Aligning Incentives

To what degree and how are current capitalistic structures conducive to reaching public health goals? Sofia Noori shares her journey from grassroots organizing to clinical training in psychiatry, to raising $19 in venture capital for her tech enabled platform, Nema Health. Nema is an online clinic providing intensive care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Utilizing a value-based care model to improve health outcomes and reduce long term costs, Sofia and her team secured national contracts with health care payers to provide trauma focused therapy that helps survivors heal and "graduate" from their care. She shares the key to designing her company in a way that the incentives of patients, providers, and payers are aligned to achieve improved patient experiences, health outcomes, and cost of care.