Going Local: Tech Innovation for Lower Income Communities - ViVE 2024 Los Angeles

I attended "Going Local: Tech Innovation for Lower Income Communities" on the Impact Stage today at day two of ViVE 2024 Los Angeles.

• Amanda P. Williams, MD, MPH, FACOG, Medical Director, Mahmee
• Colby Takeda, Co-Founder & CEO Pear Suite
• Vanessa Villaverde, Senior Program Investor, California Health Care Foundation (Moderator)

Tell me more: Implementing health technology solutions for vulnerable or marginalized people relies on engaging directly with them or partnering with organizations or leaders embedded in their community, or all three.

In this session, health equity champions—two entrepreneurs and a health plan executive—will discuss their collaboration strategies for developing tech-enabled wraparound services for people enrolled in Medi-Cal.

Come learn how to get more from your services and improve care delivery with community-centered innovation.

What they're saying:

• California has a provider shortage
• Pear Suite CEO Colby Takeda discussed the term,  community health workers
• Pear Suite built a platform for community health workers
• Mahmee does maternal health space work, works with doulas
• There isn’t a shared definition of what a doula is
  
• Many maternal deaths come down to mothers not being listened to - Amanda Williams
• “People can come in for one thing and we can identify other issues” Amanda on Mahmee's services

Why it matters: Pear Suite is one of the few Hawaii startups in the healthcare space these days. They're also a Paubox Email API customer. I wanted to show my support.

"We're building software for community health workers" Colby Takeda

"What are the challenges with working with HIPAA compliant data?” Colby Takeda

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