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A Patient Advocate’s Tips for Creating Equity | Gillian Mason, University of Newcastle

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

Imagine working full-time, finding health services, visiting multiple clinicians a week, and coordinating your health information. This is the reality of patients with one or more serious health conditions. Patients can have a lot on their plate, and sociocultural factors are often the cause to why patients may not follow their doctor’s orders. That’s why Gillian Mason, patient advocate and physio-rehabilitation researcher at the University of Newcastle, emphasizes looking from the patient perspective. How does she think we can better enable patients’ access to health services? Is the answer from Australia (and its nationalized healthcare system) DIFFERENT than it is when you ask patients in the U.S.? Tune in to find out!

Filmed in the HISA Studio at HIC 2019 in Melbourne, Australia, August 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

Healthcare’s ‘Copernican Moment’, Value-Based Health & The Future| Lucien Engelen, Transform.Health

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

Is a de-centralized, democratized tech-enabled health system closer than we think? Lucien Engelen, CEO of Transform.Health and Fellow for Deloitte Center for the Edge, talks about the Copernican moment in healthcare: when the industry realizes the world revolves around the patient and NOT the health system. How are the Big Tech companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google (who are sooo good at giving us what we want, when we want it, from the palm of our hand) helping to shift this reorientation of universal order and better empower health consumers? Listen in to find out….

Filmed in the HISA Studio at HIC 2019 in Melbourne, Australia, August 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

A Change Management Guru’s Guide to Working with Clinicians | Dr. Margaret Kennedy, Gevity Inc.

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

One of the biggest challenges clinicians face in delivering good care is keeping up with today’s up-and-coming revolutionary health technology. Dr. Margaret Kennedy, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Gevity Consulting, is often charged with helping health systems change clinicians’ perspectives when it comes to digital health and tech. So, what has she learned? Among other things, it turns out that some clinicians are more inclined to accept technological change than others. Are there certain traits these ‘early adopters’ have in common? Or does it have to do with the way the healthcare organization sells the tech’s value prop? Hint, hint: You can never go wrong when you can appeal to a clinician’s desire to provide better care.

Filmed in the HISA Studio at HIC 2019 in Melbourne, Australia, August 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

What will REALLY Bring Down the Cost of Healthcare (i.e.NOT Consumerization) | Peter Orszag, Lazard

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

From Obama’s budget guy to the CEO of Financial Advisory at Lazard (which recently consulted on the CVS-Aetna merger), Peter Orzag is more than qualified to weigh in on what can be done to bend the $3.5 trillion dollar healthcare cost curve in the US. This interview kicks off with Orzag confessing that he’s skeptical that the “consumerization’ of healthcare – the idea that shopping around for care – is going to be enough to do it. Is vertical integration like that CVS-Aetna merger the answer then? Tune in for one (really smart) economist’s take…

Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

The Health Startup with the Largest Set of LIVE Connected Health Data | Kristin Valdes, b.well

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

With the “the largest set of LIVE connected health data in the country” and just shy of $11M in funding, b.well is a health tech startup on a mission to help health plans and employers do more with the abundance of health data their members and employees are creating. CEO Kristin Valdes stopped by the Atrium Health Backstage Studio at Healthdatapalooza to talk about the future for the startup and what her company is learning from looking at all that health data.

Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

Next Gen Leadership in Healthcare | C-Suite Coach Simmi Singh, Egon Zehnder

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

The future of work in healthcare starts with transformation leaders and Simmi Singh has coached her fair share of C-suite healthcare execs as they strive for that next level. What’s her best advice for the rest of us climbing to the top?

Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

Microsoft Healthcare, 169K Clients, & Health Tech at-Scale | Peter Lee, Microsoft Healthcare

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

I heard a rumor that Microsoft’s healthcare play is enterprise, enterprise, enterprise…is it true? Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Healthcare tells us what’s really going on at the tech giant and their “169,000 commercial relationships in healthcare, across 140 companies.” Cloud at-scale? Interoperability at-scale? Listen in to find out!

Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

Where Health IT & Digital Health Collide | Hal Wolf, HIMSS

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

Are the lines between health IT and digital health starting blur? President & CEO of HIMSS, Hal Wolfe, shares his macro-level perspective on what’s changing in the big wide world of health technology – and how health system incumbents need to change their ways in the struggle to innovate.

Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

Govt Mandated Patient Records on Smart Phones…You Ready, HealthTech? | Don Rucker, HHS

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

Patient health data is headed for the smartphone so says Congress, the President and the 21st Century Cures Act. Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health IT, US Department of Health & Human Services, talks through all things standards and APIs so health tech developers can figure out what they’ll need to do to unlock the HUGE market this opens up for health data management and analysis.

Filmed at Health Datapalooza in Washington DC, March 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.

What’s After Health 2.0? Trends Shaping Health Tech | Indu Subaiya, Health 2.0 & Catalyst Health

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

“Renaissance woman” and Catalyst Health President & Senior Advisor for HIMSS, Indu Subaiya, has spent the past 13 years tracking the growth and integration of digital health and health technology into healthcare systems worldwide. So, how have things evolved over time? What’s new and changing? Indu points out some of the differences she’s seeing in the European approach to healthcare’s ‘digital transformation’ (hint: they’re winning at clinician engagement) and explains what startups around the world should be focused on to remain relevant as Big Tech companies infiltrate the space.

Filmed at HIMSS/Health 2.0 Europe in Helsinki, Finland in June 2019.

Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt. Get a glimpse of the future of healthcare by meeting the people who are going to change it. Find more WTF Health interviews here or check out www.wtf.health.