Better Healthcare Through Math

This week we’re highlighting the work of Angela Yochem the EVP, Chief Transformation and Digital Officer at Novant Health, a large regional network of physician clinics, outpatient facilities and hospitals that serves Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. Novant's network of nearly 800 locations that includes more than 2,400 physicians and 37,000 employees. Angela works with leaders from across the company, accelerating cross-functional initiatives and exploring new potential lines of business while driving transformation across the $7 billion North Carolina-based health system.

COVID-19 has brought the need to optimize healthcare delivery to the core. At the forefront of leading this changes is clinical and nursing leadership. This week's episode of Better Healthcare Through Math features the Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Mercy, Betty Jo Rocchio. Betty Jo and Sanjeev discuss Mercy's goals and objectives in managing capacity as a system and how the pandemic is accelerating change within the health-care sector.

Over the course of the first nine episodes of Better Healthcare Through Math, the recurring theme that has run through each episode is the future of healthcare, but who is investing in the future of healthcare? This week Mohan is joined by Peter Segall, a Managing Director at Insight Partners and Antoine Munfa, a Managing Director of the Merchant Banking Division at Goldman Sachs.

This week on Better Healthcare Through Math, Sanjeev shares his experiences as a successful healthcare entrepreneur, and why it's hard but also very meaningful. He provides tips on how aspiring entrepreneurs can enter the space, and why LeanTaaS's "bet" on healthcare paid off handsomely.

It is not hard to argue that healthcare has lagged behind other major industries when it comes to digitization. On this episode of Better Healthcare Through Math, Sanjeev breaks down the main reasons why it took so long - the market drivers, internal pressures, and the way the industry has evolved. He also talks about why change is in the offing now, how the industry is at a tipping point and digitization led operational excellence is no longer an option.

This week we conclude our deep dive into the role of IT innovation and process improvement teams with special guest, Steven Hess the Chief Information Officer at UCHealth. Mohan and Steve discuss how achieving operational excellence in healthcare takes more than just people and why UCHealth needed to connect the dots between the data, the learning, and the sustainable change needed. A strong relationship between the business unit and the IT unit is critical. The two units must depend on each other to be experts at their roles.

Two major problems that are being solved with the power of AI are scheduling at infusion centers and managing block times in Operating Rooms. And one key constituent in enabling the transformation is the IT organization within hospitals. In part one of our deep dive into the role of Information Technology teams, Sanjeev is joined by Steven Shirley, the VP of Information Technology and CIO at Parkview Medical Center.

It would be impossible to do a podcast about the future of healthcare without discussing what is happening now as a result of the pandemic. Joining Sanjeev this week is Dr. Michael Meyer, a Cardiothoracic Surgeon & Physician Executive at Pulse Heart Institute. Sanjeev and Dr. Meyer discuss what lessons has the industry learned and how are they preparing for the next wave.

Infusion centers provide intravenous medications on an outpatient basis—often for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment but also for several types of non-oncology patients. Unfortunately, many of these centers find themselves “playing Tetris” when trying to cobble together daily schedules for their infusion chairs in a way that is practical for all parties. This week, Aubrey Wong, the Administrative Director for Adult Infusion Services at UC San Francisco, explains how they were able to cut down waiting time for patients thanks to their collaboration with LeanTaaS.

Most OR Managers or VP's of Surgery will tell you that one of the biggest challenges they face is the efficient use of operating room time. In episode 3, Sanjeev is joined by Brian Dawson, the System VP of Perioperative Services at CommonSpirit Health, and they discuss how predictive analytics and online tools have increased financial performance in the OR (the economic backbone of a hospital), surgeon satisfaction and quality of patient care by fundamentally transforming the scheduling process.

This week on “Better Healthcare Through Math”, we're joined by Wendy Webster from Duke University Medical Center. Wendy tells us how she teamed up with LeanTaaS to solve the problem of having more surgeons and patients that needed surgery than available OR time.

On the first episode of “Better Healthcare Through Math”, Mohan and Sanjeev explain the big challenges that the Health Care industry face today, why existing tools are not going to work for healthcare systems and why modern optimization tools and techniques must be adopted.