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This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comThe key to better healthcare is focusing on a provider-to-consumer model that prioritizes continuity of care with an actual medical practice rather than just a relationship with a website. In this episode, Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, CEO of DrWell, discusses how his company is bridging the gap between direct-to-consumer convenience and the accountability of traditional healthcare. DrWell empowers medical practices with the tech stack needed for easy online sign-ups and subscription management, all while ensuring patients are connected to real doctors, not just independent contractors. Dr. Kaplan highlights the importance of asynchronous consultations, a new feature they are rolling out for providers in 32 states, using questionnaires as a starting point for a provider’s review. He also shares predictions for 2025, specifically for GLP-1 medications, predicting that despite current challenges with shortages and FDA regulations, compounding pharmacies will continue to play a vital role in the accessibility and cost reduction of these medications, and a market-focused approach may lead to price adjustments for brand-name drugs. Tune in and learn how DrWell is shaping the future of accessible and accountable healthcare!Resources:  Connect and follow Dr. Jonathan Kaplan on LinkedIn and Instagram. Follow DrWell on LinkedIn and visit their website. Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comTelehealth initiatives in schools are expanding access to mental health services, ensuring students receive the care they need.In this episode of the Expanding Access podcast by Behavioral Health Tech, Kacie Kelly, Chief Innovation Officer at Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, explains how the Institute bridges policy and practice in mental health technology through innovative partnerships. She highlights significant advancements, including Medicare's decision to finance mobile applications and digital therapeutics, enabling clinician reimbursement. Kacie also discusses the collaborative care model, integrating mental health care into pediatric and primary care, and praises its sustainable financing. With increased funding and community involvement, she is optimistic about transformative changes in mental health care.Tune in to gain valuable insights and be inspired by the innovative approaches in mental health care!Resources: Connect with and follow Kacie Kelly on LinkedIn. Follow Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute on LinkedIn and discover their website.  Fill out the Digital Behavioral Health Technology Company Policy Survey. Visit the Behavioral Health Tech website. Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comComprehensive biomarker testing transforms healthcare through early detection, prevention, and personalized treatment, addressing diagnostic gaps and advancing value-based care.In this episode, Dr. Murdoc Khaleghi, Chief Medical Officer of Molecular You, explores groundbreaking advancements in personalized healthcare diagnostics, focusing on the transformative technology behind comprehensive biomarker testing. He shares how a single test encompassing nearly 300 biomarkers provides a detailed view of an individual's health, allowing early detection of diseases like cancer and actionable insights into prevention and treatment. Dr. Khaleghi also highlights the challenges of integrating such innovations into the U.S. healthcare system and the potential to revolutionize value-based care.Tune in to discover how comprehensive biomarker testing is revolutionizing the way we approach prevention, early detection, and personalized care!Resources: Connect with and follow Dr. Murdoc Khaleghi on LinkedIn. Follow Molecular You on LinkedIn and discover their website. Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comIn today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, innovative leadership is crucial for navigating new challenges and opportunities.In this episode, Steven Collens, CEO of MATTER, a global healthcare startup incubator, discusses his company's mission to accelerate healthcare innovation through collaboration between entrepreneurs and large companies. MATTER helps overcome the slow pace of innovation in big companies by connecting them with promising startups. Steven highlights the importance of a clear mission, vision, and values and shares insights on fostering organizational culture and supporting startups in navigating the complex healthcare landscape.Tune in for practical tips and expert advice on elevating leadership skills and driving healthcare innovation.Resources:  Connect and follow Steven Collens on LinkedIn. Follow MATTER on Linkedin and visit their website. Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comThe missing element in healthcare is often trust, and community-based peer support groups can be a powerful solution. In this episode, Darin Buxbaum, co-founder and CEO of Wider Circle, discusses how his company creates peer support groups for vulnerable populations like those on Medicaid and Medicare. Wider Circle combines human connection with data-driven insights to foster positive behavior changes, lowering inpatient utilization, closing care gaps, and improving member retention. These groups, Darin emphasizes, build trust among neighbors, enabling them to navigate the complex healthcare system, understand their benefits, and achieve better health outcomes. He also explains that by leveraging community trust, Wider Circle addresses loneliness and social isolation, positively impacting both mental and physical health. Tune in and learn how harnessing the power of community can transform healthcare!Resources: Connect with and follow Darin Buxbaum on LinkedIn. Learn more about Wider Circle on their LinkedIn and explore their website. Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency.  Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comLegacy technology is significantly hindering healthcare's digital transformation, particularly in health plans.In this episode, Marc Ryan, Chief Solutions Officer at Lilac Software, explores the future of healthcare. With a career spanning government programs and health tech innovation, Marc reveals how AI, real-time data, and advanced analytics are transforming care management. He also reveals the secrets to closing care gaps, improving member engagement, and making healthcare truly value-based.Tune in as Marc Ryan reveals how AI and real-time data are revolutionizing healthcare, closing care gaps, and driving value-based transformation!Resources: Connect with and follow Marc Ryan on LinkedIn. Follow Lilac Software on LinkedIn and visit their website! Fast Track Your Business Growth: Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

Lived recovery experiences strengthen Sober Sidekick's support systems for individuals battling substance use disorders.In this episode of the Expanding Access podcast by Behavioral Health Tech, Christopher Thompson, founder and CEO of Sober Sidekick, shares his personal recovery journey and the inspiration behind his app, which aims to create a supportive recovery community through peer support. He critiques the current incentives in behavioral health, emphasizing that they often do not align with preventing relapses or supporting long-term recovery. Instead of being incentivized by relapses, Sober Sidekick focuses on empowering individuals on their lifelong recovery journey and demonstrating the butterfly effect of these empowerment efforts. The fee-to-use app offers connection and peer support at any time, seeking to significantly reduce relapse rates through community-based support. Chris also encourages those in recovery to overcome guilt and shame, emphasizing the potential for every individual to start an epic comeback story.Tune in to discover how recovery experiences are transforming support systems for substance use disorders!Resources: Connect with and follow Christopher Thompson on LinkedIn. Follow Sober Sidekick on LinkedIn and explore their website. Download the Sober Sidekick App.  Visit the Behavioral Health Tech website.

Brightside Health is tackling the toughest cases in mental health, expanding access to care for underserved populations, and innovating with technology to improve outcomes.In this episode, Brad Kittredge, CEO and co-founder of Brightside Health, discusses his company's mission to deliver life-saving mental healthcare to individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders, including those with elevated suicide risks. He explains how Brightside Health prioritizes underserved populations, expanding access to remote mental healthcare for Medicare recipients, teenagers, and individuals with substance abuse disorders. The company's comprehensive care model includes a national suicide prevention program based on the CAMHS framework, virtual intensive outpatient programs for substance use disorder through their acquisition of Lionrock Recovery, and a commitment to precision prescribing. Brightside Health’s differentiated approach addresses the high demand and limited in-network supply of mental health services by focusing on high-severity cases, aligning clinical and financial incentives, and providing comprehensive, virtual care. Tune in and learn how Brightside Health is transforming mental healthcare delivery and improving access for those who need it most!Resources: Connect with and follow Brad Kittredge on LinkedIn. Learn more about Brightside Health on their LinkedIn and explore their website. Listen to Brad’s previous episode on the podcast here.

The DiMe Seal is a new initiative designed to help healthcare systems and consumers identify high-quality, trustworthy digital health software products.In this episode, Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), and Kimberly McManus, Deputy Chief AI Officer at the Department of Veteran Affairs, discuss the DiMe Seal, a new program designed to evaluate and recognize trustworthy digital health software. They explain the challenges healthcare systems face in evaluating the vast market of digital health products, the criteria used by the DiMe Seal, and the benefits for both developers and end-users. Both Jen and Kim highlight the importance of evidence-based claims, robust privacy and security measures, and user-friendly design in digital health. They also believe in the potential for the DiMe Seal to improve the quality of digital health products and streamline the adoption process for healthcare systems and consumers. Tune in and learn how the DiMe Seal is working to bring order and trust to the digital health market!Resources: Connect with and follow Jennifer Goldsack on LinkedIn. Connect with and follow Kimberly McManus on LinkedIn. Learn more about Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) on their LinkedIn. Start with the DiMe Seal program today. Use the code “OutRock25“ to save 25% today. Find out more about the Dime Seal Governance Committee here.

Unlocking unstructured clinical data within electronic health records can revolutionize healthcare by providing actionable insights to improve patient outcomes.In this episode, Aaron Leibtag, CEO of Pentavere, a HEALWELL AI company, discusses his journey into healthcare, driven by a personal tragedy. Motivated by his partner's mother's death due to an overlooked medical detail, he co-founded Pentavere to transform unstructured clinical text into meaningful information for clinicians. Aaron emphasizes that over 90% of healthcare data is underutilized because it is siloed and unstructured, leading to many patients "falling through the cracks." The company uses AI and natural language processing to convert this data, thereby enhancing patient care, identifying patients for clinical trials, generating evidence for regulatory processes, and more. Aaron emphasizes that the company is uniquely positioned to make a global impact on healthcare outcomes. Tune in and learn how Pentavere is harnessing the power of data to transform healthcare!Resources: Connect with and follow Aaron Leibtag on LinkedIn. Learn more about Pentavere on their LinkedIn and explore their website.  Email Aaron directly here.