Breaking Health

HealthEdge has built and automated claims processing system for payers, a precursor to the “Digital Payer” that will make insurance and health care easier and cheaper to manage. CEO Rob Gillette joins Breaking Health host Steve Krupa of the Psilos Group in telling how HealthEdge has built a powerful tool for the insurance industry.

With capital and a broad network of notable mentors, Blueprint Health is helping to build out the Digital Health sector in New York. Founding Partner Brad Weinberg, MD, explains how the group vets new companies and what it hopes to build long term.

Tom Spann, co-founder, vice chairman and chief operating officer, left a “pretty good job” at Ac-centure to create a company that helps patients manager their health care insurance. Accolade is hired by companies like Comcast to serve as a go-between its employees and health care insurers. The company goes far beyond understanding why health care bills costs what they do. It works to help patients get the best bang for their buck by understanding what care people re-ally need.

TigerText’s secure messaging app promises to improve com-munications between health care workers who can’t use standard technology. Chief Medical Officer Andrew Brooks, MD, explains where current technologies fall short and how TigerText is spanning the gap. TigerText’s CEO Brad Brooks – brother of the CMO – spoke at our Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit.

Digital therapeutics companies are taking root in health care as companies like Omada Health establish a track record – and clinical data – demonstrating their benefits on patient health. CEO and Co-Founder Sean Duffy explains why he left Med School to help create a new class of health care company.

Lonnie Reisman, MD, returns to the start-up life after several years as chief medical officer of Aetna. In his new venture, Reisman is continuing his long-time pursuit of trying to find ways to keep the chronically ill as well as possible.

Innovator Award Winner CEO Jason Gorevic tells how Teladoc is blazing trails for the telehealth industry.

Anita Pramoda,CEO of Owned Outcomes, a health analytics company that has worked with more than 100 hospitals implement value based care initiatives and bundled payments. Breaking Health Host Steve Krupa, CEO of Psilos Group, delves into Owned Outcomes unique approach to helping health care systems – and patients – migrate to new forms of health care payment.

The Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit brought together over 300 leaders in Digital Technology and Health Care to dig into what will finally bring real change to health care. The message is clear – change is coming. EMRs are up and running. Health care workers are demanding mobile technologies. And physicians find telehealth visits to be a viable – and cost effective way – of managing patient health. All discussions as well as private interviews with health care leaders will be available at digitalhealthcaresummit.com. Until they arrive, listen to Healthegy Content Director Tom Salemi and Steve Krupa, CEO of Psilos Group and host of Breaking Health Podcast, share their takes from the productive day’s discussions.

People enduring chronic stress are less likely to eat right, exercise, sleep enough, or do many of the basic things necessary for good health, says Jan Bruce, co-founder of meQuilibrium. The answer, of course, is simple. Find ways to reduce stress, but the path to a less stressful existence isn’t as clear as it might be. Bruce co-founded meQuilibrium to deliver individualized plans for employees designed to help them build “resilience” to stress. Psilos CEO Steve Krupa and Bruce delve into the actual impacts stress is having on health and the economy.Guest Bio:Jan Bruce has devoted much of the last twenty years to pioneering new brands in health, wellness, consumer lifestyle, and holistic medicine. She has a passion for building strong business strategies and cohesive management teams that deliver results. She is widely recognized as an authority on women’s attitudes toward a balanced healthy lifestyle and sustainable living. She also regularly speaks on business turnarounds and LOHAS business issues. In 2004 Bruce sold her company, body+soul/whole living, to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and then served as her former firm’s managing director for five years, during which time she led the growth of the business: quadrupling the revenues and tripling the circulation, spawning a multi‐platform franchise that includes website, video on demand, a daily radio show, and a new green cleaning product‐line. She then co-founded meQuilibrium after having a surprising personal epiphany that stress was keeping her from enjoying the rewards of her work.