Welcome back fam! After much traveling for both of our hosts, Chris and Melissa are back to dive into a massive week, spanning policy, cutting-edge predictive AI, and real-world innovation.
This episode is all about the power healthcare leaders and innovators have to transform systems, starting with accountability and transparency.
Chris details his incredible speaking opportunity, in Washington D.C. at the Congressional Black Caucus, and shares the problem of bias with algorithms trained on existing healthcare data, often reflecting historical injustices.
Melissa pivots to Dr. Eric Topal’s analysis of a groundbreaking new approach to predictive modeling, using a transformer architecture. But, the fundamental hurdle remains: the current fee-for-service system, doesn’t effectively pay for prevention.
Lastly, our hosts revisit the Jobs to be Done framework, applying this gold-standard to the interviewing process, to avoid biased answers.
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Links from Today’s Episode:
Primary Prevention in Medicine (Dr. Eric Topal, Ground Truths):
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/dawn-of-a-new-era-of-primary-prevention
Panel from NAACP:
Dr. Craig Watkins: https://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/s-craig-watkins
Dr. Nicole Turner Lee: https://www.brookings.edu/people/nicol-turner-lee/
Dr. Tony Price
Dr. Chris Pernell: https://www.drchrispernell.com/
Jobs to Be Done Theory from the Christensen Institute:
https://www.christenseninstitute.org/theory/jobs-to-be-done/
Hosts:Chris Hemphill - Chris’s 17 years in healthcare technology have spanned sales, operations, data science IC, and AI leadership. Chris couples this with a focus on health equity and serves as the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy Research Fellow for Healthcare AI. Chris’s currently leads Modular Feedback, which focuses on helping healthcare innovators find and build thoughtful AI use cases: https://modularfeedback.com
Melissa Reilly - Melissa spent the last 20 years leading innovations at major payers: UnitedHealth Group(Optum Ventures), Aetna, and Evernorth/Cigna. She’s helped drive and commercialize multiple startups in AI & consumer testing, and she is now driving product and commercialization for healthcare innovators full-time. She brings industry expertise as well as a background in law, negotiation, & real estate. Her company’s name is STLTH.
Production:Edited by Alyssa SchrollMusic by Chris Hemphill