Ep 41: From 18% to 80%: The Pregnancy Risk America Ignores
Release Date: 09/09/2025
Ep 56: How At-Home Lab Testing Works (Behind the Kit)
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At-home diagnostics isn’t “a kit.” It’s an operating system. From the outside, it looks simple: order → kit arrives → collect → mail back. Behind the scenes, scaling that experience requires automation, reliability, and speed. In this conversation, Jeff Shattuck explains how DOT Corp uses automation, robotics, and AI to reduce the time from order to shipment, expanding what’s possible for home diagnostics and precision medicine. Key moments DotCorp transitioned from printing to healthcare logistics. AI and robotics are streamlining healthcare processes. At-home testing is...
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Ep 55: Stigma is a barrier. At-home testing breaks it. HIV + STI Testing.
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Show Notes Healthcare keeps talking about AI, affordability, and outcomes… But most systems are still ignoring the front door that drives care decisions: diagnostics. Recorded In the Wild at HLTH 2025 in Las Vegas, Bradley Bostic sits down with James York (Chief Commercial Officer + Head of Government Affairs, Molecular Testing Labs) to unpack a hard truth: If you can’t make testing accessible, convenient, and trackable… you can’t build reliable care pathways. In this episode, James breaks down why diagnostics is a flywheel—the top-of-funnel that activates patients—and why “we...
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Ep 54: The Business of Making Healthcare Data Trustworthy
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Summary Healthcare is racing to be “AI ready.” But most of the industry is still trying to turn billing exhaust into strategy. In this episode, Bradley Bostic sits down with Ryan Leurck, Co-Founder & Chief Analytics Officer at Kythera Labs, to cut through the noise and get blunt about what actually makes AI work in healthcare. Because the truth is simple—and uncomfortable: If your data can’t be trusted by humans, it can’t be trusted by AI. And in healthcare, much of our data was never designed for the questions we’re now demanding it answer. Takeaways Why claims, EHR, and lab...
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Ep 53: Screening for Dementia with AI - Your Brain’s Early Warning System
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Summary By the time most people hear “dementia,” their brain has been sounding the alarm for years. In this episode of Boombostic Health, Dr. John Showalter shares his journey from internist to healthcare technology innovator. He explains how AI and digital tools can support early detection and intervention for cognitive decline—before daily life starts to fall apart. The conversation highlights how lifestyle changes can improve cognitive health, why screening the brain should be as routine as checking blood pressure, and how integrating technology into healthcare systems can scale...
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Ep 52: Mental Health, Cancer, and the Gut Data We’re Not Using
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We talk a lot about “data-driven healthcare,” yet we’re still blind to one of the most important data layers: the microbiome. Mental health, early-onset cancer, autoimmunity—much of that risk is already visible in the gut years before a diagnosis code ever hits the chart. Most care models, benefits designs, and longevity strategies simply don’t account for it. In this episode of Boombostic Health, I sit down with Paul Denslow, CEO & co-founder of Intus Bio, to dig into how GutID turns the microbiome into hard infrastructure: high-resolution gut data, a score you can track, and a...
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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...
info_outlineWhy is giving birth in the United States still so risky—especially for Black and Native American mothers? In this powerful episode of Boombostic Health, host Bradley Bostic sits down with Tiffany Hall, a nurse and maternal health expert who has spent decades on the frontlines of patient care and blood management. Tiffany exposes the hidden pregnancy risk no one is talking about: anemia.
Drawing from both clinical experience and hc1’s MyBloodHealth technology, Tiffany explains how anemia silently drives up rates of hemorrhage, heart complications, postpartum depression, and even maternal death. And while anemia is often missed in early pregnancy (18% of women in the 1st trimester), it skyrockets to 80% by the 3rd trimester—when it’s far harder to manage.
The conversation also dives into the stark racial disparities in maternal outcomes: Black and Native mothers die at a rate of 49.5 per 100,000 births, compared to 19 per 100,000 for white mothers. Tiffany unpacks how fragmented care, lack of early screening, and systemic inequities continue to put mothers and babies at risk—despite being preventable.
But it’s not all grim. Tiffany also shares how HerCare powered by MyBloodHealth is giving providers the tools to proactively identify risk, streamline workflows, and deliver better outcomes for both moms and babies.
Guest: Tiffany Hall, Nurse and Director of cPBM Clinical Technology at hc1
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
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📊 The shocking stats: anemia’s rise from 18% in the 1st trimester to 80% by the 3rd
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⚠️ How anemia fuels hemorrhage, cardiovascular problems, and postpartum depression
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✊ Why Black and Native mothers face mortality rates more than 2X higher than white mothers
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🧪 How lab-driven insights can flip care from reactive to proactive
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💡 How HerCare simplifies provider workflows and closes dangerous gaps in maternal care
Why It Matters
Every statistic in this episode represents mothers, babies, and families forever changed. Tiffany’s message is clear: maternal deaths and injuries in the U.S. are preventable—but only if we address hidden risks early and make proactive care the standard.
Chapter Highlights:
00:00 – Intro & Guest
01:57 – Tiffany’s Background
04:46 – Mothers & Babies at Risk
05:29 – Broken U.S. Care System
08:18 – 49.5 vs 19: The Disparity
10:09 – Hidden Risk: Anemia
11:57 – How HerCare Works
19:23 – Awareness & Policy Change
22:07 – The Future of Maternal Care
27:56 – Closing & Takeaways