Relentless Health Value
Stacey Richter
American Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Execs you might want to know. Talking.
Relentless Health Value is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Stacey Richter, a healthcare entrepreneur celebrating fifteen years in the business side of healthcare.
This show is for leaders in pharma, devices, payers, providers, patient advocacy and healthcare business. It's for health industry innovators, entrepreneurs or wantrepreneurs or intrapreneurs.
Relentless Healthcare Value is the show for you if you want to connect with others trying to manage the triple play: to provide healthcare value while being personally and professionally fulfilled.
Relentless Health Value is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Stacey Richter, a healthcare entrepreneur celebrating fifteen years in the business side of healthcare.
This show is for leaders in pharma, devices, payers, providers, patient advocacy and healthcare business. It's for health industry innovators, entrepreneurs or wantrepreneurs or intrapreneurs.
Relentless Healthcare Value is the show for you if you want to connect with others trying to manage the triple play: to provide healthcare value while being personally and professionally fulfilled.
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Feb 23, 2017 • 31min
Episode 125: Linking Healthcare Innovation and Organizational Strategy, with Chris Cornue from Navicent Health
As Chief Strategy and Chief Innovation Officer, Christopher Cornue leads Navicent Health's efforts to plan for the future and meet the organization's mission, vision and values. He collaborates with the organization's leaders, caregivers, physicians and community and other key stakeholders to establish and execute on strategy, operations and innovation across the system. Christopher has more than 20 years of professional healthcare experience. He leverages his expertise in leadership, operations, strategy, physician relationships, thought leadership and clinical performance both domestically and globally. He has been a thought leader at Sg2 where he led the consulting practice, oversaw the Center for the Future, and served as a trusted advisor to healthcare organizations. He was CEO of McKee Medical Center in Colorado, where he led the organization to strong financial performance and top decile performance in quality outcomes and patient satisfaction while creating an engaged workforce. He was vice president at Sinai Health System, where he held system and medical group leadership, operational and strategic responsibilities. He worked with major academic medical centers nationwide at University HealthSystem Consortium, and held several leadership roles at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Christopher has collaborated with international partners to further global healthcare strategies and solutions, and serves as an expert and mentor with the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua). He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and holds bachelor of science degrees in biology and chemistry and a master of science degree in health services administration from Gannon University. You can find out more at www.navicenthealth.org, on twitter @navicenthealth, and on LinkedIn.
Feb 16, 2017 • 30min
Episode 124: Why EHR Systems Have Failed Us and How Innovations Can Enable a Better Healthcare Future, with John Lynn, founder of Healthcare Scene
John Lynn is the Founder of Healthcare Scene. Healthcare Scene is a unique healthcare IT network which consists of 10 EHR and Healthcare IT blogs containing over 11,000 articles published over 11 years. Of those articles, John has written over 5500 of the articles himself. These EMR & Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 18 million times and John has over 80k social media followers & 53k email subscribers who follow him as a thought leader in the EHR & Healthcare IT space. John also led Healthcare Scene's acquisition of the leading Health IT Job board, Healthcare IT Central. This included the acquisition of Healthcare IT Today, a unique career resource for healthcare IT professionals. In 2014, John launched the first of its kind Healthcare IT Marketing and PR Conference (HITMC). Through John's leadership, this conference has become the premiere venue for health IT marketing and PR professionals to learn and network with their peers. Plus, out of this conference, John has organized a strong community of marketing and PR professionals who are working to improve healthcare. John has given keynote speeches and taught workshops across the country and around the world. John has spoken at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual conference 6 times and at conferences like CES (Consumer Electronics Show), SXSW, and CTIA – The Wireless Association along with keynote speeches at EHR user conferences include Modernizing Medicine's EMA Nation and the gMed Summit to name a few of his speaking engagements. John has also taught multiple EHR workshops in Dubai with attendees from throughout the Middle East and Asia. John co-founded Influential Networks and Physia and is currently a formal advisor to three healthcare IT companies. John was previously an advisor to docBeat which was acquired by Vocera. John has 4 children and a beautiful wife that keep him grounded and remind him of what's important in life. John loves to play competitive ultimate frisbee and dance. His love of dance is reflected in his Reality TV blog network which covers shows such as Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and America's Got Talent. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
Feb 9, 2017 • 31min
Episode 123: The Secret to Healthcare Business Success is Collaboration, with Mark Tomaino of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
Mark Tomaino is an Operating Partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a New York City based private equity firm that invests, principally, in two markets, healthcare and information/business services. Mark's focus is exclusively on healthcare technology investment opportunities, including deal generation, due diligence, execution and portfolio company monitoring. Mark has served on the board of directors of Matrix Medical Network and GetWellNetwork. Prior to September 2010, Mark served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and M&A at The TriZetto Group, a leading healthcare information technology company to the healthcare payer industry, where he had responsibility for developing and executing its external growth strategies, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint ventures, investments and capital raising activities. Mark initiated the $1.4 billion go-private transaction with Apax Partners in August 2008 ending TriZetto's tenure as a NASDAQ-listed public company. Prior to joining TriZetto, Mark worked at Bausch & Lomb Incorporated in a variety of legal, strategy and business development capacities. Mark holds an M.B.A. from The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, where he was Valedictorian and a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Society, a J.D. from the Albany Law School of Union University, where he was a member of the Law Review, and an A.B. in English and Economics from the College of the Holy Cross.
Feb 2, 2017 • 23min
Episode 122: The Pathway to Sustainable Market Share for Pharma, and Other Life Sciences Companies with Dave Dierk of Aventria Health Group
A 27-year veteran of managed-markets marketing, David is the President/CEO of Pinnacle Health Communications. After working in consumer marketing with AT&T and healthcare publishing with Elsevier, David made the move to medical advertising and communications at K.I. Lipton, Inc. Subsequently, he became a cofounder of Pinnacle. David is an accomplished strategist, providing innovative customer marketing, access, quality, and health intervention solutions for large clients and has directed the development of numerous industry-leading campaigns in primary care and specialty markets. He has supported clients in disease areas that include oncology (Bristol Myers Squibb [BMS], Novartis, Eisai), virology (BMS, Merck & Co.), pharmacy (American Pharmacists Association, Merck, Novartis), and blood disorders (Novo Nordisk), to name a few. David has helped more than 15 clients achieve top rankings in their respective categories. He is also an active member of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance. You can find out more information at aventriahealth.com.
Jan 26, 2017 • 30min
Episode 121: How to Manage Safe Bets in a Time of Uncertainty and Complexity with Sherri Douville from Medigram
Sherri Douville brings over a decade in healthcare consulting, sales, marketing, and entrepreneurial experience to her leadership at Medigram. She now serves as a frequent moderator and panel coach at Health IT conferences. Prior to this, she founded a healthcare technology consulting practice. Medigram is a mobile, intelligent enterprise solution for healthcare that enables clinicians to communicate securely and efficiently, with intelligent context and images wherever they are, via the Medigram iOS app, Android app, or web client. As CEO for Medigram, Sherri has successfully planned and executed on the development, design, and build of the enterprise grade version platform, Medigram 2.0, which is based on an independent, secure and scalable database. This allows for the Medigram 2.0 platform to flexibly adapt to evolving healthcare business requirements. Sherri has experience in over a dozen disease states from over 9 years in clinical sales at Johnson & Johnson where she participated in the management development program, won a number of awards, and was recognized as an industry leader by Standard & Poor's Vista Research division while it was part of McGraw-Hill. Sherri now serves on the Board for HIMSS Northern California where she is Co-Chair for the Innovation conference, Co-Chair for program panels, and contributes to the newsletter. She is an advisory board member for the National Bundled Payment Collaborative, serves as a member of Santa Clara University's Board of Fellows, and as Co-Chair of the mentoring team at TiE's (The Indus Entrepreneur) youth entrepreneurship program. She earned her BS degree in Combined Sciences from Santa Clara University and two big data analytics certificates through MIT. Sherri recharges while exercising, reading, writing, and by spending time with her husband and friends cooking, hiking, and learning together. President & CEO, Medigram, Inc. Email: sherri@medigram.com www.medigram.com www.linked.com/in/sdouville https://medium.com/@SherriDouville https://www.peerlyst.com/users/sherri-douville @SherriDouville @Medigram You can find out more information by searching Sherri Douville on LinkedIn and Medium.
Jan 19, 2017 • 28min
Episode 120: The Invisible Destroyer of Value & Quality with Dr. Dike Drummond, MD - The Happy MD
Dr. Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained Family Practice doctor, burnout survivor, author, executive coach and consultant to individual physicians and healthcare organizations across the USA. He teaches simple methods to lower stress, build more life balance and prevent burnout. Dr. Drummond has over 2000 hours of one on one physician coaching experience where the concepts and techniques you are about to learn were developed and tested in the real world. Dr. Drummond is the CEO of TheHappyMD.com with over 13,000 physician subscribers to his newsletter in 63 countries. His book "Stop Physician Burnout – what to do when working harder isn't working" is the first step by step burnout prevention manual for physicians. You can find out more at thehappymd.com.
Jan 12, 2017 • 32min
Episode 119: Fostering Problem-Solver Nurses and Maker Nurses w/Jamie Davis of NursingShow.com
Jamie Davis, RN, NRP, B.A., A.S., host of the Nursing Show is a nationally recognized medical educator and author who began educating new emergency responders as a training officer for his local EMS program. As a media producer, he has been recognized for the MedicCast Podcast, a weekly program for emergency medical providers like EMTs and paramedics, and the Nursing Show a similar program for nurses and nursing students. His programs and resources have been downloaded over 6 million times by listeners and viewers. People follow Jamie online under the handle @podmedic on most social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You can find out more information at Mediccast.com.
Jan 5, 2017 • 34min
Episode 118: Improving Health in Healthy Communities with Rick Brush of Wellville
Rick is CEO of Wellville, a 10-year initiative founded by angel investor Esther Dyson to improve health and financial outcomes in five U.S. communities. In addition to overseeing the national project, Rick leads the Wellville effort in North Hartford, CT, working with Community Solutions and a multi-sector collaborative focused on achieving the Neighborhood Triple Aim: improved population health, wellbeing, and investment. Rick is also founder & CEO of Collective Health, which developed the Health Impact Bond, a pay-for-success financing model that leverages future health care cost savings to generate upfront investment in prevention. Before turning entrepreneur, Rick spent nearly a decade at the health insurer Cigna, where he was Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer for the national employer segment and launched the company's Communities of Health venture. Prior to that, Rick was a corporate strategist at Ford Credit, Bank One and KPMG. Rick graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and lives with his wife and two children in Simsbury, CT. Websites: Wellville.net, Collectivehealth.net Twitter: @WayToWellville, @collectivehlth Facebook: facebook.com/waytowellville To reach Rick: rick@hiccup.co; LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rrbrush You can find out more at wellville.net or on twitter @waytowellville.
Dec 22, 2016 • 26min
Inbetweenisode 11: Motivating Walking - The More You Drive, the More Obese You Are w/Fred Richter
Fred is an inveterate traveler. He has bicycled, walked, hiked or run in all 50 US states, all 10 Canadian provinces, and on every continent but Antartica. Along the way, he spent time backpacking on some of the world's most renown trails and so far has hiked (some are drive-ups) to the summit of 38 state high points. This year he has biked over 5000 miles and is on course to run/walk/hike 1000 miles. Traveling around the world, he pays close attention to the accommodations offered to active road users. He notes, "It becomes clear how much a country, state or local municipality values and encourages walkers or bikers as I attempt to walk or bike their roadways." Knowing the importance and benefits of safe walking and biking, Fred serves as an advocate on the local, regional and state levels. He has been awarded a Safe Routes to School grant for his local school district, helped design a more walkable streetscape in his town, and continues to promote the 3Es of enforcement, engineering and education to hopefully ensure the roads are safe for all users. Fred earned a doctorate from Penn State. 00:00 The benefits of walking. 03:00 "The risk of obesity increases 6% for every hour we spend in the car driving." 03:45 "The more you drive, the fatter you are." 04:50 How infrastructure aids obesity. 05:20 "Creep" on roads. 06:00 Why speed is a problem, not a solution. 08:30 What a community can do to encourage pedestrian safety. 10:00 The two criteria for people to walk. 14:00 Why a parking lot can be the most dangerous place to walk. 16:00 Why people will walk in malls but not parking lots. 17:40 Why rail trails are great, but need connectivity to encourage more walkers. 19:15 The community benefits of walking versus driving. 23:00 Why walkable communities have better economies.
Dec 15, 2016 • 36min
Special Edition: Five Reasons the ACA Won't Be Repealed with Billy Wynne of Thorne Run Partners
Billy Wynne Managing Partner, TRP Health Policy Phone: (202) 309-0796 Email: bwynne@thornrun.comwww.thornrun.com/health-policy www.mypolicyhub.comwww.linkedin.com/in/billywynne www.healthaffairs.org/blog/author/wynne @billywynne77 @trphealthpolicy @thorn_run Billy Wynne is nationally respected health policy consultant, advocate, speaker, and entrepreneur. He possesses a wealth of government and private sector experience in developing and implementing federal healthcare policy and achieving legislative and regulatory objectives. He delivers strategic counsel and advocacy services to Fortune 500 companies, trade associations, integrated health systems, state and local governments, private foundations and a host of other organizations across the country. Mr. Wynne joined Thorn Run after several years as principal of a healthcare-focused policy boutique and as an associate in the healthcare practice of the nation's then-largest lobbying firm. In 2013, he founded Policy Hub, a comprehensive website and newsletter aggregator of Federal healthcare policy analysis. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Wynne served as Health Policy Counsel to the Senate Finance Committee. In that capacity, he advised Committee Members on key health care policy matters, including Medicare, Medicaid and broader health care reform. Mr. Wynne was a key drafter and negotiator of several healthcare laws enacted during that period and assisted in the development of the healthcare reform "White Papers" that served as the basis for the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Wynne received a bachelor's degree in Government from Dartmouth College and a law degree from the University of Virginia. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Virginia bar associations and serves on the boards of Operation Smile, 9Health Fair and Chinese Children Charities. When he's not working in Washington, Mr. Wynne lives in Denver, CO with his wife, Christy, and their children, Eleanor and Lei. 00:00 The future of the ACA and MACRA. 02:00 An ACA repeal is not an ACA repeal. 03:00 "It's really a matter of what's going to be carved in, not out." 05:45 The Gordian Knot of the ACA. 06:20 "The Affordable Care Act actually reduced the deficit." 07:20 Why policies initiated by the ACA mandates have benefitted the economy. 08:30 Some of the less visible aspects of the ACA. 11:30 Billy discusses Kentucky and Republicans who will face the ramifications of trying to repealing ACA. 15:40 Owning promises, solving problems, and defending solutions. 21:00 Looking at Medicaid and Medicare in the looming prospect of repealing the ACA. 23:45 What's the crux of the savings? 24:15 The term "decentralization" and the ramifications of that in Medicaid. 25:50 Healthcare stakeholders and the weight they hold in whether the ACA gets repealed or not. 28:35 How MACRA fits into these new political developments. 31:30 What Actionable steps can healthcare CEOs take right now. 33:45 Things stakeholders and Payers should be thinking about and doing right now.


