Does the ‘serendipitous collision’ really work when it comes to advancing innovation in healthcare? Mike Biselli, Founder & President of Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation in Denver, Colorado is betting on this ‘chance.’ An ‘industry integrator’ housed in a 180,000 square-foot facility, Catalyst HTI is bringing together healthcare startups, academics, associations, patients, and providers to eliminate the disconnect between the incumbent ‘healthcare establishment’ and the innovation community trying to work with it. With so many different ecosystem players living under one roof, what new trends and ideas are emerging? Mike tells us all.
Filmed at the Together.Health Spring Summit at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida, February 2019.
Jessica DaMassa is the host of the WTF Health show & stars in Health in 2 Point 00 with Matthew Holt.
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How can understanding the underlying social risks impacting patient populations improve health outcomes AND save health plans some serious per-member-per-month costs? You’re probably familiar with the concept of ‘Social Determinants of Health’ (SDOH) but Dr. Trenor Williams and his team at health startup Socially Determined are building a business around it.
By looking at data around what Trenor calls ‘the Significant 7’ social determinants (social isolation, food insecurity, housing, transportation, health literacy, and crime & violence) he and his team are working to help health plans intervene with their most vulnerable populations and bring down costs.
What kind of data is Socially Determined looking at? Everything from publicly available data on housing prices and air quality, to commercial datasets on buying preferences and more. Plus, with help from their health plan partners, they’re using clinical and claims data to create a complete picture of health care spend, utilization, and outcomes.
Trenor walks through some very specific examples in this interview to help illustrate his point. In one, Socially Determined was able to identify how Medicaid could better help asthmatics manage their asthma AND save a thousand dollars per affected member each month. Another project in Ohio identified that a mother with a history of housing eviction was 40% more likely to give birth to a baby requiring NICU care – opening up myriad opportunities for early intervention and the potential to positively impact the lifetime health of both mother and child.
As healthcare continues to realize its ‘data play’ – and look beyond the typical data sets available to healthcare companies – the opportunities for real and meaningful impact are tremendous. Listen in to hear more about what Trenor sees as the new opportunity for Social Determinants of Health.
Filmed at AHIP’s Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum in December 2018.
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Breaking down silos and talking about health tech’s biggest issues, Hayley Hovious of the Nashville Health Care Council explains how her organization is convening difficult conversations across the healthcare ecosystem by starting with the “burning platform.” What does that mean and how will addressing it head-on help improve healthcare in Nashville and beyond? Listen in to find out.
Filmed at the Together.Health Spring Summit at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida, February 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.
Innovation in pediatric medicine requires a different approach than healthcare innovation aimed to help adults. Omkar Kulkarni, Chief Innovation Officer at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, explains some of the key differences healthcare innovators need to keep in mind when creating new health solutions for kids and their parents. A key area of focus for Children’s Hospital of LA? Understanding how to transcend the social determinants of health to help LA’s population of 2.5 million kids.
Filmed at the Together.Health Spring Summit at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida, February 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.
HIMSS plays an important role setting the agenda for innovation and health IT. So, what’s on the organization’s own innovation agenda this year? Leslie Evans, Director of the HIMSS Innovation Center, dishes about the health tech, health IT, and digital health trends that matter most to HIMSS and how the organization will be working with Together.Health and other partners to help speed up the way new technology is integrated into the health system.
Filmed at the Together.Health Spring Summit at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida, February 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.
Google’s Verily has a $1Billion dollar investment fund and a nearly limitless talent pool of data scientists and engineers at the ready. So, how are they planning to invest in a better future for health? Luba Greenwood, Strategic Business Development & Corporate Ventures for Verily explains how the tech giant is thinking about the big data opportunity in healthcare – and, more importantly, what they see as their role in helping scale it in unprecedented ways. Where should other health tech investors place their bets, then? Luba’s previous successes investing in digital health and health technology while at Roche give her a unique perspective on the ‘state-of-play’ in healthcare investment…but has the game changed now that she’s in another league at Verily? Listen in to find out!
Filmed at the Together.Health Spring Summit at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida, February 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.
Collaborative care management software? What? Chris Klomp, CEO of health tech startup, Collective Medical, breaks it down in English and talks about how his company is helping the emergency room teams in more than 800 US hospitals collaborate as though they were on the same team in order to meet the needs of common patients.
Filmed at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida, February 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.
Sansoro Health is a next-gen EHR integration platform for Health IT companies that need a better, cheaper, and faster way to integrate their products into EMR systems. What sets them apart in this crowded space? Listen in to hear co-founder and CEO Jeremy Pierotti paint a picture of perfect-world of interoperability.
Filmed at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida, February 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.
One of Entrepreneur Magazine’s ’50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs of 2018,” Jen Horonjeff, talks about the unique business model behind her company, Savvy Cooperative. Called ‘the match.com of patient insights’ Savvy matches patients to healthcare companies for the purpose of providing real, consumer input on their products and services. How does it work? How did it become a TRUE co-op? (Yep, it’s owned by the patients!) Listen it to learn more.
Filmed at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida, February 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.
As more and more patients seek care using telehealth, one has to wonder what it’s like for the docs. Dr. Chris Dennis provides behavioral health services via the Teladoc virtual care platform and dishes on the experience. Is the patient-physician relationship the same? How does he benefit from actually seeing his patients in their ‘natural environments’? Mental health services are one area where virtual care use is quickly gaining acceptance, will the trend last? Listen in to find out.
Filmed at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida, February 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.
