Podcasts about conversa health

Transforming healthcare begins by putting the patient at the center, focusing on prevention and wellness. In this episode, Murray Brozinsky, Chief Strategy Officer at Conversa Health (now part of Amwell), delves into the integral role of technology in healthcare leadership. He underscores the importance of seamlessly integrating technology to elevate patient engagement and tailor care to individual needs. Murray examines the transformative impact on healthcare providers and payers, fostering collaboration and driving the shift towards value-based care. He also addresses the challenges confronting providers, advocating for strategic investments in technology to address staff shortages and rising costs. The conversation broadens to a global perspective, emphasizing the necessity for a paradigm shift in healthcare thinking. Finally, Murray highlights the paramount importance of trust in healthcare and the nuanced approach required when implementing generative AI. Tune in and learn about the dynamic intersection of technology and healthcare, shaping the future of patient-centered, data-driven, and proactive wellness! Resources: Connect with and follow Murray Brozinsky on LinkedIn. Follow Amwell on LinkedIn and visit their website. Learn more about Coversa Health on their LinkedIn and website.

About Murray Brozinsky:Murray Brozinsky is Chief Strategy Officer of Amwell, a leader in hybrid care enablement. He was formerly the CEO of Conversa Health, which Amwell acquired in 2021. Murray is a creative entrepreneur who has started, run, and served as a senior executive at numerous companies. He has broad experience in leadership and strategy, bringing new products to market, generating revenue, building strategic relationships, and M&A. Murray is also a Board member and advisor to other promising technology start-ups in various industries. His main goal in healthcare is to put patients at the center of their care.Things You'll Learn:By leveraging technology, healthcare can enhance patient experiences, reduce provider burnout, and bend the cost curve.Transforming healthcare begins by putting the patient at the center, focusing on prevention and wellness.Proactive care relies on early patient data collection, using technology to predict and intervene before health issues escalate.Implementing AI requires caution to avoid eroding trustOptimizing care delivery involves leveraging technology to identify patients needing immediate attention, and prevent unnecessary visits and calls.Resources:Connect with and follow Murray Brozinsky on LinkedIn.Follow Amwell on LinkedIn and visit their website.

We've talked extensively on this podcast about how COVID ushered in a period of rapid adoption of telemedicine. According to McKinsey, we went from around 11% of people using telehealth to around 46% during the pandemic. Few companies in the world were better poised to capitalize on this moment than Amwell. What's so interesting about Amwell is that they weren't created to meet this moment. They have been patiently and persistently ringing the telemedicine bell since 2006. Back then, seeing your doctor over your computer seemed like a pipe dream, or worse, some dystopian future. Now, well, things look a bit different. Building the infrastructure to deliver healthcare virtually is an idea whose time has come. And Amwell's persistence has made them a world leader in the market. Now, Amwell is expanding the definition of virtual care. Last year they acquired StartUp Health portfolio company Conversa Health, which uses chatbot functionality to automate care in between visits to improve efficiency and outcomes. This episode of the podcast is pulled from a Fireside Chat where we sat down with Roy Schoenberg, MD, CEO and Co-founder of Amwell, and Murray Brozinsky, CEO of Conversa Health. The chat, which was moderated by Steven Krein, CEO and Co-founder of StartUp Health, pulls back the curtain on how these two companies came together, the lessons learned from the process, and what it all means for the future of virtual care. Roy and Murray are a wealth of wisdom and experience when it comes to digital health, so it was a powerful conversation. Hope you enjoy. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health startuphealth.com Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots healthmoonshots.com Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox. Passionate about Type 1 diabetes? If you're an entrepreneur or investor, contact us to learn how you can join our T1D Moonshot.

Amwell's ($AMWL) President and co-CEO Roy Schoenberg called it early when he predicted pre-Covid that there would be a paradigm shift for telehealth that would take the technology from “healthcare product” to “healthcare infrastructure.” Now he's back as (in my opinion) the best kind of market analyst to give us a new high-level take on where telehealth is headed next, how its customers' demands have changed, and how the public market's understanding of this technology and its utility in healthcare is starting to evolve. The bottom line: Telehealth as infrastructure is just the tip of the iceberg. As Roy puts it, “The organizations that we work with now understand that distributing healthcare over technology is part of their future.” And whether it's payers, health systems, private practices, or even Medicare, the seismic shift Roy sees now is that instead of looking at telehealth as a way to do their old business using new channels, the new channels are being looked at as an opportunity for healthcare organizations to completely remake their old business models. “Technology,” he says, “is being considered a change agent for how healthcare is actually arriving at the hands of its patients.” So much more ground covered in this big telehealth trends conversation – it's the PERFECT watch for the week before the American Telemedicine Association's Annual conference. In addition to an update on the roll-out of Amwell's new platform Converge (2/3 of the way there) and the integration of its latest acquisitions SilverCloud Health and Conversa Health, you're going to want to listen in to our little gossip sess about telehealth policy and reimbursement at 17:45 AND our talk about the health tech investment market of privately and publicly traded companies that starts at the 20-minute mark.

Our guest this week is telemedicine pioneer Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH, the Co-CEO and President of Amwell. COVID was an absolute game changer for telemedicine adoption, and Amwell was right there to seize the momentum. But before COVID, Dr. Schoenberg and his team labored for 14 years trying to bring the dream of telemedicine to reality. They learned a lot along the way, and we'll hear some of those lessons in this conversation between Roy and Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health's President and Co-founder. The chat was held on stage at the StartUp Health Festival, which occurred at ViVE in Miami Beach in March 2022. You'll hear Dr. Schoenberg's philosophy on health automation – why that shouldn't be a dirty word – and a bit on why they acquired Conversa Health, a StartUp Health portfolio company that made its name building healthcare chatbots. Dr. Schoenberg also delivers some hard-won wisdom to today's healthcare entrepreneurs, like the fact that persistence is the name of the game. If you want to change health, he says, you have to be ready for the long fight. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health startuphealth.com Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots healthmoonshots.com Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox.

How can health systems deliver quality care to more people? And can automation be used in conjunction with other care delivery models? In this episode, Murray Brozinsky, CEO of Conversa Health now part of Amwell, discusses the growth of automated virtual care and how companies can use technology to allow healthcare workers to practice at the top of their licenses while continuing to deliver the best care possible to more patients.This episode is sponsored by Amwell.

Today on Health in 2 Point 00, we have a deal so big it's brought me out of vacation just for this episode! Amwell acquires not one, but TWO companies – DTx mental health company SilverCloud Health and chatbot company Conversa Health for a combined $320 million. In other news, mental health company Sondermind raises $150 million, bringing their total to $188 million, and femtech company Elvie raises $80 million, bringing their total to $133.9 million.

In this episode, Murray Brozinsky, CEO of Conversa Health discusses how conversational AI can complement care delivery models and the need for AI and clinicians to work together to apply these tools to clinical use cases. Conversa's virtual care and triage platform leverages a 360 view of the patient in real-time to predict clinical pathways […]

In this episode, Murray Brozinsky, CEO of Conversa Health discusses how conversational AI can complement care delivery models and the need for AI and clinicians to work together to apply these tools to clinical use cases. Conversa's virtual care and triage platform leverages a 360 view of the patient in real-time to predict clinical pathways […]

Today's episode is a conversation with Murray Brozinsky, CEO of Conversa Health. Before COVID-19 struck, Conversa was working with big health systems, supplying them with a type of chatbot that kept patients and doctors connected between appointments. Turns out a few well-worded and well-timed questions, even if they're automated, can improve care and reduce costly bouncebacks. When COVID-19 hit, Murray and his team knew they had the technology – and institutional relationships – to really make a difference. They quickly scaled up multiple COVID-specific products using automated chat and have seen massive growth in 2020 as a result. This conversation with Murray is pulled from a recent Expert Office Hour, which was attended virtually by an audience of other founders from the StartUp Health portfolio. We dug into how Conversa was able to stay nimble and grow in spite of uncertainty, and other Health Transformers weigh in with their thoughts as well. Entrepreneurs: How to get investment from StartUp Health startuphealth.com Investors: How to invest in StartUp Health Moonshots healthmoonshots.com Want more content like this? You can subscribe to the podcast as well as other health innovation updates at startuphealth.com/content. Sign up for StartUp Health Insider™ to get funding insights, news, and special updates delivered to your inbox.

It's no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the digital health space and so it's also no surprise that a lot of the startups in this area are currently getting funded. Conversa Health, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that provides a virtual care and communication platform for personalized healthcare, is among these startups. The company […]

Redefining communicating with and managing patients, providers and caretakers

On this special Coronavirus edition of This Week in Health Innovation on HealthcareNOW Radio, my guests are: Dr. Phil Marshall, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer andMurray Brozinsky, CEO of Conversa Health. Today's episode is titled: 'Flattening the COVID19 curve: One company's contribution to mitigate demand for acute healthcare services'. To learn more about Conversa's Coronavirus Health Chats, you can head to coronavirushealthchats.com. For more about Conversa, head to conversahealth.comor shoot an email tohello@conversahealth.com   ==##==  

This is the second year in a row, Health Innovation Media put a studio on the ground at HIMSS courtesy of the co-founders at Conversa Health, i.e., Phil Marshall, MD, MBA and West Shell III. We again built an impressive list of guests this year engaging with industry thought leaders, innovators, system executives and the former Acting Administrator for CMS Andy Slavitt. For the compete list checkout:  'LIVE From #HIMSS17: On This Week in Health Innovation'  and for last year's line-up including links to both audio and select video interviews, see: 'LIVE from #HIMSS16: Broadcast Schedule'. In this exchange Health Innovation Media co-host Douglas Goldstein engages Danny Sands, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Conversa Health and co-founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Produced by Gregg A. Masters, MPH for Health Innovation Media. Enjoy!

This is the second year in a row, Health Innovation Media put a studio on the ground at HIMSS courtesy of the co-founders at Conversa Health, i.e.,Phil Marshall, MD, MBA and West Shell III. We again built an impressive list of guests this year chatting with industry thought leaders, innovators, system executives and a senior former Federal regulator. For the compete list checkout:  'LIVE From #HIMSS17: On This Week in Health Innovation'  and for last year's line-up including links to both audio and select video interviews, see: 'LIVE from #HIMSS16: Broadcast Schedule'. In this exchange the thoughtful, reflective and rather candid former lead executive administering the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Andy Slavitt opines on his tenure at CMS, his and the agency's goals and leaves with some straightforward advice for President Trump and his incoming Administration. Produced by Gregg A. Masters, MPH for Health Innovation Media. Enjoy!  

The Health Innovation Media team including Gregg Masters, Douglas Goldstein, Fred Goldstein and Jessica DaMassa will be conducted live interviews from thought leaders, entrepreneurs, keynote speakers, senior executives from innovative companies as the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2017 Annual Conference and Exhibution from the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The live broadcast schedule is Monday - Wednesday from 11AM to 1PM Eastern time, February 20-22, 2017. As with last year's broadcast, we are again co-locating with prinicipals from Conversa Health.

The Health Innovation Media team including Gregg Masters, Douglas Goldstein, Fred Goldstein and Jessica DaMassa will be conducted live interviews from thought leaders, entrepreneurs, keynote speakers, senior executives from innovative companies as the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2017 Annual Conference and Exhibution from the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The live broadcast schedule is Monday - Wednesday from 11AM to 1PM Eastern time, February 20-22, 2017. As with last year's broadcast, we are again co-locating with prinicipals from Conversa Health.

The Health Innovation Media team including Gregg Masters, Douglas Goldstein, Fred Goldstein and Jessica DaMassa will be conducted live interviews from thought leaders, entrepreneurs, keynote speakers, senior executives from innovative companies as the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2017 Annual Conference and Exhibution from the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The live broadcast schedule is Monday - Wednesday from 11AM to 1PM Eastern time, February 20-22, 2017. As with last year's broadcast, we are again co-locating with prinicipals from Conversa Health.  

The annual 'fall classic' aka the Health 2.0 Fall Conference convened at the Santa Clara Convention Center for it's 10th Annual gathering from September 25th - 28th, 2016. In this session Jessica DeMasa debriefs withDanny Sands, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Conversa Health, and cofounder, Society for Participatory Medicine at the GE Healthcare, StartUp Health reception. Segment filmed and produced for Health Innovation Media by Gregg Masters, MPH. Enjoy! 

In the LIVE from HiMSS16 series we were privileged to chat with Phil Marshall, MD, MPH, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Conversa Health our co-location partner at HiMSS 2016.  Enjoy as my colleague and co-host Douglas Goldstein (@eFuturist) Health Innovation Media engages this thoughtful, enterprising and visionary physician executive with deep experience and leadership in the disruption space from Press Ganey to WebMD. Dr. Marshall shares his take on the HealthIT industry writ large, specifically detailing the 'digital health chekup' space. Enjoy!

In the LIVE from HiMSS16 series our first interview was with Rasu Shrestha MD, MBA, Chief Innovation Officer, UPMC and Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. Enjoy as our co-hostPhil Marshall, MD, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Conversa Health engages this enterprising thought leader and physician executive.    

PROGRAM NOTE: we had an echo in the first to interviews. it resolves after the second. We will swap out the first two with studio quality audio shortly!   We are again onsite covering HiMSS 2016 in Las Vegas Nevada, from Sunday February 29th though Thursday March 4th 2016. This year we are co-locating our virtual studio in the Conversa Health booth, courtesy of West Shell, CEO and Co-founder, and Phil Marshall, MD, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer. Our broadcast schedule is Tuesday - Wednesday from 11AM-1PM Pacific, click here.  For more about Conversa Health,the 'digital health checkup' leader see two recent pieces here and here.  The schedule is coming together and will be post shortly here and on our site Health Innovation Media. Do follow us for what will be an informative series of special guest interviews!  

Dr. Phillip Marshall of Conversa Health joins the podcast to talk about the role personalized patient engagement will play in the transition to value-based care. Look forward to Phillip explaining why a successful transition to value-based care will mean moving on from our visit-centric culture and sharing his thoughts on the recent “Wired for Health” study from Scripps. More information at sitewirehealth.com/cruxpoints

We caught up with industry thought leader, consultant, advisor and Chief Medical Officer to Conversa Health and Kinergy Health Dr Danny Sands (@DrDannySands) at HealthOvate Boston, a joint venture between the Xavier Center for Innovation (follow via @XavierInnov8) and Care Innovations a GE/Intel joint venture (follow via @careinnovations). In this chat, we get Danny's views on digital health trends, patient engagement and the current state of the digital health industry. Join us for HealthOvate Chicago which runs Monday, October 5, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. For more information or to register click here. Produced by Gregg A. Masters MPH for Health Innovation Media.

At HiMSS 2015 we spent quite a bit of time interviewing in the exhibition hall. From the 2nd Annual Health 2.0 Hour (see interview with Chief Medical Scientist at Sentrian Martin Kohn, MD (@MSKohn) with Matt Holt aka @BoltyBoy to deep dives into the Wolters Kluwer POC Advisor Sepsis module hereand here and many stops in between including a swooosh experience down an Alta-like mountain in the Health Catalyst booth we burned some 25+ interviews. All of them to be posted to Health Innovation Media's video library here. Meanwhile, availing themselves of all being present 'IRL' in Chicago in the Conversa Health booth, team Conversa was interviewed by my co-host and Chief Product Officer Phil Marshall, MD (@PhilMarshallMD). Enjoy this lens on HiMSS from a cohort of senior HealthIT experts and entrepreneurs!    

On the March 26th, 2014 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern my special guests include two seasoned principals of the innovative startup ConversaHealth, @conversahealth on twitter. Joining me today are West Shell III Founder & CEO @Wsetshell3, and Phil Marshall, MD, MPH, founder & chief product officer @philmarshallmd. West is a creative, high-energy entrepreneur, strategic marketer, conceptual problem solver, committed dad, environmentalist and avid outdoorsman. He has raised 4 successful companies and 4 inspired children over a 28 year C-level career. From music to surgery, and healthcare technology (WebMD and Press Ganey) to social and rich media, Dr. Marshall is an entrepreneur inspired to make things simpler, and better. He also helps lead a large nonprofit performing arts organization, the Oregon Crusaders. According to a recent PR: 'Conversa's platform allows physicians to find out how patients are doing between office visits through automated digital checkups. Patients are asked simple but precise questions such as "Are you experiencing any of the following symptoms since your last visit?" or "Are you still taking your blood pressure medication as prescribed?' 'Founded in 2013 by a team of technologists and healthcare professionals who are passionate about transforming the health care conversation through personalized patient engagement services, Conversa is privately held and based in San Francisco. The company is focused on automating digital conversations between physicians and their patients.' Join us!

On a special edition of This Week in Health Innovation at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern on Thursday, February 20, 2014, our special guests include 2 principals of the start up Conversa Health. Joining us today are West Shell III Founder & CEO and Anna-Lisa Silvestre, CMO. West is a creative, high-energy entrepreneur, strategic marketer, conceptual problem solver, committed dad, environmentalist and avid outdoorsman. He has raised 4 successful companies and 4 inspired children over a 28 year C-level career. Anna-Lisa brings a high level of passion to any conversation about how people can participate in their health care. She's a gutsy, persistent leader who asks “what will it take” to make big ideas a reality. Happily married to a primary care physician, she keeps striving to do as many pushups as years in healthcare (passing 30 this year). According to a recent PR: 'Conversa's platform allows physicians to find out how patients are doing between office visits through automated digital checkups. Patients are asked simple but precise questions such as "Are you experiencing any of the following symptoms since your last visit?" or "Are you still taking your blood pressure medication as prescribed?' 'Founded in 2013 by a team of technologists and healthcare professionals who are passionate about transforming the health care conversation through personalized patient engagement services, Conversa is privately held and based in San Francisco. The company is focused on automating digital conversations between physicians and their patients.' Join us!