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Vital Signs with Jacob Effron and Nikhil KrishnanEp 58: Iora Health Former CEO Rushika Fernandopulle on Current State of Value Based Care Across Payer Types and AI’s Role in Primary CareJacob and Nikhil sit down with Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle. Rushika is the former CEO and Co-Founder of Iora Health, a primary care provider centered around value-based care and Medicare that One Medical acquired for $2.1 billion. They discuss why we’re still in the second inning of value-based care, intersections of tech and healthcare, what it takes for VBC to succeed, and more. [0:00] Intro[0:29] Early Days of Value-Based Care[2:34] Challenges in Commercial Value-Based Care[5:20] Adapting Care Models for Different Populations[13:08] Medicaid and Long-Term Care Issues[16:30] Big Tech's Foray into Healthcare[20:37] Ama...2025-04-1039 min
Relentless Health ValueEP460: Rushika Fernandopulle, MD’s Theory of Change Starts With Status Quo HealthcareIn this Relentless Health Value episode, Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle discusses with Stacey Richter his four-prong theory of change for transforming the American healthcare system. Key topics include the necessity of new payment models, process innovation, employing a relational technology infrastructure, shifting the cultural mindset towards team-based care, and emphasizing the importance of long-term partnerships. The conversation underscores the urgent need to move away from the current status quo to ensure better health outcomes and affordable care for all Americans. This is one of those episodes where we consider top-line strategic imperatives and key drivers. There was no...2025-01-0941 min
Broken HealthcareTransforming Primary Care Through AI with Dr. Fernandopulle | Broken Healthcare Podcast #26Today, I sat down with Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, a visionary who’s leading the charge to redesign our broken healthcare system from the ground up. His journey from a traditional medical career to founding revolutionary care models, and even shaping Amazon’s healthcare initiatives, is nothing short of inspiring.We covered a lot of ground in this episode, from broken systems to bold solutions, and I’m excited to share it all with you. Here are the top takeaways you don’t want to miss:Key Takeaways:1. Redefining Primary Care: Dr. Rushika explains how relationship-based care, no...2024-12-1751 min
The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health PodcastThe Southwest Airlines Theory of Healthcare Transformation | Iora Health Co-Founder Rushika FernandopulleTwenty years before value-based care became a healthcare buzzword, Rushika Fernandopulle was told he had to choose: be a doctor or join "the dark side" of business. Instead, he chose both – building Iora Health from a bootstrapped startup into a billion-dollar healthcare company. In this candid conversation, Fernandopulle reveals the unconventional journey that helped transform American healthcare, from midnight meetings in Las Vegas speakeasies to breaking every rule in the traditional medical playbook.We cover:💡 How bootstrapping for 7 years shaped Iora Health's success 🛫 The "Southwest Airlines Theory" of healthcare transformation 💰 The midnight me...2024-12-0929 min
Ventured Growth with Hercules Capital#25 – From Physician to Founder: Scaling Iora Health to a $2 Billion Exit | Rushika FernandopulleShare your thoughts with us!The healthcare space has long been a transactional one, seeing patients as numbers instead of human relationships. In 2004, Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle began to challenge the status quo and create an entirely new model of care delivery that finally put patients at the center of healthcare. Rushika Fernandopulle is the co-founder and former CEO of Iora Health, a value-based primary care group based in Boston that was acquired by One Medical in 2021, where he served as Chief Innovation Officer. One Medical was acquired by Amazon earlier this year for close to $4...2023-11-0933 min
Radio Advisory172: Build a value-based enterprise: Live from 2023 Value-Based Care SummitWhile value-based care has been at the forefront of industry conversations in the last decade, there are still a lot of questions about how to successfully create and thrive as a value-based enterprise.
At the end of June, around 300 healthcare leaders gathered at Advisory Board’s Value-Based Care Summit with one shared goal: make the next 10 years of VBC more impactful from the last. As part of the event, the Radio Advisory team orchestrated a live podcast recording with three renowned leaders at the helm of very different organizations – all trying to build value-based enterprises.
In t...2023-07-2550 min
Turn on the Lights PodcastHow to Make Health Care Work for Patients with Rushika FernandopulleChanging primary care is the first step to fixing the healthcare industry.Rushika Fernandopulle discusses fixing the American healthcare system in this episode, starting with reimagining the primary care delivery and business models. Rushika shares his journey of changing primary care and explains how the proposed model reduces costs for everyone and produces good health outcomes and patient experiences.Tune in to learn how healthcare can benefit from a relationship-based primary care model that actually takes care of its patients! Learn more about the Institute of Healthcare Improvement on its w...2023-04-1451 min
Shot of Digital Health TherapyShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Murray BrozinskyIn this week's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I - errrrrr.... oh wait!!!!! Noooooo - its a take over episode with none other than Jessica DaMassa from WTF Health In the aftermath of the HLTH amazing event, Jess and I sat down (sort of) with playwright and serial entrepreneur, Murray Brozinsky :🍷 Risk adjustment & Off-Broadway in the same sentence🍷 Digital Dialogues 🍷 Virtual-Only Doors and Windows..🍷 Dating vs. Marriage (Conversa Health + Amwell)🍷 oh and .. amazing advice to entrepreneurs Fun mentions as always: Roy Sch...2021-10-2030 min
WDCastEpisode 44: Founder & CEO of Iora Health: Rushika Fernandopulle: Restoring Humanity to HealthcareCramming in patients, barely having time to eat lunch, spending hours at the end of the day writing notes from visits, and so many billing codes. This is not why Rushika Fernandopulle became a doctor. Rushika became a doctor because he wanted to help people and he realized he couldn’t do that given the current healthcare system. In this special episode, WD Partners’ Dan Stanek takes over as host of WDCast and sits down with the founder and CEO of Iora Health – Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle. They discuss what’s broken in the US healthcare system, how Iora Health is attempti...2021-05-1129 min
Health2049The Compassionate DisrupterWe’re on the cusp of big changes in our healthcare delivery system. What does it look like? Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, a physician and co-founder and CEO of Iora Health sits down with Health2049 podcast co-host Jason Helgerson to discuss a detailed approach on how to deliver a highly personalized and accountable ‘health’ experience with a shared care plan.Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle:Twitter: @rushika1Connect with Health2049:Website: https://www.health2049.comTimestamps:A completely different model of hea...2021-04-2630 min
Solomon Partners PresentsEP 15: Iora Health's CEO on Payment Reform and Healthcare’s Omnichannel OpportunityIn our latest episode, Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, co-founder & CEO of Iora Health, and Ryan Stewart discuss the transformation of the healthcare delivery model. As a result of payment reform and a world where face-to-face medical encounters have not been possible, Healthcare is rapidly shifting towards an omnichannel communications environment, where patients are engaging where they want to be met - virtually - over voice, video and text modalities as well as in-office, as appropriate.With an increasing shift towards value-based risk models, primarily in Medicare, Dr. Fernandopulle talks about the transformation of his business through collaboration with...2021-04-2126 min
Raise the LineReinventing Primary Care - Rushika Fernandopulle, Co-Founder and CEO of Iora HealthIf you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/raisethelinepodcast2021-03-2523 min
The Gist Healthcare PodcastDr. Fernandopulle: "We need to organize around the patient, not the type of visit"Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, co-founder and CEO of the value-based primary care organization Iora Health discusses how COVID led practices to reorganize around the patient, instead of the physical office. This episode is a rerun and was initially published in September. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-12-2310 min
Healthy ConversationsCOVID-19 ResetThere might not be a specific moment when we can hit the reset button and start to tackle systemic healthcare challenges with a clean slate, but smaller resets are already underway. Join us as we examine what a COVID-19 Reset looks like for doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, founder and CEO of Iora Health, about how physicians have addressed the pandemic in their own practices and the changing perceptions around value based care. We also spoke to Dr. Dan Knecht and Angie Meoli, for insight into how CVS is changing...2020-10-1624 minThe Gist Healthcare PodcastMonday, September 21, 2020Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, co-founder and CEO of the value-based primary care organization Iora Health discusses how COVID led practices to reorganize around the patient, instead of the physical office. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-09-2109 min
PopHealth WeekMeet Rushika Fernandopulle MD @rushika1 co-founder & CEO @IoraHealthOn PopHealth Week our guest is Rushika Fernandopulle MD co-founder & CEO Iora Health.
Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle is a physician who has spent decades improving the quality of healthcare delivered to patients. He was the first Executive Director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, and served as a Managing Director of the Advisory Board Company. He serves on the faculty and earned his AB, MD, and MPP from Harvard University. He completed his clinical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Iora Health changes primary care as we know it. Iora's care team, includes a dedicated advocate for each p...2020-01-2228 min
4 Elements of Health Care#DisruptingHealthCareHealth care in America is broken. We spend the most out of many countries on health care, and yet among developed countries our quality is among the worst. Why? Because the system doesn't allow us to develop true relationships with our patients. In our inaugural episode, we are joined by Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, CEO and Co-Founder at Iora Health to discuss new and innovative ways of getting health care, particularly in a model known as Direct Primary Care. Learn how you can find out how to expect more from the health care system, and how entities like Iora Health are t...2019-12-1214 min
Our Voices Matter PodcastDisrupting Healthcare With Humanity - RUSHIKA FERNANDOPULLE"They're picked for one thing only which is empathy, being able to connect to another human being." Empathy, connection and humanity are at the core of how Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle is disrupting healthcare, one clinic, one patient at a time. The attributes described by the Co-Founder and CEO of Iora Primary Care are prerequisites to being a Health Coach in any Iora practice, working along side doctors, nurses and an entire team dedicated to each patient. Dr. Fernandopulle literally got sick and tired of delivering healthcare to his patients the same old way, so he threw out the...2019-12-0427 min
A Healthy DoseWharton Healthcare Conference 2019Steve and Trevor kickoff the 25th Annual Wharton Healthcare Business Conference by moderating a CEO Roundtable with guests Rushika Fernandopulle (CEO of Iora Health), Jaewon Ryu (CEO of Geisinger), and Shoshanah Brown (CEO of AIRnyc).2019-02-2129 min
theTYPEAhippie Podcast | ChiCast91 | theTYPEAhippie Podcast | ChiCast: Restoring Humanity to Healthcare (Rushika Fernandopulle, MD)I have known Rushika Fernandopulle, MD for nearly seven years and I worked for Iora Health for almost six years. He's a man of integrity, humility and seeks to provide support for humanity and he's a lot of fun. When I lived in Las Vegas, NV I always looked forward to his visits to the Las Vegas practices because his insight was unique, practical and humane.
Rushika Fernandopulle, MD is a physician who has spent more than ten years involved in efforts to improve the quality of healthcare delivered to patients. He was the first Executive Director...2018-07-0524 min
4sightHealth Market Corner ConversationsMarket Corner Conversations: Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, Co-Founder & CEO, Iora Health<p>Rushika Fernandopulle, M.D., Co-Founder & CEO of Iora Health, joins David Johnson in Episode 6 of Market Corner Conversations. Rushika shares how he decided that the incremental change model wasn’t working ...</p>
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Creating a New HealthcareRedefining & Redesigning Primary Care with Rushika Fernandopulle, CEO of Iora HealthIn this episode of Creating a New Healthcare, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Rushika Fernandopulle MD, co-founder and CEO of Iora Health. Rushika and his colleagues have spent the past 15 years building a model of healthcare that is primarily dedicated to optimizing people’s lives through better living – using Primary Care as the foundation. His courageous approach has really set the vision for what Primary Care can and should look like; and numerous other innovative Primary Care redesigns have been built off of the groundbreaking Iora Health model. In this interview, Rushika will unabashedly discuss the critical success factors upon which...2017-10-2956 min
Innovation Rising, Presented by HealthboxEpisode 25: Rushika Fernandopulle, CEO of Iora HealthToday’s episode is the second episode in our series on new models of Primary Care! Our guest today, Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, is Co-Founder and CEO of Iora Health. Rushika is a physician who has spent more than ten years involved in efforts to improve the quality of healthcare delivered to patients. He was the first Executive Director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, and served as a Managing Director of the Advisory Board Company. He serves on the faculty and earned his MD and Masters in Health Policy from Harvard University and completed his clinical tra...2017-06-2841 min
That's UnusualEp033: Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle on Reinventing Healthcare From ScratchEveryone can agree that our current healthcare model is broken. But the question is, can we fix it from the inside? or do we need to start from scratch? My next guest, Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle believes in order to best address the looming crisis, we need to reimagine health care from the ground up, and build new primary care models from scratch. He is the founder of Iora Health, a next generation primary care practice designed to restore the humanity in healthcare. In recent weeks, we have seen similar primary care models like Qliance and Turntable Health fold under unsustainable...2017-06-2000 min
That's UnusualEp033: Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle on Reinventing Healthcare From ScratchEveryone can agree that our current healthcare model is broken. But the question is, can we fix it from the inside? or do we need to start from scratch? My next guest, Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle believes in order to best address the looming crisis, we need to reimagine health care from the ground up, and build new primary care models from scratch. He is the founder of Iora Health, a next generation primary care practice designed to restore the humanity in healthcare. In recent weeks, we have seen similar primary care models like Qliance and...2017-06-2043 min
A Healthy DoseRushika FernandopulleRushika Fernandopulle, CEO of Iora Health, discusses how his desire to fix the "stupid system" that is healthcare led to the creation of Iora health and lets us in on what he believes is the secret to better patient care: empathy. He shares the lessons he has learned as a trailblazing entrepreneur and explains how he sought to turn traditional patient care on its head by transforming a transactional system into one based on relationships. Trevor, Steve, Rushika, and Iora's CFO Dave Fielding work through what it takes to survive in the evolving primary care space, how CMS will shift...2017-06-0846 min
Breaking HealthCan IORA Health Restore the Soul to the Delivery of Primary Care?IORA’s co-founder and CEO Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, has spent the past decade trying to improve primary care. Hear how IORA Health is delivering on that long-time pursuit.2016-10-1445 min
GuideWell Insights: Discerning commentary on health care consumerism, new care delivery and health care innovation.GuideWell Insights Lounge | OWHIC 2015 - Rushika Fernandopulle, M.D.Rushika is co-founder and CEO of Iora Health. We interviewed him at the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit held in October, 2015.2015-10-1600 minPopHealth WeekMeet Rushika Fernandopulle MD Founder/CEO Iora HealthOn the Wednesday July 8th 2015 broadcast of PopHealth Week at 9AM Pacific/12Noon Eastern, in our continuing focus on primary care and population health we are pleased to welcome Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, the Co-Founder and CEO of iora health a growing and disruptive force in the direct practice (including membership and retainer practice medicine) market.
Dr. Fernandopulle has spent more than ten years involved in efforts to improve the quality of healthcare delivered to patients. He was the first Executive Director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, and served as Managing Director of the Advisory Board Company. H...2015-07-0832 min
It's about the triple aim!Population Health Colloquium 2015: Meet Rushika Fernandopulle MDAt the 15th Annual Population Health Colloquium 2015, my colleague Douglas Goldstein @efuturist and I caught up with the amazing Rushika Fernandopulle MD who's twitter profile @rushika1 notes he's 'a physician trying to radically redesign how we deliver health care' and the Founder and CEO of @IoraHealth an innovative network of direct practices.
This is the audio portion of the interview only, the complete video interview will be available c/o Health Innovation Media and uploaded here.
Enjoy!2015-05-2010 min
Innovation Hub1.24.15 - Looking Beyond AverageWe’re rethinking everyday things we overlook, starting with the doctor's office. With rising costs and inefficient care, more people are looking for answers outside the main primary care system -- including Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Ateev Mehrotra and Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, from Mass General Hospital. Then, accounting may seem like a boring job, but author Jane Gleeson-White argues those bean counters might be our only hope. And author Geoff Colvin explains why talent doesn't matter -- it's all about practice, practice, practice. Plus, ants may ruin a picnic, but one researcher says that they’re vital for urban enviro...2015-01-2300 minInnovation HubFixing Primary CareFrom long waits to high prices, our current primary care system is failing too many patients. Doctors Ateev Mehrotra and Rushika Fernandopulle examine ways to overhaul the system.2015-01-2200 min
Rushika of Iora Health on Las Vegas ClinicToday's guest is Rushika Fernandopule, Co-Founder and CEO of Iora Health. Iora Health is restoring humanity to healthcare by providing a radically different model of primary care built from the ground up. Iora Health’s care model provides extraordinary service to patients to ensure improved health outcomes while also lowering overall plan costs. Our patients enjoy the benefits of better access to care, office and non-office based encounters (e.g. phone, text messages, and email), an accessible and transparent medical record, and robust educational offerings. Our practices, across the U.S., enjoy the benefits of smaller sizes, closer relationships with pat...2014-08-0530 min