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Breaking Silos: Equitable Healthcare Transformation with Shruti Kothari of Blue Shield California
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05/31/24 • 42 min
Meg is joined by Shruti Kothari, Director of Industry Initiatives at Blue Shield California, an independent member of the Blue Shield Association with 4.7 million members, 7,800 employees, and $22.9 billion in annual revenue that provides health care service plans to residents of California. Shruti is also the founder of Women of Community, an organization focused on increasing representation of women of color in healthcare leadership, as well as the co-founder of the start-up Crown Society. She serves as a Board Member/Advisor for several organizations, including the Family Caregiver Alliance, Reverence, and Asian Pacific Fund.
In this episode, Shruti dives into her role as an equitable health care transformation advocate with experience working as a health educator, community mobilizer, quality improvement leader, early stage startup operator, and in venture capital. Meg and Shruti explore topics ranging from scaling transformative concepts, such as value-based payment models, to her career path and experiences as a woman of color in the healthcare sphere.
Further Reading:
- Blue Shield of California Annual Mission Report
- Rock Health’s 2023 Honoree - Shruti Kothari — Top 50 in Digital Health
- Named a US Best Managed Company for the fifth straight year and as a Gold Standard honoree for the second time (Sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal)
- Recognized as one of the most #CommunityMinded companies in the U.S. by Points of Light, the world’s largest nonprofit dedicated to accelerating people-powered change. This is the third time we have been honored for our commitment to Stand for What’s Right.
- New Advisory Council Member Spotlight: Shruti Kothari
- Industry Initiatives Director Shruti Kothari Named to Business Insider "30 Under 40" Transforming Health Care
- Founder | Women of Community
- Why Health Data Sharing Needs To Be A Priority For LGBTQ+ Advocacy
- California’s homelessness crisis highlights need for optimized data sharing - Capitol Weekly
- Debunking Misconceptions: Health Plans Play A Crucial Role In Data Sharing
- What Health Plans Wish the Healthcare Innovation Ecosystem Knew
- Opinion: We Need to Balance Innovation with Equity in the Rush to Reimagine Primary Care
- The Exec: Blue Shield’s Kothari on Co-opetition and Intersectionality | HealthLeaders Media
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, Markala Comfort, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
©2024 The Krinsky Company
Jayme Ambrose: The Maslow Effect
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06/02/22 • 49 min
Meg speaks with Jayme Ambrose, CEO of Adobe Care & Wellness, an innovative healthcare solution company that focuses on customizing programs for insurance groups, providers, hospitals, and families.
Meg and Jayme discuss Jayme’s background as a psychiatric nurse and workers compensation case manager; Adobe’s focus on social determinants and proactive care; the inverse relationship between quality of life and health costs; health access for the rural community; Adobe’s “human touch” mission; their app, Maslow; the “Nurse Mindset;” and much more.
About Jayme Ambrose:
Jayme Ambrose is CEO of Adobe Care & Wellness, an innovative healthcare solution company that focuses on customizing programs for insurance groups, providers, hospitals, and families. Adobe Care & Wellness germinated from a class project for her doctorate, in which Jayme created a holistic and integrative healthcare model. In 2021, Jayme received Phoenix Business Journal’s Health Care Heroes Award for the Innovator category.
Prior to launching Adobe Care and Wellness, Jayme was the Vice President of Clinical Services at The Beech Group. She is a member of the Case Management Society of America and was previously a board member. Jayme is also an active member of the Arizona Nursing Association. Jayme holds a Bachelor of Science and Master’s of Science in Nursing from Arizona State University, and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Case Western Reserve University.
Further Reading:
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
Theme music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
©2022 The Krinsky Company
Tracy Byers: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
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10/01/21 • 34 min
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare
Episode 1 - Tracy Byers: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Today, on our very first episode, host Meg Escobosa welcomes Tracy Byers, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Imaging at Change Healthcare.
Meg and Tracy talk about what got Tracy hooked in healthcare, some of her early category-creating successes, and the invaluable mentorship and coaching she received that informed her own leadership style. They also discuss the keys to driving successful innovation on teams and the promise of cloud computing in healthcare today.
About Tracy Byers:
Tracy Byers is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Imaging at Change Healthcare, a 14-year old healthcare technology company, focused on accelerating the transformation of the healthcare system through the Change Healthcare Platform providing data and analytics-driven solutions to improve clinical, financial, administrative, and patient engagement outcomes in the U.S. healthcare system. In January 2021, UnitedHealth Group's OptumInsight unit agreed to acquire Change Healthcare in a deal valued at $13 billion.
Since beginning her tenure at Change Healthcare in 2019, Tracy has been responsible for driving growth, expanding market share, and advancing the company's position as a transformational leader in the imaging market. Tracy has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare technology industry, including executive leadership roles at IBM Watson Health, Philips Healthcare, Agilent Technologies, Hewlett Packard, and GE. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Lehigh University and an MBA from Northeastern University.
Further Reading:
- Merger of Change Healthcare and United Healthcare Group’s Optum Insight Unit
- Press Release - HP Medical’s acquisition of HeartStream
- LA Times article describing the opportunity in AEDs
- IBM Watson Health
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Wendy Nielsen and Calvin Marty.
Edited, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Calvin Marty.
Theme music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
Intro and outro voiced by John Parsons. Cover design by Paul Huber.
©2021 The Krinsky Company
Anna Lindow: Brave Health
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08/08/23 • 35 min
Meg welcomes Anna Lindow, CEO + Co-Founder at Brave Health, a virtual mental health provider dedicated to helping people thrive by engaging them in high-quality, affordable, and easily accessible mental health care.
Meg and Anna discuss the supply and demand imbalance for mental health services, especially for Medicaid recipients and other underserved populations. Anna also reflects on her experience building Brave Health, the support they’ve received, and how technology has helped them scale and evolve according to patient density and need. She also shares the importance of cultivating teams and lessons from past work experiences.
Further Reading:
- Brave Health
- Working together to make a difference in maternal mental health
- Anna Lindow: Developing Alumnae Who Care About the Future
- Can Telehealth Close the Mental Healthcare Gap?
- Brave Health Doubles Down on Expanding Medicaid Behavioral Health Model
- Changing the Landscape of Women’s Health: Founders and CEOs Sound Off
- Brave Health and MedArrive Team to Bring Virtual Mental Health to Most Vulnerable Medicaid Populations
- Brave Health Expands to 18 States, Announces First Value-Based Care Agreement
- Brave Health and The Doula Network Partner to Support Maternal Mental Health for Medicaid Populations
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
©2023 The Krinsky Company
Inventing, Investing, Advising: Natalie Douglas, Healthcare Virtuoso
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03/22/24 • 44 min
Meg welcomes Natalie Douglas, an award-winning healthcare specialist, an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, board director, and investor. She is the founder of Lucidity LLC and RealiTi Health, as well as chairman of the board for Entia Ltd and TidalSense. She is also an investor and advisor for many portfolio companies, such as Ceek Women’s Health, RwHealth, Vitaccess.
In this episode, Natalie shares her experience in various leadership roles in life sciences, pharma services, medical devices, digital, SAS, and data analytics. She discusses various challenges and some of the innovative solutions she’s led as a private equity-backed CEO, building a global market, fem tech, and the next era of the healthcare landscape.
Natalie was honored with “Pharma Voice Top 100,” “Health Investor Power Top 50,” “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Finalist),” “First Woman in Business Services Awards,” and “The Sunday Times Fast Track in the following categories over multiple years: Top Track, Buyout Track, Profit Track.”
Further Reading:
- https://www.lucidityllc.com/#Founder
- PharmaVoice: Exploring New Frontiers
- Managing Data From Disparate and Siloed Sources
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, Markala Comfort, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
©2024 The Krinsky Company
Optimizing Existing Healthcare Benefits with Uber's Core Competencies: Caitlin Donovan, Global Head of Uber Health
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05/15/24 • 43 min
Meg is joined by Caitlin Donovan, Global Head of Uber Health, which focuses on delivering a “better patient experience with transportation, same-day prescription, and home delivery for groceries and over-the-counter items, enhancing benefit coordination.”
Caitlin explains Uber Health’s services: transportation, prescription delivery, and grocery and over-the-counter benefits. Meg and Caitlin dive into the challenges of executing Uber Health’s vision, the importance of aligning incentives, and the critical task of understanding the healthcare ecosystem at large. Caitlin shares insights on engaging health plans and providers, as well as the future plans and innovations of Uber Health. Lastly, Caitlin discusses the key factors in successfully bringing new solutions to the healthcare market and leading well-balanced teams.
Further Reading:
2020 product update, Uber Technologies reported that Uber Health grew 300% in two years.
2021, Uber Health and Surgo Ventures partnered with two federally qualified Washington, D.C. health centers to launch the Rides for Moms program
2023: Uber’s Revenue Up 29% as U.S. Ride-Hailing Business Improves
“How Uber Health Is Addressing The Maternal Health Crisis”
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, Markala Comfort, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
©2024 The Krinsky Company
Inna Plumb: Outside the Box, Inside the Home
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare
03/13/23 • 40 min
Meg welcomes Inna Plumb, Co-Founder and COO of MedArrive.
MedArrive enables healthcare providers to seamlessly extend care services into the home, unlocking access to high-quality healthcare for more people at a fraction of the cost. MedArrive’s fully integrated care management platform allows providers and payors to bridge the virtual care gap by marrying physician-led telemedicine with hands-on care from EMS professionals.
MedArrive has more than 20k highly-skilled EMS providers in its national network, and services span dozens of clinical use cases, including chronic condition management, transitional care, readmission prevention, urgent care, vaccinations, palliative care, and more.
In this exciting conversation, Meg and Inna discuss MedArrive’s unique approach to care in the home, the inspiration behind the company, Inna’s unusual path to a career in healthcare, her immigration to the US, her dedication to mentoring, and much more.
Inna Plumb is the COO and Co-Founder of MedArrive. She was a founding partner at Redesign Health, where she helped to build a variety of healthcare companies including Calibrate and Vault, while also leading the Venture Building team. She has a strong background in Operations and Finance, having led the Supply Chain team at Blue Apron and starting her career as a banker at Evercore Partners and subsequently an investor at Soros Fund Management.
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Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
©2023 The Krinsky Company
Detect and Prevent: Diagnostics-Driven Virtual Care from Everly Health, with Dr. Liz Kwo
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare
06/18/24 • 34 min
Meg welcomes Liz Kwo, MD, MBA, and Masters in Public Health (all from Harvard). Dr. Kwo is the Chief Commercial Officer at Everly Health, a personalized diagnostic-driven care-at-home solution. She is an experienced healthcare executive specializing in P&L management, B2B/B2C marketing and sales, strategic partnerships, and post-merger integration. Dr. Kwo is an expert at building and scaling digital health products, leveraging predictive and prescriptive analytics to improve outcomes.
In this episode, Liz shares her experience as a healthcare executive, investor, physician, and company builder, and how those can tie the market and community needs together to reach more patients. She discusses her personal inspiration, experience bringing companies to market, getting the right investors, and teaching resilience across generations.
Dr. Kwo’s new book, Digital MD: Revolutionizing the Future of Health Care is available for pre-order now! Link below...
Further Reading:
- Digital MD: Revolutionizing the Future of Health Care
- Current state and future potential of AI in occupational respiratory medicine
- The Promise of Liquid Biopsies for Cancer Diagnosis
- Evaluating the Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of Musculoskeletal Digital Health Solutions
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, Markala Comfort, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
©2024 The Krinsky Company
Homeward: Cultivating Rural Health
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare
12/19/23 • 41 min
Meg welcomes Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Co-Founder and CEO of Homeward Health, a technology-enabled, community-based healthcare provider delivering high-quality care to those who lack access, specifically rural Americans and the Medicare population.
Discussion topics:
- Leveraging technology and AI to make healthcare delivery more equitable
- Dr. Schneider’s personal experiences receiving care in rural US
- The differences in cultures of care
- How a care model focused on partnership, rather than competition, can help fill service gaps
- Female leadership
- Gender gaps in ownership, payment equity, and value perception
- Homegrown, an initiative from Homeward working to mitigate these issues through mutual learning and support
Further Reading:
- https://homewardhealth.com/
- Decoding Health Signals: Silicon Valley’s Consumer-First Approach to a New Era of Health
- ABC 13 Grand Rapids, MI: "Hope Delivered," Matt Gard.
- Rite Aid And Homeward Partner To Support Seniors In Underserved Communities
- Homeward to Rearchitect Rural Healthcare for 60 Million Americans
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
©2023 The Krinsky Company
Pocket Naloxone and the Business of Healthcare Innovation: Kathryn Bowsher
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07/23/24 • 41 min
Meg welcomes Kathryn Bowsher, managing director of ActOne Healthcare, a consulting firm focused on commercializing healthcare innovations. Kathryn developed this expertise by launching more than 40 products and initiatives across a wide range of therapeutic areas, sites of care, and business models over the course of 25 years.
Kathryn is the co-founder, advisor to, and previous Chair of the Board of Pocket Naloxone, an over-the-counter opioid overdose treatment.
In this episode, Meg and Kathryn discuss the challenges of getting Pocket Naloxone to market and the innovative delivery mechanism they developed. Kathryn emphasizes the importance of improving access, lowering cost, and reducing stigma associated with naloxone. She digs into the need to put patients at the center of healthcare by reducing complexity and cost for healthcare providers, and Meg asks Kathryn to share her extensive experience raising capital across her storied career.
Also discussed are many of Kathryn’s insights on healthcare challenges and opportunities such as issues with appointment scheduling and workflow, patient-centric approaches, information-sharing, telehealth, medication access, the persistence of old models of care, and educating stakeholders to further positive change.
Further Reading:
Episode Credits:
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.
Hosted by Meg Escobosa.
Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, Markala Comfort, and Wendy Nielsen.
Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.
All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.
©2024 The Krinsky Company
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How many episodes does The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare have?
The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare currently has 31 episodes available.
What topics does The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare cover?
The podcast is about Health Care, Health & Fitness, Management, Leadership, Women, Digital Health, Medicine, Podcasts, Business, Innovation, Female Leadership and Healthcare.
What is the most popular episode on The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare?
The episode title 'Detect and Prevent: Diagnostics-Driven Virtual Care from Everly Health, with Dr. Liz Kwo' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare?
The average episode length on The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is 40 minutes.
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Episodes of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare are typically released every 34 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare?
The first episode of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare was released on Sep 8, 2021.
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