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EP207: Disrupt or Be Disrupted, With A.G. Breitenstein, Partner at Optum Ventures

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A.G. is a partner at Optum Ventures. She was most recently the co-founder and chief product officer at Humedica, one of the earliest big-data analytics companies in health care. Following its acquisition by Optum, she became chief product officer at Optum Analytics. She began her career as an attorney, founding a non-profit aimed at helping homeless youth at high-risk for HIV infection. A.G. expanded her mission by obtaining a degree in public health from Harvard. She is a mission-driven leader focused on transforming the health care system into a health system.

01:36 Discussing innovation centers and the expectation behind them. 03:27 “The problem of health care is very broad and very deep.” 03:53 Optum Ventures as a strategic venture firm. 04:54 The opportunities that entrepreneurs have to “plug in." 06:42 The engagement infrastructure of getting patients to the right place at the right time. 08:27 “At the end of the day, patients drive the ... system.” 10:47 Patients moving en masse. 11:21 Getting patients to make different, better choices than they are today, and understanding their movements through the system. 13:57 Why telehealth hasn’t survived. 15:23 “It’s exactly the wrong way to start the conversation.” 15:39 Going to where the patients are. 17:33 “We just assume patients can’t make [decisions] in health care.” 21:22 “It is incumbent on us to ... prove [employer-based health care’s] fundamental value.” 23:58 Where health care is going. 26:01 “All of the broken stuff in health care ultimately derives from asymmetry.”

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A.G. is a partner at Optum Ventures. She was most recently the co-founder and chief product officer at Humedica, one of the earliest big-data analytics companies in health care. Following its acquisition by Optum, she became chief product officer at Optum Analytics. She began her career as an attorney, founding a non-profit aimed at helping homeless youth at high-risk for HIV infection. A.G. expanded her mission by obtaining a degree in public health from Harvard. She is a mission-driven leader focused on transforming the health care system into a health system.

01:36 Discussing innovation centers and the expectation behind them. 03:27 “The problem of health care is very broad and very deep.” 03:53 Optum Ventures as a strategic venture firm. 04:54 The opportunities that entrepreneurs have to “plug in." 06:42 The engagement infrastructure of getting patients to the right place at the right time. 08:27 “At the end of the day, patients drive the ... system.” 10:47 Patients moving en masse. 11:21 Getting patients to make different, better choices than they are today, and understanding their movements through the system. 13:57 Why telehealth hasn’t survived. 15:23 “It’s exactly the wrong way to start the conversation.” 15:39 Going to where the patients are. 17:33 “We just assume patients can’t make [decisions] in health care.” 21:22 “It is incumbent on us to ... prove [employer-based health care’s] fundamental value.” 23:58 Where health care is going. 26:01 “All of the broken stuff in health care ultimately derives from asymmetry.”

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