Simple Contacts, and many more. He was previously an in-house mentor at Techstars, an industry consultant for General Catalyst Partners in regard to their healthcare investments, and an advisor for IBM Watson Health’s Oncology Project. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Biology and was in the MD/PhD program at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he eventually obtained a Master’s Degree in Medical Sciences after leaving the program early to pursue his first startup.  

Connect with Raj on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rajpjhaveri 

Visit his website: www.rajjhaveri.com 

Follow him on Twitter: www.twitter.com/rajpjhaveri 

Follow him on Instagram: www.instagram.com/theurbannerd 

Today we launch a special episode to recap the year at SmartTab and review our 2021 podcast conversations. Breakthrough into 2022 with a brand new perspective as we prepare for tremendous growth. Learn about what’s ahead with SmartTab and the future of digital health. 

SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance. 

For more information on SmartTab visit: https://www.smarttab.co/

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Roxie Mooney, Founder & Healthcare Strategist at Legacy DNA, a company that assists health innovators to grow and succeed. As an accomplished healthcare innovator, Roxie is focused on driving strategic campaigns that change the world. Tune in to learn how Roxie is helping health innovators and startup entrepreneurs make winning decisions, reduce their risk of failure, and unlock their most profitable market strategy so they can take their innovations from an idea to full market adoption.

You’ll learn the importance of marketing in digital healthcare innovations, the growth in equality and inclusion that’s needed in the healthcare industry. Roxie highlights the benefits of creating a marketing strategy even if your product isn’t ready to launch, as well as the distinct insights and lessons she’s been learning from interviewing diverse healthcare innovators on The Health Innovators Podcast. She also speaks on her role at One Purse, an organization that provides sex trafficking survivors with transformative programs, mentorship opportunities, and scholarship resources.

Curious to hear Roxie’s best advice for aspiring healthcare innovators and entrepreneurs? Tune in to find out! 

To learn more about Legacy DNA, visit www.legacy-dna.com.  

About Our Guest:

Dr. Roxie Mooney is the Founder, Healthcare Commercialization Strategist, Digital Health Advisor, and Fractional CMO at Legacy DNA. Roxie and her team are passionate digital health innovators who help other health innovators make winning decisions, reduce their risk of failure and unlock their most profitable market strategy so they can take their innovations from an idea to full market adoption. She has transformed her 20 years of business practice, 7 years of researching over 500+ peer-reviewed articles & 160+ interviews with health innovators into a repeatable method that you can follow to maximize market success.

Connect with Roxie on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/roxiemooney 

 
Quotes:

“There’s this myth that you can’t do any marketing or you shouldn’t invest any resources in marketing until the product is ready to launch… The way I describe it is, there’s different marketing strategies for different conditions of the market and a lot of times we overlook that. It depends on what’s happening in the marketplace on what’s going to be the best strategy for you.” 

“One of the best ways to be able to motivate and inspire leaders to make an earlier investment in marketing is case studies, real world examples of other companies that have done it and done it well and demonstrating the real ROI that they’ve gained from it.”

“There’s a lot of mental training that has to happen as health innovators, whether we are corporate innovators or whether we are startup entrepreneurs.”