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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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Jul 26, 2017

This week we have a great episode with Myra Hager of Baylor Scott & White Health and Dore Murphy formerly of Pager!

Myra is the Director of Digital Health at Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) where she manages population health innovation strategy and project execution with a goal of achieving better population health by substantially improving outcomes, driving costs down, empowering their ACO and Health plans with digital solutions, as well as create opportunities for new business models to achieve population health.

Dore was formerly the VP of Marketing at Pager, a company that is Reinventing the traditional doctor-patient experience by making quality care more convenient and accessible by sending a board-certified doctor to treat urgent care needs, at any location, summoned directly through their app. Prior to joining Pager, Dore led marketing at Sum and has a great experience working for a number of years at the New York Times

In November of 2016, BSWH and Pager announced a partnership to bring Pager’s services to BSWH’s network in the Austin area

In this episode we cover:

  • What the partnership between Pager and Baylor Scott & White Health looks like and the parameters of the pilot
  • How this collaboration came together
  • Why Health Systems are the perfect partners for Pager and the types of services that will be offered
  • Where Dore and Myra see Telehealth playing into the future of on-demand healthcare and how Baylor Scott & White Health has approached it
  • How Pager and Baylor Scott & White Health think about maintaining efficiency in using clinicians for their on-demand healthcare offerings
  • Where Dore and Myra see the future of on-demand healthcare going and how it will transform the way medicine is delivered now

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Baylor Scott & White Health

Pager

Myra Hager

Dore Murphy

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Jul 19, 2017

Today we have another great bonus episode featuring Glenn Winokur, Senior Advisor to Healthbox. Before Glenn came on board with Healthbox, he was Co-founder and CEO of Syapse, a company which he Incubated from an idea in a Stanford class to a market leading venture funded start-up that provides a precision medicine data platform enabling healthcare providers to use molecular profiling to diagnose and treat patients. Under Glenn’s leadership over an 8 year period, Syapse raised over $40m in venture funding. Prior to Syapse, Glenn was the CEO of Scalix and Chief Operating Officer of NetIQ, respectively. In addition to Healthbox, Glenn is an advisor to the University of Illinois, Stanford University, and UCSF. And with all this experience, Glenn has become an angel investor with investments including Puppet Labs, Cloud Sherpas (now part of Accenture), SchoolMessenger (now part of West Corp), Syapse, and Panthenon.

In today’s episode we cover:

  • Glenn’s background and  role with Healthbox
  • The story behind Glenn’s first investment and how did he arrived at the financial position to do so
  • What draws Glenn to investing in Healthcare and why
  • The key things Glenn wants to see if a company that he invests in
  • How important Glenn’s background scaling companies and acting as CEO has been in his investing strategy
  • What Glenn thinks entrepreneurs should consider about when raising from angels

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  • Follow us on Twitter and @ChuckFeerick
  • Subscribe and leave a review in iTunes
  • Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com

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Jul 12, 2017

This week’s episode is the last episode in our series on new models of Primary Care! Our guest today, Michael Greeley, is a General Partner at Flare Capital Partners. Prior to co-founding Flare Capital Partners, Michael was the founding General Partner of Flybridge Capital Partners where he led the firm’s healthcare investments. Michael’s current and prior board seats include HealthVerity, Iora Health, Predilytics, TARIS Biomedical, and Welltok. Michael also serves on the Industry Advisory Board of the Cleveland Clinic and Boston Children’s Hospital, as well as serving on several other boards including the New England Investors’ Committee of Capital Innovation. Michael is most excited about the convergence of healthcare and information technologies and the profound opportunities to transform healthcare and writes about this and other topics on his blog www.ontheflyingbridge.com

In this episode we cover:

  • Michael’s background, work at Flare Capital, and his specific areas of investment interest
  • How Flare Capital’s  investment in Iora Health came together and what led him to say yes
  • Michael’s general thoughts on entrepreneurs trying to build standalone primary care models and if he thinks this helps or could create more fragmentation in the system
  • Where Michael sees the future of these New Models of Primary Care heading
  • Michael’s thoughts around a blog post he wrote in that “if V1 of the Healthcare technology sector was triggered but the HITECH Act of 2009, the sector is now entering V2.0 where the commentary is focused on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality solutions to make the healthcare system “capital light” to drive meaningful operating efficiencies from the significant investment of the past three years."
  • What opportunities Michael believes will develop over the next few years
  • If Michael sees a growth in early stage investment over the next few years or if he thinks we’ll see the percentage grow in Series B and later investments
  • Why Michael thinks "Brands will become even more important”

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