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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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Dec 28, 2016

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.

In this episode, Sumit and I discuss:

  • How Sumit came to co-found LumiraDx?
  • The 3 typical categories of buyers for population health offerings: Providers, payers, and employers.
  • Trends in the willingness to adopt this type of technology among Providers and hospital systems?
  • LumiraDx’s integration with Epic.
  • The biggest challenges Sumit and LumiraDx have faced and how the company overcame them?
  • Conditions in healthcare right now that is allowing for these types of technological advances.
  • What Sumit sees as the future for healthcare focused wearable technology.
  • What Sumit wishes he knew when he started his career.

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Dec 21, 2016

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:

 

  • What was the premise of the Exponential Medicine conference?
  • What is the Quantified Self?
  • How “Insideables” work
  • The latest news and research on Genomics and gene editing
  • Peter Diamandis 4 P’s of the cornerstones of personalized medicine
  • “The business of health as the business of information science”
  • The future of physicians

 

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  • Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com
  • Listen to his episode on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Libsyn
Dec 14, 2016

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.

 

In this episode Stephen and I discuss:

  • What ROMS is today and how it works
  • How Stephen sees his product making an impact on the industry and improving the lives of patients
  • Stephen’s experience in the Intermountain Foundry Program and what he got out of it
  • Stephen’s thoughts around how being a physical therapist himself helped him in creating ROMS
  • What advice Stephen has for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs who don’t have access to such dedicated resources as the Intermountain Foundry:
    • Who would be other people internal innovators should look to add to their team?
    • How can internal innovators obtain the executive support they need?
  • How the ROMS solution helps achieve impactful results in a value based care model
  • What obstacles Stephen faces as he continues to build ROMS as an employee-innovator
  • What Stephen is most excited about in healthcare innovation right now
 

Connect with Stephen:

 

Learn more about Intermountain Health

 

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  • Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com
  • Listen to his episode on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Libsyn
Dec 1, 2016

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.

In this episode we discuss:

  • How innovation became a priority at Intermountain Healthcare
  • The characteristics of Intermountain Healthcare as a system that make it conducive to innovation
  • The various innovation programs at Intermountain
  • The specific needs that Intermountain was seeking to fulfill through the development of the Foundry Program
  • How Intermountain uses internal mentors to help the Foundry Participants
  • How Intermountain's entrepreneurs have benefited from the mentoring process
  • If Jeremy was to establish a dream program for innovation at Intermountain, without staffing or capital constraints, what are some things he would like to try?
  • What other health systems Jeremy admires as leaders in healthcare innovation and why he feels this way
  • Which digital health startups Jeremy is particularly impressed with
  • What is exciting Jeremy most about healthcare innovation right now

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Learn more about Intermountain Health

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Nov 28, 2016

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.

Dignity Health is one of the nation’s largest health care systems, with nearly 9,000 physicians, 59,000 employees, and more than 400 care centers. This comprehensive network includes hospitals, urgent care, occupational care, and imaging centers, in addition to home health, and primary care clinics

As a function at Dignity Health, The Strategic Innovation team at Dignity Health helps lead 4 activities;

  • Realize intellectual property (IP) from employees
  • Create built for purpose companies
  • Openly innovate with novel entrepreneurial companies
  • Strategically invest to diversify and support growth goals
In this episode we discuss:
  • Sanjay’s background and role at Dignity Health
  • The breakdown of Dignity Health's four strategic innovation activities and how they work together
  • An overview of how Dignity Health fosters innovation through its Intellectual Innovation Network
  • The genesis of Dignity’s Innovation Strategy
  • How intellectual property is shared or managed and how revenue sharing works for a successful partnership
  • An example of one of the ideas and companies that has come out of Dignity’s innovation center and what that process looked like
  • How Dignity Health’s venture investing arm operates
  • Where Sanjay thinks the industry is heading in terms of innovation to achieve the “Triple Bottom Line” of improving patient care, increasing system efficiency, and reducing provider burnout
  • What Sanjay is most excited about in healthcare innovation right now
  • How to connect with Sanjay and learn more about Dignity Health

Connect with Sanjay:

Learn more about Dignity Health

Links mentioned in the show:

Connect with Healthbox
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  • Subscribe and leave a review in iTunes
  • Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com
  • Listen to his episode on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Libsyn
Sep 26, 2016

Welcome to the Innovation Rising Podcast, presented by Healthbox! This episode is a preview of the exciting episodes we have coming in the future. Subscribe and stay tuned for our first episodes which will be launching in the next couple of weeks!

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