Impulse - Meeting Healthcare Pioneers Mathieu Chaffard

How can we support each and every one of us in identifying and pursuing our goals towards a healthier life, in a world where access to care seems to be continuously shrinking?
The solution may lie in health coaching and making it accessible across the globe.
Having witnessed his wife successfully battling breast cancer and becoming a certified health coach, Eugene Borukhovich joined her entrepreneurial adventure at YourCoach.Health in 2020 to co-found the first and only operating system for behavior change powered by an army of helath and wellness coaches.
As a recognized and beloved leader in the healthcare space, Eugene relies on his incredibly diverse experience in the space - as an intra- and entrepreneur, executive, venture builder, advisor and even podcaster - to drive the operations of the platform.
Three years down the line, it regroups more than 3000 certified health coaches, impacting a number of lives higher by several orders of magnitude, on a daily basis.
There is still a long way to go to reach the projected 9 billion people on earth by 2030, but their determination is unquestionable: join the journey and learn all about health coaching in this new episode, the science behind it, and what it can do for you!

Timeline:

02:22 - Eugene’s background in healthcare and most particularly digital health

07:35 - What triggered Eugene’s move towards entrepreneurship and health coaching

11:19 - What health coaching is about

20:41 - Moving from a Global corporate role to being your own boss

24:54 - Eugene’s take on making collaborations between startups and corporates in healthcare successful

29:23 - What led Eugene to go into podcasting and start the DTx Podcast and Shot of Digital Health Therapy


What we also talked about with Eugene:

Meetup

Scott Heiferman

Matthew Holt

Indu Subaiya

Health 2.0 Conference

Lark Health

Twill

Marina Borukhovich

Bayer G4A

Hard Pill To Swallow

Dan Kendall

Jim Joyce


As mentioned in the episode, you can learn more about YourCoach.Health through their website and their app available on the App Store or Google Play Store.
You can also follow their activities on LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook!
For further information about health coaching and the science behind it, we’d recommend you to check out the podcast produced by the YourCoach.Health team, as well as The National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching.
If you want to get in touch with Eugene, feel free to contact him per email at eugene@yourcoachhealth.com, or on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
In case you want to give me feedback on the episode, ask questions or suggest potential guests, feel free to do so through LinkedIn or per email at mathieu@impulsepodcast.com.
If you liked the episode, share it, subscribe to the podcast and leave a 5-star review on streaming platforms!
We also invite you to follow our activities through our website, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram pages.

To discover the whole episode type "#17 - Coaching as the key to a better health - Eugene Borukhovich - YourCoach.Health" on your streaming platform.

Starting a career in the Israeli army, becoming a lawyer, and finally transforming the field of medical imaging.
In a very schematic way, this is what might define Ohad Arazi’s path, who is now spearheading the field of handheld ultrasound as the CEO of Clarius.
His curiosity for medical imaging - coupled with a very product-oriented mindset and an unrelenting desire to understand the problems that healthcare faces - leads him to integrate different structures, including the Fortune 500 giant McKesson, the Canadian telecommunication company Telus, and the Israeli startup Zebra Medical Vision, where he quickly occupies leadership roles with great responsibility.
At Clarius (this “true gem” as he calls it in his own words) he draws on his expertise in the field of medical imaging to embed artificial intelligence into the most compact high quality ultrasound imaging platform on the market, developed by its brilliant founder Laurent Pelissier.
The goal? Allowing any healthcare professional to perform an ultrasound scan, with a system as intuitive, qualitative, and compact as an iPhone. Perhaps those will even find their place in patient’s homes at some point!
In light of the current boom in digital health and the radical developments in AI, Ohad shares his perspective on the role that these technologies will have on certain medical specialities and notably radiology, where he believes that they will rather augment them without replacing them. He also explains why he thinks that most technological capabilities in digital health are outstripping the value they can create, and reflects on his career path where his transitions from huge corporates to human-sized startups shaped his evolution and leadership.
A surprising dive into the future of medical imaging, that we invite you to discover in this new episode!

Timeline:

02:23 - Ohad’s background, from the military in Israel to healthcare in Canada

10:46 - What the medical imaging landscape looked like in the early 2000s

14:51 - Ohad’s take on the current boom in digital health

19:36 - Clarius’ mission in transforming high-end ultrasound for healthcare professionals

33:11 - How AI is embedded into the products from Clarius

35:09 - Dealing with hypergrowth as a medical imaging startup

39:48 - Ohad’s reflections on his career path and the story of the Disney brothers


What we also talked about with Ohad:

OpenAI

Turtle Health

US2.ai

PACS

DICOM

EHR

James Hare

Carolyn Lam


We cited with Ohad some of the past episodes from the series:

#1 - Measuring your arterial age to prevent heart diseases - Ted Baldwin - Imageens

#12 - Unleashing the power of digital health - Daniel Kraft - Digital.Health


As mentioned in the episode, you can learn more about Clarius through their website and follow their activities on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube!
If you want to get in touch with Ohad, feel free to contact him per email at ohad.arazi@clarius.com or through LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode, ask questions or suggest potential guests, feel free to do so through LinkedIn or per email at mathieu@impulsepodcast.com.
And if you liked the episode, don’t hesitate to share it, subscribe to the podcast and leave a positive review on streaming platforms!
Finally, you can follow our activities through our website, over LinkedIn, Twitter or on Instagram!

To discover the whole episode type "#16 - Making ultrasound portable to transform medical imaging - Ohad Arazi - Clarius" on your streaming platform.

Nicolas Durand is the CEO of Abionic, a Swiss-based startup which developed and commercialises the abioSCOPE®, a unique diagnostic platform characterised by its compact size and ability to deliver high quality results in a fraction of time.
Passionate about high tech and wishing to become an entrepreneur from a very early age (he created his first company with a friend at school when he was 14 years old) he turned his PhD work into a venture, which today represents one of the most successful medtech startups in the country!
We discuss with Nicolas the nanotechnology behind Abionic, the types of tests it can run, the targeted diseases, the efforts it takes to demonstrate the clinical efficacy of a new diagnostic device, but also the energy required to convince all the actors involved in the care pathway, from regulators, doctors, to patients.
He also shares openly about his vision regarding the potential emergence of home diagnostic systems in the future, as well as his perspective on the impact that the Theranos scandal had on the diagnostics industry, and in particular on startups operating in this field.
A conversation under the sign of resilience and excellence that we invite you to discover in this new episode!

Timeline:

02:05 - Nicolas’ background and his original interest in high technology and entrepreneurship

04:07 - Creating your first company at 14 years old

06:54 - What Abionic is about and how its core diagnostic technology works

21:45 - Miniaturizing diagnostic tests beyond immunoassays

25:07 - The clinical settings where the abioSCOPE® is placed

27:25 - Towards the use of diagnostic systems at home

32:15 - The impact of the Theranos scandal on medtech startups


What we also talked about with Nicolas:

Philippe Renaud

Robopoly

PSP

Sepsis

IVDR

Elizabeth Holmes

Red Bull Air Race


We cited with Nicolas some of the past episodes from the series:

#4 - Fighting sepsis with nanoengineered beads to filter the blood - Lukas Langenegger - Hemotune

#5 - Transforming diagnostics through spatial biology - Déborah Heintze - Lunaphore

#12 - Unleashing the power of digital health - Daniel Kraft - Digital.Health

#13 - Catalyzing drug discovery using organ-on-a-chip models - Bas Trietsch - Mimetas


As mentioned in the episode, you can learn more about Abionic through their website and follow their activities on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook!
Based on Nicolas’ suggestion, we invite you to read Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou to learn more about Elizabeth Holmes and the scandal around Theranos which literally shook the whole medtech industry in the past years!
If you want to get in touch with Nicolas, feel free to contact him per email at nicolas.durand@abionic.com or through LinkedIn.
If you want to give me feedback on the episode, ask questions or suggest potential guests, feel free to do so through LinkedIn or per email at mathieu@impulsepodcast.com.
And if you liked the episode, don’t hesitate to share it, subscribe to the podcast and leave a positive review on streaming platforms!
Finally, you can follow our activities through our website, over LinkedIn, Twitter or on Instagram!

To discover the whole episode type "#15 - Propelling diagnostics through miniaturization - Nicolas Durand - Abionic" on your streaming platform.