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Episode 45: The Shift in Healthcare Innovation Towards Globalization With Emily Reiser of TMC Innovation

Listen to discover:

  • What’s driving healthcare’s shift toward globalization 

  • How companies can learn from the world around them

  • What big thing international healthcare companies are grappling with 

  • Why it is crucial to demonstrate ROI 

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Episode 41: What Digital Health Innovators Need to Know About Selling to Hospital and Health System CIOs with Merritt Group EVP Tom Rice and Director of Healthcare Practice Erin Erban (Part 1)

In this episode you will discover: 

  • What surprising channels influence health system CIOs most

  • What KOLs are and why they should matter to you

  • How to apply trends and statistics from this report to your marketing efforts

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Episode 17: How digital health companies can recruit and retain top talent during "the Great Resignation" (with Edlitera CEO Claudia Virlanuta)

In this episode you’ll discover:

  • What brought a Harvard Computer Science expert, ecommerce, and marketing tech veteran to this line of work

  • How training non-technical staff in data literacy and data skills supercharges innovation company-wide

  • What’s one thing digital health innovators should do right now, TODAY to supercharge their success

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Episode 15: The Impact of Peripheral Healthcare Innovation with Meghan Gaffney, CEO of Veda Data Solutions

In this episode you’ll discover:

  • How a political entrepreneur and an astrophysicist saw an opportunity for healthcare innovation

  • Why in-network and out-of-network physician coverage info is so cumbersome to find, use, and update for all parties involved

  • What spurred the “no Surprises” Act in Congress and how it changed VEDA Data Solutions’ business

  • How COVID impacted data companies like VEDA Data

  • How Meghan embraced her Silicon Valley outsider status to attract the right opportunities and employees

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Episode 12: Hot Takes from #HLTH2021: Innovations, Industry Trends, and Major Announcements

In this episode you’ll discover:

  • Why Medicare is banking on 100% beneficiary participation in value-based care models by 2030

  • How the government is turning “payer-agnostic” on value-based care models by partnering with commercial payers and Medicaid

  • Why you’ll be glad this White House is reinvigorating CMS’s Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN)

  • Why providers and tech companies are embracing Full Risk Contracts and Payment Models

  • Why “Virtual Care is replacing “telemedicine” as the new umbrella term—and how it helps companies meet patients where they are

  • Why failure to adopt value-based care models could be an existential threat

  • What everyone is saying about RPM, RTM and care management

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Episode #9: Digital Health Innovations as "Consumer Technology," with René Quashie, VP of Digital Health, Consumer Technology Association

In this episode you’ll discover:

  • How the Consumer Technology Association supports Digital Health innovators.

  • The most important issues CTA is focusing on in the Digital Health space

  • What we can look forward to at CTA’s Consumer Electronics Show in January 2022

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Episode 8: Why Israel is known as the Startup Nation—and how it can help the US (with Antidote Health CEO)

In this episode you’ll discover:

  • Why this NY-based company still does so much R&D in Tel Aviv

  • What drove Antidote to create an AI-driven virtual HMO

  • How Antidote wants to help the large uninsured and underinsured populations in the US

  • And a fun final question we don’t want to give away

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Episode #7: Innovation Insights from the Largest Medical Center in the World, Texas Medical Center

In this episode you’ll discover:

  • What the ecosystem of innovation looks like at TMC Innovations;

  • How TMC Innovations helps startups via accelerators, resources, and their venture fund;

  • How they’ve seen health system partners work with digital health companies;

  • How specific digital health startups are adapting and thriving during the pandemic; and

  • What they think is the most pressing need in healthcare in the next 3 years.

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Episode #5: 3 Emerging Opportunities for Life Science & Biotech Businesses w/ Innovation Attorney Tommy Miller

In this episode you’ll discover:

  • Biologics, including reimbursement, accelerated FDA approval pathways, what sector of the industry can speed growth for everyone, and the push for developing mRNA and gene editing therapeutics for difficult or rare disease states;

  • Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and how the new “remote therapeutic monitoring” CPT codes revealed last week in the proposed 2022 MFPS will increase reimbursement options for mood and pain management—as well as the FDA’s investment in the Digital Center for Excellence to improve the regulation of SaMD;

  • Decentralized trials and home digital health tools and how these trends are expanding recruiting options and returning more realistic data because people are accessing and using these products at home.

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