Part 3: RPM Panel Experts
* Brian Brugger, Digital Health Executive at Biofourmis
* Brian has been in healthcare sales for his entire career with experiences ranging from capital equipment to the digital health space. Over the course of his career, he's held individual contributor roles as well as a field trainer and management responsibilities. Prior to his time at Biofourmis, he sold into the complex world of integrated behavioral health and psychiatric collaborative care to health systems and value-based care organizations. His focus has shifted slightly to leveraging digital biomarkers and virtual interventions to support health systems in delivering the appropriate level of care to their patients across varying acuities and care settings.
* Biofourmis is a technology-enabled care delivery company that develops digital therapeutics and delivers virtual care across a range of medical conditions, patient acuities and care settings. Committed to your success, Biofourmis' experience and expertise enables health systems to accelerate strategic growth and value realization. The Biofourmis mission is to harness the power of technology and data to shape innovations to bring the right care to every person no matter where they are.
* Tiffany Wyatt, Director of Clinical Operations at optimize.health
* Tiffany has been in the healthcare field since 2001. She is a Registered Nurse and has been since 2005. Currently, she is the Director of Clinical Operations. Tiffany started as a Clinical Lead at Optimize Health in 2019 then became a Customer Success Manager and Technical Support Specialist. In 2021, she moved to Operations as Senior Manager of Clinical Ops to build out Managed Services. In her current role, the managed service offering monitoring is her sole focus. She helps do whatever is needed to meet and exceed the goals of the Managed Service, patient, and clinicians teams. This includes building out processes, collaboration with other teams, and customer support. Her top priorities are safe and effective patient care and ensuring the monitoring nurses have what they need to do their job effectively.
* optimize.health is a leading provider of remote care solutions and services that allows providers to provide care to patients and stay connected outside of office visits. The solution improves patient outcomes, reduces hospitalizations, and lowers treatment cost for the support and management of chronic conditions. The remote care platform provides a single pane of glass for providers to enroll and treat patients across remote patient monitoring (RPM), chronic care management (CCM), and principal care management (PCM) in one solution.
* Ryan Fox, Executive Vice President of Sales and Customer Success at AMC Health
* Ryan Fox holds the position of Executive Vice President of Sales and Customer Success for the provider market at AMC Health. Boasting over 20 years of experience in healthcare technology, Ryan is an expert in implementing innovative solutions to help Health Systems and Integrated Delivery Networks in transitioning from Fee For Service to Value-Based Care. A passionate proponent of Virtual Care strategies, he seeks to extend patient care beyond the confines of hospitals. At AMC Health, Ryan's primary focus is to strengthen the company's strategic alliance with GE Healthcare. GE Healthcare assessed various options before selecting AMC Health as a partner. AMC Health builds actionable, real-time communication bridges between patients and their care teams, facilitating care access for those with chronic conditions and empowering them to live healthier, more independent lives in the comfort of their own homes. Outside of work, Ryan Fox cherishes spending quality time with his wife and two daughters, discovering new places, smoking BBQ (a fan of burnt ends, being from Kansas City), and relishing the great outdoors with friends and family. Ryan frequently speaks at events across the country, addressing topics related to hospital at home, virtual care, and remote patient monitoring.
* AMC Health: offers Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) with enhanced care coordination, and telecare management (TCM) solutions for patients suffering from chronic illnesses, high-risk pregnancies, and complex conditions such as cancer and behavioral health disorders. A key factor in the partnership was AMC Health's FDA-approved Remote Patient Monitoring and Virtual Care platform, which operates as a Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). AMC Health is trusted by payers, providers and is one of only two authorized vendors for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Podcast Segments
Patient/ Clinician Impact:
The panel shares their most memorable RPM patient or clinician impact stories.
Rapid Fire RPM Question Segment:
* How can we integrate RPM into the broader healthcare system, including electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical workflows?
* How can we measure the effectiveness of RPM programs and make data-driven improvements/ How do you currently measure ROI for RPM?
* How do you see the evolution of Remote Patient Monitoring and Virtual Care technologies ie (Merger of devices, RPM and Hospital at Home, Cardio, other use cases)
* Final Four Predictions:
* Brian: Tennessee, UConn, Houston, Bama
* Tiffany: Gonzaga, Houston, Kansas State, Bama
* Ryan: Gonzaga, Houston, Kansas State, Bama
* What are the key areas to help progress into RPM 2.0?!
* Plus, a bonus round where Tiffany takes over as host and turns the tables, asking about how “devices” fit into the RPM 2.0 model
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