Themes of today's episode include healthcare innovation, patient navigation, digital health, quality of life measures, and data-driven human-centered design for diversity of human needs and user profiles in healthcare, specifically from the regional health plan and community health perspective. We discuss how to how to get started without letting perfectionism hold you back and how to "move fast and *not* break things" in healthcare. We consider several perspectives on healthcare data with a particular focus on the emerging field of patient-reported outcome measures. 

This is part one of a two part series. 

Today's guest is Dominick Bizarro. Please read his bio below:

As Chief Growth Officer, Dominick charts the course for MVP's major strategic initiatives to ensure MVP is positioned to serve its communities in the long-term. He previously served as MVP’s Chief of Innovation.

Dominick has three decades of experience in leveraging health information technology and best-in-class business strategies to drive growth in large company transformation, start-up and turnaround situations. He served as the President and Chief Operating Officer for Hudson Headwaters Health Network. As Managing Director, Business Development at InterSystems Corporation, he was a key driver of the global growth of their top-rated HealthShare product, an interoperability platform used to create unified health records. Dominick was the first employee and CEO at Hixny, a leading health information exchange in NY. During this time, he also served on the Board of Directors for the NY eHealth Collaborative. Earlier in his career, he worked alongside other management-owners and built a health technology, analytics, and services company, Health Solutions. He has served as a Business Development and Product Development leader in companies large and small.

A pharmacist by training, Dominick received his pharmacy degree from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and his MBA in Health Systems from Union Graduate College, now Clarkson University. He currently serves on the Hixny Board of Directors and the Hudson Valley Community College Foundation Board of Trustees. He has also served on the Board at Ellis Medicine, Albany Can Code, the Fingerlakes Health Systems Agency, as well as several other health care and health technology advisory committees.