The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show

What can we glean from the healthcare market that is happening right now, in terms of what strategies will succeed or fail? The future of healthcare is in the past. In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, I sat down with Eric Tower, Health Care Partner at Thompson Coburn. After being in-house General Counsel at a large health system for 16 years, he closely looks into the current healthcare landscape and points out similarities between what's happening now and what occurred in the 90s - and cautions innovators on the first thing they absolutely need to figure out.Find out more about the work of Thompson Coburn: https://www.thompsoncoburn.com/Follow Eric on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-tower-02768118/The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

As a parent of a kiddo that's on the spectrum, this conversation was was deeply personal. In this episode of AHI Show, we sit down with Pablo Juárez, Co-Director, of the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. They're dedicated to developing and improving sustainable programs in rural, low-resource, and underserved communities to support the educational, behavioral, home-based, and community needs, and aspirations of individuals with intellectual, developmental, and acquired disabilities and their families. It's impressive how much work they've done to create access along with being a sustainable model for supporting autistic children all across the state of Tennessee. Find out more about the work of TRIAD: https://vkc.vumc.org/vkc/triad/home/Follow Pablo Juárez on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apjuarez/The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

Imagine having a career that allows you to serve patients, do good in the world, and connect with the people that matter most to you. Michael Hasselberg, Ph.D., Chief Digital Officer of the University of Rochester Medical Center sat down with me to share his incredible story, the potential he sees within rural communities, and what it means to care for his community. One of the things that make the University of Rochester Medical Center unique is they're one of only a handful of academic health systems left in the country that's integrated into its parent University. In this conversation, Michael shares a bit of his story- how he got there and why it matters so much to him to serve the people who need it most. You'll Discover: *The unique leadership approach he applies to creating and augmenting community care networks*How the work is driving change in healthcare for both patients and providers* One of the main factors when deciding on problems they are looking to solve* Areas that URMC is innovating & disrupting Find out more about the work of Rochester University Medical Center: https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-rochester-medical-center/Follow Michael Hasselberg, Ph.D. on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-hasselberg-793a4111b/The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

It's an interesting dynamic to think and operate like a payor, yet be compensated like a provider. That's exactly the situation that Dr. Aashish Shah, MD, Corporate Vice President, Strategy, Product Innovation, and Payer Contracting at HCA Healthcare finds himself in. And based on his pragmatic view of how change can happen in healthcare, we could just see the innovation potential and synergy between payers and providers. We'll discuss how each kind of organization might want to consider thinking about innovation, what's the best way to incentivize both parties in order to effectively drive change?You'll Discover: * His journey coming from the payer world to now being a "payer guy" inside an integrated delivery system mindset* The three factors Dr. Shah takes into account when innovating* What measures and metrics really matter * The three levels of technology and innovation going on at HCA Find out more about the work of HCA Healthcare: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hca/Follow Dr. Aashish Shah, MD on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashish-shah-94a0311a0/The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

Venture for America is an organization that's creating economic opportunities in cities that often get left behind. In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation show, we talk to Megan Butler, Director of Pittsburgh at Venture for America, as she shares how they are opening doors of opportunity to veterans and young people, who are often overlooked when it comes to entrepreneurship. In this exciting interview, you'll get a first-hand look at how VFA is mobilizing the next generation of entrepreneurs to work in American cities in order to help create economic opportunity and social mobility. They're equipping these next-generation leaders with the skills and resources they need to start businesses. With a mission to create economic opportunity in American cities through entrepreneurship, VFA has already mobilized more than 1,000 fellows to work in 13 cities including Detroit, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and many more to come. Learn more about Venture for America: https://ventureforamerica.org/Follow Megan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-butler-a191b357/The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

Innovation has become a buzzword. Unfortunately, while almost everyone is claiming to be innovative, few are actually able to achieve it. A winning culture comes from a group of like-minded people that share a set of beliefs. In this captivating interview, we sit down with Dominick Bizzarro, Chief Growth Officer at MVP Healthcare. Dominick's approach to innovation is quite simple. Innovation doesn't fall on an individual or a department, rather, it's engrained into the culture of an organization. And this is exactly what they've done at MVP Healthcare in order to create a winning recipe. In this episode, Dominick breaks down why innovation is so important, what your organization can do to embed it into its culture, and the repeatable formula to do it at scale.You'll Discover: * The three C's of Innovation at MVP & how each of them is defined* How MVP can solve more of those unmet needs of members in an integrative collaborative way* The partnership experience framework and a governance process MVP uses when working with external innovators * The biggest reason why MVP no longer has an innovation department Find out more about the work of MVP Healthcare: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mvp-health-care/Follow Dominick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominickbizzarro/The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

For some, relocation might be a scary prospect. For others, the idea of relocating may seem like an opportunity to start over in a new city and try something new. Michael Krasman and Jeff Ellman, Co-Founders of UrbanBound are leading the charge when it comes to healthcare innovation, specifically in regard to relocation. Take a look at what they have to say about this innovative movement to help ease the burdens of physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals who move for work.You'll Discover: * The biggest mistakes health systems make when it comes to employee relocation * How to zoom in on employee relocation and leverage it as a hidden differentiator * What it takes to build a winning culture and when that journey starts for an employee * What Health Systems need to avoid when it comes to employee relocationFind out more about the work of UrbanBound: https://www.linkedin.com/company/urbanbound/Follow Michael & Jeff on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-ellman-%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8F-9a8189/https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkrasman/The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

What if you were able to create a culture of innovation where everyone who works at the organization- not just the executives, but junior staffers and assistants- feels like their contributions matter? That's exactly what they're doing at UnityPoint Health Cedar Rapids. In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, we interview Rose Hedges, RN, DNP, Nursing Research & Innovation Coordinator, at UnityPoint Health Cedar Rapids. Within minutes of talking with Rose, you'll realize that she's a go-to resource for her hospital and its nursing staff, who look to her for problem-solving and team building. She explains why innovation is being used for different projects within the same facility to keep nurses engaged at the bedside and improve quality patient care.You'll Discover: * How you can use innovation as a tool to engage your nurses at the bedside to retain them and keep them* How they're prototyping at UnityPoint Health Cedar Rapids, and creating real-time solutions to either improve workflow or care for patients* Why everybody's projects matter & what that means in terms of culture* How UnityPoint is engaging nurses at the bedside and how that has impacted retention Find out more about the work of UnityPoint Health Cedar Rapids: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unity-point-health/Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-hedges/The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, we interview Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett, MD, Vice Chair of Primary Care Innovation and Transformation, at one of the busiest safety net hospitals in the country, Boston Medical Center. Dr. Barnett is a strong advocate and fighter for advancing health equity and improving healthcare and her passion for the work she does is apparent from the minute she starts talking about the innovative program she leads to improve health care for low-income patients. Listen to this episode to hear stories of how they work with and get buy-in from patients, providers, and community members all while trying to understand what makes a successful program in order to share and scale it across the country.You'll Discover: * How the largest safety net hospital in all of New England has applied new ideas to make things better * What to focus on when creating systems of care that have health equity embedded in them* How do deliver on the innovation promise, day in and day out even when you're not a typical "Innovation Hub"* How BMC is addressing Social Determinants of Health * The gaps that stem within team-based primary care and how to address them * The three questions every clinician who views themselves as an innovator needs to ask themselvesFind out more about the work of BMC: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boston-medical-center/Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-gergen-barnett-ba05bb2/The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

In this compelling episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Jennifer Brooks Kaluza, founder and executive director of CAYA—short for "Come As You Are." Jennifer shares her deeply personal journey from being a senior executive at Elevance Health to launching CAYA, a mission-driven initiative supporting neurodivergent young adults—especially those with autism—who often fall through the cracks of the traditional healthcare and social services systems.Drawing inspiration from her son Charlie, Jennifer opens up about the under-discussed challenges faced by autistic adults with low support needs: unemployment, social isolation, and a lack of appropriate services once they transition out of childhood programs. With an eye toward building a scalable digital platform and a commitment to creating a truly inclusive community, Jennifer is rewriting the script for how society supports this underserved population.In this episode, Jennifer opens up about:• Her decision to leave a successful corporate career and follow a calling• The stark statistics behind underemployment and social isolation in the autistic adult population• How CAYA helps neurodivergent individuals build the tools for independence, confidence, and a meaningful life• The READY program, designed to help participants uncover their skills, align them with career paths, and gain real-world readiness• The power of self-discovery, validation, and community in creating long-term success• Her vision for scaling CAYA into a digital platform to serve young adults across the country, complete with microlearning, safe community forums, and mental health tools• The challenges of bias and stigma in the workplace, and how she’s working with employers to foster neuroinclusive hiring practices and accommodations• CAYA’s grassroots beginnings, community-led funding approach, and how local job fairs are bridging the gap between talent and opportunityJennifer also shares her powerful insights on what it means to live a life aligned with one’s purpose, offering encouragement to anyone who feels called to make a difference but doesn’t know where to start. Her journey is proof that with passion, courage, and a clear mission, change is possible—one conversation, one connection, one community at a time.If this conversation moved you, inspired you, or made you think—don’t keep it to yourself. Share this episode with a colleague, post it on social media, or send it to someone navigating similar challenges. And don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss another story from the front lines of healthcare innovation.Learn more about CAYA:Website: https://cayaproject.orgFacebook & LinkedIn: Come As You AreEmail: jenny@cayaproject.orgThe movement to build a more inclusive world needs all of us. Let’s take action—together.The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light. Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/