Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Chini Krishnan, CEO of GetInsured (Part 1)

Digital marketplaces are becoming part of public services. Chini discusses state health insurance programs.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to GetInsured.

Chini Krishnan: I’m the Founder and CEO of GetInsured. We, at GetInsured, help Americans navigate the healthcare system. My passion for doing that is the driving force for what we do at GetInsured every day. We were founded back in 2005.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: IntelyCare CEO David Coppins (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You expect people to be trained at a certain level to be part of your pool that you staff with. What is that qualification that you’re looking for?

David Coppins: We employ Registered Nurses (RN), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN), and nurse aids. Each one of them has their own objective certifications. Beyond that, we require that everyone have at least one year experience working in long-term care.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: IntelyCare CEO David Coppins (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What do you think is going to happen? We are, on the one hand, over 30 million people in America that are unemployed. This could go up. At some point, it will come down. For the foreseeable future, there’s going to be tremendous unemployment in the system.

Then there are certain segments and sectors in the economy that are getting absolutely massacred. Retail is getting massacred. Restaurants are getting massacred In fact, a lot of women are losing their jobs. Do you foresee that there is going to be a retraining of this workforce into clinical workers?

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: IntelyCare CEO David Coppins (Part 1)

This is a very important conversation about how unemployed retail workers can find their way to retraining and re-employment in the healthcare sector with the aid of technology.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to IntelyCare.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Force Therapeutics CEO Bronwyn Spira (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else that I should have asked you?

Bronwyn Spira: One topic is the value of data and how it can spur healthcare on to the next iteration. One of the the things we’ve seen is, because we collect so much data and we’ve treated hundreds of thousands of patients on the platform over the past 10 years, the incredible value of that data is that we can now predict outcomes.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Force Therapeutics CEO Bronwyn Spira (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Has there been new business for you in the last two months?

Bronwyn Spira: Yes, we’ve been very busy. We actually came out of the market with a complementary offer because we could see that a lot of patients were lingering in no mans’ land. Patients that were scheduled to have surgery were stuck at home. They’re anxious and still in pain. We really have the opportunity in this crisis to bridge that gap with our solution and be the voice of comfort for patients.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Force Therapeutics CEO Bronwyn Spira (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Is there any other component besides post-op instruction and digital physiotherapy?

Bronwyn Spira: We also optimize the patient preoperatively. We engage with our patients about 30 days pre-surgery and help them get ready. We educate them on what to expect for surgery. This is an important piece.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Force Therapeutics CEO Bronwyn Spira (Part 1)

Bronwyn discusses a critical aspect of telehealth that is seeing significant adoption in the Covid era.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to FORCE Therapeutics.