Innovation4Alpha

Hippo Health was founded by experienced emergency physicians who wanted to ease healthcare frustrations and make tele-health and excellent care coordination accessible to all.Hippo Health is now offering providers the ability to build out their own personalized care networks to improve the modern day care experience for patients and providers.Founder, Kevin McGarvey, MD shares some of the latest updates on this rapidly growing tele-health platform including the recent addition of a seasoned CEO.

Kimberly Hutchison, MD is a neurologist who specializes in Sleep Medicine. While there is expectation that someday the CPAP will be replaced as a sleep aid, it remains the Gold Standard. for now. Even though it's the best way to treat many patients, compliance remains a problem. To help with compliance, Dr. Hutchison has developed the SomnoSeal to provide a better fit for CPAP machines. Learn more about this product and about an entrepreneurial physician working to provide better outcomes for patients.

Kerry Curran brings a career in medical device technology to a nimble startup leveraging student engineering skill to design products addressing post surgical Pulmonary Atelectasis and Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT’s). While in it's early stages, this company is demonstrating how creative use of student skill and ingenuity, combined with a strong clinician feedback loop, can lead to useful innovation.

NXgenPort (NGP), has designed an innovative and transformative technology to maximize remote care in cancer patients requiring an implantable chemo-port catheter. Combining proven chemo-port efficacy with microchip and sensor technology, NGP measures, monitors and reports physiological body functions in vivo over the course of disease and treatment.In this episode,  Founder and CEO Kathy Skinner shares the details of how this port advances care for a very important patient population and how its quickly gaining momentum.

Dr. Kay is a Foot & Ankle surgeon based in Ohio. Like many physicians, he and his colleagues saw better ways to treat patients and began to take steps to implement these ideas. The result is a long history of innovation, learning and hard work which now results in not one, but three companies in the pipeline. In this introductory discussion, you'll get a glimpse into Dr. Kay's formula, which includes getting some of the best specialized expertise in a given field involved in the venture. Interestingly, Dr. Kay's current ventures span 3 very different spaces: wound closure, ankle bracing and hand-held robotics.Any aspiring or current medtech entrepreneur will benefit from listening to this seasoned physician-inventor-entrepreneur.

AllCore360° exists to empower patients, athletes, seniors, and everyday people to train their core muscles for improved performance and recovery in a new, more efficient way. Scott Bertrund is the Founder and shares the story of the company and how it has evolved from a rehab focus to one that also includes rotational sports training and all-around health.The AllCore360 website lists locations across the country where you can find and experience this unique equipment. Physicians, Physical Therapists and Trainers can get more information on the company and product at their website.

Alex Stone is the Founder/CEO of Pacific Echelon Security Services, one of the fastest growing security companies in the United States.  The company is based on of Portland, ground zero in many ways, for the chaos that has erupted over the past few years.Combining both innovative community integration and cutting edge technology, Echelon is able to secure commercial properties with results that blow the competition away. Their solutions are appropriate for everything from multi-tenant housing to office buildings to hospital campuses and even executive protection.In this quick briefing, Co-host Yuri Sernande introduces Alex to the Innovation4Alpha community. In future discussions we'll get into the philosophy and tactics behind Echelons incredible success.

Mark Cherney is the Founder and Executive Chairman of both US Urology Partners and Prologics. This past year Mark transitioned from the CEO role into the Executive Chair role and in this brief discussion he introduces some of the headwinds ahead for both Private Equity & the medical practices that have been part of PE roll-ups.

Maraia Tanner is the CEO of Star Harbor based in Lone Tree, Colorado. She shares insights into the mission of the organization and how its cross disciplinary work will accelerate innovation in everything from medicine to ag-tech etc.As an example of the cross disciplinary work ahead, the CU Anschutz School of Medicine even has a space oriented medicine program described as follows: The University of Colorado Space and Extreme Environment Medicine Program is an interdisciplinary collaboration between experts in medicine, engineering, spaceflight, education, simulation, and remote environment expedition support.Star Harbor is not your typical startup with significant real estate, build out and staffing costs. To get there, it is employing a mix of public-private funding resources as it seeks to become a key resource for space training as the industry accelerates. While training astronauts and consumer passengers for missions is a part of the organization, a great deal of effort will be dedicated to certifying materials for space missions and facilitating research. The 50+ acre campus will house all of the equipment and lodging facilities required to do this in one place.

Ai Medica makes it easy to create clinical and economic value from EHR data using evidence based medicine. They have built a platform on SMART on FHIR interoperability standards that allows them to integrate evidence based calculators into the EHR in a matter of weeks. Their mission is to simplify evidence based clinical work flows using EHR data to drive better application of evidence to care for patients, decreased effort and burnout for physicians, and better integration, reporting and compliance on evidence based initiatives for health systems.

MRG address issues involving access to care, chronic disease management, patient adherence & compliance to doctors orders, and frees up clinicians time through leveraging technology so they can better monitor and manage larger amounts of patients more effectively and efficiently.Smart Care 360 is a complete and comprehensive care management platform that allows physicians and caregivers to manage the full continuum of care. By continuous monitoring of a patient’s vitals, nutrition, medication, and daily living activities clinicians see a holistic picture of the patient. Using their AI and threshold capabilities they provide a more proactive approach for care decisions and can alert caregivers to any change in condition. The platform is a complete solution that includes auto messaging, reminders to patients, 2 way communication, video conferencing with vitals displayed in real time -- all recorded and integrated into any EMR. With MRG Care 360, there is a single view of everything on a patient, with alerts, thresholds, and continuous access for patients and physicians to each other. The MRG real-time RPM Management Solution increases staffing efficiency, reduces doctor and nurse burnout and provides more patient info with instant access to the patients and staff. The platform was developed after 2+ years of R&D, and being involved in 4 very in depth Texas based studies on major clinical / operational needs in specific specialties & chronic diseases throughout rural, urban, and metro geographic regions. The data was compiled, and prioritization of our capabilities was built on a code-less drag and drop UX/UI with decision tree logic that allows simple patient planning, customization and flexibility based on the HCO's needs which also promotes efficient and scalable deployment solutions for large variable patient groups based on the specific specialty, disease, or vertical market needs.

TearSolutions' lead product, called Lacripep, delivers what no other approved or pipeline drug has been able to: rapid healing of the ocular surface and relief of dry eye symptoms with a best-in-class safety and comfort profile. This was all proven in their first-in-human clinical trial which has led to formal written FDA alignment on our clinical and regulatory path to an unrestricted general Dry Eye indication (which is the same path a dry eye drug called Xiidra took, which sold to Novartis for $5.3B). The company is raising capital to get Lacripep back into the clinic for the first of two Phase III trials.

With Sage’s AI Driven Medical Coding, Billing and Dictation, practitioners are eliminating the costly overhead of a medical coder while increasing productivity by 20%. The easy-to-use mobile app processes in real-time, eliminates coding & billing errors while increasing revenue by $250k+ ARR.The company is raising a Seed investment round and their story can be heard here: Online audio pitch deck:

Project Cure CEO Douglas Jackson, PhD shares the mission of Project Cure in a wide ranging discussion that illustrates the incredible supply chain expertise of Project Cure.Project C.U.R.E. was founded in 1987 to address the staggering shortage of medical resources around the world. Project C.U.R.E. has become the world’s largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries.Each week Project C.U.R.E. delivers approximately three to five semi-truck-sized ocean containers packed with the medical equipment and supplies desperately needed to save lives in hospitals and clinics in resource-limited countries. In addition, each year hundreds of healthcare professionals travel with Project C.U.R.E. to provide medical treatment to communities in need and training to those dedicated to serving them. Project C.U.R.E. is supported by over 30,000 volunteers annually and operates distribution warehouses in seven U.S. cities.

DenTriage is a comprehensive mobile and web-based platform that will provide a convenient way for patients to receive timely guidance and care for urgent and non-urgent dental issues using Tele-Dentistry. DenTriage enables consumers to have urgent questions answered, obtain a video consult with a dentist, search for nearby dentists, and make appointments with ease. DenTriage is working to improve ease of access to dental care and as a result, a reduction of no shows and unfilled appointments for dental practices. Improved access to urgent dental evaluation will lead to reduction in dental related ER visits and reduced overall cost of dental care for insurers and private individuals.

Clint McGill is addressing one of the biggest challenge in youth sports - building mental toughness. As a former high level baseball player himself, Clint was like many parents involved with their kid's sports activities...but he decided to apply well proven mental toughness tips and tools to help his kids and others. The result is the Bulletproof Hitter Educational Program and Baseball Notes.In this discussion, Clint shares his experience launching an educational programming business and comments on what worked and what didn't. Any parent with kids in sports, and any entrepreneur trying to figure out how to make social media work for them, will find this episode interesting.Check out some of Clint's terrific work:Baseball NotesBulletproof Hitter

Neobe Therapeutics is an early-stage startup engineering safe recombinant bacterial products to enable immune infiltration in solid tumors. Their bacterial products combine innate tumor colonization with genetically engineered inducible biosensors to disrupt tumor microenvironment barriers to infiltration. By enabling successful infiltration of immune excluded tumors using our bacterial products they will be able to multiply the number of patients that respond to existing immunotherapies, with a focus on checkpoint inhibitors. Neobe was formed in January 2021 in London, UK with the support of Deep Science Ventures and Cancer Research UK. The founding team is made up of Dr. Pedro Correa de Sampaio, a cancer biologist with a successful career studying the tumor microenvironment in top academic institutions in the UK and the US; and Dr. Annelise Soulier, a microbiologist and molecular biologist with several years of experience engineering bacteria for therapeutic applications in one of the top UK companies in the field, having authored patents in the field and developed products that are currently in clinical trials. The founding team has the support of a world class advisory board, including top academic researchers and former C-level industry executives in the field. It was selected for the 2021 cohort of the highly prestigious Accelerate@Babraham in Cambridge, UK, won the London branch of the Imagine IF! healthcare startup competition and Neobe's co-founder Annelise Soulier was a finalists of the AIM-HI Women's Venture Competition. During its first year, Neobe developed the genetic tools necessary for the generation of its initial prototype, and established collaborations with top academic institutions such as the Barts Cancer Institute to initiate efficacy studies. Neobe was also recently awarded a collaborative Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst grant, from the UK government, for the development of its second product at a total project cost of £505K.

In a wide ranging discussion, with Lazurite Co-Founder/CEO Eugene Malinskiy, we learn more about the origins of the company, it's current status, and get a glimpse into where its headed.For Lazurite’s inaugural device, the necessity of safety served as the mother of invention. While observing a surgery in 2015, CEO and Cofounder Eugene Malinskiy watched helplessly as a physician’s assistant tripped and fell over cables connected to the surgical tower. The accident drew Eugene’s attention to two cables in particular: the light and power cables that connected at one end to the surgical tower, snaked across the patient into the sterile field, and connected at the other end to thesurgical camera.The ArthroFree wireless surgical camera system allows surgeons to perform wirelessarthroscopic/endoscopic surgery freeing them from the cables of traditional wired camera systems. The novel Meridian light engine, wireless technology and light weight rechargeable battery are the innovative IP that makes the ArthroFree system possible. The beam from a cold laser directed at a volumetric phosphorus disk emits a bright cool light. An encrypted wireless technology communicates solely between the ArthroFree camera antenna and receiver with no interference to any other OR equipment.

Mr. Barletta is the founder of an advisory firm based in Washington DC called Jones Point. The firm possesses a unique combination of more than two decades of experience in Washington and deep Wall Street relationships. This differentiator allows Jones Point to successfully address the disconnect between companies seeking to navigate the regulatory landscape, the Washington lobbying community and investors seeking deeper political insights.

DelNova, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on addressing unmet medical needs. DelNova is resolving complications arising from botulinum toxin therapies (eg. Botox®). The first product under development, ReViVox™ is based on a clinically validated drug currently approved for a different medical use and route of administration. The novel formulation will manage undesirable side effects resulting from neurotoxin injections in both medical and cosmetic applications.