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HLTH: Transforming Healthcare Through Provider Insights with Dr. Theo Koury of Vituity

Episode Summary

Frontline providers are the most crucial innovators in healthcare due to their daily interaction with patients and direct experience with care gaps and inefficiencies. In this episode, Dr. Theo Koury, President of Vituity, explores how leveraging frontline provider insights drives healthcare innovation. He shares how his organization fosters a culture of collaboration by dedicating time and resources to support provider-led innovation projects, resulting in solutions like Rely Health and Sayvant. Dr. Koury emphasizes the power of a bottom-up approach to implementing meaningful, real-time decision-support technologies that enhance care, improve diagnoses, and reduce costs. He urges healthcare leaders to champion evidence-based projects demonstrating technology's benefits and influencing policy changes. Tune in and learn how to unlock the power of frontline innovation to transform healthcare!

Episode Notes

About Dr. Theo Koury:

Theo Koury, MD, is the President of Vituity. Across his 25-year leadership career, Dr. Koury has focused on empowering front-line clinicians to improve care by prioritizing patient outcomes and maximizing quality and efficiency. In addition to his executive duties, he is a practicing emergency physician in the San Francisco Bay Area. As President of Vituity since 2017, Dr. Koury oversees the company’s financial and infrastructure strategies to fulfill the enterprise’s mission of empowering healthcare providers to deliver exceptional care across more than 500 service locations nationwide. Dr. Koury holds a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Southern California and a medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School and is an American College of Emergency Physicians Fellow. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine, where he served as Chief Resident, was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, and received the John P. McDade Award for Research in Emergency Medical Care.

Things You’ll Learn:

• Creating a culture of innovation starts with open communication and collaborative teamwork that encourages team members, followed by dedicated resources for frontline staff to develop their ideas.
• Solutions developed from the ground up, with frontline provider involvement, are more likely to succeed and provide better patient outcomes than top-down, less-informed approaches.
• AI-driven tools can go beyond basic automation to serve as a physician-partner, offering decision support, differential diagnoses, and a more thorough patient analysis than physicians alone can do.
• Integrating frontline providers in technology implementation leads to better results and avoids the negative impacts often seen when rolling out technology without their input.
• Healthcare organizations can build an in-house innovation lab and dedicate an innovation budget to bring forward the ideas their physicians and nurses have to offer and implement them quickly.

Resources:

• Connect with and follow Dr. Theo Koury on LinkedIn.
• Follow Vituity on LinkedIn and visit their website.