Partners for Better Care is proud to introduce its Executive Director, Mary Richards. Mary joins the team with nearly twenty years of patient advocacy, policy, lobbying, and Congressional experience. For five years, Mary led the Alzheimer’s Association’s federal policy agenda on Capitol Hill and with the Administration, which included efforts on medical innovation, aging, care delivery, and long-term care. Kicking off a period of intense activity and successes for the Alzheimer’s community, Mary...
Apr 07, 2016•27 min•Ep. 86
Dr. Ostrovsky is a practicing physician and social entrepreneur who leads Care at Hand's executive management and strategic vision. He has led teams at the World Health Organization, United States Senate, and San Francisco Health Department toward health system strengthening through technology. Andrey has contributed to legislation at the city and national level to advance care delivery for vulnerable populations. And he serves on several boards and committees dedicated to interoperability stand...
Mar 31, 2016•31 min•Ep. 85
Troy Trygstad, PharmD, PhD, MBA, is Vice President of Pharmacy Programs at Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), a parent organization of 14 regional care-management networks. These networks bring together medical practices, county health departments, hospital systems, and mental health providers to integrate care delivery for Medicaid, Medicare, private plans, employers, and the uninsured. CCNC and its networks are responsible for developing and evaluating innovative care systems in North Ca...
Mar 24, 2016•32 min•Ep. 84
Lisa R. Erwin is President of The E2 Group, LLC a managed markets consulting company that specializes in Medicare Part D clinical program strategic and operational expertise with a strong focus on Quality and Star Ratings. She also serves as VP of Clinical Strategies for Aventria/Pinnacle Health Communications, a managed market agency. A common theme of Ms. Erwin’s 30-year pharmacy career encompassing long-term care, managed-care and hospital pharmacy has been a focus on improving the quality of...
Mar 17, 2016•32 min•Ep. 83
William Heisel is the Director of Global Engagement at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). In this role, Heisel is responsible for IHME’s media relations, digital outreach, events and marketing, publications, scientific communications, and external relations, including government engagements and policy translation. He also is leading IHME’s internal community-building initiatives and manages the organization’s advancement efforts. As Director of Global Engagement, Heisel over...
Mar 10, 2016•31 min•Ep. 82
A.J. Loiacono is the Chief Innovation Officer at Truveris, where he leads product development, strategic planning and enterprise partnerships. Prior to Truveris, AJ was a co-founder and Partner with SMS, a software development firm specializing in transactional software solutions for national realtors. He also founded enterprise resource planning company, Victrix, leading the firm to a successful sale. AJ previously served as a Partner with Artemis Venture Capital. You can find out more at oneRX...
Mar 03, 2016•34 min•Ep. 81
Tomas Gregorio is the Senior Executive Director of Healthcare Systems Innovation at the NJ Innovation Institute. In that capacity he has overall managerial responsibility for program development and execution of NJII’s activities organized under the Healthcare Systems i-Lab. Mr. Gregorio brings a rich and diverse background to the job having served various roles as a senior executive in regional hospital systems as well as with allied consulting and software industries. He was most recently the ...
Feb 25, 2016•35 min•Ep. 80
Manik Bhat is the CEO and cofounder of Healthify. After spending time connecting patients to social services in the Baltimore community and dealing with the poor state of affairs in managing a patient's social needs, he decided to start Healthify to improve the status quo. Manik hopes to change the way we coordinate around an individual's social needs and prove that addressing social determinants is not only the morally just thing to do but is also the fiscally responsible thing to do in the era...
Feb 18, 2016•36 min•Ep. 79
David Perez is the founder and CEO of Seamless Medical Systems and the inventor of the innovative SNAP Practice patient engagement platform. He is a successful and creative entrepreneur who has been working in the Internet industry for 20 + years. Throughout his career David has been at the forefront of innovation and change. In the early ‘90s he started working in the new field of internet marketing, 1999 founded a digital Hispanic marketing company and 2011 saw the opportunity to bring medical...
Feb 11, 2016•34 min•Ep. 78
Jeff Scott is the VP of Business Development for DHS Group, a health, wellness and population health software company with offices in Houston, TX, and Cleveland, OH. He has over twelve years of corporate and business development experience spanning financial services, healthcare and software verticals Prior to DHS Group, Jeff was CFO of Movable, a health and wellness software startup that was acquired by DHS Group in 2015. Before Movable, Jeff was VP of Strategy and Business Development for KeyB...
Feb 04, 2016•32 min•Ep. 77
Bob has over 20 years of security and software design experience, and is the architect, designer and original developer of DataMotion's managed information delivery platform. In his role as CTO at DataMotion he is responsible for keeping DataMotion technology on the cutting edge, while his ongoing communications with customers ensure that the products are easy to use and manage. In 1999 he co-founded DataMotion, and in 2004 he received a fundamental patent for ‘dynamic creation of recipient acco...
Jan 28, 2016•34 min•Ep. 76
Dr. Richard Munassi is the Chief Operating Officer of DocResponse, and is an accomplished healthcare executive with leadership expertise in for-profit and non-profit organizations, business development, and start-up acceleration. He holds both an MD and an MBA degree, and has an extensive background working with people from a multitude of cultures in project and program management, business development, operations, executive leadership, growth consulting, and investor strategies. As an emerging ...
Jan 21, 2016•34 min•Ep. 75
Chase was named one of the most influential people in Digital Health due to his entrepreneurial success & writing along with luminaries such as Eric Topol, Patrick Soon-Shiong, & Vinod Khosla. He speaks to & consults with new ventures inside of established companies & high growth startups. Chase is widely published. The book Chase co-authored won the healthcare Book of the Year in in 2014. Chase has a penchant for making connections between previously disconnected trends and maki...
Jan 14, 2016•39 min•Ep. 74
As an executive leader, Christopher plays a key role in transforming health care for Sg2 clients. With more than 20 years of professional health care experience, he leverages his expertise in leadership, operations, strategy, physician relationships, thought leadership and clinical performance both domestically and globally. He often serves as an executive sponsor and trusted advisor to many of Sg2’s members and key constituents. Christopher leads Sg2's Center for the Future. In this capacity, h...
Jan 07, 2016•37 min•Ep. 73
Stacey Richter is not only the host of this podcast, but also the founder and strategic force behind Franklyn Healthcom, a pharmaceutical marketing and design agency that develops brand and managed market strategies along with digital and print collateral. Stacey began the business in 1993 with one simple idea: bridge the gap between current pharmaceutical agency practices and strategic business process. Her role on teams is often to transform customer insights and market research into cutting-e...
Dec 24, 2015•13 min
Mr. Tambasco has over 34 years corporate management and start-up experience. He proved to be an early innovator in patient engagement and connected care when he founded, developed, and positioned AccessMyRecords.com in 2005 as the first consumer friendly, subscription-based personal health records service. AMR also offers EHR vendors a certified patient portal. Prior to founding AMR, he developed, streamlined, and positioned businesses to harness growth while providing measurable returns to inve...
Dec 17, 2015•34 min•Ep. 72
Like many of us, Asif Khan worries about the health of his parents. Unlike many of us, Asif took that worry and leveraged twenty years of experience within the technology and global healthcare realm to create a revolutionary cloud-based communication and care coordination platform that streamlines collaboration among health care providers, non-clinical staff members, residents and their families. Caremerge offers HIPAA-compliant secure messaging, shared care plans, real time risk management and ...
Dec 10, 2015•34 min•Ep. 71
Annette DuBard, MD, MPH is the SVP for Informatics and Evaluation at Community Care of North Carolina, where she has led efforts to advance population health analytics and information systems used statewide to facilitate care coordination and quality improvement in practices and communities; to support targeted care management for patients with complex healthcare needs; and to monitor quality, utilization, and cost outcomes. A graduate of Rhodes College and the Johns Hopkins University School of...
Dec 03, 2015•34 min•Ep. 70
Stacey Richter is not only the host of this podcast, but also the founder and strategic force behind Franklyn Healthcom, a pharmaceutical marketing and design agency that develops brand and managed market strategies along with digital and print collateral. Stacey began the business in 1993 with one simple idea: bridge the gap between current pharmaceutical agency practices and strategic business process. Her role on teams is often to transform customer insights and market research into cutting-e...
Nov 26, 2015•26 min
Dr. Jan Lee is the Chief Executive Officer of the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN). She is a board certified Family Practice physician with a Master of Medical Management degree and a wealth of leadership experience. Prior to joining DHIN, she was Vice President of Knowledgebase and Content for NextGen Healthcare, a leading vendor of health information technology products and services, where she was responsible for the development of clinical content in 26 medical specialty areas for t...
Nov 19, 2015•42 min•Ep. 69
Teresa Rivera joined the Utah Health Information Network in 2007. As President & CEO, she is accountable to ensure that UHIN achieves its mission of providing services that reduce healthcare costs and improve quality and access for the community through exchange and use of administrative and clinical information. UHIN’s broad membership includes all the hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, national laboratories and approximately 90% of the medical providers in Utah. Teresa’s past experienc...
Nov 12, 2015•37 min•Ep. 68
Senior level Healthcare Strategy Professional with more than 15 years of progressive and diverse experience driving revenue and increasing operational efficacy in environments such as healthcare consulting, professional banking, finance, and corporate staffing with an emphasis on results and efficiency. Published Contributor with a half dozen articles published to more than three professional industry magazines including: Behavioral Health Magazine , Journal of Managed Care Medicine , Sales and ...
Nov 05, 2015•32 min•Ep. 67
Raised in Boulder CO to a preschool teacher and lawyer, with an entrepreneurial mindset. I choose instead to follow a conservative path to medical school. In Orthopaedic residency I disliked just about everything I experienced. Everywhere I looked I found hierarchy, conservatism, and inefficiencies. My daily mantra was to leave as soon as possible. To become my own boss, and make money! This was a dangerous mindset to be in. I was not up to the task, and no amount of future money as a motivator ...
Oct 29, 2015•30 min•Ep. 66
Anuj Desai is the Vice President of Market Development for the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC). In this role, he has overall responsibility for business development, fundraising, marketing, and events. Anuj oversees the development and management of strategic relationships and alliances with the various vendors and partners that interact with NYeC. He also leads the New York Digital Health Accelerator, the NYeC Gala, and activities related to national policy development and interoperabilit...
Oct 22, 2015•35 min•Ep. 65
Paul Pochtar is an industry leader who has more than 25 years of extensive experience leading the successful commercialization of specialty pharmaceuticals throughout their lifecycle, including several landmark oncology products and other specialty therapeutics. He has been instrumental in developing innovative brand value propositions that resonate with government and commercial payers and in the execution of market introductions by designing novel distribution, dispensing, and patient services...
Oct 15, 2015•33 min•Ep. 64
Over the course of a 20-year career, Trevor has started, built, shut down, funded, bought and sold technology and service companies, largely in the healthcare industry as an entrepreneur, investor and executive search consultant. In this current chapter of his entrepreneurial/A.D.D.-fueled professional career, Trevor serves as the Chairman of Oxeon Holdings, a healthcare growth services firm that connects our healthcare company partners with the fundamental drivers of business growth: great peop...
Oct 08, 2015•36 min•Ep. 63
Laura Adams is the President and CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI), a center of collaborative innovation that advances health and healthcare transformation. RIQI is the only organization in the nation to win all three of the major HITECH health IT grants which funded CurrentCare (the statewide health information exchange), the RI Regional Extension Center and the RI Beacon Community, bringing in $27M in funding. She was recently appointed to the Governor’s Workgroup on Healthcare ...
Oct 01, 2015•37 min•Ep. 63
Kyle is the founder and CEO of PatientCrossroads, a provider of patient registry solutions to the rare and neglected disease community. PatientCrossroads collects patient provided medical history and testing results in order to gain insight into disease progression and to recruit patients for inclusion in clinical studies and trials. Kyle is a respected authority on rare disease patient registries and is a frequent speaker at research conferences educating the non-profit and research community o...
Sep 24, 2015•37 min•Ep. 61
Brian Gale, MBA MD, is a New York City radiologist. He has authored several papers and presentations on Critical Test Results Management (CTRM) systems. He founded SaferMD to reduce the risks of to diagnostic test results communications failure. He has developed a system to confirm that such test result notification programs are used effectively. Dr. Gale graduated from Columbia Business School and SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine. He is a past president of the Brooklyn Radiological Society. Cont...
Sep 17, 2015•33 min•Ep. 60
Chris Bloomer is the leader of Trexin’s healthcare capability. He is a business operations and IT leader with over 20 years of experience, exhibiting a strong track record of defining and executing transformational initiatives for industry-leading organizations. He has deep industry expertise in healthcare (payer and provider) and financial services. Chris’ healthcare experience includes leading one of the nation’s largest payers in the creation & delivery of their Affordable Care Act financ...
Sep 10, 2015•33 min•Ep. 59
