

Outcomes Rocket
Saul Marquez
At Outcomes Rocket, we are the shared knowledge hub for healthcare's toughest problems. Our goal is twofold and clear. To help inspire and guide our listeners to 1. Improve patient outcomes and 2. Experience business success in healthcare. Tune in to learn more!
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Aug 10, 2022 • 37min
FOGI: Being a Universal Translator: The Tasks of a Nurse Informaticist with Amora Upton, Nurse Informaticist at The Department of Veteran Affairs
If they keep closing doors, go around them.
In this episode of the Future of Global Informatics, TJ Southern is happy to be joined by Amora Upton, an army veteran and nurse informaticist at the Department of Veteran Affairs. As an experienced professional, Amora shares her career trajectory from learning computer programs and informatics in the army to working on artificial intelligence policy issues. She talks about challenges and shortcomings she has experienced in her career, like inadequate software, the lack of more nurses on decision-making tables, level standardization, and hierarchies in nursing informatics. Amora also discusses the diversity of job opportunities for nurse informaticists and encourages newcomer professionals to have an open mind.
Tune in to listen to learn from Amora Upton’s experience and advice nurse informaticists!
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Aug 9, 2022 • 31min
SONSIEL: A Nurse Turned to Tech with Joshua Littlejohn, Product Manager of Nurse Experience at IntelyCare
A nurse is always building things that allow better care for patients! This episode features a nurse who has pivoted into technology and now helps build the tools that others use!
This week’s guest on the SONSIEL Podcast is Joshua Littlejohn, product manager for the clinician experience at IntelyCare. After working in molecular microbiology and making television, Joshua became a nurse who then turned to technology, inspired to structure the tools and the systems to care for people. He introduces IntelyCare, a platform where individual nurses go and select which facilities, schedules, and shifts they want to work. He talks about his job as a product manager and draws differences and similarities with that of a nurse informaticist, both technology-filled jobs. The former being industry-focused, and the latter health-system-focused. Joshua speaks of finding where he fits in the nursing world and feeling excited about big data innovation in healthcare.
Tune in to this episode to listen to Joshua talk about technology making an innovative impact in care and nursing!
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Aug 8, 2022 • 24min
MM: Keys to Healthcare Marketing with Rhonda Blaschke, Healthcare Marketing Executive
Make sure you understand who your customers are.
Welcome to the Marketing Mondays Podcast! In this episode, Rhonda Blaschke, a healthcare marketing leader, talks about personas, technology, and innovation all around healthcare marketing. She discusses different areas that contribute to taking the right idea at the right time into the hands of the right persona. Rhonda speaks on healthcare subjects like building trust with providers and administrators, building personas, digitalization, cybersecurity, and data interoperability. Additionally, she advises those starting in healthcare marketing, telling them to go out in the field and listen to customers’ needs.
Tune in to this episode to listen about healthcare marketing and its potential!
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Aug 4, 2022 • 14min
Matching Experienced Sales Talent with You with Cherese Paloni, Founder and CEO of MDliaison
This episode is brought to you by Provider Solutions and Development, the leaders in physician and APC recruitment that deliver top-tier candidates for the right roles. Visit info.PSDconnect.org/outcomesrocket to start the conversation today, get tailored support and dedicated recruitment and efforts that lead to provider retention and longevity.
Healthcare companies need good, experienced sales teams. In this episode, we hear from Cherese Paloni, founder and CEO of MDliaison, about the company's work by helping healthcare companies find qualified, experienced sales talent in a quick, flexible, and cost-effective manner. Additionally, MDliaison helps large companies when it comes to scaling their sales teams for different markets and also aids smaller ones in being able to access experienced sales representatives.
Cherese talks about setbacks that have improved the company and its strengths, like focusing on providing quality in MDliaison’s services, be it talent performance or flexibility, to establish a partnership with their clients. She also discusses the current developments in mental healthcare and how they are changing the industry for the better.
Tune in to this episode to listen about the services MDliaison offers and how they may help your business!
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Aug 4, 2022 • 11min
Introducing the Care Delivery Podcast hosted by Manav Sevak, Co-Founder and CEO at Memora Health
New podcast alert!
In this episode, Manav Sevak, CEO, and co-founder of Memora Health talks about the upcoming Outcomes Rocket Care Delivery Podcast. Manav explains how he seeks to position the Care Delivery Podcast as a central hub where you can go to learn how the entire healthcare system works from the people who operate in the space and have tons of years of experience in it. He will have healthcare executives, non-healthcare operators, and investors as guests to provide the listener with their unique perspectives in 15 to 20 minutes episodes, released every two weeks.
Tune in to this episode to learn about how this new podcast will help you form a holistic view of how the industry is changing!
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Aug 3, 2022 • 29min
FOGI: A Doctor’s View on Clinical Informatics with Dr. Nakyda Dean OB/GYN and Aspiring Clinical Informaticist
Here's a provider that understands the importance of informatics!
In this episode, we are ecstatic to be joined by Dr. Nakyda Dean, an obstetrician & gynecologist, and aspiring clinical informaticist. Dr. Dean talks about her passion to provide care to underserved populations and how that unknowingly lead her to clinical informatics as a way to proactively tackle alarming health disparities like black women's maternal morbidity and mortality with technology. She discusses the importance of informaticists for clinical providers and the challenges that she has faced in the field of informatics like participation, complete data analysis, and proper compensation.
Tune in to listen to Dr. Nakyda Dean talk about what excites her about clinical informatics!
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Aug 2, 2022 • 24min
SONSIEL: Holistic Acuity, a Hackathon Product with Nathanael Rosenberg, Charge Nurse at Froedtert Hospital & Samu Mhlabib, Founder & CEO at NurseBrain
The last SONSIEL Hackathon pushed forward a great tool! This episode features two nurse innovators, the developers of Holistic Acuity!
This week’s guests on the SONSIEL Podcast are Nathan Rosenberg and Samu Mhlambi! Last November, they teamed up at SONSIEL’s Hackathon and launched Holistic Acuity, a virtual tool that takes in different factors and calculates a score to determine a patient’s true non-medical acuity besides taking into account the medical acuity. They talk about the process of coming together and bringing different practices and knowledge to the table to create the acuity scale and questionnaire. They also share how SONSIEL provided a network and mentorship that helped them during the process. Samu and Nathan enthuse about the opportunities and possibilities that nursing innovation has at the moment, and they encourage nurses to trust their instinct and voice their ideas to develop them and bring innovation to their practice.
Tune in to this episode to learn about innovation in the nursing space!
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Aug 1, 2022 • 10min
Introducing Marketing Mondays hosted by Andreea Borcea, Fractional Chief Marketing Officer at Dia Creative
Introducing the Outcomes Rocket Marketing Mondays Podcast!
In this episode, Andreea Borcea, fractional CMO of Dia Creative, marketing, and wellness lover, and the new host of the Marketing Mondays Podcast talk about her passions, what listeners can expect, and the new show! Marketing Mondays will have conversations with health marketing leaders to solve questions that are out there in the space, digging deep into the ever-changing landscape of marketing, and valuable tips and things to apply in your own work!
Tune in to this episode and discover how marketing can benefit you!
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Jul 29, 2022 • 29min
Spirit of Service: From the Experience of a Healthcare Army Veteran with Louis Stout, Chief Nursing Officer & Healthcare Executive
This episode is brought to you by Provider Solutions and Development, the leaders in physician and APC recruitment that deliver top-tier candidates for the right roles. Visit info.PSDconnect.org/outcomesrocket to start the conversation today, get tailored support and dedicated recruitment and efforts that lead to provider retention and longevity.
Some people are born with a spirit of service and care for those around them. In today’s conversation, we hear from a healthcare army veteran that toured the world, Louis Stout, about how he started his career in healthcare and where it has taken him.
Louis shares the differences in the field during his touring years, how COVID impacted his work, and his overall thoughts on the healthcare industry right now. He also reflects on the recent changes, the power of innovation in today’s healthcare, and the opportunities that lie within the near future. Tune in and enjoy a wonderful conversation full of knowledge from someone with hands-on experience.
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health

Jul 28, 2022 • 26min
Promoting Wellness to Prevent Illness with Elizabeth Steger, Sr. Vice President Professional Practice Integration/Chief Nurse Executive at St. Luke's Health System
New care model plans make a big difference!
In this episode, Elizabeth Steger, Senior Vice President of Clinical Practice Integration and Chief Nursing Executive at St. Luke’s Health System, discusses delivering value-based, high-quality care focused on accessibility and affordability. She explains how, at St. Luke’s, they’re designing an innovative health plan that wants to contribute to communities before they become patients by partnering with different agencies that can help with housing, food, and behavioral health, among other social determinants of health. She also explains how they plan to increase accessibility, decrease care costs, integrate payers and providers, and focus care teams on burnout prevention; this way, St. Luke’s is creating an organizational culture that promotes wellness and supports not only the patients but also its employees.
Tune in to learn how Elizabeth leads care delivery across innovation at St Luke's Health System!


