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Shot of Digital Health Therapy

Auteur(s): Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce
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 A Shot of Digital Health Therapy is a meticulously unproduced podcast hosted by health tech founders Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce. Born in the pandemic, therapeutic by design—oh, and comedy is still included. We dive into unscripted conversations with the people shaping employer benefits, digital health moonshots, and the broader healthcare system. From real talk to ridiculous tangents, we spotlight the builders, thinkers, and occasional troublemakers moving the industry forward. We'd love to have you join us.2020-2025 Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce Hygiène et mode de vie sain Économie
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  • Neil Dunwoody, COO of SPRYT : From Stand-Up Comedy to HealthTech & Fixing Healthcare Access using AI

    Neil Dunwoody, COO of SPRYT : From Stand-Up Comedy to HealthTech & Fixing Healthcare Access using AI
    Dec 18 2025
    What happens when a class clown from Monaghan builds one of the most quietly impactful healthtech companies in Europe - and then takes on the U.S. healthcare system? In this year-end episode of The Shot of Digital Health Therapy, we sat down with Neill Dunwoody 🇺🇦 (aka “Funwoody”), co-founder of SPRYT, to talk about resilience, rejection, healthcare absurdities, and why meeting patients where they already are matters more than building yet another app. From standing in a bin at school ➝ scaling talent at UnitedHealth Group ➝ pivoting a sports app into an AI-driven healthcare orchestration platform, Neil’s story is as honest as it is instructive. We cover no-shows, NHS, U.S. healthcare economics, founder health, Ukraine, and why humor might be one of the most underrated leadership traits. 🎧 Worth your time if you’re building, scaling, or questioning the system you’re trying to fix. Fun mentions as always: Rachel Francine, Shaun Dodimead,Optum, NHS, MediDrive, LLC 00:00 Holiday banter, community singing & year-end reflections 02:00 Meet Neil Dunwoody (“Funwoody”) 03:30 Growing up in Monaghan, sport & stand-up comedy 06:30 Humor, resilience, and rejection 08:00 Recruitment, HR, and learning to read people 15:00 Scaling talent at UnitedHealth / Optum 22:00 Blitzscaling, culture breaks & hiring mistakes 31:30 The birth of SPRYT: sports → healthcare pivot 36:00 NHS pilots, WhatsApp, and no-show economics 43:00 U.S. expansion & healthcare fragmentation 48:00 Orchestrating care beyond appointments 53:30 Ukraine, Tech Link Ukraine & purpose 56:00 Founder health, weight loss & personal reset 58:00 Closing advice to younger self
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    1 h et 1 min
  • Amy Cosler, SVP at Carrum: From Carrying the Bag to Transforming Employer Healthcare

    Amy Cosler, SVP at Carrum: From Carrying the Bag to Transforming Employer Healthcare
    Dec 11 2025
    On this episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth therapy, Jim Joyce and I finally sat down with Amy Cosler, a dynamic healthcare leader who rose from old-school hospital sales to driving transformation across Livongo -> Teladoc Health, Lyra Health, and now Carrum Health. Amy shares stories from her early days "carrying a bag" (if you know, you know), navigating to hospital basements with paper maps, transforming a 65-year-old public company, being part of Livongo’s IPO, and leading sales in the exploding employer benefits space. She opens up about resilience, family, leadership, and why kindness and grit are not mutually exclusive. This conversation delivers deep insights for founders, sales leaders, employer-benefit innovators, and anyone navigating the rapidly evolving healthcare economy. 📉 Employers demand real savings ⏱️ Buying cycles are compressing 💸 Utilization pricing opens doors 🤝 Culture drives adoption 🏥 Value-based care delivers impact Fun mentions as always: Jim Pursley, Glen Tullman, Sean McBride, David Ebersman and many more... 00:00 – Opening banter; year-end episodes; creative side projects 03:00 – Introducing guest Amy Cosler 04:00 – Early life: oldest of four, Illinois upbringing, healthcare family roots 05:30 – First job: carrying the bag for Medaflex; 4:00 AM training rides; selling skin-prep products 09:00 – Early sales journey; winning President’s Club; joining Baxter 11:00 – Intrapreneurial experience: building a startup inside Allegiance 13:00 – Cardinal Health acquisition; leadership influences 15:00 – Transformation at Landauer; building radiation monitoring + medical physics business 20:00 – Culture shock moving from startups to legacy healthcare 23:00 – Deep dive into early clinical sales environment (maps, suits, coffee, meetings) 27:00 – Divestiture, financial success, personal reset 28:00 – Meeting her husband; triathlons; writing the first version of her book 30:00 – Enter Livongo: shifting from hospitals to employer benefits 33:00 – Livongo culture, mission focus, member empathy 35:00 – Teladoc acquisition; overnight customer communications 38:00 – Pivot to Lyra; leading sales in mental health 39:30 – Joining Carrum; value-based care for surgery, cancer, SUD 41:00 – Employer trend challenges; cost inflation; need for bold solutions 45:00 – The misconception that kindness isn’t compatible with toughness 46:00 – Lessons for entrepreneurs selling to employers 49:00 – PEPM vs utilization-based pricing 51:00 – Looking ahead; entrepreneurial future; completing her book 52:00 – Jim’s narrative future-casting question 54:00 – Amy’s emotional answer: focus on family 55:00 – Closing and thank you
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    56 min
  • Brian Lin of Cellsor: The Future Smells Different - Building the First Living E-Nose

    Brian Lin of Cellsor: The Future Smells Different - Building the First Living E-Nose
    Nov 26 2025
    This week on #TheShot of #digitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I sat down with someone who might just change how we all understand… well, everything. Because when you think “future of health tech,” your brain probably doesn’t jump to noses in petri dishes. But maybe it should. We hosted Brian Lin, a Tufts researcher and a co-founder of Cellsor, who is literally growing living smell tissue to build the world’s first biological smell "camera". Yes - a "camera" for scent. Think RGB for odors… except instead of 3 channels, humans have 400, dogs have 700, elephants have 2,000, and Jim has… well, that’s still in peer review. 😅 Some highlights: 🧠 Humans have 400 smell receptors - meaning we “smell in 400 dimensions,” far beyond what we can verbally describe. 👃 Most people begin losing smell sensitivity in their 50s–70s without realizing it. 🛡️ The same tech could detect explosives, chemical threats, or hazardous compounds at checkpoint distance. 🔬 Brian’s company uses living tissue, not electronic sensors - truly an actual biological nose. 📡 The system aims to create the world’s first universal smell-recording “camera.” 💡 Future applications span diagnostics, food science, perfumery, defense, and everyday consumer tech. The science is wild, the implications are massive, and the conversation? Pure fun. 🎧 Give it a listen - and trust me, this one will stay with you in ways you can’t quite describe… because we don’t yet have the right vocabulary for smell. Fun mentions as always: Laura Hamilton Daniel Couchman Kendall #healthcare #digitalhealth #biotech #innovation #futureofwork #AI #sensorytech 00:00 – 02:10 Thanksgiving Banter & Show Opening Eugene and Jim share Thanksgiving plans, travel updates, and open the episode. 02:10 – 03:20 Scoop of Thanks Story A heartwarming story about cancer survivors bringing ice cream to oncology staff. 03:20 – 04:25 Introducing Brian Lin Jim recounts meeting Brian at Boston Startup Week over beer and ham sandwiches. 04:25 – 06:15 How Brian Meets People (The Whiskey Method) Brian explains his tradition of bringing whiskey to conferences to meet people. 06:15 – 07:45 Brian’s Background Growing up in Reading, Massachusetts; parents immigrating from China. 07:45 – 10:20 Childhood Pyro Stories Thermite experiments, accidental bed fires, and early science curiosity. 10:20 – 12:20 Education Path Undergrad at RPI, moving to Tufts for a PhD, meeting his wife. 12:20 – 15:00 From Cancer Lab to Smell Research Why cancer signaling wasn’t a fit and how he discovered the olfaction lab. 15:00 – 17:00 The Beer That Improves Dissections A lab story about shaky hands, a Corona with lime, and perfect dissections. 17:00 – 21:00 Understanding Smell Biology Why smell matters, how neurons regenerate, and why people lose smell with age. 21:00 – 24:00 COVID and Smell Loss How COVID reprograms smell neurons, parosmia, and Brian losing smell in Scotland. 24:00 – 28:00 Smell, Culture, Memory, and Diagnosis How smell connects to emotion, depression models, and historical healing. 28:00 – 32:00 Dogs Detect Cancer; Human Nose Complexity Why electronic noses fail and how humans actually smell in 400 dimensions. 32:00 – 35:00 Growing a Living Nose in a Dish Founding CellSaur and using real biological tissue instead of sensors. 35:00 – 38:20 Applications and the Smell Camera Concept Recording smells like RGB/hex codes and connecting to perception models. 38:20 – 41:10 Business Strategy for Smell Tech Three-step pathway: R&D tools, security/defense, and medical diagnostics. 41:10 – 45:00 Market Imagination Future possibilities like airport screening, drones, and household smell libraries. 45:00 – 47:00 Fundraising as a First-Time Founder Brian shares what it’s like shifting from academia into startup fundraising. 47:00 – 50:00 Final Question and Advice Jim gives a future scenario; Brian answers with “hold your conviction.”
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    51 min
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