New Podcast: How Personal Tragedy Spurred a Technologist to Improve Patient Care

In our latest “For Startups, by Physicians” podcast, Lindsay Kriger chats with Prithvi Narasimhan, co-founder of Rely Health, which began as an incubated startup with Inflect. Stream/subscribe here and listen above!

Prithvi shares the moving story of how Rely (originally launched as Healthful), was conceived after a family member’s death from breast cancer:

“There are some things in life that just give you that wake-up call,” he explains. “I needed to do something to help tackle this problem so that maybe someone else in the future doesn’t have to deal with the same issues that my aunt had too.”

This led to Rely’s innovation of Patient Care Navigators, highly qualified specialists who give patients direct and personal attention across their health journey — and is already in use by leading health care organizations including Kaiser Permanente and Ascension Healthcare.

Listen to the whole thing above, and go here for the transcript and podcast subscription links.