Disrupting Healthcare by Fitting In with Sean Duffy, the Co-founder and CEO of Omada Health

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Dec 16, 2021

Sean Duffy, CEO of Omada Health, discusses fitting innovative digital care into the current healthcare model. Omada provides proactive care through remote monitoring and support. They emphasize the need to work within the U.S. healthcare system and create a culture of innovation. Omada leverages data and insights to improve patient care and outcomes. They also discuss the excitement and potential of technology in breaking down silos for better care.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Transforming Healthcare with Digital Care

01:59 • 8min

From Computers to Healthcare

10:02 • 18min

Gathering Ideas and Resources

27:53 • 7min

Excitement and Innovation in Healthcare

35:08 • 2min

Blood, Surgeries, Health, and Hobbies

36:55 • 2min

The Value of Problem-Solving and Tinkering in Technology

38:51 • 2min

The healthcare industry in the U.S. can feel like a slow moving, bureaucratic, dysfunctional mess. But the question is: What is the best way to activate a digital transformation that leads to better care for people? Sean Duffy, the Co-founder and CEO of Omada Health, suggests that fitting innovative digital care into the current model is the best strategy to make the most constructive change.

Main Takeaways

Providing Proactive Care: Proactive care is difficult in the current in-person model; in part, because care is associated as occurring mostly during in-person experiences. Digital care through Omada operates differently in that Omada’s support team is able to provide monitoring without reliance on in-person office visits for the majority of care. Omada also provides prescriptions for monitoring devices and ships them right to the patient.
Working Within the System: Given the longstanding structures of the U.S. healthcare system, it is important that companies looking to innovate appreciate the realities of the system and be willing to work inside it in order to make changes. For Omada Health, this even comes down to making semantic choices regarding care that best fit into the current healthcare lexicon.
Creating a Culture of Innovation: With half a million users, Omada has been able to collect a lot of potentially useful data. Omada created the Omada Insights Lab in order to create a culture of innovation where its employees would use this trove of information in order to ask different questions and come up with solutions. Now, Omada has been able to open up this information to its customers so that they can also weigh in with their own ideas.

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