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In this episode of Who Would Have Thought, we welcome Shane Curd, Head of Healthcare Marketing at Connect America, the leading provider of connected health solutions that are dedicated to improving access to care, safety, and independence. Shane is also the Founder of Fresno Technology Affinity Group, a group that has consulted for dozens of startups on marketing and product strategy to successfully penetrate payer and enterprise health system markets. Tune in to learn about recent advances and innovation in medication adherence, remote patient monitoring (RPM), and artificial intelligence in the sector of healthcare known as “Age Tech”.  You’ll gain insight into the impacts of RPM innovation on providers, patients’ quality of life, and payer acceptance as well as how RPM and AI can help with management of medication adherence. Shane also highlights a few recent AI advancements in Age Tech and what Connect America is focusing on in the coming years. To learn more about Connect America, visit: www.connectamerica.com About Our Guest: Shane Curd is the Head of Healthcare Marketing at Connect America, the leading provider of connected health solutions that are dedicated to improving access to care, safety, and independence. Shane is also the Founder of Fresno Technology Affinity Group which has consulted for dozens of startups on marketing and product strategy to successfully penetrate payer and enterprise health system markets.  Shane leverages his unique combination of marketing experience, technical expertise, and interpersonal skills to drive sales and market expansion within the healthcare space. He has built, launched, marketed and led commercialization efforts for over a dozen products in the healthcare space including remote patient monitoring (RPM), medical devices, outcomes analytics, and revenue cycle management. Connect with Shane on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/shanecurd/ About SmartTab:  SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance.  For more information visit: www.smarttab.co Quotes:  “Today, Connect America monitors nearly a million people and then they support about 35,000 through remote patient monitoring. Then, about 250,000 senior living residents across North America…The fact that they’re embracing innovation and we’re talking beyond “pushing the button” and getting help is very exciting.” “We studied the effectiveness of RPM around obesity, diabetes, and hypertension and we saw improvements across all categories. So, the fact that it’s effective and helping people in connecting them with their provider, we’re getting rave reviews all around.” “Many people are aging with chronic conditions and if they’re managed appropriately, they have minimal impact on their life. So, I think the real challenge is to continue to enable seniors to age gracefully at home.”

In this episode of “Who would have thought?” Monica Roy, co-founder and CEO of Seascape Clinical, discusses a cloud-based clinical operations solution to assist clinical trial teams in more successfully managing trial data. Monica has worked in clinical operations for nearly 20 years and feels that by consolidating trial data and automating related workflows, teams can spend more time making data-driven trial decisions and on strategic work. Prior to founding Seascape Clinical, Monica has worked with companies including Bioclinica, Gilead Sciences, and AbbVie, in various therapeutic areas such as liver disease, women's health, and oncology. Monica joins us today to talk about Seascape Clinical's specialty in the clinical research sector as well as her path to launching the company. She discusses existing clinical trial solutions, the data consolidation and automation gap she noticed in the clinical research industry, and how Seascape Clinical addresses this requirement. Monica also emphasizes the unpredictability that might come along with the business path, as well as the significance of accepting unexpected obstacles. About Our Guest: Monica Roy is the CEO and co-founder of Seascape Clinical. Seascape Clinical offers clinical trial management software that is hosted in the cloud.  Monica has extensive execution abilities from her 13+ years of experience in clinical operations. She talks about the data management gap she noticed in the industry and how her company addresses it. Monica emphasizes the importance of accepting unexpected obstacles as part of the business path. Learn more about Seascape Clinical: https://seascapeclinical.com/ Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seascape-clinical About SmartTab:  SmartTab is driving the future of digital health by developing a superior patient-centered drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance.   For more information visit: https://www.smarttab.co/

In this episode of Who Would Have Thought, we welcome Amnon Bar-Lev, a passionate healthcare advocate and the co-founder and CEO of Alike.Health, a healthcare startup harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing, and big data to empower patients, change healthcare, and improve lives. Tune in to learn how Amnon is making a powerful impact on digital healthcare through his new app, Alike, and why it’s considered to be “the Tinder for healthcare”.  You’ll learn how Alike works, the benefits of the cost-free app, and what it’s like to use Alike  to connect to others with the same medical conditions as you. Amnon also shares the top 3 diseases/conditions talked about on Alike.Health, the benefits of the patient similarity model, and how the model addresses medication prescription and healthcare discrepancies. Plus, Amnon highlights a story of how an IBD patient changed their life by using Alike.Health! To download Alike.Health for FREE, visit: https://www.alike.health About Our Guest: Amnon is the co-founder and CEO of Alike, a healthcare startup harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing and big data to empower patients, change healthcare and improve lives.  Amnon brings his deep management and execution skills from his 25+ years of experience in technology leadership roles to Alike – including as the former President of Check Point, a $15B publicly traded technology company, where he grew revenue from $500M to $2B over his 12-year tenure. Amnon is also a passionate healthcare advocate and returned to pursue graduate studies at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University after his time at Check Point - an effort he embarked on in order to better understand medicine before founding Alike. Connect with Amnon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amnonbarlev Visit his website: https://www.alike.health Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlikeHealth Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alike.health/ About SmartTab:  SmartTab is driving the future of digital health by developing a superior patient-centered drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance.   For more information visit: https://www.smarttab.co/

In this episode, we welcome Raj Jhaveri, an Investor, Visionary Technologist, and Strategist in the healthcare and biotech industry, as well as in the clean energy sector particularly in EV charging. Tune in to learn how Raj is making an impact, in more ways than one, in digital healthcare innovation and the future of telehealth. You’ll learn how artificial intelligence is being implemented in healthcare management and delivery systems, how ingestible capsules and wearables can be integrated with AI to enhance healthcare, and how the integration of emerging technologies is causing disruptive innovation throughout the world. Raj shares his candid thoughts on the connection between AI, Theory of Mind, and the future of in-person healthcare, as well as potential opportunities to invest in healthcare and technology and even how he’s hacking his Tesla to give back to the energy grid. Curious to hear Raj’s 5 Pillars of Unconventional Thinking to Achieve Unconventional Success? Tune in to find out!  To learn more about Raj and his work, visit his website: www.rajjhaveri.com  About Our Guest: Raj Jhaveri has over 16 years of experience in technology development and integration, and strategic technical business development in both the healthcare and cleantech industry. He was a CTO and founder of multiple healthcare startups (Notch, Canopy, Face2Face Health, Manethryn, Opu Labs) where he earned multiple patents, which lead to being rated as one of the Top Tech Innovators by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2014. He was also a Director for The Knowledge Society, a global community and a human accelerator program of the world’s most curious, driven, and ambitious people that want to make an impact. Raj has also played a role as an advisor or investor at multiple companies such as EV Connect, Zoom Video, Pinterest, Chewy.com, Slack, Impossible Foods, 23andMe, Simple Contacts, and many more. He was previously an in-house mentor at Techstars, an industry consultant for General Catalyst Partners in regard to their healthcare investments, and an advisor for IBM Watson Health’s Oncology Project. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Biology and was in the MD/PhD program at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he eventually obtained a Master’s Degree in Medical Sciences after leaving the program early to pursue his first startup.   Connect with Raj on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rajpjhaveri  Visit his website: www.rajjhaveri.com  Follow him on Twitter: www.twitter.com/rajpjhaveri  Follow him on Instagram: www.instagram.com/theurbannerd    About SmartTab:  SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance.  For more information visit: www.smarttab.co

Today we launch a special episode to recap the year at SmartTab and review our 2021 podcast conversations. Breakthrough into 2022 with a brand new perspective as we prepare for tremendous growth. Learn about what’s ahead with SmartTab and the future of digital health.  SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance.  For more information on SmartTab visit: https://www.smarttab.co/

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Roxie Mooney, Founder & Healthcare Strategist at Legacy DNA, a company that assists health innovators to grow and succeed. As an accomplished healthcare innovator, Roxie is focused on driving strategic campaigns that change the world. Tune in to learn how Roxie is helping health innovators and startup entrepreneurs make winning decisions, reduce their risk of failure, and unlock their most profitable market strategy so they can take their innovations from an idea to full market adoption. You’ll learn the importance of marketing in digital healthcare innovations, the growth in equality and inclusion that’s needed in the healthcare industry. Roxie highlights the benefits of creating a marketing strategy even if your product isn’t ready to launch, as well as the distinct insights and lessons she’s been learning from interviewing diverse healthcare innovators on The Health Innovators Podcast. She also speaks on her role at One Purse, an organization that provides sex trafficking survivors with transformative programs, mentorship opportunities, and scholarship resources. Curious to hear Roxie’s best advice for aspiring healthcare innovators and entrepreneurs? Tune in to find out!  To learn more about Legacy DNA, visit www.legacy-dna.com.   About Our Guest: Dr. Roxie Mooney is the Founder, Healthcare Commercialization Strategist, Digital Health Advisor, and Fractional CMO at Legacy DNA. Roxie and her team are passionate digital health innovators who help other health innovators make winning decisions, reduce their risk of failure and unlock their most profitable market strategy so they can take their innovations from an idea to full market adoption. She has transformed her 20 years of business practice, 7 years of researching over 500+ peer-reviewed articles & 160+ interviews with health innovators into a repeatable method that you can follow to maximize market success. Connect with Roxie on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/roxiemooney  About SmartTab: SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance.  For more information visit: www.smarttab.co   Quotes: “There’s this myth that you can’t do any marketing or you shouldn’t invest any resources in marketing until the product is ready to launch… The way I describe it is, there’s different marketing strategies for different conditions of the market and a lot of times we overlook that. It depends on what’s happening in the marketplace on what’s going to be the best strategy for you.”  “One of the best ways to be able to motivate and inspire leaders to make an earlier investment in marketing is case studies, real world examples of other companies that have done it and done it well and demonstrating the real ROI that they’ve gained from it.” “There’s a lot of mental training that has to happen as health innovators, whether we are corporate innovators or whether we are startup entrepreneurs.”

In this episode, we welcome Yianni Serpanos, Founder & CEO of HealthTechX, a community dedicated to a world of integrated digital health empowerment for all. Yianni is also the Founder & CEO of a digital health practice management software for Australian Allied Health providers, coreplus.com.au. Based in Australia, he is focused on innovating culture to support health tech development for digital-first models of healthcare. Tune in to learn how Yianni is reimagining digital health innovation by bringing together healthcare providers, developers, investors, and advisors to discover, test, and launch health tech and healthcare innovations that empower better health for people around the globe.  You’ll learn the next big opportunities and challenges in digital health integration, along with the fundamental healthcare and health tech methodologies that are expected to evolve over the next 5-10 years.   Yianni highlights the benefits of focusing on developing relationships between healthcare providers and patients, improving the quality of life for healthcare professionals, as well as the importance of meaningfully using of data, privacy, and security. He talks about how we can best leverage investors to fund these healthcare innovations and the power of collaboration between different innovators in healthcare. Plus, you’ll learn how healthcare professionals can implement interoperability to improve workflows, share relevant, meaningful information, and create a better patient experience.  Curious to know Yianni’s candid thoughts on why cultural innovation is the biggest area of focus we should have in digital health in 2021 and beyond? Tune in to find out!   To learn more about HealthTechX, visit: www.healthtechx.com.au About Our Guest: Yianni Serpanos is the Founder & CEO of HealthTechX. Yianni is a passionate digital health innovator, who has built leading digital health start-ups with the vision of modernizing and transforming the healthcare industry through health tech and cultural innovation. Connect with Yianni on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yianni-serpanos  About SmartTab: SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance.  For more information visit: www.smarttab.co

In this episode, we welcome Cathy Tie, the Founder and CEO of Locke Bio, also known as the "Shopify for Pharma". At only 25 years of age, Cathy has founded several multi-million-dollar health technology companies. She was the youngest partner at a Silicon Valley VC, Cervin Ventures, as well as a recipient of The Thiel Fellowship. Tune in to explore the current environment of healthcare that’s ripe for e-commerce disruption, as well as how Cathy sees the world of health technology shifting in the coming years. She also educates us about Locke Bio, the new platform that allows any health enterprise to launch their own direct-to-consumer telehealth or online pharmacy brand (like Hims, PillPack, and Ro). Cathy highlights her unconventional education path, which laid the foundation for her success in entrepreneurship and health technology, along with how the introduction of innovative platforms, such as Locke Bio, will impact the future of healthcare technology. Cathy gives insight into her experience as a VC partner in the Silicon Valley and shares wise words of advice to young women in science, leadership, and health technology. Curious to know Cathy’s candid thoughts on what it takes to become a successful thought leader in the fields of science, technology, health, and entrepreneurship? Tune in to find out!  To learn more about Locke Bio, visit www.lockebio.com About Our Guest: Cathy Tie is a researcher, two-time company founder and CEO, a Thiel Fellowship winner, and the youngest person to be hired as a partner at a Silicon Valley VC Firm. She is a true visionary for the health tech field and has been interviewed and featured by CNN Business and Forbes 30 under 30, paving the way for young women interested in becoming leaders in the world of science and health-technology. At 25 years of age, she's founded several multi-million dollar health-tech companies, including Ranomics and her latest being Locke Bio, dubbed the "Shopify for Pharma." Connect with Cathy on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cathytie About SmartTab: SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance. For more information visit: https://www.smarttab.co/

In this episode, we welcome Lisa Gualtieri, Ph.D., Sc.M., associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine. She’s also the founder of RecycleHealth, a non-profit that collects wearable activity trackers to donate to underserved populations. Dr. Gualtieri is empowering future leaders in the digital health industry through research and as an educator at Tufts. Tune in to explore Dr. Gualtieri's research, which focuses on the use of wearable activity trackers in underserved populations, the integration of tracker data into clinical care, and the impact of digital literacy skills on adoption of digital health by older adults.  Lisa speaks on how and why health-seeking behaviors have changed during the course of the covid-19 pandemic, what she’s learning from working with the FDA and WHO to deploy wearable activity tracking technologies, and the importance of digital literacy, especially in older adults. She also describes the inspiration and learning objectives behind her innovative course at Tuft’s, Designing and Evaluating Digital Health Technologies, along with how this course prepares students for their post-graduate professions.  Improving digital literacy skills and digital health innovation as the power to change the lives of many. Curious to know Lisa’s candid thoughts on what the future of digital healthcare innovation might look like? Tune in to find out!  To learn more about RecycleHealth and to donate, visit: www.RecycleHealth.com To donate an activity tracker, mail it to: RecycleHealth 136 Harrison Ave Boston, MA 02111 About Our Guest: Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, is an associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine. She teaches courses including Digital Health, Digital Strategies for Health Communication, and Social Media and Health. Dr. Gualtieri's research focuses on the use of wearable activity trackers with underserved populations; the integration of tracker data into clinical care; and the impact of digital literacy skills on adoption of digital health by older adults. She is the founder of RecycleHealth, a non-profit that collects wearable activity trackers to donate to underserved populations, over 6,000 trackers to date.  Dr. Gualtieri serves on the FDA’s General Hospital and Personal Use Devices Panel. Connect with Lisa on Twitter: www.twitter.com/lisagualtieri About SmartTab: SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance. For more information visit: https://www.smarttab.co/

In this episode, we welcome Natalie Yeadon, CEO and Co-Founder of Impetus Digital, a company that delivers virtual collaboration experiences for life science companies. Natalie is also the Host of the Healthcare Goes Digital Podcast and YouTube Channel and Author of The Healthcare Heretic. Tune in to explore the future opportunities in leadership, communication, and events as we dive into current insights on where the digital revolution of healthcare is headed.  Natalie speaks on the rapid shifts in technology, business, and healthcare happening now and into the next decade, as well as what she’s learning from other leaders and innovators in these fields. She ensures us that if there’s any silver lining to covid-19, it’s that it has given us an opportunity to assume a beginner’s mindset, bring people together to innovate, and to move away from sickness care and towards wellness care. Natalie also sheds light on how virtual events and conferences will be held in 2021 and beyond, sharing shocking statistics from virtual event attendance and participation in 2020.   Innovation is embedded in healthcare and life science. Curious to know Natalie’s candid thoughts on what the future might look like ten years from now, including the potential for self-diagnosing and democratizing the monetization of patient data? Tune in to find out!  To learn more about Impetus Digital, visit www.impetusdigital.com About Our Guest: Natalie Yeadon has over 18 years' experience working in a variety of senior roles in the pharmaceutical industry. She is the Co-founder and CEO of Impetus Digital, where she specializes in helping life science clients virtualize their internal and external meetings and events. About SmartTab: SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance. For more information visit: https://www.smarttab.co/

In this episode, we welcome Ian Marks, Senior R&D Innovation Leader and Global Vice President of Life Sciences at Salesforce, a leading software company committed to transforming healthcare. Ian is leading the push to reimagine healthcare and build strategic capabilities that improve patients' lives. Tune in to discover the innovation initiatives that are currently fueling the digital transformation of healthcare. We dive into the future of personalized, patient-centered healthcare and the impacts Salesforce is having on the advancement of life sciences.  Ian speaks on how the healthcare system is moving from reactive to proactive and predictive, the main issues his team will be focusing on in 2021, and how Salesforce is working to improve pharmaceutical distribution models and increase compliance for better outcomes, especially with the covid-19 vaccine.  He also gives insight into how healthcare and pharmaceutical companies can increase patient-centric solutions, emphasizing awareness, education, supporting diagnosis and treatment through healthcare providers, and ongoing engagement to ensure patient compliance.  Curious to know Ian’s candid thoughts on the future of life sciences and innovation? Tune in to find out! About Our Guest: Ian Marks is a senior executive with over 25 years in the pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare industry. He has extensive experience delivering breakthrough innovations, leading disruptive initiatives, cultivating unorthodox partnerships, and building strategic capabilities that improve patients' lives and drive business value. His experience encompasses research and development, project management, clinical research and operations across Pharma and Consumer Healthcare. He has successfully leveraged ‘breakthrough’ results and superior performance to effectively merge patient insights, digital innovation, product development and compelling scientific discovery that identifies new products and experiences. SmartTab is driving the future of digital medicine by developing a superior patient-centered personalized drug delivery platform in the form of a wireless ingestible capsule. The patient experience fuels SmartTab's commitment to create novel, effective therapies that improve patient outcomes and compliance. For more information visit: https://www.smarttab.co/

In this episode, we welcome Jo Bhakdi, Founder & CEO of Quantgene, a company that is unleashing the power of the Deep Human Genome by building and deploying the world’s leading Deep Genomics solution. Jo and his team have quickly created next-day 99.9% accurate COVID-19 testing solutions for individuals and institutions and he’s here today to talk about that incredible accomplishment. As the go-to testing supplier in Los Angeles, he’s even helped the film industry get up and running again after the pandemic halted production and they’ve expanded to other cities as well. He delves into why covid-19 was beneficial in fostering the creation and growth of start-ups, specifically in the technology and healthcare fields, and details the fundamentals and importance of the Serenity genetics engine. Jo also speaks on his ventures in creating i2X, a new framework for investing in tech startups, and divulges some of his key principals of innovation. Want to learn what the future of medicine and healthcare looks like with these advancements in technology? Curious to know Jo’s perspective on what innovations we may see in the next decade? Tune in to find out!  About Our Guest: Jo Bhakdi is the Founder and CEO of Quantgene, an innovative technology company whose mission is to extend the healthy human lifespan by 10 years within the next 10 years. He leads a team of 22 that is growing quickly and he has raised $13 million to date, expecting to end next year with more than 10,000 members. Follow Jo on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JOBhakdi Follow Quantgene on Twitter: www.twitter.com/quantgene To learn more about Quantgene, visit www.quantgene.com