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Innovation Rising, Presented by Healthbox

Innovation Rising, presented by Healthbox, examines the intersection of innovation and healthcare from a variety of viewpoints featuring interviews with the leaders who are moving our industry forward. The podcast is arranged in 3-episode series around a specific topic in healthcare or innovation. In each of the 3 episodes, we interview a hospital or health system using this innovation, an investor who has invested in this sector and their thoughts on why and the future of the sector, and finally an interview with a founder of a solution in this space, respectively.
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Episode 25: Rushika Fernandopulle, CEO of Iora Health 0
Jun 28, 2017

Today’s episode is the second episode in our series on new models of Primary Care! Our guest today, Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, is  Co-Founder and CEO of Iora Health. Rushika is a physician who has spent more than ten years involved in efforts to improve the quality of healthcare delivered to patients. He was the first Executive Director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, and served as a Managing Director of the Advisory Board Company. He serves on the faculty and earned his MD and Masters in Health Policy from Harvard University and completed his clinical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2011, Rushika Co-founded Iora Health; Iora Health is building a different kind of health system to deliver high-impact, relationship-based care, helping patients manage their health and navigate the healthcare system.

 

In this episode we cover:

  • Rushika’s background and where his interest in improving healthcare delivery came from
  • How the Iora Health model works
  • What early iterations of the business model look like and what did Rushika try before arriving at what Iora is today
  • As the company grows, how Iora Health continue to embrace innovation
  • Iora Health has  raised over $123M in funding to date; Rushika discusses the crucial inflection points in knowing when it was time to bring on new capital
  • How Rushika responds to the criticism that these standalone primary care models could create more fragmentation in the system
  • As Iora Health continues to expand and to raise money, besides capital, what Rushika looked for in his initial investors and what he looks for now in the later rounds
  • Iora Health launched an Accountable Care agreement with Humana in Arizona and Washington for their Medicare Advantage population beginning in 2014. Rushika explains how Iora works with Humana and other insurers and where he sees possible opportunities moving forward
  • What Rushika thinks about partnerships with health systems 
  • Where Rushika sees the future of these New Models of Primary Care heading

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Episode 24: Niyum Gandhi of Mount Sinai Health System 0
Jun 14, 2017

Today’s episode is the first in our new series on new models of Primary Care! Our first guest on the program is Niyum Gandhi, Executive Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer at Mount Sinai Health System. Niyum is responsible for leading Mount Sinai Health Partners and aligning clinical and economic transformations in support of Mount Sinai’s vision to be the leading population health manager in the region, as well as the best possible partner to the Health System’s broad physician community. His work includes fostering care management and clinical model redesign to ensure that high-value care is delivered by the Health System and its partners, and working with payers and self-funded employers to establish the new economic models that support the delivery of value-based care. Neil Patel, President of Healthbox, also joined this conversation.

In this episode we cover:

  • Niyum’s background, previous work around ACOs, and his role at Mount Sinai
  • If Niyum thinks entrepreneurs trying to build standalone primary care models creates more fragmentation or less in the system
  • How the Mount Sinai partnership with Oscar Health to open a primary-care clinic in Brooklyn came to be
  • What success in this Oscar Health partnership looks like
  • How Niyum is thinking about translating the benefits of this partnership to all of the Mt. Sinai patients
  • Patient feedback and the process of scaling what Mt. Sinai have learned to date in this partnership
  • If Niyum and Mt. Sinai feel these tight alignments with companies like Oscar Health is the way of the future
  • The other areas of innovation and transformation at Mt. Sinai the Niyum is focused on

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Episode 23: Bonus Episode - Healthbox Innovation Forum 0
Jun 7, 2017

This week we have a special episode recorded live from the 2017 Spring Healthbox Innovation Forum. The Healthbox innovation forum brings together some of the nation’s foremost leaders in healthcare and innovation from a variety of different organizations across the healthcare ecosystem. Our Spring Innovation forum was focused around “Redefining the Role of the Home in Healthcare”.

The day consisted of presentations, an opening keynote, breakout activities, and an interactive and engaging panel discussion. At the conclusion of the event, Innovation Consulting Manager and host of Innovation Rising, Chuck Feerick, sat down with three great guests to get their takes on the day, what surprised them, and what they might start doing at their organizations based on what they heard at the Forum.

Chip Blaufuss, Associate Vice President of Strategic Innovation for (HCA)

Sheri Shapiro, Senior Vice President-Mergers, Acquisitions, and Partnership Development at Trinity Health

Nimesh Jhaveri, Division Vice President, Walgreens

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