Shift Forward Health

Jared and Zain and review their experiences test driving the Reperio Health At-Home Screening Kit and discuss the benefits of being able to get results from the comfort of your home within a matter of minutes. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Amazon Pharmacy’s latest new features. How significant is their new caregiver feature and their making PillPack available to Medicare Part D members, and is anyone paying attention to these iterative updates from one of the biggest brands in the space? 

VIDEO 

Watch Jared's experience with the kit on our brand new YouTube channel: 

https://youtube.com/shorts/Gy5O1DlEOdo?feature=share

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

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In the 2nd of a 3-part bonus series, Jared shares his top 5 insights for B2B2C digital health companies to understand their role in making healthcare consumer-centered. 

The role of digital health companies: 

1. Understand consumers more deeply than anyone else. 
2. Create a product or service so good that consumers demand it. 
3. Educate consumers so they see you as a solution. 
4. Educate health systems / employers / health plans so they understand your value. 
5. Use your brand “for good” (obligatory Wicked reference).  

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#427) 

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Ryan Howells, Program Manager of the CARIN Alliance and Partner at Leavitt Partners, shares how to kill the clipboard in healthcare once and for all. Ryan is reported to be a finalist to lead the ONC, and he recently co-authored a 17-page roadmap for federal policy and the industry to accelerate innovation and cut administrative waste. As an advocate for scaling open data standards at the federal level, his point of view on interoperability is important to understand as federal policy is being written as we speak. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about LillyDirect adding Alzheimer's care to its platform. Who’s really in charge of the journey when pharma becomes a care coordinator, and what role can Pharma platforms play in the continual evolution of healthcare becoming direct to consumer?

Paper: Kill the Clipboard!: https://leavittpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NEW-Ideas-for-the-Trump-Department-of-HHS_FINAL.pdf 

RFI: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/16/2025-08701/request-for-information-health-technology-ecosystem.

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#426) 

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In the 1st of a 3-part bonus series, Jared shares his top takes on the impact and value for health systems to make healthcare consumer-centered: 

1. Growth Strategy: Consumer experience is a differentiator, not a distraction. 
2. Digital Transformation: Consumer expectations aren’t an obstacle — they’re the accelerator for change management. 
3. Team Development: Every marketer is now in the experience business. 
4. Business Model Innovation: The momentum behind the move to prevention and wellness dwarfs anything that we saw at the peak of retail health. 
5. Personal Development: Being a source of trusted information is a moral imperative, and one of the quickest paths to fulfillment in this field. 

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#425) 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shweta Maniar, Global Director of Health and Life Sciences at Google, shares how investing in the foundations of healthcare delivery and life sciences innovation will power the evolution from sick care to well care in the years ahead. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the launch of General Medicine. What should you know about the new venture from former Amazon and PillPack leaders, and how could their consumer transformation architecture lead to a more "shoppable" consumer experience? 

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#424) 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(Originally airing in February 2023) Chris McGhee, the Co-Founder and former CEO of Current Health, shares the backstory of their health-at-home platform being acquired by Best Buy for $400 Million and offers insights on how care at home plays an important part in creating amazing consumer experiences. 

With news last week that Best Buy Health is restructuring, it’s interesting to go back and hear the company’s vision now and the consumer behavior insights on which that vision is based. 

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#423) 

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David Kamenir, Vice President of US Enterprise Strategy for Novo Nordisk, reflects on lessons in leadership, strategy, and the accelerated pace of change in healthcare and life sciences, and he shares how he has learned to understand and even predict consumerization trends during more than two decades as a Pharma leader. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about employee wellness trends. What does WellHub’s latest report tell us from millions of wellbeing data points, and where do employee wellness and digital fitness collide? 

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#422) 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(BONUS EPISODE) Live from ViVE: Stephanie Lahr, Chief Experience Officer at  Artisight, shares how computer vision and other smart hospital room technologies can identify some of the friction points that plague clinicians and free them up to spend more time on patient care. 

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#421) 

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What do a life score, a public benefit corporation, and boiling the ocean have in common? They’re all part of a big conversation with Gary Druckenmiller and Robert Sundelius that goes in directions we’ve always wanted to go. Are you tired of trying to fix misaligned incentives, or feel like the work you’re doing isn’t making enough change, or wonder why we aren’t talking more about human flourishing instead of just health or wellness? Let’s go there. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Whoop’s new hardware. What insights can we get from Whoop 5.0 about our long-term health and performance, and how can its data help you take charge of your health?  

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

Start your wellness journey today: https://www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#420) 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(BONUS EPISODE) Live from ViVE: Kent Dicks, CEO and Founder of Life365, chats about the amplified power of personal health data, the access challenge for Veterans in rural areas, and a real-life example of collecting remote patient data using balloon and a car charger! 

SPOTLIGHT: SHED 

Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#419) 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.