Can AI help doctors detect vision loss years before permanent damage occurs? 👁️🤖

The future of business, AI, and innovation isn't built without friction. On the Zero Friction Podcast, brought to you by RevRx AI, we explore the groundbreaking ideas, technologies, and visionary leaders shaping what comes next.

In this exclusive episode, our host Terry sits down with Kasia Hein-Peters, MD, CEO of Evoq Technologies, to discuss how AI-powered diagnostics and functional vision testing could transform the future of eye care. From her journey as a psychiatrist in post-communist Poland to helping launch Prozac across Central and Eastern Europe, Kasia shares how decades of leadership in pharmaceuticals and MedTech have led her to tackle one of ophthalmology's biggest challenges: detecting retinal disease before irreversible vision loss occurs.

Discover how Evoq's innovative Twilight Dark Adaptometer measures retinal function years before structural damage becomes visible, enabling physicians to intervene earlier, improve patient outcomes, and preserve independence for millions at risk of vision loss. Kasia also shares her commercialization strategy, fundraising journey, and how AI is reshaping medical education, physician engagement, and the future of healthcare innovation.

If you're a MedTech entrepreneur, healthcare executive, ophthalmologist, investor, or AI enthusiast, this episode offers valuable insights into the future of diagnostics, preventative medicine, and healthcare commercialization.

🔗 Important Links & Resources

🌐 Evoq Technologies Website: https://goevoq.com/

💼 Connect with Kasia Hein-Peters on LinkedIn:   / kasiaheinpeters  

🤖 Learn more about RevRx AI: https://revrxai.com/

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Heart failure in children has remained one of medicine's greatest unmet challenges. ❤️

The future of business, AI, and innovation isn't built without friction. On Zero Friction, RevRx AI explores the ideas, technologies, and leaders shaping what comes next.

In this episode, Terry sits down with Seth Bogner, Chairman & CEO of HeartPoint Global, to discuss how the company's groundbreaking IntelliStent technology could transform the treatment of pediatric heart disease. From his unexpected journey from finance to medtech entrepreneur, Seth shares how HeartPoint Global is developing a minimally invasive, adjustable stent system designed to improve outcomes for children with severe heart conditions while reducing the need for invasive surgeries and heart transplants.

Seth explains why IntelliStent represents a major breakthrough in pediatric cardiovascular care, how its unique adjustable design allows physicians to tailor treatment over time, and why the United States remains the ideal place to bring innovative medical devices to market. The conversation also explores the realities of building a medtech startup through COVID, navigating FDA pathways, winning NIH funding, expanding into future cardiac indications, and the mission that continues to drive the HeartPoint Global team.

Episode at a glance:

• How IntelliStent is transforming treatment for pediatric heart failure
• Why minimally invasive cardiovascular devices can improve patient outcomes
• The journey from investor to CEO of a mission-driven medtech company
• How adjustable stent technology differs from traditional pulmonary artery banding
• The challenges of developing medical devices through COVID and supply chain disruptions
• Why HeartPoint Global chose pediatric cardiology as its first indication
• Navigating FDA approval, clinical trials, and NIH funding
• The future of IntelliStent across additional cardiovascular diseases
• Why mission-driven innovation is essential in healthcare
• Seth's advice for entrepreneurs building technology that truly saves lives

HeartPoint Global Website: https://www.heartpointglobal.com/

Connect with Seth Bogner:/ seth-bogner-873b5613  

This is where technology meets healthcare, innovation meets purpose, and the future of patient care gets built in real time.

#ZeroFriction #RevRxAI #SethBogner #HeartPointGlobal #IntelliStent

Healthcare wasn't designed for today's consumer. 🏥

The future of business, AI, and innovation isn't built without friction. On Zero Friction, RevRx AI explores the ideas, technologies, and leaders shaping what comes next.

In this episode, Terry sits down with Josh Garrison, Co-Founder of Village Health, to discuss how rethinking the patient experience could fundamentally transform urgent care. From building an AI-powered EMR platform to developing an at-home healthcare delivery model, Josh shares his vision for reducing costs, improving patient outcomes, and bringing healthcare directly to where patients need it most.

Josh explains why healthcare should embrace the same consumer-first mindset that has transformed industries like retail and transportation, how AI can eliminate administrative burden for providers, and why treating patients like customers is the key to creating a more efficient healthcare system. The conversation also explores the future of Hospital-at-Home care, the economics behind rising healthcare costs, startup lessons from building an AI-powered EMR, and why now is the perfect time to rethink healthcare delivery.

Episode at a glance:

• Why healthcare needs to become more consumer-focused
• How Village Health is using AI to reduce provider administrative work
• The vision behind delivering urgent care directly to patients' homes
• Why Hospital-at-Home models can improve outcomes while lowering costs
• The hidden administrative costs driving healthcare spending
• How AI-powered EMRs can streamline clinical workflows
• Startup lessons from building healthcare technology in the age of AI
• The importance of interoperability and Machine Context Protocol (MCP)
• Why patients should be treated like customers to improve healthcare experiences
• Josh's advice for entrepreneurs: solve meaningful problems and think bigger

Village Health Website: https://www.villagehealth.io/

Connect with Josh Garrison: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-garrison-906b90279/

This is where technology meets creativity, strategy meets culture, and the future gets built in real time.

#ZeroFriction #RevRxAI #JoshGarrison #VillageHealth #HealthcareInnovation #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #HospitalAtHome #UrgentCare #EMR #ValueBasedCare #PatientExperience #HealthcareTechnology #StartupFounder #HealthcareAI

HIPAA compliance doesn't have to slow innovation down. 🔒

The future of business, AI, and innovation isn't built without friction. On Zero Friction, RevRx AI explores the ideas, technologies, and leaders shaping what comes next.

In this episode, Terry sits down with Mike Scheerhorn, Head of Product at Iron Fort, to discuss how AI is transforming HIPAA compliance for MedTech, digital health, and healthcare startups. Instead of treating compliance as an expensive roadblock, Iron Fort helps companies automate risk assessments, identify security gaps, and simplify the documentation needed to stay compliant—without slowing growth.

Mike shares his journey from leading compliance programs at major healthcare organizations to joining Iron Fort, along with his perspective on why founders should think about HIPAA long before customers ask for it. The conversation also explores how AI is lowering the barrier to entrepreneurship, why healthcare regulations create both protection and friction, and why now is the best time for builders to take risks.

*Episode at a glance:*

• Why HIPAA compliance should start before your first enterprise customer
• How Iron Fort uses AI to automate compliance and risk assessments
• The biggest mistakes MedTech and HealthTech startups make with data privacy
• Simplifying cloud security, policies, and compliance documentation
• Why AI is creating more opportunities for entrepreneurs than ever before
• The future of compliance in an AI-powered healthcare ecosystem
• How founders can use AI to build faster without needing to code
• Mike's advice for young entrepreneurs: take the risk and bet on yourself
• Why purpose, innovation, and adaptability will matter more than ever in the AI era

Iron Fort Website: https://goironfort.com/

Connect with Mike Scheerhorn: / mike-scheerhorn-07419b115  

This is where technology meets creativity, strategy meets culture, and the future gets built in real time.

The future of business, AI, and innovation isn't built without friction. On Zero Friction, RevRx AI explores the ideas, technologies, and leaders shaping what comes next.

In this episode, Terry sits down with Stephen Rouse, Co-Founder of Savva, to discuss how Savva is giving people a portable, AI-powered health record that lives on their phone instead of in the cloud. For about ten dollars a year, users can pull together their EHR data, wearables, and lab results into one place, then compare insights across multiple leading AI models to make sense of it all.

Stephen's path into healthcare is anything but typical. From building Really Big Lights, an oversized Christmas light company that sold across nine countries, to a chance meeting on a Japan ski lift that pointed him toward biotech, his story is proof that the best founders don't always come from where you'd expect. Together, Terry and Stephen dig into why on-device storage matters, what most people don't realize about how their health data gets used, and where Savva is headed next as it launches across 70 countries in 40 languages.

Episode at a glance:

• The unexpected path from Christmas lights to biotech to Savva
• How Savva pivoted from a QR code health record idea to an AI platform
• Why on-device storage keeps user data out of the cloud entirely
• Giving people the power to choose and compare across multiple AI models
• Identifying Savva's ideal customer across chronic disease, fitness, and aging demographics
• Why six billion people still don't have access to a personal health record
• The B2C model and why Savva will never run on ads
• Real beta user stories, from a digitized binder of records in the DRC to a forgotten urgent care visit
• What most people don't know about HIPAA gaps in consumer health apps
• Where Savva is headed with its Android launch and global expansion

Savva Website: https://www.savva.ai/

Healthcare innovation isn't just about new treatments — it's about restoring dignity, independence, and better outcomes for patients. 🏥

The future of business, AI, and innovation isn't built without friction. On Zero Friction, RevRx AI explores the ideas, technologies, and leaders shaping what comes next.

In this episode, Terry sits down with Sheila Buswell, Co-Founder and CEO of Buswell Biomedical, to discuss UpMo — an autonomous mobility device designed to help patients safely move, stand, and regain independence while reducing strain on healthcare workers.

Drawing from her own recovery after a military injury and her mother's experience in long-term care, Sheila shares the personal journey that inspired her to create a solution for one of healthcare's most overlooked challenges: patient mobility. Together, they explore how robotics, AI, and automation can improve quality of care, reduce caregiver burnout, and help address the growing healthcare workforce shortage.

From navigating the FDA pathway to fundraising and building breakthrough healthcare technology, Sheila offers an inspiring look at what it takes to bring innovation to life in healthcare.

John Nycz, co-founder and CEO of Rapha Digital Health, joins the show to talk about fixing one of healthcare's most overlooked gaps — fibromyalgia diagnosis and treatment. In this episode, John shares how a near-fatal car accident sparked his path into alternative medicine, and how a career in Lean Six Sigma led him to build a telehealth ecosystem designed to get patients answers in 90 days instead of seven years.

#DigitalHealth #Telehealth #Fibromyalgia #ChronicIllness #HealthcareInnovation #PrecisionMedicine #HealthTech #ZeroFrictionPodcast #RaphaDigitalHealth #JohnNycz

AI is already changing healthcare. 🤖🏥

Dr. Jason Jones shares how AI-powered ambient documentation is saving physicians hours each week, reducing administrative burden, and helping doctors focus more on patient care.

Watch the full Zero Friction episode with Dr. Jason Jones for insights on AI, orthopedic care, concierge medicine, and the future of healthcare.

#AI #HealthcareAI #Orthopedics #PatientCare #ZeroFriction #RevRxAI #JasonJones

In this episode, Terry sits down with Tad Hartlaub — Managing Director and Co-Founder of MedVance Marketing — to unpack the realities of launching and scaling MedTech startups in today’s healthcare landscape. With more than 20 years in medical device marketing, 30+ product launches, and multiple medical device patents, Tad shares what it really takes to move innovation from idea to clinical adoption.

From university incubators and startup funding challenges to hospital procurement barriers and market-fit strategy, this conversation dives into the friction points that can make or break healthcare innovation.

Episode at a glance:

-How MedVance helps MedTech and biotech startups bridge the gap between innovation and clinical adoption
-Why market-fit analysis is critical before FDA approval and commercialization
-The hidden friction points inside hospital systems, value analysis committees, and healthcare purchasing
-How startups can better communicate clinical and economic value to healthcare stakeholders
-The role of KOLs, clinical champions, and strategic messaging in accelerating adoption
-Tad’s journey from product patents and Fortune 500 healthcare companies to launching MedVance Marketing
-Advice to founders and innovators: keep your head in the clouds while keeping your feet on the ground

MedVance Marketing Website: https://www.medvancemarketing.com
Connect with Tad Hartlaub on LinkedIn:   / tad-hartlaub-5b4014a5  

A 40-second eye exam could transform the future of eye care. 👁️

On this episode of Zero Friction, Terry sits down with Stan Miele to explore how advanced imaging technology and precision medicine are changing the way clinicians diagnose and treat eye conditions.

From real-time ocular surface imaging to the future of personalized eye care, this conversation dives into the innovation shaping the next generation of ophthalmology and medtech.

#ZeroFriction #RevRxAI #ADOM #TearFilmImager #OcularSurfaceDisease #DryEye #EyeCareInnovation #MedTech #Biotech #PrecisionMedicine #Entrepreneurship #AIandInnovation #StanMiele #ADOM #AdvancedOpticalTechnologies