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As healthcare providers incorporate an expanding landscape of technologies and strive to meet patient expectations in the post-pandemic world, the standards of healthcare delivery are rapidly changing. The typical point of care experience for patients is shifting beyond the hospital, as facilities begin to prioritize digitization, AI-informed decision making, and operational efficiency. In this episode, Jen and Mindy are joined by Vynamic’s Head of Provider Sector, Ryan Hummel, as well as health system leaders across the nation, to discuss what the hospital of the future could look like. 

Podcast Tags: healthcare, health services, providers, hospitals 

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• The digital hospital of the future
• In the Future, Patients Won’t Go to the Hospital—It Will Come to Them
• When the walls come tumbling down: the hospital of the future
• The future of hospitals: a consultancy viewpoint
• 5 Trends That Will Determine The Hospital From The Future

Panel – Ryan Hummel, Mindy McGrath, Jen Burke

Research & Production – Marc Young, Jen Burke

Recording & Editing – Mike Liberto, Rachel Skonecki

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Across the healthcare industry, organizations are beginning to think and operate differently to expand capabilities and adapt to a changing environment. Historically separate entities, such as health plans, providers, and technology companies, are coming together to collaborate on innovative solutions to a complex healthcare system. In this episode, Jen and Mindy are joined by Vynamic’s Provider Head of Sector, Ryan Hummel, and Health Plans Head of Sector, Saurabh Raman, to discuss how, and why, these health service organizations are re-imagining traditional sectors.

For more of Vynamic’s perspective on Convergence in Healthcare, check out:

• Breaking Boundaries: The Convergence Evolution
• The Convergence Conversation
• Health Plans: Big Bets for Convergence & Strategic Capital Diversification
• The Rise of Primary Care: Leading the Convergence Movement
• 2023 Healthcare Industry Trends

Podcast Tags: healthcare, health services, health plans, providers, convergence 

Panel – Saurabh Raman, Mindy McGrath, Ryan Hummel, Jen Burke

Research & Production – Adrea Cope, Jen Burke

Recording & Editing – Mike Liberto, Rachel Skonecki 

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On this week’s Trending News EU episode, Jack and Ollie discuss a few recent EU-based newsworthy items including the potential for robotics to transform surgical and patient care (0.35), exciting progress being made in Europe to advance decentralised clinical trials (7.26), and much needed hope for those suffering with postpartum depression following approval in the US of an innovative new medicine (15.48). 

Podcast Tags: healthcare, healthcare news, robotics, AI, artificial intelligence, NHS, health equity, EU, clinical trials, neuroscience, depression, postpartum depression, major depressive disorder, biogen 

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• Outdated legacy tech risks driving frustrated staff out of the NHS 
• Millions of hours of doctors’ time lost each year to ‘inadequate’ IT systems 
• St Bartholomew’s perform first robotic-assisted lung biopsy 
• Is Outdated Technology Holding Back UK Surgeons? 
• The robotics revolution has arrived, and it is changing how we do surgery 
• €60 million committed to establish AI and robotics in healthcare 
• Robotic surgery supporting faster recoveries and better outcomes 
• Different, But Not Poles Apart: Running Decentralized Clinical Trials In EU & US 
• Principles-Based vs Prescriptive: How US & EU Compare In Their Approach To Decentralized Trials 
• How clinical trials benefit from decentralized solutions: A Nordic case study 
• The trial of the future: using digital technologies to enable decentralized trials 
• Decentralized trials getting some attention on the international regulatory front 
• No place like home? Stepping up the decentralization of clinical trials 
• A new pill in the U.S. offers hope to mothers with postpartum depression 
• Postpartum psychosis: new mothers speak out over need for support 
• Clinical Efficacy of a 2-Week Treatment Course of Zuranolone for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and Postpartum Depression: Outcomes From the Clinical Development Program 
• Impact of new pill to treat postpartum depression will depend on price 
• Biogen, Sage's postpartum depression approval overshadowed by larger rejection 

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Jen Burke, Director  

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Jack Young, Senior Director 

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Oliver May, Senior Manager  

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In this episode, Mindy, Ryan, and Jen discuss recent newsworthy items, including the latest in drug shortages across the US market, the damaging impact of cybersecurity and ransomware attacks on health systems and hospitals, and the FDA’s approval of Zurzuvae, a depression pill specific to treat severe depression after childbirth. 

Podcast Tags: healthcare, healthcare news, life sciences, public health, drug shortages, cybersecurity, ransomware, FDA, women’s health, reproductive health, post-partum depression, mental health 

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• Pfizer adds rocky mount meds emergency ordering list thwart hospital shortages 
• Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics and now US cancer patients can’t get meds
• South Dakota Drug Shortage Stockpile
• Hackers force hospital system to take its nation computer system offline 
• Hospitals risk of data breach doubles just before, after a merger deal, research shows
• HHS release free online cybersecurity training, best practice reports for healthcare 
• Hospitals top all industries when it comes to money lost in data breach 
• FDA Approves First Pill for Postpartum Depression 
• FDA Approves first postpartum depression pill in the US  
• Biogen, Sage’s postpartum depression approval overshadowed by larger rejection 
• More US counties have become maternity deserts since 2020 

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Mindy McGrath, Healthcare Industry Advisor and Head of Public Health Sector

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Ryan Hummel, Executive and Head of Provider Sector

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Jen Burke, Director

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The impact of climate change on global health systems and health outcomes necessitates comprehensive action across healthcare decision making, policy formation, governance, structures, and systems. In this episode, Jen, Ryan, and Ollie are joined by Vynamic’s Rosanna Vellacott, to discuss how healthcare systems are grappling with the impacts of climate change and the multi-pronged approach required to address the accompanying public health crisis.

Podcast Tags: healthcare, climate change, public health, mental health, providers

Source Links:

·      Five key links between climate change and health

·      WHO issues urgent call for global climate action to create resilient and sustainable health systems

·      Why climate resilience is key to building the health care organization of the future

·      Valley fever, historically found only in the Southwest, is spreading. It can have devastating consequences.

·      UW study strengthens evidence of link between air pollution and child brain development

·      A Scoping Review of Interventions for the Treatment of Eco-Anxiety

·      Yale Experts Explain Climate Anxiety

·      Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

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Rosanna Vellacott, Manager

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Oliver May, Senior Manager

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Ryan Hummel, Executive and Head of Provider Sector

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Jen Burke, Director 

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The US primary care industry is in a period of rapid disruption, as dozens of new players raise capital like never before. While the operating methods of these new companies vary, the mission is the same – to utilize primary care to provide high quality, convenient care at a lower cost. In this episode, Jen, Mindy, and Ryan are joined by Vynamic’s Jed Barnes, to discuss what these changes mean for the future of primary care and healthcare industry at large. 

Podcast Tags: healthcare, primary care, providers, value based care, fee for service

For more information about Vynamic’s work in the Provider sector, please visit https://vynamic.com/sectors/providers/

Source Links:

·      Primary Care in High-Income Countries: How the United States Compares

·      5 Things to Know about Amazon’s Recent One Medical Acquisition

·      How Amazon built its healthcare strategy from Haven to One Medical

·      Amazon’s Foray into Primary Care Won’t Be Easy

·      CVS closes $10.6B acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint

·      JPM21: Oak Street Health, One Medical CEOs explain how healthcare models can actually scale

·      Convergence in Healthcare: Providers, Employers, and Health Plan

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Jed Barnes, Manager

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Mindy McGrath, Healthcare Industry Advisor and Head of Public Health Sector 

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Ryan Hummel, Executive and Head of Provider Sector 

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Jen Burke, Director 

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On this week’s Trending News EU episode, Jack and Ollie discuss a few recent EU-based newsworthy items including new therapies slowing Alzheimer’s progression (0:35), practical application of AI to reduce waiting times in NHS hospitals (8:34), and the impact of the recent European heatwave on healthcare systems (14:03).

Podcast Tags: healthcare, healthcare news, life sciences, AI, machine learning, artificial intelligence, NHS, health equity, EU, neuroscience, scientific research, innovation, alzheimers, dementia, climate change, heatwave

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· Alzheimer’s drug donanemab helps most when taken at earliest disease stage

· NHS ‘nowhere near ready’ to deliver new Alzheimer’s drug

· Drug donanemab seen as turning point in dementia fight

· Donanemab: NHS ‘not ready’ for Alzheimer’s wonder drugs as patients face postcode lottery for brain scans

· Life sciences competitiveness indicators 2023

· There\’s Finally a Fully Approved Alzheimer\’s Drug—But Getting It Won\’t Be Easy

· How AI is helping to shrink waiting times for NHS cancer patients

· AI cuts waiting times for cancer patients in NHS first

· Google and Microsoft Vie for Dominance in AI Healthcare

· Heatwaves, hospitals and health system resilience in England: a qualitative assessment of frontline perspectives from the hot summer of 2019

· Why do NHS hospitals struggle to handle heatwaves?

· The impact of the 2003 heat wave on mortality and hospital admissions in England

· Heat and health in the WHO European Region: updated evidence for effective prevention

· UK heatwave piles further pressure on stretched NHS services

· Heat, Heatwaves and Cardiorespiratory Hospital Admissions in Helsinki, Finland

· Italian hospitals report sharp rise in emergency cases as Rome hits 41.8C

· Parisians are most at risk of dying in European heatwaves

· Medicines manufacturing has the potential to drive UK growth over the next 10 years

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Jen Burke, Director

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Jack Young, Senior Director

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Oliver May, Senior Manager

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In this episode, Mindy, Ryan, and Jen discuss recent newsworthy items, including the recent FDA approvals of Leqembi and Opill, a price transparency and PBM reform package working its way through Congress, and the recent series C funding raise for Octave.   

Podcast Tags: healthcare, healthcare news, life sciences, health policy, public health, CMS, DA, Medicare, drug prices, PBM, Alzheimer’s, women’s health, reproductive health, mental health, telemedicine, virtual care 

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• New Federal Decisions Make Alzheimer’s Drug Leqembi Widely Accessible 
• With nonprescription nod for Perrigo's Opill, the age of the over-the-counter birth control pill arrives in the US 
• House committee moves another price transparency, PBM reform package forward 
• Education and the Workforce Committee Passes Landmark Health Care Package 
• Octave nabs $52M, eyes expansion of in-network therapy services to all 50 states in 2024 

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Mindy McGrath, Healthcare Industry Advisor and Head of Public Health Sector 

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Ryan Hummel, Executive and Head of Provider Sector 

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Jen Burke, Director 

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Life Sciences and MedTech companies are transforming the way they interact with customers; working to create experiences that are personalized, digital, timely, and intuitive. In this episode, Jen is joined by Vynamic’s Customer Experience Transformation Lead, Mike Zapiec, Omnichannel Offering Lead Josh Padams, and MedTech Omnichannel Expert Jess Werle to discuss what omnichannel really is, why it’s changing the game, and how Life Sciences and MedTech organizations can take their first steps on this journey.

Podcast Tags: healthcare, life sciences, medtech, medical devices, customer experience, omnichannel, digital marketing

For more information about Vynamic’s Customer Experience Transformation offerings, please visit https://vynamic.com/offerings/customer-experience-transformation-cxt/

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Mike Zapiec, Senior Director

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Josh Padams, Director

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Jess Werle, Director

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Jen Burke, Director

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