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Tech Tonics: Dorit Donoviel, To Infinity and Beyond

September 19th, 2016 |

Tech Tonics: Jessica Rousset – Today’s Kids Are Tomorrow’s Adults

September 6th, 2016 |
Tech Tonics: Jessica Rousset – Today’s Kids Are Tomorrow’s Adults

While determining what to do with college and her career, Jessica Rousset struggled to decide – go with the right brain and be an artist or go with the left brain and pursue engineering. In a way she has managed [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: When Companies Go Awry

Tech Tonics: When Companies Go Awry

The success of Silicon Valley is often attributed to the ability of the entrepreneurial community to embrace setbacks rather than punishing those who experience them. Celebrating these setbacks has become an art form of it own as a recent NYT [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Kara Dennis and the Development of New Therapies

Tech Tonics: Kara Dennis and the Development of New Therapies

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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Tech Tonics: Jim Joyce, A Man of Genius Makes No Mistakes

Tech Tonics: Jim Joyce, A Man of Genius Makes No Mistakes

James Joyce, the famous Irish author once said, “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portraits of discovery.” His namesake, entrepreneur Jim Joyce, could not agree more. An entrepreneur many times over and [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Merck’s Robert Plenge on Human Biology and Social Media

Tech Tonics: Merck’s Robert Plenge on Human Biology and Social Media

For years, medical research seemed focused on understanding disease processes primarily through model organisms such as yeast, flies, and mice. Today’s guest, Merck’s Robert Plenge, offers the radical suggestion that with the help of emerging technology “humans serve as the [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Martin Kelly, Conductor of a Global Orchestra of Entrepreneurship

Tech Tonics: Martin Kelly, Conductor of a Global Orchestra of Entrepreneurship

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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Tech Tonics: 2016 Preview

Tech Tonics: 2016 Preview

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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Tech Tonics: John Hixson, From Aggie To Techie

December 23rd, 2015 |
Tech Tonics: John Hixson, From Aggie To Techie

John Hixson’s career has taken him from a small town near Waco, Texas to the Johns Hopkins Medical School, a neurology residency at the University of Pennyslvannia, and ultimately to his current role at neurologist at UCSF and the [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Thomas Goetz, Bridging the Analog Divide

November 23rd, 2015 |
Tech Tonics: Thomas Goetz, Bridging the Analog Divide

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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Tech Tonics: Dr. Sachin Jain… Professional Culture, Patient Focused

November 2nd, 2015 |
Tech Tonics: Dr. Sachin Jain… Professional Culture, Patient Focused

When Dr. Sachin Jain got the call to become Chief Medical Officer of Anthem’s highly-regarded CareMore Unit, he could hardly have feigned surprise. It must have seemed like the role to which he was destined: a physician leader in an [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Translating Technology into Practice

October 18th, 2015 |
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, clinical trial expert, and digital health pioneer at Cedar Sinai [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: 2015 Health 2.0 Preview with Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya

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 Future and Harris Interactive. But these days [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Getting Close to Home on Healthcare Costs

September 28th, 2015 |
Tech Tonics: 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 well-equipped librarian, some cooperative doctors and Adelle Davis’ [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: John Wilbanks, Participant-Centric Innovation

September 15th, 2015 |
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 of citizen science, [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Bijan Salehizadeh, from Dr. Oz to Venture Capital

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.

Inspired by mentors including Dr. Mehmet Oz [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Jonathon Feit on How to Empower First Responders

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 what you will need, can’t document your data [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Bob Wachter, The Digital Doctor

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 nuance and grace, a story he shares in the [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Inventor, Entrepreneur, Doctor, David Goodman

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 blood. The result – the Nellcor pulse [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Sean Duffy’s Ascent from Legos to Healthcare

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 establishment of Omada Health, a company [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Elli Kaplan, Diagnosing Alzheimer’s

Tech Tonics: Linda Avey, We Are Curious

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 an easy win: menopause-associated symptoms.

VCs, she reasoned, would be immediately [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: John de Souza, Meant for Medicine

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 financially. Fast forward a number [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Kelly Brezoczky and Unmentionable Personal Healthcare

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 intimate places, as she has pioneered [See the full post…]

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Tech Tonics: Dr. Jason Langheier and the Power of Personalization

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 prescriptions for healthy eating?” wonders Dr. Jason Langheier, the [See the full post…]

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