This Week In Health Innovation

At the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Florida Association of ACOs (@FLAACOS), Gregg Masters, MPH CEO Health Innovation Media and Publisher of ACOwatch.com gets key insights from Joshua Rosenthal, the Chief Science Officer of RowdMap a company that 'helps health plans, government payers, providers, and hospital systems develop Risk-Readiness strategies to excel as they transition from fee-for-service to pay-for value.' In this exchange we learn more about their risk readiness and market assessment tools analytics.  For more information, check out the information supplied by Josh Rosenthal here and to learn more about the Florida Association of ACOs here.  

At the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Florida Association of ACOs (@FLAACOS), Gregg Masters, MPH CEO Health Innovation Media and Publisher of ACOwatch.com gets key insights from René Lerer, MD, President of GuideWell a not-for- profit mutual holding company including market leader Florida Blue, GuideWell Connect, GuideWell Health and Diversified Service Options, Inc.  We learn more about GuideWell, the nature and challenge before the healthcare ecosystem - hospitals, physicians and health plans - to meet the needs of patients (members or consumers) and the value proposition of the 'right incentives' to align interests in an historical production oriented fee-for-services paradigm. For more information, check out the deck supplied by Dr. Lerer here and learn more about the Florida Association of ACOshere.  

On the Wednesday, September 30th 2015 broadcast at 11:00 AM Pacific/2PM Eastern our special guest, making an encore appearance, is Farzad Mostashari, MD (@Farzad_MD), Founder and CEO of the innovative ACO management company Aledade (@AledadeACO).  In this series my co-host and co-founder of PopHealth Week Fred Goldstein, Founder and President of Accountable Health, LLC explores Farzad's progress at Aledade and drills into the touch points between population health and accountable care. Farzad will be keynoting at the Florida Association of ACOs, October 1 & 2, 2015; agenda and details here. We're featuring the following core perspectives in the series, speaking with thought leaders and pioneers in accountable care from each of the following ACO types: physician led, hospital sponsored and health plan enabled. Join us!

We kickoff the Countdown to the Population Health Alliance (PHA) Forum scheduled in Washington, D.C, November 2-4th, 2015. Join us for an overview of the go to industry event in the Population Health Industry. Our special guests include Population Health Alliance Board Chair Chris Selecky and Sean McManamy, Program Chair for a review of events, keynotes and theme for another exceptional event. For detailed information click here. 

At thePopulation Health Alliance Forum 2014, my colleague and Health Innovation Media co-host Douglas Goldstein@efuturist chats with Kaveh Safavi, MD (@DrKavehSafavi) Global Managing Director for Health at Accenture (@AccentureHealth).  We recap some of Dr. Safavi's insights and foresights into the emerging health ecosystems and they key drivers of successful transformation. The PHA Forum 2015 is scheduled November 2nd - 4th, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Produced for Population Health Alliance by Gregg Masters of Health Innovation Media.

We caught up with industry thought leader, consultant, advisor and Chief Medical Officer to Conversa Health and Kinergy Health Dr Danny Sands (@DrDannySands) at HealthOvate Boston, a joint venture between the Xavier Center for Innovation (follow via @XavierInnov8) and Care Innovations a GE/Intel joint venture (follow via @careinnovations). In this chat, we get Danny's views on digital health trends, patient engagement and the current state of the digital health industry. Join us for HealthOvate Chicago which runs Monday, October 5, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. For more information or to register click here. Produced by Gregg A. Masters MPH for Health Innovation Media.

We caught up with industry thought leader, consultant and advisor to many companies Pamela McNamara at HealthOvate Boston, a joint venture between the Xavier Center for Innovation (follow via @XavierInnov8) and Care Innovations a GE/Intel joint venture (follow via @careinnovations). In this chat, we get Pamela's views on digital health trends, patient engagement and her new venture Health Helm. Join us for HealthOvate Chicago which runs Monday, October 5, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. For more informatio or to register click here. Produced by Gregg A. Masters MPH for Health Innovation Media.  

Sourced from QualcommLife's Connect 2015 (@qualcommlife) partner ecosystem conference I caught up with tech and digital health entrepreneur, thought leader, Rick Valencia (@bootstrapped), the Senior Vice President and General Manager, QualcommLife. Rick is a long term tech innovator who took on the challenge of driving innovation into the healthcare sector via technology.  In this interview we discuss the status of the digital health ecosystem, where QualcommLife stands in this transformation and where - and at what rate - he sees this continued progress unfolding.  For more information on QualcommLife and it's commitment to the digital health ecosytem, click here. 

We caught up with the master group process facilitator Shawn Nasons at HealthOvate Boston (see: 'Healthovate! Boston…What a great day of BOLD ideas and SOLUTIONS!' for summary). Shawn is a talented voice and bundle of energy in the health, healthcare and education transformational space. As Chief Innovation Officer for the Xavier Center for Innovation (follow via @XavierInnov8) he and his talented team are co-locating a unique experience branded 'HealthOvate' with core partners Care Innovations a GE/Intel joint venture (follow via @careinnovations) with limited stops around the country. In this chat, we get an overview of what happens at HealthOvate and learn of the schedule and locations for future gatherings. HealthOvate Chicago runs Monday, October 5, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. For more informatio or to register click here. Produced by Gregg A. Masters MPH for Health Innovation Media.    

Sourced from QualcommLife's Connect 2015 (@qualcommlife) partner ecosystem conference I caught up digital health trail blazer, thought leader, academician, researcher, and practicing Cardiologist Eric Topol, MD (@erictopol). Dr. Topol is the Founder and Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute (@scrippsstsi), Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health and Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute. We discussed his theme of 'democratizing medicine' and got his sense of the progress to date and the future of the digital health fueled patient centric healthcare industry writ large. For more information on QualcommLife and it's commitment to the digital health ecosytem, click here.  

Coverage at Health Datapalooza was a rich experience talking to thought leaders, entrepreneurs and healthdata wonks of all stripes including Health Data Consortium CEO Christopher Boone aka @DataHippie. My colleague and co-host reporting on the ground Douglas Goldstein @eFuturist catches up with Abhinav Gautam, MD, co-founder & Chief Medical Officer of Carevoyance. Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.

At the Population Health Alliance Forum 2014 (PHA Forum) in Scottsdale Arizona, Gregg Masters, @2healthguru founder and CEO of Health Innovation Media chats with William Emmet, Executive Director of The Kennedy Forum on mental health parity and the motivations behind the creation of The Kennedy Forum and its essential role in Population Health.  The PHA Forum 2015 is scheduled November 2nd - 4th, 2015 in Washington, D.C., at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel. Enjoy this man's soft spoken but determined passion fueling his personal and organizational mission driven advocacy for quality, accessible, affordable and integrated behavioral healthcare for all Americans. Produced for Population Health Alliance by Gregg Masters of Health Innovation Media.    

At the Connected Health 2015 Conference in San Diego California we caught up with the one of the leading voices in health and medical informatics, John Mattison, MD, (@JohneMattison) the Associate Medical Director and Chief Medical Informatics Officer of Kaiser Permanente (@KPshare), Southern California Region. In this exchange my colleague and co-host Nick Adkins @NickReelDX explores Dr. Mattison's insights and experiences with EHR, connected health and digitial health industries. Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.  

At the Connected Health 2015 Conference in San Diego California we caught up with the soft spoken but authoritative physician and informaticist voice in the digital health industry Nick van Terheyden MD aka@DrNic1. In this exchange my colleague and co-host Nick Adkins @NickReelDX explores Dr. Nick's insights and experiences with EHR, connected health and digitial health industries. Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.  

At the Connected Health 2015 Conference in San Diego California we caught up with the soft spoken but powerful voice of a digital health industry leader and might I say profoundly insighful executive, Alan Portela, CEO@airstripmHealth. In this exchange my colleague and co-host Nick Adkins@NickReelDX explores Alan's insights and experiences with meaningful use and the often acute, recurrent disconnect between private and public sector energies advancing the digital ecosystem in health and healthcare for the benefit of the American people. Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.  

Coverage at HiMSS 2015 was its usual challenge navigating to and from events, booth interviews and general circulation on the floors, Press Room amidst a sea of 43,000 healthIT stakeholders. As is our style we chat with thought leaders, entrepreneurs and healthdata wonks and healthIT fans of all stripes from Daniel Kraft, MD aka @Daniel_Kraft, Chair of the Medicine Track at SingularityU and Curator of Exponential Medicine, to John Glaser, Sr VP Cerner. My colleague and co-host reporting on the ground Douglas Goldstein @eFuturist catches up with Ed Martinez, CIOMiami Children's Health System at the Healthgrid (@health_grid) booth.  Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.

Coverage at Health Datapalooza was its usual rich experience talking to thought leaders, entrepreneurs and healthdata wonks of all stripes from Christopher Boone CEO aka @DataHippie to George Freeman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Life Sciences, UK  Department of Health. My colleague and co-host reporting on the ground Nick Adkins @NickReelDX catches up with George Freeman MP (@Freeman_George), who presides over health data for the entire UK. Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.

Coverage at Health Datapalooza was a rich experience talking to thought leaders, entrepreneurs and health data wonks of all stripes from Christopher Boone CEO aka @DataHippie to George Freeman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Life Sciences, UK  Department of Health. Following a collegial 'fireside chat' with Aneesh Chopra (@aneeshchopra) I caught up with Box (@BoxHQ) CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie (@levie). We got some history of the company (a ten year run to date) and it's recent foray into the healthcare space.   Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.

At the 15th Annual Population Health Colloquium 2015, my colleague Douglas Goldstein @efuturist and I caught up with Jeffrey Rose, MD,  senior vice president, clinical strategy, at Hearst Health, follow via @hearsthealth. Dr. Rose guides and represents the Hearst Health care guidance strategy in client and vendor partner interactions and in professional settings across the health industry. He works closely with the major companies and alliances within Hearst Health (Zynx Health, FirstDataBank, Milliman Care Guidelines, Homecare/Homebase and Map of Medicine) supporting and guiding strategic clinical and business initiatives across payer and provider communities, and among the vital domains in medical practices where clinical decision support and care quality support initiatives are paramount. Before joining Hearst Health, he was the chief medical officer at Trizetto Corp. and VP clinical excellence, informatics, at Ascension, where he provided senior executive leadership and strategic support for informatics

At the 15th Annual Population Health Colloquium 2015, my colleague Douglas Goldstein @efuturist and I caught up with the Katherine Schneider, MD, President of the Delaware Valley Accountable Care Organization (@DV_ACO): an integrative network consisting of 'Five great health systems and over 450 great primary care physicians delivering a high-value care model to the greater Philadelphia region ACOs' This is the audio portion of the interview only, the complete video interview will be available c/o Health Innovation Media and uploaded here.  Enjoy!