This Week In Health Innovation

We are again onsite covering HiMSS 2016 in Las Vegas Nevada, from Sunday February 29th through Thursday March 3rd 2016. This year we are co-locating our virtual studio in the Conversa Health booth, courtesy of Phil Marshall, MD, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.  For more on the leading 'digital health checkup' company see two recent pieces here and here.  The broadcast schedule is Tuesday - Wednesday from 11AM-1PM Pacific. Do follow us for what will be an informative series of special guest interviews!

PROGRAM NOTE: we had an echo in the first to interviews. it resolves after the second. We will swap out the first two with studio quality audio shortly!   We are again onsite covering HiMSS 2016 in Las Vegas Nevada, from Sunday February 29th though Thursday March 4th 2016. This year we are co-locating our virtual studio in the Conversa Health booth, courtesy of West Shell, CEO and Co-founder, and Phil Marshall, MD, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer. Our broadcast schedule is Tuesday - Wednesday from 11AM-1PM Pacific, click here.  For more about Conversa Health,the 'digital health checkup' leader see two recent pieces here and here.  The schedule is coming together and will be post shortly here and on our site Health Innovation Media. Do follow us for what will be an informative series of special guest interviews!  

On the Wednesday, February 17th, 2016 broadcast at 12 Noon PT/3PM ET our special guest is Neil Gordon MD, PhD, Chairman CEO & Founder of Intervent.  Intervent is a global lifestyle management and chronic disease risk reduction company based in the United States. INTERVENT develops, licenses and provides evidence-based, technology-enabled, outcomes-oriented programs for the prevention and management of multiple chronic diseases. The primary purpose of the INTERVENT programs is to improve individual and population-based measures of health while simultaneously reducing health care costs and enhancing productivity.  Dr. Gordon has authored over 100 published scientific manuscripts, eight books, and numerous scientific abstracts in the area of preventive medicine. Dr. Gordon served as an associate editor of the Eighth Edition of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (the world’s most widely read academic text on the topic of exercise science). Dr. Gordon h

At the SAP Personalized Medicine Symposium held in Palo Alto, California, I met with their Chief Medical OfficerDavid Delaney, MD (follow via @DrDavidDelaney). A primary care physician turned informaticist and analytics geek, Dr. Delaney knows the space and drills into the value added role of analytics in general and the HANA platform in particular as well as the value proposition of collaboration and rapid learning systems in the emerging personalized and precision medicine ecosystem.  For two prior interviews Stanford Medicine faculty interviews with Carlos Bustamante, Ph.D, click here, and Euan Ashley, MRCP, DPhil, click here. Enjoy!   

During the JP Morgan 34th Annual Healthcare Conference Health 2.0 hosts the WinterTech conference which focuses on investment in the emerging digital health ecosystem. In this exchange, Health Innovation Media founder Gregg Masters chats Robin Berzon, MDFounder and CEO Parsley Health; follow on twitter via @parsely_health. Parsely Health is a hybrid 'mashup' of direct practice, consumer focused retail medicine and tech enabled functional medicine that says 'no' to a telephone deferring instead to tech access. For more information click here. Enjoy!  

During the JP Morgan 34th Annual Healthcare Conference Health 2.0 hosts the WinterTech conference which focuses on investment in the emerging digital health ecosystem. In this exchange, Health Innovation Media founder Gregg Masters chats with Jean Anne Booth, CEO and Founder of UnaliWear (follow on twitter via @UnaliWear). The UnaliWear Kanega watch provides: '...discreet support for falls, medication reminders, and a guard against wandering in a classically-styled watch that features an easy-to-use speech interface rather than buttons. Unlike traditional medical alert products, we work wherever you are, 24×7 – and unlike Apple Watch or Samsung Gear, we don’t require a smart phone. For more information, click here. Enjoy!

At the Population Health Alliance (PHA) Forum 2015Health Innovation Media co-host Douglas Goldstein (@eFuturist) sits with thought leader, author, consultant and entrepreneur Michael Dermer (@MichaelGDermer) the Chief Incentive Officer of Welltok (@welltok). Michael addresses the current climate including legal, regulatory and market adoption issues in the rewards and incentives space in healthcare. This chat reflects an update since we spoke with Michael at last year's gathering, click here. For a deeper dive into Michael's 'The Lonely Entrepreneur', click here (TBA), and follow on twitter via @thelonelyE. Produced by Gregg Masters for Health Innovation Media.  

During the JP Morgan 34th Annual Healthcare Conference Health 2.0 hosts the WinterTech conference which focuses on investment in the emerging digital health ecosystem. In this exchange, Health Innovation Media founder Gregg Masters chats with Trein Schiffelbian the Managing Director of the Validation Institute a service of Care Innovations an Intel/GE joint venture specializing in telehealth, remote patient management, population health, the move to value based healthcare and the provision of actionable insights at the point of care. We also learn about the Validation Institute and the role it plays in both the claims made by digital health companies and how startups can prudently deploy investment capital.  Enjoy!

During the JP Morgan 34th Annual Healthcare Conference Health 2.0 hosts the WinterTech conference which focuses on investment in the emerging digital health ecosystem. In this exchange, Health Innovation Media founder Gregg Masters chats with Karissa Price,Chief Marketing Officer of Care Innovations an Intel/GE joint venture specializing in telehealth, remote patient management, population health, the move to value based healthcare and the provision of actionable insights at the point of care. We also learn about the Validation Institute and the role it plays in both the claims made by digital health companies and how startups can prudently deploy investment capital.  Enjoy!      

At Health 2.0 2nd Annual WinterTech Conference Gregg Masters, MPH CEO of Health Innovation Media chats with AthenaHealth CEO Jonathan Bush. For context and details see 34th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, including free registration for presenting company webcasts and slide decks. For AthenaHealth deck, click here. Enjoy!

At HiMSS 2015 in Chicago, Illinois last Spring we chatted with a number of top CIOs, Chief Innovation Officers, CMIOs and other clinicians in thought leadership roles at major healthcare systems and enterprises around the country. In this session we speak with author, physician and social media early adopter Jordan Grumet, MD (follow via @JordanGrumet). Dr. Grumet brings home the social media imperative as a tool to humanize the clinical encounter whether virtual or in real time via an increase sense of 'earned intimacy'. Dr. Grumet speaks to the following questions: What's driving the adoption of social media?How would you characterize the current state of social media practice at most healthcare orgainzations?Who do you see modeling 'best practices' in social media?Are you hopeful or pessimistic for the utility of this emerging medium?What excites you about the future?Is the introduction of social media tools a net positive or negative for our industry? Enjoy!   

At HiMSS 2015 in Chicago, Illinois last Spring we chatted with a number of top CIOs, Chief Innovation Officers, CMIOs and other clinicians in thought leadership roles at major healthcare systems and enterprises around the country. In this session we speak with Mandi Bishop ofDell Healthcare and Life Sciences. Mandi is active on twitter as well via the handle @MandiBPro as is her emplopyer via @DellHealth. Mandi speaks to the following questions: What's driving the adoption of social media?How would you characterize the current state of social media practice at most healthcare orgainzations?Who do you see modeling 'best practices' in social media?Are you hopeful or pessimistic for the utility of this emerging medium?What excites you about the future?Is the introduction of social media tools a net positive or negative for our industry? In this chat, Mandi describes the power of the medium attributing in part her standing in the community to participation in both Twitter and LinkedIn. 

At HiMSS 2015 in Chicago, Illinois last Spring we chatted with a number of top CIOs, Chief Innovation Officers, CMIOs and other clinicians in thought leadership roles at major healthcare systems and enterprises around the country. In this session we speak with Will Weider, CIO of Ministry Healthcare (follow via @ministry_health). Will is active on twitter as well via the handle @CandidCIO.  Will speaks to the following questions: What's driving the adoption of social media?How would you characterize the current state of social media practice at most healthcare orgainzations?Who do you see modeling 'best practices' in social media?Are you hopeful or pessimistic for the utility of this emerging medium?What excites you about the future?Is the introduction of social media tools a net positive or negative for our industry? The candor of the current state of practice in healthcare is not to miss and he lays out the call to action for healthcare providers to meet there customers where they work, live and play [par

At the SAP Healthcare Personalized Medicine Symposium in Palo Alto California, Gregg Masters, MPH chats with Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Genetics, Carlos Bustamante, PhD. For more information see: Bustamante Lab.Faculty included: Bill McDermott – SAP CEOCarlos D. Bustamante, MD & PhD – Professor of Genetics, Inaugural Chair of the Biomedical Science Department, Stanford University School of MedicineDr. David Delaney – SAP’s Chief Medical OfficerEuan Ashley – Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics, and by courtesy, Pathology & Director, Stanford Clinical Genomics ServiceMagnus Peterson, MD & PhD – Specialist in General Medicine and Pain Rehabilitation; Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University; Coordinator of Academic Primary Care, Norrtälje TioHundra AB, Karolinska InstituteDr. Peter Paul Yu, MD – FACP, FASCO Immediate Past President, American Society of Clinical Oncology  

At SAP's recent symposium on personalized medicine, health innovation media had the good fortune to chat with several of the faculty including Euan Ashley, MRCP, DPhil (follow on twitter via @euanashley), Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford Medical School (for more information, see the Ashley Lab). The complete video interview is available here. Produced for Stanford Medicine by Gregg Masters, MPH, for Health Innovation Media.    

At the 9th Annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference (@health2con) Douglas Goldstein (@efuturist) catches up with tech entreprenuer Stacy Sheldon, Managing Partner, of POMIET (follow via @StacysIdeas and @pomiet). In this exchange we hear about the origins of the company and it's principal value proposition embedded in its name and brand, i.e., 'peace of mind in everday technology'.  Produced by Gregg Masters, MPH (@2healthguru) for Health Innovation Media the publisher of ACOwatch.com.

At the 2nd Annual gathering of the Florida Association of ACOs, Founder and CEO Nicole Bradberry shares her perspectives on the emergence of the Association including the dynamics unleashed by the Affordable Care Act driving the move into value based healthcare. Listen as opines on market dynamics and where things are going as we transition from a volume based to value oriented ecosystem.  Produced and directed by Gregg Masters for Health Innovation Media.

At the 2nd Annual gathering of the Florida Association of ACOs,Aledade Founder and CEOFarzad Mostashari, MD makes a compelling argument for both the business model (outcomes dependent) and rationale for the entire ACO industry as principal catalyst of the transformation. Listen as my colleague Fred Goldstein chats with this visionary physician who nails the value prop and challenge before the healthcare industry's transformation from a volume based to value oriented ecosystem.  Produced and directed by Gregg Masters for Health Innovation Media.  

At the 9nd Annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference (@health2con) Douglas Goldstein (@efuturist) catches up with tech entreprenuer and fomer hospital executive Mike Ryan (@MikeGordonRyan). In this exchange we hear about innovation contextualized over a 30 year event horizon, 'not much has changed in 30 years in healthcare, we're still a sickcare system'. Produced by Gregg Masters, MPH (@2healthguru) for Health Innovation Media the publisher of ACOwatch.com.

At the 9nd Annual gathering of the Health 2.0 Fall Conference (@health2con) hosted at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Gregg Masters, MPH (@2healthguru) CEO Health Innovation Media and Publisher of ACOwatch.com attended the Deep Dive, 'The App Cure: Redefining the Daily Apple Through Technology' a session Moderated by Scott Mace of HealthLeaders. In this session American Medical Association executives James Madara, MDExecutive VP and CEO, and Michael Tutty, PhD, Group Vice President, Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability explore mhealth apps, their promise and 'hype'.  Learn more about the innovation center launching in January 2016.