Outcomes Rocket

45 episodes scanned. 100% of ad slots promote the show's own products.

Recent Episodes

1. Bringing Commercial Thinking Into Early Neuroscience Development with Ginger Johnson, Senior Vice President at Lumanity, and Isabella Giaquinta, Senior Consultant at Lumanity

   Nov 2, 2026

   Ginger Johnson, Senior Vice President at Lumanity, and Bella Giaquinta, Senior Consultant at Lumanity, discuss why commercial thinking should begin early in neuroscience and psychiatry development. They cover defining a target product profile before clinical entry, choosing a winnable first indication over the largest market, and the use of psychedelics to illustrate monitoring, site-of-care, and reimbursement challenges. The conversation also addresses how biomarkers and AI-supported precision psychiatry could match patients to treatments.

2. How Patient Engagement Drives Better Treatment Outcomes with Dr. Mary O’Connor, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vori Health

   Oct 29, 2026

   Dr. Mary O'Connor, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vori Health, describes her move from orthopedic surgeon and health system leader to startup co-founder. She explains how early MRIs can trigger inappropriate surgery, how Vori's integrated physician and physical therapist visit and health coaching work, and how payment models shape health systems' incentives. The conversation also covers her book *Taking Care of You*, and her advice for self-insured employers building an MSK ecosystem of imaging, surgeon, and virtual nonsurgical care partners.

3. Why Nurse Staffing Is an Engagement Problem, Not a Numbers Problem with Curtis Anderson, Founder and CEO of Nursa

   Oct 27, 2026

   Curtis Anderson, Founder and CEO of Nursa, describes how he came to healthcare after buying a nurse staffing agency in 2017 and replacing its manual, whiteboard-based matchmaking with technology that connects facilities and clinicians directly. He explains Nursa's two-sided marketplace model, which matches clinicians and facilities on credentials and reliability while aiming to maximize clinician earnings and lower facility costs. The conversation also covers Nursa's expansion from short-term per diem shifts into block booking and permanent placement, and Anderson's argument that nursing's workforce gap is an engagement and participation problem rather than a shortage of licensed nurses.

4. Bringing Healthcare to the Edge With AI Companionship with Terry Miller, Vice President of Machine Learning and AI at Omada Health

   Oct 22, 2026

   Terry Miller, Vice President of Machine Learning and AI at Omada Health, discusses edge healthcare, the idea of moving care closer to where people live through wearables, biometrics, mobile diagnostics, robotics, and AI. He explains how a longitudinal view of member health can help organizations intervene before patients reach their sickest point, and why engagement and personalization matter for chronic condition management. The conversation closes on his case for AI as an agentic companion that supports patients and their caregivers.

5. How Crisis Text Line Expands Support Before Crisis Escalates with Jana French, Public Sector Partnerships Director at Crisis Text Line

   Oct 21, 2026

   Jana French, Public Sector Partnerships Director at Crisis Text Line, describes how the national nonprofit provides free text-based mental health and crisis support, including for everyday struggles like anxiety, grief, and relationship conflict, not only suicidal thoughts. The conversation covers how Crisis Text Line combines remote trained volunteers, clinical supervision, and its platform, and how volunteers gain communication skills and mental health benefits. Jana also discusses the organization's use of AI for triage and natural language processing research, and how people can get involved.

6. Building a More Connected Healthcare Workforce with Amit Kumthekar, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Sully

   Oct 16, 2026

   Amit Kumthekar, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Sully, traces his path into healthcare from his type 1 diabetes diagnosis and early diabetes research. He describes how Sully combines clinical documentation, billing, and voice-based patient engagement into one connected platform to reduce workflow friction. The conversation also covers designing natural-sounding voice AI, the role of a model "harness" in agentic AI, a research-versus-engineering setback, and the case for consolidating fragmented healthcare tools.

7. Whole-Person Care: Unifying Behavioral Health and Social Care with Jaffer Traish, Chief Operating Officer at findhelp

   Oct 15, 2026

   Jaffer Traish, Chief Operating Officer at findhelp, discusses why social care and behavioral health should be integrated into a single navigation workflow. He covers fragmented and outdated provider directories, "ghost networks" of listings that no longer reflect available clinicians, and the need for transparency and accountability. The conversation also touches on closed-loop referral outcomes and plans for more integrated national search tools.

8. Beyond the Picnic Cooler: Redefining Organ Preservation with Dr. Xiaoxi Wei, Founder and CEO of X-Therma

   Oct 15, 2026

   Dr. Xiaoxi Wei, founder and CEO of X-Therma, describes how her grandfather's death during a liver transplant wait led her to develop sub-zero organ preservation. She explains why the cooler-and-ice method has changed little since the 1950s and how X-Therma's peptoid-based materials, modeled on natural antifreeze proteins, aim to extend preservation from hours to days. The conversation also covers the company's Series B and planned Series C, its path toward clinical trials, and its DMSO-free cell preservation product.

9. Why Manager Enablement Is the Missing Layer in Workforce Mental Health ROI with Brad Swingruber, CEO at meQuilibrium (meQ)

   Oct 9, 2026

   Brad Swingruber, CEO of meQuilibrium (meQ), joins host Solome Tibabu on the Expanding Access podcast to discuss why managers are the missing layer in workplace mental health support. He argues that organizations need to shift from adding training courses and dashboards to delivering small, in-the-moment actions inside tools managers already use, and he cites a Citizens Bank engagement and a healthcare client's results. The conversation also covers psychological safety as a starting measurement, Gen Z stress and burnout patterns, and meQ's focus on measurable resilience.

10. Why Interoperability Depends on Accurate Patient Records

    Oct 9, 2026

    Martin Cody, Senior Vice President of Sales and Growth at 4medica, discusses patient identity accuracy, including how duplicate, incomplete, and mismatched records drive denials and rejections and complicate hospital mergers and EHR go-lives. He describes 4medica's approach of combining technology, data enrichment, and human review to clean patient data upstream, and he raises clinical risks from record overlays. The conversation also covers his early career in healthcare sales and his years in the wine business.