The Front Door Newsletter

For the second episode of Season 2 of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠⁠⁠ Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews health care transformation advocate and social impact leader, Shruti Kothari, on industry-wide collaboration, the importance of data-sharing, and the evolution of digital health. Shruti leads Industry Initiatives for Blue Shield of California, where she is focused on scaling and sustaining health care transformation through industry alignment and policy movement.She supports improved experiences for patients, families, and providers. Shruti has worked as a health educator, community mobilizer, quality improvement leader, early-stage startup operator, a conduit between large systems and the innovation ecosystem. In this capacity she has worked for the American Cancer Society, Stanford, Kaiser Permanente, and Blue Shield of California.Shruti is also the Founder of Women of Community, an organization committed to increasing representation of Women of Color in health care leadership. And the Co-Founder of Crown Society, a company who’s mission is to support the young caregiver community. Shruti is on the board for the Family Caregiver Alliance, is a board advisor for the Asian Pacific Fund, and is an Advisor for the End Well Foundation, ScaleHealth, and Reverence. In 2022, Business Insider named Shruti as one of their top 30 under 40 leaders in health care, and in 2024 Rock Health named Shruti as a top 50 in Digital Health.Architect Health's The Front Door Newsletter interviews healthcare executives, founders, and experts on healthcare innovation, digital health, and preventative care. The goal is to identify pain points in these spaces and paint visions on how to address them, inspiring decision makers at traditional healthcare orgs.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Architect Health’s AI-powered vendor management system simplifies vendor evaluation, accelerates payer procurement, and ensures measurable ROI for payers. Architect Health is supercharging payer purchasing and eliminating the telehealth bottleneck, relieving point-solution fatigue. Architect's Digital Health Quality Index has vetted and scored thousands of telehealth solutions on efficacy, company reliability, and health equity. Co-founders Sohum Shah and Sidd Hariharan have deep expertise working with health plans and have built care management programs and aligned technology for Humana and BlueCross BlueShield. Architect Health is backed by Drive Capital, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), Cherrystone Angel Group, Plug and Play Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and strategic advisors.

On our twelfth episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠ Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews health plan executive and healthcare thought leader, Dr. Sachin Jain, on toxic positivity in healthcare, the reality of digital health post-pandemic, and SCAN's historic lawsuit against the CMS. Dr. Sachin Jain is CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, where he is charged with leading the organization’s growth, diversification, and emerging efforts to reduce healthcare disparities. SCAN’s revenues top $4.8B and the organization serves more than 300,000 members. From 2015-2020, Dr. Jain was President and CEO of CareMore Health and Aspire Health, innovative care delivery systems with more than $1.6B in revenues, which serve 200,000 Medicare and Medicaid patients in 32 states. Dr. Jain graduated with BA, MD, and MDA from Harvard University, is a contributor for Forbes and healthcare thought leader on LinkedIn and serves on the boards of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Advantage Healthcare Services, and The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Architect Health's The Front Door Newsletter interviews healthcare executives, founders, and experts on healthcare innovation, digital health, and preventative care. The goal is to identify pain points in these spaces and paint visions on how to address them, inspiring decision makers at traditional healthcare orgs. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a digital health aggregator, navigator, and vendor manager that makes it easy for health plans and their members to access virtual-first care solutions. Architect optimizes health plan RFP processes in a consolidated and comprehensive platform, reducing admin burden and costs. This helps health plans realize digital health cost savings opportunities - up to a 7x ROI. Architect's Digital Health Quality Index has vetted and scored thousands of telehealth solutions on efficacy, company reliability, and health equity. Co-founders Sohum Shah and Sidd Hariharan have deep expertise working with health plans and have built care management programs and aligned technology for Humana and BlueCross BlueShield. Architect Health is backed by Drive Capital, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), Cherrystone Angel Group, Plug and Play Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and strategic advisors.

On our tenth episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠, Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews Jonathan (Jon) Blum, Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this dual role, Jon oversees CMS’s program policy planning and implementation and day-to-day operations of the entire agency. CMS’s programs provide health coverage to more than 150 million individuals, spending more than $1.7 trillion in annual benefits with an annual operating budget of more than $7 billion. This is Jon’s second time serving in a senior leadership position at CMS. He previously served as the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center of Medicare from 2009 – 2014, leading the agency’s Medicare payment and delivery reform strategies and the policy and program management of the Medicare program. Jon has more than 25 years of public- and private-sector experience working in health care policy and administration. In addition to his positions at CMS, he has worked as a strategy and management consultant, an Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, professional staff at the Senate Finance Committee, and a program analyst at the Office of Budget and Management. Prior to joining CMS, Jon served on several nonprofit boards with missions to improve access and equity to health care and health coverage, including Mary's Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center; the Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County; and the Medicare Rights Center. Jon earned a Master of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. Architect Health's The Front Door Newsletter interviews healthcare executives, founders, and experts on healthcare innovation, digital health, and preventative care. The goal is to identify pain points in these spaces and paint visions on how to address them, inspiring decision makers at traditional healthcare orgs. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a digital health aggregator, navigator, and vendor manager that makes it easy for health plans and their members to access virtual-first care solutions. Architect optimizes health plan RFP processes in a consolidated and comprehensive platform, reducing admin burden and costs. This helps health plans realize digital health cost savings opportunities - up to a 7x ROI. Architect's Digital Health Quality Index has vetted and scored thousands of telehealth solutions on efficacy, company reliability, and health equity. Co-founders Sohum Shah and Sidd Hariharan have deep expertise working with health plans and have built care management programs and aligned technology for Humana and BlueCross BlueShield. Architect Health is backed by Drive Capital, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), Cherrystone Angel Group, Plug and Play Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and strategic advisors.

On our eighth episode of ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Front Door Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠, Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews physician and health plan executive, Alice Hm Chen, MD, MPH. Dr. Chen serves as Chief Health Officer for Centene Corporation and is responsible for Centene's strategies, policies and programs in support of improving population health for Centene's members. Prior to joining Centene, Dr. Chen was Chief Medical Officer at Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, where she was responsible for healthcare strategy focused on quality, equity and delivery system transformation. She previously served as Deputy Secretary for Policy and Planning and Chief of Clinical Affairs for the California Health and Human Services Agency, where she led signature health policy initiatives on affordability and access and played a leadership role in the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Chen was also a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, based at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where she served as its Chief Integration Officer and founding director of the eConsult program. Dr. Chen received a Bachelor of Science in environmental biology from Yale University and has a Doctor of Medicine from the Stanford University School of Medicine. She also has a Master of Public Health in health care management and policy from Harvard School of Public Health. Architect Health's The Front Door Newsletter interviews healthcare executives, founders, and experts on healthcare innovation, digital health, and preventative care. The goal is to identify pain points in these spaces and paint visions on how to address them, inspiring decision makers at traditional healthcare orgs. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a digital health aggregator, navigator, and vendor manager that makes it easy for health plans and their members to access virtual-first care solutions. Architect optimizes health plan RFP processes in a consolidated and comprehensive platform, reducing admin burden and costs. This helps health plans realize digital health cost savings opportunities - up to a 7x ROI. Architect's Digital Health Quality Index has vetted and scored thousands of telehealth solutions on efficacy, company reliability, and health equity. Co-founders Sohum Shah and Sidd Hariharan have deep expertise working with health plans and have built care management programs and aligned technology for Humana and BlueCross BlueShield. Architect Health is backed by Drive Capital, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), Cherrystone Angel Group, Plug and Play Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and strategic advisors.

On our third episode of The Front Door Newsletter, Architect Health Co-founder & CEO, Sohum Shah interviews Rebecca D'Amico. Rebecca serves as Chief of Staff to the CEO and Vice President of Strategy for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), a national federation of independent, community-based and locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies. D’Amico helps drive the CEO’s priorities for the Association, including aligning organizational efforts to achieve corporate goals that support the BCBS companies and those they serve. She also helps advance the Blues' Systemwide strategy to shape a high-quality, affordable and equitable healthcare system across the country. Architect Health's The Front Door Newsletter interviews healthcare executives, founders, and experts on healthcare innovation, digital health, and preventative care. The goal is to identify pain points in these spaces and paint visions on how to address them, inspiring decision makers at traditional healthcare orgs. ⁠⁠Architect Health⁠⁠ is a digital health aggregator and navigator that makes digital health more accessible to health insurance companies and their members. By proactively recommending low cost, high efficiency telehealth apps to members, Architect helps health plans expand their benefit offerings and realize a meaningful digital health cost savings opportunity with potential for 10x ROI. Co-founders Sohum Shah and Sidd Hariharan have deep expertise working with health plans and have built care management programs and aligned technology for Humana and BlueCross BlueShield. Architect Health is backed by Drive Capital, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), Cherrystone Angel Group, Plug and Play Ventures, Service Provider Capital, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and strategic angels.