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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage and was recorded live on the showroom floor.

On this episode I talk with Nathaniel Lacktman, Health Care Partner and Chair of Telemedicine Industry Team and Digital Health Group at Foley & Lardner. He's also one of the nation's leading voices on telemedicine laws and business models.

Nate gives us a quick primer on why startups and entrepreneurs shouldn't put legal issues on the back-burner, especially when it comes to fraud and abuse. He tells us how we can avoid big problems down the road by coming up with a business model that establishes legally acceptable ways to grow and that takes the laws of all 50 states into consideration. This portion of the conversation echoed the advice Dexter Braff gave us a few episodes back about how to build a company that others want to invest in.

Nate also makes predictions about where the telemedicine market is headed. He's very excited about asynchronous telemedicine and makes a compelling case for how it can improve the patient experience and create new opportunities for doctors to work the way they want to. Nate knows that asynchronous telemedicine isn't the best approach in many healthcare situations, but it works really well in others and should be embraced there. For example, many protocol-based, decision-tree primary care activities are great candidates for an asynchronous approach.

Nate opened my eyes to a whole new world of possibility in telemedicine with this asynchronous approach. Give it a listen and let me know what you think!

~ Don

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About Nathaniel Lacktman

Nathaniel (Nate) Lacktman is a partner and health care lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is the chair of the firm’s Telemedicine Industry Team and co-chair of the firm’s Digital Health Work Group. He advises health care providers and technology companies on business arrangements, compliance, and corporate matters, with particular attention to telehealth, digital health, and health innovation. His approach to practicing law emphasizes strategic counseling, creative business modeling, and fresh approaches to realize clients' ambitious and innovative goals.

Mr. Lacktman is regularly requested to speak on telemedicine nationwide by a variety of organizations. In addition, his skills are recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers, where Mr. Lacktman has been listed as a notable practitioner from 2013 – 2017.

Mr. Lacktman chairs the Telehealth Work Group of the American Health Lawyers Association. He serves on the Executive Committee of the American Telemedicine Association's Business & Finance SIG. He is a chief legal counsel to the Telehealth Association of Florida and a Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP).

Learn more:

Blog: https://www.healthcarelawtoday.com/

Profile: https://www.foley.com/Nathaniel-M-Lacktman/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lacktman

You can also hear from Nate on this interview with our friends at RED HOT Healthcare.

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About Foley & Lardner LLP 

From https://www.foley.com/about-us/

Foley & Lardner LLP looks beyond the law to focus on the constantly evolving demands facing our clients and their industries. With over 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Asia, Foley approaches client service by first understanding our clients’ priorities, objectives, and challenges. We work hard to understand our clients’ issues and forge long-term relationships with them to help achieve successful outcomes and solve their legal issues through practical business advice and cutting-edge legal insight. Our clients view us as trusted business advisors because we understand that great legal service is only valuable if it is relevant, practical and beneficial to their businesses. 

On April 1, 2018, Foley combined with Gardere, Wynne & Sewell LLP. Foley & Lardner LLP operates as “Foley Gardere” in Austin, Dallas, Denver, and Houston, and as “Foley Gardere Arena” in Mexico City through its subsidiary, Gardere, Arena y Asociados, S.C.

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage and was recorded live in the exhibit hall.

On this episode we talk with Stuart Goldberg, MD, Chief Scientific Officer at Cota. Dr. Goldberg tells us all about Cota's physician-led journey to organize and classify real-world evidence about every type of cancer. This effort led to something they call the Cota Nodal Address (CNA), and it's enabling health systems to get very specific about the types of patients they're treating, the costs associated with them, and the outcomes being achieved. This apples-to-apples comparison allows Cota to identify variation and address it in ways that are beneficial to the provider, payer and patient. It enables a concept Dr. Goldberg calls "Precision Payment", which in turn enables proper bundled payment design, and precision medicine. 

And Cota is not only physician led, but the payers are on board too. Literally. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield lead their Series A funding round. Plus, they just closed a $40 Million Series C funding round in February. Cota is clearly a company to watch.

This was one of the most intriguing conversations I had at HIMSS '18 and one that I'll be exploring some more. I'm very excited to share it with you...

~ Don Lee

About Cota

Cota is a healthcare data and analytics company that enables providers, payers and life science companies involved in diagnosing and treating complex diseases to optimize the outcomes of individual patients and lower the overall cost of the patient population served. It is powered by the patented Cota Nodal Address™ (CNA) system, a unique digital classification methodology built by leading physicians and data scientists. The CNA is the first and only system that precisely categorizes patient factors, their diseases and intended therapies, enabling precision medicine at scale.

Cota's technology enriches medical records to create research-grade data and joins it with a suite of analysis, visualization and management tools. This enables providers, payers and life science companies to analyze, report on and research outcomes, costs, treatments and quality at any granularity and stage of the patient journey. The result is a constantly improving system that merges technology and medicine to improve the lives of patients everywhere. For more information, go to www.cotahealthcare.com 

About Stuart Goldberg, MD

Stuart Goldberg, MD is Chief Scientific Officer at Cota, Inc. and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Rutgers: The New Jersey Medical School. He also maintains an active clinical practice in the Division of Leukemia at the John Theurer Cancer Center. Dr. Goldberg obtained his medical degree at the Milton Hershey Medical Center of Pennsylvania State University. After completing internal medical residency and hematology-oncology fellowships at George Washington University Medical Center, he served as a BMT fellow at the Mayo Clinic and Associate Director of the BMT Program at Temple University. Dr. Goldberg’s clinical research has focused on new treatment strategies for patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes.

Recognizing the wealth of information contained in electronic health record data, he and his partners at JTCC founded Cota, a data and analytics company that seeks to optimize patient outcomes while reducing population healthcare costs. In the field of “big data” analysis he has used databases to redefine the incidence and complications related with myelodysplastic syndromes (published in JCO and Transfusion) and has reviewed observational databases (including SIMPLICITY) to foster adherence with evidence based CML monitoring guidelines (published in JOP, CRMO and CLML). Most recently he has used the Cota database to explore rates and implications of EGFR mutational testing among community oncologists (published in Clin Lung), patterns of care in T-cell lymphoma (published in CLML), end-of-life care decisions (published in Palliative Med) and cost-effectiveness of genomic profiling in lower risk breast cancer (published in AJMC). This research earned him the 2015 David King Clinical Scientist Award from the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC). He is listed as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for Medical Oncology in the NY Metro and NJ areas.

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode we talk with Jay Holley, Head of Partnerships at Uber Health. As a founding member of the Uber Health team, Jay works to ensure that Uber can provide reliable, HIPAA-compliant transportation solutions striving to ensure that transportation is not a barrier to healthcare.

Uber Health partners with healthcare organizations to provide reliable transportation for patients. The dashboard allows healthcare professionals to order rides for patients going to and from the care they need. Jay and I discuss:

• How it works
• How HIPAA plays in
• Servicing patients without smart phones
• Who benefits and how
• Jay's thoughts on a recent study that suggested ride sharing services didn't reduce no shows

Learn more at https://www.uberhealth.com/ and click the green Get Started button to enroll and start scheduling rides.

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode we talk with Travis Moore, SVP of Market Solutions at Kyruus and Matt Gove, Chief Consumer Officer at Piedmont Healthcare, about provider data and patient access. We discuss how to address provider data inconsistencies across systems so that you can enable a better patient experience. Topics include:

• Self-scheduling and why your patients are ready for it
• Call-center scheduling
• Doctor-to-doctor referrals and in-office scheduling
• Why at Piedmont Quick Care Retail Clinics in Walgreens more than 50% of the volume is booked online.

The big take away for me is that patients are ready for online scheduling and they want to be seen on their own terms. This is evident in Piedmont's high online booking rates, a preference to have a scheduled time even at walk-in retail clinics and in how millennials seem to be embracing asynchronous telemedicine options.

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About Travis Moore, SVP of Market Solutions at Kyruus

Travis Moore is Senior Vice President of Market Solutions at Kyruus, where he is responsible for working with existing, and future clients, to provide them with insight into how the Kyruus platform can be used to improve patient access. Prior to joining Kyruus, Travis was with Influence Health for 12 years – starting his career as a Sales Account Executive, then transitioning into the Director of Sales role, and later becoming the VP of their Sales / Product Specialty team. Additionally at Influence Health, Travis was VP of Product Management and Strategy before eventually focusing on the clinical aspects of the business as the SVP of Clinical Solutions and Sales. Prior to Influence Health, Travis was responsible for Product Management over the patient education and nursing solutions at Truven. Travis started his career in healthcare as a Pediatric Nurse on the Neurotrauma and Orthopedic unit at Children's Hospital in Denver, CO. Travis has his Bachelor's degree in Nursing from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and MBA from University of Phoenix-Denver.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tmoore634RN

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-moore-mba-rn-4651b11/

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About Matt Gove, Chief Consumer Officer at Piedmont Healthcare

Matt Gove is Chief Consumer Officer for Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare, where he oversees marketing, communications, patient experience, community benefit and government relations for the seven-hospital system. As Piedmont’s Chief Consumer Officer, Matt shapes the system’s approach to healthcare consumerism, working closely with physician practices, hospitals and outpatient services to provide a better understanding of Piedmont’s customers, how to better meet the consumer’s needs around access and experience, and how the system can best use emerging technologies to engage consumers. Under Matt’s leadership, the Piedmont team has won more than three dozen local and national marketing awards since 2013, and he has been individually recognized as AMA/Atlanta Corporate Marketer of the Year and American Business Awards Marketing Executive of the Year.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gove

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgove3/

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About Kyruus

Kyruus delivers proven provider search and scheduling solutions that help hospitals and health systems match patients with the providers best suited to care for them. The ProviderMatch suite of solutions—for consumers, access centers, and referral networks—enables a consistent patient experience across multiple points of access, while aligning provider supply with patient demand. The company’s proprietary provider data management platform forms the foundation of its solutions, powering them with accurate data by coupling data processing with administrative applications. To find out why a Better Match Means Better Care, please visit www.kyruus.com.

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On this episode, we chat with Prashant Natarajan, an innovation and product leader, best-selling author on Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning and AI, and, if I do say so myself, an all-around swell guy! Prashant takes a very pragmatic approach to demystifying big data, ML and AI and shows us that it all starts with the data. He introduces us to the concept of data fidelity, which is the appropriateness of data for a purpose. That concept is so important to grasp. It allows us to get started where we are, drive towards value over time and enables us to get value from innovative tools like machine learning an AI.

We don't spend all our time in the data weeds. Prashant also tells us how we can operationalize big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence and align it with the current and future needs of healthcare. It can support us in our fee-for-service and value-based contracts. It enables consumerism and patient engagement. It can help employer groups drive change. In short, with data fidelity, big data/ML/AI become more than headlines and begin to drive real value in healthcare.

This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

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About Prashant Natarajan

Prashant is an innovation and product leader and a consultant with an award-winning track record of conceptualizing & delivering innovative solutions. He is a best-selling author on topics in big data, analytics, machine learning, AI and precision medicine. He is also a Senior Fellow at HeathITnow.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natarpr/

Twitter: @natarpr

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About Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare

I find this book's practical approach to enabling big data and machine learning through proper data management to be very refreshing. It lays out many of the data quality and analytics concepts that it took me 15+ years to learn the hard way.  I strongly recommend this book to anyone working on data and analytics problems in healthcare.

Description

Healthcare transformation requires us to continually look at new and better ways to manage insights – both within and outside the organization today. Increasingly, the ability to glean and operationalize new insights efficiently as a byproduct of an organization’s day-to-day operations is becoming vital to hospitals and health systems ability to survive and prosper. One of the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics has been the ability to deal with the sheer variety and volume of disparate healthcare data and the increasing need to derive veracity and value out of it.

Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare investigates how healthcare organizations can leverage this tapestry of big data to discover new business value, use cases, and knowledge as well as how big data can be woven into pre-existing business intelligence and analytics efforts. This book focuses on teaching you how to:

• Develop skills needed to identify and demolish big-data myths
• Become an expert in separating hype from reality
• Understand the V’s that matter in healthcare and why
• Harmonize the 4 C’s across little and big data
• Choose data fidelity over data quality
• Learn how to apply the NRF Framework
• Master applied machine learning for healthcare
• Conduct a guided tour of learning algorithms
• Recognize and be prepared for the future of artificial intelligence in healthcare via best practices, feedback loops, and contextually intelligent agents (CIAs)

The variety of data in healthcare spans multiple business workflows, formats (structured, un-, and semi-structured), integration at point of care/need, and integration with existing knowledge. In order to deal with these realities, the authors propose new approaches to creating a knowledge-driven learning organization-based on new and existing strategies, methods and technologies. This book will address the long-standing challenges in healthcare informatics and provide pragmatic recommendations on how to deal with them.

Find it on:

Amazon: Demystifying Big Data and Machine Learning for Healthcare (Himss Book) 

CRC Press

http://bigdatacxo.com/

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode, we chat with Sean Cassidy, Chief Product Officer at SA Ignite. We discuss MACRA, MIPS , and QPP strategy for providers and practices, changes to the MIPS program under the new federal budget, and the importance of establishing a culture of quality now, regardless of where MIPS is headed.

Spoiler alert... you're going to be in value-based programs one way or another.

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About Sean Cassidy

Sean is an experienced health IT leader with a passion for incubating and growing data and analytics focused software businesses. Prior to joining SA Ignite, he led the development and growth of Charlotte based Premier’s enterprise analytics and ZirMed’s value based care businesses. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Initiate System’s healthcare business, Sean was a member of the management team that successfully sold Initiate to IBM in 2010. After beginning his career at Andersen Consulting, he also held executive positions at a number of enterprise software and e-commerce companies. Sean leads SA Ignite’s strategy, product management, research & development and IT operations functions.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-cassidy-5b6791/

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About SA Ignite

From their web site: https://www.saignite.com/

SA Ignite simplifies the management of complex value-based programs, helping healthcare organizations boost both their reimbursement and reputation. In today’s healthcare environment, SA Ignite’s advanced solutions give customers a competitive edge.

SA Ignite combines innovative, cloud-based software with in-depth regulatory knowledge. Our experts are frequently found meeting with healthcare organizations to understand ongoing business challenges, examining regulations to understand how they impact clinicians, and speaking at industry conferences and webinars to share critical information and insight.

 

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On this episode, we chat with Dr. Lucas Schulz (@LucasTSchulz), infectious disease and critical care pharmacist at University of Wisconsin Health. Luke is also an adviser to ILÚM Health Solutions - an infectious disease (ID) platform and real-time information service that supports patient management decisions, quality programs, and better outcomes through:

• Clinical collaboration and ongoing quality consulting
• Program level insight
• Point-of-care clinical decision support

Luke helps us to understand:

• What it means to be an infectious disease and critical care pharmacist
• How to establish an Antimicrobial Stewardship program and which health system teams/departments are involved
• How a platform like ILÚM helps you move from anecdotal to evidenced-based medicine
• How to deliver high quality care and simultaneously deal with the business and financial pressures of running a health system

This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

 

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About Dr. Lucas Schulz

Dr. Lucas Schulz is the infectious diseases clinical coordinator and PGY2 Infectious Diseases residency program director at University of Wisconsin Health. Following graduation from the University of Wisconsin - School of Pharmacy, he completed PGY1 and PGY2 critical care residencies at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. In his current role, he is responsible for all anti-infective use across the UW Health enterprise leading the antimicrobial stewardship program at UW Health and is involved with all institutional committees pertaining to infectious diseases.  He has served as PGY2 Infectious Diseases Residency Program Director for 7 years

His patient care, research, and teaching activities focus on antimicrobial stewardship, PK/PD optimization, hospital-acquired infections, and clinical decision support development. 32 peer-reviewed publications on infectious diseases topics. Currently serves on the Wisconsin Department of Health Antimicrobial Steering Committee, a panel member for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline on prevention and treatment of cancer-related infections, and the programming committee for the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists 2017 Annual Meeting. Active member of the Vizient Antimicrobial Stewardship Taskforce and Research Committee.

https://www.uwhealth.org/

https://www.uwhealth.org/antimicrobial-stewardship/

@LucasTSchulz

 

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About ILÚM Health Solutions

ILÚM Health Solutions was created by Merck HSS and shares the vision to improve health and well-being. ILÚM is a specialized service focused on the unique challenges of infectious disease with the goal of supporting improved patient and hospital outcomes. Their technology-enabled solution helps leverage HIT assets to maximize the impact of quality programs.

ILÚM Health Solutions aims to help hospitals and healthcare institutions:

• Efficiently target patients and accelerate time to interventions to make improved empiric treatment decisions
• Efficiently and consistently track performance, prescribing, and patient outcomes
• Enhance timely communication and clinical collaboration within workflow

https://www.ilumhealthsolutions.com/blog/ 

@ilumhealth

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode we catch up with Dexter Braff of The Braff Group. Dexter shares advice for Health IT entrepreneurs on how to stay focused while big players keep making big announcements. And there have been plenty of big announcements:

1. Apple Health Records
2. Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway Partner to disrupt healthcare
3. Uber and Lyft want to take you to the doctor
4. The Whitehouse has a new plan for interoperability
5. Apple is launching its own medical clinics

Dexter tells entrepreneurs to pay attention, stay focused and don't panic, plus a lot more good advice.

You can hear more from Dexter on two recent and very popular episodes:

• Episode 28: How to Analyze the Health IT Market
• Episode 30: Why You Should Always Be Preparing to Sell Your Company

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About Dexter Braff

Dexter W. Braff is President of The Braff Group, one of the nation’s leading health care merger and acquisition advisory firms (source: Thomson Reuters). Since its founding in 1998, the firm has completed more than 300 health care deals.

With 30 years of experience representing health care service companies, Dexter is recognized as the industry expert in health care M&A. He has written and contributed to feature articles that have appeared in numerous health care industry publications and has written a chapter in the Handbook of Business Valuation published by John Wiley & Sons. He is frequently interviewed on various topics regarding health care mergers and acquisitions by news outlets including Bloomberg News, CNBC, USA Today, The Huffington Post, The Palm Beach Times, and numerous health care sector journals. Additionally, the firm is the publisher of marketWATCH, a quarterly review of mergers and acquisitions activity in six industry segments: Behavioral Health Care, Health Care Information Technology, Home Health and Hospice, Pharmacy Services, Urgent Care, and Home Medical Equipment.

Dexter has presented seminars, webinars, moderated discussion panels, and has been the keynote speaker on various issues regarding health care mergers and acquisitions and finance at conferences across the country including Art of the Deal, the Remington Think Tank, Health Care Capital Investors Conference, HME News Business Summit, HHFMA Financial Managers Conference, Treatment Center Investment and Valuation, Foundations: Moments of Change, Behavioral Health Care: Buying, Selling and Valuing, National Association for Home Care, National Home Infusion Association Conference, Homecare 100, Long Term Care 100, Medtrade, Urgent Care Association of America, and many more. He was recently inducted into The Home Care and Hospice Financial Managers Association Hall of Fame as “deal-maker extraordinaire.”

Dexter holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master of Science from the University of Oregon, a Bachelors of Arts from Cornell University, and received the Vincent W. Lanfear Award for academic achievement.

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About The Braff Group

The Braff Group is a leading mergers and acquisitions advisory firm specializing exclusively in health care services including behavioral health care, home health care, hospice, pharmacy services (home infusion, specialty Rx, institutional Rx), urgent care, health care information technology, health care staffing, home medical equipment, and ancillary health care services.

Unlike many brokers and investment sectors that work many sides of the negotiating table which can create conflicts of interest, we provide sell-side only transaction advisory services including representation, divestiture strategy, debt and equity recapitalizations, and valuation.

Since the firm’s inception in 1998, we have closed more than 300 transactions, more than any other mergers and acquisitions advisory firm covering these sectors.

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode, we chat with Miki Kapoor, President of Tea Leaves Health. We discuss:

• How consumer engagement is driving health system strategy
• The challenge of balancing fee for service and value-based revenue streams as the system continues to transform
• The importance of establishing a direct and continuous feedback loop with your patients. 

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About Miki Kapoor

With two decades of experience exclusively in healthcare – operations, finance, strategy and policy – Miki Kapoor has a notably broad perspective on the U.S. healthcare system.

Most recently, Mr. Kapoor was the President of Everyday Health, a publicly-traded company that was acquired in a $465 million transaction in 2016. As part of aggressively scaling Everyday Health while moving the company toward utilizing vast amounts of consumer and medical data for effective patient and physician communication, Mr. Kapoor acquired Tea Leaves Health for Everyday Health in 2015. Today, Mr. Kapoor serves as Chief Executive Officer of Tea Leaves Health.

Mr. Kapoor’s experience also includes serving as Head of the Global Payer & Provider Division as well as Global Head of Strategy for IMS Health, having joined as part of the $5 billion take-private of IMS Health. That transaction later resulted in the IPO of the company in 2014, in what is considered one of the most successful and largest turnarounds in healthcare private equity history. He has served as Senior Expert for McKinsey & Company and Executive Vice President, Health Systems and Health Finance for the Clinton Foundation while living in Africa and India. He started his career with almost a decade on Wall Street as an investment banker focused on payers and providers, healthcare information technology, and healthcare services.

Miki Kapoor attended graduate school at Yale University, where he received both an MBA in Finance and an MPH in Health Policy. He is a graduate of Washington University in Saint Louis, where he received a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences. He is a Fulbright Fellow, formerly a visiting professor at two universities, and sits on the boards of several healthcare organizations. He is passionate about public and private healthcare and believes there are substantial and achievable improvements that can be made to change the quality, access, and cost equations for patients.

About Tea Leaves Health

Tea Leaves Health, a Welltok company, transforms the way healthcare executives manage their business through a platform that provides the total information awareness and business intelligence needed to achieve strategic growth, effective physician engagement strategies and increased revenue. Tea Leaves Health combines a deep understanding of healthcare business development with the technical savvy to deliver strategic success for healthcare organizations of any size. The proprietary Patientology™, Physicianology™ and Decisionology™ software tools easily transform internal and external data into immediately actionable information for multiple leadership levels. While working with clients to develop measurable and successful growth initiatives, Tea Leaves Health strives to provide the best software, strategic consultation and support in the industry.

Tea Leaves Health joined the Welltok family in 2017. Welltok is the leading consumer health enterprise Software as a Service company that enables population health managers to target and connect consumers to personalized health improvement resources, helping individuals achieve and sustain their optimal health.

Today, Tea Leaves Health is one of the largest strategic growth vendors and works with over 500 hospitals including 8 of the top 20 hospitals in the country.

 

 

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode we chat with Matt Fisher (@Matt_R_Fisher), Healthcare Corporate Regulatory lawyer, host of Healthcare de Jure  and HIMSS 18 Social Media Ambassador.

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About the Healthcare de Jure

Tune in as we serve up the hottest healthcare issues of the day, all from a legal point of view. From public policies and Federal initiatives to privacy and security, join host Matt R. Fisher as he and his guests discuss a smorgasbord of topics, giving hospitals, physicians, vendors and patients a seat at the table. Matt’s virtual conversations can be listened to on demand or heard on air. So don’t miss a minute of what’s on the menu.

About HEALTHCARENOWRADIO.COM

 

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode we chat with Brian Mack, Manager, Marketing and Communications at Great Lakes Health Connect and HIMSS 18 Social Media Ambassador.  

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode, we chat with Mr. Workflow, Chuck Webster (@wareFLO). If you're at HIMSS then Chuck needs no introduction. He's the one that 3D printed that glitter tiara on your head :)

For everyone else, Chuck is THE workflow expert and has been evangelizing the value of workflow and business process management in healthcare for a long, long time. He's also a social media innovator who's always testing out new stuff like blab, periscope (he put me up on a 360 live cam while I was working on this post in the HIMSS press room), and now VR. 

Chuck is 1 of 20 HIMSS 18 Social Media Ambassadors.

Check out Chuck's work at the Healthcare Business Process Management blog. And be sure to follow him on twitter at @wareFLO.

 

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode, we're talking with Kelly Thompson, CEO of the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) and Dan Chavez, Executive Director at San Diego Health Connect.

About the Strategic Health Information Collaborative (SHIEC)

SHIEC is a national collaborative representing health information exchanges (HIEs). The organization already represents 60 HIEs, and these HIEs collectively cover more than 200 million people across the U.S., well over half of the American population.

http://strategichie.com/

@SHIEClive

About Kelly Thompson

As SHIEC CEO, Kelly Hoover Thompson is responsible for working collaboratively with SHIEC’s members and board of directors to develop and actively advance an organizational strategy that ensures SHIEC’s success. Her goal is to elevate the awareness, stature, and perception of HIEs on the national healthcare landscape.

Before joining SHIEC, Thompson was Deputy Secretary at the Pennsylvania Department of Health. While there, she created a new long-term care partnership in care delivery and oversight. Under her leadership, the eHealth Partnership achieved statewide connectivity, offering electronic health information exchange in every county of the Commonwealth. She also co-founded and led the Commonwealth’s Privacy and Security Practice Group.

Prior to this, Thompson was a senior advocate of policy and regulatory matters for the Hospital & Health System Association of Pennsylvania. In that role, she advised providers on health policy, regulatory and legislative matters. She established the Annual Organ & Tissue Donation Hospital Campaign and was a primary drafter of the Commonwealth’s deemed status legislation, aimed at ensuring timely standards for health care facility oversight.

Thompson serves on the board of the YWCA of Greater Harrisburg. She holds an appointment to the Lower Swatara Township Civil Service Commission.

About San Diego Health Connect

San Diego Health Connect securely connects hospitals, health systems, patients, private health information exchanges (HIEs) and other healthcare stakeholders—so that they can share important health information. As a not-for-profit organization, our sole purpose is to serve every member of the community and improve healthcare for everyone.

About Dan Chavez

Daniel J. Chavez joined San Diego Beacon HIE as Executive Director in March 2013 with more than 30 years of health care information technology experience. He has an extensive track record of cultivating startups, business development and product marketing. Previously, he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Independa, a San Diego-based innovator that provides solutions to help the elderly remain independent. In his previous positions, Chavez was Executive Vice President at Payformance Corporation, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the medical division of Immersion Corporation, and Senior Vice President at Availity. His prior experience includes IBM, GTE, SAIC, Stellcom Technologies and CSC. He holds a BA from San Jose State University and an MBA from Stanford University.

 

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This interview is part of our HIMSS18 coverage. We'll be talking with thought leaders and vendors all week at the annual Health Information Management Society conference in Las Vegas.

On this episode, we're talking with Dr. Betty Rabinowitz, Senior Vice President of Solutions Analytics at NextGen Healthcare.

Dr. Betty Rabinowitz is one of the founders and the former CEO of EagleDream Health, the software analytics solutions company acquired by NextGen Healthcare in August, 2017. EagleDream Health comprises cloud-based analytics and population health management solutions that drive meaningful insights across clinical, financial, and administrative data to optimize ambulatory practice performance.

Quality Systems, Inc., known to its clients as NextGen Healthcare, provides a range of software, services, and analytics solutions to medical and dental group practices. The company’s portfolio delivers foundational capabilities to empower physician success, enrich the patient care experience, and enable the transition to value-based healthcare. 

Learn more about Dr. Betty and NextGen:

• https://www.nextgen.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextgen-healthcare-information-systems/
• https://twitter.com/NextGen
• https://www.nextgen.com/insights 

 

 

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I'm at HIMSS '18 in Las Vegas. I'll be here all week and will do my best to bring you along with me. Here's the plan:

1. I'll post a new show each day at HIMSS recapping what I experienced/learned the day before. Make sure you're subscribed at your favorite podcast source so you don't miss them. Most popular:

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2. I'll grab impromptu interviews at the various events, in the hallways, at the meetups and happy hours and include them in #1. If you're around and you want to participate just let me know.

3. I'll be recording shorter than normal spots with vendors and thought leaders throughout the week and releasing those as 10-15 minute #HCBiz Bytes from HIMSS18 in the days and weeks after the conference.

I'll be covering/attending:

• Power Press Party (Sunday)

• HIMSS/SHIEC INTEROPERABILITY & HIE SYMPOSIUM: FACILITATING PERSON-CENTERED INTEROPERABLE HIE TO MANAGE COMPLEX POPULATIONS (Monday)

• NHIT Collaborative Leadership Conference: Leveraging Health IT to Address Health Disparities (Tue/Wed)

• NODE Health Innovation Roundtable (Wed)

• New Media Meetup (Wed)

Plus I have a ton of vendor interviews lined up throughout.

It's gonna be a fun week! As you can see, my schedule is pretty packed, but let me know if there's something else you think I should cover. 

Most importantly, I'd love to meet you. If you'll be there you can track me down at one of the events listed above or ping me on twitter (@dflee30).

And I will be tweeting throughout from @dflee30 and @The_HCBiz.

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