While everyone is doing telehealth, most are not happy with the experience for three key reasons: Not profitable No clinical impact No way to measure ROI and get actionable data This is the first in a series of three articles discussing each of these telehealth frustrations. Today we’ll talk about…
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On May 6, Walmart announced they acquired telehealth company MeMD – sending a shockwave through the telehealth world. By expanding its virtual care offerings, Walmart is taking another step to dominate the retail clinic health space. Walmart’s takeover of retail healthcare Walmart has already set out to spend billions of…
About Speaker Anne DeGheest pioneered the HealthTech or Digital Health space as a healthcare executive, an entrepreneur, angel investor, corporate advisor and mentor capitalist. She is the founder of HealthTech Capital and MedStars. Since she founded MedStars in 1986, she has been a corporate development advisor to large healthcare companies…
Revolutionizing Oral Health Care with Teledentistry Deamonte Driver was a 12-year-old who died from an untreated dental infection in 2007. Despite multiple emergency visits and medical care totalling $250,000 (including two brain surgeries), no one at that time had thought to do a simple dental examination that could have saved…
Vidyo was the original video conference startup that set the bar for others to aspire. They created the first software-based video system that was good enough to disrupt the traditional videoconference titans such as Cisco/Tandberg, Polycom, Microsoft Skype for Business…. They had a roaring start in a market that was…
In a recent New Yorker article, Atul Gawande, CEO of the Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan health initiative wrote about “Why Doctors Hate Their Computers.” He points to the soaring physician burnout rate and suicide rates that are nearly double (or triple for women physicians) the average population. The culprit, Gawande believes…
Alberto established Top Doctors in 2012 with Lorena Bassas. He is the CEO and brings more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries to the role, including international senior positions in various European countries and emerging markets. Previously, Alberto served as Director of Corporate Accounts for…
About Speaker Yosuke Chikamoto, PhD, is Principal & Consultant at Caring Accent, a California-based consulting firm specializing in healthcare communications and innovations. Prior to his current role, Yosuke devoted his efforts to improving care experience for both patients and providers as the Director of Center of Excellence in Physician Communication…
About Speaker Dr. Yellowlees is Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Davis. He is the immediate Past President of the American Telemedicine Association and a member of the American Psychiatric Association and University of California’s workgroups on Telepsychiatry. Dr. Yellowlees is an…
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After completing their psychiatry residency training at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, Drs. Anisha Patel-Dunn & Udi Zaken co-founded Pacific Coast Psychiatric Associates in 2006. A multi-specialty outpatient mental health practice, PCPA is composed of over 60 providers and has become the largest private outpatient group practice in…
James is a lifelong entrepreneur. He started an Internet company in 1995 called TheSquare. It was one of the 1st two social networks on the web. The co-founder of HotJobs, acquired TheSquare in 2001. In 1998, James founded Refer-it.com – the first directory of affiliate programs. It was acquired by…
Kelly Sanders serves as the President of Movement for Life, Inc which encompasses a family of 24 outpatient physical therapy practices as well as teleMOVEMENT which is a musculoskeletal health company with a goal to provide access to PT services online or via telehealth. In 1999, she received a Doctorate…
Dr. Lee earned his bachelor degree at Johns Hopkins University and received his MD from Cornell University where he graduated with Honors in Research and was a Howard Hughes Scholar. He completed his ophthalmology residency at Cornell and then went to Harvard Medical School as a Heed Fellow where he…
Kristi Ebong recently joined Orbita as the Voice as a Service (VaaS) company’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and General Manager of Healthcare Providers. At Orbita, Ebong is responsible for the company’s overall strategy for the healthcare provider market. Ebong was the former head of emerging technology at Cedars-Sinai, where…
Carey Officer is the Operational Vice President of Nemours CareConnect, Center for Health Delivery Innovation at Nemours Children’s Health System where she provides critical leadership and support for researching, evaluating and incubating innovative clinical service delivery strategies including Telehealth. She led the launch of launched Nemours telemedicine service in 2015.…
Jen Amis is President & CEO of Encounter Telehealth, a behavioral healthcare provider offering behavioral healthcare services to long term care communities. Previously, she founded and managed Statim, a telehealth company providing remote patient monitoring services. Jen has more than 20 years of management experience in telecommunications, venture capital and healthcare. She earned a…
About Speaker Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes joined MEDNAX National Medical Group as VP of Quality and Safety to lead all clinical multi-specialty quality and safety initiatives, as well as to facilitate the design and implementation of value-based payment models. She joined MEDNAX after leading quality and safety efforts in a large multicenter…
A healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience as an innovator, health advocate, educator, researcher and clinician. She is the VP for Virtual Care & Innovation for Ascension-Texas Ministry and Clinical Professor of Population Health at the Dell Medical School at UT-Austin. Prior to this role, she served a…
Dr. Neil Parikh joined Oscar in 2017 as Senior Medical Director of Care Delivery. He oversees Oscar’s clinic, telemedicine operations, complex case management, and clinical concierge services. He holds the title of Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA, where he continues to teach and practice as a Hospitalist part time. Prior…
