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Laurence Girard the Founder and CEO of Fruit Street Health, which has gained momentum and established itself as one of the most innovative telemedicine platforms since its launch in 2014 joins Enterprise Radio to discuss Fruit Street Health’s growth and choosing Validic’s health platform for wearables.
Listen to interview with host Eric Dye & guest Laurence Girard discuss the following:
- Fruit Street Health launched a little over a year ago. Can you tell us about some of the major initiatives and progress you’ve made since the platform was first launched?
- What are some of the most important trends you’ve seen in the telehealth industry that have evolved since Fruit Street Health first launched?
- What specific pain points and voids does Fruit Street Health address when it comes to both doctors and patients?
- The wearables space, in particular, has exploded recently, thanks to innovation from Apple and others. How do you foresee the role of wearables in the health industry as these technologies continue to evolve in the future?
- Fruit Street Health has chosen Validic’s digital health platform to access more than 175 wearable devices and applications into its telehealth software, personal health record and HIPAA compliant video conferencing platform. What can you tell us about this and how it will impact the telehealth landscape in the future?
- Fruit Street Health also transformed into a Benefit Corporation recently. Why did you decide to make this move and how has it impacted your business so far?
Duration: 10:01
Laurence Girard is the CEO and founder of Fruit Street. Laurence was a pre-med student in the undergraduate degree program at the Harvard University Extension School for two years before he decided to pursue FruitStreet.com full time and move to San Francisco. In high school, Laurence played soccer for the New York Red Bulls Academy Team as a goalkeeper which sparked his initial interest in health. He later decided to pursue a career focused on social impact and spent a year volunteering before college in the emergency room at Huntington Hospital in the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System.
Laurence has also assisted with research at Boston Children’s Hospital, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, and has published and presented medical papers in peer review medical journals and conferences. His interest in technology developed where he wrote content for large digital media companies such as Yahoo! and Demand Media.
In addition, Laurence’s initial interest in video collaboration and telemedicine stems from his time volunteering for an education non-profit called Learn to Be which provides free online tutoring for K-12 students. Laurence aims to build a team of physicians and technologists to help people worldwide improve their lifestyle and prevent chronic disease.
About Fruit Street Health
Fruit Street Health (Fruit Street) is a new digital wellness and telemedicine platform which helps patients live a healthier lifestyle while enabling healthcare providers to connect with patients using telemedicine and wearable mobile technologies. Fruit Street licenses its software to private practice dietitians, physicians, and other healthcare providers who are interested in doing HIPAA compliant video conferencing with their patients and monitoring the lifestyle of their patients with wearable devices and mobile applications.
Website: www.fruitstreet.com
