The Digest for Health Transformers & Changemakers
To keep you inspired this weekend, we’re looking back at some podcast episodes from this summer. The lineup starts with a challenge from Esther Dyson – use AI, don't let it use you – and then we hear from founders in our community who are already living that idea. Four stories, one thread: technology built to catch what humans might otherwise miss, and get the right help there in time.
Use AI. Don't Let It Use You: Esther Dyson on Human Limits in an Age of Artificial Scale
Esther frames everything else on this list – a challenge to build technology that extends judgment, not just speed.
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The Brain as a Metabolic Monitor: How SynchNeuro Is Predicting Blood Sugar from Behind the Ear
Dr. Casey Halpern discusses blood sugar detection tech small enough to wear and precise enough to trust.
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How GPx Is Turning a Smartwatch Into an Early Warning System for Heart Failure
Sean Matsuoka has the same instinct applied to a different condition – catching heart failure signals before an emergency.
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Inside MEI Micro's Mission to Bring Military-Grade Sensors to Healthcare
Louis Ross widens the theme to the hardware powering wearables: navigation-grade sensors at commercial scale.
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Every Second Matters: How Access TeleCare Brings the Specialist to the Patient
Josh DeTillio closes the loop – detection is only half the job, and this is about the humans who show up once the signal fires.
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Two StartUp Health community members headline this week's roundup: Scan.com raised $220M in combined equity and debt to scale its imaging API nationwide, while Pear Suite added fresh Health Net investment to expand community health worker technology across California – plus 11 more raises spanning behavioral health AI, revenue cycle automation, and wellbeing guidance.
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Joe Eibl, PhD, CEO & Co-founder of Flosonics Medical, on the company’s partnership with BARDA to develop AI-enabled trauma capability for FloPatch.
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Bismarck Lepe, CEO of MiSalud, on the the launch of the company’s Women's Health Program, extending the platform's existing bilingual, culturally competent care model across the full women’s health continuum.
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Colby Takeda, CEO & Co-founder of Pear Suite, on the company being selected by HealthCatalyst Northwest Arkansas for a $20,000 community pilot project.
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Charlie Bullock, CEO & Co-founder of Scan.com, on the company raising $220M to build the largest medical imaging network in the US.
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James Hare and Carolyn Lam, MD, Co-founders of Us2.ai, on the company’s partnership with Corbotics to combine AI and robotics for automated cardiac ultrasound tech.
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