Avaneer Health is changing the way healthcare works and this podcast features discussions with leaders who are truly reinventing healthcare with innovation. Join hosts Stuart Hanson, Rachel Schreiber, and Gerald Bortis as they highlight where innovation is happening in healthcare with a focus on organizations and people that are disrupting, reinventing, and changing the way healthcare works. Guests discuss new ways they are approaching old processes and displacing old tech to create something new and better.

The Spark

A Patient-First Approach to Innovation and Engagement

Mark Sevco, Chief Operating Officer at Sutter Health, discusses his dedication to improving healthcare through innovation, employee engagement, and patient-centered care, highlighting Sutter’s mission: “Patients first, people always.” He explains that engaged employees foster a better patient experience and describes Sutter's innovation lab as a collaborative hub for reimagining healthcare delivery and addressing challenges like access and billing. Mark also emphasizes Sutter’s dyadic leadership model, which pairs executives with physician leaders to improve collaboration and align organizational goals with patient and clinician needs.

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The Spark: A Patient-First Approach to Innovation and Engagement

Leveraging Technology for Superior Patient Care

With the advent of consumerism, patients now drive a healthcare organization’s revenues. Michael Archuleta, CIO at Mount San Raphael Hospital Trinidad, Colorado, explains how any hospital can transform its IT infrastructure from a cost center to a strategic revenue contributor by building asynchronous digital tools that benefit patients both inside and outside the organization.

Hosts: Stuart Hanson and Rachel Schreiber
Guest: Michael Archuleta, Chief Information Officer Mt. San Rafael Hospital

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The Spark: Leveraging Technology for Superior Patient Care

Enhancing Patient-Centered Care: Strategies for Innovation

Dr. John Chelico, National Chief Medical Information Officer for CommonSpirit Health, says startups need to embrace humility and patience before setting out to “disrupt” the industry. That starts with having deeper conversations with health system leaders to better understand the challenges they face and the solutions they genuinely need.

Hosts:
Stuart Hanson
Rachel Schreiber
Guest:
Dr. John Chelico, National Chief Medical Information Officer, CommonSpirit Health

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The Spark: Enhancing Patient-Centered Care: Strategies for Innovation

From 72-Hour Waits to Real-Time Rides To Save Patients’ Lives

Being an outsider can be a benefit for those looking to disrupt an industry, especially in healthcare. “I think our obliviousness to the difficulty we faced and our nontraditional approach helped us,” says Kinetik founder and CEO Sufian Chowdhury. “We saw a need and set out to fix it from the bottom up and I think that’s why we’ve been successful in an industry where so many startups fail.” This is just one of the insights Chowdhury gained as he set out to transform an industry whose services can mean life or death.

Hosts:
Stuart Hanson
Rachel Schreiber
Guest:
Sufian Chowdhury, CEO and Co-Founder, Kinetik

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The Spark: From 72-Hour Waits to Real-Time Rides To Save Patients’ Lives

Collaboration is key to overcoming administrative burdens and driving better outcomes in healthcare. 

On this episode, Anna Taylor, AVP of Population Health and Value-Based Care at MultiCare Connected Care, and Heidi Kriz, Director of Medical Policy and Medical Management at Regence Health Plans, discuss their innovative approach to using FHIR for prior authorization and other administrative processes. Anna and Heidi highlight the importance of sharing operational workflows between payers and providers, much like other industries, to improve efficiency and patient care. Their pilot program for quality measure exchange demonstrated significant financial returns and operational efficiencies, earning enterprise buy-in for broader implementation. 

Hosts:
Stuart Hanson
Rachel Schreiber
Guests:
Anna Taylor and Heidi Kritz

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The Spark: The Future Is Now: Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Collaboration

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Healthcare NOW Radio and Podcast Network offers discussions on the latest developments and trends impacting the industry including: health tech, health IT, healthcare innovation, healthcare policy, healthcare data security, telehealth, interoperability, biotech, med tech, value-based care, pharma, healthcare compliance, and much more. Shows are hosted by industry thought leaders. Guests are a "who's who" across the healthcare spectrum.  The listening audience is predominantly physician and hospital-based, and the healthcare industry at large.

The Spark: The Future Is Now: Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Collaboration

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