Live at ViVE: Solutions: Recent Episodes
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Live at ViVE: Solutions is an interview series with innovative business leaders who are transforming healthcare and technology.
About Saket Modi:
Saket Modi is the co-founder and CEO of Safe Security, a Cybersecurity and Digital Business Risk Quantification platform company. A computer science engineer by education, he founded Safe Security in 2012 while in his final year of engineering. Incubated in IIT Bombay and backed by Cisco’s former Chairman and CEO John Chambers, Safe Security protects the digital infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies around the world with its cyber risk measurement and mitigation platform called SAFE. Saket is a part of Fortune Magazine’s 40-under-40, Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35-under-35, and Forbes Magazine’s 30-under-30 lists, among others.
Things You’ll Learn:
- Healthcare, the number one cyber-attacked sector globally, has had the highest cost of data breaches in the last 11 consecutive years.
- The biggest risk of enterprise risk management is not measuring it accurately.
- Cybersecurity is now a 150-billion industry, growing at over 12% year over year, one of the top five growing digital industries in the world.
- World Economic Forum said cybersecurity is the number one man-made threat that today worries boardrooms around the world.
- Safe Security is looking for visionary CIOs and CISOs who can be a part of this journey of defining the industry standard to measure, manage and mitigate cyber risks.
Resources:
- Follow and connect with Saket Modi on LinkedIn
- Follow Safe Security on LinkedIn
- Discover more about Safe Security on their Website
About Geoff Blanding:
Geoff Blanding serves as the Executive Vice President at Optimum Healthcare IT. As an experienced healthcare IT leader, Geoff helps organizations define and execute their IT strategies. He brings significant experience leading more than 30 Epic clients through their EHR implementations. As an interim CIO for a 250-bed specialty hospital system, Geoff understands first-hand the challenges healthcare organizations face. Before joining the Optimum team, Geoff was an Epic implementation and product director. His background includes experience with IT merger and acquisition due diligence and leading engineering, product, and technical services teams.
Things You’ll Learn:
- Optimum CareerPath is a program that seeks to recruit new entrants into healthcare information technology, train them in a thorough three-month boot camp, and place them as entry-level employees after graduating with a technical certification.
- It is essential to avoid bias and have diversity represented when you're working with AI and machine learning datasets that you might be developing.
- The job market for healthcare IT professionals is in high demand but faces many challenges like sky-high attrition, vacancies, and wages.
- When it comes to telehealth, technology isn’t a complicated issue, but the adoption of it by physicians and end-users.
- CareerPath is looking at aptitude and intelligence drive, among other soft skills more than experience as they believe talent training is underrated as a solution to I.T. vacancies in healthcare.
Resources:
- Connect with Geoff Blanding by writing to gblanding@optimumhit.com
- Follow Geoff Blanding on LinkedIn
- Follow Optimum CareerPath on LinkedIn
- Discover the Optimum CareerPath Website
About Melanie Marcus:
Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing Officer at Surescripts, is a seasoned healthcare executive, with more than 25 years of working at the intersection of marketing, technology, and healthcare. She joined Surescripts as Chief Marketing Officer in 2017, where she now leads marketing and
customer experience. Melanie built her career at McKesson, taking on progressively pivotal roles focused on marketing, strategic planning, and business leadership. Before that, she gained considerable industry knowledge through key roles in strategic planning and marketing for Sutter Health in Sacramento, California, and Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Melanie earned her degree from Bowdoin College and her MBA from Boston University.
Things You’ll Learn:
- Surescripts is a cross-country network of healthcare intelligence that has helped patient information flow in different health systems.
- Medication affordability is part of care accessibility.
- Physicians need visibility of healthcare intelligence, such as medication affordability, and oftentimes they're not armed with it.
- Prescribing processes for specialty medications currently take a long time.
- AI helps monitor the Surescripts network to ensure the information is being used for its intended purposes by users.
Resources:
- Connect and follow Melanie Marcus on LinkedIn
- Follow Surescripts on LinkedIn
- Discover the Surescripts Website
About Sahar Arshad:
Sahar Arshad is an entrepreneur and problem solver passionate about building products that bring convenience and accessibility at a scale. In 2021, the Women in IT Summit & Awards Series, the world’s largest event dedicated to tackling technology’s gender imbalance, selected her as U.S. Data Leader of the Year and U.S. Entrepreneur of the year. Other honors for Sahar include being named among the top 10 women leading healthcare startups by Healthcare Global, the Outstanding Leadership Award by Health 2.0 2022, and the top 25 women leaders in consumer health tech by The Healthcare Technology Report.
Sahar’s company, CloudMedx Inc., is transforming healthcare delivery using AI, giving patients, providers, and payers the information they need to ensure the best care, optimize outcomes, and save money. The company’s data platform collects and organizes vast amounts of information from public and proprietary sources, including clinical, social, and economic insights. With powerful data visualizations, predictive analytics, interoperable tools, and a suite of application services, CloudMedx provides unified patient records, unprecedented understandings of health data, and automated workflows, yielding superior outcomes.
Things You’ll Learn:
- CloudMedx gathers data from multiple sources in its platform and makes it actionable for health decision-makers.
- CloudMedx provides clinical, operational, financial, and patient insights.
- Automation can help with staff shortages and burnout as it gets manual tasks like registry building, which would take hours, done in seconds.
- Using patient data insights, CloudMedx strives to provide the right omnichannel engagement tools for care-at-home patients who need remote monitoring.
- Large organizations are dealing with many new systems and tools, each with their use case, creating fragmented solutions for end-users.
- Healthcare has seen a boost in digital acceleration for the past two years, highlighting the importance of technology in providing the correct information at the right time.
Resources:
- Follow Sahar Arshad on LinkedIn
- Follow CloudMedx on LinkedIn
- Follow CloudMedx on Facebook
- Follow CloudMedx on Twitter
- Discover the CloudMedx Website
- Connect with CloudMedxby writing to info@cloudmedxhealth.com
About Theresa Demeter:
Theresa Demeter is an entrepreneurial executive administrator with 30 years of healthcare performance and operational experience. As a Managing Director at Tegria, she brings her passion for conceptualizing and implementing innovative solutions that drive quality and performance improvement to optimize patient outcomes. Theresa developed Tegria’s offering that helps healthcare organizations prioritize and operationalize their health equity strategy and mitigate the harmful effects of implicit bias through macro-simulation.
Prior to joining Tegria, Theresa drove the formation and expansion of InSytu, a national leader in clinical process improvement consulting powered by macro-simulation.
Things You’ll Learn:
- Big Data collection and collaboration from different healthcare organizations can accelerate patient care.
- Tegria offers services to help organizations optimize their EHR workflows and proficiency.
- Regarding home health, Tegria helps healthcare organizations develop the right-sized customized technologies, tools, and strategies to create their programs.
- Virtual technologies and tools can upskill providers in remote locations to keep their community better, longer, and safer with more efficient care at a lower cost.
- AI and ML tools in healthcare seek to improve automation and intelligent decision-making, standardizing patient care and predicting patients that might be coming in.
Resources:
- Connect and follow Theresa Demeter on LinkedIn
- Follow Tegria on LinkedIn
- Discover the Tegria Website
About Julia Hu:
Julia Hu is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Lark. Founded on the personal experience of having grown up with an undiagnosed chronic condition, Julia is passionate about bringing compassionate care to those struggling with or at risk of chronic disease. Hu was named one of the “Top 10 Women in Tech” by Forbes and was a winner of Inc. Magazine’s “30 under 30”. Prior to founding Lark in 2011, Julia ran a global startup incubator, the Clean Tech Open, built a sustainable construction startup, and was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Stanford’s StartX incubator. She is on the board of the Council for Diabetes Prevention and a Singularity University faculty member. Hu received her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees at Stanford University and half of an MBA from MIT Sloan before founding Lark. Julia loves to stay fit with hip hop.
Things You’ll Learn:
- Lark Health helps, through conversational AI, anyone struggling with a chronic condition, or at high risk of chronic disease, live a happier and healthier life.
- Lark Health has been clinically effective in managing pre-diabetes in areas with shortages of healthcare professionals.
- If not for the Lark Virtual Diabetes Prevention Program, only 5% of that population in those areas would have had access to in-person care services.
- Conversational AI and remote patient monitoring can provide care delivery in chronic preventative and behavioral health areas.
- It took Lark seven years to train their AI with a million and a half patients before they started getting clinical equivalents to live nurses for the disease states the platform covers.
- In a post-COVID world, Lark provides an excellent opportunity to turn healthcare into a system that services each patient individually to their needs.
Resources:
- Follow and connect with Julia Hu on LinkedIn
- Follow Lark Health on LinkedIn
- Discover more about Lark Health on their Website
About Dr. Rowland Illing:
Dr. Rowland Illing is the Chief Medical Officer and Director of International Public Sector Health for Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has responsibility for healthcare strategy and operations for AWS internationally, excluding the US & China. This encompasses healthcare providers, payors, and health technology companies. He is passionate about the delivery of person-centered care, increasing access, and improving outcomes at a lower cost by accelerating the digitization and utilization of healthcare data. Rowland, who trained at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities, continues to present and publish on topics including digital healthcare and AI.
Things You’ll Learn:
- Technologies developing AI and Machine Learning can use data analytics to improve health equity by aiding ambulatory care and monitoring.
- On-premises storage will not be enough in a likely future where data is being collected not only on-site but also in an ambulatory manner through wearable devices that bring care closer to the patients.
- AI can help physicians and healthcare providers with burnout by targeting care for patients at the right time with the right intervention thanks to collected data.
- Cloud technology can improve health equity through the democratization of access, lowering costs, and tailoring care for each individual.
- Amazon Web Services has a three-year program in place to train all-comers in AI and ML with scholarships available.
Resources:
- Connect and follow Dr. Rowland Illing on LinkedIn.
- Follow Amazon Web Series on LinkedIn.
- Discover the AWS for Healthcare Website
- Explore the ViVE Website
- Learn more about Propeller
- Read about ArmadaHealth
- Visit the AWS AI & ML Scholarship Program Website
- Learn about UC Davis Health Cloud Innovation Center
- Discover and download SageMaker Studio Lab
About Michael Clark:
Michael Clark is committed to building organizations that simplify healthcare complexities and put the patient and provider first. As CEO of DeliverHealth, he guides a team of healthcare experts in clearing the way for essential, resilient connections among providers, clinicians, and patients.
For more than 25 years, Michael’s “patient and provider first” mindset has helped healthcare organizations thrive. He has spent most of his career working with healthcare startups and PE-backed midsize and mid-cap public companies. He has focused on boosting physician satisfaction, reducing health systems costs, and improving security.
Before leading the spin-out of the HIM and EHR service businesses from Nuance Healthcare and founding DeliverHealth, Michael served as General Manager, Provider Solutions at Nuance. While there, he led the division’s aggressive growth of its flagship, Dragon Medical One, which is now used by hundreds of thousands of physicians, and an expansion in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, ultimately helping the company earn the 2020 #1 KLAS ranking for Dragon Medical One.
Things You’ll Learn:
- EHR services are the second-biggest investments health systems make, after the people that provide care.
- Asynchronous omnichannel communications are prevalent in other industries and could greatly benefit healthcare processes.
- Digital solutions such as virtual intake forms and language interpretation services can broaden health equity and access.
- Purpose-built AI tools can be improved with human interaction to learn from and get more complete solutions for their users.
- Innovation happens not only in the development of technology but also in the people and the processes.
Resources:
- Follow and connect with Michael on LinkedIn
- Follow DeliverHealth on LinkedIn
- Discover more about DeliverHealth on their Website
- Connect with Michael at michael.clark@deliverhealth.com
- Text Michael at 6786441188
About Melissa Sherry:
Melissa Sherry is the VP of Social Care Integration at Unite Us and designs payment technology to increase funding for community programs. She holds an M.P.H and a Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Things You’ll Learn:
- Unite Us is building coordinated care networks to make sure individuals’ basic needs are met and their social care journey is achieved.
- Housing is an important social determinant in patients’ care in terms of access and quality.
- Determinants like access to electricity, food, and medication all work in a snowball effect.
- Unlike healthcare language, the language around social care is currently being standardized by projects like the Gravity Project and Unite Us.
- Unite Us uses technology and structured data to allow referrals to be easily sent through their platform.
- Social needs affect outcomes across all different sectors, including healthcare.
Resources:
- Connect and follow Melissa Sherry on LinkedIn
- Follow Unite Us on LinkedIn
- Discover the Unite Us Website
- Explore the Gravity Project Website
Patients can take control of their healthcare journey through data, analytic tools, and access. Welcome to a 5 podcast series about ViVE! We are incredibly happy to be launching with this first episode in which we have the pleasure to interview Kristen Valdes. Kristen is the founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health, and is a truly transformative and innovative force to be reckoned with in the healthcare industry.
Miss Valdes really wants to remove the friction between consumers and providers in healthcare, and recognizes that it comes from both sides. She also shares what her coined term portalitis is, the problem with too many portals and passwords used by consumers, how they are fulfilling the promise of healthcare equity, and giving consumers a way to choose what’s best for them.
About Kristen Valdes
Kristen Valdes is the founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health. She is a transformative force in today’s healthcare marketplace, spearheading the conversation on how empowering consumers can transform healthcare delivery.
Kristen is a seasoned healthcare executive with over 20 years in the industry and has dedicated her life to pioneering inventive solutions. This quest has been largely driven by her powerful personal story as the mother of a child suffering from a significant autoimmune disorder. Prior to founding b.well, Kristen was a Vice President at United Healthcare running Medicare Advantage plans across 12 states. Mrs. Valdes has been recognized as a 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovator and b.well Connected Health has won various competitions and awards including being named Top Innovator by Accenture in their Global Health Tech Innovation Challenge.
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Things You'll Learn
- Patients have tons of accounts and passwords to keep up with for their healthcare portals.
- Healthcare providers need to make simple the process of telling patients they need certain care.
- The American consumers are not educated about their basic rights from the healthcare perspective.
- Consumers are used to having multiple options from where to choose.
- Providers now have to be consumer-minded with everything they offer.
Resources
- Connect and follow Kristen on LinkedIn.
- Discover more about b.well Connected Health.
When events deliver rich experiences for the audience, they are destined to succeed. In today’s episode, we welcome Richard Scarfo, HLTH’s President and one of the people that made ViVE possible. The ViVE conference exceeded expectations this year gathering 5,100 attendees and around 300 different companies that were part of the event.
The conference’s success was due to having an experience-centric mindset from the beginning. It’s not only about having great participants, speakers or sponsors, it’s also about entertainment, food and drinks, and the opportunity to create high-valued networking connections. Richard shares four key topics that arose from the conference: health equity programs, diversity, interoperability, and cybersecurity. Tune in to the next episodes and keep the ViVE vibe rolling!
About Richard Scarfo
Richard Scarfo is the president of HLTH, a leading platform bringing together the entire health ecosystem, focused on health innovation and transformation.
Before leading HLTH, he was the Vice President of PCHAlliance at HIMSS. He has also had positions in Sales, Marketing, and Strategic Alliances in several renowned healthcare industry companies.
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Things You'll Learn
- Events are more successful when they are focused on the experience they want to deliver.
- Producers and organizers also concentrate on curating the network they are building for the event.
- The Outcomes Rocket ViVE podcast series is here to help you catch up if you weren’t able to be at the in-person conference.
Resources
- Connect and follow Richard on LinkedIn.
- Discover more about HLTH.