Death by a thousand clicks. That is the problem facing clinicians who spend hours navigating scattered tools for documentation, billing, guidelines, and decision-making. One doctor-turned-founder accidentally built 50 apps trying to solve it before realizing he was an entrepreneur.

PJ Park is co-founder, chairman, and chief product AI officer at Avo MD. He came to the United States from Korea about ten years ago and joined a residency program barely able to speak English. On his first day, a senior asked him to call a dying patient's family. He missed everything.

That experience drove him to start building software on his own to make his "imperfect doctor" perfect. He built app after app during residency until he had created 50 different tools. His friends finally told him he should start a company. He had to Google what that even meant.

Avo MD is an AI clinical copilot platform for clinicians. Unlike scattered point solutions that each solve one narrow problem, Avo MD builds shared components that work like Lego blocks across workflows. The platform handles admission, discharge, rounding, and charting by combining patient data, hospital guidelines, and evidence-based protocols. AI makes recommendations, then doctors discuss and decide. The goal is a meaningful doctor-AI relationship rather than just more clicks.

Highlights from PJ Park at Avo MD:

• Built 50 apps during residency before friends told him to start a company. He had to Google what a startup was. His only goal was making his imperfect doctor perfect.
• Partners with content and IP companies like MCG for evidence-based guidelines. Turnaround time is 10 days versus six months to a year for larger companies. AI consumes proprietary guidelines to make better outcomes.
• His new iron triangle for healthcare: patients get better, doctors go home early, hospitals make more money.

His insight about the industry is that AI scribes are the first AI solution clinicians actually love because they were not built by administrators forcing compliance. But scribes only cover patient encounters. Most clinical care involves connecting dots between guidelines, protocols, documentation, and billing without any recording to transcribe. That is where Avo MD focuses.

Healthcare gets better when AI takes care of the technical checklists and lets humans do the thinking.

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Wearables track thousands of data points daily, but most becomes noise instead of signal. Clinical notes document critical patient information, yet we cannot extract meaning at scale. Two founders solving how we turn data into trusted care.

Oren Nissim is the co-founder and CEO of Brook Health. He has type two diabetes himself, which drove him to build remote care for people with chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, CHF, and COPD.

The company works as part of the health system, extending primary care into the home. His mission is simple: people living with multiple chronic conditions at home need agency. The tools are cheap and covered by insurance. Brook collects thousands of data points daily from every patient. AI compares against baselines and identifies anomalies.

But here is what matters: a care team analyzes AI-flagged anomalies first, then brings medical decision recommendations to providers instead of raw data summaries.

Tim O'Connell, MD is a practicing radiologist and CEO of emtelligent, a nine-year-old medical language AI company. The company does large-scale data extraction from clinical notes and AI-assisted chart review.

He started the company in 2016 during the deep learning boom, years before the 2022 LLM explosion. His differentiator is that emtelligent does not use large language models as its core. The company builds custom language models optimized for cost, speed, and accuracy at massive scale.

His vision for healthcare is better data extraction from unstructured notes so we can use the critical information clinicians spend so much time documenting.

Highlights from Oren Nissim at Brook Health:

• His glow up is about use cases, not widgets. The industry is being forced to prove ROI rather than just adding more time and cost.
• The company uses AI to flag anomalies, then care teams validate and present medical decisions to providers. This creates guardrails so providers can trust what they see.
• His spicy take: watch Medicare Advantage closely over the next few months as some players walk away and others walk in.

Highlights from Tim O'Connell at emtelligent:

• His six-month glow up is moving pilots to implementations. After years of experimentation, 2025 is the year of execution.
• When extracting data, the software shows exactly where terms came from in source documents. This builds trust and allows human reviewers to verify accuracy.
• His industry glow up is better healthcare analytics. We need to extract meaning from the documentation clinicians spend so much time creating.

Healthcare gets better when we turn overwhelming data into trusted insights that providers can act on.

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From testing hundreds of cancer drugs in 10 days to unlocking healthcare stories through audio—conversations with two innovators solving how we personalize treatment and tell those stories live from HLTH 2025.

Jim Foote is the founder of First Ascent Biomedical. He built the company after losing his 17-year-old son to cancer. First Ascent takes a biopsy, enriches cancer cells rapidly, and then tests hundreds of FDA-approved drugs to determine which work against your specific biology.

The results were published in Nature Medicine. The stakes are high: one in three cancer patients will die in 2025. Cancer is the number one killer of men under 50, number two for women, and number one for children by disease type. Foote believes we have the tools and technology, but doctors need better decision-making infrastructure to use them effectively.

Dan Kendall is the founder of Mission Based Media. He has been in health innovation since before digital health was called digital health. He has been listening to podcasts since 2005. In 2016, he could not find a healthcare podcast that worked, so he built one.

He now runs Health Podcast Network and Health Unmuted, which he describes as "WebMD for your ears." His insight is that audio unlocks content from its glass jail cell. People consume podcasts in cars, kitchens, and on dog walks. These are places where meaningful connection happens without competing for attention with thousands of other things.

Highlights from Jim Foote at First Ascent Biomedical:

• Combined with genomics, doctors receive a ranked drug list in 10 days with 85% correlation between lab results and body response. Nature Medicine showed 83% patient benefit rate versus standard care.
• Pictures of cancer patients line the lab walls because "every biopsy is somebody's loved one."
• His vision is to scale locally so biopsies are taken, analyzed, and treated in the same community. This closes the financial toxicity gap affecting 95% of pediatric cancer families.

Highlights from Dan Kendall at Mission Based Media:

• Built the first digital health podcast in 2016 when none existed. He has been a podcast listener since 2005 with his first 80-gigabyte iPod.
• His philosophy is that audio unleashes mechanical waves that physically stimulate thought, creating connection when people are ready rather than competing for attention.
• His mission is to amplify voices through audio-forward storytelling that meets audiences where they are rather than demanding they come to you.

Healthcare innovation personalizes treatment and meets people exactly where they are.

A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

At The Tech Glow Up, we humanize the startup and innovation landscape by focusing on the essential aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. Groundbreaking ideas are often ahead of their time, making resilience and perseverance vital for founders and product leaders.

In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success.

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