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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Mar 19, 2015 • 43min
Episode 36: Jerrit Tan from Canopy Apps on the Language Barrier to Outcomes
Jerrit Tan is the CEO of Canopy Apps (www.canopyapps.com). Growing up in an immigrant family, starting at the age of 10, he played the role of interpreter for his parents and grandparents during doctor visits. These experiences inspire him to develop technology to help improve and lower the cost of healthcare delivery for the 30 million Americans who do not speak English. Prior to Canopy, he was at Google. Today, he lives in New York City with his wife and his dog. www.linkedin.com/in/jerrittan You can learn more about Canopy Apps at www.canopyapps.com and download a free trial version of the app on both the iTunes App Store and the Android Apps store by searching Canopy Medical Translator.
Mar 12, 2015 • 33min
Episode 35: Martin Trussell from Acclaris talks about Consumer-Driven Health Plans
Marty has over 30 years of experience in the health benefits industry. His career includes senior marketing and sales roles with third party benefits administrators, HMOs, and – for over 12 years – the corporate offices of Humana, Inc. He has also been the president of a marketing communications firm specializing in serving health care clients. He is currently Vice President, Sales and Business Development at Acclaris, a company that offers an integrated package of technology and services to support account-based healthcare plans such as Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts on a, private labeled platform. A graduate of The Ohio State University, Marty writes frequently about consumer-directed healthcare topics. Contact: E-mail Website Twitter 00:00 Marty talks about how he started working for Acclaris. 01:10 Marty explains what Acclaris does and what a TPA is. 01:20 TPA stands for Third Party Administer. 02:40 What makes a payer want to put together these types of health plans? 04:16 There is a trend for offering higher deductible health plans in the current healthcare market, and Acclaris jumps in to assist consumers during the time between paying deductibles and getting refunds. 05:50 What does FSA stand for? Flexible Spending Accounts. 06:20 What does HRA stand for? Health Reimbursement Arrangement. 07:00 What does the HSA stand for? Health Saving Account. 11:15 The situation that Marty is seeing with Health Systems now, and what Acclaris is addressing, can be related back to Patti Peeple's analogy of "Squeezing the Balloon." 13:07 The importance of Patient Accountability for health outcomes. 13:20 How equipped are providers for knowing what the health costs are for their patients? 17:00 The Pros and Cons of a High-Deductible plan vs. a more traditional health plan, and how patient-consumers are changing the healthcare market. 19:10 The growing importance of patient education. 20:30 The pro for the consumer side of a limited distribution network. 25:00 Shopping for healthcare plans, and where preventative healthcare falls in accordance with high deductible healthcare plans. 27:30 Tools that would help consumers and providers when choosing a healthcare plan and using it. 29:40 Marty can be reached for further inquiry on LinkedIn or at www.Acclaris.com
Mar 5, 2015 • 36min
Episode 34: Benjamin Jack, MD from BoardRounds talks about Reducing ER Readmissions
Benjamin Jack, MD is co-founder and CEO at BoardRounds, a healthcare startup that saves lives and money by improving emergency room follow-up care. He is a graduate of Weill Cornell Medical College, and formerly worked as a quantitative trader at Goldman Sachs. He holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University. Company URL: Boardrounds.com Contact: hello@boardrounds.com Social media: @boardrounds • @benjijack Visit www.boardrounds.com or e-mail Benjamin at benji@boardrounds.com for more information.
Feb 26, 2015 • 32min
Episode 33: Josh Fieldman from RubiconMD on Empowering the PCP
Josh Fieldman is the VP of Sales for RubiconMD, a New York based Health IT company that connects primary care physicians with top specialists allowing them to receive remote opinions. RubiconMD is empowering primary care physicians and allowing them to provide more care in the primary care setting. RubiconMD was founded in 2013 by two Harvard MBAs and a physician on faculty at Harvard Medical School with a mission to democratize medical expertise, bringing top medical expertise to the community level. The company, which graduated from the prestigious Blueprint Health accelerator in NYC, has raised $1.3M to-date, including an investment from EHR giant AthenaHealth. With over 15 years of sales and management experience in health tech, Josh is responsible for driving RubiconMD's growth. Prior to joining RubiconMD, Josh served as the VP of Sales for ABILITY Network where he oversaw the direct sales team prior to the company's sale to Summit Partners. Josh received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Minnesota and an MBA in Finance from the University of St. Thomas. You can reach Josh at josh@rubiconmd.com or learn more about RubiconMD at http://rubiconmd.com You can learn more at www.RubiconMD.com, or email Josh directly at josh@rubiconmd.com.
Feb 19, 2015 • 38min
Episode 32: Kevin Houlihan from Propeller Health on Tuning up the Care for COPD and Asthma Patients
Kevin Houlihan is the Director of Client Experience at Propeller Health, a Madison, Wisconsin based respiratory health management technology company. Propeller Health has an FDA cleared platform for passive collection of information related to inhaled medications use paired with software interfaces and analytics. Prior to joining Propeller Health Kevin spent time bringing productivity to mobile tools in the configured building products software space. Kevin also spent several years at Dassault Systemes Solidworks focused on 3D mechanical design software. Kevin earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and an M.B.A. also from UW Madison. Kevin enjoys downhill skiing and has been active in competitive racing and coaching for many years. You can find out more about Propeller Health at http://propellerhealth.com, and connect via email at hello@propellerhealth.com. You can follow Propeller Health on Twitter @PropellerHealth and on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PropellerHealth. You can follow Kevin on twitter @Houlihan_Kevin 00:00 Kevin talks the origin of Propeller Health. 2:35 Where Propeller Health is today. 3:45 How Kevin wound up at Propeller Health. 5:00 How prevalent asthma and COPD are, yet remain two of the most overlooked and thus most expensive chronic diseases within healthcare. 7:15 "If we're not helping patients understand how to use their medication, that's a huge roadblock to patient outcomes." 8:25 "People start down this path, and it gets worse and worse and worse, and they just learn to live with that." 9:30 What the target of evidence-based medicine is for asthma. 10:20 The types of medication used to treat asthma or COPD 11:10 How Propeller can track patient medication use, and the goal Propeller Health shoots for using this data. 13:00 "The most expensive care is the kind that's given at the wrong time." 14:45 The lack of tools that Care Teams need to treat the right problems, and the issue of patients who don't track their progress because it's too time consuming. 17:11 How the Propeller Health App can track, remind, interact, and connect patients and their family members and providers. 18:30 The meta-data that the Propeller Health App tracks along with user data, in order to see a bigger picture and improve patient quality of life. 20:20 Propeller Health is also able to use this data to find correlations between environment and broad increases in asthma triggers. 22:10 How Propeller Health App reminders work. 24:55 "The goal for us is to stay quiet until we have some significant insight to give you that you can do something with." 25:23 "The goal is to reduce the burden of managing and having your asthma or COPD." 31:00 Who hires Propeller Health. 35:00 What Kevin thinks one critical success factor is for improving patient outcomes. 38:00 Check out propellerhealth.com for more information and to reach Kevin.
Feb 12, 2015 • 38min
Episode 31: Dr. Ashish Atreja discusses the Sinai App Lab
Dr Atreja has formal training in epidemiology and board certification in gastroenterology, clinical informatics and internal medicine. Over the last ten years, he has led many informatics initiatives at Cleveland Clinic and Mount Sinai Health System that includes developing online education modules, leading EHR implementation in an integrated delivery network, designing registries, analytics on healthcare data and developing patient and provider facing apps. He had received 2011 Innovator Award at Cleveland Clinic and currently chairs eCommunications Advisory Board at American Gastroenterology Association. As Director of Sinai AppLab and Chief Technology Innovation and Engagement Officer, Department of Medicine, he has dual role of developing innovative apps for patient care, education and research as well as engaging with providers, patients and startups to adopt new technology and improve outcomes at Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Atreja is funded by National Institute of Health, has published over 50 scientific papers and has presented internationally on topics related to mHealth and patient engagement. Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, FACP Twitter: @atreja Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/atreja Website: http://sinaiapplab.org
Feb 5, 2015 • 36min
Episode 30: Dr. Robert Stall on Systematizing Senior Care
Dr. Stall is an internist and fellowship trained geriatrician (and a MIT graduate in electrical engineering and computer science) who has dedicated his entire professional career to the care of older adults. His efforts to empower patients, caregivers, and health professionals to provide better care for seniors include medical consultation and direct care, lectures, seminars, “homework” given at visits to his office, mentoring students, acting as a media resource, and providing information on his web site.Over the years, Dr. Stall has served as both hospital and nursing homes medical director, a member of the UB Medical School Faculty Council, and is proud to have co-founded a the group Building Bridges in WNY, comprised of Muslims, Jews, and others working together for the common good. Dr. Stall is the owner and CEO of Stall Senior Medical LLC, striving to enhance geriatric care using innovative, practical approaches. Projects to date include seven iPhone apps available in the iTunes stores, two interactive web-based utilities (the comprehensive Senior Health Assessment and Drugs Can Make You Sick!, a personalized medication-symptom analyzer). In 2014, Dr. Stall assembled a top-notch team of health providers to conduct high-quality home care assessments for the Medicare Advantage patient population.Stall Senior Medical is expanding services in 2015 to help fill the many senior care gaps in the community. Working under the direction of Dr. Stall and in conjunction with primary care physicians, specialists, caregivers, faith institutions, and service organizations in the community, Dr. Stall’s team is also offering Medicare annual wellness visits, transitional care management home visits to prevent rehospitalization after inpatient hospital or rehab stays, community screening clinics, and primary care services at senior living facilities and patients’ homes. Dr. Stall may be reached by email
Jan 29, 2015 • 41min
Episode 29: Salim Kizaraly from Stella Technology discusses the Technology of Collaboration
Salim Kizaraly is the Founder and SVP of Business Development at Stella Technology, a healthcare information technology company assisting healthcare executives and their teams in solving their care coordination, physician collaboration and systems integration challenges through innovative products and services. Salim's exposure to a variety of positions ranging from Engineering to Sales provides him a great insight into the health IT market, customers and technologies. In his latest role prior to founding Stella Technology, he managed the Solution Architecture team at Axolotl/OptumInsight, which supported Sales Executives by providing consultative services and domain expertise to promote the acquisition of the Optum Health Information Exchange (HIE) solution. In between his tenures at Axolotl, Salim was a Product Manager with InterComponentWare (ICW), a global eHealth company where he helped define and drive US requirements for ICW's provider connectivity, as well as care and disease management suites. Salim has contributed to several industry papers and articles on HIE and health IT. He graduated with a BSc. (Hons) in Computing from the University of the West of England (UK), and a MA in Commerce and Sales from the Université de Savoie (France). Company URL: stellatechnology.com Social media: @Stella_Inc • @SKizaraly
Jan 22, 2015 • 40min
Episode 28: How to Improve Patient Satisfaction with Sonni Mun, MD from Quality Reviews
Sonni obtained her medical degree at Louisiana State University in New Orleans and then completed an Internal Medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She was eventually appointed Chief of Medical Services for the Palliative Care Service and Co-Director of Integrated Palliative Care/Geriatrics and Palliative Care/Oncology fellowships at Mount Sinai. During Sonni's last clinical job as Medical Director of Visiting Nurse Service of New York's inpatient hospice she became increasingly interested in using technology to facilitate communication with patients. After meeting Quality Reviews' CEO and Co-Founder Dr. Edward Shin through a mutual colleague, Sonni joined the company in 2013 and is now Director of Account Management. Sonni occasionally works as a per diem hospitalist to maintain a connection to clinical medicine. Listeners can reach out to Sonni via www.ratemyhospital.com
Jan 15, 2015 • 37min
Episode 27: Dr. Glen McCracken from eVisit talks about virtual video visits
Dr. Glen McCracken is an Emergency Room Physician with 20 years' experience. He has won the prestigious "Top Doctor" of Phoenix Award multiple years, an award given to only a few physicians per year in his specialty. From 2004 to 2006, Dr. McCracken served as President and CEO of Scottsdale Emergency Associates Ltd. (SEA). Dr. McCracken served on behalf of SEA as Chairman of the Emergency Department of one of these facilities, Scottsdale Healthcare Shea. In 2009, Dr. McCracken pursued his passion for business and obtained an MBA from the University of Arizona. He has also served as Chief Medical Officer for several start- up companies including a telemedicine company Statdoctors and a Hospital Software company Medeci. In his most recent venture he co-Founded eVisit an innovative telemedicine company that allows Physicians and healthcare providers to engage their patients, increasing their revenues by increasing work flow efficiencies and allowing payment for after hour work. You can reach Glen via LinkedIn or e-mail him at gmccracken@evisit.com. evisit.com


