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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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Now displaying: April, 2018
Apr 18, 2018

Our guest today, Adrian James, joins the podcast to talk about innovation in the chronic care management space for the second episode in our series on this topic. Adrian is Co-Founder and President of Omada Health, a digital behavioral medicine company using behavior science to help people change their habits, improve their health, and reduce their risk of chronic disease.

 

Prior to co-founding Omada Health, Adrian led the medical products division of IDEO’s health practice where he focused on business development and client relationships, ranging from industry startups to Fortune 500 healthcare companies. Adrian also holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

 

In this episode, Chuck and Adrian discuss:

 

  • Adrian’s background, career at IDEO, and what led him to start Omada Health
  • How the Omada Health platform works and how the company approaches taking a process that was typically done in person and delivering it digitally, while ensuring compliance and success
  • The types of outcomes Omada has been able to achieve to date
  • The importance of users on the Omada platform to be part of the communities within the platform and the importance of interpersonal touchpoints
  • How Omada takes a user-centered design approach to make the product “sticky” and to keep people coming back to it
  • What it was like raising the first money for the company and what was going on in the early stages of development
  • How Omada plans to deploy the $50M recently raised in the company’s Series C round
  • Adrian talks about Omada’s recently launched randomized trial of digital diabetes care in partnership with the University of Nebraska Medical Center to further gauge the efficacy of its program, which aims to keep those at risk for diabetes from developing the disease
    • "The PREDICTS trial is the next step in that evolution—it will track a range of healthcare and other outcomes, while establishing the highest level of clinical evidence for the effectiveness of a digitally-delivered intensive behavioral counseling program."
  • Adrian’s advice to early entrepreneurs trying to innovate in the digital health space and what he thinks are key things to strive for or be on the lookout for

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Apr 4, 2018

Our guest today, Anand Parikh, General Counsel and Head of Business Development at Virta Health, joins the podcast for the first part in our series on Innovation in Chronic Disease Management. Anand began his career as Senate Fellow for the California State Senate and a clerk for the United States District Court. He then practiced at Morrison & Foerster LLP before joining Virta in 2015 as the company’s Chief of Staff, and 5th employee, and moving into his current role in 2016.

Virta is a treatment that safely and sustainably reverses type 2 diabetes without medications or surgery. Virta achieves this through innovations in nutritional biochemistry, data science, and digital tools combined with clinical expertise to shift the diabetes treatment paradigm from management to reversal. The company’s mission is to reverse type 2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025 and they have some exciting clinical evidence and proven patient results to support that goal.

In this episode, we cover:

  • Anand's background and his career and what led him to Virta
  • The evidence that existed behind what Virta was trying to achieve when he joined the company
  • The story of how the company came to be, how it was founded, and where  the original business model came from
  • Anand’s main responsibilities as General Counsel and Head of Business Development
  • How the Virta Health model works from a diet and coaching perspective
  • How Virta's technology platform has evolved over time
  • How Virta leverages the data collected to iterate on the platform
  • How Virta has taken something like diabetes treatment, which is inherently a high-touch and personal, and added a technology layer while ensuring not only patient buy-in but compliance
  • The uses of behavioral economics Virta Health employs to drive patient change
  • Anand tells us about the exciting results of Virta Health’s recent 1 Year Clinical trial
  • The main goals of Virta’s recent fundraise

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