Nick's Notes: Recent Episodes
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A Slice of Healthcare podcast hosted by Nick Desai, Founder & FMR CEO of Heal. #healthcareservices #healthcaredelivery #politicsofhealthcare #healthcaretechnology
In episode #25, host Nick Desai welcomes guest Adrian Miranda, Founder of Gross Anatomy Studios, INC.
Listen to hear about:
- Miranda's background
- Why pop culture can make learning more effective
- Where VR/AR comes into play, and how Miranda could incorporate that into Gross Anatomy content
- What Miranda is excited about in Healthtech
- Miranda's message to someone wanting to get in this space with no experience
Learn more about Gross Anatomy Studios, INC.
- Website - Miranda's LinkedIn
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In episode #24, host Nick Desai dives into recent acquisitions and what they mean for the industry.
Listen to hear about:
- Livongo's acquisition by Teladoc
- One Medical's acquisition by Amazon
- What these mean, and how they compare to one another
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In episode #23, Nick Desai (host) speaks about the health effects of gun violence
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In episode #21, Nick Desai (host) speaks about the health Impacts of Overturning Roe v. Wade
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Today's Guest: Jaja Liao, Principal at 25Madison
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In episode #20, Nick Desai (host) rolls solo to discuss DCE becoming ACO reach - lip service or real reform?
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Today's Guest: Aneesh Chopra, Co-Founder & President at CareJourney.
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Today's Guest: Nicole Rodrigues, Founder & CEO at NRPR Group
In this episode, Nicole discusses with Nick:
- Is PR the best investment a new startup can make?
- How does PR help a small company build their brand?
- What does a PR firm do that’s different from an entrepreneur doing their own PR?
- Awards vs. Revenue – what is more important for good PR?
- How should a small new company approach the PR process?
- How do you make your personal story an effective part of a collective PR story?
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In this episode, Nick discusses:
- The state of Covid-19
- What's going wrong?
- What needs to happen?
- Some examples of things that need to change
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In this episode, Nick talks about his top 9 hot takes for 2022.
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Today's Guest: Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner at 7wire Ventures
In this episode, Nick Desai speaks with Lee about:
- Lee's background
- The recent flurry of M&A in digital health
- What's driving this activity?
- His thoughts on healthcare financing in 2022
- Why big companies like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Best Buy (non-traditional healthcare companies) are making big purchases in healthcare infrastructure
- Which is more important? Team, traction or idea?
- ...and much more!
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Today's Guests: Alison Greenberg, Co-Founder & CEO & Audrey Wu, Co-Founder & COO at Ruth Health
In this episode, Nick Desai speaks with the guestsabout:
- Their backgrounds
- How they met
- What is Ruth Health?
- Where do they want to be in 3-5 years?
- ...and much more!
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In this episode, Nick Desai speaks about:
- Keeping people out of hospitals
- The importance of monitoring your vitals at home
- The potential of remote patient monitoring (RPM)
- Preventing health issues with RPM
- Home-based care
- ...and much more!
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Today's Guest: Dr. Shantanu Nundy, Chief Medical Officer at Accolade & Author of the book "Care After Covid"
In this episode, Nick Desai speaks with Dr. Nundyabout:
- Dr. Nundy's book, "Care After Covid"
- Opportunity to reimagine care
- 3 D's of Healthcare
- What makes Dr. Nundy most hopeful about healthcare
- ...and much more!
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Today's Guest: Zak Holdsworth, Co-Founder & CEO at Hint Health
In this episode, Nick Desai speaks with Zak Holdsworth and discusses:
- What is direct primary care?
- Why is it important in American healthcare?
- New Zealand healthcare vs. U.S. healthcare
- Which of these companies will impact healthcare the most: Amazon, Google, Apple, or Walmart?
- Walmart's opportunity & what they should do with it
- ...and much more!
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Today's Guest: Morgan Livermore, Partner at Quiet Capital
In this episode, Nick Desai speaks with Morgan Livermore and discusses:
- His background
- Quiet Capital
- Their portfolio
- ...and much more!
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Today's Guest: Amit Garg, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Tau Ventures
In this episode, Nick Desai speaks with Amit Garg and discusses:
- What a first-time entrepreneur needs to do to get a VC's attention and money
- How an A team with a B idea is better than a B team with an A idea
- Things that make a VC "think this is a good person/investment"
- The large amount of money being invested into health tech
- In what calendar year is AI delivering predictive healthcare more accurately than a clinician?
- ...and much more!
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In this episode, Nick Desai discussed:
- The rise in out-of-pocket medical costs per person & overall healthcare costs in the U.S.
- Why hasn't the rise of both of those items not resulted in a higher life expectancy?
- How you'd think healthcare costs would be going down, but they're not
- Why are we spending more money, but getting less?
- How automation in every industry has made that industry dramatically more efficient, but what about in healthcare?
- How we are in the first inning of digital health
- How some digital health companies have figured how to make money in a healthcare ecosystem that is broken, without fundamentally improving the lives of the patients they serve
- ...and much more!
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Today's Guests: Ankit Patel, President & Gabriel Drapos, Chief of Staff at Pearl Health.
In this episode, Nick Desai and his guests discuss:
- Pearl Health
- What is direct contracting?
- What is its potential?
- How disruptive is direct contracting to Medicare Advantage?
- Some predictions
- ...and much more!
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Today's Guest: Sara Makin, Founder & CEO at Makin Wellness
In this episode, Nick Desai speaks with Sara Makin, Founder & CEO at Makin Wellness and discusses:
- Her background
- Makin Wellness
- How do we make mental health care universally available?
- Scaling your operations while maintaining clinical excellence
- ...and much more!
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In this episode, Nick Desai discusses:
- Is climate change the next pandemic?
- What does healthcare have to do with climate change?
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Today's Guest: Krishna Shenoy, PhD
- Electrical Engineering, Neurobiology & Bioengineering Professor @ Stanford University
- Scientific Advisory Board Member @ Heal
- Consultant/Advisor @ Neuralink
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
To learn more, please view his Stanford profile.
In this episode, Nick Desai speaks with Krishna Shenoy, PhD, an endowed chair at Stanford University and one of his closest friends to learn about:
- His background
- His research
- Neural prosthetics
- Recent breakthrough
- Neuralink's monkey playing a video game by thinking
- Where is the line to helping people who are hurt or enhancing human capabilities?
- Will we achieve singularity in our lifetime?
- ...and much more!
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Relevant links
- Willett FR, Avansino DT, Hochberg LR, Henderson JM, Shenoy KV (2021) High-performance brain-to-text communication via imagined handwriting. Nature. 593:249-254.
- Video: How the attempted handwriting BCI works would be useful.
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In this episode, Nick Desai discusses:
- Is artificial intelligence (AI) the future of healthcare?
- Is it the future that will never be?
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In this episode, Nick Desai discusses:
- Is Healthcare infrastructure?
- What’s in President Biden’s bill?
- What are the changing needs of the American healthcare system?
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In this episode Nick Desai (the host) discusses what Amazon entering telehealth means for everyone.
- What does this mean for telehealth?
- What does this mean for companies like Teladoc?
- What does it mean for providers?
- What does it mean for the average American consumer?
- Is this a positive or negative development?
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