Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Nancy Ham, CEO of WebPT (Part 1)

We’ve covered WebPT before, featuring founder Heidi Jannenga on Entrepreneur Journeys. We’ve also had Heidi on our roundtable.

This conversation explores the evolution of WebPT to a broader product footprint and also discusses the open issues in the physiotherapy practice management space. It also explores pain-related medical devices, the role of insurance companies, and other interesting nuances of the industry.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by giving a brief introduction to WebPT and your current activities. As you know, we have had your founder, Heidi Jannenga, on the Entrepreneur Journeys platform as well as at our roundtable. Our audience is very familiar with WebPT.

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Life Image CEO Matthew Michela (Part 1)

An in-depth conversation on the stage of data in the medical world.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Life Image.

Matthew Michela: I’m the President and CEO of Life Image. Life Image is a medical evidence-based technology platform that services a wide variety of healthcare entities and partners inside the healthcare ecosystem on a global scale. We’re a relatively mature company of about 11 years.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: CareDash CEO Ted Chan (Part 1)

Have you experienced the nightmare of finding good doctors? How about getting reimbursed for a telemedicine consultation by your insurance company? This conversation deals with all those issues.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as CareDash.

Ted Chan: CareDash is the fastest-growing doctor review website on the internet. We’ve made it our mission to help patients make the right decisions about their healthcare providers and services. One of the things that we do that’s really different is we collect every doctor review behind a registered login.

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Tarek Sherif, CEO of Medidata (Part 1)

The clinical data domain is going through major changes and is full of opportunities. This discussion delves into the industry with one of its biggest players.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce our audience to you as well as Medidata.

Tarek Sherif: I’m Tarek Sherif. I’m a Co-Founder, the CEO, and Chairman of Medidata Solutions. We’re a New York-based company but global in operations. We’re focused on helping life sciences companies – biotech, large pharma, and medical device companies as well as academic organizations. >>>

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Carol Clayton, Relias (Part 1)

Carol explains certain SaaS-enabled BPO opportunities within the value-based healthcare domain.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Relias.

Carol Clayton: I’m a psychologist by training. I worked as the translational neuroscientist at Relias. Relias is a healthcare technology company with footprints specifically in the space of using online tools for training and competency development in the healthcare space. They are evolving their tools and solutions to assist healthcare providers and organizations with better use of data. It also links data to learning so that organizations can be data-driven in looking at their performance within their healthcare vertical. >>>

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Raj Agarwal, CEO of Medocity (Part 1)

Mega trends are sweeping through the healthcare space driven by the impact of digital technology. In this conversation, we kick around value-based healthcare, digital therapeutics, etc. and how Medocity is adding value to those use cases.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing yourself and Medocity.

Raj Agarwal: I’m the President and CEO of Medocity. We founded Medocity about six years ago. >>>

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Matthew Sappern, CEO of PeriGen (Part 1)

I have been talking about the applications of AI on Healthcare IT problems. Here is a great case study.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as PeriGen to our audience.

Matthew Sappern: I’m the CEO of of PeriGen. PeriGen is a software developer. We make software as a medical device. We’re FDA-cleared. Our primary goal is to build software that helps clinicians prevent adverse outcomes in childbirth, which is a pretty important task.

Sramana Mitra: Double-click down on that and explain what exactly are we talking about. Give us a use case and talk us through how this works. >>>

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Mark Redlus, CEO of Tridiuum (Part 1)

Behavioral health is a hairy area to tackle. Read how Tridiuum is creating value in that sector.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and to Tridiuum.

Mark Redlus: Tridiuum is a digital behavioral health company. Our mission is to integrate behavioral health into total health. I’m the CEO of the company and I took this post after three years in a prior second position in the company. I took this about a year and a month ago. I’m relatively new at the job.

Sramana Mitra: If you could double-click down a bit more on what you mean by managing behavioral health, that would be great. >>>

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: William King, CEO of Zephyr Health (Part 1)

I first spoke with William for our Entrepreneur Journeys series in March 2015. This is a follow-up discussion on the company’s progress and extensive impact by harnessing data from a hundred different sources to help pharmaceutical companies across various use cases. Excellent insights!

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by catching up a bit. We spoke sometime back in the Entrepreneur Journeys series where you introduced Zephyr Health. Our audience has that. We’ll connect that story to this one so people can go back and read that story. Catch me up on what’s happening. >>>