Eviset’s Dr. Venus Wong Joins the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Emerging Leaders Forum
This month, Eviset Chief Solutions Officer, Dr. Venus Wong, was selected to join the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Emerging Leaders Forum. The designation highlights her accomplishments in translating high-impact data and research into real-world solutions that can improve health and health equity.
Eviset is incredibly fortunate to benefit from Dr. Wong’s extraordinary expertise and commitment to providing a healthier future by optimizing healthcare and social care partnerships. There is both a great story and great science behind how we got here, and how Venus came to be aptly recognized as an Emerging Leader.
Commitment to Health Innovation
Through her early work across the most underserved communities, from the Appalachian region to inner cities, Venus observed as a clinician how community-based organizations (CBOs) could fill in significant gaps and deficits in the healthcare system; to meet individual needs, improve health equity, and build healthier communities by increasing access to place-based health care.
Then, as a Fellow in value-based healthcare innovation at Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), her research uncovered gaps in care for families of people with chronic conditions and showcased effective innovations to improve care. Many of these programs could be implemented by social care services provided by CBOs. However, in working to translate these innovations into practice, she came upon a huge gap that was holding back progress across the social determinants of health space. Every effort to find data about the quality and capacity of the supply of social care services and supports turned up empty spaces, as vacant as a black hole.
“Caring for Caregivers: Bridging the Gap Between Family Caregiving Policy and Practice.” In this study, Wong and colleagues surveyed the best community-based, family-centered care programs in the United States. They conducted site visits, uncovering leading family-centered care solutions by community-based organizations, deep insights into what high-value healthcare-social care collaboration looks like, and how community-based care impacts patients, community health and health equity.
“Distilling innovative US autism care programs that address widely perceived unmet patient and family needs,” revealed the criteria and resources needed within healthcare programs to better support those with autism, their caregivers, and families. Using a tailored Delphi method, they identified the best autistic care programs in the United States through curated conversations with autistic persons, their families, caregivers, clinicians, and researchers.
A ‘Eureka!’ Moment
That was a Eureka! moment for Venus. The absence of that data meant that finding right-fit CBO matches at the scale required to improve health outcomes and health equity across communities, regions, and the nation would be nearly impossible. She began systematically interviewing stakeholders across the social-health care spectrum to understand which data would unlock the most potential for innovation. She also began to investigate how to collect and package the data to enable transparency into the supply side of social care.
And, the rest is history. Venus’ experiences helped to both inform and inspire building the company which is now Eviset.
About Eviset
Eviset is building a fully-open B2B marketplace powered by the social care sector’s first-ever standardized performance indicators. Eviset’s exclusive “plug-and-play” business development and data infrastructure for social care providers enables community-based organizations of all sizes to access health care sector funding and contracting opportunities, supporting the inclusion of the many small but impactful local organizations that form the backbone of social care. With Eviset, health plans and health systems can search, identify and select partners from across the entire supply of social care providers in a community—efficiently and at scale. To learn more, visit https://www.eviset.com/.
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