//OBJECTIVES//
- Introduce the Center for Care Innovations (CCI) and its role in sparking & seeding innovation
- Describe programs to build innovation, design thinking, and partnerships with entrepreneurs in safety net organizations (SNOs)
- Discuss an approach to implementing innovation in the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH)

//SPEAKERS//
Veenu Aulakh is Executive Director, Center for Care Innovations (CCI). She is responsible for the organization's overall strategy, building critical partnerships, and helping to ensure CCI continues to make an impact in transforming safety net systems in California. She leads the innovation portfolio for CCI including launching a number of programs to build innovation skills and cultural changes in SNOs. She worked as a Senior Program Officer, California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) managing investments to organizations with innovations to lower the cost of care. She led projects to improve the quality of primary care and patient engagement. She held a number of positions within Kaiser Permanente improving quality of care, developing disease management programs, and increasing patient engagement.

George Su is Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) and UCSF. He has driven efforts to strategically leverage innovation within the San Francisco Health Network (SFHN) delivery system. He served as co-chair of SFDPH Integrated Delivery System Innovation in Healthcare Workgroup and is the lead of the CCI-sponsored SFDPH Innovations HUB. He is a Stanford University Biodesign Program extern and CCI Innovation Catalyst. He is currently supported by the CHCF and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to formally explore safety-net effectiveness of novel diagnostic and service models. George also serves as the director and medical director of SFGH Telehealth, Healthy San Francisco Asthma/COPD, and SF Community Spirometry programs. He was an NIH-sponsored investigator.

"//OBJECTIVES://
- To give an understanding of the value of contemporary approaches to service innovation
- To provide an overview in the work of modeling product-service systems in a logical, prescriptive, consistent, and visual way
- To offer examples where individuals interact with touch points and services over time and how they transition between them to create meaningful experiences

//SPEAKER://
Steven Dean is a partner at Prehype, a venture development firm that incubates new digital companies on behalf of the world's finest corporations and VCs. Working in product development most of his career, Steven has designed and built new ventures for some of the most innovative consumer health and wellness brands.

Steven teaches at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and at School of Visual Arts in its MFA Products of Design program. His courses address how behavior change, technology and design are used to shape how we make changes at the individual, societal and organizational levels. He is also the founder of the NY chapter of Quantified Self.

Steven has a BS in Mathematics from Baylor and received a Master of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has taught courses on service design, digital media and innovation at Parsons and RISD and is a frequent speaker at design schools and industry forums on topics of behavior change, quantified self, innovation and design.

//DATE & TIME//

Friday 6/20/2014 from 2:00-3:00 PM EDT

Register at https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/295871630 while space lasts!

//OBJECTIVES//
- Understand of the advantages and disadvantages of the various innovation funding sources
- Challenges within the typical funding lifecycle of early stage to late/mature stage
- Critical success factors to securing funding

//SPEAKER//
Mary Beth Chalk is leveraging her 25 years of healthcare domain experience, including Co-Founder of a venture capital backed, digital and connected health software start-up, Healthrageous. After selling Healthrageous, Mary Beth began assisting health service firms with creating business model and product innovation and growth through business development and sales.

She has created, led and sold innovation within digital and connected health, pharmaceutical marketing, behavioral health, disease management, prevention and wellness, employee assistance programs, pharmacy benefit management, physician practices and health plans. Mary Beth has experience securing funding for innovative services and projects from venture capitalists, pharmaceutical companies, health plans, employers, state Medicaid and CMS Medicare.

Mary Beth holds a BBA in marketing and a BFA in commercial design. She believes that the combination of the two disciples contributes to her ability to see the shape of new services and connect the dots necessary to create and validate a new market concept. This has enabled the organizations she has led and worked for to achieve competitive innovation. For additional information please refer to: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marybethchalk

//OBJECTIVES//
Provider organizations are unleashing the potential of their teams by arming them with tools, techniques and knowledge to bring innovation to the front lines of care delivery. While this is important, a key question is ‘is it enough?’. It is our belief that while this activity is necessary, it is not sufficient to fully drive the healthcare transformation agenda.

During this webcast Mihir Ganhi will share AVIA’s view on external entrepreneurship, alternative routes for value creation and different ways provider organization are both incubating early ideas and accelerating promising solutions.

Through participating in this webcast, attendees will:
1) Appreciate why provider organizations are becoming more active in venture investing
2) Understand distinctions between mission, strategic and financial investing
3) Learn what areas are ‘hot’ right now
4) Clarify differences between incubators and accelerator and the specific roles each play

//SPEAKER//
Mihir Gandhi
Director of Health Care Ventures

Mihir is an experienced consultant with expertise across provider, payer, health IT, and medical devices.
Prior to joining AVIA, Mihir spent time working across multiple divisions of Abbott Labs with a deep focus on medical devices. He also worked at Abbott Ventures, where he helped develop frameworks for assessing strategic investments and led the investment process on multiple early-stage technologies. Mihir gained additional experience in global product marketing, market development, sales operations, and emerging markets. Prior to Abbott, Mihir worked with hospitals and health systems, via strategy consulting at Oliver Wyman, operational redesign engagements at Huron Consulting, and thought leadership roles at the Advisory Board Company.

Mihir holds a MBA from the University of Pennsylvania and dual-BS degrees from Duke University.