Life Sciences Today

Danny Lieberman and John Lynn

The Life Sciences Today podcast by Healthcare IT Today brings you strategic conversations with life science founders. Hosts Danny Lieberman and John Lynn and their guests reveal the patterns behind sustainable competitive advantages. Subscribe to the Clear Thinking newsletter by Danny Lieberman for deeper pattern analysis.

  1. 4d ago

    Earlier Than Early Breast Cancer Detection

    We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Sivan Sadan, Co-Founder and CEO at Pink Star Technologies. In this episode, I sit down with Sadan to talk about how Pink Star is making breast cancer detection earlier than early. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell us about your journey to Pink Star. How did you end up doing an AI startup for early screening of breast MRI? How do you create value? Who are your customers? Who pays you, and how do you plan to charge people for using your system? What’s your superpower? What’s your moat? US privacy requirements are tough, so how did you get passed by Mount Sinai with this? Breast cancer is known to be sensitive to race and ethnicity. How does that influence your AI model? What are three things you want to do for your customers in the next twelve months? What is the biggest anti-pattern in your industry? What is the closest you’ve come to a surprise that would have cost you the company? How many salespeople do you have? Subscribe to Danny’s newsletter to get strategic patterns for life science leaders building a defensible business. Be sure to subscribe to the Life Sciences Today Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Pandora YouTube Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.  Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on Healthcare IT Today. As a former pharma-tech founder who bootstrapped to exit, I now help TechBio and digital health CEOs grow revenue—by solving the tech, team, and go-to-market problems that stall your progress. If you want a warrior by your side, connect with me on LinkedIn. If you work in Life Sciences IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with our takes on health IT innovation in life sciences. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening!

  2. Oct 30

    Beyond Voice Agents: Alex Cohen on Building AI for Patients

    We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Alex Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO at Hello Patient. Cohen joins me to discuss Hello Patient’s AI voice agents for outpatient care—and the work required to make them useful beyond a scripted demo. Their agents handle scheduling, follow-ups, billing, and referrals for multi-location clinic groups. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell us about your journey to this startup. How do you create value? Who are your customers? What’s your superpower? What’s your moat? How do you deal with angry customers? What are three things you want to do for your customers in the next twelve months? What’s the biggest anti-pattern in your industry? Where do you think you’ll be in a year from now? How many salespeople do you have? Subscribe to Danny’s newsletter to get strategic patterns for life science leaders building a defensible business. Be sure to subscribe to the Life Sciences Today Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Pandora YouTube Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.  Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on Healthcare IT Today. As a former pharma-tech founder who bootstrapped to exit, I now help TechBio and digital health CEOs grow revenue—by solving the tech, team, and go-to-market problems that stall your progress. If you want a warrior by your side, connect with me on LinkedIn. If you work in Life Sciences IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with our takes on health IT innovation in life sciences. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening!

  3. Oct 23

    'The Science Will Sell Itself' is a Myth

    We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Nicole Yurgin, Market Access Consultant at Yurgin Advisory. In this episode, I sit down with Yurgin, who has a unique background and viewpoint on market access in the US and Europe. After her economics PhD and time in academia, she worked at Eli Lilly (market access and health economics) and spent 20 years in big pharma across the US. She was then recruited to Novartis Basel during the pandemic. She moved with a newborn and her husband during COVID, relocated from LA, and is now based in Basel: home to 800+ life science companies and 30,000 healthcare professionals. She left Novartis to open her own consultancy, staying in Basel for quality of life and industry density. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell us a bit about yourself, your journey, and where you are today as a consultant. What’s your value creation for customers? What’s your superpower? I’ve heard from a lot of medical device companies that the European companies tend to be focused more on scientific and technical rigor, and tend to be less fascil dealing with in their ability to navigate the American payer system. Is that your experience as well? What is the biggest anti-pattern in your industry? Subscribe to Danny’s newsletter to get strategic patterns for life science leaders building a defensible business. Be sure to subscribe to the Life Sciences Today Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Pandora YouTube Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.  Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on Healthcare IT Today. As a former pharma-tech founder who bootstrapped to exit, I now help TechBio and digital health CEOs grow revenue—by solving the tech, team, and go-to-market problems that stall your progress. If you want a warrior by your side, connect with me on LinkedIn. If you work in Life Sciences IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with our takes on health IT innovation in life sciences. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening!

  4. Oct 16

    Revolutionizing Stroke Recovery

    We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dr. Leo Petrossian, CEO of Kandu. In this episode, I sit down with Petrossian to talk about Kandu publishing the first randomized controlled trial of an at-home brain-computer interface therapy for chronic stroke – challenging the notion that recovery is impossible years after stroke. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: How do you go from solid-state physics and anthrax detectors to where you are today? How do you create value? How does the device work? How do you capture value? What are three things you want to do for your customers in the next year? What is the biggest anti-pattern in your industry? Subscribe to Danny’s newsletter to get strategic patterns for life science leaders building a defensible business. Be sure to subscribe to the Life Sciences Today Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Pandora YouTube Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.  Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on Healthcare IT Today. As a former pharma-tech founder who bootstrapped to exit, I now help TechBio and digital health CEOs grow revenue—by solving the tech, team, and go-to-market problems that stall your progress. If you want a warrior by your side, connect with me on LinkedIn. If you work in Life Sciences IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with our takes on health IT innovation in life sciences. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening!

  5. Oct 9

    End-to-End Clinical Research Data in Real-Time

    We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Dave Sunderhaft, COO at nPhase AI. In this episode, I sit down with Sunderhaft, COO at nPhase AI, to talk about end-to-end clinical research data in Real-time. nPhase replaces fragmented point solutions and workflows with a unified, real-time AI-native platform that delivers enterprise-grade data across the entire clinical lifecycle. We talk about Dave’s personal journey and the company’s evolution from the free but closed-source EDC system for academia, RedCap to the commercial version – RedCap Cloud – to the recent rebranding as nPhase AI. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell us about the journey. How do you create value? How does this compare with Veristat Instat? Considering that SDTM is a 2004 standard designed to help human statisticians process tables, was SDTM your first choice? Why not use a model based on Scuba, which is Facebook’s internally developed, ultra-fast distributed in-memory database used for real-time data analysis? How do you capture value? What are three things you want to do for your customers in the next year? What is the biggest anti-pattern in your industry? Subscribe to Danny’s newsletter to get strategic patterns for life science leaders building a defensible business. Be sure to subscribe to the Life Sciences Today Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Pandora YouTube Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.  Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on Healthcare IT Today. As a former pharma-tech founder who bootstrapped to exit, I now help TechBio and digital health CEOs grow revenue—by solving the tech, team, and go-to-market problems that stall your progress. If you want a warrior by your side, connect with me on LinkedIn. If you work in Life Sciences IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with our takes on health IT innovation in life sciences. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening!

  6. Oct 2

    What it Takes to Evaluate Systems More Rigorously

    We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Engy Ziedan, Co-Founder and CSO of Protege. In this episode, I sit down with Ziedan to talk about how AI models are beginning to influence care while still being judged largely by static tests that can be sensitive to prompting, contaminated by training data, or disconnected from the environments where they’ll actually be used. We talk about her personal journey, Protege’s value creation, value capture, and moat. We also talk about the biggest anti-pattern in her industry. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell us all about your journey to where you are today as Chief Science Officer at Protege. Who are your customers, and how do you create value for them? We all know that EMRs are notoriously noisy and behind the curve; how do you deal with this? What are three things you want to do for your customers in the next year? What is your superpower? What is your moat? What is the biggest anti-pattern in your industry? Subscribe to Danny’s newsletter to get strategic patterns for life science leaders building a defensible business. Be sure to subscribe to the Life Sciences Today Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Pandora YouTube Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.  Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on Healthcare IT Today. As a former pharma-tech founder who bootstrapped to exit, I now help TechBio and digital health CEOs grow revenue—by solving the tech, team, and go-to-market problems that stall your progress. If you want a warrior by your side, connect with me on LinkedIn. If you work in Life Sciences IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with our takes on health IT innovation in life sciences. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening!

  7. Sep 25

    Enabling Stroke Survivors

    We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Jennifer Ernst, CEO at Reach Neuro. In this episode, we talk about enabling stroke survivors to regain hand, arm, and shoulder movement within days. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell us all about Reach Neuro and what you guys are up to. Where are you in clinical trials right now? Are you up to a pivotal trial yet? Why has no one done this before? What’s on your to-do list for the next twelve months? What are three things you want to do in the next twelve months? When are you planning for the pivotal trial to start? Subscribe to Danny’s newsletter to get strategic patterns for life science leaders building a defensible business. Be sure to subscribe to the Life Sciences Today Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Pandora YouTube Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.  Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on Healthcare IT Today. As a former pharma-tech founder who bootstrapped to exit, I now help TechBio and digital health CEOs grow revenue—by solving the tech, team, and go-to-market problems that stall your progress. If you want a warrior by your side, connect with me on LinkedIn. If you work in Life Sciences IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with our takes on health IT innovation in life sciences. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening!

  8. Sep 18

    MRO Connects Humans and Clinical Data

    We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Lidia Bernik, President, Curation Solutions at MRO Corp! In this episode, I sit down with Bernik to talk about how MRO connects human expertise with AI to improve efficiency without sacrificing accuracy and clinical expertise. More than two decades curating clinical data with more than 1,000 clinical experts— that work has taught us something the AI conversation often misses. In clinical abstraction, the judgment calls are where the value is. The patterns are where the time goes. Check out the main topics of discussion for this episode of the Life Sciences Today podcast: Tell us about your journey to MRO. How did that happen? How do you create value at MRO, given this tremendously rich background? What’s your business model? How do you make money from helping hospitals find patients for clinical trials? How does that work? What is your superpower? What is your moat? What are three things you want to do in the next twelve months? What is the biggest anti-pattern in your industry? Subscribe to Danny’s newsletter to get strategic patterns for life science leaders building a defensible business. Be sure to subscribe to the Life Sciences Today Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Pandora YouTube Along with the popular podcasting platforms above, you can Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube.  Plus, all of the audio and video versions will be made available to stream on Healthcare IT Today. As a former pharma-tech founder who bootstrapped to exit, I now help TechBio and digital health CEOs grow revenue—by solving the tech, team, and go-to-market problems that stall your progress. If you want a warrior by your side, connect with me on LinkedIn. If you work in Life Sciences IT, we’d love to hear where you agree and/or disagree with our takes on health IT innovation in life sciences. Feel free to share your thoughts and perspectives in the comments of this post, in the YouTube comments, or privately on our Contact Us page. Let us know what you think of the podcast and if you have any ideas for future episodes. Thanks so much for listening!

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The Life Sciences Today podcast by Healthcare IT Today brings you strategic conversations with life science founders. Hosts Danny Lieberman and John Lynn and their guests reveal the patterns behind sustainable competitive advantages. Subscribe to the Clear Thinking newsletter by Danny Lieberman for deeper pattern analysis.