Breaking Health

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.

A serial entrepreneur, Steve Wiggins made his bones in health care two decades ago running Oxford Health Plans, a company he describes as being a mix between Castlight and Oscar. Today, Wiggins is chairman of Remedy Partners, a company that’s offering itself to providers as go-between in managing bundled payments from CMS. “We’re the cheapest way into the pro-gram,” Wiggins tells Breaking Health Host Steve Krupa in this week’s podcast. “It would cost a provider anywhere between 4-5% on these bundles to manage them themselves.” Remedy Partners, which manages $5 billion in payments, is able to do the same job for less. Hear Wiggins’ unique take on how companies like Remedy can help fix health care.Guest Bio: Steve Wiggins has over 30 years of experience launching and managing health care companies and has founded seven health care companies including Oxford Health Plans, which grew into a Fortune 300 company under his leadership. Steve is a Managing Director of Essex Woodlands, one of the oldest and largest health care venture capital and growth equity firms. He was also the Founder, Chairman and CEO of HealthMarket, Inc., an insurance company that gave birth to innovative Consumer Driven Health Plans. He co-founded Health Partners, Inc, a physician practice management company. He was also a co-Founder of Intelliclaim, Inc., which provided claim auditing and productivity software and services to over twenty health insurance companies before it was sold to McKesson, and he was the founding investor in Ben-efitPort, LLC, a consolidation of health insurance general agencies. Steve graduated from Macalester College and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Host Steve Krupa of Psilos Group interviews Dan Burton, CEO of Data Warehousing powerhouse Health Catalyst about fund-raising, resisting early strategic sales and how Big Data is changing health care.

Norwest Venture Partners’ Robert Mittendorff, MD, and Breaking Health Host Steve Krupa of Psilos Group bring their considerable experiences to bear.Krupa delves into Mittendorff’s ability to balance practicing medicine with identifying game-changing new digital health technologies for one of the leading investors in digital health. Mittendorff also discusses the highlights he sees in the coming Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit including Digital Therapeutics, Population Health, and the Rise of the Consumer.