Welcome to the Empowered Patient Podcast with Karen Jagoda. This show is a window into the latest innovations in applying generative AI, novel therapeutics and vaccines, and the changing dynamics in the medical and healthcare environment. One focus is on how providers, pharmaceutical companies, and payers are empowering patients. In addition, conversations are often about how providers, care facilities, pharmaceutical companies, and payers are being empowered by technology to improve patient outcomes and reduce friction across the healthcare landscape.
Popular Topics
- Virtual and digital health
- Use of AI, ML, and LLM in healthcare and drug discovery, development, trials
- Value-based healthcare
- Precision and stratified medicine
- Integration of digital technology into existing workflow and procedures
- Next-generation immuno, cell, and gene therapies
- Vaccines
- Biomarkers, sequencing, and imaging
- Rare diseases
- MedTech and medical devices
- Clinical trials
- Addressing Social Determinants of Health
- Treating chronic conditions like obesity and pain
- Clinician and staff burnout
The audience includes life science leaders, researchers, medical professionals, patient advocates, digital health entrepreneurs, patients, caregivers, healthcare solution providers, students, journalists, and investors.
Check out our new EmpoweredPatient.Solutions site where you can quickly search all of the Empowered Patient Podcast interviews by any word or phrase to identify useful resources, potential partners, and insights about the life sciences landscape.
Nov 8, 2023
Chris Sullens, CEO of CentralReach, offers a range of technology solutions to support providers, therapists, educators, and parents working with individuals with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities. The goal is to streamline administrative tasks, replacing paper-based procedures with digital tools and allowing professionals to spend more in-person time with clients. The digital CR Care Coordinator helps train parents to reinforce the work of the therapists, which leads to better outcomes for the child and the behavior technician.
Chris explains, "At CentralReach, our focus is providing technology and associated services to providers, therapists, special educators, and others who are working with primarily the autistic community and those with broader intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs). That technology spans everything from patient-provider management systems, practice management systems, data collection on the clinical side, curriculum content assessments, as well as a host of technologies that we provide to schools and organizations that are teaching students in special education."
"We still see a lot of entire practices, frankly, that are managing schedules and managing their business, collecting data, and doing assessments that are paper-based today. There's a big shift to digitizing all aspects of a provider's business. We now have a digital assessments product, where historically, we sold books for the ABLLS and AFLS. We still sell books for those who want to use them, but the digital platform provides a lot more reporting, analytics, and trending and streamlines a lot of the process. And so, we're seeing good adoption of that."
"From my standpoint, the most valuable role technology can play is supporting the behavior analyst and supporting the behavior technician. Allow them to do their job more effectively, to reduce some of the tasks that they need to do that tend to be more back office or reporting oriented, so that they can spend more time providing care to those they're working with."
#CentralReach #ABA #BCBAs #Autism #IDD #DigitalHealth
