Podcasts about itriage

Today, we're so excited to get to know Kevin Riddleberger, Co-Founder of DispatchHealth.   Kevin has over 20 years of experience in both clinical and management roles within the healthcare sector. His passion for transforming healthcare delivery is evident through his focus on technology, process improvement, and enhancing quality standards.  As a board-certified physician assistant, Kevin has contributed his expertise to hospital quality improvement committees and has held the position of president at the Colorado Academy of Physician Assistants. Additionally, he plays a vital role as an advisor in Colorado's healthcare startup community, where he provides guidance on both business and clinical matters. Prior to his role as co-founder of DispatchHealth, Kevin was responsible for leading clinical solutions and strategy at iTriage.  In this episode, we explore the founding and scaling of DispatchHealth, the challenges of reimbursement and scaling, strategies for securing payer contracts, the provider model they use, their success stories, and legal and fundraising advice for founders. Note: Kevin did the interview in early 2024 when he was working for DispatchHealth. He has since moved to a different position. 

SHOW NOTES Kevin brings over 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry as a clinician and in management. Prior to DispatchHealth, he was the head of clinical solutions and strategy at an industry leading consumer mobile health app company called iTriage. Kevin has been a board certified physician assistant for over a decade. Over the years Kevin has served as a clinical preceptor for area physician assistant students, served on numerous boards and committees including; quality improvement committees, EMR deployment committees as a provider “champion”, and president of the Colorado Academy of Physician Assistants. In addition to his work at DispatchHealth Kevin is an active advisor in the healthcare industry start-up community locally in Colorado providing both business and clinical expertise. He also serves on the board of trustees at 9Health Fair and Project Angel Heart. Kevin has received an MBA with a concentration in healthcare administration from the University of Colorado at Denver, a master of science degree from the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, IL and his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. In his spare time, Kevin and his wife enjoy traveling, photography, and contemporary art. Kevin also enjoys staying active in the Colorado outdoors with running, playing soccer, tennis, skiing, mountain biking and chasing around his 6-year-old twins; Avery and Reiss. Listen and Learn: How DispatchHealth is setting the new standard in healthcare Why the in-home care industry is growing How to find and serve the needs of any industry Why a leader needs to be visionary to succeed How healthcare is changing in the United States TO FIND KEVIN ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.

Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of iTriage, Dr. Wayne Guerra has more than 20 years of excellence in clinical and academic emergency medicine.  Currently, he oversees the development and quality of medical information and experience on all iTriage platforms, a technology that helps consumers answer the two most common medical questions: "What could be wrong?", "Where can I go for care?" and "Does my insurance cover my treatment?" Guerra is a serial healthcare entrepreneur with a deep commitment to helping consumers make better healthcare decisions. Along with his Co-founder, Dr. Peter Hudson, he was listed as a top innovator reinventing healthcare in CNN Money 2012. Int his interview, Dr. Guerra discusses becoming an entrepreneur and critical elements of health delivery like transparency and using information for empowerment.

On the Wednesday, November 13th 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guests are two innovators and disruptors of the legacy healthcare economy Peter Hudson, MD and Wayne Guerra MD. Two enterprising emergency medicine physicians who saw opportunity in the convergence between the mobile 'smart' phone and the 'real time' or elective need to access local and appropriate healthcare resources. Via a revolutionary mobile appiTriage aka @iTriage on twitter both Peter and Wayne have delivered and in a big way. Both of these forward leaning docs can be found on twitter via @wayneguerra and peterhudsonMD respectively, which incidentally is where and how I fist met Wayne while Peter is a more recent convert to the medium. The iTriage and Healthagen unfolding story is both fascinating and ambitious, and via their collective thoughts we'll gain insight into the overall strategy they envision - at least from their seats in the glidepath. Join me and my partner Dr Pat Salber as we learn more about the Aetna fueled yet payor agnostic ecosystem Healthagen intends co-create. Program note: if you need more evidence than the fact that all three of these physicians including my partner Dr. Pat Salber are trained Emergency Physicians who have stepped into leadership and innovation in a big way, then I don't know what else to say. ER docs rule! Join us!  

Keeping up with the RN’s from National Nurses United—Registered nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago’s South Side reached an agreement with hospital officials on their first ever collective bargaining contract that includes significant improvements in patient care protections. We’ll talk with RN Monica Lloyd from the great city of Chicago about this and more. And did we say Monica is on fire about this good news!?! And later in the show, if you haven’t found this great app called iTriage, look no further than the Nurse Talk website. iTriage is an amazing resource for everyone. Have a symptom? Go to the iTriage symptom checker. Need information about a disease? You’ll find complete clinical descriptions from A-Z. Is your medical issue an emergency or do you need to find a clinic or hospital near you? Yip, you guessed it; a complete directory of everything in your area including WAIT times. Read more...

A little about iTriage, an amazing resource for everyone that you can access online or download the app to your smartphone or tablet. Have a symptom? Go to iTriage Symptom Checker, need information about a disease? You’ll find complete clinical descriptions from A to Z. National Nurses United Jackson Park nurses in Chicago recently won their first ever collective bargaining contract that includes significant improvements in patient care protections. RN Monica Lloyd is here to speak with us. “The people we take care of are poor or middle class. Some have insurance, some do not, but I still believe they deserve the best care possible…Our patient ratios were 8 to 1, 9 to 1…It’s hard for us to take care of our patients when we are already overloaded.” Casey agrees, “When nurses are treated better, patients get treated better.”  Monica’s advice to other nurses around the country: “You’ve got to stop saying ‘It won’t change.’ You’ve got to make the change. Read more...

Two megatrends are locking in: Massive incentive change and information liberation, says Todd Park, CTO of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The federal programs must lead the way in changing from fee-for-service to incentives for value in healthcare. Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veteran’s Administration represent the largest repository of public health data in the world. More information about the public health, stripped of personal identification, is being made available so that innovators can use it to learn more about public health, and create health-maximizing options. Private insurers adopt the same pay structure as the federal programs, therefore, HHS must be the one to initiate more efficient means of delivering, and charging for, health value. Park identifies three parts to data liberation in the health care industry: 1) Patient data liquidity—including making records available to the patients themselves; 2) market transparency—listing benefits and pricing of every public and private insurance plan available in the U.S. through healthcare.gov; and 3) a health data initiative to let people know what data is available on the population at large, and releasing it for anyone’s use. Some private innovations from this data release include Asthmapolis, which helps people control their asthma, and iTriage. Coordination of service, identification of gaps, methods of efficiency developed in industries outside of health care need to be brought in to rework the healthcare industry, according to Park. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/todd_park_changing_behavior_and_changing_policies_panel_part_3

Call in or in-quick your questions for me tonight. Seen a ghost, felt something strange in the energy around you? Maybe you just have a few qustions about something metaphysical? Ask me and I will try to answer you. We are coming to an end of the Back to School fun, freebies, and great gift ideas. Here are a few freebies you can click on to get right from here. iTriage is the app that you can count on. With information on thousands of symptoms, diseases and medical procedures, parents can use iTriage to pinpoint their child’s symptom and find the most appropriate level of care for their condition. Once they have that information, they can use the nationwide directory of every hospital, urgent care, retail clinic, physician and pharmacy within iTriage to get turn-by-turn directions, detailed information on a given medical provider and even ER Wait times on the app. Additionally, iTriage has added a new feature to its comprehensive offerings. iTriage now integrates with Google Health personal health records to give parents mobile access to all of their children’s allergies, shot records, medical conditions, prescriptions, and health status. It’s free, it’s comprehensive and it’s a parent’s best resource for medical information. www.iTriageHealth.com *************************** Another great free idea for you tonight is NoodleStorm.com. what is noodle storm? Well it is a new website that allows organizations of all types to get their toughest business, engineering, technology, political, legal, or other problems solved by the brightest college students in the world. This system of university consulting already exists as many organizations hire MBA, engineering, or other students to solve their problems for them. NoodleStorm.com moves that market online and allows organizations to receive multiple solutions from the brightest minds from around the world. To help raise awareness about the product’s benefits for teens, especially those heading back-to-school, Bausch + Lomb is holding a nationwide contest asking parents and their kids to share inspirational stories about how “Seeing Eye to Eye” impacted their world in a positive way. To enter and learn more please visit www.soflens.com and also http://www.soflens.com/free-trial.html

Call in or in-quick your questions for me tonight. Seen a ghost, felt something strange in the energy around you? Maybe you just have a few qustions about something metaphysical? Ask me and I will try to answer you. We are coming to an end of the Back to School fun, freebies, and great gift ideas. Here are a few freebies you can click on to get right from here. iTriage is the app that you can count on. With information on thousands of symptoms, diseases and medical procedures, parents can use iTriage to pinpoint their child’s symptom and find the most appropriate level of care for their condition. Once they have that information, they can use the nationwide directory of every hospital, urgent care, retail clinic, physician and pharmacy within iTriage to get turn-by-turn directions, detailed information on a given medical provider and even ER Wait times on the app. Additionally, iTriage has added a new feature to its comprehensive offerings. iTriage now integrates with Google Health personal health records to give parents mobile access to all of their children’s allergies, shot records, medical conditions, prescriptions, and health status. It’s free, it’s comprehensive and it’s a parent’s best resource for medical information. www.iTriageHealth.com *************************** Another great free idea for you tonight is NoodleStorm.com. what is noodle storm? Well it is a new website that allows organizations of all types to get their toughest business, engineering, technology, political, legal, or other problems solved by the brightest college students in the world. This system of university consulting already exists as many organizations hire MBA, engineering, or other students to solve their problems for them. NoodleStorm.com moves that market online and allows organizations to receive multiple solutions from the brightest minds from around the world. To help raise awareness about the product’s benefits for teens, especially those heading back-to-school, Bausch + Lomb is holding a nationwide contest asking parents and their kids to share inspirational stories about how “Seeing Eye to Eye” impacted their world in a positive way. To enter and learn more please visit www.soflens.com and also http://www.soflens.com/free-trial.html

Dr. Wayne Guerra talks about iTriage, healthcare information software developed by Healthagen to provide patients with critical, actionable information for consumers via smart phones, PC’s and web devices. Federal Chief Technology Officer Anesh Chopra recently was briefed on this free application that lets patients get to the most appropriate point of care, info on thousands of diseases, symptoms, and more!… Read more about this episode...