The Big Unlock

Anika Gardenhire is the Chief Digital Officer of Centene Corporation – the country’s largest managed Medicaid services organization. In this episode, she talks about why it is important that their most vulnerable populations “show up” in their digital transformation programs. She highlights the importance of innovation for underserved and vulnerable populations and urges the technology vendor community to focus on building solutions for the most vulnerable populations.

Anika discusses Centene’s digital priorities and how they cater to their population’s specific needs by addressing digital literacy, closing the gap of digital divide, and supporting them with digital tools and technologies. Take a listen.

Dr. Denise Basow, a primary care physician by training, is the Chief Digital Officer of Ochsner Health – a health system that predominantly serves Medicaid populations in a risk-based payment model. She talks about how they’re using digital programs to drive improved healthcare outcomes and reduce care costs.

In this episode, Dr. Basow discusses their telemedicine capabilities, which include digital medicine technologies, remote patient management, digital tools to drive innovation and transformation, and digital coaching programs to drive patient engagement and outcomes. Take a listen.

Terry Myerson leads a very interesting organization – Truveta – that’s trying to aggregate healthcare data from health systems across the country in a de-identified form. They then combine this data with other sources to generate insights that drive clinical research and outcomes and develop new therapies and molecules.

In this episode, Terry discusses Truveta’s value proposition for health systems and life sciences organizations, their data sets to generate insights and the technological challenges in bringing the data sets together. We also touch on a variety of other topics, including the digital health startup landscape.  Take a listen.

In this episode, Emily Kagan-Trenchard, SVP and Chief of Consumer Digital Solutions at Northwell Health in New York, discusses a range of topics related to the new focus on consumers, patient data, technology, and analytics infrastructure required to drive consumer and patient engagement in this coming era of digital health.

Patient access is not just about capacity management and appointment scheduling but also about getting questions answered between different encounters with physicians, identity management for patients, and patient engagement. Emily suggests digital health startups take the time to do user experience research and strategic planning to understand the problem at the human level. Take a listen.

In this episode, Tarun Kapoor, MD, SVP and Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Virtua Health talks about the diverse population segments they serve in Southern New Jersey and how they drive digital health priorities and investments. He also discusses how to drive digital health programs in an incremental fashion and gain stakeholder buy-in within the organization for digital health.

Tarun discusses the current state of the digital health startup environment, the longer-term technology solutions landscape, and how to make smart decisions with limited resources. Take a listen.

In this episode, Pranay Kapadia, CEO and Co-founder of Notable Health, discusses Notable’s value proposition in the automation space for easier patient access and reducing friction in patient access processes. He also talks about the trends driving digital health investments, what clients are looking for, and the opportunity landscape for automation and digital health startups.

Most health systems think of automation as a cost-cutting endeavor and not as how they can tackle the change in how patients engage with their healthcare provider. According to Pranay, automation is about marrying patient experience that is ADA compliant, in any language, and that works on any device for any human on the planet, with the best workflow integration.

Pranay also talks about how at Notable they are working to navigate the uncertain economic environment and shares his thoughts on the current digital health startup and environment. Take a listen.

In this episode, Sara Vaezy, Chief Digital Officer of Providence talks about her new priorities, the increased focus on patient acquisition through marketing and patient engagement tools, and the role of identity-based marketing programs that get tied with the returns on investment. Sara also discusses the digital health innovation ecosystem, the startup funding environment, and all the tough choices that health systems make in the context of an economic slowdown.

Sara talks about unlocking new business models and operationalizing digital in a multi-modal context to solve both consumer and health system problems that go beyond substituting a physical visit for a virtual visit. She also states that health systems are now going through a much-needed re-evaluation of the value generated by digital business models and partnerships. Take a listen.

In this episode, Susan Collins, Global Head of Healthcare at Twilio, discusses how they are making a difference in the healthcare space through their platform using a combination of intelligent communication tools and real-time data on patients. Susan talks about how messaging tools can improve patient engagement and healthcare outcomes using behavioral economics such as nudge principles.

Susan talks about the need to transform digital experiences from merely being replacements for poor in-person experiences, the need to address underserved populations, and the use of communications and messaging platforms to address health inequities. Take a listen.

In this episode, Tom Leary discusses the recently published report by HIMSS titled “Public Health Information and Technology Infrastructure Modernization Funding” which recommends over $36 billion worth of investments over the next ten years in public health technology and infrastructure modernization. Tom unpacks the report to discuss why they have published the report now, what it means, and what the opportunities are from a public-private collaboration and partnership standpoint.

Tom also discusses the challenges of implementing the modernization, including interoperability and the siloed nature of data in our public health infrastructure, workforce training, and more. He shares his thoughts on how this modernization program can present new opportunities for health systems and technology providers. Take a listen.

In this episode, Dr. Taha Kass-Hout discusses Amazon’s investments in AI and ML for the healthcare space. He also talks about their work with healthcare organizations across the globe in empowering healthcare and life science organizations to make sense of their health data with a purpose-built machine learning platform.

Taha talks at length about Amazon’s work with leading healthcare organizations and how the Amazon HealthLake platform enables the aggregation and analysis of large data sets. He also talks about the current state of AI and ML, the opportunity to analyze unstructured data, and the big gap in the acceptance of AI/ML due to issues such as algorithmic bias that must be addressed in applying AI/ML to healthcare. Take a listen.