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Everyone is talking about AI, but few leaders are asking the question that matters:How can AI help people make better decisions instead of creating more dashboards, reports, and confusion?In this episode of Provider’s Edge, I sat down with 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐲𝐚 𝐄𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐝𝐡𝐢, Co-Founder and President of DocereeTo explore how AI-powered market intelligence can strengthen healthcare marketing, physician engagement, patient education, and commercial decision-making.Her team brought together 75 healthcare leaders to co-create solutions around real industry challenges. The result was AI designed to work as a strategic thought partner—not just another automation tool.For healthcare leaders and founders, the message is clear:Build fewer features.Build solutions people will actually use.𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻:✅ How to turn healthcare data into actionable decisions✅ Why patients and physicians require different engagement strategies✅ How real-time market intelligence improves commercial decisions✅ Why co-creation leads to stronger adoption✅ How AI can support affordability, access, and adherence✅ Why implementation matters more than industry buzzwordsConnect with Kamya Elawadhi on👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamya-elawadhi/ Doceree is the only healthcare marketing platform that can measure and adapt to the actual clinical intent of both physicians and patients. Built on the industry's largest real-time clinical signal network, Doceree's infrastructure unifies the entire healthcare journey - from physician awareness to prescription and patient fill to refill.   Explore opportunities here: 👉 http://www.doceree.com𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲What If Your HealthTech Marketing Problem Isn’t Visibility but Confusion? - This episode explores why healthcare companies struggle with messaging, market positioning, and audience understanding. How Virtual Care Keeps Patients Inside Health System - This episode discusses patient engagement, trust, adoption, and keeping patients connected within healthcare ecosystemsHow to Build AI Clinicians' Trust and Teams Stick - This episode examines how AI earns trust from clinicians and patients, emphasizing that technology succeeds only when it supports human decision-making. Where Are You Focused Right Now?1️⃣ Need More Pilots, Partnerships, or Revenue?You're building momentum, having conversations with investors, developing partnerships, and growing your team.The next stage of growth often comes down to knowing where to focus, which opportunities to prioritize, and who can help open the right doors.Our integrated advisory board helps founders accelerate growth through strategic introductions, leadership support, and expert guidance across fundraising, operations, and revenue growth.Schedule an Alignment Call: 👉 PulsePointPath.com/Chat 2️⃣ Raising Capital?Most founders don't need more investor meetings—they need a stronger investor story.Submit your pitch deck for feedback through our free Pitch to Yes Workshop and learn how to communicate what investors actually fund.Get started: 👉 PitchToYes.com 3️⃣ Want More Visibility & Inbound Opportunities?Have a compelling founder journey or healthcare innovation story to share?Apply to be featured on Provider's Edge, our Top 100-ranked entrepreneurship podcast where founders build authority, attract partnerships, and create new opportunities.Apply here: 👉 PulsePointPath.com/Providers-Edge-Recording

🎙️ Your Tech Isn’t Failing, Your Leadership Readiness IsMost founders think fundraising is about traction.Investors know it’s about translation.In this episode of Provider’s Edge, I sat down with Cheryl Beninga, Co-Founder of Fourth Wave, to unpack what really determines whether capital moves or stalls, especially for women founders in healthtech.We talked candidly about why brilliant ideas don’t get funded, how leadership gaps quietly derail raises, and what investors are actually listening for when you walk into the room.This conversation is essential if you’ve ever felt like:You’re doing “all the right things” but capital is still slowInvestors don’t fully get what you’re buildingYou’re growing a company faster than you’re growing yourselfIn this episode, you’ll learn:Why investors prioritize team strength over technology strengthThe leadership signals that matter more than traction in early-stage fundingHow women founders are under-supported—not underqualifiedWhat “coachability” really means from an investor’s lensHow to translate complex science into fundable business languageWhy founder growth must outpace company growth to scale sustainablyRelated Episodes You’ll LoveWhy Do So Many HealthTech Startups Stall After Early Traction - A grounded conversation exploring why early traction doesn’t always translate into long‑term growth focusing on leadership evolution, scalability challenges, and what investors really look for beyond technology alone.Listen on Apple Podcasts:  👉 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-do-so-many-healthtech-startups-stall-after-early/id1520028468?i=1000744131846 Why Investors Hesitate Before Saying Yes in Femtech - A candid look at how women founders can differentiate themselves for strategic investment — including team dynamics, capital deployment, and building meaningful network credibility.Listen on Spotify: 👉 https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Jyco2yWhQpEWs43lsqpkO?si=438678dc119e406b How AgeTech Startups Win Hospital Trust With Wound‑Care Pilots with Amy Cassata - This episode examines how evidence‑based tech can secure clinical adoption and interoperability revealing that trust and integration matter more than data volume alone.Watch on YouTube: 👉 https://youtu.be/RgCZAGh4KbE Want help figuring out your first C-suite hire?Join the PulsePoint Path Boardroom or apply as one of our advisors who we place into trusted portfolio companies. It's designed for HealthTech and digital health founders between Seed and Series A who want to hire smart and scale faster.Here are 3 ways we can support you right now:1️⃣ Get a 360° Strategy from a Board That Sees What You Can’tStill piecing advice together from part-time advisors who barely have time to talk? Our Boardroom program gives you direct access to a 12-seat integrated advisory board—designed to find the blind spots in your funding, contracts, and margin strategy.This isn’t another Slack chat or once-a-month call. It’s a full diagnostic and action plan you can’t afford to miss.👉 PulsePointPath.com/Apply2️⃣ Turn Your Pitch into a Funding MagnetYour pitch isn’t a presentation—it’s a conversion tool. Send us your deck and get a persuasive rewrite that speaks to what investors actually fund.👉 PitchToYes.com3️⃣ Get Seen by the Right Investors—Not Just Any InvestorsThird-party validation is the trust shortcut most founders overlook. Apply now for the HealthTech Impact Awards—six categories, one chance to be seen by capital-ready backers.🗓️ Nominations close March 1, 2026👉 HealthTechImpactAward.com

You don’t lose great employees because of salary alone.You lose them when the system stops supporting real life.In this episode, I sat down with Faith Rose, a healthcare and benefits strategist with 20+ years of experience helping organizations improve employee wellness and financial stability without new spending or insurance disruption.We discussed how founders and operators unknowingly leak cash through payroll taxes, why healthcare benefits are usually treated in silos, and how preventative care can actually become a retention and resilience strategy.This conversation is for leaders who are scaling fast and don’t want their people, culture, or margins to crack under pressure.What You’ll Learn in This EpisodeWhy financial resilience isn’t about cutting costs—it’s about reallocating what’s already leaving your systemHow payroll taxes can be redirected into preventative wellness benefits with zero net costThe hidden reason many employee benefits go unused (and how to fix it)Why access without affordability isn’t real healthcareHow early-stage companies can compete for talent before they hit 50 or 100 employeesThe ripple effect that preventative care has on productivity, culture, and retentionFeatured GuestFaith RoseHealthcare & Benefits StrategistHelping organizations implement Mission Aligned Benefits—a compliant, payroll-based solution that improves employee and family wellness while strengthening company cash flow.Connect with Faith on https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisha-faith-rose/Company: Envision Success envisionsuccessllc.comReady to Scale Without Losing Trust—or Time?If you're building momentum but still not closing the contracts, capital, or margins you know you're capable of, here are 3 ways we can help today:Get a 360° Strategy from a Board That Sees What You Can’tStill piecing advice together from part-time advisors who barely have time to talk? Our Boardroom program gives you direct access to a 12-seat integrated advisory board—designed to find the blind spots in your funding, contracts, and margin strategy.This isn’t another Slack chat or once-a-month call. It’s a full diagnostic and action plan you can’t afford to miss.👉 PulsePointPath.com/ApplyTurn Your Pitch into a Funding MagnetYour pitch isn’t a presentation—it’s a conversion tool. Send us your deck and get a persuasive rewrite that speaks to what investors actually fund.👉 PitchToYes.comGet Seen by the Right Investors—Not Just Any InvestorsThird-party validation is the trust shortcut most founders overlook. Apply now for the HealthTech Impact Awards—six categories, one chance to be seen by capital-ready backers.🗓️ Nominations close March 1, 2026👉 HealthTechImpactAward.com

In this sharp and strategy-rich episode, I sit down with Emily Stubbs, a legal expert turned Visibility CFO—to unpack the real reasons many visionary founders struggle with growth, margins, and funding readiness.Emily shares why popularity doesn’t equal profitability and how vague P&Ls are killing your ability to scale.You’ll learn why segmentation in your finances isn't optional, how to spot when a service is a loss leader, and why having the right people and structure trumps having more people.If you're a founder trying to grow sustainably, attract outside capital, or prepare for investor conversations, this episode is packed with game-changing insights you can’t afford to miss.What You'll Learn in This Episode:✅ How to identify what’s actually driving (or draining) your margin✅ The power of segmented P&Ls and strategic visibility✅ What most leaders misunderstand about AI, operations, and capacity✅ Why founders must redefine what "working" looks like before scaling✅ When to leverage fractional experts (like CFOs and growth strategists)✅ How to stage your company for funding the way you’d stage a home for saleWant to Keep Growing Without Losing Clients?Here are 3 ways we can help you today:Be a Featured Guest on the Provider’s EdgeHave traction and a story to share? Apply to join us on the show: PulsePointPath.com/Call-Sabrina Make Your Pitch Investor-ReadySend us your draft and let me rewrite it so it becomes a funding magnet 👉 PitchToYes.com 🚀 Get in Front of Investors Who Already Want What You’ve BuiltNot every investor needs a white paper; they need a reason to believe.Leveraging third-party validation is one of the easiest ways to create trust. Nominate your company at 👉 HealthTechImpactAward.com before March 1, 2026 to win one of the six awards in digital health, diagnostics, biotech, mental health, women's health, and medical devices.

Why do so many healthtech startups gain early traction… and then suddenly stall?It’s usually not the tech. It’s not the vision. And it’s rarely a lack of effort.In this episode, I’m joined by Dirk Schapeler, President of Niterra Ventures (https://www.niterraventures.com/) — the venture arm of Niterra, a $5B Japanese technology company operating globally across automotive, medical, and industrial products. Dirk also serves as a board member at Arcondis Group, where he supports innovation strategy and global expansion. At HLTH, I sat down with Dirk to talk about what actually determines whether a healthcare company survives long enough to matter—especially in regulated, capital-intensive spaces like medtech, remote care, and diagnostics.If you’ve proven demand but growth feels harder than it should, this conversation is for you.This wasn’t a hype-filled conversation about AI buzzwords.It was a grounded discussion about patience, leadership evolution, and why healthcare scale is less about speed and more about systems, people, and partnerships.If you’re building in healthcare and wondering why momentum feels harder than it should… this episode will hit close to home.🎧 In this episode, you’ll learn:Why some of the most powerful healthcare innovations come from outside healthcareWhat investors really look for when regulation and reimbursement are unavoidableHow to think about unmet need vs. “interesting” ideas that won’t scaleWhy leadership evolution, not just vision, determines whether companies break through growth ceilingsHow combining technologies and partners creates defensibility most startups missWhat founders underestimate about human capital in regulated marketsEpisode Timeline:00:00:00 – Why health tech stalls after early wins00:04:04 – Why Japanese innovation looks at the U.S. market00:07:02 – Cold plasma and the future of wound care00:09:40 – Why wound care hasn’t changed in decades00:11:27 – Combining therapies, not selling tools00:13:05 – What investors really look for00:15:31 – Patience, quality, and long-term thinking00:18:08 – When founders hit the scaling wall00:21:09 – Power of global collaboration00:25:00 – The hard truth about regulated healthcare00:27:03 – How to connect with Niterra Ventures🎧 Related Episodes You’ll LoveWhy Most HealthTech Solutions Fail: The Hidden Gap Between Innovation and Implementation – This episode digs into the common pitfalls that healthtech founders face (particularly in scaling and market fit).Is Your Startup Built on Swiss Cheese with George Pappas – A strong fit because it explores structural weaknesses in startups (teams, roles, funding) that align directly with what we unpacked with MyPhuong.What Traction Signals Investors Say Yes To – Especially relevant for founders looking for their first backers, this episode zeroes in on what investors are actually looking for.Want to Keep Growing Without Losing Clients?Here are 3 ways we can help you today:Be a Featured Guest on the Provider’s EdgeHave traction and a story to share? Apply to join us on the show: PulsePointPath.com/Call-Sabrina Make Your Pitch Investor-ReadySend us your draft and let me rewrite it so it becomes a funding magnet 👉 PitchToYes.com 🚀 Get in Front of Investors Who Already Want What You’ve BuiltNot every investor needs a white paper; they need a reason to believe.Leveraging third-party validation is one of the easiest ways to create trust. Nominate your company at 👉 HealthTechImpactAward.com before March 1, 2026 to win one of the six awards in digital health, diagnostics, biotech, mental health, women's health, and medical devices.