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Vishal Gulati says he was “genetically predisposed to be a doctor.” But as it turns out, he was born to be a pioneer in open data, digital health and global venture capital.
During his medical training, Vishal realized that the [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, dfj esprit, digital health, dnanexus, health innovation, health technology, Human Genome Project, lisa suennen, venture valkyrie, vishal gulati
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A cardiologist by training and a data scientist long before it was sexy, Dr. Taha Kass-Hout demonstrates the outsized impact possible when heart, vision, and passion meet commitment to government service, and beyond. Originally from Syria, Taha discovered his love [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: CDC, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, health innovation, health technology, lisa suennen, venture valkyrie
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Jazz musician, cardiologist, geneticist, engineer, entrepreneur, referee of kids soccer: our guest today, Stanford’s Euan Ashley, does it all, and just might be the most interesting man in Silicon Valley.
Scotsman by birth, doctor by destiny, and a technologist by [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: biomed, cardiology, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, Euan Ashley, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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Jody Holtzman, Senior Vice President of Market Innovation at AARP, has a favorite quote, which is Thomas Edison’s, “…there are no rules here – – we’re trying to accomplish something.” He has certainly brought that idea to life as [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: AARP, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, health innovation, health technology, Jody Holtzman, lisa suennen, venture valkyrie
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The U.S. healthcare system was designed primarily based on our understanding of the biological and social needs of white men. Of course, our current experience tells us that society is far more complex and that the system must recognize and [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Abner Mason, biopsychosocial, Consejo Sano, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Health, health app, health apps, health care IT, health software, health technology, health-it, Healthcare IT, lisa suennen, tech tonics, technology and health, telehealth, venture valkyrie
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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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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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: children’s health, Consortium for Technology and Innovation in Pediatrics, CTIP, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Health, health care, health data, health science, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, healthxl, Jessica Rousset, lisa suennen, medical science, Pediatrics, Silicon Valley, tech tonics, technology and health, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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Infectious disease physician, entrepreneur, and life-long innovator, Diego Miralles has pursued the frontiers of medicine on three continents, and in at least three distinct settings: academia, biotech startups, and the largest pharma company on earth, J&J. There, he founded both [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Adaptive Biotechnolgies, bioengineering, biomed, Biomedical, david shaywitz, Diego Miralles, dnanexus, ehealth, epatient, epatients, Genome, genomic revolution, genomics, health care IT, health data, health science, health sciences, health startup, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, lisa suennen, medical research, medical science, medical treatment, mhealth, tech tonics, technology and health, telehealth, telemedicine, VC, venture valkyrie, wireless health
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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 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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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Geoff Clapp, health care, health innovation, health insurance, health research, health science, health sciences, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, lisa suennen, med tech, Medical Technology, provider, providers, technology and health, translational medicine, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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So much emphasis has been placed on fitness and wearables over the last five years and much has been made of whether these trackers can translate to better health or are just there to make people feel a sense of [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Biomedical, david shaywitz, digital health, ehealth, epatient, fitness apps, Genome, Health, Health 2.0, health applications, health apps, health care, health sciences, health technology, health trackers, health-it, Healthcare, kealthcare IT, Lebron James, lisa suennen, medical science, medical treatment, mhealth, Personalized Medicine, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, telehealth, telemedicine, venture valkyrie, Wearables, Whoop, Will Ahmed, 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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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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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Health Beacon, health care, health innovation, health research, health sciences, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, Jim Joyce, lisa suennen, med tech, Medical Technology, Medicine, technology and health, translational medicine, VC, venture capital, venture valkyrie
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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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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, health care, health innovation, health research, health science, health sciences, health technology, health-it, Healthcare, human biology, lisa suennen, Medical Technology, Merck, robert plenge, tech tonics, 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
Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: Alex Drane, david shaywitz, empathy, end of life, Health 2.0, Healthcare, lisa suennen, loneliness, sex, tech tonics, Unmentionables
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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
Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: CareMore, david shaywitz, dnanexus, health-it, Healthcare, lisa suennen, Merck, Sachin Jain, 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