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Corey McCann answers: Can an app be as good as a drug?

July 26, 2018

Corey McCann, founder and CEO of PEAR Therapeutics, is among the trailblazing entrepreneurs developing “digital therapeutics”: a new class of software solutions that undergo clinical studies to prove efficacy. Last fall, PEAR’s reSET® technology — designed to treat patients with substance use disorder — became the first FDA-cleared prescription digital therapeutic for disease treatment.

Corey …

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From high tech to healthcare: a seasoned entrepreneur learns ‘pacing’

March 23, 2018

An interview with SilverVue CEO Will West

Will West is a prolific tech entrepreneur with a long track record of success. In 2013, he took Control4, the leading whole-home automation company, public. Before that, he co-founded iBAHN (originally STSN), the worldwide leader in broadband services for business travelers. He has raised close to $400 million in private capital for his last three comp…

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Empowering people to participate in better health outcomes

January 15, 2018

An Interview with Evidation Health CEO Deb Kilpatrick

Exercise. Sleep. Social activity. We know that health is influenced by behavior. And yet companies across the healthcare industry struggle to quantify how a person’s behavior in the real world affects health outcomes.

Deb Kilpatrick, CEO of Evidation Health, is in the business of real world information. She joined us for Tales From the Tre…

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One entrepreneur’s anthropological fascination with health, poverty, and marijuana

October 30, 2017

An Interview with Green Thumb Industries CEO Pete Kadens

6/15/2018 update: Congrats to Pete Kadens and Green Thumb Industries on going public in Canada. Read more.

Pete Kadens is running a serious business.

Pete is CEO of Green Thumb Industries (GTI), one of the fastest growing medical cannabis companies in the United States with cultivation centers and retail stores in five states and over …

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Get Rid of Transactions, Focus on Relationships

October 16, 2017

A Q&A with Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, Co-founder of Iora Health

Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle is on a mission to reinvent primary care.

He joined us for Tales from the Trenches, which we produce in partnership with Outcome Health and Pritzker Group Venture Capital, to talk about his journey from doctor to co-founder. You can watch the full interview here:

The journey began when Rushika was…

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