Mayo Clinic Center For Innovation Transform Podcast

Chronically Positive: Our Chat with Kristin Coppens by Mayo Clinic CFI

Dr. James Deming works for the Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in palliative care, and shares his experience, thoughts, and insights to end of life care, and how small changes can have big impacts in families lives.

Access to quality healthcare is a universal issue. In Chicago, proper healthcare services are still inaccessible to many people. At BarnRaise this year healthcare practitioners, designers, health care administrators, graduate students, and beyond are invited to participate together reexamining the patient user journey in the access to care space with this timely conversation and co-creation of human-centered opportunities for impact. We chat with the co-directors of BarnRaise, Ellie Eberts and Jenni Schneiderman about their experience in design and health care, and what awaits us at BarnRaise this year!

After reading former CFI Fellow Samantha Dempsey's article in Scientific America, "How Design Can Improve Health Care for Everyone," we knew we had to connect on Skype and pick her brain! Samantha brings great insight into the worlds between design and health care, working as an Experience Designer for Mad*Pow. She brought some incredible thoughts to the conversation, and we hope you enjoy listening!

Common Practice is a platform of products and services developed by The Action Mill, a design and innovation firm focused on improving end of life communication and decision-making. We connected with Lead Designer, Nick Jehlen, to discuss the game, My Gift of Grace, and how this leads to family and strangers alike to start having the conversations around core values and end of life decisions.

After meeting Jennifer at HIMSS 2015, and being introduced to the HISTalk community for the first time, it was imperative to follow up and learn more about the world of Healthcare IT and the advocates working on bringing innovation and disruption to that space of Healthcare.

Getting that idea that has been percolating in your head for years to reality isn't always the easiest task. But it's when your child meets you around the kitchen table, and sees the value in your idea that the magic of innovation begins! Listen to the story of Fitsi, and how their product was 30 years in the making.

In our third, and last installment of this round of Techstars ++ companies, we sat down with the team from Owlet. Owlet is a sock that your newborn wears that monitors their heart rate and oxygen levels. The sock will alert you if your baby's heart rate and oxygen levels are outside the norm. The conversation was fantastic, and as most parents will agree, this is a step in a great direction!

After 6 months of battling with health care providers, Carly was diagnosed at age 13 with Crohn’s disease. 20 years later, she has been incorrectly diagnosed with ovarian cancer, told I had an hour to live, been a passenger in an ambulance that got lost, fought for reasonable accommodations at work, bought and lost a home, participated in clinical trials for two medications that are currently very popular, and probably used half of the public restrooms in the United States. Her interests lie in patient advocacy for multiple chronic conditions, and believes that existing in silos is not good for individual patients, nor their disease communities. We can all learn a lot from each other, and many of us are on similar treatments, have similar challenges, and can benefit from joint advocacy and creative solutions.

Part 2 of our Techstars ++ podcasts, we met Jintronix. Jintronix combines evidence-based treatments, virtual games, and motion tracking sensors to offer a fun and effective tool for physical rehabilitation.

We often recognize health and health care as an individual activity, but where do we fit inside our communities, and how can that help change our health? That's the question Andres Marquez-Lara asked when beginning his journey to building Promethean Community, and we sat down with him over Skype to learn more.

With the Techstars ++ visiting team of startups are visiting Mayo Clinic, we sat down with each one to talk more about their business, and their work. We first sat down with Telespine, an online system of back care developed to help people with Low Back Pain.

We connected over Skype with Gregory Thomas, professor at the Center for Design Research at the University of Kansas, who has led a multi-disciplinary team of students to bring together a mobile diagnostic care tool on wheels reaching those who need it most.

We sit down with Rachelle Oribio from Techstars ++ on how an international innovation incubator has helped launch startups into the health care world, and how these companies are poised to change how health care works with outside partnerships.

We sit down with Lauren Taylor, co-author of "The American Health Care Paradox," and learn about how communities can view health in a new way.

Mike Tinney is the Founder and CEO of FIX: Fitness Interactive Experience, which is dedicated to making fitness fun, accessible and hyper-socially connected through an interactive social media platform centered around making the pursuit of fitness an enjoyable and engaging game. We stopped by their booth at Hx360 when we saw their "A Step Ahead: Zombies" game, and had to find out more!

Steven Incontrera is the Senior Manager of Engagement and Advertising at Next Wave Connect, a social collaboration network for health care workers. With a long career with social media and health care, we connected with Steven and chatted how the worlds of social media, collaboration, and health IT are colliding.

Rob Begg is currently the VP of Enterprise Strategy for Hootsuite, and is a proven marketing leader and success with technology and media companies. He is experienced in both B2C and B2B, having worked in many IT settings and sales related businesses. We connected with Rob at HIMSS 2015, and learned some great insights on the power of social media!

Carl Hirschman is a natural entrepreneur who loves to learn about all aspects of businesses of every type. Carl challenges the status quo to assist organizations in realizing hidden potential, and finds opportunities close to home with CareTree. CareTree is a collaboration platform designed to replace the paper records in the home health and senior care industries with an online platform that centralizes information and automates communication with care stakeholders.

ReelDx was founded by David Spiro and Bill Kelly in 2013. David had first recognized the power of recording video of patient-doctor interactions while on faculty at Yale. Bill, who had co-founded one of the companies that became WebMD, and Learning.com, recognized a disruptive healthcare IT opportunity. Together with Nick Adkins and Andrew Richards, the team developed the vision of ReelDx: to provide an easy to use, secure, HIPAA-compliant platform for creating, storing, and sharing medical video. We met Nick and Andrew at HIMSS 2015 and had a fantastic conversation!