This Week In Health Innovation

On the Wednesday, Aptil 23rd, 2014 at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is John Nosta. ' a thinker entrenched in the world of science, medicine and innovation. John is the founder of NOSTALAB--an amorphous, self-organizing neural network dedicated to the advancement of digital health.' 'Unwilling to accept the status quo, he’s a contrarian with a focus on the future of health and wellness. A leading voice in the convergence of technology and health, Nosta helps define, dissect and deliberate global trends in digital health. He is also the #1 Kred-ranked social media influencer in health, and in the top 10 of both the Pharma100 and HIT100 lists, and a Google Glass Explorer. John also pens HEALTH CRITICAL for Forbes--a top global blog on health and technology with over 1.5 million page views in the last year. He has made appearances on Bloomberg Surveillance as a contributor and guest host.  John has a established reputation as a vocal advocate for strategic thinking and creativity. He has built his

On the Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 broadcast at 1PM ET/10AM PT our special guest is Michael G. Dermer, the Chief Incentive Officer at Welltok.  The company notes: 'Welltok is a pioneer in health optimization that provides an integrated platform for payers, health systems, ACOs and other population health managers to help drive healthy consumer behaviors and increase healthcare value. At the core of Welltok's success is CaféWell, a Health Optimization Platform, which provides an engaging, rewarding way for consumers to take control of their physical, emotional and financial health.' Michael's mission is 'to continue to educate and advocate for healthcare incentives so that we can grow stronger and healthier as individuals, an economy and as a Nation.' The genesis of Welltok took form via it's predecessor company 'IncentOne'. When Michael Dermer originally formed IncentOne, he asked himself the following question: 'if the medical profession knows what we want each individual to do, and the savings it genera

On the Wednesday, April 9th broadcast at 10AM PT/1PM ET our special guest is Danny Sands, MD, Health IT Consultant at Zev Enterprises and Co-Chairman, Co-Founder, and Past-President at Society for Participatory Medicine. 'Danny Sands is passionate about healthcare transformation, non-visit based care, collaboration in healthcare, and participatory medicine. He spent six years at Cisco, most recently as chief medical informatics officer, where he provided both internal and external health IT leadership and helped key customers with business and clinical transformation using IT. Danny’s prior position was chief medical officer for Zix Corporation, a leader in secure e-mail and e-prescribing, and before that he spent 13 years at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he developed and implemented numerous systems to improve clinical care delivery and patient engagement. He has earned degrees from Brown University, Ohio State University, Harvard School of Public Health, and trained at Boston City

On the Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern we welcome Dr. Dave Albert, the inventor of the Alivecor ECG phone.  Also known as @DrDave01 on twitter, Dr. Dave is a Physician, Scientist, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Husband & Father, who's mantra notes: 'Saving lives one invention at a time.' Also joining me on the broadcast as co-host is Dr. Phil Marshall, Chief Product Officer of ConversaHealth aka @conversahealth. More on Phil here. Dr. Albert is an Oklahoma native. He is a physician, inventor and serial entrepreneur who has developed medical and other life-saving technologies and products over the last 30 years, turning a number of those innovations into tech startups. Founder of 3 tech companies, InnovAlarm, Lifetone Technology and AliveCor, his previous startups include Corazonix Corp (sold to Arrhythmia Research Technology and Data Critical (sold to GE). Dr. Albert left GE in 2004 as Chief Scientist of GE Cardiology to disrupt several new markets. His latest invention, the i

On the March 26th, 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern my special guests include two seasoned principals of the innovative startup ConversaHealth, @conversahealth on twitter. Joining me today are West Shell III Founder & CEO @Wsetshell3, and Phil Marshall, MD, MPH, founder & chief product officer @philmarshallmd. West is a creative, high-energy entrepreneur, strategic marketer, conceptual problem solver, committed dad, environmentalist and avid outdoorsman. He has raised 4 successful companies and 4 inspired children over a 28 year C-level career. From music to surgery, and healthcare technology (WebMD and Press Ganey) to social and rich media, Dr. Marshall is an entrepreneur inspired to make things simpler, and better. He also helps lead a large nonprofit performing arts organization, the Oregon Crusaders. According to a recent PR: 'Conversa's platform allows physicians to find out how patients are doing between office visits through automated digital checkups. Patients are asked simple b

On the Wednesday, March 19th, 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern my very special guest is Dr. Jordan Shlain (@DrShlain), the founder of Healthloop (@Healthloop)  '..a cloud-based platform that automates follow-up care; keeping doctors, patients and care-givers connected between visits with clinical information that is insightful, actionable, and engaging.' Earlier I caught up with Dr. Shlain at the 2013 mHealth Summit. For the interview click here. Dr. Shlain is a fixture at many digital health or emerging business model conferences focused in the disruption of silo-ed American ‘sickcare.’ He is the tireless warrior and ‘a pioneer in digital physician-and-patient-engagement’. When Dr. Shlain talks people listen, and recently from the stage at the mHealth 2012 Summit he announced a $10 million Series-A investment in HealthLoop led by Canvas Venture Fund, an early-stage venture fund managed by the Morgenthaler Technology Investment Company. In this exchange we learn more about the company including

On the Wednesday, March 12th 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacfic/1PM Eastern my guest is Patricia S. Meisner, CEO and Co-Founder of ActualMeds fka AdhereTx. 'Patricia brings 25 years of executive operating experience from both early stage and mature companies  in the medical device, diagnostics, life science companies, including Invitrogen, T Cell Sciences and Sigma Aldrich Corporation.  She has brought multiple new products to market in the areas of HIV monitoring; cancer diagnostics, pharmaceutical drug discovery.  Prior to founding ActualMeds , Patricia founded RedTail Solutions, a Software as a Service (SaaS) company serving middle-market manufacturers in the global supply chain. While serving as its CEO (2000-2008), she established a new revenue and business model in this segment and built a capital-efficient business that achieved  profitability in 2007. Patricia holds a B.A. degree in Biology from Kenyon College, an M.S.  in Biochemistry and an M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University. ActualMeds  provi

On a special edition of This Week in Health Innovation at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern on Thursday, February 20, 2014, our special guests include 2 principals of the start up Conversa Health. Joining us today are West Shell III Founder & CEO and Anna-Lisa Silvestre, CMO. West is a creative, high-energy entrepreneur, strategic marketer, conceptual problem solver, committed dad, environmentalist and avid outdoorsman. He has raised 4 successful companies and 4 inspired children over a 28 year C-level career. Anna-Lisa brings a high level of passion to any conversation about how people can participate in their health care. She's a gutsy, persistent leader who asks “what will it take” to make big ideas a reality. Happily married to a primary care physician, she keeps striving to do as many pushups as years in healthcare (passing 30 this year). According to a recent PR: 'Conversa's platform allows physicians to find out how patients are doing between office visits through automated digital checkups. Pa

On the Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Dr. Ryan Bosch, Chief Medical Information Officer, Inova Health System a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Northern Virginia that serves more than two million people each year from throughout the Washington, DC, metro area and beyond. Dr. Bosch is a board-certified internal medicine physician, decorated military officer, former academic department director, health care consultant, and business entrepreneur. He has excelled in diverse health care executive positions both in the delivery of medical care and the optimizing of clinical information systems for over 20 years.   Dr. Bosch leverages broad expertise in both business and medicine to cross the chasm to connect technology to actual workflow/service lines, and thereby, position unified solutions that have significant impact on clinical performance and costs.   As the CMIO of Inova Health System, he directs regional and national initiatives to

On the [rescheduled] Friday, February 14th, 2014 broadcast at 10:30AM Pacific/1:30PM ET our special guest is Lucian Iancovici, MD, Investment Manager, Qualcomm Ventures. Dr. Iancovici is an Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures, who makes investments through Qualcomm’s Life Fund (QLF). His background and experience in medicine lead him to believe that this is a transformative period in the healthcare space, especially given the renewed interest in performance and cost metrics prevalent today. In this context, Dr. Iancovici is focused on wireless healthcare opportunities.  He led the QLF investment in Practice Fusion, Co-led the investment in Fitbit and works closely with Telcare and ClearCare. Dr. Iancovici will keynote the Venture+ Forum, Sunday, February 23, Orlando on 'The Evolution of Digital Health'. 'The future of digital health is changing rapidly. The advent of the connected system has fueled a new generation of companies trying to turn healthcare into a system where information can flow more eas

On the Wednesday, February 5th 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern, we continue our special series 'Countdown to HiMSS14' with a tireless warrior advocating for patient centric healthcare, and founder of the 'art as message' virtual Walking Gallery Regina Holliday. For details on Regina click here and a beautifully done video of The Walking Gallery here. Regina once tagged 'little miss A' is a powerful keynote speaker at healthcare conferences who carries the water for a patient centric healthcare system that leverages e-connectivity resources to provide the right care at the right time for the right patient. A mission born from the tragic loss of her husband to delayed if not mis-diagnosis of renal cancer, Regina is determined to not let Fred's death fade from memory while the healthcare ecosystem continues its predominant 'business as usual' siloed care management models. For an informative interview as to Regina's passion and motivation see last year's clip from HiMSS13 here. Join us!  

On the Wednesday, January 29th 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern, we begin our special series 'Countdown to HiMSS14' with Ash Damle, CEO of Lumiata (follow on twitter via @lumiata). According to their website, Lumiata is all about: 'helping you deliver optimized care: time . location . behavior . pathophysiology' via 'A New Approach: Predictive analytics powered by an evidence-based medical graph. Striving to combine the brilliance of a physician with the analytic power of big data, we've tied hundreds of healthcare data sets together and spent over 20,000 physician hours to build a medical graph: raw big data processed into usable curated big knowledge.' Ash has been a visible presence in the health innovation conversation for some time now, originally launching the effort via Medgle. Today on this special HiMSS edition we learn more about the man, his vision, passion and value proposition. Join us!          

On the Wednesday January 22, 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Healthcare Leaders aka #hcldr tweetchat co-founder and co-host, Lisa Fields aka @practicalwisdom. More about Lisa: 'Lisa Fields has vast and global experience as a healthcare leader. Along with her partner Colin Hung, Lisa were guests at the White House due to science phenome Jack Andraka's invitation. Jack extended this invitation because Healthcare Leaders tweet chat is providing true innovation in education. She recently presented Twitter in the learning healthcare system: The Tweetchat  and professional development this past fall for one of the most well respected medical schools. The healthcare leader tweet chat consistently ranks s as one of the most impressive models of leadership on Twitter. Dr. Kelly President of New York Presbyterian Hospital and Dr. Stuart Marcus CEO/President St. Vincent's Health System are both active and great supporters of #HCLDR'  For more information on both Lisa and Colin, see t

We resume our regularly scheduled broadcasts of this week in health innovation kicking of the 2014 season fresh from a rich sampling of digital health applications c/o CES 2014 front and center in our consciousness (more later). Our first guest of the new year is early Google Glass adopter aka 'Glasshole' and forward leaning surgeon Rafael Grossman, MD, FACS; follow on twitter via @ZGJR. Dr. Grossmann 'is a general, trauma and advanced laparoscopic surgeon who believes using wearable and mobile technology like Google Glass and iPhone offers better patient care and saves lives.' We'll discuss his background and what drew him into experimentation with this device and cloud based platform as to clinical relevance and forward utility from telemedicine to continuing medical education and beyond. For more information on Dr. Grossmann check out some of the videos here and here. Join us!

On the Wednesday, November 27th broadcast at 10AM PT/1PM ET, our special guest is David Brooks, CEO & co-founder of Medilio, where 'Tomorrow's virtual health insurance card is well within reach.'  'David has more than 13 years of health technology experience and started and ran the business operations of a primary care medical practice for 8 years. That experience has given him unique insight to the front-line challenges faced by providers. In healthcare mobility he served as the primary product and business strategist that helped grow mobile pioneer MercuryMD from two to 75 employees and led to the company’s eventual sale to Thomson Corp. He’s also worked as a consultant on multiple projects for AT&T’s mobile health group.' And Medlio site copy notes: REALTIME BENEFITS: See up to date health insurance benefits information including service co-pays and deductible balances. FIND PROVIDERS: Find doctors, hospitals, facilities and pharmacies near you. View results on a map and get directions. FAST

On the Wednesday, November 20th broadcast at 9:30AM Pacific/12:30 PM Eastern our special guest is Farzad Mostashari, MD visiting fellow of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, and former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services. According to his bio at Brookings: 'Dr. Mostashari's work covers a range of topics related to helping clinicians improve care and patient health through health IT, focusing on small practice transformation by developing innovative payment models that can better support these types of practices. This work will include expanding the reach of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Learning Network, a Brookings-Dartmouth project that provides participating organizations the tools necessary to successfully implement accountable care.' As the Health and Human Services point person at ONC, Farzad was a higly visible, articulate and effective advocate for the adoption of health information tech

On the Wednesday, November 13th 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guests are two innovators and disruptors of the legacy healthcare economy Peter Hudson, MD and Wayne Guerra MD. Two enterprising emergency medicine physicians who saw opportunity in the convergence between the mobile 'smart' phone and the 'real time' or elective need to access local and appropriate healthcare resources. Via a revolutionary mobile appiTriage aka @iTriage on twitter both Peter and Wayne have delivered and in a big way. Both of these forward leaning docs can be found on twitter via @wayneguerra and peterhudsonMD respectively, which incidentally is where and how I fist met Wayne while Peter is a more recent convert to the medium. The iTriage and Healthagen unfolding story is both fascinating and ambitious, and via their collective thoughts we'll gain insight into the overall strategy they envision - at least from their seats in the glidepath. Join me and my partner Dr Pat Salber as we learn more about

On the Wednesday, November 6th 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern time our special guest is Ari Tulla, MCEO and co-founder of BetterDoctor.com. According to the website, Better Doctor:r '...was born in early 2011 when Ari Tulla was yet again searching for a new doctor. After years of personal family medical struggles Ari decided that there has to be a better way to find the right doctor. The problem Ari’s family and 70 million other Americans face each year is that it’s very difficult to find the right doctor. Usually you go to your insurance company website to see which doctors are in your network. Next you want to verify their quality and finally when you make a phone call you often find that the doctor is not accepting new patients. This simple process can easily take hours. BetterDoctor offers simple to use web and mobile apps that let you find the right doctor in minutes. Select what kind of doctor you are looking for, pick your insurance plan and see a list of verified better doctors near you

On the Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/3PM Eastern our special guest is Jonathan Teich MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO), Health Sciences Division, Elsevier the world’s biggest producer of scientific and medical information. According to Elsevier, Dr. Teich's areas of expertise include:  '...health information infrastructure, e-prescribing, and clinical decision support systems.  His primary focus lies in the design of innovative information systems to directly improve clinical care, prevent adverse events and streamline clinical workflow to address the most critical needs of the healthcare community.  A practicing physician, Dr. Teich boasts a wealth of experience in the scientific and technical fields. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard, and a board-certified attending physician in emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), where he has practiced since 1983.   A recognised leader in his field, Dr. Teich serves on a number of industry and go

On the Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Jessie Gruman aka @JessieGruman. Jessie Gruman is president and founder of the Center for Advancing Health, a nonpartisan, Washington-based policy institute which, since 1992, has been supported by foundations and individuals to work on people’s engagement in their health care from the patient perspective. Prior to founding CFAH, Gruman worked on these same concerns in the private sector (AT&T), the public sector (National Institutes of Health) and the voluntary health sector (American Cancer Society). A 5-time cancer survivor, Jessie is also the author of AfterShock.  Join us for an informative chat with this dynamic advocate for evidence based and patient centered healthcare.