#153: Lonny Stormo: Changing the Experience of Measuring Blood Sugar

<p><strong>OVERVIEW:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner and Host of the</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">podcast speaks with Lonny Stormo, CEO and Co-Founder of POPS! Diabetes Care, a digital health startup. The company creates and delivers solutions to help people  manage their diabetes. Lonny strongly believes the future of healthcare is about democratizing the industry and putting simple technology into consumers’ hands. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finding motivation within a bigger company is all about creating impact especially in the healthcare sector. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lonny talks about his decision to pursue an MBA program and how his degree has helped him manage employees. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Getting an MBA isn’t a requirement for becoming an entrepreneur, yet it’s helpful particularly for accounting and finance.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">POPS! started out as a passion project to innovate the experience of measuring blood sugar using your smartphone.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mina is an AI coach, a virtual care companion, within the app. Mina guides users with their diabetes management and checking blood sugar levels. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lonny talks about software development and how he talked with people to learn why they don’t use health management apps despite the huge demand for them. One of the primary reasons was the burden was greater than the benefit. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a result, POPS! included light coaching and personalized the app based on motivation - a critical factor in digital therapy and digital health. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lonny s