StartUp Health NOW Podcast

StartUp Health NOW Podcast


Latest Episodes

Introducing the Smartphone Epinephrine Injector, by Detroit-Based Startup Alerje
May 11, 2021

For some people, allergies are an inconvenience. But for millions of people around the world – particularly children – severe allergies are a major health concern. Eat the wrong thing and you could go into anaphylactic shock!

For Margaret Laws, Innovation Springs From Co-Creation
May 04, 2021

Longtime friend of StartUp Health Margaret Laws has built a career on cross-sector, interdisciplinary partnerships. For 17 years, she served as the Director of Public Financing and Policy and the Director of Innovation for the Underserved program at th...

Michelle Snyder Brings a Creative Spirit to Marketing and Investing
April 27, 2021

Michelle Snyder has done a bit of everything. Now a partner at McKesson Ventures (she joined the healthcare-oriented venture group in late 2020), the digital health veteran has seen innovation from every angle: driving the marketing behind startups lik...

Medical Billing Startup Inbox Health Bags $15M to ‘Fix the Pipes in Healthcare’
April 20, 2021

Blake Walker, CEO and Co-founder of Inbox Health, which joined StartUp Health in 2014, is helping to upgrade medical billing by delivering a personalized billing experience to healthcare practices. They’ve built a billing tool that puts clear communica...

With $8.5B Raised Globally in Q1 of 2021, Health Innovation Funding Hits New Milestone
April 09, 2021

What began as a rapid reaction to COVID-19 has become an enduring wave of interest, adoption, and investment in health innovation companies. According to this quarter’s record-breaking investment numbers, the After-Covid world has arrived,

Former Livongo President Dr. Jennifer Schneider Talks Moonshots, the Teladoc Merger, and How to Be a Transformative Leader
March 30, 2021

In this candid conversation with Unity Stoakes, President and Co-founder of StartUp Health, Dr. Schneider shares her hard-won wisdom and pulls back the curtain on one of healthcare’s biggest M&A transactions.

Aidar Health Scores FDA Clearance for New Breath-Based “Tricorder” Health Monitoring Device
March 23, 2021

In this episode, we talk with Sathya Elumalai, CEO & Co-founder of Aidar Health, a StartUp Health company since 2016. Sathya and his team in Baltimore have invented something that could change healthcare as we know it.

GE Healthcare’s Karley Yoder Builds Bridges With AI
March 16, 2021

Karley Yoder made a name for herself in the digital health world at Doctor on Demand and Apple before launching a career at GE Healthcare, where she now serves as Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence. Today,

Cloudbreak’s Jamey Edwards Breaks Down the UpHealth Mega Deal and Why SPACs Work
March 09, 2021

Jamey Edwards, the CEO and Co-founder of Cloudbreak Health, has been in telemedicine for years, but his health moonshot impact is about to get a lot bigger. Thanks to a SPAC (which he breaks down in the podcast),

Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Toby Cosgrove Sees Moonshot Potential in an After-COVID World
March 02, 2021

While this may be the first global pandemic Toby Cosgrove, MD, has experienced, he’s seen a lot in his nearly 50-year career. The Executive Advisor and former CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic is also a former heart surgeon, a Vietnam War veteran,