Healthcare Shapers Perspectives Guest:
Craig A. DeLarge, MBA, MPH
Digital Health Strategist, The Digital Mental Health Project

A tipping point is approaching where the majority of humanity will use digital devices for communication, work and shopping. What if this same majority were equally good at using their digital devices to increase their mental and behavioral wellness.

A barrier to this “what if” is digital mental health literacy, or skillfulness in applying everyday digital technologies to one’s mental and behavioral health.

Listen or watch as Craig DeLarge describes:
*His journey that lead to the formation of The Digital Mental Health Project
*How increasing supply of digital mental health solutions that is not understood or adopted well enough in our population creates the need for digital mental health literacy
*Digital mental health applications which include teletherapy, mobile apps, virtual reality, passive remote sensing, care coordination, etc.
*What equitable mental healthcare looks like.

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Craig A. DeLarge is a digital healthcare strategist and mental health advocate at The Digital Mental Health Project, where he produces education programs and research which help improve adoption of digital technology in the mental ahd behavioral health spaces.

In his career, as a digital & healthcare marketer, strategist and educator, he has managed in and with world-class firms like Novo Nordisk, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Takeda and Johnson & Johnson, as well as teaching at Temple University, Philadelphia University, Chestnut Hill College, St. Joseph’s University and Penn State University. He is currently Marketing Director at Ksana Health. His career is focused on “improving health” & “developing leaders”. 

He holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in Marketing and Design Management from Philadelphia University (USA) (BSc), and from the University of Westminster (UK) (MBA). He is currently a graduate Public Health candidate at King’s College, London. He is also a certified professional coach and published author of The WiseWorking Handbook (2014).

He resides in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Healthcare Shapers Perspectives Guest:
Kathy Letendre
President, Letendre & Associates LLC

Now, more than ever, organizations need clarity.

For some healthcare organizations, the crisis of the past year became a strategic accelerator! They accomplished more in a few months than they had in years. For other organizations, this was not the case. They are just now coming out of crisis management mode and recognizing that they need to define where they are headed. Both types of organizations recognize that healthcare and those they serve have been forever changed. One of the roles of leaders is to paint a picture of a path forward.

Listen or watch this conversation with Kathy Letendre about the importance of strategic clarity for moving forward from this unprecedented year.

Now is the time to be bold. Be clear.

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Kathy Letendre creates transformative experiences for her clients, catapulting organizational performance to new heights. As an experienced healthcare executive and champion of transformational improvement, Kathy Letendre shares her expertise, helping leaders achieve unprecedented levels of excellence for their organizations. An expert in organizational excellence, transformation, and performance, she advises healthcare organizations from hospitals and medical practices to mental health agencies and health systems. With Kathy’s counsel, her clients set new strategic directions and execute their ambitious plans, achieving results of importance to healthcare organizations and those they serve.

Healthcare Shapers Perspectives Guest:
Erkan Hassan, PharmD, FCCM
Chief Clinical Officer, Sepsis Program Optimization

Innovative technology alone does not ensure success.  Clinicians and technology groups are accustomed to working in divergent methods and cultures.  Combining the 2 approaches is critical for success.

Healthcare poses unique characteristics for innovators vs other industries. Innovators need to determine the optimal solution during development; evaluating their solution through the clinical outcome lens and prepare for after the sale solution support. Healthcare innovators have to blend clinical needs to meet business success.

Listen or watch as Erkan Hassan describes how to address clinical validation, integration into clinician workflows and selective metrics to demonstrate success.

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Erkan Hassan couples 19 years of bedside clinical experience with 20 years of designing and implementing innovative technologies within integrated health delivery systems to deliver quantified patient centered clinical and financial outcomes.

Erkan helps healthcare innovators maximize clinical acceptance by leveraging the synergy of interdisciplinary clinical transformation and technology to solve health systems challenges to improve outcomes.

Healthcare Shapers Perspectives Guest:
Joe McMenamin, MD, JD
Principal, McMenamin Law Offices PLLC

Advocates say artificial intelligence will revolutionize healthcare through drug discovery, improved diagnostic accuracy, and more wisely chosen therapies. Critics claim that AI is plagued by algorithm failures, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and rampant bias, such that it will destroy privacy, fairness, professional job security, and the doctor-patient relationship. Joe McMenamin, MD, JD, discusses both the promises and the threats that AI entails.

Some AI systems are designed so that humans can understand the system’s intent, reasoning, and decision-making processes. Others are designed to generate their own algorithms based on examples and desired output; we humans can view the inputs and outputs of this unexplainable tech, but not its inner workings. The former may seem safer; the latter is often seen as having greater potential for benefit.

Watch as Joe considers both the risks and benefits of these different approaches, and of AI itself, as well as the law’s attempt to cope with the problems and opportunities that AI has given rise to. This video provides a brief introduction to a topic that for better and worse is likely to shape the healthcare of tomorrow in profound and only incompletely predictable ways.

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Joseph P. (“Joe”) McMenamin, MD, JD is a physician-attorney and the principal at McMenamin Law Offices, PLLC, a healthcare boutique in Richmond, Virginia concentrating on the law of digital health.

Joe advises institutional and individual telehealth service providers, academic medical centers, remote monitoring services, trade associations, telehealth platform companies, investors, and telecoms on a broad array of medico-legal questions arising from distance care and, more recently, from the application of augmented intelligence to health care in general and to telemedicine in particular. He writes and lectures extensively on these and related topics.

He also serves as general counsel to the Virginia Telehealth Network, and as a member of the Legal Resource Team of CTeL, the Center for Telemedicine and eHealth Law. He is board-certified in Legal Medicine, an Associate Professor of Legal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Fellow of the College of Legal Medicine.

Healthcare Shapers Perspectives Guest:
Christian Milaster, MS
Founder & CEO, Ingenium Digital Health Advisors

The Digital Health Revolution is now fully upon us with investments totaling over $60 Billion dollars over the past 10 years.

But the problem is not the lack of innovation. The problem is the lack of innovation adoption. The incumbent health care system is, if not asleep at the wheel, at best moving at a sloth’s pace whereas other non-traditional competitors, like Amazon.care and Walmart Health are moving at light speed.

Listen or watch as Christian Milaster describes what healthcare organizations can do to make decisions regarding the fit of new innovations in days, not months; evaluate seemingly suitable solutions in weeks not quarters; and integrate solutions in months not years.

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Christian Milaster is the Founder and CEO of Ingenium Digital Health Advisors, a boutique consulting firm focused on enabling the delivery of extraordinary care.
A German by birth and engineer by training, Christian and his team bring engineering ingenuity to healthcare to optimize the delivery of care.