A Shot of Digital Health Therapy is a meticulously unproduced podcast hosted by health tech founders Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce. Born in the pandemic, therapeutic by design—oh, and comedy is still included. We dive into unscripted conversations with the people shaping employer benefits, digital health moonshots, and the broader healthcare system. From real talk to ridiculous tangents, we spotlight the builders, thinkers, and occasional troublemakers moving the industry forward. We'd love to have you join us.
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A Shot of Digital Health Therapy is a meticulously unproduced podcast hosted by health tech founders Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce. Born in the pandemic, therapeutic by design—oh, and comedy is still included. We dive into unscripted conversations with the people shaping employer benefits, digital health moonshots, and the broader healthcare system. From real talk to ridiculous tangents, we spotlight the builders, thinkers, and occasional troublemakers moving the industry forward. We'd love to have you join us.
Mike McSherry, CEO of Xealth: From Boost Mobile to Boosting Digital Health
Shot of Digital Health Therapy
53 minutes
4 weeks ago
Mike McSherry, CEO of Xealth: From Boost Mobile to Boosting Digital Health
On this episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of catching up with the one and only Mike McSherry, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Xealth, whose journey goes from quitting Microsoft in Australia to co-founding Boost Mobile, to building the infrastructure behind digital health prescriptions - and now joining forces with Samsung.
We covered everything from startups, serendipity, and Surescripts, to what it means to be insanely curious (his words!) and to always find your foxhole friends.
Oh, and there may have been a few humble-brags about being the guy who helped power billions of Android phones ad their keyboards. 🦾
🔹 Top 5 Key Takeaways
💡 Curiosity drives innovation - be “insanely curious” about everything.
📈 Luck favors persistence - serendipity comes from hard work.
🤝 Build with trust - surround yourself with “foxhole friends.”
🏥 Healthcare is hard - slow, bureaucratic, but worth transforming.
🌍 Samsung + Xealth - connecting home devices to health data.
Fun mentions as always: HLTH USA Samsung Electronics UPMC Providence
📋 00:00 – 02:00 | Catching up with Jim & Eugene, Vegas talk, and welcoming Mike.
📋 02:00 – 06:00 | Mike’s journey from Microsoft to Australia’s biggest web dev company.
📋 06:00 – 09:00 | Lessons from being a “Navy brat” and world traveler.
📋 09:00 – 13:00 | Founding Boost Mobile and its wild telecom legacy.
📋 13:00 – 17:00 | From Nuance to Providence: the path into healthcare.
📋 17:00 – 22:00 | Building Xealth as the “Surescripts for digital health.”
📋 22:00 – 27:00 | Selling to providers and the hard reality of healthcare economics.
📋 27:00 – 33:00 | Integrating with Epic & Cerner: the friend-or-foe dance.
📋 33:00 – 41:00 | The Samsung acquisition story and its big vision for connected health.
📋 41:00 – 49:00 | The future of ambient healthcare and consent-driven data.
📋 49:00 – 52:00 | Mike’s advice: be curious, find your foxhole friends, stay humble.
Shot of Digital Health Therapy
A Shot of Digital Health Therapy is a meticulously unproduced podcast hosted by health tech founders Eugene Borukhovich and Jim Joyce. Born in the pandemic, therapeutic by design—oh, and comedy is still included. We dive into unscripted conversations with the people shaping employer benefits, digital health moonshots, and the broader healthcare system. From real talk to ridiculous tangents, we spotlight the builders, thinkers, and occasional troublemakers moving the industry forward. We'd love to have you join us.
