Digisection

Akash Magoon is a serial healthcare tech founder and the CEO & co-founder of Adonis, an NYC-based company using AI to monitor and automate the healthcare revenue cycle. He also co-founded and previously served as CTO of Nayya, which created a TurboTax-like experience for employee benefits and open enrollment. Akash has raised over $150M across both companies. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he earned a Computer Science degree from the University of Maryland, where he also serves on multiple boards. He was also named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Ray Dogum is a Senior Consultant at Equideum Health (previously known as ConsenSys Health), and a Podcaster at Health Unchained, a show featuring blockchain and healthcare professionals who are rebuilding the health industry all over the world. More about Equideum Health: Equideum Health creates next-gen person-centered healthcare and research networks to advance health equity and outcomes by optimizing data liquidity across enterprise and individual data silos, powered by Ethereum. More about Health Unchained: Health Unchained features insights from the top healthcare innovators, entrepreneurs, and executives who are applying blockchain technology solutions to disrupt the health industry. Ray discusses their strategies, challenges, and unique experiences in this exciting new field. Link to all Health Unchained episodes: https://healthunchained.org/episodes

Wysa is a mental health company helping users to self-manage stressors by blending AI-guided listening with professional expert support. Wysa was developed to make the world more mentally resilient - an AI chatbot that leverages evidence-based cognitive-behavioral techniques (CBT) to make people feel heard. Blended with professional human support, Wysa provides 24/7 high-quality mental health support. “Sometimes you need to talk things through, and all you need is someone who will listen and ask the right questions to help you figure things out. That's Wysa!” - Jo Aggarwal, Wysa founder About our guests: Jo Aggarwal Jo Aggarwal is the founder and CEO of Wysa, a global leader in conversational AI for behavioral health. She was recognized as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Consumer HealthTech of 2021 by The Healthcare Technology Report. Previously, Aggarwal was the founding director for Technology & Innovation for a UN-backed foundation and has been the managing director of Pearson Learning Solutions in the U.K. Her work on mobile employability post-Arab Spring helped connect over 1 million young people to skills and jobs. She was recognized by the eLearning Center in the UK as one of the top three global thought leaders in education technology. Zereana Jess-Huff, Ph.D. Zereana Jess-Huff, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical practitioner with over 15 years of experience in clinical innovation, operations strategy, and product development with a specific focus on digital behavioral health. Zereana is an experienced writer authoring several articles on behavioral health in the age of digital health. Her background includes serving as the CEO of Beacon Health Options, Maryland managing the Public Behavioral Health System where she secured a $77 million 5-year award. She has extensive experience working with large US Health Systems on integrated care management and behavioral health service delivery. Recommended by Jo: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte

Frontiers Health emerged as one of the premier global digital health innovation events, with a strong focus on digital therapies, breakthrough technologies, healthcare transformation, investments, and ecosystem development. It is the health vertical by Frontiers Conferences, creating engaging conference experiences for 10 years, home of innovation and all things digital. About the guest: Matteo Penzo is an entrepreneur and experienced executive, in the past 10 years, he has led the EMEA Technology teams at frog, a global design and strategy firm. In 2005, he founded the internationally successful Frontiers Conference event, which brings innovators in business and design together. Matteo also co-founded Talent Garden Milano—the biggest co-working space in Italy—an investment he successfully exited in 2018. Matteo has also solid experience in leading (and building) teams and providing strategic expertise to Clients in the telecom and media industry (Al Jazeera, du, Saudi Telecom, Vodafone, SKY Italy), healthcare (Novartis, Roche, Astra Zeneca), and from the financial services (AXA, KKR, CheBanca!, UBS, Allianz). More recently, he co-founded Zick learn, an Ireland based startup that is developing a digital platform to create and distribute beautiful & accessible “text messages based training courses” for the Enterprise. Recommended by Matteo: 1930 Cocktail Bar

MDClone is a technology firm focused on unlocking healthcare data and empowering exploration, discovery, and collaboration to improve patients’ health. The MDClone ADAMS Platform is a powerful, self-service data analytics environment enabling healthcare collaboration, research, and innovation. About our guest: Josh Rubel leads MDClone's commercial team with a focus on building relationships with public and private health systems, life science, and health plan organizations through direct sales, partners, and channel alliances. Prior to joining MDClone, Josh spent 20 years in both established and new venture healthcare IT organizations including commercial leadership roles at GE Healthcare, Optum, and Enli Health Intelligence. Recommended by Josh: Beyond Selling Value - A Proven Process to Avoid the Vendor Trap by Mark Shonka and Dan Kosch Joe Abercrombie books

DexCare is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for health systems that intelligently orchestrates digital demand and health system capacity across all lines of care. DexCare was born out of Providence, one of the largest and most digitally forward health systems in the US. Initially developed as the platform for same-day care care, DexCare has been driving high-value patient acquisition, navigation and capacity optimization for the organization since 2016. The company’s leadership is comprised of healthcare and technology veterans with decades of experience in transformative health systems, healthtech investing and digital health companies. To learn more about this company, we were joined by two truly remarkable guests, the CEO of DexCare - Derek Streat, and Board Director - Dr. Toby Cosgrove. _________________________________________ Recommended by the guests: Dr. Cosgrove recommended this book: The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by Henry A Kissinger and Eric Schmidt Derek was inspired by this show: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies _________________________________________ More about our guests: Derek Streat: Derek Streat is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of DexCare. He is an accomplished healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive, having co-founded and/or been at the earliest stages of six venture-backed companies including C-SATS (acquired by Johnson & Johnson), Classmates (acquired by United Online), Medify (acquired by Alliance Health Networks) and AdReady (acquired by CPXi). Prior to joining Providence as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to commercialize the DexCare platform, Derek served as Vice President of Digital Solutions at Johnson & Johnson - a role he assumed after C-SATS was acquired by the world’s largest healthcare company. There he led the charge to transform the organization responsible for training 250,000 surgeons worldwide into a leading healthcare quality improvement and continuous learning institution that directly advanced patient outcomes, provider efficiency, and health system value through digital solutions. Derek is also actively involved in national healthcare data transparency efforts for the improvement of patient care as a Co-Founder and Board member of two leading data sharing organizations, PEDSnet and the Improving Renal Outcomes Collaborative (IROC). Toby Cosgrove, MD: Toby Cosgrove, MD, is former CEO and current Executive Advisor of Cleveland Clinic. He is Executive Advisor to Google Healthcare & Life Sciences, Strategic Advisor to Care Centrix, Senior Advisor of Innova Health Partners, and sits on the boards of American Well, and Hims & Hers. As an expert on health issues, he is a frequent commentator in national and international media. As CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic from 2004 through 2017, he led the $8 billion organization to new heights of achievement and efficiency, seeing it ranked the #2 hospital in America (U.S. News). In his role as Executive Advisor, he is working with Cleveland Clinic leadership on strategies for national and international growth.‍ Dr. Cosgrove joined Cleveland Clinic in 1975, and chaired the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery from 1989 to 2004. He performed over 22,000 operations and earned an international reputation in valve repair. He holds 30 patents for medical innovations. As CEO from 2004 to 2017, he reorganized services, improved outcomes and patient experience, and strengthened the organization’s finances. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2016, he was a Fortune Businessperson of the Year (No. 14). Three successive presidents of the United States have consulted him on healthcare issues.

Malinka Walaliyadde is the founder and CEO of AKASA, the only Unified Automation™ company for healthcare revenue cycle management. Prior to starting AKASA, Malinka served as a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he helped to start the healthcare investment team. Check out Malinka's favorite podcasts: a16z Invest Like the Best ...and books: High Output Management The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People

Aline Noizet is a connector by heart. She is passionate about innovation and new technologies applied to healthcare. Aline is the founder of Digital Health Connector, a boutique consulting firm focused on digital health, and the co-founder of Digital Health Innovators Barcelona, a successful local community that has been bringing together the actors of the digital health ecosystem for the past 9 years. Aline has strong international experience working with startups, helping them scale up and connect with corporate companies. She was the Program Manager for Bayer G4A (Grants4Apps) and Business Development Director for Health 2.0. Aline is also actively supporting Frontiers Health, SXSW, Medica, and Vision Health Pioneers. We talked about building communities, accelerators, pitching, and networking in digital health. Links to things mentioned by Aline: Events Frontiers Health: https://www.frontiers.health/ DTx Europe: https://www.dtxeurope.com/ DTx East: https://www.dtxeast.com/ DTx West: https://www.dtxwest.com/ eHealth University: https://www.universite-esante.com/en/ HLTH: http://www.hlth.com/ Giant Health: https://www.giant.health/ Exponential Medicine: https://exponential.singularityu.org/medicine/ Barcelona Health Hub Summit: https://bhhsummit.com/ Communities: One HealthTech: https://www.onehealthtech.com/ FemTech Focus: https://femtechfocus.org/ Barcelona Health Hub: https://barcelonahealthhub.com/

Eugene Borukhovich is a serial intra and entrepreneur, executive, venture builder, speaker & board advisor with a focus in digital health. Eugene is a Chairman and COO at YourCoach Health. Prior to YourCoach, Eugene served as a Global Head of Digital Health at Bayer. He has also co-founded and sold a doctor rating startup and a consulting company. Eugene is one of the kindest and most inspiring people I had the pleasure to meet in the digital health ecosystem. You can listen to his Digital Therapeutics Edition with Eugene Borukhovich podcast here.

Aviel Ginzburg is a General Partner at Founders' Co-op and former Managing Director of the Alexa Accelerator. In 2010 Aviel co-founded Simply Measured, one of Founders' Co-op's first investments, and was later backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, and MHS capital. When Simply Measured sold to Sprout Social at the end of 2017, Aviel transitioned into his current role as General Partner. Aviel is one of the most intelligent, sincere, and colorful investors I know.

Frank Westermann founded MySugr, a company trying to simplify life with diabetes. Frank wanted to build a product to help himself and ended up helping over 3M people with diabetes around the globe! In 2017, MySugr was acquired by Roche and keeps growing. We talked about creating consumer health apps that users love, running customer development, and more!

Nathan Treloar is the founder, President & COO of Orbita. Orbita specializes in developing conversational AI for healthcare and life sciences. We talked about the digital front door for healthcare providers, building voice AI teams, and whether bots should go to med school.