The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show

Michael Stamatinos is a visionary leader with a deeply rooted passion for making healthcare accessible to all. He’s the founder of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Consortium, where he leverages his two decades of experience in healthcare delivery, business development, and strategy to build ecosystems that enable sustainable growth.

Episodes

Jan 28, 2022

24 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, "Access to the Least and the Last" we interview Paul Hawkinson, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Transform Capital.You'll Discover: *The New Currency TC Pays Back Their Investors *How this model of access is scalable and replicable to other communities *Why moving from more of a transient model of bringing access to care infrastructure that's more permanent mattersFind out more about the work of Transform Capital: https://tccommunity.org/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/

Dec 3, 2021

35 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, "The Four Behaviors Providers Need to do in Order to Ensure Successful Outcomes", we interview Chip Grant, MD, CEO of Watershed Health.You'll Discover: * How an Interventional Cardiologist transitioned into being a full-time Digital Health Entrepreneur* The Biggest Barriers and Root Causes of Unsuccessful Patient Outcomes * The Other Important Measure Outside of the Patient Activation Measure that Gets OverlookedAbout:Dr. Chip Grant founded Watershed Health after building a career as an interventional cardiologist with a passion for improving patient outcomes. Prior to his role as Chief Executive Officer at Watershed, Dr. Grant focused his practice and research on preventative medicine, chronic disease management, population health, and digital medicine. The Watershed Heath's purpose has been simply to improve patient outcomes and its platform is best known for reducing hospital readmissions. More than 1000 health plans, health systems, and post-acute providers trust the Watershed post-acute care platform every day.Learn More about Watershed Health here: https://watershedhealth.com/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/

Nov 27, 2021

31 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, "The Mechanics and The Process Behind Ideas for Innovation: One Big Feedback Mechanism" we interview Coby Skonord, CEO & Founder at Ideawake.You'll Discover: *The Black Hole of Ideas and the Tone at the top *Measurable Innovation Terms & Alignment*Tapping Into Bottom-Up InnovationAbout: Over the last 8 years, Coby has led the team at Ideawake, helping design three innovation platforms being used by companies to power their employee improvement and innovation programs in over 39 countries and 185 cities. He's deeply committed to advancing innovation, leading with purpose, and building a world-class team that continues to over-deliver and innovate for the future. His main focus includes managing the company’s internal and external growth strategy, and overseeing the launch of digital innovation programs for organizations in over 14 verticals from Healthcare, to Financial Services, to Hospitality, and Manufacturing among others.Learn More about Ideawake here: https://ideawake.com/ 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/

Nov 19, 2021

34 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, "Navigating the Healthcare Ecosystem: A Consumer-Centric Approach to Meet Members Where They Want Us" we interview Nirny Patel, Head of Digital Transformation, Digital Platform, and Products at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. You'll Discover: *Bottleneck Non-Negotiables: Experience, Design, Scale*The Difference Between Technology and Digital*Data Innovation Curve: Customizing value for your customer that creates a value proposition and a differentiation opportunity Connect with Nirnay Patel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirnaypatel/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/

Oct 15, 2021

35 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, "Patients First: Removing Barriers & Bringing Support To Patients With Cutting Edge Solutions", we interview Christina Bell, Senior Director System Access and Innovation at Seattle Children's.You'll Discover: *Equity Lens & Asking the Five Whys: A holistic perspective to understand what the true need is*The aspect of alignment that needs to be there in order for innovation to actually occur*Creating access to world-class clinical care by building bridges*Creating consistency & care to maintain commitment for tech buy-in & engagement to streamline patient experiences.About the Interviewee: Ms. Bell is a transformational leader creating a personalized narrative by weaving digital innovation into the healthcare experience. A passionate leader with 15+ years of healthcare experience and 10 years of people management experience. Leading teams through various perspectives and creation of strategic organizational alignment and programmatic deployment to rapidly deliver results through the use of lean, agile, and waterfall methodologies. She leans into leading within a complex multidimensional organizational structure with an emphasis on elevating results-focused in equity diversity, and anti-racism.Connect with Christina Bell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-bell-ms-csmhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/seattle-childrensThe 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/

Sep 24, 2021

34 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, "Healthcare Innovation Implementation: The Mission Must Be Ahead of the Mighty Dollar" we interview Seanna Thompson, MD, Senior Medical Director, and Clinical Network Development Mount Sinai.You'll Discover:*Reimbursement: Innovation Implementation barrier*It's about impact: Finding willing partners to incorporate new programs*Innovations and value-based models we need for better care delivery systemsAbout the Interviewee: Dr. Seanna Thompson is a transformative, dynamic, entrepreneur, certified physician executive with a proven and consistent record of inspiring change, delivering innovative leadership, oversight, vision, and a talent for operations. Currently, she serves as Senior Medical Director, Clinical Network Development with Mount Sinai Health System and former executive physician leader in the Mayo Clinic Health System leading the Southeast Minnesota Region and Lehigh Valley Health Network-Pocono.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/

Sep 3, 2021

30 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, "Democratizing the Scaling Access to Effective Obesity Care: Understand How Obesity Functions", we interview Sloan Saunders - CEO & Co-Founder of Intellihealth Inc. You'll Discover: *The disconnect of recognizing the broader implications of obesity and other chronic conditions*Foundational underpinning to a more clinically significant sustainable weight loss*Demand mismatch: A disproportionate amount of people compared to the number of specialistsSloan Saunders comes from the investor realm to now heading and leading up in telehealth. He's looked through the world from a business perspective, but as he really started to understand just how misunderstood obesity is, and the tools available which most people aren't aware of it became his and his wife's mission to pursue helping solve issues in obesity care.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/

Aug 27, 2021

24 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, we discuss "Grit, Patience, and Intentionality: Bringing Technological Innovation to Healthcare" with Robbie Felton & Evan Jackson, Co-Founders of Intus Care.You'll Discover:*Barriers to technological innovation in the geriatric space*Grit, patience, and intentionality to create change in healthcare*Centralizing and streamlining data input and data export for solutions to scale smoother.Robbie Felton & Evan Jackson embody everything on what it means to be entrepreneurs. It's a classical story of two friends meeting while attending Brown University and going "ALL IN" on an idea. Needless to say, they and are not looking back. Full alignment is critical when partnering and both Robbie and Evan have complementary skillsets, when combined, are a powerful force to be reckoned with. My hope is that you'll enjoy this free-flowing conversation and see just how bright these healthcare innovators truly are. 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/

Aug 13, 2021

26 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, "The Problem Is The Path: Solving Your Problems of Tomorrow With Your Technology Today" we interview Tom Ross, CEO at Andgo SystemsYou'll Discover:*The three layers of complexity that make finding healthcare staff replacements a harder problem to solve *Task optimization versus Workflow optimization *Crawl, Walk, Run, and Sprint: The problem is the path to solutionsAbout: As CEO of Andgo, Tom Ross leads his team who make smart absence management software, creating efficiencies and improving the lives of everyone involved. Andgo is focused on helping essential industries like healthcare manage their staff scheduling in a time where this is more important than ever. Tom has a long history of working in the computer software industry, crafting simple solutions to complex problems. Learn more about Andgo Systems here: https://www.andgosystems.com/Connect with Tom Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasrosscanThe 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/

Jul 23, 2021

33 min

In this Episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, "Human-Centered Design: Taking Time to Understand Patients, & Providers to Create Better Solutions" we interview Sonia Panigrahy, MPH, UXC - Senior Director of Clinical Excellence & Innovationat Community Health Care Association of NYS (CHCANYS), and A Primary Care Transformation and Research Consultant.You'll Discover:*The problem with not understanding human behavior in healthcare*Seeking to understand the patient to connect them to the social needs they have.*Designing, developing products, and adopting user experience researchConnect with Sonia Panigraphy here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniapanigrahy/ www.soniapanigrahy.comAuthor Sonia Panigrahy (Pah-Nee-Grah-Hee), is a public health professional, world traveler, adventure seeker, fitness enthusiast, and published author. Her motto is that life is too short to be bored! As a mission-driven healthcare leader and user experience (UX) consultant, she's skilled in transforming visions into viable, feasible, and desirable solutions.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/

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