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Disrupting Medicare Advantage for Data Access, Better Outcomes | Vivek Garipalli, CEO Clover Health

Jan 7, 2020• 1

BY JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

Vivek Garipalli, CEO and Co-Founder of Clover Health initially set out trying to create a high-tech healthcare company aimed at improving clinical decision making, while leveraging the best of tech and data science in the process. Sounds about right for a guy who previously founded a health system (CarePoint Health), so…how did he end up with a high-tech Medicare Advantage plan instead? Isn’t clinical disruption hard enough? In this very candid chat about the larger issues thwarting tech and the healthcare business model, Vivek explains how he HAD to turn Clover into a health plan in order to get “reliable access” to the longitudinal set of information that would truly help patients and providers achieve better health outcomes. Can this kind of thinking ever be applied to the under 65 market? How does Clover perpetuate this model? Founded in 2012, this late-stage startup has big plans for scaling up and they’re centered on winning over physicians.

Filmed at the HIMSS Health 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, CA in September 2019.

Will Health Data from Wearables EVER Be Useful to Physicians? | Yenvy Truong, HealthSnap

Dec 10, 2019• 1

By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH

Whether it be from an Apple Watch or a Withings scale, the amount of health data available to provide a glimpse into a patient’s everyday life has grown exponentially in recent years. Unfortunately, the utility of all those data points for healthcare providers has not…at least, not yet! Enter HealthSnap, who’s CEO & Co-founder, Yenvy Truong, aims to make sense of all that health data collected from wearables, sensors, and other medical devices with a “Lifestyle Profile” that provides care providers with a clear-and-concise summary of the data that matters most to understanding the day-to-day health lives of their patients. The early stage startup is gaining traction, with 12 health system partners and over 500 physicians using their tech in clinic today. Learn more about their business model, the Series A round they’re raising, and their scale-up plans in this quick chat with HealthSnap.

Filmed at the HIMSS Health 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, CA in September 2019.