
Outcomes Rocket
At Outcomes Rocket, we are the shared knowledge hub for healthcare's toughest problems. Our goal is twofold and clear. To help inspire and guide our listeners to 1. Improve patient outcomes and 2. Experience business success in healthcare. Tune in to learn more!
Latest episodes

Mar 14, 2025 • 14min
Tracking Patient Recovery For Personalized Treatment with Matthew Gitelis, Founder and CEO of PatientIQ
This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comEnsuring healthcare providers continuously receive feedback on patient outcomes is crucial for improving care and personalizing treatment plans. In this episode, Matthew Gitelis, Founder and CEO of PatientIQ, shares how his company is transforming patient-reported outcomes data in healthcare. PatientIQ partners with hospitals, specialty practices, and medical device companies to automate data collection and provide actionable insights. Matt emphasizes the importance of closing the feedback loop between patients and providers, as assuming patient improvement after discharge is often inaccurate. He also introduces PatientIQ’s new DataPro product, which allows customers to benchmark performance and leverage AI-driven insights for better care.Tune in and learn how PatientIQ is using data to transform patient care in a transformative way!Resources:
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Learn more about PatientIQ on their LinkedIn and website.
Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

Mar 14, 2025 • 8min
NextMed Health: Where Cutting-Edge Technology Meets Medicine
To advance healthcare, we must break down barriers between disciplines and technologies, fostering collaboration to accelerate innovation and improve global health.In this episode, Dr. Daniel Kraft, founder and chair of NextMed Health, explores the dynamic intersections of healthcare, technology, and innovation and highlights the upcoming NextMed Health gathering. Dr. Kraft shares insights about the event’s unique approach to advancing medicine by blending diverse fields. He discusses the possibilities of blending AI and robotics, as well as the uses of psychedelics and regenerative medicine in healthcare. Tune in to get a glimpse of the transformative technologies and ideas shaping the future of healthcare!Resources:
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Follow NextMed Health on LinkedIn and explore their website!
Register for NextMed Health 2025 here!

Mar 13, 2025 • 46min
Prevention, Policy, and Patient Wellness with Dr. Brett Kessler
Imagine your dentist as a key player in preventing and managing chronic diseases, not just treating cavities.In this episode, Dr. Brett Kessler advocates for dental benefit reform to shift dentistry from a surgical model to one focused on chronic disease management and overall health, expanding Medicaid benefits and providing care to 300,000 underserved patients. He emphasizes the connection between oral and overall health, aiming to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs by integrating dentistry into broader healthcare systems.Tune in to learn how dentistry is evolving beyond the drill, tackling substance abuse, reshaping healthcare policies, and proving that oral health is the gateway to overall wellness!Watch the entire episode on YouTube and get more details at Think Oral HealthResources:
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Watch the entire episode on YouTube and get more details at Think Oral Health.
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Mar 11, 2025 • 18min
AI's Role In Building A Better Healthcare Finance Future with Dugan Winkie, Head of Commercial Strategy for Cedar
This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comThe key to improving the patient financial experience lies in personalized, transparent, and empathetic billing practices, moving beyond traditional, impersonal revenue cycle management. In this episode, Dugan Winkie, Head of Commercial Strategy for Cedar, discusses how his company is revolutionizing the patient financial experience. His company uses a B2B2C model, partnering with providers to interact directly with patients on all billing matters, offering solutions ranging from simple bill payments to complex affordability options. Dugan emphasizes how they differentiate themselves by creating a personalized experience that guides patients through the complexities of healthcare finance. He also explains that Cedar prioritizes data integration to accurately answer complex billing questions and offer a truly integrated patient experience. Tune in and learn about the future of patient financial engagement and how to create a transparent, personalized, and empathetic experience with the patient billing process!Resources:
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Learn more about Cedar on their LinkedIn and website.
Read Cedar’s annual report here.
Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

Mar 11, 2025 • 12min
Innovative Psychiatric Care: Transforming Behavioral Health with Colin LeClair, CEO of Connections
Innovative psychiatric care models are reshaping how we address behavioral health crises.In this episode, Colin LeClair, CEO of Connections, discusses Connections' freestanding emergency psychiatric units that provide alternatives to traditional hospital settings, aiming to rapidly stabilize patients in crisis and reduce the burden on hospitals. Colin addresses significant barriers to behavioral health parity, particularly health plan engagement, and advocates for a shift towards value-based care models. He highlights potential cost savings from reducing inpatient admissions, which can be reinvested into preventive care. Emphasizing the importance of specialty providers forming consortiums to effectively engage payers, Colin calls for collaborative efforts within the industry to promote systemic change.Tune in to learn how behavioral health parity and innovative care models are transforming the landscape of psychiatric care!Resources:
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Follow Connections on LinkedIn and explore their website.

Mar 10, 2025 • 15min
Protecting Our Protectors: A Call To Action For Firefighter Health with Sunjya Schweig, founder and physician at the California Center for Functional Medicine
This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comProtecting those who protect us is a crucial mission, and it takes a village! In this episode, Sunjya Schweig, founder and physician at the California Center for Functional Medicine, discusses his work providing lifestyle reversal healthcare to firefighters and first responders. He highlights the unique occupational exposures they face, which contribute to high rates of cancer, suicide, and sudden cardiac death. Sunjya emphasizes that these risks are largely preventable through functional medicine, lifestyle changes, education, and technology while also addressing the daily traumas and major disaster responses first responders experience. He explores the potential of AI to revolutionize healthcare and shares insights from the JPM Health Conference, where innovation and collaboration are driving new approaches to health behavior change.Tune in and learn how to support those who bravely serve on the front lines!Resources:
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Learn more about the California Center for Functional Medicine on their LinkedIn and website.
Discover more about the Functional Medicine Research and Technology Center on their LinkedIn and explore their website.
Listen to Sunjya’s previous episode on our podcast here.
Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

Mar 7, 2025 • 17min
Transforming Healthcare with Digital Solutions – Insights from Paul Markovich, CEO of Blue Shield of California
This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comDigital solutions are improving healthcare by streamlining processes to be as easy as credit card transactions, which leads to better efficiency and patient care.In this episode, Paul Markovich, CEO of Blue Shield of California, reveals a collaboration with Salesforce to digitize the prior authorization process, aiming to eliminate fax machines and make it as efficient as credit card transactions. Blue Shield’s nonprofit mission focuses on comprehensive digital health records and a complete system overhaul. Paul highlights the importance of starting from scratch to address cumbersome processes like prior authorization. Partnering with Salesforce for real-time data integration, Blue Shield's innovation journey emphasizes collaboration, learning from failures, and aligning with skilled partners. Tune in to learn how Blue Shield of California and Salesforce are using digital solutions to simplify healthcare processes and create a more efficient and patient-friendly system!Resources:
Connect with and follow Paul Markovich on LinkedIn.
Follow Blue Shield of California on LinkedIn and visit their website.
Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

Mar 7, 2025 • 8min
Predict, Connect, Transform: A New Triad For Value-Based Care with Sanjay Doddamani, Founder and CEO, and Michael Gleeson, Co-founder and CTO, of Guidehealth
This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comThe integration of AI and empathy is crucial to improving healthcare outcomes and affordability. In this episode, Sanjay Doddamani, Founder and CEO, and Michael Gleeson, Co-founder and CTO, of Guidehealth, discuss how their company is tackling the healthcare productivity crisis by integrating AI into clinical workflows. They highlight the importance of expanding healthcare access without overburdening physicians while improving patient engagement and care quality. Guidehealth leverages AI to analyze previously inaccessible data, predict patient needs, and create personalized care plans for patients, families, and clinicians. They believe AI-driven advancements will enhance patient connections, streamline data access in EHRs, and open new opportunities for innovation in healthcare.Tune in and learn how AI and empathy are transforming healthcare delivery and improving patient outcomes!Resources:
Connect and follow Sanjay Doddamani on LinkedIn.
Follow and connect with Michael Gleeson on LinkedIn.
Learn more about Guidehealth on their LinkedIn and website.
Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

Mar 6, 2025 • 16min
The Future Of Anesthesia Monitoring with Philip Siberg, CEO, and Michael Noble, Vice President of Global Marketing from Senzime
This podcast is brought to you by Outcomes Rocket, your exclusive healthcare marketing agency. Learn how to accelerate your growth by going to outcomesrocket.comPatient safety and improved surgical outcomes are achievable through innovative technology and a focus on the needs of clinicians. In this episode, Philip Siberg, CEO, and Michael Noble, Vice President of Global Marketing, discuss how Senzime is transforming perioperative care with Tetragraph, a quantitative neuromuscular monitoring technology. Philip shares their bold mission to improve outcomes for 100 million surgical patients by reducing anesthesia-related complications, while Michael emphasizes their customer-centric approach, offering education, protocol development, and seamless hospital integration. They acknowledge the slow pace of change in healthcare and stress the importance of perseverance and strong partnerships with clinicians. Together, they aim to enhance patient outcomes, lower healthcare costs, and drive meaningful change at every level of the hospital system.Tune in and learn how innovative neuromuscular monitoring can transform perioperative care and improve patient safety! Resources:
Connect and follow Philip Siberg on LinkedIn.
Follow and connect with Michael Noble on LinkedIn.
Learn more about Senzime on their LinkedIn and website.
Discover more about Senzime’s Next Gen Tetragraph here.
Fast Track Your Business Growth:Outcomes Rocket is a full service marketing agency focused on helping healthcare organizations like yours maximize your impact and accelerate growth. Learn more at outcomesrocket.com

Mar 5, 2025 • 40min
Breaking Barriers in Healthcare Data with Trip Hofer, CEO of Redox
Healthcare technology is evolving, but data interoperability remains a major challenge. In this episode, Trip Hofer discusses how seamless data exchange is transforming population health, mental health services, and value-based care. He explores how AI, machine learning, and regulatory shifts are shaping the industry’s future and what it takes to overcome healthcare’s biggest data hurdles.Tune in and don’t miss this insightful conversation on the future of healthcare data interoperability and the innovations transforming the industry!Resources:
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Follow Redox on LinkedIn and explore their website!