Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Baylor College of Medicine, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Dorit Donoviel, health care, health innovation, health research, health science, health sciences, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, lisa suennen, med tech, medical, medical care, Medical Technology, Medicine, NSBRI, oncology, opthamology, Space Medicine, technology and health, urology, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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Emerging technologies bring not just profound opportunities but also vexing ethical dilemmas, involving issues such as privacy, consent, and access.
Today’s guest, Michelle Meyer, is a bioethicist and legal scholar who seeks to bring clarity and structure to this [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: bioengineering, bioethics, biomed, Biomedical, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, ehealth, epatient, epatients, health applications, health apps, health care, health care IT, health data, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health software, health startup, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, kealthcare IT, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, medical science, medical treatment, Medicine, mhealth, Michelle Meyer, precision medicine, tech tonics, Technology, technology and health, telehealth, telemedicine, venture valkyrie, wireless health
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The gap between the promise and practice of technology has been especially vivid in the area of pharmaceutical clinical trials, where even switching from paper to electronic data capture has proved too radical for some sponsors. Today’s guest, Kara Dennis, [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: big pharma, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, health innovation, health insurance, health research, health sciences, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, Kara Dennis, lisa suennen, med tech, medical care, Medical Technology, Medidata, technology and health, translational medicine, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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One of the most significant challenges faced by the healthcare community is that the biggest companies want to innovate but can’t get out of their own way, while the smallest companies want to have an impact, but can’t get any [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Health, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, healthxl, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, Martin Kelly, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, Research, Technology, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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Tech Tonics started 2015 with a goal of featuring the people and passion at the intersection of technology and health. We had 24 great shows featuring the perspectives of consumers and physicians, technologists and investors and others who represent the [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, doctors, Health, health care, health insurance, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, dnanexus, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, John Hixson, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, Patients Like Me, POEM, tech tonics, Technology, technology and health, treatment, UCSF, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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Writer, editor, entrepreneur, visionary – Thomas Goetz has always combined a sophisticated understanding of emerging technologies with a profound sense of humanism. This was evident in his work at Wired (where he served as executive editor for eleven years), in [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: analog divide, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, doctors, Health, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, information technology, insurance, Iodine, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, Technology, technology and health, Thomas Goetz, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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, clinical trial expert, and digital health pioneer at Cedar Sinai [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Brennan Spiegel, Cedar Sinai, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Health, health care, health-it, Healthcare, IG health, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Technology, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 Future and Harris Interactive. But these days [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, diagnosis, diagnostics, dnanexus, Health, Health 2.0, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, Indu Subaiya, insurance, lisa suennen, Matt Holt, medical care, medical research, Medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 well-equipped librarian, some cooperative doctors and Adelle Davis’ [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Chief Household Officer, david shaywitz, health economist, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, leukemia, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, tech tonics, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 of citizen science, [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Bioinformatics, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, health care, health insurance, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, hospitals, information technology, John Wilbanks, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, Research, SAGE, Sage Bionetworks, technology and health, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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.
Inspired by mentors including Dr. Mehmet Oz [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Bijan Salehizadeh, biopharmaceuticals, david shaywitz, dnanexus, Dr Oz, Health, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, Navidmed, raspberry ketone, tech tonics, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 what you will need, can’t document your data [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Beyond Lucid Technologies, david shaywitz, diagnosis, diagnostics, dnanexus, first responders, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, Jonathon Feit, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, tech tonics, Technology, technology and health, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 nuance and grace, a story he shares in the [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Bob Wachter, david shaywitz, diagnosis, diagnostics, Digital Doctor, dnanexus, doctors, health care, health insurance, health science, health-it, Healthcare, information technology, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 blood. The result – the Nellcor pulse [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: David Goodman, david shaywitz, diagnostics, dnanexus, Harvard, Harvard Medical School, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, Nellcor, obamacare, provider, pulse oximeter, Research, tech tonics, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 establishment of Omada Health, a company [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, diagnosis, diagnostics, dnanexus, Health, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, IDEO, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, Omada Health, Sean Duffy, tech tonics, technology and health, Type 2 diabetes, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Information Technology, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: Alzheimers, david shaywitz, diagnosis, diagnostics, dnanexus, elli kaplan, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, insurance, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, neurotrack, obamacare, Research, tech tonics, Technology, technology and health, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 financially. Fast forward a number [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, dnanexus, Health, health care, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, information technology, insurance, John de Souza, lisa suennen, MedHelp, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, tech tonics, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Information Technology, Tech Tonics Tags: Butterfly Health, CVS, david shaywitz, dnanexus, Health, health insurance, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, information technology, insurance, Kelly Brezcocky, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, personal healthcare, Target, tech tonics, technology and health, venture capital, venture valkyrie, Walmart
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“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 prescriptions for healthy eating?” wonders Dr. Jason Langheier, the [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Big Data, Healthcare, Information Technology, Tech Tonics Tags: Big Data, david shaywitz, diet, dnanexus, doctors, Health, health care, health insurance, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, healthy eating, hospitals, information technology, insurance, Jason Langheier, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, Research, tech tonics, technology and health, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie, Zipongo
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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 Asia was a pivotal moment. It led [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Information Technology, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: Big Data, CellScope, david shaywitz, dnanexus, doctors, Erik Douglas, Health, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, hospitals, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, Research, tech tonics, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 Seattle and was the fourth [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Big Data, Healthcare, Information Technology, Tech Tonics Tags: Affordable Care Act, Big Data, Bob Kocher, david shaywitz, dnanexus, doctors, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, hospitals, information technology, insurance, Larry Summers, lisa suennen, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, tech tonics, technology and health, Venrock, venture capital, venture valkyrie, Zeke Emanuel
Categories: Audio Podcast, Big Data, Healthcare, Information Technology, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: Better Inc, Big Data, david shaywitz, dnanexus, doctors, Geoff Clapp, Health, health insurance, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, hospitals, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, Personal Health Assistants, providers, tech tonics, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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 Welltok, a company that works with health plans and other population [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Big Data, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: Big Data, david shaywitz, dnanexus, doctors, epocrates, Health, health care, health insurance, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, hospitals, information technology, insurance, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, michelle snyder, obamacare, providers, Research, tech tonics, technology and health, treatment, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie, welltok
Categories: Audio Podcast, Big Data, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: aenor sawyer, Big Data, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, health insurance, health science, health sciences, health-it, Healthcare, insurance, lisa suennen, medical, medical care, medical research, Medicine, obamacare, provider, providers, Research, technology and health, UCSF, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie