This week’s podcast features our interview with Adam Draper, Founder & Managing Director of Boost VC. Adam is a 2x entrepreneur and a 4th generation venture capitalist. He also co-founded Xpert Financial while still in his senior year at UCLA, which he then left in 2012, focusing on angel investing in which he invested in 20 companies, including Coinbase, Plangrid, and Practice Fusion, before starting Boost VC with this co-founder Brayton Williams.
Launched in 2012, Boost VC is a specialized seed-stage accelerator that invests in blockchain and virtual reality startups. Twice a year Boost VC invests in 25+ startups. The three month accelerator program includes housing and office space in Silicon Valley. Boost’s Portfolio consists of 138 companies, who have raised over $125M after joining Boost VC.
Adam joined Chuck Feerick and Healthbox President & COO Neil Patel to talk about Investing in Virtual Reality in this final part in our series on Virtual Reality in the healthcare space.
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Innovation Rising Episode 19: Bonus - Accelerator/Studio Program Roundtable with Healthbox and Adam Draper of Boost VC
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This week’s podcast features our amazing interview with Matthew Stoudt, the CEO of AppliedVR. Matthew was previously cofounder and CEO of Outcast Media International (which was sold to Verifone), the McDonald’s New Ventures Entrepreneur in Residence, ran private equity at Triumph Capital Group and investment banking at DLJ, and earned his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Matthew joined us on the program to talk about the work he and his team are doing with applied VR in this second part of our series on Virtual Reality in the healthcare space.
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Our guest this week is Dr. Brennan Spiegel, Director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai Health System and Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Spiegel joins us on the program for this first part in our series around Virtual Reality in Healthcare.
Dr. Spiegel directs the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE), a multidisciplinary team that investigates how digital health technologies, including wearable biosensors, smartphone applications, virtual reality, and social media, can strengthen the patient-doctor bond, improve outcomes, and save money. CS-CORE unites clinicians, computer scientists, engineers, statisticians and health services researchers to invent, test, and implement digital innovations for the clinical trenches, always focusing on the value of technology to patient and provider end-users.
Dr. Spiegel has published numerous best-selling medical textbooks, editorials, and more than 160 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is listed in the 2016 Onalytica "Top 100 Influencer" lists for digital health (#13) and virtual reality (#14). His digital health research has been featured by major media outlets, including NBC News, PBS, Forbes, Bloomberg, NPR, and Reuters.
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This week’s episode is another special Bonus Episode of Innovation Rising! I’m joined in the studio today by 3 great guests to discuss Accelerator/Studio programs, the benefits of these programs, and how companies can get the most from such an opportunity. Adam Draper from Boost VC joins us to talk about the Boost VC Accelerator and with me in the Studio from Healthbox is Matty Francis, Director of Innovation Consulting, and Kristen Lux, Outreach and Engagement Manager
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Our guest today, Tressa Springmann, is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for LifeBridge Health. Tressa joins us for this final episode in our series around Patient Identity in Value-Based Care.
LifeBridge Health is a regional health care organization based in northwest Baltimore and its surrounding counties. LifeBridge Health consists of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Northwest Hospital, Carroll Hospital, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, LifeBridge Health & Fitness, hundreds of primary care and specialty physicians throughout the region, and many affiliated health-related partners.
Prior to joining LifeBridge Health, Tressa was the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. In addition, Tressa has a Masters of Administrative Science in Information Technology (MAS) from John Hopkins University and she currently serves as the chair of the technology committee of the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients.
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On our episode this week, our interview features Chris Olsen, Co-Founder and General Partner at Drive Capital, for the second part of our series around Patient Identity in Value-Based Care! Chris is a Cincinnati-native, but previously was a partner at Sequoia Capital beginning in 2006 before co-founding Drive Capital in 2013. He joins Neil Patel, COO & President of Healthbox, and myself in this episode to discuss the move to Value Based Care and the investment opportunities this shift has created.
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This week, our interview features Sean Lane, Founder of CrossCHX, for the first part of our series around Patient Identity in Value-Based Care. CrossChx is a platform and app that securely stores a user's medical history, prescriptions, and more all on a smartphone. A user can share their profile with any provider they want, eliminating paper forms while protecting a user's medical identity.
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Innovation Rising Episode 14: David Cohn of Regroup Therapy and Bob Saunders of OCA Ventures (Part 2)
In this week’s special interview I am rejoined in the studio by 3 guests to discuss digital innovation in healthcare around Behavioral Health: David Cohn, CEO, Founder of Regroup Therapy, Bob Saunders, General Partner at OCA Ventures, and my co-host for this episode, Neil Patel, President and COO of Healthbox.
This is part 2 of a 2-part interview with Bob and David! Make sure to go back and listen to Part 1 if you missed that episode!
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Welcome back to Part 2 of our special bonus episodes featuring a recap and insights from the 2017 HIMSS Conference that happened in Orlando last week. The HIMSS Conference brings together IT vendors, providers, payers, investors, and key thought leaders in the Healthcare IT space. Some 40,000 participants attended the lectures, panels, meetings and exhibits.
This special 2-part set of bonus episodes features interviews from many of the Healthbox team that attended the conference. This second episode includes interviews with:
Enjoy this episode and let us know any questions you have or Tweet us about your experience at HIMSS 2017!
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This week we have a special bonus episode featuring a recap and insights from the 2017 HIMSS Conference that happened in Orlando last week. The HIMSS Conference brings together IT vendors, providers, payers, investors, and key thought leaders in the Healthcare IT space. Some 40,000 participants attended the lectures, panels, meetings and exhibits.
This special 2-part set of bonus episodes features interviews from many of the Healthbox team that attended the conference. This first episode includes interviews with:
Enjoy this episode and let us know any questions you have or Tweet us about your experience at HIMSS 2017!
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In this week’s special interview I am joined in the studio by 3 guests to discuss digital innovation in healthcare around Behavioral Health: David Cohn, CEO, Founder of Regroup Therapy, Bob Saunders, General Partner at OCA Ventures, and my co-host for this episode, Neil Patel, President and COO of Healthbox.
This is part 1 of a 2-part interview with Bob and David so make sure to listen to part 2 next week!
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This week we kick off the first episode in our 3-part series on the topic of Behavioral Health in the digital healthcare space! Our featured interview is with Chris Novak, who is the COO of the Behavioral Medicine Service Line at AMITA Health.
During the interview, we discuss: Chris’s background and role at AMITA Health, what types of tools AMITA Health use as it relates to behavioral health innovation, and Chris provides some great advice to entrepreneurs in what they should be thinking about when pitching a health system and where this industry is still in need of innovation .
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This week’s interview is a bonus episode recorded during the Healthbox Chicago Studio week in November of 2016 with Matt Schneider. Matt is the founder of Save On Medical, an online marketplace that uses price transparency to help patients make informed care decisions based on cost, quality, or convenience while locking in discounted prices with no hidden fees.
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On this week’s episode I spoke with Stuart Frost, Managing Partner & CEO at Frost Data Capital, as the last interview in our series on Remote Monitoring. Stuart is a highly successful, serial high-tech entrepreneur with more than 20 years' experience in the technology market, having been founder and CEO of 2 companies before working at Microsoft. Stuart founded Frost Data Capital, a combined incubator and venture capital firm, in 2011. To date, at Frost DC, Stuart has founded 27 Big Data analytics companies, of which 19 are still in operation, 5 of those being in healthcare.
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In the second episode in our series on Remote Monitoring I spoke with Parker Moss. Parker is the Chief Technology & Transformation Officer at Virgin Care Limited where he is responsible for bringing together the company's Information Management and Technology functions, putting the importance of technology and community healthcare delivery at the forefront within Virgin Care.
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This week’s featured interview is with Sumit Nagpal, Co-Founder, CEO - LumiraDx, Inc. and Co-Founder, Chief Architect and UX Officer - LumiraDx Holdings Limited, in the first of our series around Remote Monitoring.
LumiraDx provides a remote monitoring tool in which 3rd party devices can be integrated along with LumiraDx’s unique digital assay device that integrates with 3rd party devices such as the Apple Watch and Withings Pulse. These devices all feed into an analytics tool and cloud platform to provide care management teams meaningful data.
Sumit founded LumiraDx in 2014 and is currently a Member of the Health IT Policy Committee for Advanced Health Models as well as a Senior HIMSS Member. Sumit has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as a Minority Executive to Watch in 2016 and has received the award as one of the Trailblazers in Healthcare IT by HIT Men and Women Awards. Prior to founding LumiraDx, Sumit was President and CEO of Alere Accountable Care Solutions and before that was Founder, President and CEO of Wellogic.
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In this special episode of Innovation Rising, I sat down with Healthbox’s Chief Medical Officer, Eric Louie, to talk about his takeaways from the Exponential Medicine conference which he attended back in October. There were some fascinating topics in covered in this podcast, including:
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In this special episode of Innovation Rising, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Stephen Hunter, Physical Therapy Administrator for Intermountain Healthcare Physical Therapy and founder of ROMS, which stands for Rehab Outcomes Management System, which he developed at Intermountain Healthcare in 2000 and which was accepted to go through the Intermountain Foundry Program in 2015. Stephens passion for the startup is palpable and I had a great time in my conversation with him. Stephen has been with Intermountain for over 31 years where he is the active administrator over 11 outpatient orthopedic PT clinics and a practicing clinician. Stephen is the Author and co-author to several articles establishing the value of physical therapy and has his Clinical Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of Utah.
In 2014, Intermountain Healthcare launched their Foundry Program in partnership with Healthbox. The Foundry is a part-time program providing resources and guidance to vet the business aspects of employee ideas that could either benefit Intermountain internally or have additional commercialization potential outside of the system. For more details on setup, genesis, and background of Intermountain’s innovation focus, have a listen to our previous episode with Jeremy Porter, the Director of Business Development at Intermountain Healthcare.
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On this week’s episode of Innovation Rising, we sat down with Jeremy Porter, Director of Business Development at Intermountain Healthcare to discuss what Internal Health System Innovation looks like for his organization, Intermountain Healthcare, based in Salt Lake City, with multiple locations across the state of Utah. Jeremy and his team look to leverage existing assets, patents, technology, and business models to support Intermountain's core mission and values while identifying additional revenue opportunities.
Innovation and Growth at Intermountain Healthcare supports the ideation, creation, and adoption of new solutions that will improve quality and service while making care more affordable. Intermountain harness internal creativity and external disruption to continually improve outcomes, longevity, and overall wellbeing. One of the avenues supporting employee innovation is the Intermountain Foundry. Launched in 2014 in partnership with Healthbox, the Foundry is a part-time program providing resources and guidance to vet the business aspects of employee ideas that could either benefit Intermountain internally or have additional commercialization potential outside of the system.
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On this week’s show, Sanjay Shah joins the program to discuss internal Health system Innovation. Sanjay Shah is the Director of Strategic Innovation for Dignity Health where he supports Dignity Health’s innovation efforts, which seek to create, test, and invest in novel services, programs, partnerships, and/or technologies – from within and outside of healthcare – that have the potential to reduce the cost of care, improve quality, and/or increase access to healthcare services. Sanjay is also an advisor to organizations such as Innovation Center for the Safety Net, and has sat on the boards of companies including Healthfinch, Seamless Medical Systems, the University of Michigan Medical Innovation Center, and and CareInSync.
As a function at Dignity Health, The Strategic Innovation team at Dignity Health helps lead 4 activities;
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