I really needed a lesson in resilience and a motivation boost this week and looking at Jim Joyce's hair - he did as well! On today's #TheShot of #digitalhealth therapy, we got through the week with Nina Sossamon-Pogue whose career took her from being a gymnast, news anchor, health tech exec and now an amazing book writer and speaker. 📰 scalability of #mentalhealth solutions 📰 finding your space in the employer and carrier landscape 📰 resilience vs. grit vs. determination 📰 millennials in the workforce 📰 oh and.. Nina's full COOL "Resilience" keynote just in a few minutes - a MUST SEE / HEAR

#TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy day!! #TGIW - Jim Joyce and I got our shot of energy from a great & wise human being Gil Bashe today. From a combat medic, to public relations and lobbying to private equity the key for Gil has been "constantly finding purpose": 🙏 Compassion in health care 🙏 Leading with empathy 🙏 Supersizing of America 🙏 Leadership principles 🙏 oh and... the most comprehensive #startup advice Fun mentions as always: John Nosta Ritesh Patel Angela Radcliffe Shwen Gwee Craig Lipset Joe Dustin HealthXL Martin Kelly Matthew Holt (we made fun of you) Babylon Health Mike Biselli Nick Adkins, MBA Pinksocks Life

It's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy day AND I am in Boston so there was nothing left to do but surprise Jim Joyce and take over HealthBeacon office for this recap episode. Thanks Laura Hamilton and team for a very warm welcome. Jim and I have not done one of these recaps in a while so it was fun rewinding back 2.5 months of #digitalhealth guests. You can either watch our big takeaways from each guest or click below to see/hear the real wisdom in the OG version: 🇺🇸 Sridhar Iyengar - https://youtu.be/9TuA5R_yoyk 🇺🇸 Jonah Comstock - https://youtu.be/YA-7A7GeXqA 🇪🇺 Fredrik Debong - https://youtu.be/7J5cifv6Qxs 🇺🇸 Chris Hogg - https://youtu.be/6XnytJSTLRA 🇬🇧 Keith Grimes - https://youtu.be/ap8MngcXIIo 🇪🇺 Lina Wenner - https://youtu.be/9Vi--6UkrS8 🇺🇸 Keeshia Muhammad - https://youtu.be/uVMyF9XfJx0 🇺🇸 Glen Stettin, MD - https://youtu.be/4GxsBJaDYsE 🇪🇺 Edward Kliphuis - https://youtu.be/RV4EoJaVdbs 🇪🇺 Eckhardt Weber - https://youtu.be/xYEDl6alR6Q And of-course you can listen to all of these in your favorite #podcast player https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/shot-of-digital-health-therapy

Today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy was sponsored by Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSAgov), HHS - yes our meticulously unproduced show now has a sponsor thanks to Health Podcast Network.. now without a further adieu, Jim Joyce and I virtually hopped back over to Berlin and spoken to a lawyer turned venture capitalist Eckhardt Weber, Managing Partner at Heal Capital 💶 Eckhardt tells us a good joke! (for once its not Jim) 💶 Heal Capital thesis and portfolio pitch :) 💶 German DiGA - is there distribution at scale? 💶 Virtually Integrated Micro Providers (VIMPRO) 💶 and... Eckhardt's advice to young entrepreneurs...

On this Wednesday's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I got into topics with our guest that we never thought we would, even for a meticulously unproduced show. That guest today is the brilliant Edward Kliphuis who also speculated on him starting a new amazing job at Sofinnova Partners in just a few hours from now 🥳 : 🧳 Conferences are back... few like HealthXL, Frontiers Health, HLTH, EMERGE GHI 🧳 Board structure advice 🧳 Why Edward is bullish on science in Europe but... 🧳 Can the Transcarent model work in Europe? 🧳 .. what are the barriers for European startups to spread across EU 🧳 What do oversized clothes have t do with SPACs and valuations? 🧳 oh and.... why Ed got held up in Azerbaijan? Fun mentions as always: Edward Cox William Taranto Glen Tullman Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Lina Wenner Eddie Martucci Akili Interactive Corey McCann Pear Therapeutics Martin Kelly

Wednesday is #funday - aka #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. and today Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of reconnecting with Glen Stettin, MD, Chief Innovation Officer at Evernorth where we discussed: 💊 Teachable moments 💊 Role of an innovation officer 💊 Disparities in care 💊 "You are not your disease" 💊 Digital Formulary 💊 oh and.... advice: "Be in the flow" Fun mentions as always: Tim Wentworth Pear Therapeutics Voluntis Pierre Leurent Corey McCann Frank Neumann Dawn Sherman Kenny Klepper David Snow Mark Bini Jeff Berkowitz

#TGIW (its Wednesday) which means its #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy Day! Jim Joyce and I hosted Keeshia Muhammad, finance exec turned marketing exec and never looked back (and now a board member at HealthBeacon!!!) : ✅ Is #digitalhealth real for pharma marketing budgets? ✅ Long term vs. short term investment into digital health ✅ Longevity of innovation teams 😂 ✅ Board diversity & thinking for startups ✅ oh and.... shout out to Pittsburgh

On today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I are are on the same timezone and even the same coast in US - woo hoo! ..but our guest zooms in from my old stomping grounds in Berlin - Jim and I had the pleasure of hosting Lina Wenner, an investor with firstminute capital and chatted about: 💸 Their new $160M fund with 100 unicorn founders as LP's 💸 Is there a "Tiger Global Squeeze" at seed stage? 💸 firstminute capital health investments & things to watch 💸 Coined here first - 4Ts of investment - Team, TAM, Tech, Traction 💸 ooh and the pros/cons of health consumerism Fun mentions as always: Brent Hoberman Spencer Crawley Founders Forum

This week, #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy returns to where it all started ... the NJ Garage (to be clear Jim Joyce is still in Dublin!). After some commercial breaks, Jim and I had a blast geeking out with the self-described 4G man (GP, Gamer, Geek, Giant) Keith Grimes: 🥽 #QuantifiedSelf in Primary Care 🥽 CGM & Metabolic Health 🥽 Chatbots vs. or with. Humans 🥽 VR / AR/ XR and the future 🥽 oh and chatbots for sexual health .... Fun Mentions as always: Brian Dolan David Albert AliveCor Inc. Josh Clemente Levels AppliedVR Psious Xavier Palomer Ripoll Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS ☀️Maneesh Juneja Maarten den Braber Babylon Health

On today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I pulled Chris Hogg away from his "break" and his dissection of the never ending S-1's and got deep into: 🧩 Evolution of #digitalhealth : tech - problem - value 🧩 Behavior hooks and early days of #quantifiedself 🧩 Everyone wants to be the "front door" of healthcare 🧩 Lego-Healthcare 🧩 The Tiger Global Squeeze and valuations 🧩 Virtual Care is Everywhere Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Indu Subaiya MD, MBA David Van Sickle Maarten den Braber Gary Wolf BJ Fogg ResMed Truepill

In our first ever pre-announced #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I thoroughly enjoyed speaking with a dear friend Fredrik Debong, co-founder of mySugr and now hi.health - we unpacked so much wisdom there: 🥃 Dumbest & Smartest move made at mySugr 🥃 7 Deadly sins for big impact in health 🥃 Tattoos and love for products 🥃 Black Mirror of Diabetes 🥃 Combining insuretech, fintech and healtech - aka hi.health 🥃 Health Expense Accounts 🥃 oh.. and pondering about scaling #digitalhealth in Europe Fun mentions as always: Lisa Suennen and her new definition of SPAC, Zayna Khayat, Martin Kelly, Robert Garber 7wireVentures , Min-Sung Sean Kim Sebastian Gruber

In this birthday edition of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce offered me to postpone the show to Thursday, but our millions of listeners would be disappointed and this would have broken our tradition - the show must always go on! So today we got to hang with Jonah Comstock, Editor-in-Chief for HIMSS Media : 🗞 Unpopular opinion: Funding rounds are NOT everything.. 🗞 The phases of #digitalhealth 🗞 Next generation of virtual care 🗞 "1M point solutions for 1M conditions" 🗞 Tip to entrepreneurs for pitching journalists HINT: journalists are people too 🗞 oh and... i busted on Dan Vahdat and Huma's $130M round Fun mentions as always: Christina Farr Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Paul Sonnier Michelle Longmire Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH Ritesh Patel Brian Dolan Daniel Couchman Kendall

Jim Joyce and I decided to skip our usual season wrap-up episode and jump right into Season 6!! Thanks to all of the amazing guests of season 5 and getting Jim and I through another 10 weeks :) We thoroughly enjoyed #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Season 6 kick off with Sridhar Iyengar who has been building #digitalhealth businesses before it was #digitalhealth from AgaMatrix, Misfit Wearables and now Elemental Machines | Your connected platform for Accelerating Science!: 🧪 One of the first #digitalhealth devices 🧪 Building products: Passive or Passion 🧪 Using Amazon reviews for product feedback 🧪 From CTO to CEO journey 🧪 Synthetic Biology 🧪 and... some data is always better than no data Fun mentions as always: Season 5 crew first: Ritesh Patel André Blackman Michael Dillhyon Zayna Khayat Lilly Stairs Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Susan Bratton Meghan FitzGerald Vonda Wright MD, MS Alexandra Drane Sonny Vu Brooke Cote John Sculley

SEASON 5 FINALE: Today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy was all about "Love ❤️ & Scars". Jim Joyce and I got the mid-week energy boost from the super amazing Alexandra Drane and what a season 5 ending: ❤️ Public speaking tips. Hint: Humility is key ❤️ Unmentionables and talking about death ❤️ Having a mid-life crisis at least once a year ❤️ Life goes, health goes ❤️ Retail is the front door of health (and life) ❤️ Everybody has a story ☎️ and..... ARCHANGELS and the red phone Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Lisa Suennen Susannah Fox Esther Dyson Wellville Marcus Osborne

#TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is here, which means its Wednesday! Today, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of getting to know Vonda Wright MD, MS, who is a surgeon, speaker, author and a fellow podcaster so we had lots to talk about: 🥇 Sports Medicine and Human Performance 🥇 80% of healthcare decisions made by women 🥇 Ideas are cheap! 🥇 Fitness over 40 🥇 oh and.... "50% of women have no orgasms"... Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Brian Dolan Scott Shreeve, MD Stefano Bini Daniel Kraft, MD DOCSF: Digital Orthopaedics Conference San Francisco (DOCSF) GoodRx HealthiNationa Daniel Couchman Kendall

On today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure to host the ever-energetic public health capitalist and a dealmaker Meghan FitzGerald. From emergency room to the boardroom, her book "Ascending Davos" and many other topics such as: 🗻 Capital, Content, Connections 🗻 Law of abundance 🗻 Asymmetric Information 🗻Human to tech ratios 🗻 SPAC carnage or not? 🗻oh ...and Coachella & jumping out of planes... Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Better Therapeutics Mindbloom Missy Krasner Martin Kelly Steve Seuntjens Francesca Wuttke Corey McCann Ritesh Patel

Wednesday couldn't come fast enough this week.. and in this #HappyBirthday Jim Joyce episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy we had the pleasure to chat with a 'recovering healthcare banker turned healthcare transformer' Susan Bratton, CEO and Founder of Savor Health. The discussion went deep: 🥦 Food-as-medicine 🥦 Nutrition as a key lever in health 🥦 Nutrition in Oncology 🥦 Behavioral Psychology & Belief Systems 🥦 oh and... "no sacred cows" Fun mentions as always: StartUp Health Dean Ornish, M.D. Mark Hyman, MD James Clear #foodasmedicine #nutrition #nutritionmonth #oncology #digitalhealth

Jim Joyce and I had to abandon the #covid19-free zone as we focused on health consumer on today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. There is no-one better to talk about health consuming than the amazing Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. There was sooooo much to unpack so I really struggled to pick just a few topics here: ✅ All Health is now retail ✅ The edges of trust during pandemic ✅ #MentalHealth baked into primary health ✅ Patients and data altruism ✅ Designing Empathy ✅ oh and.. wise words from Jane.... #healthequitynow Fun mentions as always: Martin Kelly Lisa Suennen Susannah Fox Alexandra Drane Matthew Holt Scott Shreeve, MD Crossover Health Brian Dolan Exits & Outcomes Kevin Darcy, PhD, CFA

Jim Joyce and I just had our celebratory 50th episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - wow! 🎉🎉🎉 We were honored to have Lilly Stairs join us today. Lilly is simply full of energy and made her journey from a self-described "Autoimmune Barbie" to #ChronicBoss (heard it here 1st) but we also talked: 👂 Hearing vs. Listening to Patients 👂 Tech + Human Touch 👂 Combining Western and Eastern methods 👂 Autoimmune Awareness Month 👂 oh and.. words of wisdom to #startups (hint: authenticity) Fun mentions as always: Russell Glass Jessica DaMassa Robert Garber Lee Shapiro Mette Dyhrberg Mymee Melinda Decker Deborah Kilpatrick Christine Lemke PatientPing Jay Desai

On this #StPatricksDay special of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I hung out with the amazing Zayna Khayat who I think is also our first guest who will be on a television show!! This episode we talked all about future of aging: ☘️ The age of ageism is upon us ☘️ The 5 chapters of Future of Aging ☘️ 70% of people die in hospitals, 80% want to die at home ☘️ What is a "shift disturber" ☘️ oh and.. the television show Zayna will be on! Special Shout outs to: Ofer Leidner Happify Health team on the $73M raise but the rest we leave upto Jessica DaMassa & Matthew Holt Fun Mentions as always: Lucien Engelen Erik Gerritsen Alexandra Drane Grand Rounds Doctor On Demand Robert Garber

Today, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of finally catching up with André Blackman on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth. Andre grew up a nerd and studied to be an airspace engineer before discovering a passion for public health. Aside from reminiscing about the past of Health 2.0 and some of the OG crew we also talked: ✅ Digital Divide is real ✅ The future of health & care workforce ✅ Diversity & Inclusion in health ✅ Andre's deep thoughts on "The Reversal" of public health ✅ oh and.. his recommendation for a documentary "Interruptors" Fun mentions as always: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Susannah Fox John Brownstein Chris Hogg Alexandra Drane HealthXL Rock Health Melissa Hanna Mahmee

#TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is here and once again, Jim Joyce and I reach new highs with our guest, Michael Dillhyon who decided to take this session from the slopes! Was a fun filled chat with some fun topics: ⛷ What does a mother-in-law have to do with heart ❤️ rate? ⛷ "Everything will be awesome!!" and SPACs ⛷ #Entrepreneurship is an addiction ⛷ Michael's #digitalhealth outlook ⛷ Top 5 tips for #healthtech entrepreneurs ⛷ and... a big reveal??? Fun mentions as always: Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Jamey Edwards Sridhar Iyengar VitalConnect Conor Hanley

Season 5!!! Jim Joyce and I had such an amazing time on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy this week with someone who brings people together as a DJ, as a restauranteur but also in his primary gig as a CDO at Ogilvy Consulting - Ritesh Patel. In our longest episode ever we talked: 🎵 Decision making in pharma 🎵 The role of the consumer in health 🎵 Innovation at the edges 🎵 Brining human back at the center of the digital health experience 🎵 ..and hence.. Is #digitalhealth dead? Fun mentions as always: Shwen Gwee John Pugh Jeff Berkowitz Kyle Shannon Jacob LaPorte, Ph.D. Robin Roberts Melinda Richter Vishal Gulati Gautam Gulati, MD,MBA,MPH David Albert AliveCor Inc.

Four Seasons Jim Joyce! (and not the landscaping kind..) This is our wrap up episode of Season 4, but don't sweat it - we have renewed all of our deals with YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Amazon and many more and will be back with Season 5 next Wednesday. This is your chance to preview all of our episodes in a rapid fire way and choose which one you would like to dive into deeper - 📺 Watch it now - https://youtu.be/iaKfOCHD4YU or 🎧 listen to it on your favorite podcast player - https://megaphone.link/DHT9105197541 📺 Jamey Edwards - https://youtu.be/L5Ys4k58Uu8 📺 AMIR KALALI, MD - https://youtu.be/WBCxAjA9bgY 📺 Michelle Longmire - https://youtu.be/ysFT5na9-0c 📺 Jim & I 2020 Wrap-up - https://youtu.be/o8e6sLq8fsU 📺 Joshua Haynes - https://youtu.be/GFXa20xTJ_s 📺 Scott Shreeve, MD - https://youtu.be/dl0w9hheKN4 📺 Francesca Wuttke, Robert Garber, Martin Kelly - https://youtu.be/CgTeSH2EVfQ 📺 Carlos Rodarte - https://youtu.be/LAIYzdwWWO0 📺 Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL - https://youtu.be/_u7ZOkRWAyY 📺 Jeff Berkowitz - https://youtu.be/ia9LtU4CSx8 Fun Mentions as always: Craig Lipset Jill Pierse Steve Seuntjens

Jim Joyce and I could have riffed for hours with today's guest on #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Jeff Berkowitz, CEO of Real Endpoints. Thanks to Jim, Jeff and I reconnected last summer and today was the day of walking down the memory lane for all three of us: 💊 Schering-Plough diaspora 💊 Pharma companies and global vs. local 💊 Digital Theraputics and market access 💊 Can #DTx be the new Patient Support Programs 💊 oh and a free SPAC idea for targets... ☝️ Special shout outs to Jason Calacanis & besties on The All-In Podcast, Kevin O'Leary and his Oscar S-1 break down, Andy Mychkovsky 🍕 and his tweet on too many SPACs with no targets.. Fun mentions as always: Chris Bergstrom Amalgam Rx Dawn Sherman, Martin Kelly aka #MartyParty, Brian Dolan, Fred Hassan, Joseph LaRosa, Roch Doliveux , Paul Hudson