Tag: business of telehealth

The 3 Biggest Telehealth Frustrations in 2021- Part 1 Not Profitable

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…

Walmart acquires MeMD for ONLY $6M?

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…

Digital Health Business Model Lessons – Anne DeGheest (Medstars & HealthTech)

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…

Teledentistry & Oral Health – Maria Kunstadter, DDS (The TeleDentists)

About Speaker In 2013, Dr. Kunstadter was appointed the Dental Director of The PAINS Alliance of Kansas City, an organization developed to address chronic pain in the wake of the opioid crisis. She is the co-founder of The TeleDentists, the first Teledental platform to provide dental consultation services to the…

Why Did Vidyo Sell So Cheap – Where Do Zoom, BlueJeans, & VSee Fit In?

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…

How Virtual Scribes Are Saving Our Doctors, Improving Prevention, and Increasing Revenue

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…

Sustainable Models Where the Patient and the Doctor Win – Alberto Porciani (Castle Connolly Top Doctor)

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…

Building Meaningful & Satisfying Care Experience for Patients & Providers in Telehealth – Yosuke Chikamonoto, PhD (Caring Accent)

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…

Telemedicine As a Solution To Improve Physician Health – Peter Yellowlees, MD (UC Davis)

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…

ER Telepsychiatry – Rudolfo Zaragoza & Kimberly Lopez (Vituity)

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Telepsychiatry for Facebook Employees

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…

What (Not) To Do When Selling Your Company – James Marciano (Tuck Advisors)

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…

Telehealth Frontiers in Physical Therapy – Kelly Sanders (Telemovement)

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…

Telehealth 2.0: Increasing Access Through Innovation – Thomas Lee, MD (Children’s Hospital Los Angeles)

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…

How Investors, Entrepreneurs, & Buyers Should Be Thinking About the Telehealth Market – Kristi Ebong (Orbita)

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…

Telehealth for Children – Carey Officer (Nemours)

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.…

Bringing Telepsychiatry to SNFs- Jen Amis (Encounter Telehealth)

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…

Telehealth – The New Generation APM? – Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, MD, MBA (MEDNAX)

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…

The Future of Integrated Health Care – Kristi Henderson (Ascension)

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…

Telehealth: A Payer Strategy To High-Value Health – Neil Parikh (Oscar Health)

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…