"It's not patients or profits, it's better health and healthcare." That's how Gillian Sandler of Northwell Health described this conversation on provider-led innovation, live at Civic Health Forum.

In this panel, moderator Sara Holoubek of Luminary Labs sat down with a physician-inventor, a health system innovation leader, and an investor to ask where healthcare innovation should actually start: with the people delivering care.

🩺 Kevin Chen, MD, MHS, AVP of Design & Evaluation at NYC Health + Hospitals, on why "anybody can be an inventor" and how his Innovation Lab turns frontline ideas from nurses, front desk staff, and physicians into scalable programs

🩺 Anaïs Rameau, MD, Chief of Dysphagia & Director of New Technologies at Weill Cornell Medicine, on eight years spent developing AI-powered vocal biomarkers to detect swallowing disorders before they become emergencies

💰 Gillian Sandler, Managing Director of Strategic Ventures at Northwell Health, on the gap between what technology can do and what health systems can actually deploy, and why the next opportunity requires collaboration over silos

Together they explore what makes providers uniquely positioned to spot real problems, the barriers between clinical insight and scaled solutions, and who should ultimately pay for innovation in public health.

This panel was part of Civic Health Forum, co-hosted by StartUp Health, Fedcap, and Digital Health Hub Foundation. Video quality may vary due to live event recording.

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