Joe Mandato and Ryan Van Wert MD
Joe Mandato has spent his career leading numerous high-growth organizations developing disruptive technologies used in clinical healthcare settings. He has often held overall responsibility for his teams’ strategic implementation of programs designed to enhance and improve the clinician-patient experience. Today, he invests in and serves on the boards of companies in the life sciences. He also writes about and teaches the business of healthcare.
Ryan Van Wert, MD has worked as an intensivist in critical care settings, where he gained deep understanding of the realities of the physician-patient interface. He has led medical device and IT companies, including his current role as co-founder and CEO of Vynca Health, which specializes in enabling improved advanced care directives among patients and providers. In these roles, Ryan has learned a lot about patient engagement and healthcare communication. He is also assistant director at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.
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Exceptionalism—A core problem in healthcare leadership
We believe that healthcare leadership’s ingrained culture of exceptionalism drives today’s profound problem whereby patient satisfaction is low, inefficiency is high, and patient outcomes are poor.
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MedCity Influencers, Physicians
In our minds, we’re goin’ to Carolina—Medical schools as drivers of an improved patient experience
East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine is one great example of medical schools that you may not know about but that are doing a very fine job training our next generation of patient-centered, compassionate caretakers in medicine.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech, Payers
Great Expectations—Devoted Health and the positive patient experience
We find much to admire in the fact that Devoted is a payer obsessed with the unit economics of love–building positive patient experiences one family-member at a time.
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MedCity News eNewsletter, Patient Engagement
The Great Shift: How One Medical is disrupting the patient experience
Compared to the visionaries who designed One Medical, the people who designed large health systems, regardless of how stellar their clinical reputations may be, didn’t design the systems with the goal of delivering great patient experiences.
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MedCity Influencers, Patient Engagement
Hedgehogs, healthcare and Haven: When business leaders miss the mark
How could the successful founding companies behind Haven not know that hiring decisions for healthcare CEOs need to be based on the CEO’s track record innovating, growing and leading great organizations through crisis and growth, not on the CEO’s raw smarts??
Promoted
Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
Promoted
Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
