In this week’s episode, host Mike Moore talks with Joel Portice, President and CEO of egnite about its flagship solution, CardioCare.Developed at Edwards Lifesciences, CardioCare is a digital health platform that uses artificial intelligence and big data analytics to help identify and manage patients with severe heart disease.More than 50 hospitals across the country currently use CardioCare to help manage cardiovascular patients, make referrals to CV specialists, standardize quality of care and reduce heart patient mortality. Notable Quotes“There's nothing more intimate than what is gonna happen to us in our healthcare experience. And yet there are so many ways people can fall through the cracks.” – Joel Portice (02:45)“If you have that [severe structural heart disease], your mortality is about 24 months. So for me, what gets me really excited and what CardioCare was really all about was let's find those people that have this severe case of structural heart disease, and let's identify them and let's engage with them and manage them through this clinical care pathway, which as you know, can be daunting. It can be fragmented, it's convoluted. And if we can help bring these folks into this system and navigate them through this process so that they have a successful outcome, that's really meaningful work. And I think that's what gets our team going.” – Joel Portice (16:24)In This Episode(01:44) egnite’s origins and how Joel got involved(04:32) egnite’s vision for its flagship solution, CardioCare(12:17) How CardioCare works(21:46) Using AI to identify at-risk patients(23:06) Regulatory challenges and difficulties(30:20) CardioCare’s buyer and end user(32:24) egnite’s competitors(36:45) The future of egnite(41:05) Why egnite is spelled with an “e” Our GuestFor the last 25 years, Joel Portice has been focused on using technology to solve some of the biggest problems in healthcare. Before coming to egnite, Joel served as the CEO of KEPRO and Intermedix, co-founded companies IPS, Inc. and Enclarity, and was the President of Verisk Health. Joel currently serves as the President and CEO of egnite Health. 

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