Event Date: August 25, 2021
Time: 8:30-10:00 am
Location: Zoom: https://kcdigitaldrive.zoom.us/j/83375417414
Admission: Free

In our August meeting, we will have the opportunity to hear two different approaches to innovation – one from a collaborative perspective and one from a start-up.

In our first presentation, we look at start-up Telememory, a Kansas City area company recently selected for the Techstars Accelerator. Telememory provides a technology specifically geared to aging members of the family to prevent loneliness and intervene in times of need. Our presenter will be Telememory CEO Eliot Arnold whose background is in healthcare analytics, decision support, Human : Machine interactions, marketing, and business development.

In our second presentation, we will hear from Mark Clements, M.D., Ph.D., of Children’s Mercy about the Rising T1DE Alliance, a multi-disciplinary collaborative he co-founded to rapidly innovate and scale quality improvement efforts in care for Type 1 Diabetes. The goal of the Rising T1DE Alliance is simple: get in front of problems by predicting clinically important outcomes, curate and evaluate novel interventional strategies to “nudge” individuals with diabetes toward better health, and create a platform to drive rapid-cycle testing of novel behavioral, digital and care delivery interventions using implementation science.

Dr. Clements is a pediatric endocrinologist and Medical Director of the Pediatric Clinical Research Unit at Children’s Mercy. He is also a professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. He is a well-known innovator with a depth in digital health that runs from remote patient monitoring to deep learning. In the innovation space, he has collaborated with multiple Kansas City area companies, both large and small.

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Every month, we bring together a group of health care stakeholders to learn and share about technology and innovation projects happening in the region–and occasionally related topics from outside the Greater Kansas City area. Our stakeholders include hospitals and the health care system, city and state government officials, health IT firms and other corporate partners, startups working in health and wellness, and other civic organizations. The meetings are open, though not widely broadcast. They generally happen on the last Wednesday of the month, 8:30-10:00 am at Mid-America Regional Council (MARC).
We send out an email agenda and calendar invite to this stakeholder list, which we loosely call the Health Innovation Team. If you wish to be added to the email list, please send a note to jfitzpatrick@kcdigitaldrive.org.