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A Digital-First Clinic for Women & Families—featuring Kate Ryder

In 2014, women made 80% of the healthcare decisions in the US. Yet innovation in the digital health space largely ignored their unique needs. That&#39;s when Kate Ryder launched <a href="https://www.mavenclinic.com/" target="_blank">Maven Clinic</a>, a digital-first platform designed to support women and families with holistic care around fertility, pregnancy and parenting. Today, Maven is the largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health, serving 10M people to date. Recognized as Fast Company’s Most Innovative Health Company, Maven is on a mission to reduce costs and drive better health outcomes for women and children. On this episode of HLTH Matters, Kate joins hosts Dr. Gautam Gulati, Dr. Jordan Shlain and Patricia Bradley to describe how Maven serves individuals, employers and payers, helping women find healthcare providers that fit their preferences. Kate explains why Maven expanded to include family health and what the platform offers in terms of paternal and postpartum support. Listen in to understand the challenge Kate faces in scaling her team and find out how she is working to personalize the Maven experience—without compromising data security. Topics Covered<ul><li>What inspired Kate’s shift from journalism to digital health</li><li>How Maven serves individuals, employers and payers</li><li>How Maven helps patients find best-in-class OBs and fertility clinics to fit their preferences</li><li>Kate’s take on why there was so little innovation around women’s health prior to Maven and the challenge she faced finding investors early on</li><li>Why Kate’s team expanded Maven to include family health</li><li>What Maven offers in terms of paternal and postpartum support for new parents</li><li>The challenge Kate faces in scaling the Maven team at the rate she wants to innovate</li><li>Kate’s insight on how the relationship with the patient is undervalued in the digital health ecosystem</li><li>How Kate thinks about personalizing the Maven experience without compromising data security</li><li>The financial metrics and clinical outcomes Maven tracks</li></ul> Connect with Kate Ryder<a href="https://www.mavenclinic.com/" target="_blank">Maven Clinic</a> Connect with Dr. Gautam Gulati and Dr. Jordan Shlain<a href="https://www.hlth.com/" target="_blank">HLTH</a><a href="https://twitter.com/drgautamgulati" target="_blank">Dr. Gulati on Twitter</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautamgulati" target="_blank">Dr. Gulati on LinkedIn</a><a href="https://twitter.com/DrShlain" target="_blank">Dr. Shlain on Twitter</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjordanshlain/" target="_blank">Dr. Shlain on LinkedIn</a>  Resources<a href="https://www.jawbonehealth.com/" target="_blank">Jawbone Health</a><a href="https://www.pillpack.com/" target="_blank">PillPack</a><a href="https://www.omadahealth.com/" target="_blank">Omada</a><a href="https://www.acog.org/" target="_blank">ACOG</a><a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/" target="_blank">American Medical Assocation</a><a href="https://transcarent.ai/about-us" target="_blank">Glen Tullman at Transcarent</a><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/build-back-better/" target="_blank">Build Back Better</a><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/teladoc-acquires-livongo-creates-37-billion-health-tech-company.html" target="_blank">The Teladoc Livongo Merger</a>  Introductory Quote[3:05] “Women controlled 80% of the healthcare decisions in the US, meaning they control 80% of the largest industry—a multitrillion-dollar industry. And yet, the products and services for women, particularly around that point at which they start a family, just left so much to be desired.”

S2 Ep7: A Digital-First Clinic for Women & Families—featuring Kate Ryder

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How Technology is Revolutionizing Healthcare Purchases

Technology should be part of the solution, driving better outcomes and greater efficiency in healthcare. In this episode, Caroline Pearson, the Executive Director at Peterson Health Technology Institute, discusses the importance of raising the bar for digital health purchasing. Caroline explains how PHTI engages with stakeholders, including health plans, employers, providers, and clinical advisors, to ensure their evaluations are comprehensive and beneficial. She also emphasizes the need for innovation in technology adoption, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, and the importance of strong evidence supporting digital health solutions. Finally, Caroline urges the industry to evolve its approach to digital health, emphasizing the necessity for robust evidence to drive the next generation of healthcare delivery. Tune in and learn how PHTI is cutting through the noise and championing evidence-backed digital health solutions! About Caroline Pearson:Caroline Pearson is the Executive Director of the Peterson Health Technology Institute, driving impactful change in the healthcare sector. With a passion for addressing complex healthcare issues, Caroline leads initiatives aimed at creating a high-performing health system that reduces costs and enhances outcomes. She is a nationally-recognized expert in public and private health insurance, prescription drugs, and aging issues.  Caroline has two decades of consulting experience providing data-driven analysis and strategic advice to healthcare stakeholders. Currently at PHTI, she oversees programs dedicated to improving healthcare data, fostering better market functioning, and revolutionizing digital health purchasing. Caroline&#39;s commitment to tackling industry challenges reflects in her role, where she actively contributes to shaping a future where technology plays a pivotal role in delivering quality healthcare.  Things You’ll Learn:<ul><li>Patients deserve equal or better clinical outcomes from digital tools, backed by evidence.</li><li>It&#39;s time to evolve how we think about digital health and drive towards better evidence.</li><li>The Peterson Health Technology Institute evaluates digital health tools based on clinical benefit and budget impact.</li><li>PHTI focuses on innovative technology-based solutions that disrupt the system and deliver value.</li><li>Technology has the potential to drive better outcomes and produce greater efficiency.</li></ul>Resources:<ul><li>Connect with and follow Caroline Pearson on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pearsoncaroline/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.</li><li>Follow Peterson Healthcare Technology Institute on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/peterson-health-technology-institute/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> and visit their <a href="https://phti.com/" target="_blank">website</a>.</li></ul>

S4 E22: How Technology is Revolutionizing Healthcare Purchases

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Bringing Real Health Equity for Healthier Lives—featuring Andrew Toy and Carlade

Health equity starts with human equity. In this episode, Andrew Toy, President and incoming CEO at Clover Health, and Carladenise Armbrister Edwards, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Henry Ford Health and board member at Clover Health, talk about finding technology solutions and personalized approaches that bring accurate health equity, enabling people to live longer, healthier, happier lives. Clover Health is a company that uses a distributed care model focused on the Medicare Advantage population, using its resources on the people who need it, when, where, and how they need it. Andrew and Carladenise discuss the responsibility that is health equity and why barriers like misaligned structures, incentives, and values have made it a hard-to-achieve goal. They also speak about how being aware of the problem at hand and committing to kindness and justness can be the starting point to building health equity. Learn more about Clover Health’s distributed care model and its leaders’ take on health equity!  About Andrew Toy:Andrew Toy is the President at Clover Health, where he is responsible for driving the vision for how technology and analytics can improve the lives of Clover&#39;s members. Andrew joined Clover from Google, where he coordinated enterprise activities for the Android team and ran Machine Learning, Enterprise Search, and Analytics for the G-Suite team. Before that, he was the CEO and co-founder of Divide, a company focused on creating a split between work and personal data on mobile devices, which was acquired by Google in 2014. He earned his BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. About Carladenise Armbrister Edwards:Dr. Carladenise Armbrister Edwards has served as the Chief Strategy Officer at Henry Ford Health, a $6B private non-profit system in Southeast Michigan; Providence, a $26B Catholic healthcare system with over 50 hospitals across seven Western states; and Alameda Health System, a public hospital authority located in Oakland, California. As the principal advisor to the CEO and executive team, she has led system-wide strategic planning, M&amp;A, and other partnership ventures, business development, clinical and operational transformation initiatives, government affairs, marketing, and communications, population health, and managed care contracting. Dr. Edwards also served as Founding President and CEO of Cal eConnect, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that governed California&#39;s electronic Health Information Exchange. Additionally, she has held executive leadership roles in Georgia&#39;s Department of Community Health, Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration, and the US Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Edwards joined Clover Health’s Board of Directors in July 2022. Dr. Edwards holds a Ph.D. in Medical Sociology from the University of Florida, a master&#39;s degree in Education and Psychological Services, and a bachelor&#39;s degree in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Things You’ll Learn:<ul><li>Medicare Advantage is the perfect example of how to provide health equity, as it gives money and resources to prevent illness and treat illness in a personalized manner.</li><li>Decentralizing care can make clinicians more efficient and help them perform at the top of their license with the help of technology and analytics.</li><li>The current hospital experience could be more efficient and scary, but it can be fixed using different tools and models of care.</li><li>Organizations like Clover must ensure everybody gets access to the care they need, taking into account their social, economic, and environmental factors.</li><li>Structural barriers, such as the structure of insurance and societal values, often create a disincentive to providing care to those who need it most.</li><li>Everyone can be part of health equity by taking care of themselves first.</li><li>Hospitals should be places where we go for certain aspects of our healthcare, not all of them. </li></ul> Resources:<ul><li>Connect with and follow Andrew Toy on LinkedIn.</li><li>Connect with and follow Carladenise Armbrister Edwards on LinkedIn.</li><li>Follow Clover Health on LinkedIn.</li><li>Visit the Clover Health Website!</li></ul>

S3 Ep46: Bringing Real Health Equity for Healthier Lives—featuring Andrew Toy and Carladenise Edwards

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EVP and Chief Strategy Officer

Why Women Distrust the Healthcare System—featuring Carolyn Witte

50% of women distrust the healthcare system in the US. Yet women make up 51% of the population and control 80% of the healthcare dollars. So, what does it look like to build trust with women in a healthcare setting? Carolyn Witte is Cofounder and CEO of Tia, the modern medical home for women. Carolyn’s team is dedicated to treating women holistically rather than by body part or life stage. Tia&#39;s Whole Woman, Whole Life care model fuses gynecology, primary care, mental health and evidence-based wellness services to treat women comprehensively. On this episode of HLTH Matters, Carolyn joins hosts Dr. Jessica Shepherd, Dr. Gautam Gulati and Dr. Jordan Shlain to discuss how Tia was created out of her frustration as a patient and describe the company’s evolution from the Google for women’s health to care delivery platform. Carolyn explains how point solutions exacerbate the fragmentation of healthcare for women and what Tia is doing to serve the whole woman, addressing her physical, mental and reproductive health. Listen in to understand how Tia builds trust by listening to what real women want and learn what Carolyn’s team does to make women feel seen, heard and cared for. Topics Covered<ul><li>How Tia was created out of Carolyn’s frustration as a patient</li><li>Tia’s evolution from the Google for women’s health to care delivery platform</li><li>Why 50% of women distrust the healthcare system and why it matters</li><li>Carolyn’s take on the politicization of women’s health</li><li>How point solutions exacerbate the fragmentation of healthcare for women</li><li>How Tia serves the whole woman within the framework of health insurance coding and reimbursements</li><li>The biggest users of virtual care (on Tia and among the general population)</li><li>How Tia is supporting women in a post-Dobbs world</li><li>The obstacles Tia faces in terms of reproductive health restrictions, regulations and investment in women’s health</li><li>What Tia does to make women feel seen, heard and cared for</li><li>Carolyn’s dream to give every woman access to Tia-style care</li><li>How Tia builds trust by listening to what real women want</li></ul>  Connect with Carolyn WitteTia Connect with Dr. Jessica Shepherd, Dr. Gautam Gulati &amp; Dr. Jordan ShlainHLTHDr. Shepherd on TwitterDr. Shepherd on LinkedInDr. Gulati on TwitterDr. Gulati on LinkedInDr. Shlain on TwitterDr. Shlain on LinkedIn ResourcesDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health OrganizationTim Urban’s Life Calendar

S3 Ep34: Why Women Distrust the Healthcare System—featuring Carolyn Witte

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S2 Ep7: A Digital-First Clinic for Women & Families—featuring Kate Ryder

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