Ep 37: Predicting Menopause: How Life Ahead Is Transforming Women’s Health with Science & Data
Release Date: 08/12/2025
Ep 51: AI Can’t Fix Virtual Care’s 70% Lab Problem
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Virtual care is scaling. AI is everywhere. But when lab completion falls from ~70% in-clinic to ~30% in virtual care, the whole model breaks. Virtual Care Without Labs Is Just Zoom - Even with AI. In this Boombostic Health in the Wild episode from HLTH 2025, Bradley Bostic sits down with Maitham Dib, founder of Junction, to unpack the "real" bottleneck: turning lab orders into lab results. They dig into how Junction: * White-labels lab infrastructure so any virtual or hybrid care model can deploy labs across all 50 states * Uses data from ~3.4 million lab...
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Ep 50: 95% of Care From Home: The Virtual Model Changing Healthcare
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Virtual care isn’t a feature. It’s the future care model nobody in healthcare wants to admit is already here. At HLTH 2025, we sat down with Michael Dalton, CEO and founder of Ovatient, to unpack the real story behind why rural and urban patients alike are falling through the cracks and how Ovatient built the first truly integrated virtual multi-specialty practice on Epic. This conversation exposes three uncomfortable truths in healthcare: Access is still broken. Millions delay care because transportation, work schedules, stigma, or geography get in the way. Telemedicine wasn’t...
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Ep 49: The Real Healthcare Disruption Isn’t AI - It’s Your DNA
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AI will accelerate healthcare — but genomics will rewrite it. The minute DNA drives care decisions for everyone, the current system becomes obsolete. Gene by Gene quietly runs one of the most advanced, high-throughput genomics labs in the world — powering platforms like MyHeritage and rapidly transforming clinical medicine, oncology, pharmacogenomics, and ancestry. This conversation explores what happens when every person leaves the hospital with a genomic passport — a lifelong DNA profile they own, control, and use to prevent disease before it begins. This is preventive medicine...
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Ep 48: Time to Treatment Accelerating the Connection to Care
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Pharma Isn’t Broken — Access Is ixlayer x Sanofi Ventures @ HLTH 2025 Patients don’t suffer because we lack medical innovation — they suffer because it takes too long to access it. 🚀 Why This Matters Patients today are consumers — they expect speed, personalization, and access. Pharma, technology, and venture capital are aligning to deliver it. The future of healthcare is collaborative, data-driven, and patient-first. Live from HLTH 2025 in the Diagnostic Zone, we dig into the real barriers between patients and lifesaving therapies. This episode covers: How digital...
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Ep 47: Fixing Prescription Costs with E-Prescribing and Transparency
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Prescription costs are broken — and patients are the ones paying the price. In this episode of Boombostic Health, host Bradley Bostic sits down with Lathe Bigler of First Data Bank to unpack why e-prescribing hasn’t evolved in decades, how opaque pricing keeps patients in the dark, and why the next wave of pharmacy network innovation could flip the power dynamic back to patients. 💡 What We Cover: Why patients are frustrated with rising prescription costs How transparency empowers patients with real choices What most people don’t know about paying cash for prescriptions How...
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Ep 46: The Conversations You Need to Hear About AI in Healthcare
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Summary This conversation explores the transformative potential of AI in healthcare, emphasizing the importance of agentic AI, interoperability, and the need for a shift in medical education. The speakers discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by AI technologies, the necessity of upskilling healthcare professionals, and the economic models that must evolve to support these changes. They highlight the importance of viewing information as an asset and the role of AI in enabling personalized, longitudinal care for patients. Takeaways There's always a new challenge to overcome...
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Ep 45: Building an AI-Ready Future for Healthcare
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Summary The business of healthcare is broken — but intelligence might finally fix it. In this episode of Boombostic Health, Bradley Bostic and Jason Wenell reveal how to build an AI-ready healthcare system that learns, adapts, and delivers real value. Jason shares his three-layer framework — upskill people, automate workflows, and build AI-native systems that think. Discover how AI is becoming the engine behind value-based care and what it means for the future of healthcare innovation. Takeaways AI is revolutionizing healthcare and other industries. Value-based care relies heavily on data...
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Ep 44: Rethinking Telemedicine - How Digital Healthcare Can Bend the $5 Trillion Cost Curve
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Summary In this conversation, Craig Hittle discusses the evolving nature of telemedicine, emphasizing that it should not be viewed merely as a transactional service. Instead, he advocates for a model that fosters long-term relationships between patients and healthcare providers, enhancing the overall quality of care delivered through digital platforms. Takeaways Telemedicine is often misunderstood as purely transactional. The goal of telemedicine should be to build relationships. Long-term relationships with providers can improve patient care. Telemedicine can enhance accessibility to...
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Ep 43: The $528B Fix Healthcare Can't Ignore: Why Are We Still Guessing Meds?
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Every year in the U.S., 275,000 people die because of medication mismanagement — a failure that drains $528 billion annually from our $5 trillion healthcare system. It’s healthcare’s deadly hidden failure. That’s where DecisionRx comes in. Their coined Medication Therapy Optimization (MTO) approach goes far beyond Pharmacogenetics (PGx), combining AI-powered insights with pharmacist-led care to stop the guesswork, lower risk, and deliver results at scale. In this episode, host Bradley Bostic sits down with Mike Tilton, Chief Growth Officer at DecisionRx, to unpack the problem and...
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Ep 42: MedTechs's 10X Advantage - How Real-World Data Expands Device Impact
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Summary Pre-market clinical trials are essential — but they don’t reflect how devices truly perform once they’re in the real world. In this episode of Boombostic Health, host Bradley Bostic sits down with Dr. Amelia Hufford, Co-Founder and SVP of Clinical and Regulatory Science at 3Aware, to unpack why real-world data (RWD) is critical to the survival of medical devices — and why mindset, not science, may be the biggest barrier holding MedTech back. Amelia shares her 20+ year journey in scientific and clinical research, including a decade in MedTech leading regulatory and clinical...
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What if women could know — years in advance — when perimenopause and menopause will begin?
In this episode of Boombostic Health, host Bradley Bostic talks with Nich Gentry and Dr. Lizellen La Follette of Life Ahead, a groundbreaking company combining ultrasound, personalized data, and validated science to give women a clear picture of their reproductive timeline.
You’ll learn:
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Why ovarian aging is the “canary in the coal mine” for overall health.
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How early menopause prediction could transform bone health, cognitive health, and preventive care.
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The science behind Life Ahead’s algorithm — and why it’s a breakthrough for both patients and clinicians.
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Why women’s health research has been historically underfunded and how that’s changing.
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The entrepreneurial challenges of building a science-backed health tech company.
Whether you’re in healthcare, innovation, or simply care about the future of women’s health, this conversation will leave you inspired — and rethinking what’s possible in preventive care.
Listen now to learn how data, science, and proactive healthcare can rewrite the future for millions of women.
Key Moments
00:00 – Why Proactive Healthcare Matters
Shifting from reactive to proactive care in women’s health.
01:14 – Meet Life Ahead
Nich and Dr. Lizellen share their mission to close the women’s health gap.
04:11 – Understanding Ovarian Aging
Why ovaries age faster than most organs and what it means for overall health.
08:16 – Perimenopause Explained
What it is, symptoms, and why timing matters.
10:11 – The Cost of Waiting
How early menopause prediction could save money and improve health outcomes.
12:41 – The Science Behind the Tool
From NSF funding to Yale mathematicians — the breakthrough research journey.
14:43 – The Startup Rollercoaster
Highs, lows, and challenges of building a new category in healthcare.
27:17 – WHOOP, Fitness, and Sleep
Why tracking recovery and lifestyle metrics is part of better healthcare.
30:17 – Looking Ahead
Envisioning the future of women’s health through predictive technology.