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Innovation Rising, Presented by Healthbox

Innovation Rising, presented by Healthbox, examines the intersection of innovation and healthcare from a variety of viewpoints featuring interviews with the leaders who are moving our industry forward. The podcast is arranged in 3-episode series around a specific topic in healthcare or innovation. In each of the 3 episodes, we interview a hospital or health system using this innovation, an investor who has invested in this sector and their thoughts on why and the future of the sector, and finally an interview with a founder of a solution in this space, respectively.
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Episode 22: Adam Draper of Boost VC 0
May 31, 2017

This week’s podcast features our interview with Adam Draper, Founder & Managing Director of Boost VC. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist. He also co-founded Xpert Financial while still in his senior year at UCLA, which he then left in 2012, focusing on angel investing in which he invested in 20 companies, including Coinbase, Plangrid, and Practice Fusion, before starting Boost VC with this co-founder Brayton Williams.

Launched in 2012, Boost VC is a specialized seed-stage accelerator that invests in blockchain and virtual reality startups. Twice a year Boost VC invests in 25+ startups. The three month accelerator program includes housing and office space in Silicon Valley. Boost’s Portfolio consists of 138 companies, who have raised over $125M after joining Boost VC.

Adam joined Chuck Feerick and Healthbox President & COO Neil Patel to talk about Investing in Virtual Reality in this final part in our series on Virtual Reality in the healthcare space.

A few of the topics we dive into in this episode include:

  • Adam’s background, how he came to develop an interest in VR, and how close he is to developing an Ironman Suit
  • How the Boost VC Model operates and how Adam helps companies in the VR space
  • The concept of VR has been around for over 30 years, yet last year we saw more than  $2B in VC money pour into the AR/VR, space continuing a trend we’ve seen over the past few years. Adam breaks down what is making this growth take off
  • Why Adam thinks Healthcare is an underrated space
  • Adams’ current healthcare investments and what makes him say “yes” or “no”
  • Given Adam’s experience in gaming, entertainment, and retail, Adam discusses possibilities for VR in Healthcare
  • The overall challenges that VR startups face and Adam’s advice for overcoming them, from an investor’s perspective
  • What Adam thinks needs to happen for VR to go from a “cool” gadget to transformative technology

Links:

Innovation Rising Episode 19: Bonus - Accelerator/Studio Program Roundtable with Healthbox and Adam Draper of Boost VC

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Episode 21: Matthew Stoudt, CEO of AppliedVR 0
May 17, 2017

This week’s podcast features our amazing interview with Matthew Stoudt, the CEO of AppliedVR. Matthew was previously cofounder and CEO of Outcast Media International (which was sold to Verifone), the McDonald’s New Ventures Entrepreneur in Residence, ran private equity at Triumph Capital Group and investment banking at DLJ, and earned his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Matthew joined us on the program to talk about the work he and his team are doing with applied VR in this second part of our series on Virtual Reality in the healthcare space.

A few of the topics we dive into in this episode include:

  • Matthew’s background and how he came to develop an interest in VR
  • Matthew and AppliedVR’s work with Dr. Brennan Spiegel of Cedars-Sinai and how that relationship with Cedars-Sinai came into place
  • How AppliedVR’s technology works to influence behavioral changes and how it plays in the behavioral health space
  • How AppliedVR is using big data to help with treatment development and what kind of data they are looking at, how it is collected, and how AppliedVR is building on it over time to adaptively implement what the data is showing
  • What Matthew says has been the hardest part of building the company and how he is overcoming that
  • Matthew’s thoughts on how critical it is for entrepreneurs in the healthcare space to have close relationships with providers and healthcare systems, like Cedars-Sinai, as they build out their technology
  • What has surprised Matthew most in his work  to date
  • Matthew’s thoughts overall on the future of VR

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Episode 20: Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai 0
May 3, 2017

Our guest this week is Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai Health System and Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Spiegel joins us on the program for this first part in our series around Virtual Reality in Healthcare.

Dr. Spiegel directs the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE), a multidisciplinary team that investigates how digital health technologies, including wearable biosensors, smartphone applications, virtual reality, and social media, can strengthen the patient-doctor bond, improve outcomes, and save money. CS-CORE unites clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, statisticians and health services researchers to invent, test, and implement digital innovations for the clinical trenches, always focusing on the value of technology to patient and provider end-users.

Dr. Spiegel has published numerous best-selling medical textbooks, editorials, and more than 160 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is listed in the 2016 Onalytica "Top 100 Influencer" lists for digital health (#13) and virtual reality (#14). His digital health research has been featured by major media outlets, including NBC News, PBS, Forbes, Bloomberg, NPR, and Reuters.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Dr. Spiegel’s background and how he came to develop an interest in VR?
  • The work Dr. Spiegel is doing involving the patients;
  • The outcomes of this work and how patients have reacted
  • Why this kind of treatment works and what is going on in the brain that allows VR to be effective
  • The "spotlight attention theory"
  • The Moment of Cognitive Immersion and the Moment of Physiologic Immersion
  • How a doctor can know which is the best type of VR treatment and the ideal immersive scenario for an individual patient
  • The role of the “VR Pharmacy"
  • How VR Therapy can be cost effective and what can be measured in a value-based setting
  • What is next for VR in healthcare and what Dr. Spiegel sees happening in the next 1-2 years and in the next 10 years

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