A Healthy Dose

In the first live episode ever, Steve and Trevor gather healthcare leaders for news roundup at the 2017 Leerink Healthcare IT conference in Chatham, Massachusetts. The team gets Ravi Sachdev, Partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Carl Byers, Executive Partner at F-Prime Capital, Robin Heffernan, Co-Founder & CEO of Circulation, and Tim Murphy, President & CEO of Beacon Health Options to review broad healthcare trends in reflection of the first half of 2017.

Jason Gorevic joined Teladoc as CEO in 2009 at a time when the company was seriously struggling in the midst of the nationwide financial crisis. Since then, Teladoc has conducted over 2.5 million telehealth visits and is viewed as one of the first digital health companies that has “made it”. In this episode, Jason, Steven, and Trevor discuss the challenges of engaging consumers in a revolutionary B2B2C digital healthcare company. Jason talks about his experience entering the digital health world and the challenges he overcame to bring Teladoc to the successful company it is today.

Rushika Fernandopulle, CEO of Iora Health, discusses how his desire to fix the "stupid system" that is healthcare led to the creation of Iora health and lets us in on what he believes is the secret to better patient care: empathy. He shares the lessons he has learned as a trailblazing entrepreneur and explains how he sought to turn traditional patient care on its head by transforming a transactional system into one based on relationships. Trevor, Steve, Rushika, and Iora's CFO Dave Fielding work through what it takes to survive in the evolving primary care space, how CMS will shift under the new administration, and where we are today in the value-based care movement that Iora helped pioneer.

Krishna Yeshwant, practicing physician, programmer, and general partner at GV, sits down with Steve and Trevor to discuss entrepreneurship and innovation in healthcare. Leveraging his experience as both a clinician, and successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Krishna shares his valuable insights in company creation and identifying the most promising entrepreneurs in the space. The trio discuss major pain points in the healthcare system and the challenges of building a business, from the conception of a promising idea to the construction of a successful institution.

A few of the industry’s tech luminaries, Julie Yoo, Chief Product Officer at Kyruus, Dave Hodgson, President of Design & Development at Oxeon Partners, and Jeremy Delinsky, Chief Technology Officer at Wayfair (Former Chief Technology Officer at athenahealth), explore what it means to take an innovative approach to building technology within the healthcare landscape. They describe ways to drive meaningful use, create less friction and bring humanity back into healthcare through a more consumer-centric approach. This episode exemplifies what A Healthy Dose is meant to be: a forum for for experts to shoot the s**t about healthcare's most important topics.

Rich Roth, Chief Strategic Innovation Officer of Dignity Health, is a serial innovator with a specialized background in start-up development, big data, venture capital, healthcare strategy, public health, and health policy. He sheds light on the movement towards a more human-centered approach to healthcare and what it’s like to start a company in partnership with a health system.

Following the Deerfield Management and Oxeon Partners-sponsored event, Breaking into the Boardroom, hosts and attendees gathered to reflect on the lack of female representation at senior levels of healthcare companies, boards, and investment firms. Leslie Henshaw, Partner at Deerfield, Kate Ryder, Founder & CEO of Maven, Carolyn Magill, CEO of Remedy Partners, and Mia Jung, Co-President of the Oxeon executive search practice highlight the unique position and responsibility of healthcare leaders and investors to make an impact on an industry where women are the majority of the decision makers and make up 75% of the work force.

Frank Williams and Seth Blackley, CEO and Co-Founder, and President and Co-Founder, of Evolent Health respectively, recount the story of Evolent from an initial idea to IPO in 3.5 years. While still wondering if they’ve made it as a $400M startup, they reflect on what it means to be one of the few publicly traded healthcare company, the power of taking a consultative approach to healthcare, and their belief that talent is everything.

Trevor and Steve sit down with Andy Slavitt, the former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Andy was nominated by former President Barack Obama to run CMS after he spearheaded the efforts to repair healthcare.gov following its infamous initial rollout. In addition to chronicling his time in public office, Andy recounts his experiences as an entrepreneur during the founding days of what is now Optum, and what it was like to lead the company as it scaled. He shares his reflections on growing an organization, exploring the importance of thinking about the emotional impact of healthcare, how to be a magnet for talent, and the value of empowering teams to foster a performance-driven culture.

Steve and Trevor sit down with Lee Shapiro, co-founder and Managing Partner of 7wire Ventures, and Jay Desai, an entrepreneur who left the Innovation Center at CMS to be the founding CEO of Patient Ping. The team examines the themes of HIMSS 2017, with an eye towards the future of the value-based care movement and the importance of diversity in teams.