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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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Mar 8, 2017

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!

 

In the interview, we discuss:

 

  • How having OCA and Bob as an investor has been helpful to David and some examples
  • Lessons David would share with other entrepreneurs about making a deal with large customers and factors that led to that success
  • David’s lessons learned from deals that didn’t go through
  • David’s thoughts on the advantages of starting a company in Chicago that most entrepreneurs overlook
  • Bob and OCA Venture’s outlook on the advantages of investing in the midwest that most investors don't think about
  • Where Bob sees the intersection of Behavioral therapy and digital health space heading in the future

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Learn more about Regroup Therapy

Learn more about OCA Ventures

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Mar 1, 2017

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:

  • Justin Gernot - VP Business Development
  • Caroline Arenz - Associate, Fund Management
  • Leland Brewster - Manager, Fund Management
  • Matty Francis - Director, Innovation Consulting

Enjoy this episode and let us know any questions you have or Tweet us about your experience at HIMSS 2017!

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Feb 28, 2017

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:

 

  • Dr. Eric Louie - Chief Medical Officer
  • Blake Miner - Associate, Innovation Consulting
  • Emily Wengel - Manager
  • Chuck Feerick - Manager, Innovation Consulting, Innovation Rising Podcast host

Enjoy this episode and let us know any questions you have or Tweet us about your experience at HIMSS 2017!

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Feb 22, 2017

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!

In the interview, we discuss:

  • David’s background and where the idea for Regroup come from
  • Why David chose a “health system/provider model” over the direct to consumer model
  • Bob’s background and specific focus at OCA Ventures
  • What attracts Bob to investments in the Behavioral Health space
  • How Bob approaches being involved with the companies he invests in
  • What David was looking for in an investor
  • The advantages about starting a company in Chicago that most entrepreneurs overlook

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Learn more about Regroup Therapy

Learn more about OCA Ventures

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Feb 8, 2017

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 .

In our conversation, Chris and I discuss:

  • Chris’s  background, his role at AMITA Health, and his areas of interest
  • How Amita Health is utilizing products to allow patients to capture their symptoms outside of therapy/treatment and to prevent relapse
  • If Chris thinks tele-psychiatry or computer-based therapy is a more promising option for effective treatment
  • What Chris is looking for in terms of digital behavioral health solutions and the teams behind those solutions
  • Chris’s insights on what he looks for when he rolls out new innovation at Amita Health
  • How Amita Health structures pilots and what should a smart entrepreneur build into their pilot pitch
  • What Chris thinks current Behavioral Health technology is getting right at this moment and where he thinks there is still opportunity for improvement and innovation
  • What excites Chris most about healthcare innovation right now and who he would like to hear speak about it

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Learn more about Amita Health

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Feb 1, 2017

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.

In our conversation, Matt and I discuss:

  • Where the idea for Save On Medical came from and the “why” behind creating the company
  • What made Matt uniquely suited to launch Save On Medical
  • When a company has a string of early successes, what are some important lessons Matt thinks the leadership should keep in mind
  • Matt’s lessons with respect to building culture
  • How Matt balances the desire to pivot against keeping on the path that has already brought the company success
  • The key things Matt recommends entrepreneurs do prior to meetings with investors or mentors and some examples from Matt’s journey
  • What Matt wishes he knew before he launched his business that he knows now

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Learn more about Save On Medical

Find out more about the Healthbox Studio Program

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Jan 24, 2017

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.

In our conversation, Stuart and I discuss:

  • Stuart’s background and how he came to found Frost Data Capital
  • Frost’s Approach and it’s process and principles
    • Parallel entrepreneurship
  • Why Stuart is focused on Big Data
  • How Frost Data Capital’s investment in Sentrian came to be and how Sentrian works
  • What Sentrian does differently that made Stuart say “yes”
  • How Sentrian leverages Big Data
  • Where Stuart sees the remote monitoring space going in the future
  • Frost Data Capital’s recent partnership with DST and it’s importance in the value-based healthcare space

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Jan 11, 2017

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.

In our conversation, Parker and I discuss:

  • An overview of Virgin Care and Parker’s background and role
  • How Virgin Care’s model differs at all from what we see here in the United States
  • How Parker focuses on empowering clinicians and administrators with technology that has a positive effect on the outcomes that matter most to patients
  • How Virgin plan to use remote monitoring technology from LumiraDx
  • How Parker selected LumiraDx
  • Virgin Care’s use of other type of remote monitoring technologies outside of the hospital, for it’s healthy and/or it’s chronically ill population
  • Addressing the need for integration between patients using remote monitoring technology to manage chronic illness and telehealth or care coordination outreach programs
  • How Virgin Care continues to implement innovative solutions which keep pushing the technology we use forward while removing barriers to its effective use in delivering top quality services to patients
  • Where Parker sees the remote monitoring space going in the future

 

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Learn more about Virgin Care Limited

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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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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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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

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Learn more about Dignity Health

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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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