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May 13, 2024 41 mins

Summary

Discover how health tech companies are reshaping the future of medicine from Bentonville. In this special three-part series of The Bentonville Beacon, host James Bell meets with cohort members of this year’s Fuel for Your Health Accelerator. James kicks off the episode with Grace Gill, Fuel’s Operations Manager, who shares how this accelerator matches scalable health tech startups with key enterprise partners to expedite the adoption of their transformative medical technologies. Different from other programs, during each Fuel accelerator, high-growth startups from around the world benefit from programming and support focused on developing operational value and selling to large customers, rather than just venture capital coaching.


This episode highlights several of Fuel’s current cohort members and innovators, including TapRoot Interventions & Solutions Founder and CEO, Scarlett Spring, and Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Linda Buscemi; Dart Health’s Founder and CEO, Brian Sage; and SOAP Health’s Founder and CEO, Dr. Steven Charlap.


Phoenix, Arizona-based TapRoot Interventions & Solutions is a woman-owned technology company at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), dementia care and behavioral healthcare. With its revolutionary AI-powered digital platform, Ella, TapRoot is helping organizations and caregivers to improve care for those living with dementia through a person-centered approach.


Denver, Colorado-based Dart Heath is reducing the cost of serving group healthcare by fixing the fundamentally broken exchange of data between group benefit providers and self-insured employers. Dart Health compiles disparate data sources from employers, providers, benefits administrators and claims, to portray a real individual with medical needs, effectively creating a single, secure, HIPAA-compliant, 350-degree view of a healthcare customer.


Boca Raton, Florida-based SOAP Health offers the ideal medical AI assistant. SOAP Health enhances and integrates patient intake and note creation to significantly reduce time of documentation and symptom assessment, appreciably increase average revenue and reduce malpractice exposure.


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Show Notes

Timestamps in this blog are for the audio-only version of the podcast; video timing differs.

(0:54) Introduction to Grace Gill

(2:55) What’s Next for Fuel

(5:19) How Fuel Partners with the Community

(6:45) Fuel’s Funders

(7:13) Grace’s #BecauseBentonville Story

(9:24) Introduction to Scarlett Spring and Dr. Linda Buscemi

(10:33) About TapRoot Interventions & Solutions

(10:48) How Fuel and Bentonville Are Helping Scarlett and Dr. Buscemi

(15:59) Scarlett’s #BecauseBentonville Story

(16:49) Dr. Buscemi’s First Impression of Bentonville

(17:42) Introduction to Brian Sage

(19:46) About Dart Health

(22:48) How Fuel and Bentonville Are Helping Brian

(29:11) Brian’s #BecauseBentonville Story

(32:30) Introduction to Dr. Steven Charlap

(35:10) About SOAP Health

(38:38) How Fuel and Bentonville Are Helping Dr. Charlap

(40:23) Closing Thoughts

 

Links

Grace Gill (grace@startupjukie.org)

Fuel for Your Health Accelerator

Scarlett Spring, EMBA (scarlett@taprootela.com)

Linda Buscemi, PhD (linda@taprootella.com)

TapRoot Interventions & Solutions

Brian Sage, MBA

Dart Health

Steven Charlap, MD, MBA (scharlap@soap.health, 617-319-6434)

SOAP Health

James Bell, MBA 

Bentonville Economic Development

Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce

Mark as Played

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