Todd Park, Devoted Health, on building the "American healthcare system as a service"

07/31/23 • 47 min

Our guest on this episode is Todd Park. Todd is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Devoted Health, a Medicare Advantage “payvider” providing virtual and in-home medical care for older Americans and leveraging their technology platform to drive clinical results. Founded in 2017, Devoted’s team of over 2,000 cares for nearly 124,000 members across 14 states. Todd previously served as the White House Technology Advisor and the HHS Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration, and was the co-founder of athenahealth and Castlight.

In this episode, I spoke with Todd about

His entrepreneurial journey
His time in the White House
Why Devoted is situated to transform the healthcare experience for older Americans

In this episode, I spoke with Todd about

His entrepreneurial journey
His time in the White House
Why Devoted is situated to transform the healthcare experience for older Americans

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Dawn Alley, Carebridge, on scaling value-based payment models at CMMI and beyond

In this episode, I sat down with Dawn Alley, President of Decision Support at Carebridge, a company that works with health plans and states to care for individuals receiving long-term support services. Prior to joining Carebridge, Dawn spent about a decade working in the federal government as Chief Strategy Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and before that as Deputy Senior Advisor for Value-based Transformation at HHS.

Dawn and I discuss:

The main initiatives she worked on at CMMI including the Accountable Health Communities Model and Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program
Lessons learned during her tenure about implementing and delivering healthcare models at scale
Why Dawn is excited about the future of long-term care services and why she believes in Carebridge’s model

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Belinda Tan & Noah Craft, People Science, on enabling human-centered and clinically-rigorous testing for alternative medicines

In this episode, I sat down with Belinda Tan and Noah Craft, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs at People Science. Founded in 2019, People Science is a human-centered clinical research platform addressing the need for rigorous clinical science to back alternative medicines and wellness solutions that do not typically fall under traditional Western medicine. The company’s platform studies a range of solutions spanning microbiome and food-as-medicine interventions, natural and synthetic psychedelic medicines, cannabis and cannabinoids, functional medicines, and digital therapeutics. Its user-facing app called Chloe (Consumer Health Learning and Organizing Ecosystem) supports users to test these alternative treatments on themselves, and enables users to view personal results in real time while comparing themselves to others. People Science secured its $8.5 million seed funding through two rounds, most recently in December 2022.

Belinda, Noah and I discussed: 1) Their founding story and unique co-CEO leadership model, 2) The philosophy behind the People Science platform, including the nuances of alternative medicines compared to traditional Western medicine, 3) The business model, including both how studies are launched with B2B partners and the consumer-facing app (Chloe), and 4) Insights and advice from having co-founded and co-led not one, but two, companies together.