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Medcity Pivot Podcast: Chronic Disease Management With an Interventional Cardiologist

Steve Driver is an interventional cardiologist as well as medical director of digital therapeutics at Advocate Aurora Health, which last year merged with Atrium Health. In this episode, he talked about a pilot involving Omada Health targeting a prediabetes population, among other things.

MedCity News’ Pivot podcast is back with another episode in its Season 1, which focused on chronic disease management. This time we are talking with Steve Driver with Advocate Aurora Health. Driver is an interventional cardiologist and the medical director of digital therapeutics, which means he is the perfect person to talk to when it comes to discussing chronic disease management by leveraging tools.

Driver explains how he looks at digital therapeutics and remote monitoring especially as it relates to cardiac care and prediabetes and his experiences with a pilot involving Omada Health and how prediabetes patients at high risk  were engaged and activated. Driver also addressed digital tools and clincian workflow issues.

Listen to the entire episode here: