Feb 17, 2015
Kevin Houlihan is the Director of Client Experience at Propeller Health, a Madison, Wisconsin based respiratory health management technology company. Propeller Health has an FDA cleared platform for passive collection of information related to inhaled medications use paired with software interfaces and analytics.
Prior to joining Propeller Health Kevin spent time bringing productivity to mobile tools in the configured building products software space. Kevin also spent several years at Dassault Systemes Solidworks focused on 3D mechanical design software.
Kevin earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and an M.B.A. also from UW Madison. Kevin enjoys downhill skiing and has been active in competitive racing and coaching for many years.
You can find out more about Propeller Health at http://propellerhealth.com, and connect via email at hello@propellerhealth.com.
You can follow Propeller Health on Twitter @PropellerHealth and on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/PropellerHealth.
You can follow Kevin on twitter @Houlihan_Kevin
00:00 Kevin talks the origin of Propeller
Health.
2:35 Where Propeller Health is today.
3:45 How Kevin wound up at Propeller
Health.
5:00 How prevalent asthma and COPD are, yet
remain two of the most overlooked and thus most expensive chronic
diseases within healthcare.
7:15 “If we’re not helping patients
understand how to use their medication, that’s a huge roadblock to
patient outcomes.”
8:25 “People start down this path, and it
gets worse and worse and worse, and they just learn to live with
that.”
9:30 What the target of evidence-based
medicine is for asthma.
10:20 The types of medication used to treat
asthma or COPD
11:10 How Propeller can track patient
medication use, and the goal Propeller Health shoots for using this
data.
13:00 “The most expensive care is the kind
that’s given at the wrong time.”
14:45 The lack of tools that Care Teams need
to treat the right problems, and the issue of patients who don’t
track their progress because it’s too time consuming.
17:11 How the Propeller Health App can track,
remind, interact, and connect patients and their family members and
providers.
18:30 The meta-data that the Propeller Health
App tracks along with user data, in order to see a bigger picture
and improve patient quality of life.
20:20 Propeller Health is also able to use
this data to find correlations between environment and broad
increases in asthma triggers.
22:10 How Propeller Health App reminders
work.
24:55 “The goal for us is to stay quiet until
we have some significant insight to give you that you can do
something with.”
25:23 “The goal is to reduce the burden of
managing and having your asthma or COPD.”
31:00 Who hires Propeller Health.
35:00 What Kevin thinks one critical success
factor is for improving patient outcomes.
38:00 Check out propellerhealth.com for more
information and to reach Kevin.