

Outcomes Rocket
Saul Marquez
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!
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Aug 18, 2022 • 31min
Closing the Gap: Tackling Social Determinants of Health One at a Time with Marc Harrison, M.D., President and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare
How do we use the wealth of the organization experientially, philosophically, and clinically to drive meaningful outcomes for the millions of people that we serve?
In this episode of the Outcomes Rocket, we are honored to have the president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, pediatric critical care physician, and recognized leader in healthcare transformation: Marc Harrison! He shares how she started in medicine, the journey from physician to a leadership role, and how his leadership style has always been impact-driven. He also touches upon the social determinants of health, the challenges they went through during the COVID-19 pandemic as a health organization, the changes the US health system should have in the future, and what leaders in this industry should be like.
Tune in to this wonderful conversation about what Intermountain Healthcare is doing to increase physician collaboration, leading to better patient outcomes!
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Aug 18, 2022 • 16min
CD: Bringing Healthcare Up To Speed with Dr. Tony Das, Founder and CEO of Connected Cardiovascular Care Associates in Dallas
Digital tools will change care from episodic and sporadic to a more complete and contemporary manner.
Welcome to the Memora Health Care Delivery Podcast, powered by Outcomes Rocket! In this episode, we are honored to listen to Dr. Tony Das, an interventional cardiologist, system medical director for the Baylor Heart Hospital Enterprise, and founder and CEO of Connected Cardiovascular Care Associates in Dallas. He speaks of how adopting digital initiatives can make healthcare better for patients. Tony explains why patients ask for a change in health technology and how adopting innovative tools can automate processes, unify and increase data input, and increase access and engagement to healthcare. He compares these innovations with other industries and the uniformity across different platforms. Dr. Das encourages the next generation to be curious and innovative, so things can keep moving forward.
Tune in to this episode to learn how digital tools permanently change the healthcare space!
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Aug 17, 2022 • 25min
FOGI: Know the System before Diving into Nursing Informatics with Robert Abda, Clinical Informaticist at Universal Health Services
Are you thinking of becoming a nurse informaticist? This conversation is for you!
In this episode of the Future of Global Informatics, TJ Southern is joined by Robert Abda, a registered nurse clinical informaticist at Universal Health Services. He talks about his role as a clinical informaticist at a corporate level doing project management and custom development, as well as other work possibilities and opportunities in nursing informatics. Robert also discusses exciting changes happening around data transparency, cybersecurity, and education that might bring awareness to the role of nurse informaticists. Furthermore, he provides advice and encouragement for people considering a career in nursing informatics.
Tune in to listen to Robert Adba speak about nursing informatics and what excites him in this field!
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Aug 16, 2022 • 26min
SONSIEL: Innovation: It’s Mostly About Your Network with Kathleen McGrow, Chief Nursing Information Officer at Microsoft
A bridge between the clinical and technical sides of healthcare would solve so many challenges nurses are facing today. This episode features a very hands-on trauma critical care nurse who turned to informatics when she realized how important it would be in healthcare.
This week’s guest on the SONSIEL Podcast is Kathleen McGrow, Chief Nursing Information Officer at Microsoft. She talks about her journey as a nurse, technology, and communicating clinicians’ needs to developers to push transformational innovations. She explains what it means to take a great idea and deliver it into something actionable for many people, sharing a lived experience where she helped build an electronic health record for the Amazon basin. Kathleen also speaks of the importance of networking and having social support when facing humbling situations and driving innovative initiatives toward development.
Tune in to this episode to learn about leveraging technology to improve processes and patient outcomes!
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Aug 15, 2022 • 44min
MM: Taking Steps Forward with Digital Health Tech with Michael Bidu, Co-Founder and CEO of INTERFACE Health Society
Massive change is about to happen in health technology. Welcome to the Marketing Mondays Podcast!
In this episode, Michael Bidu, co-founder and CEO of MYND Therapeutics and Interface Health Society, talks about the evolution that’s coming for technology in the digital health space.
Michael introduces MYND Therapeutics, a digital therapeutics company, and explains how it uses virtual and augmented reality in cognitive behavioral therapy to prevent, manage and treat chronic diseases, eating disorders, and obesity. He also talks about the non-profit organization, Interface Health Society, and how they created the first virtual accelerator in the world for digital health. Michael discusses innovation and digitization in healthcare as ways to democratize access through new digital health tools, products, and services. He talks about the technological changes in the digital health space, like digital humans, and the benefits they will bring.
Tune in to this episode to learn about the evolution in digital health technology and how it will make being healthy fun!
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Aug 12, 2022 • 9min
This Week on the Outcomes Rocket Network / August 8th - 12th 2022
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Welcome to the weekly summary of what happened this week in the Outcomes Rocket Network! We are so excited to be launching this and give you the chance to explore and listen to people from other verticals in the healthcare ecosystem!
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Aug 11, 2022 • 42min
Designing the Future of Healthcare with John D. Couris, President & CEO of Tampa General Hospital
Innovation in healthcare is building the future.
In this episode, John Couris, President and CEO at Tampa General Hospital, talks about creating an organizational culture in healthcare and the innovative ideas he’s implemented at Tampa General Hospital to achieve that. He believes that care coordination is the future of healthcare, creating a frictionless system that leverages technology and people. He talks about Internal Design, which consists in taking a private industry concept in having a group of people completely dedicated to designing future products and services in healthcare. He shares information on the building of a medical district in downtown Tampa and talks about how different leadership and partnerships can improve an organization.
Tune in to this episode to learn about healthcare innovation happening at Tampa General Hospital!
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Aug 10, 2022 • 37min
FOGI: Being a Universal Translator: The Tasks of a Nurse Informaticist with Amora Upton, Nurse Informaticist at The Department of Veteran Affairs
If they keep closing doors, go around them.
In this episode of the Future of Global Informatics, TJ Southern is happy to be joined by Amora Upton, an army veteran and nurse informaticist at the Department of Veteran Affairs. As an experienced professional, Amora shares her career trajectory from learning computer programs and informatics in the army to working on artificial intelligence policy issues. She talks about challenges and shortcomings she has experienced in her career, like inadequate software, the lack of more nurses on decision-making tables, level standardization, and hierarchies in nursing informatics. Amora also discusses the diversity of job opportunities for nurse informaticists and encourages newcomer professionals to have an open mind.
Tune in to listen to learn from Amora Upton’s experience and advice nurse informaticists!
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Aug 9, 2022 • 31min
SONSIEL: A Nurse Turned to Tech with Joshua Littlejohn, Product Manager of Nurse Experience at IntelyCare
A nurse is always building things that allow better care for patients! This episode features a nurse who has pivoted into technology and now helps build the tools that others use!
This week’s guest on the SONSIEL Podcast is Joshua Littlejohn, product manager for the clinician experience at IntelyCare. After working in molecular microbiology and making television, Joshua became a nurse who then turned to technology, inspired to structure the tools and the systems to care for people. He introduces IntelyCare, a platform where individual nurses go and select which facilities, schedules, and shifts they want to work. He talks about his job as a product manager and draws differences and similarities with that of a nurse informaticist, both technology-filled jobs. The former being industry-focused, and the latter health-system-focused. Joshua speaks of finding where he fits in the nursing world and feeling excited about big data innovation in healthcare.
Tune in to this episode to listen to Joshua talk about technology making an innovative impact in care and nursing!
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Aug 8, 2022 • 24min
MM: Keys to Healthcare Marketing with Rhonda Blaschke, Healthcare Marketing Executive
Make sure you understand who your customers are.
Welcome to the Marketing Mondays Podcast! In this episode, Rhonda Blaschke, a healthcare marketing leader, talks about personas, technology, and innovation all around healthcare marketing. She discusses different areas that contribute to taking the right idea at the right time into the hands of the right persona. Rhonda speaks on healthcare subjects like building trust with providers and administrators, building personas, digitalization, cybersecurity, and data interoperability. Additionally, she advises those starting in healthcare marketing, telling them to go out in the field and listen to customers’ needs.
Tune in to this episode to listen about healthcare marketing and its potential!
Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health