If you are a DHT founder or expert, check out these events to attend in 2025!

At this year’s VIVE conference, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jennifer Goldsack, CEO at the Digital Medicine Socity (DiMe) , Santosh Mohan, VP of Digital at Moffitt Cancer Center , and Stephen Konya, Senior Advisor and Innovation Portfolio Lead at HHS – ONC  and chat about the new initiative – CancerX! What are the biggest reimbursement challenges in the oncology space today? How do these challenges and/or the lack of reimbursement hinder equity? Jennifer : In order

During this year’s HLTH conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Katie DiPerna Cook, Senior Vice President of Partnerships at Headspace Health. Headspace is a technology-enabled behavioral health provider. Katie shares her perspectives and experiences for securing reimbursement and investment in what are often labeled “squishy“ innovations. These include innovations in spaces such as behavioral, wellness, health equity,

During this year’s HLTH conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Andrew Parker, Founder and CEO of Papa. Papa helps connect members and their families to real people for help with companionship, everyday tasks, transportation, and more. It is virtal human connection, right to the front door. Andrew shares his perspectives and experiences for securing reimbursement and investment in what are often labeled “squishy“ innova

During this year's HLTH  conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Wallace Torres, Co-Founder of WellTheory. WellTheory  provides personalized, evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle coaching with a focus on autoimmune health. Wallace shares his perspectives and experiences for securing reimbursement and investment in what are often labeled “squishy“ innovations. These include innovations in spaces such as behavioral, wel

During this year’s HLTH conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Aaron Friedkin, Chief Business Officer at Homeward Health.  Homeward Health is a technology-enabled healthcare provider delivering care to those who don’t have it with an initial focus on rural communities.  Aaron shares his perspectives and experiences for securing reimbursement and investment in what are often labeled “squishy“ innovations. These include

During this year’s annual HLTH conference in Boston, I met Naweed Zemaryalai and Jessie Vera-Barrett. Naweed is the CEO and founder of TravaLab and Jessie is an advisor for the company with a passion for health equity resulting from her own personal experience. TravaLab aims to make testing more convenient and accessible by providing mobile phlebotomy services to people across the United States.  Lightning Round: What is a saying, quote or phrase that motivates you?  N: “Ha

Health equity took center stage at the HLTH Conference in Boston last year.  HLTH is an annual event that brings together thousands of leaders across the healthcare space– representing payers, providers, pharma, startups and more– to tackle the most pressing healthcare challenges and answer the question: “How do we create the future of health?” The conference began on Sunday, October 17 with a full day of discussions on topics including: debiasing clinical guidelines; making

During this year’s annual HLTH conference in Boston, I was lucky to sit down and chat with Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, a physician, medical epidemiologist and founder of Grapevine Health. Grapevine Health creates and delivers trusted and relatable health information to underserved communities, with the goal of empowering people to adopt good habits and take charge of their health. Health information is delivered by trusted messengers– who can meet people where they are– in both in-

During this year’s HLTH conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had a one-on-one with Wallace Torres, Co-Founder of WellTheory. WellTheory provides personalized, evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle coaching with a focus on autoimmune health. Wallace shares his perspectives and experiences for securing reimbursement and investment in what are often labeled “squishy“ innovations. These include innovations in spaces such as behavioral, wel

During this year’s annual HLTH conference in Boston, had the privilege to connect with Peter Hames, the co-founder and CEO of Big Health. Big Health is a digital therapeutics company that aims to help millions back to good mental health through clinically-validated, accessible and affordable digital solutions.  Lightning Round:  What is a saying, quote or phrase that motivates you?   “Next play,” credited to Jeff Weiner, executive chairman of LinkedIn, and taken to mean the

During this year’s annual HLTH conference I was grateful to sit down and speak with founder and CEO of UCM Digital Health, Keith Algozzine. UCM Digital Health is a platform that serves not only as a “digital front door” but offers 24/7 telehealth treat, triage, and navigation service to lower costs and improve outcomes and the patient experience.  Lightning Round:  What is a saying, quote or phrase that motivates you?  It’s my faith. The quote that resonates with me right no

During this year’s MedCityInvest Digital Health conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had the chance to sit down one-on-one with Matthew Versaggi, Senior Director of AI and Cognitive Technology, Optum Technology. Optum is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. The parent company of Optum is UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), a diversified healt

During this year’s MedCityInvest Digital Health conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had the chance to sit down one-on-one with Tom LIndquist, CEO, Allina Health Aetna. In response to the challenges and opportunities posed by ever evolving health system in the U.S., Allina Health Aetna was born as a joint venture between Allina Health, a premier health system in Minnesota and Aetna, the insurance giant. In a candid conversation, the chief

During this year’s MedCityInvest Digital Health conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had the chance to sit down one-on-one with Marcus Schabacker M.D, PhD, President and CEO of ECRI Institute. ECRI Institute is an independent nonprofit organization authority on the medical practices and products that provide the safest, most cost-effective care, not only in the U.S. but also internationally. Read on to learn more about Marcus’ point of vi

One-on-One with Andy Slavitt, Board Chair & Founder, United States of Care Q1: What do you envision the role of digital health will be in the future? Andy: We can’t forget that at base level most interactions are person to person. Without digital health, we are led to the lowest common denominator – the interaction. The interaction between the patient and the provider. The only way we can share knowledge and scale with any consistency is with digital technologies. What we ne

An ode to Minnesota’s unmatched healthcare innovation ecosystem. Today, marks one week since Digital Health Today was able to attend the  MANOVA Summit  in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A place some argue is colder than Siberia, yet, hotter than any other place on earth, in terms of  digital health innovation ! Minneapolis and St. Paul, also known as the Twin Cities, which the locals have come to refer to as – Medical Alley , or the Startup Capital of the North. An amazing place fo

An intimate conversation about Medical Alley, convergence and non-traditional entrants in healthcare. Q1: How is the digital health landscape different in Minnesota vs. nationally vs. globally? Brian:  Minnesota, overall in the Midwest, has a history of innovation in health and healthcare. Starting with the Mayo Clinic, United Health Group, Medtronic and other companies based here… you have the culture and history of creating new and different solutions to help people with di

During this year’s CONVENE conference, at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had the chance to sit down one-on-one with Jon Pearce, CEO of Zipnosis. Zipnosis, Inc. operates a virtual health care platform that connects patients and clinicians through phone and video interviews. It also offers a ZipTicket, a healthcare boarding pass that provides patients with access to clinics for in-person

One-on-One with Tony Miller, Founder and CEO, BIND On-Demand Health Insurance Q1: How do you think on-demand health insurance impacts patients’ financial future and their choices? Tony: Firstly, notice one key distinction – on-demand healthcare versus on-demand health insurance. At BIND , we provide on-demand health insurance. We observed that consumers in the US use the healthcare system very episodic and transient way – an on-demand kind of way. A symptom arises, a need ar