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Tech Tonics: Lisa Maki and the Power of Empathy to Develop Healthcare Solutions
Lisa Maki’s unexpected journey took her from the outskirts of Puget Sound (where we discovered she grew up, in her words, a “Seattle Hillbilly”), to Silicon Valley. Today she is CEO of a company that...
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Tech Tonics: Aenor Sawyer’s 360 Degree View of Healthcare
In this second edition of Tech Tonics, the Podcast, we feature Aenor Sawyer, MD. Aenor has had an unusual journey to and through the healthcare world. She has held the roles of physical therapist,...
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Tech Tonics: Michelle Snyder and the Transformation of Sickcare to Wellcare
Announcing our 3rd edition of Tech Tonics, the Podcast. Today’s show features an interview with long-time digital health entrepreneur Michelle Snyder. Michelle is currently Chief Marketing Officer at...
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Tech Tonics: From Apples to Apple to Better, Geoff Clapp’s Road to Healthcare...
Today’s Tech Tonics Podcast features Geoff Clapp, CEO of Better, Inc. From the apple growing community of central Massachusetts to the Apple Computer community of Silicon Valley, Geoff has been a...
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Tech Tonics: Bob Kocher on Fixing Hospitals and Healthcare
This week we are delighted to feature an interview with Venrock partner Dr. Bob Kocher, who probably knows more about the business of healthcare delivery than almost anyone in the world. He grew up in...
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Tech Tonics: Erik Douglas, and the Move to Mobile Digital Diagnostics
Many people who work in the medical industry come to it for personal reasons. For scientist and hardware hacker Erik Douglas, his stint helping diagnose patients in the remotest parts of Africa and...
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Tech Tonics: Dr. Jason Langheier and the Power of Personalization
“If Amazon can personalize book recommendations, if we can get digital prescriptions of drugs nailed down with Walgreens, why can’t the two come together so that physicians can give personalized...
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Tech Tonics: Kelly Brezoczky and Unmentionable Personal Healthcare
Innovator and entrepreneur Kelly Brezoczky, Founder and CEO of Butterfly Health, has always had a keen interest in where the consumer and health merge. And in Kelly’s case, that merger occurs in very...
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Tech Tonics: John de Souza, Meant for Medicine
As a child growing up in Ethiopia, John de Souza witnessed the grim reality of poverty — families wishing for rapid death for their sick children because a cure was out of reach socially and...
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Tech Tonics: Linda Avey, We Are Curious
When 23andMe veteran Linda Avey pitched her new startup, We Are Curious (which focuses on integrating patient-reported symptoms and experiences) she thought she’d emphasize a condition that seemed like...
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Tech Tonics: Elli Kaplan, Diagnosing Alzheimers
I first met Elli Kaplan, CEO of Neurotrack, when she won the SXSW best new start-up competition a few years back. She wowed the audience for the scope and creativity of what she is trying to do: create...
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Tech Tonics: Sean Duffy’s Ascent from Legos to Healthcare
Sean Duffy was one of those kids building monumental Lego edifices when his friends were playing outside. He continued to progress on the building front until he hit on his latest endeavor, the...
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Tech Tonics: Inventor, Entrepreneur, Doctor, David Goodman
After his second series of medical school rejections, biomedical engineer David Goodman found his way to a nascent medical device company seeking to develop an easy way to measure oxygen levels in the...
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Tech Tonics: Bob Wachter, The Digital Doctor
UCSF professor Bob Wachter has had a front row view to the collision of irresistible emerging technology with an immovable healthcare system, and has managed to navigate this interface with unusual...
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Tech Tonics: Jonathon Feit on How to Empower First Responders
God help you if you are picked up by ambulance—assuming they can find you easily, they don’t know anything about you, can’t get your medical record, can’t effectively pre-communicate to the hospital...
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Tech Tonics: Bijan Salehizadeh, from Dr. Oz to Venture Capital
In his final year of medical school at Columbia, Bijan Salehizadeh weighed whether to become a cardiothoracic surgeon or pursue what was a very unusual path at the time: a career in entrepreneurship....
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Tech Tonics: John Wilbanks, Participant-Centric Innovation
When John Wilbanks graduated from Tulane with a major in philosophy and almost a minor in French, he had little idea that he would become one of the world’s most important forces for good in the areas...
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Getting Close to Home on Healthcare Costs
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn’s mother was named Polly. Polly was diagnosed in 1971 with leukemia treated with the current state of medieval medicine and told she would not live long. But armed with a...
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Tech Tonics: 2015 Health 2.0 Preview with Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya
Matthew Holt has spent 20 years in health care as a researcher, forecaster, and strategist. He learned from some of the best in forecasting, policy and survey organizations, like the Institute for the...
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Tech Tonics: Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Translating Technology into Practice
It seemed like a simple enough idea – evaluating whether the use of virtual reality goggles would reduce the pain experienced by hospitalized patients. Yet, when Brennan Spiegel, a gastroenterologist,...
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