Mismatched doctor appointments plague the healthcare industry but Kyruus, a healthcare innovation company, is providing solutions to improve the quality of healthcare and lower the costs by eliminating these mismatches. Julie Yoo, Chief Product Officer and Kent Siri, Director of Marketing at Kyruus talk about why Kyruus' solution is innovative and explore the challenges and growth strategies for a young innovative company.

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With focus on the implementation of health IT and meeting meaningful use, our guest Pam Arlotto, President and CEO ofMaestro Strategies, suggests that organizations take a step back and realize 'why' they're making the investment in health IT systems. She believes that innovation within healthcare needs to be holistic and systemic to manage new technologies so that value can be realized. Pam is the author of several books including: Beyond Return on Investment: Expanding the Value of Healthcare Information Technology and Rethinking Return on Investment: The Challenge of Accountable Meaningful Use.

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With a new fiber called hitoe, NTT Data is hoping to utilize sensors embedded into clothing to improve care through improved data analytics and vitals monitoring. Adam Nelson, Vice President of Industry Solutions and Healthcare and Life Sciences at NTT Data believes that through the information gathered by embedded sensors, the patient-provider relationship can be improved while ensuring that the collection of information is not cumbersome.

Dr. Michael Zaroukian, MD, PhD, FACP, FHIMSS, Vice President & Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Sparrow Health System, talks about how to utilize Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) to go beyond meaningful use criteria. Dr. Zaroukian, a HIMSS Board Member, also details the innovations he is seeing within ambulatory settings as a practicing primary care physician while contextualizing strategies for smaller organizations to become innovative.

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We sit down with Eric Heil at the HIMSS Innovation Summit to talk about RightCare, a medical technology company focused on readmissions. Through research the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, RightCare's predictive model will risk assess patients at the time of admission to serve the best matched and right level of post acute care for their needs. Eric also explains why the information needed for the best transition of care is not always in the Electronic Health Record.

Eric is the co-founder, president and chief executive officer of RightCare Solutions. From 2008-2012, he had been at Domain Associates, LLC, a leading life-science venture capital fund with over $2.4 billion under management. Prior board observer positions included Adynxx, Afferent Pharmaceuticals, Corthera, TargetRx, and Celator Pharmaceuticals. Eric also served as Director of Business Development for Corthera, a Domain portfolio company, which was acquired by Novartis in February 2010 for $620 million.

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We sit down with Sterling Lanier at the National Innovation Summit to talk about Tonic, a "[revolutionary] medical data collection" tool making the collection process "patient-friendly and less chore-like". Sterling shares the benefits of using Tonic as well as the challenges of starting a new company.

"Mr. Sterling Lanier serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Tonic Solutions, LLC. Prior to co-founding Tonic, Mr. Lanier founded and ran Chatter, one of the leading market research firms in the country and where he helped perfect many of the data collection practices in use today. Mr. Lanier has particular expertise in healthcare, having worked extensively with organizations such as GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, LifeCell, KCI, and the University of California Medical System. Prior to founding Chatter, Mr. Lanier was a senior consultant at management consultancies Prophet and Tattoo. He holds a BA from Duke University and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA." - Business Week.

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Dr. Scott Dulchavsky, CEO of the Henry Ford Innovation Institute and Chairman of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Henry Ford Hospital talks about the collaborative approach to innovation that the Institute has taken and shares the successes of the program. We talk about the Institute's processes to yield success as well as some of the work the Institute has done around involving low-income populations to innovate for the future. Dr. Dulchavsky also talks about his work beyond our atmosphere and through collaboration with NASA shares how the boundaries of healthcare are beginning to be broadened in space.

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Through a new health care delivery model called Grand-Aides, Tim Garson Jr, MD, MPH is aiming to alleviate the physician and nursing shortage. With care-givers who have the "temperaments and personalities of a good grandparent", Dr. Garson hopes to utilize untapped community resources to reduce the burden on emergency departments and realize cost-savings across the healthcare continuum.

Leslie Wainwright, Ph.D., the Chief Strategy Officer at AVIA, a provider-formed innovator network and a featured speaker at the upcoming National Healthcare Innovation Summit, talks about the current state of innovation and how health systems can become 'high-performing'. Dr. Wainwright also talks about the opportunities afforded to attendees of the National Healthcare Innovation Summit and how people can take what they've learned back to their own organizations.

The National Healthcare Innovation Summit, occurring May 13-15, 2014 in Boston, will feature executives from leading health systems, payers, public policy, foundations and think tanks, as well as private sector developers and investors. For the full agenda and more information visitwww.healthcareinnovationssummit.com.

Dr. Barrett Bready, President and CEO, Nabsys, sheds light on how Nabsys' semiconductor tools for DNA Analysis enables faster processing of genomes and how it might impact the future of healthcare. Dr. Bready also shares his story of building Nabsys from a one employee company to over 50 while winning awards such as the National Human Genome Research Institute of National Institute of Health's "$1000 Genome" award.

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