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Episode 23: Allison Gage, MBA

April 4, 2022episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our episode 23 guest is Allison Gage, chief engagement officer at mPulse Mobile. Allison is here to talk to us about patient engagement and how technology can play a larger role in improving relationships between healthcare organizations and their patients or customers.

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Episode 22: Miruna Sasu, PhD, MBA

January 17, 2022episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our episode 22 guest is Miruna Sasu, Chief Strategy Officer at COTA, a company that uses technology and advanced analytics to organize complex data for cancer care and research.In this episode, Miruna discusses how COTA is innovating in cancer care, her motivations for undertaking this work, and what she sees as the future of cancer research.

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Episode 21: Daniel Dawes, JD

December 14, 2021episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our Episode 21 guest is Daniel Dawes, a widely respected scholar, researcher, educator, and leader in the health equity, health reform and mental health movements. He is executive director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and a professor of health law, policy, and management. Daniel is also co-founder of the Health Equity Leadership and Exchange Network, and he is author of two books – 150 Years of Obamacare and The Political Determinants of Health. In this conversation, we talk about the political determinants of health and health equity.

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Episode 20: YiDing Yu, MD

October 14, 2021episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our episode 20 guest is YiDing Yu, chief medical officer at Olive, a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to automate areas of healthcare. In this episode, YiDing talks to us about her history of entrepreneurism and how AI is making an impact in healthcare.

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Episode 19: Alistair Erskine, MD, MBA

August 19, 2021episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our episode 19 guest is Alistair Erskine, chief digital health officer at Mass General Brigham, a 14-hospital system in the Boston area. In this episode, we talk about how Mass General Brigham adopted new technologies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and what the health system’s priorities are in the next several years.

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Episode 18: Naama Stauber Breckler, MBA

July 23, 2021episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our episode 18 guest is Naama Stauber Breckler, CEO and founder of Better Health. In this episode, Naama discusses her company, which is in the home-based care market, as well as her history of entrepreneurship and innovation in the healthcare industry.

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Episode 17: Abboud Chaballout

April 29, 2021episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our episode 17 guest is Abboud Chaballout, CEO and co-founder of Diagnoss. In this episode, Abboud talks about artificial intelligence and how it’s being used to improve medical coding and reduce physician burnout, as well as the future of the AI market in healthcare.

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Episode 16: Richard Vincent

April 5, 2021episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our episode 16 guest is Richard Vincent, CEO and co-founder of FundamentalVR. In this episode, Richard talks about his company’s new virtual reality solution for surgery, which combines VR, haptics – which is the sense of touch and motion, deep data, AI, and multi-modal learning. He also discusses other applications of virtual reality and what changes are on the horizon for healthcare technology.

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Episode 15: Gina Nebesar

March 16, 2021episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our Episode 15 guest is Gina Nebesar, co-founder and chief product officer of Ovia Health. In this episode, Gina discusses employee well-being during the pandemic, particularly as it relates to parents. Gina talks about some of the trends Ovia is seeing on its platform and how she believes businesses can support employees.

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Episode 14: Sheetal Shah

January 13, 2021episodessmarterhealthcare

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Our Episode 14 guest is Sheetal Shah, chief operating officer at SymphonyRM, a healthcare AI startup that is helping health systems improve patient engagement. Sheetal talks about the value of data, how health systems can better leverage it in 2021, and the great results his organization helped Virtua Health achieve with technology.

Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this episode.

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