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Dan Shields

Dan Shields

Dan Shields is Chief Executive Officer of Digital Medicine at Ochsner Health, a healthcare executive with 20+ years in digital health and remote patient monitoring.

Sep 16, 2026

5:59
And so from your perspective, when you're thinking about the appropriate application, what have you learned in this process and what does it look like to tackle some of that, you know, in the next several months or so?
6:11
So I think what we need to do is, and this is such an old kind of theme in healthcare, so I think we're always trying to do it, but how do we break down some of those different silos that exist across the different parts of care? So many of our programs or our solutions or even our clinical models over time are built up to solve a very specific problem.
6:33
And as a result, they kind of develop kind of a life and an ecosystem of their own.
6:38
And now what we're trying to do is take more of a across the system or across the patient experience, a better way to put it, across the patient experience view of these things.
6:47
One, because it's better for the patients.
6:48
Two, it's what the patients expect.
6:50
So how do we take some of these different really good solutions or really good clinical models or really good workflows or ways that we've designed to treat these patients and make sure that we're navigating those.

8 MINS LATER

14:47
And, you know, on the flip side of it, how are you thinking about growth? What are you excited by and where are those opportunities in the next two to three years or so?
5:59
And so from your perspective, when you're thinking about, say, an appropriate application, what have you learned in this process, and, um, what does it look like to, to tackle some of that, um, you know, in, in the next, uh, several months or so?
6:10
so?So I think what we need to do is, and this is such an old kind of theme in healthcare, so I think we're always trying to do it, but how do we break down, you know, some of those different silos that exist a- across the different parts of care? So, you know, ma- many of our, our programs or our solutions or even our clinical models over time are built up to solve a very specific problem.
6:32
Um, and as a result, they kind of develop kind of a life and an, an ecosystem of their own.
6:38
And now what we're trying to do is, is take more of a across the system or across the patient expect...
6:42
Actually, a better way to put it, across the patient experience, um, view of these things, one, because it's better for the patients, two, it's what the patients expect.
6:50
So, you know, how do we take some of these different really good solutions or really good clinical models or really good workflows or, or ways that we've, we've designed to treat these patients a- and make sure that we're navigating the...
7:04
It's gonna sound very buzzwordy and very cliché, but how do we get those patients to the right level of care at the right time, you know, when they need it most? Uh, you know, so not only are you, you treating the patient better, but you're using your system a- and your, your resources more appropriately as well.

7 MINS LATER

14:48
Um, and you know, on the flip side of it, how are you thinking about growth? What are you excited by, and where are those opportunities in the next two to three years or so?

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