Friends of Project Healthcare

Founder and CEO of ScaleHealth, Taylor McPartland, shares with Project Healthcare colleagues Lauren Hatcher and Jeremy Raley what began early on as a passion project has since grown into a global health innovation ecosystem, ensuring access to advanced healthcare solutions. A self-confessed “serial founder,” McPartland formed his first startup, a data marketing platform in 2010 after graduating from Whittier College, where he developed his passion for leveraging innovation to address systemic challenges to healthcare access. The result, ScaleHealth, provides innovators and entrepreneurs with strategic resources and partnerships that will help them succeed. This conversation was captured at the 2023 ViVE Conference in Nashville.

Project Healthcare colleagues Lauren Hatcher and Jeremy Raley, are joined by Chris McGhee, CEO & Co-Founder of Current Health, a Best Buy Health company which helps health systems provide healthcare at home, including hospital-at-home programs, through innovative technology. Current Health’s goal is to partner with health systems and other provider organizations to shift safe, efficient, and patient-preferred care models to a lower cost site of service, including the home. Chris co-founded Current Health as a third year medical student and has won numerous entrepreneurial awards.  This conversation was captured at the 2023 ViVE Conference in Nashville.

Host Eric Thrailkill is joined by Brenda Schmidt, Head of Enterprise Growth at Redesign Health, to discuss how her company’s mission-driven innovation platform is building transformative healthcare companies from the ground up. By generating their own solutions to industry challenges and providing capital and resources to founding teams of companies working to address industry pain points, Redesign Health's approach sets it apart from traditional accelerators and incubators and allows them to accelerate startup growth and innovation throughout the healthcare industry. This conversation was captured at the 2023 ViVE Conference in Nashville.

Host Eric Thrailkill is joined by Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to shed light on why electronic health records (EHRs) have been widely adopted, how they are regulated, and why new policy changes are working to improve interoperability. As leader of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), Micky is finding innovative ways to improve the flow of health data in a safe and efficient way that improves health outcomes. This conversation was captured at the 2023 ViVE Conference in Nashville.

Host Eric Thrailkill and Project Healthcare colleagues, Lauren Hatcher and Jeremy Raley, are joined by Liz Ashall-Payne, co-founder and CEO of ORCHA (the Organization for the Review of Health and Care Apps), to discuss the assessment and distribution of safe digital health technology. Liz also shares her entrepreneurial journey that led to solving challenges with the use of digital health technology and how providers, patients, and the economy at large can benefit when digital health technologies are regulated and distributed appropriately. This conversation was captured at the 2023 ViVE Conference in Nashville.

Host Eric Thrailkill and Project Healthcare colleague, Lauren Hatcher, are joined by Blake Madden, the founder and creator of Hospitalogy - a leading healthcare platform media company of 25,000 subscribers, growing at a rapid rate. Being able to digest "the latest" news about the business of healthcare is almost impossible for busy executives - a problem Hospitalogy addresses head on. From consolidation to declining physician reimbursement to the growth of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), Blake provides valuable industry insights on a weekly basis, including his opinion on these trends you won't want to miss. This conversation was captured at the 2023 ViVE Conference in Nashville, TN.

Host Eric Thrailkill, along with Project Healthcare colleague Lauren Hatcher, welcomes Kyna Fong, CEO and Co-Founder of Elation Health, to discuss her unique journey behind the founding of the innovative clinical-first platform, as well as how electronic health records can be used to improve, rather than strain, the physician patient relationship. This conversation was captured at the recent ViVE 2023 Conference in Nashville, TN.

In the past two decades, U.S. healthcare expenditures have drastically increased with specialty care accounting for approximately 18% of the increase in spending. Project Healthcare companies are creating specialty care solutions to slow the increasing costs and improve outcomes. In this episode of Friends of Project Healthcare, Haley and Lauren finish this three-part series of introducing the cohort companies. The entrepreneurs in this episode are focused on specialty solutions in the field of genetics, women’s health, allergies, chronic autoimmune disease, and diabetes.

Traditional methods of receiving healthcare are being disrupted by new care models including telehealth platforms, hospital-at-home programs, and remote patient monitoring technologies. In this episode of Friends of Project Healthcare, Lauren and Haley discuss the Project Healthcare companies that are focused on new care models, and in particular, home health.

With over half of healthcare providers reporting burnout and two-thirds of patients reporting a prior negative healthcare experience, American healthcare is in need of innovative solutions. In this episode of Friends of Project Healthcare, Haley and Lauren introduce the Project Healthcare cohort companies that are working to improve both the patient and provider experience. This episode includes pitches by the founders at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center cohort First Look event in January. Join us as we support these founders and discuss behavioral health, patient engagement, and AI.