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Kevin Houlihan is the Director of Client Experience at Propeller Health, a Madison, Wisconsin based respiratory health management technology company. Propeller Health has an FDA cleared platform for passive collection of information related to inhaled medications use paired with software interfaces and analytics.

Prior to joining Propeller Health Kevin spent time bringing productivity to mobile tools in the configured building products software space. Kevin also spent several years at Dassault Systemes Solidworks focused on 3D mechanical design software.

Kevin earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and an M.B.A. also from UW Madison. Kevin enjoys downhill skiing and has been active in competitive racing and coaching for many years.

You can find out more about Propeller Health at\xa0http://propellerhealth.com, and connect via email at\xa0hello@propellerhealth.com.

You can follow Propeller Health on Twitter\xa0@PropellerHealth\xa0and on facebook at\xa0https://www.facebook.com/PropellerHealth.

You can follow Kevin on twitter\xa0@Houlihan_Kevin

00:00\xa0Kevin talks the origin of Propeller Health.
2:35\xa0Where Propeller Health is today.
3:45\xa0How Kevin wound up at Propeller Health.
5:00\xa0How prevalent asthma and COPD are, yet remain two of the most overlooked and thus most expensive chronic diseases within healthcare.
7:15\xa0\u201cIf we\u2019re not helping patients understand how to use their medication, that\u2019s a huge roadblock to patient outcomes.\u201d
8:25\xa0\u201cPeople start down this path, and it gets worse and worse and worse, and they just learn to live with that.\u201d
9:30\xa0What the target of evidence-based medicine is for asthma.
10:20\xa0The types of medication used to treat asthma or COPD
11:10\xa0How Propeller can track patient medication use, and the goal Propeller Health shoots for using this data.
13:00\xa0\u201cThe most expensive care is the kind that\u2019s given at the wrong time.\u201d
14:45\xa0The lack of tools that Care Teams need to treat the right problems, and the issue of patients who don\u2019t track their progress because it\u2019s too time consuming.
17:11\xa0How the Propeller Health App can track, remind, interact, and connect patients and their family members and providers.
18:30\xa0The meta-data that the Propeller Health App tracks along with user data, in order to see a bigger picture and improve patient quality of life.
20:20\xa0Propeller Health is also able to use this data to find correlations between environment and broad increases in asthma triggers.
22:10\xa0How Propeller Health App reminders work.
24:55\xa0\u201cThe goal for us is to stay quiet until we have some significant insight to give you that you can do something with.\u201d
25:23\xa0\u201cThe goal is to reduce the burden of managing and having your asthma or COPD.\u201d
31:00\xa0Who hires Propeller Health.
35:00\xa0What Kevin thinks one critical success factor is for improving patient outcomes.
38:00\xa0Check out propellerhealth.com for more information and to reach Kevin.