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In this episode, host Ellie Hanson sits down with Naomi Fried, PhD, founder and CEO of PharmStars, a unique pharma-focused accelerator for digital health startups. Since its founding three years ago, the program has "graduated" 79 startups across 7 cohorts. The first three cohort startups have closed more than 98 pharma deals. With her extensive background in healthcare innovation, Naomi shares valuable insights into how startups can navigate pharma partnerships and engage pharma as customers to drive digital health adoption. She offers practical advice for startup founders and unveils details of PharmStars’ latest cohort program.

In this episode of FINN Voices, host Beth Friedman, Sr. Partner at FINN Partners, speaks with Greg Surla, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at FinThrive, a leader in revenue cycle management solutions. Greg discusses key insights from the Change Healthcare cybersecurity breach and the importance of rigorous backup systems to ensure operational continuity for revenue cycle operations during cyber incidents. Listeners assess a comprehensive game plan for outage management and data integrity assurance while promoting a culture of security awareness across their organizations. Join us to learn how FinThrive helps healthcare organizations tackle cybersecurity challenges and strengthen their resilience in revenue cycle management.

Host: Jeff Freedman, Managing Partner, Finn Partners Guest: Peter Finn, CEO of Finn Partners

Host Beth Friedman interviews Dave Wiedman, Chief Commercial Officer of Vizzia Technologies, a software and managed service provider of real-time location services (RTLS) in healthcare. The company works with some of the largest health systems in America, and they’ve learned a few things over the past 20 years. Specifically, Vizzia knows what health systems need to keep nurses happy, productive, and safe. Dave shares insights from Vizzia’s recent work and strategic conversations with healthcare executives. He reveals how location technologies have become a nursing satisfaction, retention, and safety tool for some of Atlanta’s largest health systems, saving massive amounts of nurses’ time and upwards of $14 billion annually.

Today on FINN Voices, we talk with Chris Wickersham, Assistant Vice President of Support Services at CereCore, a company specializing in EHR consulting, IT and application support, clinical service desk, and more for hospitals and health systems across the U.S. and the U.K.

Host Beth Friedman, Senior Partner at FINN Partners, interviews Todd Doze, CEO of Janus Health, a revenue cycle technology company, about the unexpected hurdles and gotchas health systems experience when building, implementing, and maintaining platforms. Todd also shares specific examples of AI to automate the prior authorization process with positive outcomes his clients have experienced, and what's ahead for AI in the revenue cycle. Learn more about Janus Health: https://www.janus-ai.com/

Goel interviews David Farber, noted expert on health reimbursement in the US healthcare system. the primary focus is on how health startups can best plan their reimbursement strategy.

On this episode of FINN Voices, we speak with Robin Ntoh, VP of Aesthetics at Nextech, a healthcare technology company focused on dermatology, ophthalmology, plastic surgery, and med spa. Our conversation reveals best practices for healthcare leaders seeking to improve patient experience in their organization. You can check out more from Robin on her podcast Aesthetically Speaking: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aesthetically-speaking-presented-by-nextech/id1727205613

Michael Mann, Host of Planetary Health First Mars Next, Todd Eury, CEO of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, ad Gil Bashe, Chair Global Health and Purpose with FINN Partners talk together about the state of the pharmacy profession, the threat to public health from the expansion of pharmacy deserts, and how the role of the pharmacist will continue to expand.

Today on FINN Voices we talk with Brian Urban, Director of Innovation and Emerging Markets at FinThrive, an end-to-end revenue cycle management company.