Podcasts by The Rock Health Podcast
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Do Big Retail & Telecom Hold the Key to Healthcare’s New Front Door? from 2021-01-05T23:24:57
Recorded at Rock Health Summit 2020
Countless players have tried their hand at mastering the holy grail of healthcare: better care at lower costs. Big retail and telecom are next in the r...
The Inevitable Shift to Decentralized Clinical Trials from 2020-08-17T15:00:15
Evidation Health and Omada Health, two of Rock Health’s portfolio companies, are trailblazers in their respective domains in digital health. Both have heritage as evidence-driven and evidence-gener...
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Unprecedented Funding in an Unprecedented Time from 2020-08-06T16:00:32
Digital health funding had a wild ride through the first half of 2020—first hitting a record $3.1B in Q1, then hitting the brakes in April as COVID-19 spread rapidly around the globe. Despite this ...
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Lowering Barriers to Care With Digital Strategies That Scale from 2020-06-18T16:00:32
How can healthcare stakeholders reach and sustainably engage patients with innovative, 21st-century technology? Hear from three leaders—HealthTech4Medicaid Executive Director Adimika Arthur, and Ro...
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Healthcare Beyond The Pandemic from 2020-06-01T20:02:02
At Rock Health, we’re proud to fund and support entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology, and work alongside a diverse group of enterprise leaders making healthcare ma...
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How Industry Heavyweights Are Fighting In The Match Against COVID-19 from 2020-05-21T15:00:33
How are healthcare organizations navigating the pandemic response, and what lessons are they learning along the way? We recently spoke with leaders from three Rock Health corporate partners—Blue Sh...
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Opportunities In Healthcare’s New Regulatory Era: Dr. Karen DeSalvo & Eric Hargan from 2020-05-04T15:02:48
Across administrations, there has been a concerted push toward empowering patients with access to the health data that are rightfully theirs. After much anticipation, in early March, HHS released t...
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How Consumers Are Navigating The Digital Healthcare Experience from 2020-02-18T16:06:50
There's Instagram and Instacart—but how close are we to Insta-health? While the healthcare experience is increasingly digital, privacy issues, the changing patient-physician relationship, and diffe...
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2020 Vision: A Look Ahead At Digital Health from 2020-01-27T16:21
Across the last decade, digital health has grown from a blip on the radar of investors to a robust sector receiving nearly one in ten venture dollars invested in the United States. In 2019, digital...
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Startup-Enterprise Partnerships in Digital Mental Health from 2019-08-12T15:00:12
Digital health companies seeking to scale through large enterprise organizations have their work cut out for them—especially in an increasingly crowded space like digital mental health. To find out...
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Navigating Pharma-Digital Therapeutic Alliances from 2019-06-03T15:28:13
The industry is at a unique crossroads: pharmaceutical and digital therapeutic (DTx) companies have begun to act on their ambition to advance digital therapeutics—but the path to successful allianc...
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The Promises and Potential Pitfalls of Telemedicine from 2019-05-28T15:23:33
In 2018, digital health companies leveraging telemedicine received nearly $1.5B in investment. And although telemedicine adoption has grown across the board in recent years, the majority of users r...
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The Current State of Digital Health Regulation from 2019-05-20T15:00:30
In 2017, the FDA launched its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan, detailing its plans to review and update regulation of software. Among the digital health programs is the Pre-Certification Prog...
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How AI Can Get Medicine Back On Track: Dr. Eric Topol from 2019-03-18T15:03:46
Will artificial intelligence help humanize healthcare and get medicine back on track? Signs point to yes—with a few caveats. Rock Health Managing Director and CEO Bill Evans spoke with leading card...
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Building Enterprise-Startup Partnerships in Digital Health from 2019-03-11T14:46:34
Even when serving patients is their primary goal, most digital health solutions go to market via large enterprises, whether through payers, providers, biopharma, or employers. That’s why effective ...
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Is Digital Health In An Investment Bubble? from 2019-01-10T16:12:29
Earlier this week, we released our annual funding report, which explored the “bubbliness” of digital health amidst record dollars and tempered exits. To expand on our findings and get to the heart ...
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2018 Summit Series | How Oscar Is Shaking Up The Payer Landscape: Mario Schlosser from 2018-12-03T16:00:24
Free from the constraints of legacy operating systems, Oscar Health takes a full-stack approach to insurance—one where healthcare becomes a collaborative experience between the patient, payer, and ...
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2018 Summit Series | Will Big Tech’s Bets In Healthcare Pay Off?: Dr. Toby Cosgrove from 2018-12-03T16:00:24
As the tech titans push forward with their entrance into healthcare, speculation surrounds their chances of successfully solving the industry’s myriad of maladies. Hear from Cleveland Clinic CEO-tu...
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AI: Fact or Fiction?: Dr. Bob Wachter & Dr. Vineeta Agarwala from 2018-07-02T15:02:24
While the singularity is nowhere in sight, we’re inching closer to a world where more jobs are being replaced or augmented by machines—and industry sentiment ranges from praise to skepticism. In th...
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How Non-Traditional Players Are Shaping Healthcare Transformation from 2018-04-09T15:10:22
As one of the last industries to undergo technological transformation on an exponential scale, healthcare is ripe for change—and attracting the attention of diverse industries like never before. Wh...
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Uncovering The Real Value of AI In Healthcare: Andrew Ng #RHS17 from 2017-11-28T16:28:26
An expert in the field of AI, Andrew Ng shares what the digital health community needs to understand about trendy technology, by separating hype from reality, while discussing how these technologie...
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Provider Adoption of Digital Health from 2017-09-25T15:15:48
In our recent survey digital health companies divulged their enterprise sales pain points. This week we went even deeper—with two executives at the center of technology innovation and adoption at l...
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Healthcare Investors' Take On Digital Health Funding from 2017-07-17T16:25:55
Last week we briefed you on the record shattering funding streak of the first half of 2017. Then we sat down with two other investors, Bessemer Venture Partners’ Steve Kraus and Kaiser Permanente V...
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Gaps and Opportunities in Women's Health & Entrepreneurship: Leah Sparks & Julia Cheek from 2017-06-12T14:40:20
Despite persistent efforts by those in digital health, gender parity in leadership remains a huge issue. It’s not due to lack of attention. The front cover of The Atlantic’s April issue asked, “Why...
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Getting Clear About Healthcare Transparency: Lisa Maki & Noah Lang from 2017-05-08T14:09:04
What are players from around and outside healthcare doing to make this universal experience more understandable, clear—and even enjoyable? Two CEOs share their take on how transparency in healthcar...
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Adapting to Consumerism in Healthcare: Robin Thurston & Drew Schiller from 2017-04-10T06:02:14
The age-old power dynamics in healthcare are quickly shifting—away from providers as the primary touch point for care and toward tech-, and consumer-empowered decision-making. In a world where pers...
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Why Scientific Research Needs Technology: Saji Wickramasekara & Sridhar Iyengar from 2017-02-27T07:07:57
Medical research is a $200B industry—but is not conducted in a way that is searchable, machine-readable, or reproducible. We chat with Benchling cofounder and CEO Saji Wickramasekara and Elemental ...
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Debunking Patient Data: Deb Kilpatrick & David Vivero from 2017-01-29T18:15
There's tremendous excitement about the potential of what data can do to change how healthcare really works. Simultaneously there's some confusion, and fear from patients around security and privac...
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From Obamacare to Trumpcare: Questions for digital health with Jamie Robinson & Chrissy Farr from 2017-01-03T06:13:09
The President-elect vowed to repeal the ACA on his first day in office. Or will he just pick it apart and keep the pieces he likes? The water is murky and answers are forthcoming, but we can be cer...
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Why Tech Titans Joined Government to Help Save Healthcare: DJ Patil, Susannah Fox & Leena Rao from 2016-01-06T02:40:24
Many of us associate innovative solutions and scalable technology with startups, Silicon Valley, and scrappy teams; but these experts are focusing their time and talents in Washington DC in order t...
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Non-Doctors on Demand: Alejandro Foung, Sandy Jen, Thea Runyan & Thomas Goetz from 2016-01-06T02:37:11
On demand services are all the rage and the first wave affecting healthcare included a plethora of doctor-driven services. But what's on demand in the rest of the healthcare stack? We'll sit down w...
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Chamath Palihapitiya on Rewiring the Crap Out of Healthcare from 2015-12-14T02:30:12
As the Founder and Managing Partner of Social+Capital Partnership, Chamath Palihapitiya is the "it" man of socially responsible investing. Hear his take on what needs to change in healthcare and ho...
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What the Former Facebook CFO is Doing in Digital Health: David Ebersman from 2015-12-13T23:02:19
Now that we have entered the age when technology is being applied to every aspect of our lives, it takes extra grit and dedication to build a company tackling one of our country's most entrenched a...
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Virtual Reality: Just What the Doctor Ordered? With Adam Gazzaley, Mary Spio, & Sarah Buhr from 2015-12-13T22:55:38
Virtual reality has transformed the way we think of and create new worlds, but it also allows us to explore the inner-most workings of the human body. We'll discuss the very real implications virtu...
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Life After the Digital Health IPO: Frank Williams & James Park from 2015-12-13T22:47:35
They rang the bell, now what? We sit down with the CEOs of Evolent Health and Fitbit, who led two industry-changing IPOs to discuss how their companies deliver and grow in the wake of going from st...
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Eric Topol on Breaking the Paternalism of Healthcare from 2015-12-13T22:43:01
Leading American cardiologist, geneticist, author, and digital medicine researcher Eric Topol discusses the state of patient-centered and empowered healthcare, paternalism, and what the future hold...
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Where's the Next Digital Health Unicorn? With Leslie Bottorff & Ann Lamont from 2015-12-03T04:42:14
An early-stage company with the potential and followthrough to become a billion dollar paradigm-shifter can be as elusive, but hopefully not as mythical, as a unicorn. We pick the brains of investi...
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J. Craig Venter on Outsmarting Death Through the Software of Life from 2015-12-03T04:36:11
An interview with J. Craig Venter at our 2015 Rock Health Summit
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