Shot of Digital Health Therapy

A Shot of Digital Health Therapy is a meticulously unproduced podcast hosted by health tech founders Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce. Born in the pandemic, therapeutic by designโ€”oh, and comedy is still included. We dive into unscripted conversations with the people shaping employer benefits, digital health moonshots, and the broader healthcare system. From real talk to ridiculous tangents, we spotlight the builders, thinkers, and occasional troublemakers moving the industry forward. We'd love to have you join us.

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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Omri Shor - Me...
On this week's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of celebrating Medisafeยฎ's 10 year anniversary with Omri Shor (glad Rotem Shor was able to make a quick appearance too). While there were no actual shots ๐Ÿฅƒ involved in this celebration we did talk about: ๐Ÿ’Š HealthXL #Healthies (blast from the past) ๐Ÿ’Š Patient Engagement and hard ROI ๐Ÿ’Š Talent rotation from pharma to #digitalhealth startups and back ๐Ÿ’Š Go-to-market strategies - B2C2B ๐Ÿ’Š Family business and investors ๐Ÿ’Š 10 years of helping patients ๐ŸŽ‰ ๐Ÿ’Š Retentive Actions of consumers ๐Ÿ’Š oh and.... heard it here first ๐Ÿ˜‚ Medisafe is now ISO 13485 Fun mentions as always: Martin Kelly HealthXL Daniel Nathrath
45 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Dr. Ashish Pat...
Just another amazing Wednesday - which means #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. Today, Jim Joyce and I got to hang out and talk about fearless people with Dr. Ashish Patel, MD, Managing Director of Growth Capital Solutions at Numis: ๐Ÿš€ Great companies / Fearless Leaders ๐Ÿš€ Digital Health IPO Index ๐Ÿš€ Investment climate & valuations ๐Ÿš€ "The best and the rest" ๐Ÿš€ #DTx treated as #Biotech ?? ๐Ÿš€ oh and.... so many great quotes... Fun mentions as always: Martin Kelly HLTH HealthXL Murray Brozinsky Ken Cahill Corey McCann Eddie Martucci Ali Parsa Teladoc Health
36 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Jared S. Taylo...
For all of the avid followers of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I recorded our shortest episode EVER and got an awesome micro-dose of Jared S. Taylor - Founder of BlocHealth (now part of SteadyMD) and a fellow podcaster: ๐ŸŽค How he bet it all on Bloc! ๐ŸŽค Few "heard it here firsts" ๐ŸŽค Great Leaders in health care ๐ŸŽค Common threads across 500+ interviews at Slice of Healthcare ๐ŸŽค oh and .... Livongo #digitalhealth mafia ๐Ÿ˜‚ Fun mentions as always: Martin Kelly Daniel Couchman Kendall Guy Friedman Glen Tullman Lee Shapiro Jennifer Schneider, M.D., M. S. Naomi Allen
20 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Meri Beckwith...
On this Wednesday's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy Jim Joyce and I talked "plants, cells and spiders" with the awesome guest Meri Beckwith, Co-Founder of Lindus Health: ๐Ÿชด ๐Ÿ•ท Academia Currency ๐Ÿชด ๐Ÿ•ท How VC's really work ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿชด ๐Ÿ•ท EROOM law in Pharma ๐Ÿชด ๐Ÿ•ท CRO Business model ๐Ÿชด ๐Ÿ•ท What matters in #clinicaltrials ๐Ÿชด ๐Ÿ•ท oh and.... team & talent! Fun mentions as always: Lina Wenner Brent Hoberman firstminute capital Alex Zhavoronkov Christian Angermayer Paul Wicks Michael Pace Jonah Comstock
34 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Corey McCann -...
This Wednesday on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, I was surrounded by two public company CEO's. Jim Joyce and..... Corey McCann, CEO of Pear Therapeutics. Trained as a physician scientist, turned McKinsey & Company consultant, turned investor, turned entrepreneur - we had a lot of ground to cover: ๐Ÿ #DTx asa fundamental modality ๐Ÿ Visions are cheap.... ๐Ÿ Payer adoption processes ๐Ÿ "Fundamentals are fundamental" ๐Ÿ #DTx market predictions ๐Ÿ oh and ... What does Mike Tyson have to say? Fun mentions as always: Eddie Martucci Brent Vaughan Owen McCarthy Brian Harris Andy Molnar Akili Interactive Cognito Therapeutics, Inc. Jennifer Schneider, M.D., M. S.
33 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Sarah Jones Si...
On this Wednesday's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I had such a pleasure of getting to know Sarah Jones Simmer, CEO of Found. Grew up in the Garden State, her curiosity and drive took her career through interesting twists and turns. We had a great discussion: ๐Ÿ† Mission greater than Product ๐Ÿ† Finding joy in your body ๐Ÿ† Biology + Behavior ๐Ÿ† Efficacy & Trust ๐Ÿ† Product + People ๐Ÿ† and oh.... why following your curiosity matters.. Fun mentions as always: Acacia Parks Robert Garber Rekha K. Marina Borukhovich Bumble Whitney Wolfe Herd
35 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Ofer Leidner
Season 11 of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is here and while its one day late hope it was worth the wait! First and foremost, Jim Joyce almost got a new co-host - Marina Borukhovich... Well, the 3 of us had the pleasure of hosting Ofer Leidner, President and Co-Founder of Twill (formerly known as Happify) with some big announcement: ๐Ÿงต DTC or not to DTC ๐Ÿงต Open Platforms in Health care ๐Ÿงต Biology + Behavior ๐Ÿงต What can healthcare learn from gaming ๐Ÿงต People work with People ๐Ÿงต oh and.. you have to watch for our big announcement Fun Mentions as always: YourCoach.Health Twill Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Tomer Ben-Kiki
44 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Ameya Phadke
Season 10 finale of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is here! Jim Joyce and I had some fun chatting with Ameya Phadke, Ph.D. who is responsible for building out non-pharmacological solutions at Chiesi Group so brought back many memories for me personally: ๐Ÿ’Š Mission focused companies in #digitalhealth ๐Ÿ’Š #Behavior change as a treatment modality ๐Ÿ’Š Common vision of #startups & #pharma ๐Ÿ’Š Science of Serendipity & Kaia Health journey at Chiesi Group ๐Ÿ’Š oh and... is #DTx like a toy in the kids meal? (credit to Eddie Martucci) Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Kuldeep Singh Rajput Digital Health Today StartUp Health Konstantin Mehl Jonas Duss Naomi Fried, Ph.D. Gautam Gulati, MD, MBA, MPH
38 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Guy Friedman
Wednesday is here! ..and (almost) every Wednesday is #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. Today Jim Joyce and I chatted with Guy Friedman, Co-founder & CEO of SteadyMD and we spoke about: ๐Ÿš€ Building with 100X in mind ๐Ÿš€ #DigitalHealth correction ๐Ÿš€ #DTC Playbook ๐Ÿš€ Startup Pivots ๐Ÿš€ and why Guy is a #crossfit celebrity w/o ever doing #crossfit
35 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Daniel Nathrath
Yess! Its Wednesday and that means #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is here once again. Today Jim Joyce and I had a lot of fun with a lawyer, turned consultant (think George Clooney), turned entrepreneur - Daniel Nathrath, CEO of Ada Health: ๐ŸŒŽ Replicating a human brain to create smart diagnostics ๐ŸŒŽ Building a company with your wife.. ๐Ÿค” ๐ŸŒŽ Scaling #digitalhealth companies in the #EU vs #usa ๐ŸŒŽ Blitzscaling digital health ๐ŸŒŽ oh... and what does Breaking Bad has to do with health.. Fun mentions as always: Marina Borukhovich Martin Kelly Chandana Fitzgerald Roberto Ascione Healthware Group Rashida Bobb Konstantin Mehl Jonas Duss Prof. Dr. Martin Christian HIRSCH Claire Novorol
41 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Paul Johnson
We interrupted Jim Joyce's holiday to bring you all this week's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy! Our guest today Paul Johnson, COO (Consumer) at 23andMe was able to snap my memory back and all the puzzle piece came together in an awesome discussion: ๐Ÿงฌ Direct-to-consumer (DTC) Healthcare ๐Ÿงฌ Consumerization of healthcare ๐Ÿงฌ Entrepreneur's decision to sell ๐Ÿงฌ Importance of product experience ๐Ÿงฌ oh and.... Pickleball???? Fun mentions as always: Anne Wojcicki Martin Kelly Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Brian Harris (#pingpong)
41 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Rob George
Today is the National Smile Power Day and also Wednesday - which means its #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy day.. Today, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of hosting Rob George, VP of Strategy at Hamilton Beach Brands Inc. ๐Ÿ’ˆ HealthBeacon in the kitchen !!! ๐Ÿ’ˆ Connected health systems ๐Ÿ’ˆ Customer and User Experience in healthcare ๐Ÿ’ˆ Good thinking principle ๐Ÿ’ˆ oh and.. Irish Mossad???? ๐Ÿ˜‚
34 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Eddie Martucci...
Every single episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is a MUST SEE, but today is especially a MUST SEE because Jim Joyce and I facilitated a potential spin-off show with the awesome Eddie Martucci & Carl Gottlieb from Akili Interactive and we talked: ๐Ÿค– Akili Interactive & Roblox deal (so yes some #digitalhealth talk) ๐Ÿค– How #DTx startups can now start celebrating bat & bar mitzvahs ๐Ÿค– Sacred cows & plans vs. PLANS ๐Ÿค– Biotech & digitech coming together ๐Ÿค– Developing company muscles ๐Ÿค– oh and more news on the potential spin-off.. Fun Mentions As Always: JAZZ Venture Partners John Spinale Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Emanuela Saccarola Marina Borukhovich
52 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Ashlee Honeycutt
Its Wednesday and therefore another episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. Today, Jim Joyce got schooled on health coaching by none other then our own amazing Ashlee Honeycutt, Director of Health Coaching Operations at YourCoach.Health: It was all about coaching of course but with a few twists: ๐Ÿฆ– Question to ask a 1st grader ๐Ÿฆ– What is Health Coaching ๐Ÿฆ– #DigitalHealth and Health Coaching ๐Ÿฆ– Psychotherapy vs. coaching ๐Ÿฆ– oh and Ashlee's advice to entrepreneurs Fun mentions as always: Marina Borukhovich Martin Kelly Anish Shindore Francesca Wuttke CrossFit, LLC HealthXL - and for the first time in 101 episodes no mention of Matthew Holt ๐Ÿ˜‚
29 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Morgan Cheatham
#TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy turns 100 today! Thats 100 episodes of meticulously un-produced content. So for this special occasion, Jim Joyce and I had one of our longest episodes ever with the brilliant Morgan Cheatham, VP at Bessemer Venture Partners : ๐Ÿ’ฐ Company culture in a virtual world (& due diligence) ๐Ÿ’ฐ Investing in emerging fund managers ๐Ÿ’ฐ Valuations......... ๐Ÿ’ฐ How its easy to start a medical practice today.. ๐Ÿ’ฐ Bessemer Venture Partners Investment Thesis ๐Ÿ’ฐ Overstating outcomes in #DigitalHealth ๐Ÿ’ฐ oh... and how to sell to payers... Fun mentions as always: William Taranto Martin Kelly Julie Yoo Graham Gardner, MD, MBA (he/him/his) Kyruus Steve Kraus FOLX Health Tia NOCD
43 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Saul Marquez
Jim Joyce is BACK with me this week on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy (though he did a disappearing act on this episode as well)! This week we got to host Saul Marquez who has spent the last 15+ years in the medical device industry and balances that with his media career as a fellow podcaster and founder of Outcomes Rocket Podcast: ๐ŸŽง Classical Humanities & Media ๐ŸŽง Patient Monitoring & Nurse shortages ๐ŸŽง Opioids & Digital Capabilities ๐ŸŽง #DTx <> Medical Device ๐ŸŽง oh and... Balance vs. Rhythm as life advice .... Fun Mentions as always: Matthew Holt (of course - you must listen!) Chandana Fitzgerald Daniel Couchman Kendall Peter H. Diamandis Martin Kelly John Lee Dumas Scott Becker
36 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Chris Bergstrom
While Jim Joyce is galavanting around the world, Chandana Fitzgerald swooped right in to kick off Season 10 of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. We had the pleasure to host Chris Bergstrom, President of Amalgam Rx and quickly realized that he likes the number 5 ๐Ÿ˜‚: ๐ŸŽฏ 5 year sprints of #digitalhealth (we are in the 3d sprint) ๐ŸŽฏ 5 min vs 5 years (madness vs. brilliance) ๐ŸŽฏ Pre-iphone days of #DigitalHealth ๐ŸŽฏ Modular platforms ๐ŸŽฏ and..... always be learning principle ๐ŸŽฏ ohhhh and....... We talk #DTx podcast Season 2 (see link in comments) - huge thanks to Amalgam Rx for being a presenting partner! Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Ryan Sysko Bozidar Jovicevic Martin Kelly HealthXL
37 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Hicham Naim
TGIW - Yes its Wednesday and that means another episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. On this Season 9 Finale, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of speaking with Hicham Naim Pharm D MBA and we spoke about: ๐Ÿ’Š Role of a pharmacist ๐Ÿ’Š #DigitalHealth interventions ๐Ÿ’Š #DTx valuations vs. adoption ๐Ÿ’Š Crossroads 2050 (see link in comments) ๐Ÿ’Š Humanitarian crisis ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ’Š oh and.. yes we talked about George Clooney Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Martin Kelly Parisa "Risa" Vatanka, PharmD, CTTS
38 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Joe Connolly
This is the longest season of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy due to Jim Joyce and I not staying as consistent as before but nevertheless the show must go on so in this week's episode we welcomed Joe Connolly, CEO and Co-Founder of Visana Health and we spent time discussing: ๐ŸŽฏ Power of #DigitalHealth ๐ŸŽฏ Product Adoption ๐ŸŽฏ Funding rounds ๐ŸŽฏ Defensibility of a business ๐ŸŽฏ Value Based Care ๐ŸŽฏ oh and how raising $$ is like a duck flapping in water? Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Chris Hogg John Brownlee Chris Henderson
31 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Sandeep Pulim
Jim Joyce and I have been slacking lately but we are back today with #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. Congrats to the whole HealthBeacon team for their 1st ever earnings announcements as a publicly traded company so we are all honored that Jim made it ๐Ÿ˜‚Today, we connected with an early #digitalhealth trailblazer and a doctorpreneur, Sandeep Pulim M.D.: ๐Ÿ’‰ Early days of #digitalhealth ๐Ÿ’‰ Dreamers & Doers ๐Ÿ’‰ #AI in Healthcare ๐Ÿ’‰ Biometric monitoring ๐Ÿ’‰ Data driven clinical decisions ๐Ÿ’‰ and.... Sandeep's advice to entrepreneurs Fun Mentions as always (longest list ever today): Daniel Couchman Kendall Martin Kelly Matthew Holt Indu Subaiya MD, MBA Todd Park BJ Fogg, PhD Jaydev Thakkar Kuldeep Singh Rajput Maulik Majmudar, M.D. Peter Frishauf Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, PBC Unity Stoakes Steven Krein Brad Weinberg, MD, CFA Mathew Slade Farkash Jean Nehme RubiconMD Gil Addo LetsGetChecked Arundhati Parmar Naomi Allen MedCity News Robert Garber
39 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Liz Ashall-Payne
On today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I got to hang out with speech therapist turned entrepreneur & CEO of ORCHA, the eloquent Liz Ashall-Payne. We had a great chat: ๐Ÿ’ There is nothing National about NHS ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿ’ 5 steps to #digitalhealth adoption ๐Ÿ’ Why Liz is betting on Canada... ๐Ÿ’ Over 21,000 #mentalhealth tech available out in the wild.. ๐Ÿ’ Journey of compliance for innovators ๐Ÿ’ oh and... its our 1st #wedding edition ๐ŸŽ‰ Fun mentions as always: Parisa "Risa" Vatanka, PharmD, CTTS Ben Chodor ViVE
42 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - John Driscoll
It's Wednesday - which means it's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy! Jim Joyce and I survived another week and had the pleasure of hosting John Driscoll, CEO of CareCentrix and aside from exploring the Irish heritage we talked: ๐Ÿ  Sensible Innovations ๐Ÿ  Cultural pressures of growth ๐Ÿ  Massive scaling = aphrodisiac ? ๐Ÿ  Asynchronous & digital care ๐Ÿ  Hype, Hope & Fear of #digitalhealth valuations ๐Ÿ  oh and.. an amazing advice to entrepreneurs Fun mentions as always: David Snow Kenny Klepper David E. Williams
45 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Anthony Vennare
It's Wednesday and that means you get to hear Jim Joyce and I ramble on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. Due to some minor technical difficulties and the fact that we are meticulously un-produced, you get to hear a whole ~11minutes and 14 seconds (11:14) of us two talking about Metaverse and our travel plans before our awesome guest Anthony Vennare joined us. Anthony went from a Marine to a serial entrepreneur in the fitness industry along with his brother Joe Vennare and now both are founders of Fitt Insider which is a mix of fitness, content and investment into the industry. We chatted about: ๐Ÿ† Product innovation in Fitness industry ๐Ÿ† Consumerization of healthcare ๐Ÿ† Contrasting the world of fitness to the world of healthcare ๐Ÿ† Is more data helping behavior change for an average human being? ๐Ÿ† and... you have to hear Anthony's advice to entrepreneurs Fun mentions as always: Rasu Shrestha MD MBA (shamed), Robert Garber (metaverse), Natalia Karbasova (FitTech Summit), Tonal, ARENA, Josh Clemente, Levels, Veri, NutriSense, Freeletics
50 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Thomas Tsang
In this Tiger ๐Ÿ… edition ๐Ÿฅณ - #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I hosted an internist turned congressional staffer turned pharmaceutical executive turned entrepreneur - Thomas Tsang, MD, MPH, CEO of Valera Health: ๐Ÿฏ Working on federal legislation ๐Ÿฏ Hawaii and state healthcare ๐Ÿฏ Journey through fed, state, big corp ๐Ÿฏ #Mentalhealth spectrum & protocols ๐Ÿฏ Creating culture of community ๐Ÿฏ oh and... age and conservatism.. Fun mentions as always: Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA Farzad Mostashari Ofer Sharon Acacia Parks William Taranto Alex Fair
37 min
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Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Paul Simms
Is it pharmageddon? Nope its just a Wednesday & #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy with Jim Joyce. Today we had pure enjoyment speaking with Paul Simms, who is a provocateur extraordinaire and have been in and around this industry for ~2 decades, so we had a lot to talk about: ๐Ÿ’Š Trust in pharma ๐Ÿ’Š Pharma business model ๐Ÿ’Š Misaligned objectives? ๐Ÿ’Š Is Pharma ready for #digitalhealth ๐Ÿ’Š Paul's 5D (watch to see what that is) ๐Ÿ’Š and.. whats on top of mind of Pharma CEO's ๐Ÿ’Š oh and... congrats to Jim Joyce & HealthBeacon team for being in top 5 2021 IPO's in a CB Insights report!! Fun mentions as always: Eddie Martucci Marina Borukhovich Jessica J. Federer Steve Seuntjens Alyssa Jaffee
44 min