People who belong to the LGBTQ+ community experience a number of health disparities, including a lack of access to culturally competent care and worse health outcomes. Join Kate Steinle, chief clinical officer of FOLX Health — the first digital healthcare provider designed by and for the medical needs of the LGBTQ+ community — and Brian Richardson, CEO of StartOut — a national nonprofit organization empowering LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs — as they discuss the health needs of the LGBTQ+ community and ta...
Jun 27, 2023•33 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast About this event With a staggering $93 billion in excess healthcare costs and $42 billion in untapped productivity annually in the U.S. alone, health equity is critical to the total cost of healthcare. To combat health inequities, we need to recalibrate health equity efforts by adopting a total reinvention mindset and embedding health equity into the development of digital solutions. Accenture’s U.S. health inequity: beyond the statistics report found three key areas to building a digital core: ...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast About Oral health is linked to overall health yet more than 56 million Americans live without access to a dental professional. To continue to address the gaps in our oral health care system, CareQuest Innovation Partners in partnership with MATTER continues SMILE Health — a program designed to identify and accelerate early stage startups driving change in the systemic health landscape. Listen to Dean of Harvard Dental School Dr. William V. Giannobile and Chief Innovation Officer of CareQuest Inn...
May 02, 2023•59 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Join MATTER as we welcome Stephanie Tilenius, CEO and founder of Vida Health , for our April Tales from the Trenches. Stephanie was motivated to found Vida Health after she tried to help her father manage the multiple chronic conditions he faced. She knew he needed someone with medical knowledge in his corner to help him manage them on a daily basis and get him on a path to better health. Instead, he got lost in a confusing and impersonal healthcare system, like so many do today. Wanting to chan...
Apr 14, 2023•57 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast More than 80 percent of counties across the United States lack adequate access to healthcare, with a third of the U.S. population living in a healthcare desert, an area with insufficient access to primary care providers, pharmacies, hospitals, trauma care centers, optometrists and more. While access has been scaled broadly in the last decade across multiple industries, including banking, entertainment, fashion and food, it has remained elusive in healthcare. However, in recent years, products, s...
Apr 11, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shar Matin, CEO of Cordis , has over 20 years of medical device experience from Fortune 500 companies to leading commercial and technical teams in the U.S. and overseas. Along with his current role as CEO of Cordis, he serves on the Board of Directors of Koru Medical Systems. Previously he was COO of ViewRay, Inc. and Spectranetics. In these roles, Shar helped disrupt the healthcare market by building exceptional teams. On February 21, Shar joined us for a conversation moderated by Nancy Sulliva...
Feb 23, 2023•58 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Roy Smythe, CEO of SomaLogic , is an internationally recognized surgeon, biomedical scientist, academician, health system administrator and healthcare business entrepreneur. Dr. Smythe joined SomaLogic in 2018 and has led the company in creating sustainable and scalable growth eventually leading to the company’s initial public offering in 2021. Prior to his work at SomaLogic, he served as chief medical officer at Valence Health and AVIA. Dr. Smythe trained in general surgery, surgical oncolo...
Jan 27, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bob Badal is a healthcare industry veteran and kidney care expert, with a career spanning multiple successful startups, corporate operations and ventures. Along with his work at Strive Health , he co-founded Treatment Technologies & Insights (TTI), a digital healthcare company, in 2017. Bob began his healthcare career directly out of college working in both health plan network development and hospital administration roles. Come hear about his career constant: to identify and deploy disruptiv...
Dec 19, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Karan is the chief operating officer of Headspace Health , where he leads the company’s clinical operations and strategy. He was previously COO of Ginger . He has over 13 years of experience in the healthcare industry, consulting with bio-pharma clients, commercializing data analytics and establishing research partnerships with academic medical centers. A leader in the digital health community, Karan is a frequent speaker about entrepreneurship, health innovation and new models of care. He has s...
Nov 17, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this era of mergers and collaborations, Walgreens invested $5.2 billion in VillageMD to open hundreds of Village Medical at Walgreens practices across the country. Village Medical locations are spacious, featuring experienced primary care doctors and their clinical teams. The physician-led model allows for high-quality, accessible healthcare right in the communities — and health equity is an incredibly important topic that both companies believe passionately in. MATTER and Mark Vainisi, senio...
Oct 31, 2022•58 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast What will healthcare look like in 20 years? What should we invest in today to help us get there? MATTER and Baxter present Healthcare 2040, an event series that invites industry leaders working in significantly transformative areas of healthcare to help us explore these questions. Leading up to National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Awareness Month , join us for a critical discussion on the future of chronic pulmonary care. Chronic pulmonary conditions include COPD, pulmonary fibr...
Oct 26, 2022•48 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast MATTER recently launched 51 Labs , a women+’s health accelerator. With sponsors and partners Astellas Pharma US, Walgreens, BayCare, Parkview Health and University of Chicago Medicine, the inaugural year’s program calls for innovative healthcare solutions that empower and support women+ during their menopausal transition. On October 19, University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) Center for Women’s Integrated Health Director and practicing UCM physician Dr. Monica Christmas and Walgreens Boots Alliance...
Oct 21, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Iman Abuzeid is a healthcare workforce extraordinaire. As CEO and co-founder of Incredible Health , the fastest-growing career marketplace for permanent healthcare workers, she helps healthcare professionals live better lives and find and do their best work. Prior to Incredible Health, Iman founded Lift League, a platform for mobile and web applications that made it easy for wellness professionals to improve client results, build relationships and increase retention. Iman is also an NFX memb...
Sep 01, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast What will healthcare for older adults look like in 20 years? What innovations should we invest in today to help us get there? MATTER and Baxter present Healthcare 2040, an event series that invites industry leaders working in significantly transformative areas of healthcare to help us explore these questions. How are we conceptualizing what it is to age? How is technology truly supporting all of us as we age? What will care outside of the hospital look like in 2040, and what will the gaps be? St...
Aug 26, 2022•57 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast According to the American Academy of Dermatology, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer, with one in every five Americans estimated to develop it in their lifetime. With the prevalence of skin cancer continuing to increase among adults and children, advancements in technology may be the key to prevention. Traci Dunn , chief human resources officer and head of diversity, equity and inclusion at VillageMD , lead us through a conversation with Scott Barrows , director of the OSF Innovation ...
Aug 04, 2022•57 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Paris Wallace is an enterprise expert who has founded two successful companies in the women+’s and reproductive health space. As co-founder of Ovia Health , the leading women+’s health and technology company focusing on fertility, pregnancy and parenting programs, Paris has helped empower women and families to take control of their healthcare. As a recognized leader in the space, Ovia Health was acquired by Labcorp in 2021. Prior to Ovia Health, Paris founded Good Start Genetics , a genomics t...
Jul 21, 2022•57 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast What will healthcare look like in 20 years? What innovations should we invest in today to help us get there? MATTER and Baxter present Healthcare 2040, an event series that invites industry leaders working in significantly transformative areas of healthcare to help us explore these questions. Our next event in this forward-looking series will ask: How will we address current personnel burnout? How has the pandemic affected the healthcare workforce, and what solutions are going to solve our curre...
Jun 28, 2022•58 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Chad Mirkin is a world-renowned chemist who has taken an entrepreneurial approach to his nanotechnology research. He is the director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry. He is also a professor of chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science and engineering and medicine at Northwestern University . Dr. Mirkin is known for the invention of the spherical nucleic acid and its development in biodetec...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Parkview Health , in collaboration with MATTER, is proud to present the 2022 Healthy Mom and Baby Innovation Competition 3.0. No matter their age, all children are babies to their mothers. This year, Healthy Mom and Baby 3.0 extends its scope into improving the lives of mothers and children through pre-teen. This look at pediatrics, with a lens of increasing equity for mothers and children who have been historically marginalized, will address issues pertaining to access to care for preventive an...
May 11, 2022•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eren Bali is a technology luminary with an entrepreneurial vision and a passion for human rights, chief among those are access to education and healthcare. It’s become his life’s mission to tackle disparities in these sectors, inspiring him to build Udemy and Carbon Health. As the co-founder and CEO of Carbon Health , Eren leads the company on its mission to make essential healthcare services more accessible. Leveraging its unique technology platform, Carbon Health provides patients with advance...
Apr 21, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast One in five Americans do not have adequate access to oral healthcare. And for many who do, the cost of care is insurmountable. Dental expenses account for a quarter of all healthcare out-of-pocket spending — that means, in aggregate, patients are personally paying $55 billion annually for dental care. Whether due to a lack of providers, high cost, social barriers or infrastructure challenges, getting to and paying for dental care is difficult for too many people. To address the broken oral healt...
Apr 14, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Don Brown is a serial entrepreneur with a resume that speaks for itself. Throughout his career, Don has founded seven startups and brought three to a successful exit: he sold his first company to General Motors, another to IBM and most recently, sold Interactive Intelligence to Genesys for $1.4 billion in 2016. With a career that would satisfy most, Don had a nagging feeling that he wasn’t done yet. A lifelong interest in healthcare, an unused medical degree from 1985 and a recent masters in bio...
Apr 05, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast To close the gaps within health equity we must consciously design and develop technologies to be inclusive, and that begins with the data. You can’t fix what you can’t measure. Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine recently launched the Health Equity Tracker, a data visualization tool that displays the scale of COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations across race, ethnicity, sex and age — from a whole-country view down to the county level — all with the goal of m...
Mar 04, 2022•53 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast What will healthcare look like in 20 years? What should we invest in today to help us get there? MATTER and Hillrom present Healthcare 2040, an event series that invites industry leaders working in significantly transformative areas of healthcare to help us explore these questions. How will operating rooms enable more efficient, more effective and less risky surgeries over the next two decades? Parkview Health VP of Virtual Health Max Maile and Brainlab Digital OR Director Florian Moser discusse...
Dec 16, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sheila Mikhail founded Asklepios BioPharmaceutical (AskBio) in 2001 and set out on a mission to bring life-changing drugs to patients in desperate need. Started during a time when gene therapy was not thought of as a realistic therapeutic approach, AskBio went without a round of funding for more than 15 years. With the belief that their therapeutics could change the world, Sheila, her co-founder Jude Samulski and their team persevered. Over the course of 20 years, Sheila transformed AskBio into ...
Dec 14, 2021•58 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast New York Times bestselling author and founder and CEO of Moves the Needle Brant Cooper teaches leaders how to empower people and their organizations to create new value and become more resilient, aware and dynamic. Due to the rapid pace of technological innovation in the digital age, massive structural change is happening throughout society. Faced with increasing complexity and endless disruption, company organization, systems and management are still largely based on what was most efficient in ...
Dec 14, 2021•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast At this event in MATTER and Trustmark’s event series, Insights on Innovation for Self-insured Employers, leaders from Trustmark, Aon and Teladoc Health discuss how virtual care options are changing the game for self-insured employers and employees, where the market is going, what self-insured employers are looking for in terms of innovative solutions and how to offer those solutions. For more information, visit matter.health and follow us on social: LinkedIn @MATTER Twitter @MATTERhealth Instagr...
Nov 09, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sean Lane began his career as an intelligence officer in the Air Force, spending most of his government service at the NSA solving challenges as a software engineer and technology leader. After serving the U.S. military, Sean started his career as a healthcare entrepreneur, drawn in by the prescription drug abuse problem that engulfed his hometown. After founding several startups — ranging from big data and advanced analytics to entity resolution — Sean founded health tech AI startup Olive in 20...
Oct 28, 2021•56 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Lihi Segal joined us for a conversation moderated by VillageMD Chief Marketing Officer Ellen Donahue-Dalton to discuss her experiences leading both startups and large public enterprises, the inspiration and motivation behind founding DayTwo and advice for fellow entrepreneurs. Lihi founded DayTwo in 2015 to bring personalized health solutions based on the gut microbiome into the mainstream consumer market. Since then, the company has become a leader in precision nutrition with the world's l...
Aug 05, 2021•54 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast For more than a year, healthcare heroes have put their lives on the line to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental Health America surveyed 1,119 healthcare workers about their mental health and well-being, and the results were resounding: 93 percent reported stress, 86 percent reported anxiety, 77 percent reported frustration, 76 percent reported exhaustion and burnout and 75 percent said they were overwhelmed. Clinician well-being — mentally, physically and spiritually — has never been more import...
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