AWS Health Innovation Podcast

Discover the future of healthcare with DeepScribe's AI scribe, Cohere Health's pre-auth solutions, Zus Health's interoperability platform, Bayesian Health's AI clinical data platform, and Iterative Scope's AI GI tools on Part 2 of our Top 10 Episodes of all time countdown.

Discover the future of healthcare with Artera’s communication solutions, Insitro’s AI in drug discovery, Canvas Medical’s EMR technology, Forward Health’s primary care advancements, and Us2.AI’s advanced echocardiography tools in Part 1 of our Top 10 Episodes of all time countdown.

In this episode, Wout Brusselaers, CEO & Founder of Deep 6 AI, shares how their AI technology is revolutionizing patient recruitment for clinical trials, shaping the future of research.

Explore Epistemix's innovative approach to population health management with CEO John Cordier on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast, learning all about how their simulations are changing the healthcare landscape.

Imagine the convenience of getting a full suite of blood tests completed in just 30 minutes during a routine visit to your GP. Truvian Health's CEO Jay Srinivasan presents their breakthrough blood testing technology for faster, lab-accurate blood diagnostics in the clinic.

CLEW's CEO, Paul Roscoe, introduces their clinical command center which harnesses AI to enable earlier interventions, improving patient & business outcomes for hospitals.

Robin Shah, Co-Founder & CEO of Thyme Care, a leader in oncology care navigation, discusses how to transform cancer care with Alex Merwin, Head of Growth for Healthcare & Life Science Startups at AWS.

Learn about an AI platform which is processing data from more than 1 million patients across over 1,000 medical centers per month from Elad Walach, CEO of Aidoc, who joins Guy Spigelman of AWS for a candid and insightful conversation about AI's potential to transform how hospitals operate.

Young Kwon, CEO of Alchemab Therapeutics, joins Dr. Amrita Sarkar from AWS to discuss Alchemab's innovative approach to leveraging AI and insights from the immune system to develop antibody therapeutics for hard-to-treat diseases.

Tjaša Zajc & Alex Merwin present the AWS Health Innovation and Faces of Digital Health podcasts, their professional journeys and the challenges health systems & entrepreneurs face as they embrace digital transformation.

Seer is pioneering new ways to decode the secrets of the proteome, leveraging engineered nanoparticles to provide unbiased, deep, and large-scale access to this incredibly detailed landscape. Learn more on the latest episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast.

Discover how Artera is making healthcare the best industry for customer service. Alex Merwin from AWS welcomes Guillaume de Zwirek, Co-Founder & CEO of Artera, to the show.

Did you know AI can reduce echocardiography wait times from 12 months to just 6 weeks? Learn more on the latest episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast. We've compiled insights from 10 leading startups for a 360-degree tour of Health AI innovation. Covering a broad range of use cases, from genomics to dentistry and musculoskeletal to cardiology, this is a must listen for anyone interested in how AI can improve healthcare.

Dr. Terence Tan from AWS sits down with Dr. Carolyn Lam and James Hare of Us2.ai who are democratizing echocardiograms through AI. Learn about their regulatory & technical strategy, global impact, and advice for founders.

How is AI shaping the future of dental care? Ophir Tanz of Pearl shares his vision and journey on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast.

Discover how Lifen is unlocking the potential of health data in Europe. Join Guy Spigelman from AWS and Dali Kilani from Lifen as they discuss data interoperability, clinician empowerment, and the future of health innovation.

Akilesh Bapu, Co-Founder & CEO of DeepScribe, joins Alex Merwin on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast to discuss how AI is reshaping medical documentation, the importance of having humans in the loop to improve model accuracy, and their fundraising journey.

Learn about Pathoquest's next-generation sequencing based QC solution for biologic manufacturing on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast with host Dr. Amrita Sarkar and guest Jean Francois Brepson, CEO of Pathoquest.

Explore how Iterative Scopes, led by CEO Jonathan Ng, is pioneering the application of artificial intelligence-based precision medicine to gastroenterology with the aim of establishing a new standard of care for the detection and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. Part of our "Revisiting" series where we republish top episodes from our back catalogue.

Discover how Insilico Medicine is accelerating drug discovery using Generative AI in the latest episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast. CEO Alex Zhavoronkov joins AWS' Dr. Yin He to discuss their journey and how they are accelerating drug development.

Join AWS Startups' Eric Zimmerman and Apixio CEO, Sachin Patel, as they explore the transformative role of AI in healthcare analytics on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast. Sachin shares how Apixio is making patient care more personalized and cost-effective with actionable data.

AKASA's Ben Beadle-Ryby shares AI's transformative impact on healthcare revenue cycle management. Learn how AKASA improves the patient experience by creating solutions that seamlessly address the revenue cycle needs of payors & providers.

Mike Tarselli, Chief Scientific & Knowledge Officer at TetraScience discusses accelerating drug development through a unified data platform and fostering a learning culture on the AWS Health Innovation Podcast.

In this episode of AWS Health Innovation Podcast, revisit #8, a Season One classic with Rohit Nambisan, CEO of Lokavant. Rohit discusses Lokavant's drive to harness overlooked clinical trial data and the crucial role of diverse teams in startup success.

Learn how Science 37 is revolutionizing clinical trials in this episode with their Chief Delivery Officer, Darcy Forman. Hear about the pioneering technologies they're using to deliver trials directly to patients' homes.

Discover how Litesprite challenges gaming stereotypes, clinically validates their software, and aims to make mental health support accessible to all. Join Founder & CEO Swatee Surve in a special episode of the AWS Health Innovation Podcast with host Danielle Morris, AWS Global Social Impact, Global Public Health- Health Equity Lead.

Discover the world of movement health with Dr. Phil Wagner, Founder & CEO of Sparta Science. Learn how next-gen sensors can optimize performance, speed up recovery, and reduce workplace injuries.

Cédric Kovacs-Johnson, CEO & Founder of Flume Health, discusses how Flume enables payers to launch innovative health plans, integrating a variety of point solutions seamlessly. They aim to provide personalized benefits and address the gaps in the incumbent payer system, while emphasizing the importance of customer feedback and a clear product vision.

Adrian Aoun, CEO of Forward Health, shares his vision of how to build a healthcare system capable of scaling up to a billion covered lives. Discover how Forward Health challenges conventions, prioritizes motivation over skills, and leverages a diverse network of advisors and investors to accelerate healthcare innovation. Adrian shares details on the remarkable work Forward Health is already doing through its futuristic primary care clinics across the US. Forward Health's body scanners might remind you of Star Trek, which turns out not to be by accident, and Adrian envisions a future where healthcare is democratized and accessible to all. We also explore how to build an effective startup advisory board and the power of collecting intelligence and ideas from a wide range of experts. Adrian also explains how Forward Health fosters a culture of constant learning, diligently evaluating ideas, and uncovering ground breaking solutions to the complex challenges of healthcare.

In this episode, we explore the success story of RadAI, a digital health company that provides AI-powered radiology solutions. We discuss how the company’s co-founders created a strong and complementary partnership, prioritized platform customization and time to value to drive adoption, and continue to navigate emerging trends in the radiology space to improve the lives of patients and clinicians.

In this episode, Curt Medeiros (CEO) and Barry Wark (Co-Founder & CSO) from Ovation join Eric Zimmerman (Principal Healthcare & Life Sciences BD, Venture Capital & Startups at AWS) to discuss the importance of genomic data in advancing precision medicine. They share insights on how to build a successful genomic data business, innovation in precision medicine beyond oncology, and the importance of mapping genomic data to longitudinal phenotypic data.

On this episode, we're joined by Heather Mirjahangir Fernandez, CEO and Co-Founder of Solv, a startup that's transforming the healthcare industry by making access to high-quality, convenient care simple, friendly and transparent for consumers. Heather shares her insights on the importance of convenience in healthcare, the challenges Solv faces, and their mission to empower consumers to simplify their day-to-day healthcare needs.

Episode Re-Release. Alex Merwin hosts a group of health innovation leaders from startups, investors, media and startup enabling organizations for a special HLTH compilation episode. We asked each innovator two questions: what is special about convening in-person at events in this post-covid world, and if they could wave a magic wand to eliminate any hurdle to health innovation what would they change and why. Thanks to our guests from Redesign Health, Maven Clinic, Luma Health, Health Gorilla, Matter, Mission Based Media, Keep Labs, Memora Health, Unseen Capital, BioFourmis, and Brightside Health. Learn more about how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive at https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/.

On this re-release, Seth Sternberg discusses the need to care for care professionals and how they’re developed, how to acquire & integrate a company into a high-growth startup and lessons learned managing a two-sided marketplace in the digital health space.

On this re-release, Michelle Wagner, CEO of Mindstrong, discusses why integrating data collected between treatment sessions can be a game changer for behavioral health, why selling digital health products via large employers can look a lot like direct-to-consumer sales, and why entrepreneurs in healthcare must learn to embrace iterative change as part of a large and complex system.

This is re-release of Dr. George Church and Barghavi Govindarajan discussing how technology, innovation, and education can come together in a single product, to what extent users need to understand a complex technology to use it effectively, and how basic science researchers can leverage startups to speed up the time to making a massive impact on the world.

Ken Mayer from Safe Health discusses how cloud computing helps startups develop faster and in a more agile way, the importance of aligning your business model to solutions that are reimbursable, and how to improve provider and patient workflows as they interact with digital health solutions.

Dr. Jean Drouin, CEO and co-founder of Clarify Health Solutions, discusses how a fee-for-service model combined with actionable data can lead the healthcare system toward value-based care, why building a system to understand every patient journey is important, and what baseball can teach us about optimizing value-based arrangements.

We want to hear your feedback about the Podcast! Let us know what you think here: https://airtable.com/shrF0QmQUU8xGvlIO --------- This week we're doing something different, as we wrap Season 2 and get ready to launch Season 3 later in the spring. Given we'll be taking several weeks off to cook up our next season of content, this is a great opportunity to showcase a few episodes from our catalog by republishing them on the feed over the coming weeks. Joe and Alex talk about why they selected these episodes, share some other highlights from season 2 and a give listeners a sneak peek for what we have planned for Season 3. --------- We want to hear your feedback about the Podcast! Let us know what you think here: https://airtable.com/shrF0QmQUU8xGvlIO --------- Learn more about how AWS enables healthcare and life science startups to grow & thrive (https://aws.amazon.com/startups/healthcare-life-sciences/) and how healthcare & life sciences industry leaders leverage the cloud to accelerate health innovation (https://aws.amazon.com/health/)

Jonathan Bush, CEO and co-founder of Zus Health, shares his thoughts on why he sees duplication as core to what frustrates so many with the US health system, how his experience leading athenahealth has shaped his team’s approach at Zus, and what his advice is for first time founders in health tech.

Alessio Signorini, CTO and co-founder of Evidation Health, shares how the founders’ experience in data-driven advertising led them to Evidation Health, how the rise of wearable technology has dramatically increased available healthcare data, and why transparency, privacy, and trust are essential when working with healthcare data.

Vijay Kedar, CEO and co-founder of Tomorrow Health, discusses how stakeholder value compounds across the healthcare ecosystem, why he prefers “support” to “empowerment” when building solutions for patients and caregivers, and why he believes so much of the newest technology in healthcare must be custom built with an insider’s view.

Recorded at AWS & Wellington Partners “Health.Tech.Bio - Trends from Across the Pond” symposium at JPM, we welcome industry experts from the Israel Innovation Authority, Exscientia, Sofinnova Partners and Wellington Partners to share their insights on Europe’s unique contributions to healthcare & life sciences innovation. Learn more about how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive at https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/.

Alon Joffe, CEO and co-founder of Eleos, discusses how he and his team have identified and addressed the barriers to receiving behavioral health treatment, why Eleos sees quality and administration as inextricably linked, and why he believes healthcare products must have both a financial and clinical ROI to be viable.

Seth Sternberg discusses the need to care for care professionals and how they’re developed, how to acquire & integrate a company into a high-growth startup and lessons learned managing a two-sided marketplace in the digital health space.

Dr. Mary Rozenman, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer at insitro, and Dr. Chris Probert, senior machine learning scientist at insitro discuss how insitro’s discovery process can start on either the clinical or cellular side, why scale is so important in every aspect of insitro’s model, and why diversity of experience and background can be a powerful tool in solving hard problems.

Alex Merwin hosts a group of health innovation leaders from startups, investors, media and startup enabling organizations for a special HLTH compilation episode. We asked each innovator two questions: what is special about convening in-person at events in this post-covid world, and if they could wave a magic wand to eliminate any hurdle to health innovation what would they change and why. Thanks to our guests from Redesign Health, Maven Clinic, Luma Health, Health Gorilla, Matter, Mission Based Media, Keep Labs, Memora Health, Unseen Capital, BioFourmis, and Brightside Health. Learn more about how AWS enables healthcare & life sciences startups to grow and thrive at https://aws.amazon.com/startups/ and https://aws.amazon.com/health/.

Dr. David Parke, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Verana Health, discusses why certain medical specialties are ideal proving grounds for digital health innovation, how Verana grew out of the unique data collected by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and why knowing not only what customers value but also the nuance surrounding that value is so important for startups.

Emilio Galán, CEO and founder of Robin, shares how Robin is addressing the administrative burden on providers and how reimbursement models play a role, why he sees disentangling the medical workflow and administrative workflow as a key driver of reducing that burden, and why he believes that in the future patients will demand their providers leverage ambient listening technology.

Michelle Wagner, CEO of Mindstrong, discusses why integrating data collected between treatment sessions can be a game changer for behavioral health, why selling digital health products via large employers can look a lot like direct-to-consumer sales, and why entrepreneurs in healthcare must learn to embrace iterative change as part of a large and complex system.