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FINN VoicesClosing the Pharma-Startup Divide to Accelerate Digital Health | FINN VoicesIn this episode, host Ellie Hanson sits down with Naomi Fried, PhD, founder and CEO of PharmStars, a unique pharma-focused accelerator for digital health startups. Since its founding three years ago, the program has "graduated" 79 startups across 7 cohorts. The first three cohort startups have closed more than 98 pharma deals. With her extensive background in healthcare innovation, Naomi shares valuable insights into how startups can navigate pharma partnerships and engage pharma as customers to drive digital health adoption. She offers practical advice for startup founders and unveils details of PharmStars’ latest cohort program.
2025-01-1522 min
FINN VoicesHow to Build Resilience: Future-Proofing Cybersecurity with Greg Surla | FINN VoicesIn this episode of FINN Voices, host Beth Friedman, Sr. Partner at FINN Partners, speaks with Greg Surla, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at FinThrive, a leader in revenue cycle management solutions.
Greg discusses key insights from the Change Healthcare cybersecurity breach and the importance of rigorous backup systems to ensure operational continuity for revenue cycle operations during cyber incidents. Listeners assess a comprehensive game plan for outage management and data integrity assurance while promoting a culture of security awareness across their organizations.
Join us to learn how FinThrive helps healthcare organizations...
2024-12-1821 min
FINN VoicesBrand Heart: Peter Finn, CEO of Finn PartnersHost: Jeff Freedman, Managing Partner, Finn Partners
Guest: Peter Finn, CEO of Finn Partners
2024-12-1332 minFINN VoicesAddressing Nurse Burnout, Satisfaction and Safety with Location Technologies | FINN VoicesHost Beth Friedman interviews Dave Wiedman, Chief Commercial Officer of Vizzia Technologies, a software and managed service provider of real-time location services (RTLS) in healthcare.
The company works with some of the largest health systems in America, and they’ve learned a few things over the past 20 years. Specifically, Vizzia knows what health systems need to keep nurses happy, productive, and safe.
Dave shares insights from Vizzia’s recent work and strategic conversations with healthcare executives. He reveals how location technologies have become a nursing satisfaction, retention, and safety tool for some of Atlanta’s largest health systems, saving massive amounts of...
2024-11-2227 min
FINN VoicesClinical Service Desk: Creating Mobile Informaticists for EHR Support | FINN VoicesToday on FINN Voices, we talk with Chris Wickersham, Assistant Vice President of Support Services at CereCore, a company specializing in EHR consulting, IT and application support, clinical service desk, and more for hospitals and health systems across the U.S. and the U.K.
2024-09-1036 min
FINN VoicesDon’t DIY your RCM: AI Automates the Revenue Cycle, But Gotchas Remain | FINN Voices
Host Beth Friedman, Senior Partner at FINN Partners, interviews Todd Doze, CEO of Janus Health, a revenue cycle technology company, about the unexpected hurdles and gotchas health systems experience when building, implementing, and maintaining platforms. Todd also shares specific examples of AI to automate the prior authorization process with positive outcomes his clients have experienced, and what's ahead for AI in the revenue cycle.
Learn more about Janus Health: https://www.janus-ai.com/
2024-08-2224 min
FINN VoicesNever Too Early to Plan for Reimbursement | FINN Voices
Goel interviews David Farber, noted expert on health reimbursement in the US healthcare system. the primary focus is on how health startups can best plan their reimbursement strategy.
2024-08-1439 min
FINN VoicesWhat Retail Medicine Can Teach the Healthcare Industry about Creating a Positive Patient Experience | FINN Voices
On this episode of FINN Voices, we speak with Robin Ntoh, VP of
Aesthetics at Nextech, a healthcare technology company focused on dermatology,
ophthalmology, plastic surgery, and med spa. Our conversation reveals best practices
for healthcare leaders seeking to improve patient experience in their organization.
You can check out more from Robin on her podcast Aesthetically Speaking: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aesthetically-speaking-presented-by-nextech/id1727205613
2024-07-2434 minFINN VoicesHow the Pharmacy Profession is Transforming | FINN VoicesMichael Mann, Host of Planetary Health First Mars Next, Todd Eury, CEO of the Pharmacy Podcast Network, ad Gil Bashe, Chair Global Health and Purpose with FINN Partners talk together about the state of the pharmacy profession, the threat to public health from the expansion of pharmacy deserts, and how the role of the pharmacist will continue to expand.
2024-07-1128 min
FINN VoicesData’s Impact on Health Equity: Sharing Data for Humanity | FINN VoicesToday on FINN Voices we talk with Brian Urban, Director of Innovation and Emerging Markets at FinThrive, an end-to-end revenue cycle management company.
2024-06-1136 minFINN VoicesGlobal Health Impact: Innovations That Are Improving Health in America's Indigenous Tribal Communities | FINN VoicesPeople living in indigenous tribal areas across the United States, and the rural communities around them, often face significant challenges accessing quality care. Providing a sustainable way of delivering medical training and support to health care professionals serving these areas is an ongoing issue, but some organizations have pioneered practices to bridge professional development gaps and improve patient care. One organization, Arc Health, and their Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jim Galloway, has developed novel partnerships with leading medical centers around the country to reinforce the level of care that patients in indigenous tribal areas receive. Our conversation uncovers some o...
2024-06-0340 minFINN VoicesAI Meets Cardiology: Innovation at UCSD Detects Hidden Killer and Opens Door to Early Interventions | FINN VoicesToday on FINN Voices we talk with Dr. Jorge Silva, Cardiologist, Professor, and Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program at UC San Diego Health. Our conversation uncovers a new AI tool being used at UCSD to help cardiologists identify a hidden killer – hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It's one of healthcare’s most misleading and under-diagnosed conditions….and also the #1 cause of cardiovascular death in people under the age of 35.
2024-05-2126 minFINN VoicesAdvancing Healthcare Research with AI: Opportunity Meets Responsibility at MedStar Health | FINN VoicesToday’s guest is Dr. Neil Weissman, academic cardiologist, and chief scientific officer at MedStar Health, an academic health center with 10 hospitals and 300-locations across Maryland, Northern Virginia and Washington DC.
2024-05-1626 minFINN VoicesTechnology-Driven Biopharma: Harnessing the Next Market Evolution with Maya FrutigerWith a unique background spanning Fortune 500, startups and management consulting, Maya’s perspective extends beyond comms/IR to business strategy – which led her to identify and define “the technology-driven bioparma” as a key strategy for Sumitomo Pharma America, and Sumitovant before it. Maya will discuss how life sciences companies can leverage new technologies not only as tools and systems, but as an embedded driver of innovation across every business function – to accelerate how we deliver hope and medicines to patients and families around the world, and to help future-proof the companies dedicated to improving lives.
Host: Arielle Bernstein Pinsof, MPP...
2024-03-1334 minFINN VoicesPreparing the Healthcare Workforce for AI: Time to Build Culture, Upskill and Invest | FINN VoicesTruBridge’s Chief People Officer, Amaris McComas, talks with Beth Friedman at FINNVoices about the need to prepare the healthcare workforce for AI and agile work environments. Beginning with a people-first culture, Amaris shares valuable insights on such essential steps as upskilling, career mapping, and building a learning organization.
As hospitals and health systems implement AI, Amaris’s lessons from TruBridge ensure internal teams are well-prepared for future success.
2024-02-2830 minFINN VoicesTalking AI: Live From HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum | FINN VoicesFINN Sr. Partner Beth Friedman interviews three forum speakers and an attendee during the recent HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum held in San Diego, California. Across two days in December, technology experts from leading health systems such as SSM, Kaiser, Sharp, Cleveland Clinic, and Atlantic Health System took the stage to speak about AI adoption in healthcare.
In this segment of FINN Voices, Beth meets with two of the forum speakers and two attendees for transparent discussions regarding ambient clinical voice, the current state of regulation in AI, data accuracy within large language data models, how to...
2024-01-2910 minFINN VoicesHundreds of EHR Transitions Ahead: Can We Protect Data Integrity and Cash Flow at the Same Time? | FINN Voices e4health’s CEO, Matthew Zubiller, talks with Beth Friedman at FINNVoices about the value of combining health IT and health information management (HIM) know-how during major EHR transitions and other big system changes.
2023-12-2032 min