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The Beat
The Beat, powered by HLTH, is a weekly interview series dedicated to paving a better path forward for the future of health. Each week a variety of hosts bring you authentic conversations with prominent thought leaders. Through these interviews with people at the forefront of change in healthcare, we hope to spark new ideas and encourage new collaborations among listeners.
Episodes
The BeatLive at HLTH: Driving Effective Decision Making and Consistent Outcomes Across the Continuum of Care —featuring Yaw J. Fellin
About Yaw Fellin: Yaw J. Fellin, is the VP of Product and Solutions and Clinical Effectiveness for Wolters Kluwer Health Yaw Fellin brings more than 15 years…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Making Nutrition Accessible & Sustainable for All—featuring Vanessa Rissetto & Tamar Samuels
We recognize that nutrition is the front line of health care. But it’s challenging for patients to sustain lasting changes to their eating habits outside the…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Transforming Health and Wellness Through Better Sleep —featuring Heidi Anderson and Dr. Heidi Riney
About Heidi Riney: Dr. Riney is board-certified in sleep medicine and neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a member of the…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Democratizing Therapy with Telemental Health—featuring Dr. Varun Choudhary
We have come to understand the importance of mental wellness in recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, many of us don’t have…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Technology for High-Quality Care —featuring Dr. Taha Kass-Hout
About Taha Kass-Hout: Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS is the Director of Machine Learning and Chief Medical Officer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and leads AWS Health AI…
The BeatLive at HLTH: The Future of Venture Capital in Healthcare—featuring Dr. Vineeta Agarwala
Several years ago, leading VC Marc Andreessen proposed the notion that innovation happens through a process of unbundling and rebundling. Healthcare is no…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Disrupting Episodic Care with Technology —featuring Dr. Jaime Murillo
About Jaime Murillo: Dr. Jaime Murillo is a Senior VP and the Chief CardioMetabolic Health Officer at Optum Labs. He is focused on disruptive care delivery…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Aging in Place, The Hospital-at-Home Model—featuring Sheeza Hussain
How can we transform patient health through personal and predictive care? By taking it home. Sheeza Hussain is the Chief Commercial Officer of Biofourmis, a…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Community Health: The Challenges and the Opportunities—featuring Scott MacLean
Can we take what we learned from the influx of telehealth during the pandemic into the future to close the gap in health inequality? Scott MacLean is Senior…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Prioritizing Partnerships to Provide Health for All—featuring Rasu Shrestha
The pandemic exposed the cracks in the healthcare system. But how do we prioritize resources to maximize capabilities for the future? By prioritizing…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Just How Much Can Remote Patient Monitoring Technology Scale? —featuring Dan Vahdat
Since the pandemic many health care providers have shifted to a remote approach. Though, not every provider looks to improve the root of total health. How can…
The BeatLive at ViVE: The Future of Value-Based Care at Retail Pharmacies—featuring Rani Khetarpal
How do you optimize the outcome for a patient who has chronic kidney disease? By treating them as a whole person. Rani Khetarpal is Head of Value-Based Care…
The BeatLive at HLTH: The Intersection of Health and Tech —featuring Vivian Lee
If you think about our phones, we all essentially have the same phone yet, it’s a deeply personalized experience for each one of us. What if healthcare was…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Navigating the Future of Public Health With the Tension Found in the Health Care System—featuring Vin Gupta
People talk about cost savings or about longevity but if you frame it with how many doctor visits you’re going to have per year, you want that to be the lowest…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Using Technology for Increased Health Equity and Better Patient Outcomes—featuring Rajeev Ronanki
The biggest opportunity in healthcare is to extend health equity and provide total wellness solutions through virtual and technology platforms. But what…
The BeatLive at HLTH: The Future of Retail and Consumer Health—featuring Sree Chaguturu
Virtual care solutions have come to be just as important, if not, more important than physical care options. How can we work to meet that need with many…
The BeatLive at HLTH: The Future of Retail & Virtual Health—featuring Dr. Patrick Carroll
Millennials are acquiring chronic diseases at a younger age than any prior generation. But the way they access healthcare is fundamentally different from other…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Using AI to Simplify Complex Care Delivery—featuring Manav Sevak
How do you optimize patient touchpoints to make the delivery of complex care easier and more meaningful? Manav Sevak is the Co-Founder & CEO of Memora Health…
The BeatLive at HLTH: The Small, Independent Pharmacy Advantage—featuring Nimesh Jhaveri
There are 19,000 independent drug stores nationwide, the majority of which serve rural, underserved or socially vulnerable areas of the country. How can these…
The BeatLive at ViVE: The Road to Equitable Healthcare with Theresa Demeter, Managing Director at Tegria
About Theresa Demeter: Theresa Demeter is an entrepreneurial executive administrator with 30 years of healthcare performance and operational experience. As a…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Building Healthcare Policy That Works in the Real World—featuring Natalie Davis
The pandemic called attention to disparities in the American healthcare system. So, what can we do to build a better, more equitable system? How do we design…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Strengthening the Relationship Between Patients and Physicians—featuring Kyna Fong
Anything that affects the practice workflow affects patient care. But how can you deliver personal, informed patient care that’s centered around both doctors…
The BeatLive at HLTH: An App Designed to Empower Cancer Patients—featuring Maya Said
A patient engaged in their own care enjoys better outcomes. But when someone is first diagnosed with cancer, they’re in shock and simply can’t process the…
The BeatLive at ViVE: How Lark is Addressing the Chronic Disease Pandemic with Julia Hu, Co-Founder and CEO of Lark
About Julia Hu: Julia Hu is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Lark. Founded on the personal experience of having grown up with an…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Powering Smarter Healthcare Decisions—featuring Mark Menton
‘Shopping’ for healthcare is no easy task. Most health plan websites and mobile apps are challenging to navigate, offering search results that are little more…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Transforming Mental Healthcare Through Technology—featuring Kabir Nath
Getting a patient through a mental illness is much more complex than finding the right pharmaceuticals. But how do we develop technological solutions for…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Providing Quality Care at a Low Cost—featuring Marcus Osborne
When Walmart launched its $4 generics program in 2006, the retailer was amazed by how many Americans had prescriptions they weren’t getting filled, either…
The BeatLive at ViVE: AI and ML Technology for Health Equity with Rowland Illing of Amazon Web Services
About Dr. Rowland Illing: Dr. Rowland Illing is the Chief Medical Officer and Director of International Public Sector Health for Amazon Web Services (AWS). He…
The BeatLive at HLTH: 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's when Kate…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Putting Patients Front and Center in Precision Health Data—featuring Jess Mega
Health happens inside and outside the four walls of a hospital. Precision health uses data from a wide variety of non-clinical sources to arrive at the best…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Building the Infrastructure for Digital Health—featuring Jonathan Bush
The same way that a company like Stripe provides payment processing infrastructure for eCommerce, Zus Health is building the infrastructure for digital health…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Innovation in Simplification with Michael Clark, CEO of DeliverHealth
About Michael Clark: Michael Clark is committed to building organizations that simplify healthcare complexities and put the patient and provider first. As CEO…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Understanding the Human Metabolism to Reverse Chronic Diseases—featuring Jahangir Mohammed
If we want to get healthier and reverse chronic conditions, we can only get so far doing it alone. So, what can we do and who can we work alongside, to reverse…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Collaboration Rather Than Disruption in Healthcare Innovation – featuring Chitra Nawbatt
General Catalyst differentiates itself by including established companies in their portfolio, tackling problems holistically and having an appetite for…
The BeatLive at HLTH: The Role of Wearables in Preventative Care—featuring Harpreet Singh Rai
At present, America has a sick care system where we wait until people are ill before we intervene. But what if wearable technology could serve as a kind of…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Improving Healthcare Outcomes through Social Care with Melissa Sherry of Unite Us
About Melissa Sherry: Melissa Sherry is the VP of Social Care Integration at Unite Us and designs payment technology to increase funding for community…
The BeatLive at HLTH: The Past, Present and Future of Telehealth—featuring Dr. Kristi Henderson
Early in her career as a nurse practitioner, Dr. Kristi Henderson realized that many of her patients didn’t have access to care early enough. And she set out…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Putting Humanity Back into Healthcare Technology—featuring Bevey Miner and Bronwen Huron
With all the buzz of new innovations, it's easy to forget that healthcare is a people business in need of technology, not a technology business in need of…
The BeatLive at ViVE: Giving Healthcare Consumers the Power of Choice - featuring Kristen Valdes of b.well Connected Health
About Kristen Valdes Kristen Valdes is the founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health. She is a transformative force in today’s healthcare marketplace…
The BeatLive at ViVE: The Vibe at ViVE - featuring Richard Scarfo of HLTH
About Richard Scarfo Richard Scarfo is the president of HLTH, a leading platform bringing together the entire health ecosystem, focused on health innovation…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Revolutionizing Drug Discovery with Machine Learning—featuring Daphne Koller
Over time, drug development has become more and more challenging. Success rates of clinical trials hover in the single digits, and the cost of developing a new…
The BeatLive at HLTH: A Preventative Approach to Mental Health—featuring Alyson Watson
Even before the pandemic, mental health was the #1 cause of disability worldwide. Yet most people didn’t feel comfortable sharing their mental health struggles…
The BeatLive at HLTH: How Healthy Data Improves Patient Care — featuring Don Woodlock of InterSystems
How does access to healthcare data save lives? Consider the story of a 28-year-old patient who died from an opioid addiction. After the fact, his healthcare…
The BeatLive at HLTH: The Evolution of Telehealth—featuring Roy Schoenberg of American Well
For the last decade, telemedicine has been dominated by urgent care—and it’s delivered a great deal of value for patients in need of quick access to a doctor…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Extending Healthy Longevity with AI—featuring Alex Zhavoronkov
Most of us would define longevity in terms of the length of our lives. But what if there’s more to it than that? What if quality matters as much as quantity?…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Normalizing Stigmatized Health Issues — featuring Melissa Waters of hims & hers
A lot of people are hesitant to reach out to a doctor for help. And when the issue they face is a stigmatized one like hair loss, birth control or erectile…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Diagnostic Breakthroughs with Proteomics — featuring Roy Smythe, MD of SomaLogic
Dr. Roy Smythe likens our current healthcare system to medieval warfare. We address only the most acutely ill individuals, the flaming objects flying over the…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Leveraging Tech to Apply New Biomedical Discoveries — featuring Lloyd Minor of Stanford Medicine
The academic environment is ideal for innovation, while tech companies excel at scaling solutions. But somewhere in the handoff between academia and industry…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Partnerships + Prevention = Value-Driven Care — featuring Katie Adamson of YMCA of the USA
The Beat - Episode 3 Partnerships + Prevention = Value-Driven Care—featuring Katie Adamson of YMCA of the USA An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Integrated Care Built Around the Human Being — featuring Mark Ganz of Cambia Health Solutions
HLTH Matters EP02 Integrated Care Built Around the Human Being—featuring Mark Ganz of Cambia Health Solutions In every other area of our lives, service…
The BeatLive at HLTH: Advancing NEMT with Ride Sharing — featuring Megan Callahan of Lyft Business
HLTH Matters EP01 Advancing NEMT with Ride Sharing—featuring Megan Callahan of Lyft Business When we think about access to healthcare, insurance tends to be…