Vision to Value: A podcast by Nehal Group LLC

Listen to healthcare executive Dominick Bizzarro speak on healthcare innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth mindset. He discusses how he considers the "buy versus build" decision, offers advice for healthcare entrepreneurs, and outlines where AI can make a difference including in low-access populations. This is Part 2 of a longer podcast initially recored in early 2023.

Themes of today's episode include healthcare innovation, patient navigation, digital health, quality of life measures, and data-driven human-centered design for diversity of human needs and user profiles in healthcare, specifically from the regional health plan and community health perspective. We discuss how to how to get started without letting perfectionism hold you back and how to "move fast and *not* break things" in healthcare. We consider several perspectives on healthcare data with a particular focus on the emerging field of patient-reported outcome measures. 

This is part one of a two part series. 

Today's guest is Dominick Bizarro. Please read his bio below:

As Chief Growth Officer, Dominick charts the course for MVP's major strategic initiatives to ensure MVP is positioned to serve its communities in the long-term. He previously served as MVP’s Chief of Innovation.

Dominick has three decades of experience in leveraging health information technology and best-in-class business strategies to drive growth in large company transformation, start-up and turnaround situations. He served as the President and Chief Operating Officer for Hudson Headwaters Health Network. As Managing Director, Business Development at InterSystems Corporation, he was a key driver of the global growth of their top-rated HealthShare product, an interoperability platform used to create unified health records. Dominick was the first employee and CEO at Hixny, a leading health information exchange in NY. During this time, he also served on the Board of Directors for the NY eHealth Collaborative. Earlier in his career, he worked alongside other management-owners and built a health technology, analytics, and services company, Health Solutions. He has served as a Business Development and Product Development leader in companies large and small.

A pharmacist by training, Dominick received his pharmacy degree from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and his MBA in Health Systems from Union Graduate College, now Clarkson University. He currently serves on the Hixny Board of Directors and the Hudson Valley Community College Foundation Board of Trustees. He has also served on the Board at Ellis Medicine, Albany Can Code, the Fingerlakes Health Systems Agency, as well as several other health care and health technology advisory committees.

If you had superpowers, how would you use them? Those with neurodiversity, as well as any kind of diversity, often have unique ability see new perspespectives needed for solving some of the toughest problems. Harvard Business Review considers it a competitive advantage for businesses: https://hbr.org/2017/05/neurodiversity-as-a-competitive-advantage

Listen to a chat between Nehal Group LLC founder, Dr. Umbereen Nehal and talent placement expert and consultant Katherine McCord on why businesses need to be actively recruiting neurodiverse talent, not only as a kind and humane thing to do, but to increase revenue and customer satisfaction.

About Katherine McCord (from LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-mccord-093bb343/

"I live to fulfill my three missions: integrity, innovation, and inclusion!

I went from being the little girl that played interview and at the age of five fired her own mother (not kidding!) to the woman that has two seizures and still gets up on stage for her big speech (with notes, of course).

I am neurodiverse and physically diverse, and I am successful WITH my diversity, not in spite of it. In several ways, my neurodiversity has even helped me accelerate my career!

I work in People Operations Consulting, Neurodiversity Consulting, HR Tech, and I LOVE to get on stage to speak and teach! I live to innovate and shake things up, and I never compromise my ethics and integrity. I founded my primary brand, Titan Management, on my "three Is" (my missions), so if you are looking to scale inclusively and creatively, give me a shout! I would love to help you grow."

In today's episode, we hear from MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer, Dr. Michellana Jester, on best practices for building a culture of trust, resilience, and productivity for hybrid work and the Future of Work. To mark the end of 2021 and the start of 2022 we discuss the values, ethics, and mental models needed for leaders and managers to execute via high-functioning teams while showing compassion and humanism. 

For more information on Dr. Michellana Jester, please see:

The MIT Sloan School of Management faculty page with her published works, here: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/michellana-jester

The description of her professional and educational experience, here: https://gbsn.org/profile/michellana-jester/

Her LinkedIn page here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellanajester/