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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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Jun 27, 2018

This week’s bonus interview welcomes Lee Shapiro of 7Wire Ventures to the podcast. Lee is Managing Partner at 7wire Ventures, an investment firm he co-founded over a decade ago. The fund’s focus is on building companies that empower connected informed health consumers to improved outcomes, facilitating the change from sick-care to wellcare.  He is active with the 7wire portfolio and the boards of Livongo Health, Ayogo Health, Carebox, Zest Health, ConsejoSano, Modern Teacher and Education Funding Partners. He also serves on the boards of Medidata Solutions [NASDAQ:MDSO], Tivity Health [NASDAQ:TVTY], and Aptus Health (a Merck subsidiary [NYSE:MRK]).

 As President of Allscripts [NASDAQ:MDRX] from 2001 through 2012, his leadership was central to over $4B in mergers, acquisitions and financings. He oversaw the company's strategy, international operations, business development and partnerships, health plan initiatives and entrepreneurial business investments.

He is a member of The World Innovation Network Board (TWIN, formerly known as Northwestern Kellogg KIN), the University of Chicago Innovation Fund Advisory Committee, The Samsung Strategic Advisory Board, The Qualcomm Life Advisory Council and the advisory board for the Center of Digital Innovation in Digital Health in Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Lee is a member of the National Board of Directors of The American Heart Association and has served as an officer and director of the Gastro-Intestinal Research.

Also joining this episode was special guest, and Healthbox President, Neil Patel.

In this Episode, Chuck, Neil, and Lee discuss:

  • Lee’s early career, how he became President of AllScripts and some of the biggest lessons he learned at Allscripts
  • How Lee realized and arrived at the investment thesis for 7Wire Ventures?
  • Lee’s vision in creating, essentially, a 2-sided market, with startups on one side and 7wire’s strategic LPs on the other, which includes such names as  Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Memorial Hermann, and Rush University Medical Center, to name a few.
  • With such a diverse set of strategic LPs, Lee’s philosophy on how to engage them in the investment process and in portfolio support
  • Lee’s thoughts around innovation in Chronic care management and if, due to the recent emergence of advanced IOT and AI, we are on the cusp of seeing some major changes in this area
  • What gave Lee the conviction early on to invest in a crowded disease management space, having participated in many of Livongo’s early funding rounds
  • Lee’s approach to looking for and identifying new innovative healthcare business models and how the firm proactively looks to foster these types of models
  • What Lee thinks is special about having his firm based here in the Midwest

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Jun 20, 2018

This week’s episode welcomes Erik Pupo, managing director in the Accenture Health Client Service Group, for the final part in our series around Blockchain Innovation in Healthcare. Erik is Accenture’s Healthcare Blockchain lead for North America, where he leads sales and implementation efforts with Accenture’s payer, provider, and life science customers on how to use blockchain technology to improve efficiencies within their businesses.

Erik has worked for over 20 years in healthcare, including senior positions in federal, state, and commercial healthcare programs and initiatives, and served in key leadership roles within the healthcare community. A speaker and thought-leader on trends influencing the healthcare industry, Eric holds leadership advisory positions within the American Health Information Management Association, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, where he also became a fellow in 2012, and the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Previously, he worked at Deloitte where he led several health IT initiatives for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA).

 

In this Episode, Chuck and Erik cover:

  • Erik’s background and how he became interested in the blockchain
  • Erik’s team and his role inside Accenture and the types of projects and thought leadership they produce
  • How one “builds a blockchain”
  • Who can actually touch or use the blockchain in a practical sense
  • If different blockchains are interoperable with one another or can they be adjusted to be
  • Blockchain innovation in the pharmaceutical industry
  • How the blockchain can be used to help underserved populations and rural communities
  • Erik’s advice to entrepreneurs building  technology in the Blockchain space and to healthcare organizations who want to implement Blockchain technology

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Jun 14, 2018

Our guest today, John Bass, joins the podcast to talk about the use of the blockchain in healthcare and how it will drive innovation, now, and in the future. John is CEO of Hashed Health, a healthcare blockchain innovation firm focused on building the new digital infrastructure for healthcare. John has over 20 years of experience in healthcare technology with expertise in shared operating systems that build trust, transparency, and incentives across health networks.

Prior to Hashed Health, John was CEO at InVivoLink, a care management start-up which sold to HCA in 2015. Since then, John has been a leading voice in the development of the global healthcare blockchain market and is focused on community development, enterprise services, and blockchain solutions development.

Topics we cover in this episode:

  • John’s background and focus on improving patient outcomes
  • When the blockchain actually came to be and when and why it piqued John’s interest
  • What the blockchain is
  • The types of problems using the blockchain in healthcare aims to solve and how Hashed Health aims to accelerate this process
  • How the blockchain will truly be disruptive in healthcare

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

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