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00:00Like, okay, I shouldn't really be spending my time doing this anymore when I, you know, I could be doing this.
00:05I want to let y'all know I will take a question or two from the audience.
00:09If you do have one, get ready, and I will come to you and do an Oprah moment.
00:15But I wanted to hear from you guys.
00:17Oh, okay.
00:18I wanted to hear from you guys.
00:19What are you still looking to learn?
00:22Like, as you grow, what do you still think now in your career that you want to learn to make your business better?
00:31We'll start with you, Neil.
00:33You know, that's exactly, so every day I learn something new.
00:37You know, I learn something new from John.
00:39I did the program.
00:41I learned something from all the two co-founders, sorry, all the founders from all the businesses.
00:45So what worries me or keeps me up at night is I don't know what I don't know.
00:49And to learn those lessons can be very expensive lessons.
00:54So I try to tread very carefully.
00:58So we're looking at doing our first partnership, and we're reviewing the IP language,
01:04and I'm just dreading doing this partnership and inadvertently or accidentally giving away some rights to the Scotch Boys logo or Scotch Boys name.
01:13So, again, to answer your question, I know what I know, but I don't know what I don't know,
01:16and I'm terrified of making a very expensive mistake.
01:20Yeah.
01:22I have to concur with that and also the firing myself part.
01:26Like, I still book flights and shit.
01:27Like, you know what I mean?
01:29It's like, I'm like, I'm like in it.
01:31You know what I mean?
01:32I feel like nobody could scour Google flights and figure out the logistics and the, you know what I mean, the boom, boom, boom,
01:41like how to fly to London to get to Sweden, stop in London first.
01:44But, like, I don't know if people are going to do it like how I do it.
01:47We got to let that go, John.
01:49We got to let that go.
01:49But, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:51That's it.
01:51That's it.
01:52That's my life.
01:52Well, y'all, I wish I could have gotten a question from the audience, but we are up on time.
01:58And don't worry, they will be here so you can actually get personal time to talk to them.
02:02Are you going to be here?
02:03I'm committing them to be here.
02:05Yeah, yeah.
02:06We'll be here for a second.
02:07All right.
02:07So I really want to appreciate you guys.
02:09Thank you for joining us.
02:10I hope that on your journeys, if you're on a journey, you take something from what Neil and John have said and you carried on.
02:17Have a good rest of your time at Essence, and we'll see you another somewhere around.
02:22Follow the Scotch Boys.
02:23Follow Ghetto Gastro.
02:25Dying Diaspora.
02:26Shout out to New Voices.
02:27They trickled some nickels on our rounds, so, you know.
02:30Yeah, yeah.
02:31Thanks for having us.
02:31Can we get a little picture?
02:52Thank you so much.
03:01Thank you so much.
03:05Yeah, it is.
03:07All right, folks.
03:19Listen, don't leave.
03:20It's time for some more black excellence on this stage.
03:24Let's give a big round of applause for the crew that was just here.
03:27It's something about a black man running a business that makes us smile, right?
03:32Absolutely.
03:32We are so very excited.
03:34And listen, one of the most powerful things that he said, I don't know if you heard him, but there is power in vulnerability.
03:41Look at your neighbor and tell him, it's okay.
03:44It's okay to not be okay sometimes, right?
03:47We just have to, again, activate the power of the pivot.
03:49At this time, we have Joel coming to the stage because we now are activating our healthcare innovation panel.
03:58Listen, I am Dr. Nelson, but I'm not your medical doctor, okay?
04:02We got some medical doctors coming to the stage, so let's give it up for them as they come on you, Joel.
04:19How's everyone doing today?
04:26Can you hear me?
04:28Cool.
04:29Okay, this is my first time using one of these, so bear with me as I get used to it.
04:32But thank you all for coming today.
04:34My name is Joel Brevell.
04:35I'm a fourth-year medical student at Washington State University, but online and better known as the medical mythbuster.
04:40We're creating viral medical content about healthcare disparities, racial disparities in medicine, the hidden history of medicine, and overlooked biases in healthcare.
04:48And today, I'm thrilled to be joining the American Medical Association's InFull Health Initiative.
04:54They've asked me to incorporate this panel with some absolutely incredible innovators and entrepreneurs.
05:00The InFull Health Initiative seeks to advance equitable opportunities to invest in health innovation and solution development,
05:08prioritizing investment in health innovations developed by, with, and for us, the black community.
05:14Health innovation is about looking at today's health problems and designing creative and effective solutions using new tools, new tech, and new talent.
05:24So today, I'm excited to introduce a group of powerful entrepreneurs and innovators from across the country,
05:31making waves in health and healthcare, and doing it all while being unapologetically black.
05:36So, give it up for them.
05:39So, we have Dr. Joy Cooper.
05:41You guys can just give a little wave so they know who you are.
05:44We have Natalie Ocean, Gideon Thomas, Dr. Stephen Moyo, and Desby McDaniel.
05:52Wonderful.
05:54And so, we're going to do things a little bit differently today.
05:56I know you guys have been to a lot of panels.
05:58This panel is going to be a little bit different.
06:00What we're going to do is we're going to have each of our innovators introduce themselves,
06:04but a little bit later, we're going to select from a jar of different words for them to talk about what that word means to them.
06:10Before we get there, we'll start with Desby over at the end.
06:13If you could share the name of your company, your booth number, the problem you're trying to solve,
06:18and what is the strength that you and your company bring, and show your impact that you've had so far.
06:23Yeah.
06:23So, the name of our company is Clinispan Health.
06:27Our booth number is 7150.
06:30Come find us.
06:31We have a free MacBook Air raffle going.
06:35The problem that we're solving is that many of us, most of us in this room, take medicines that don't work for us.
06:42We take improper dosage amounts and see inadvertent side effects,
06:45and it mostly ends up working for middle-aged white men because they are in clinical trials to test these drugs.
06:51Our company focuses on getting more of us in this room into trials to test these drugs
06:55so that they are safer for us when we decide to take them, Advil, ibuprofen, any drug you can name.
07:01So, the strength that we bring is using social media to communicate that problem and how we solve it.
07:07So, you can sign up on our platform as an influencer to promote health equity,
07:11or you can find trials on our platform and help save all of us in this room, right?
07:17So, that's really what it's about.
07:18And so, we are focused on trying to have better medicines and save all of the people that we see in this room.
07:27So, thank you.
07:29Love it.
07:29Dr. Moyo, how about you?
07:31First off, thank you, everybody, for being here.
07:33I'm Dr. Steven Moyo, CEO and founder of Wealthy.
07:36What we do is we enable families to take a wellness selfie so they can connect their health record,
07:41mobile apps and devices, and school health record.
07:43And based on that profile, we guide their care and their journey.
07:47We focus on health education.
07:49We want our people, our families, to be health smart so they can make the right decisions when it comes to health.
07:53And then we're also empowering community health workers to be able to engage families better
07:58and get them connected to the resources they need.
08:01Things that we're doing that are unique is we're meeting families where they are,
08:04so we actually partner with K-12 school districts.
08:06So, we're showing up in the school districts, showing up in the family's life on a day-to-day basis,
08:11and we really are focusing on wellness and health as opposed to what health care often does,
08:15which is sick care, where you don't see your doctor until you're sick.
08:18So, our focus is, you know, health equity, health education, care coordination.
08:24We're over at Booth 7148 right next to this gentleman here.
08:28So, please come see us.
08:29You can check out some of the content that we're doing.
08:31And we really want to talk to moms because moms we see as the health CEO of the family,
08:35and we want to have a discussion about how you're caring for your family, your kids,
08:39as well as your husbands, wives, and or your parents as well.
08:44I love that.
08:45That's so crucial.
08:46And I'm seeing the ties of personalized medicine there.
08:48So, thank you both.
08:50Gideon, how about you?
08:51Hi, my name is Gideon Thomas, and our company is Sirius Health.
08:54You can come see us at Booth 7159.
08:58I'm going over to try and get your MacBook.
09:00And what we do, Sirius Health takes care of elders and people with intellectual disabilities
09:06and community-based care.
09:08How we do that is we recruit nurses in order to adopt them, and Medicaid pays for it.
09:13In addition, we also provide a service to caregivers called High Caregiver,
09:17where we'll just send you a text, tell you you're doing a good job.
09:20You can continue to do this.
09:21Our innovation looks like currently we have a grant, a small business innovation grant,
09:28with the federal government, and we're working with Meharry Medical College
09:31to develop custom matches for that community-based care.
09:36You like temperature a certain way, you want to have a certain way that you go to church,
09:42or you want to be outside or inside.
09:43We want to make sure that those matches are good
09:45and that those people are cared for in the way that they want to be.
09:49Wonderful.
09:50Dr. Natalie, sorry.
09:53Not a doctor.
09:54Almost skipped over you.
09:55Hi, everyone.
09:56I'm Natalie Ocean.
09:57I'm at Med Hall.
09:58We're at Booth 7142.
10:01And the problem that we're helping to solve is that over 6 million people annually miss
10:05or delay medical care due to lack of reliable transportation.
10:08And so we help health care organizations like hospitals, clinics, clinical trial organizations,
10:13truly understand the barriers that they're facing so that way they can get to those appointments.
10:16We are based in Memphis, Tennessee, but we've spread across 14 states so far.
10:22We've also completed over 14,000 complex rides to date.
10:26And essentially what we're trying to do and the impact that we're having is really provide a hyper-focus
10:30on those complex transportation needs.
10:33So think about someone who's wheelchair-bound that needs to get to dialysis or chemotherapy multiple times a week,
10:38a mother that has to go to an appointment but has children that she has to travel with,
10:42does she have a car seat available, all those things we take into account for our transportation services.
10:47Amazing.
10:48I'm Dr. Joy Cooper.
10:49Hi.
10:50I am co-founder and CEO of Culture Care.
10:52We're at Booth 7144.
10:54We are a telemedicine startup connecting black women with black doctors.
10:57We know that black women have every health disparity that you can name from a black maternal health crisis
11:02on to breast cancer, cervical cancer, and that could go on.
11:06We are trying to give you a black doctor to give you a second opinion
11:09to make sure you get the care that you need and that you deserve
11:11so that you can get the follow-up you need
11:13and so that you can live your best, healthy life.
11:15Thanks.
11:16I love it.
11:16Thank you all for sharing.
11:18Can we give them a round of applause?
11:21And it's so obvious that you are all innovators intentionally focused on addressing
11:25the health disparities that are in our community, so thank you for that.
11:29So as I mentioned at the beginning, we're going to do things a little bit differently.
11:31Instead of a traditional panel, I have this magic jar right here,
11:34and in it there's five different words.
11:36The words are dismantle, invest, metrics, asset, and customers.
11:42And so what we're going to do is we're going to pass this jar down.
11:44Each of you will draw one word from here.
11:46And whatever topic, conversation comes to mind first, when you choose your word,
11:52that's what we're going to talk about.
11:53Okay?
11:54Any questions?
11:54Any questions from out there?
11:56Okay.
11:57Dr. Huber, we'll start with you.
12:04What's the word?
12:07Invest.
12:08Invest.
12:08Okay.
12:09So for me, I think about investing.
12:11I know people think about fiscally and think about money, but I think about investing in
12:14my community.
12:15I know that the reason why I do what I do is because I've worked in medicine, I've been
12:19a doctor, and I know what it is to impact a community.
12:23And, you know, sometimes it's just down to zip code, but I think what Culture Care has
12:26given me was an ability to invest in my larger black female community and impact women far
12:31and further than I ever lived and get licensed in other states and get other black women
12:36licensed in other states to give the care that we need and deserve.
12:39And so really, for me, investing is about people.
12:42It's about investing in those around you because that's what comes back to you fourfold, tenfold,
12:46way more than money can.
12:47Absolutely.
12:48And just to follow up on that, you're an OBGYN.
12:50Yeah.
12:50And I think right now, we've all probably heard about the black maternal health crisis.
12:55Can you talk about investing in the black community from the perspective of being an OBGYN?
12:58Sorry, I'm going to pop up just random questions that might come to mind just so you guys know.
13:02So I think, you know, everyone talks about, you know, America's not doing great in terms
13:05of maternal mortality.
13:07However, when you look at black women, and we started in California, you know, California
13:10has the lowest maternal mortality rate in the country.
13:13However, when you look at black women, black women are four to six times more likely to die.
13:17And a new study came out showing that if you're a black woman who's in the wealthiest,
13:20quintile, you're more likely to die than the poorest white woman.
13:24So there's, that's inequity.
13:26That's disparity.
13:27And so for me, I think about as an OBGYN, how do I meet that problem?
13:31And that's why our problem is about being accessible, or we fix that problem by being accessible,
13:35like where the cost of a copay, $50 to have a second opinion with a black doctor for 20 minutes.
13:39We don't do insurance because that's a way to create that barrier.
13:43But also, it's affordable so that anybody can afford it.
13:45And we have a free visit fund for if you can't afford $50 because it's everyone.
13:49It's the rich person down to the poorest person.
13:51We all have the same issue.
13:52We're all in it together.
13:53Yeah, absolutely.
13:54One other study that pops into mind is that when black mothers are taken care of by black doctors,
13:59the mortality rate of their children, especially in the worst cases, decreases by up to 50%.
14:04So it shows that-
14:05Hashtag black doctors matter.
14:06Hashtag black doctors matter.
14:08Absolutely.
14:10Natalie, you want to choose the next word?
14:11Let me not cheat and look in the bowl.
14:18I chose assets.
14:20Assets.
14:20I'll pass it on to you.
14:22So when I think of assets, I think of things that already exist or that we already have as resources in front of us
14:27and how do we optimize those resources.
14:29So a lot of folks look externally or look for new ways to reinvent the wheel,
14:34and oftentimes the answers are right in front of us.
14:36It may not be a simple solution, but we have the tools that we need to be able to address the issues that are plaguing our community specifically.
14:43And so I always look for organizations or look at organizations who indicate that they have a problem or a challenge
14:48and try to understand what are those factors internally that they're not tapping into
14:52or that they're not really leveraging or optimizing.
14:55Yeah.
14:55Do you have any stories about an organization that you've worked with from that perspective
14:58where you've realized that they maybe had the things that they needed, but they just weren't optimizing it right?
15:02Yeah.
15:02I think a lot of the times, especially when we think about the management of transportation for patients,
15:07organizations, I think the thing that they don't value as highly or don't take as much advantage of
15:13is the understanding or the patient's perspective that they provide as far as what those barriers are.
15:19Oftentimes organizations will provide a blanket solution like a bus voucher or let's call a ride share program for you.
15:25But again, if you're a wheelchair bound, how do I fold a wheelchair in the back of a Toyota Camry?
15:30Or if I'm traveling with three children, is the ride share company going to be able to provide car seats
15:35when I need to be able to transport with them?
15:37So really valuing the perspective of the patients because they're an asset as well to solving their own issues.
15:42Absolutely, yeah.
15:43In medical school, we talk about the social determinants of health, but often we don't.
15:46When we get to practice, we kind of forget about them.
15:48And so it's so important to remember those things and how they impact patients every day.
15:52Okay, Gideon, ready?
15:54I don't know.
15:55Natalie was preaching.
15:56I don't know if I can follow that.
15:58Yeah, I'm ready.
15:58Oh, ooh, my word is dismantle.
16:02Dismantle.
16:03This is a good one because, I don't know why I'm passing that to you.
16:08This is a good one because I think when we think about dismantling systems, we talked about, you mentioned social determinants of health.
16:15And everything is bigger and broader than just the silo.
16:18We have to think about the verticals and how everything works together.
16:21And so if we want to dismantle a system, we have to do exactly what we're doing today, right, with Essence Festival, with New Voices, with American Medical Association, coming together in this way to be sure that we're working together as a cohesive group to dismantle systems that just aren't working.
16:40Absolutely.
16:42Absolutely.
16:42And can you give some examples of, I'm always curious about, because we don't all just get here, right?
16:47We have to learn how to dismantle.
16:48It takes time.
16:49It's not easy to dismantle things.
16:51Was there a moment for you that you were like, okay, this is why I'm going to do this or this motivated me to want to dismantle this system?
16:57Yes, so short version, all at the same time, my dad had a stroke.
17:02His girlfriend left him for dead.
17:04My stepdad had a wreck, and they said if he lived, he was going to be brain dead.
17:09He'll be here in a second.
17:10And then my grandmother, who had a hospice, it was a full suite of care, she lost her hospice services after five years.
17:16They said, you didn't die fast enough.
17:18Wow.
17:18So all of this happened in a week.
17:20And in that week, I took off work, and I said, I'm just going to go try and figure this out.
17:23Like, right, what's the best case scenario for elder care?
17:26And you don't know how bad it is until you're actually looking for it.
17:30So when you approach things from the customer side, from the client side, then you go in and say, this cannot be this way.
17:39We have to fix it.
17:41We have to solve it.
17:42Absolutely.
17:42Thank you for doing that.
17:44Dr. Moyle?
17:46All right.
17:47My word is metrics.
17:48I like this word.
17:50So metrics are really important, right?
17:52These are the numbers that are important to your health, important to your wealth.
17:56At Wealthy, actually, it stands for this wellness selfie.
17:59So we really focus on making sure that people know their numbers and what these numbers mean.
18:04Because as more and more health information comes at us, it's very easy to say, hey, my blood pressure is 150 over 80.
18:12Right?
18:12But what does that mean?
18:13What are the next steps that you need to take?
18:16I think it really does start with knowing these numbers, understanding what's high, what's low, what matters.
18:21But it's also really important to have these conversations with your caregivers, with your doctors, with your community health worker.
18:28And then work towards metric, measurable goals.
18:31So for me, I think metrics are essential.
18:34I'm a hospitalist.
18:35I deal with these all the time.
18:36We know our numbers.
18:37We know the numbers for our patients.
18:39But also educating people about what these numbers mean is really essential.
18:43Yeah.
18:43As a hospitalist, what would you say is, like, the hardest thing about getting people to know the numbers?
18:47Because numbers aren't easy to remember.
18:48So how do you get people to understand the importance of those numbers?
18:52Yeah, I think it actually comes back to something really important.
18:55So I'm Zambian.
18:56And as an African, storytelling is really core to our culture.
19:01And that's really core to our company as well.
19:03So metrics can't just be the number.
19:05It has to be a story to it about where you're at and how you got there and where you're going and what that metric means when you get there.
19:12So it's about a story.
19:13It's about a destination.
19:14And that really brings it home for people as opposed to just a number.
19:17Absolutely.
19:19And Desvi, wrapping it up.
19:20Also, I want you guys to know, we didn't plant these.
19:22Like, they're just coming up with this on the cuff right now.
19:24So I'm impressed.
19:25These answers have been A+.
19:26I did almost look early in my last word here.
19:31Customers.
19:32Customers.
19:33Customers, I think, they're the core piece of your business, right?
19:37Without customers, you don't have a business.
19:39You can't create impact for yourself, your investors, users on your platform, your community, anyone, right?
19:46So I think this is really, I think, about focusing on what's really core to your business.
19:52Because if you don't have customers who pay you to do all of these things and create this impact, then there's nothing, you know, that you can do.
20:00So I think this is just really about knowing that customers are your number one priority over all of the stakeholders in your business.
20:06That may change from time to time, right, depending on strategic goals, priorities in the business.
20:11But it always comes back to customers, for me at least.
20:15So you're working on personalized medicine, making sure that medication works for people that look like us.
20:19When it comes to the customer, what have you heard from them?
20:22What do they say about using your service?
20:24Man, so I feel like what I hear from customers, quite honestly, they don't understand our communities.
20:30They don't understand where we want to intake information.
20:34They don't understand how to package that information.
20:37You know, they don't understand our cultural competencies, how to integrate clinical research in a non-invasive, like, trustworthy way, right?
20:45So that's really the feedback that I get.
20:47That's why they work with us, right?
20:49You see me.
20:50You see how I look, walk, talk, right?
20:51That I understand our people, our communities, what we go through.
20:54I am a, like, Clintus Bend Health acts as a bridge, you know, to, between our customers and our community.
21:01So that's really how I think about that because, quite honestly, they don't get it, you know?
21:06Recently at a conference earlier this week, actually, that was with customers, former customers, asking them about, yeah, you know anything about Essence Fest?
21:14They had no idea what that is.
21:16That's a prime example of the feedback from former customers.
21:20Absolutely.
21:20And I feel like in medicine because, I mean, if you look at the medical field, even from the physician perspective, less than 6% of all doctors are black.
21:27And so when you go into a field, they see people that look like us as other, you know?
21:32Or even in medical school, a lot of my friends, I was the first black person that they've ever met.
21:37To me, that's, like, insane.
21:38But if those are the people becoming doctors, how do you make sure that they're getting that experience that they learn about things like Essence Fest?
21:44They know about the culture.
21:45They know what things matter specifically culturally to our communities.
21:48And they can make sure that they're serving that overall, over time.
21:52So that's all we have time for today.
21:54I know it was a quick panel, but I want to say thank you so much to each of our panelists for indulging us with this activity.
21:59As you've heard from the words in the jar, it was dismantle, invest, metrics, asset, and customer.
22:06And those words were chosen because they represent the principles of equitable health innovation.
22:10So as InfoHealth, we are amplifying how health innovators, funders, solution developers, and customers have a significant opportunity for impact.
22:21So once again, thank you so much to our panelists.
22:23And thank you all for coming.
22:24To learn more about these innovative companies, make sure to visit their booths.
22:28And make sure to also, I mean, talk to them afterwards if you guys can stay after because they're doing some incredible work.
22:32If there's any investors out there, these are the people you want to invest in.
22:36So come on up and rain some money on them.
22:39Thank you so much, everyone.
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