Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: biomed, Calico, Daphne Koller, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: biomed, CIA, david shaywitz, Dawn Meyerriecks, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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We have had numerous guests on Tech Tonics who went to medical school only to find their way into non-medical roles. But Ken Tarkoff, whose original career plan was to follow his father into medicine, chose the long way.
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, Ken Tarkoff, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, Syapse, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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At 32 years old, Jessica “Jess” McNair never saw stroke as a problem she would have to face. To her, strokes happened to the elderly or people with multiple risk factors. However, one morning she learned that strokes can happen [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Ekso Bionics, Healthcare, Lean On Me Tags: caregiver, caregiver help, caregiver hope, caregiver support, Ekso Bionics, family support, Healthcare, sister care, sister support, Stroke, stroke recovery, stroke support, stroke survivor, technology and health
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Each of us has been, at some time in our lives, a patient in the medical system. But some people have such extensive patient experience that their thoughts can translate to meaningful expertise. Jack Barrette is helping these patients turn [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Technology Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, Jack Barrette, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie, Wego
Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: Amy Abernathy, biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, Flatiron Health, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: ABIM, biomed, Christine Cassel, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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For many, music as medicine has long been put in that category of things that seem nice but not like “real medicine” We all know that music can make us feel better individually, but there is an accumulating body of [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, music therapy, precision medicine, Rachel Francine, SingFit, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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Deneen Vojta has played virtually every possible position in the healthcare world. She has at various times been a physician, an entrepreneur and a payer. Today it’s a hat trick, bringing all three of these roles together to bring new [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, Deneen Vojta, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, United Health Group, venture valkyrie
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The son of Eastern European immigrants, Zak Kohane was born and raised in Switzerland; he then came to the United States where he’s nurtured a passion for medicine and computers to become one of the nation’s leading thinkers, innovators, and [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: biomed, Biomedical Informatics, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, EHR, epatient, genomics, Harvard, health startup, health technology, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie, Zak Kohane
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Glen de Vries grew up in Manhattan, a nerdy kid who admired Richard Feynman, loved his TRS-80, and went to Carnegie Mellon University planning to study chemistry and computer science. A summer of molecular biology inspired him to switch his [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, glen de vries, health startup, health technology, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, Medidata, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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The medical device company iRhythm has been described as that rarest of all breeds – a digital health company with an actual, viable business model behind it. On today’s Tech Tonics podcast, we’re delighted to welcome Uday Kumar, the cardiologist [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, iRhythm, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, Uday Kumar, venture valkyrie, Zico
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When you ask Jan Bruce where she grew up, she says “in the media business.” Jan worked early on in the magazine and then digital media sectors, backing into the health and wellness category through opportunity. She planned a career [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, Jan Bruce, lisa suennen, medical research, MeQuilibrium, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, Jessica Mega, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie, Verily
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Deborah Kilpatrick grew up on a family farm in rural Georgia; her dad was a teacher and football coach; she describes life in her town as “very Friday Night Lights.”
With a passion for math and science, Deb decided to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics, Technology Tags: CardioDx, david shaywitz, Deborah Kilpatrick, digital health, dnanexus, Evidation Health, Guidant, health startup, health technology, lisa suennen, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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Reports suggest that today there are between 1.2 to 2.6 million legal medical marijuana users in the U.S. But as we know, there is great controversy about medical marijuana as a “legitimate” medical intervention due to its history as an [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: cannabis, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, health startup, health technology, HelloMD, lisa suennen, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, medical research, Pamela Hadfield, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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Chris Benko first joined Merck when he was but a lad of eighteen, rising through the ranks in HR and talent management to become one of the youngest VPs in the history of the organization, at the age of 34. [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: biomed, Chris Benko, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, Koneksa Health, lisa suennen, medical research, Merck, precision medicine, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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Susannah Fox eloquently described her job as U.S. HHS Chief Technology Officer – a role which just came to an end in the transition to a new administration – as “helping Health and Human Service (HHS) leadership harness the power [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human genome, Internet Geologist, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, Susannah Fox, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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Many entrepreneurs and investors on our podcast advise would-be innovators to focus on the problem to be solved, rather than become wrapped up in a particular technology. “Your solution,” VC Dave McClure famously warned entrepreneurs, “Is not my problem.”
On [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: Agamatrix, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, Elemental Machines, health startup, health technology, lisa suennen, Misfit Wearables, precision medicine, Sonny Vu, Sridhar Iyengar, tech tonics, technology and health, venture valkyrie
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Rasu Shrestha, MD, is one of those doctors who found his way from medicine to technology. As he puts it, he rolled downhill from his birthplace in Kathmandu, Nepal, across many continents and into medical school in India. But Rasu [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Healthcare, Tech Tonics Tags: biomed, david shaywitz, digital health, dnanexus, epatient, genomics, health startup, health technology, human centered design, human genome, lisa suennen, medical research, precision medicine, Rasu Shrestha, tech tonics, technology and health, UPMC, 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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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