Medical students get one, maybe two chances a year to practice diagnosing real patients. One to two shots before they're the ones making the call. Oli Siska, co-founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope XR, builds VR and AI tools that blow that limitation wide open.

Caregiver VR puts up to 20 students in a virtual classroom where they role-play dementia care scenarios—and the person playing the resident actually experiences simulated auditory and visual hallucinations. OSCI AI Pro lets medical students practice patient conversations 24/7 on any device with an AI avatar that talks back.

Episode Highlights:

• Caregiver VR triggers real symptoms of dementia—auditory and visual hallucinations—so trainees feel what residents experience, building empathy you cannot get from a lecture or textbook.
• OSCI AI Pro replaces expensive standardized patient exams that require doctors behind one-way mirrors and hired actors, giving medical students unlimited practice on any device, anytime, anywhere.
• VR training produces seven times more information retention than traditional instruction, while standardizing content so every trainee gets the same quality regardless of location.
• New legislation regulating healthcare aides in February 2026 opens a massive opportunity for frontline workers in long-term care to get certified through accessible, on-demand training tools.
• Subject matter experts drive every build at Kaleidoscope XR—the number one mistake any company can make is thinking they know what the customer needs without asking first.

Oli's next move is expanding OSCI AI Pro beyond doctors and nurses into long-term care, where healthcare aides deal with dementia responsive behaviors every day without enough training. 60% of the mission is better patient care. The other 40% is worker satisfaction—the more control frontline workers have over their day, the better it is for everyone.

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About Oli Siska

Oli Siska works with a talented team on technology development that enhances human dignity—particularly in healthcare and aging.

As CEO of Kaleidoscope XR, I lead a team that creates immersive training solutions solving real problems: medical students who can't access enough clinical practice, caregivers who need to truly understand what dementia feels like, frontline workers who deserve better preparation before high-stakes patient interactions.

Our work spans VR empathy training, AI-powered clinical simulations, and custom solutions designed for social good. We specialize in making complex technology accessible and ensuring it serves humans—not the other way around.

I believe technology should make the world more compassionate, more equitable, and more accessible. That's what drives everything I do.

Beyond tech, I'm an artist—poetry, music, visual art—because creativity and innovation are inseparable.

A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

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Holly Taylor was diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer after selling her last company. Her rare form usually gets caught at stage one—99% survivable. Stage three? Different story.

That personal experience drives everything she does at Lucem Health, where she's general manager of strategic partnerships focused on early disease detection using AI to find patterns in patient data before symptoms even start.

Cervical cancer went from deadly to 99% survivable once pap smears became normal preventative care. Same approach could work for pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, type one diabetes—if we catch them early. But Holly's not just throwing AI at the problem.

Episode Highlights:

• Clinical research background spanning 15 years taught Holly to measure what matters and use data to make ruthless decisions without emotional attachment to ideas that aren't working.
• Cervical cancer survival jumped to 99% once pap smears became standard preventative care, proving early detection transforms outcomes for diseases like pancreatic cancer and type one diabetes.
• Healthcare represents 20% of GDP and employs more people than any other industry, which means disruption requires purpose and partnership with overwhelmed physicians and health systems.
• Keet Health scaled from 11 engineers fresh out of UT to 6 million patients and 30-40% of physical therapists nationwide by protecting innovation culture even as the company grew fast.
• Type one diabetes screening using BERT transformer models aims to prevent 60% of kids from ending up in life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis before diagnosis.

Holly cuts through complexity with data-driven decisions and refuses to waste time on solutions that don't work. At Lucem she's focused on contracting that 17-year medical adoption timeline by building programs that educate patients and physicians while respecting the reality of stretched-thin healthcare teams.

Her magic wand wish? Fix healthcare reimbursement chaos so systems can focus on patient outcomes instead of survival mode.

Watch the full episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/oQpYlp35zmk

About Holly Taylor

Holly Taylor is a healthcare entrepreneur and executive with more than 30 years of experience at the intersection of patient care, healthcare delivery, and technology innovation.

She has founded and led multiple startups to successful commercialization in population health, clinical research, and digital health. Her ventures have delivered innovative solutions reaching millions of patients and tens of thousands of providers. Her career is guided by the belief that meaningful innovation uses technology to improve both clinical outcomes and the human experience.

Holly currently serves as General Manager of Strategic Partnerships at Lucem Health, where she stewards the commercial success of the company’s early disease detection programs.

A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

At The Tech Glow Up, we humanize the startup and innovation landscape by focusing on the essential aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. Groundbreaking ideas are often ahead of their time, making resilience and perseverance vital for founders and product leaders.

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Sabrina Runbeck spent a decade in cardiothoracic surgery. She operated on hearts. Now she operates on healthtech companies—fixing what's broken before founders even see it themselves.

As co-founder of PulsePoint Path and the Health Tech Impact Awards, plus Chief Strategy Officer at Health Board Advisors, Sabrina teaches founders something critical: your pitch deck means nothing if you can't clearly explain who you help and what problem you solve in under two minutes.

Many founders get this backwards. They pitch everywhere—conferences, investor calls, demo days. Lots of top-of-funnel activity, lots of conversations. Then nothing happens because they never learned how to follow through. They're building companies like side projects.

Episode Highlights:

• Healthtech founders waste precious time telling 10-minute background stories instead of getting straight to traction, core problem solved, and what makes them different from every other startup at the conference.
• Health Tech Impact Awards runs like a founder bootcamp—free application, two-minute video pitch, public voting, then final six compete in a game show format that teaches you to speak investor language.
• Women make up 70-80% of the clinical healthcare workforce but less than 15% on the venture side and barely 20-30% in executive leadership—Sabrina's TED Talk breaks down the 3% problem.
• Sabrina assesses founders across five levels: body communication, psychological profile, natural skillset, behavior patterns, and spiritual purpose—if your deepest values don't align with company mission, you'll burn out.
• Clinician advisors with 10+ years experience can join Health Board Advisors to vet startups, guide product development, and help bridge early-stage companies to venture partners who understand clinical workflow reality.

Applications for Health Tech Impact Awards close March 1st. Six categories: diagnostic, digital health, medical device, biotech, mental health, women's health. Winners get featured on The Tech Glow Up.

Watch the full episode to hear why Sabrina thinks we need more clinicians making investment decisions early, not waiting for big hospital systems and VCs to catch up.

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A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

At The Tech Glow Up, we humanize the startup and innovation landscape by focusing on the essential aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. Groundbreaking ideas are often ahead of their time, making resilience and perseverance vital for founders and product leaders.

In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success.

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