This article is part of a series powered by HLTH and CHIME to highlight key insights and perspectives from leading executives speaking at ViVE.
Disruptive collaborations have long been the subject of health tech innovation, but it’s alive The conference highlighted how the concept is gaining momentum, especially after the announcement of nonprofits Civic Rx Yes Ready to manufacture and sell low-cost insulin $30 per bottle.As part of a panel discussion at the conference, Civica Board Chairman Daniel Liljenquist, who serves as Intermountain Healthcare’s Chief Strategy Officer, provided a roadmap for how the nonprofit generic drug company plans to reduce chronic generic drug shortages and price gouging.
“The idea is essentially to organize the demand side of the equation differently,” Liljenquist said. “A disruptive collaboration with the goal of democratizing these issues is the idea behind it.”
Liljenquist noted that Civica currently involves 55 health systems. It will make insulin at its manufacturing plant in Petersburg, Va., which will account for about one-third of the market.
He also commented on the frustrating situation in healthcare, which is trying to balance the need to help patients with the business of healthcare.
“Everyone wants to see a solution, but they’re also playing a giant game of Hungry Hippo just trying to get their marbles, right? But frankly, there are things like medicine, like digital health, transformation Nursing, especially coming up with a lingua franca and a clear, interoperable system, you can’t do it with partial derivation. We can’t do it with point solutions. So from CivicaRx to this, the principle is the same Yes. We have collective action issues in healthcare and through not-for-profit structures, but businesses that operate like businesses are making money at the expense of the industry. I think our collective role in the toolkit is to address what seems like a tricky The problem.”
Another exciting development is taking interoperability to a new level this year with the release of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). Its origins can be traced back to the 21st Century Cures Act, which called for a national exchange framework to support data sharing among providers, health plans, patients, health information exchanges and public health organizations, which was discussed in a panel discussion at the conference. emphasized.Although there are several groups such as CommonWell Health Alliance, eHealth ExchangeAnd more to help advance interoperability, such as the exchange of health information, TEFCA seeks to establish common guidelines for national interoperability and to simplify the connections for organizations to exchange information.the person in charge Sequoia Project and quality of care Participated in a panel discussion on this topic at ViVE.
Entrepreneurship Pavilion focuses on entrepreneurs from China Cedar-Sinai accelerator and AARP The Age Tech Collaborative takes several different approaches to addressing pain points in healthcare. Some of these challenges include reducing the stress that home health care places on caregivers, how to improve access to holistic care, and helping people articulate how they want to be cared for before they can’t take care of themselves.
practice is a digital health platform that aims to reduce economic and geographic barriers to health to a certain extent through remote participation in evidence-based health exercises such as yoga, meditation, Pilates, Tai Chi, Qigong. While it has a direct-to-consumer model, it also has corporate partners like ESPN and the University of Massachusetts. It also partnered with the Veterans Administration to provide access to the platform for some of its Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN). OmPractice hosts 100 live and interactive classes per week. While these classes are designed to improve mobility, they also seek to promote mental health and help participants relax and reduce stress.
The company recently added a course for cancer recovery and a pelvic health course to help women strengthen their pelvic floor, led by a physical therapist.
Instructors leading the course can provide real-time feedback to participants. Although the company was founded in 2017 with co-founders Christopher Lucas (CEO) and Sam Tackeff (COO), it was reluctant to return to in-person classes due to Covid-19 and preferred to attend the comfort of their own home.
forever Provides a platform for personalized senior care planning. Co-founder Matti Burnett explained that it helps patients nominate their healthcare power of attorney and document their good life. Hospital systems are its main customers.
“Hospitals like us because in value-based care, when they complete more advanced instruction, they get higher quality scores. We participated [latest] Cedars-Sinai Accelerator [cohort] It just ended in December and we now have a pilot,” Burnett said.
Ōmcare is a digital health company that aims to provide comprehensive support to caregivers.
“Everyone is racing to develop a home health strategy,” said Grant Barrick, chief growth officer at Ōmcare. “What we’re trying to do is the infrastructure to make this happen.”
The infrastructure combines a mail-order pharmacy, a medication adherence component, and a telemedicine component to visually confirm that patients are taking their medication on time through a portal device. The device can also capture patient vital signs through transdermal optical imaging tools. It works with at least two other companies plugged into its infrastructure platform.
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