Making Waves in HealthTech takes a deep dive into innovative tech startups that balance purpose and profit.
Podcast hosts Janet Boachie and Hilda Martinez speak with diverse healthtech founders and learn how they create and sustain businesses for social good. Many of them are drawing on their lived experiences to solve some of the most pervasive problems in health care.
This podcast is a production of the California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund.
The California Health Care Foundation helps Californians with low incomes get the health care they need. We are an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that works to improve the health care system so that all Californians have the care they need. We focus especially on making sure the system works for Californians with low incomes and for communities who have traditionally faced the greatest barriers to care.
The Innovation Fund partners with emerging companies to bring innovations and technology to California’s health care providers, payers, and patients.
[00:00:00] Making Waves in Health Tech is a podcast about health, equity, and innovation. Dr. Martin Luther King famously said, Of all the forms of inequality, injustice and health is the most shocking and inhuman. As we look around and see problems like the mental health epidemic among youth
[00:00:18] or deep injustice in Black maternal care and skyrocketing costs, we all have to wonder, how can we do better? This podcast seeks answers to that question. Hear stories about how behavioral health care is quickly being offered in big city schools
[00:00:33] and how doulas are leveraging technology to help turn around the Black maternal health crisis. And how medicine is becoming culturally competent and helping many who otherwise did not receive care. Gain insights from the social entrepreneurs who had a vision and turned it into reality. I'm Janet Boachie
[00:00:50] and I'm Hilda Martinez from the California Health Care Foundation. Join us as we explore an exciting world of redesigning healthcare and delivery. Tap subscribe to tune in. This podcast is brought to you by the California Health Care Foundation's Innovation Fund.