That crash course became a career. Today Dr. Cunningham is Chief Medical Officer at Cadence, an AI-powered technology and care delivery company that just raised $100M and now works with 25+ health systems and over 120,000 patients. In this Inspiring Women conversation, host Laurie McGraw sits down with her to unpack how Cadence goes beyond passive monitoring — actually titrating medications, ordering labs, and triaging patients remotely on a health system's behalf.
They cover why roughly half of hypertension patients are poorly controlled, why a single office blood pressure reading is often misleading ("white coat hypertension"), and how trend-based data lets clinicians safely up- and down-titrate medications for frail, older patients. Dr. Cunningham also explains why simplicity — no apps, no passwords, no Bluetooth pairing — is the reason over 70% of Cadence's senior patients self-activate their devices without ever calling for help.
IN THIS EPISODE:
- Why 50% of hypertension patients are not in good control
- How Cadence intervenes on hypertension, diabetes, and heart failure remotely
- The "white coat hypertension" problem and why trends beat single readings
- Why 70%+ of patients self-activate devices with zero tech support
- How Covid forced Providence Health to go virtual in a week
- Building and selling a clinical decision support tool, Med Pearl
- Why remote monitoring lets PCPs manage ~100 more patients per panel
- Advice for clinicians moving into health tech leadership
ABOUT THE HOST:
Laurie McGraw is EVP at Transcarent and the host of Inspiring Women, a series spotlighting the founders, executives, and physicians reshaping health care.
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