ERS Walk & Talk Podcast
ERS Walk & Talk Podcast
Revolutionizing Heart Health: An Interview with Maayan Cohen of Hello Heart
What if you could take control of your heart health with the help of a simple app? Join us in this episode as we chat with Mayan Cohen, CEO and co-founder of Hello Heart, a groundbreaking digital health platform. Hello Heart combines a connected blood pressure monitor with personalized AI coaching is nothing short of inspiring. Together, we explore the challenges of managing cardiovascular conditions and the critical importance of tracking vital signs like blood pressure and cholesterol.
Discover how Hello Heart is revolutionizing heart health management by bridging the gap between medical diagnostics and accessible, preventive information. We'll dive into the innovative features of the Hello Heart app, including its Bluetooth-enabled heart monitor cuff, digital lifestyle coaching, and risk flagging features. Listen to real-life success stories like Jimmy Ramos, who managed to lower his blood pressure and detect a life-threatening arrhythmia, all thanks to Hello Heart. We also highlight the significant recognition Hello Heart has received in the healthcare community and its availability to Health Select of Texas participants starting September 1st.
To learn more about Hello Heart and to see if you qualify go to the Hello Heart Webpage for HealthSelect participants.
Overnight I was personally thrown with him to the patient or the caregiver seat and it was hard. So even though I had the formal education in biotech so I can read and write clinical studies and I had basic medical training, I struggled. It was really, really hard to manage a medical condition and then I found myself collecting medical records and tracking vital signs at home with pieces of paper and Excel. Reality with heart disease is the risk factors are very, very common, and the problem with these risk factors is that you can't see them and you can't feel them, so people tend to ignore them until it's too late, until they have the heart attack or the stroke.
Speaker 2:Hi and welcome to the ERS Walk Talk podcast. I'm your host, Lacey Wolfe. Today, I'm thrilled to be joined by Mayan Cohen, who is the CEO and co-founder of Hello Heart, which is a groundbreaking digital health company dedicated to preventing avoidable heart disease. Mayan's journey is both unique and deeply personal. Facing a challenging health situation herself, she was inspired to create a solution that could help others take control of their heart health. Hello Heart combines a connected blood pressure monitor with AI-driven personalized coaching to empower users in managing their heart health. Under Mayan's visionary leadership, Hello Heart has been recognized as one of the most innovative digital health startups and is trusted by over 130 leading Fortune 500 companies. Earlier this year, Mayan was also honored on the inaugural CNBC Changemakers List, alongside influential leaders like Taylor Swift and Alex Cooper, celebrating 50 women leaders who are transforming the business landscape. Starting September 1st, Hello Heart is a brand new solution that will be available to Health Select of Texas and consumer-directed Health Select. Participants that qualify. This will give our health plan participants tools to take charge of their health, so I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 2:In our conversation today, Mayan shares her personal story. We're going to talk about what led her to build this amazing product, how the platform works and what's next in the horizon, as well as how you can sign up. So stay tuned for an insightful discussion with Mayan Cohen on the future of heart health. Here we go. Good morning, Mayan. How are you?
Speaker 1:Good morning, lacey. I'm doing great. How are you? I'm doing, greatacey. I'm doing great, how?
Speaker 2:are you? I'm doing great. Thank you so much for being willing to be a guest on our ERS Walk Talk podcast. I am really honored to be able to have a conversation with you.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. I'm super excited to join you. A huge fan of your work in many different aspects, so thanks for having me.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. And, for our listeners, I've already kind of given a formal introduction of Mayan, but she is a really special person. She's built a product that we are going to be rolling out September 1. So, depending on when you're listening to this, it may be available to you and it is called Hello Heart. So I wanted to get Mayan to talk just a little bit about and tell all of our listeners how she came to build this product. So, if you don't mind, can you just share your story? How did you, how did you come up with this concept?
Speaker 1:Sure. So for me, healthcare and science was always a passion. As a little girl I used to run around the potato fields behind my house and investigate insects, and when I was six years old I asked my parents for a microscope for my birthday and they were very puzzled by this weird request from the geek girl. And when I grew up, I was a volunteer EMT and I studied biotech. So science and healthcare were always a passion, was always in the background. Life later on brought me to the business world, so I did management consulting and worked on strategy project and new product launch for very big companies like American Express and and food manufacturers.
Speaker 1:But sometimes you find your calling in different, unusual ways. And what brought me back to healthcare was a life-changing experience. That happened when I was pretty young, when I was 25, when my boyfriend at the time was diagnosed with a brain tumor and overnight I was personally thrown with him to the patient or the caregiver seat and it was hard. So even though I had the formal education in biotech so I can read and write clinical studies and I had basic medical training, I struggled. It was really really hard to manage a medical condition and I found myself collecting medical records and tracking vital signs at home with pieces of paper and Excel, and I started to build an intervention program of what we should be doing, what he should be eating and exercising and what other factors can contribute to his well-being and prolonging his life as much as possible.
Speaker 1:And when I went to the doctors they didn't have any answers. They were amazing and treating and diagnosing but anything that has to do with prevention and diagnosing, but anything that has to do with prevention. Their toolkit was very, very minimal. But, on the other hand, the science is out there. When I opened Google Scholar, I realized that the studies are out there. All the studies about lifestyle intervention and how we should be managing different medical conditions is out there.
Speaker 1:It's just I realized that there's a wide space between the medical community and where patients are and what we as human beings, as people, need to understand about our own medical conditions and what tools we have to improve them has a very big accessibility gap and I decided that that's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 1:So it's a very long story and it's a very long story and in the end he unfortunately did pass away. But that did help me understand what my life calling is, which is to empower people to understand and improve their health using technology, and that's how the idea of Hello Heart was built and formed in my head. And when we started going after this very audacious goal around helping people understand and improve their own health, we decided to focus on the number one cause of death, which is heart disease, and I think all of us know somebody a friend, a family member, a colleague that was very badly impacted and in many cases, died of a heart attack or a stroke. So it's the number one cause of death in the world today, definitely in the US, and the fastest growing cause of death of all conditions. So it's time that we'll pick up every tool that we can to help people understand and improve it.
Speaker 2:Wow, what a powerful story and thank you for sharing that. I know you share your story but it's probably not easy still to talk about kind of what brought you there. But it is amazing how, from sometimes tragedy, you have this post-traumatic growth and we build things to make the world a better place. So thank you for building this product. It's really incredible and we're looking forward to helping support the ERS health plan population with Hello Heart in the very near future. Can you share the mission of Hello Heart? I know you talked about that. The goal is to improve cardiovascular health. Do you have a mission statement that keeps you grounded at Hello Heart as a team?
Speaker 1:Sure, our mission is to prevent any preventable deaths from heart disease, so heart attack, stroke and all the other conditions related to that and the reality with heart disease is the risk factors are very, very common. About 50% of Americans have high blood pressure, hypertension or hyperlipidemia, high cholesterol or one of the other conditions related to that, like irregular heartbeat and other conditions that heart disease is a risk factor of. And the problem with these risk factors is that you can't see them and you can't feel them, so people tend to ignore them until it's too late, until they have the heart attack or the stroke. And that's where I think the key is in helping people understand what happens inside their body and giving them the tools to understand hey, I do have high blood pressure or I don't, my medication is working or it's not working and give us tools to better self-regulate and take care of ourselves, because these are things that we can't see and feel, so it's easy to ignore them.
Speaker 1:On the one hand, it's also very risky because you can't see the heart attack coming unless you're very well educated and you have these feedback loops around your blood pressure and your cholesterol and what happens inside your body and what your own data says so, on the one hand, giving people tools to better understand their blood pressure, their cholesterol, the risk factors, to manage it and to improve it in real time by providing them with very minor lifestyle modifications and, on the other hand, which is very complimentary, allowing people to understand the risk factors and give them risk flags in time so they can get to their doctor in time and get diagnosed and treated before it's too late and they end up passing away. Or, in other cases, even if you catch it and get to the hospital, permanent damage in many cases can be formed which really hurts our lifestyle and life expectancy and can lead, for example, to heart failure. So it very much limits what you can do in your day-to-day if you experience these types of conditions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, and we see in our health plan chronic conditions when we looked at putting a program in place to help support our health plan participants and hypertension, as well as diabetes and mental health conditions all of these conditions, we believe your solution can help because there's a behavior related to each one of these chronic conditions that we're seeing. Can you tell people a little bit about how the product works, like what is it? For those that don't know what Hello Heart is, what's the technology behind it and what's the process?
Speaker 1:technology behind it and what's the process? Sure, so Hello Heart is a very simple solution that's very easy to use for us as people, or end users or patients, but it's actually very sophisticated technologically. So what the product is is basically a heart monitor that allows you to track your blood pressure and your pulse at home. So it has a cuff, it connects using Bluetooth to your phone. It's really cool and slick, you can take it anywhere and it connects to an app on your phone and the app is really the brain behind our solution. What the app does is connect your clinic. It connects to the monitor, it connects to Apple Health and Google Fit and takes all of your steps data, weight data, anything else that you put in there and gives you an overview of what your heart health really is at the moment, how it changes over time. So it shows you trends and, in my view, the two most important thing it does.
Speaker 1:First, it helps you understand. So you know a blood pressure reading of 146 over 85, is that good, is that bad? Most people can say, even if they have hypertension. They were educated. So it gives you a feedback loop that helps you understand if your blood pressure is high or low if it's okay. If it's not okay, how is it trending over time? Is it improving, is it increasing? So it gives you very simple explanations. And then it does two other things. One, it provides digital lifestyle coaching. So it's not a full-time coach that you need to commit to, which is an incredible service, but not everybody's able to integrate a live coach into their day-to-day over time. So it's digital coaching, which means it's a very lightweight coaching session that just gives you tips around nutrition, exercise, stress management.
Speaker 1:As you mentioned, mental health is very much related to hypertension. Hyperlipidemia motivators to help you understand why you should even care about your blood pressure and cholesterol, like did you know that blood pressure impacts the way your skin looks like? So if you have controlled blood pressure, your skin will look better. If you don't, over time you're going to get more wrinkles and you're going to experience hair loss and things that people really care about and don't always know. So it educates you about what you should be doing to improve your lifestyle in your day-to-day.
Speaker 1:And the other thing it does it provides risk flags. So if you have extremely high blood pressure readings, if you have a spike in your pulse, if you have irregular heartbeat, it will flag hey, you might be experiencing a risk, are you experiencing these symptoms? And if you are at a risk category that requires you to get to a clinician, it will refer you to the right clinical resource in time either a PCP or the ER or urgent care to make sure that you catch risk in time and can get diagnosed and treated before it's too late. And I'm very proud to say that because people enjoy using Hello Heart, because it's fun, we make it really fun to track your blood pressure. There's tons of gamification and rewards and positive reinforcement about how well people are doing and taking care of themselves using Hello Heart.
Speaker 2:I've been using it. I don't really like to promote anything that I haven't tried myself and I've been using it for a good while now and I really love that feedback it told me recently. Your blood pressure is lower. You can see the connection from when you're walking. You know when you're walking more because I have it integrated with my other devices and I just think that's such a cool feature. So you start to see how the other behaviors you're doing are impacting your blood pressure, because most of the time even from my own experience and knowing my parents and family history you go to the doctor once a year get your blood pressure, if we're lucky.
Speaker 2:Actually, only half of our health plan participants are going to the doctor for an annual visit, which is another thing we're working on. But you go to the doctor, you get your blood pressure taken one time and then at some point maybe you're diagnosed with hypertension, put on medicine, but there's not always that consistent tracking and your device also, like you said, it syncs and your doctor can see your reports through MyChart. I think that is also a very cool feature that people can share. So what other features like? What are the things that people like the most about using your venom. I've shared some of mine, but what are some of the other things that people love about Hello Heart?
Speaker 1:That's awesome and it's it's incredible to hear about your experience. It's actually one of the newer features that we launched, the dot to dot so it helps you connect the dots between your blood pressure and your cholesterol and your behavior. So exercise, activity, walking steps, medication adherence like how is that really impacting? Like I know you know taking meds should lower blood pressure, but is it really lowering my blood pressure so you can actually see?
Speaker 2:The other day it said pet your dog, it will make you, it will lower your blood pressure right.
Speaker 1:That's one of my favorite features. The fact that we can integrate the newest clinical studies and turn it into bite-sized tips that people can actually implement is amazing. The dog tip is incredible. There was a research that came out only a couple of years ago that hugging your dog reduces your cortisol levels and that reduces your blood pressure. So if you want to lower your blood pressure and you have a dog, that's amazing. Go hug your dog. It will calm you down and lower your blood pressure. That is not something a doctor will probably tell you to do, but it's nice because you can incorporate little tips into the app.
Speaker 1:Sun exposure reduces cardiovascular disease risk. In terms of nutrition, we make it really simple. Instead of talking about fatty acids and things like that that can improve cholesterol, we just tell you hey, why don't you try adding salmon to your dinner tonight instead of steak, and see what happens? And try to incorporate very simple things that are fun. What other features people like?
Speaker 1:People like sharing reports with their doctor, so they come into their doctor's office a lot more empowered with hey, here's my trends at home.
Speaker 1:My blood pressure is much lower than what you see in the clinic, or it's much higher than what you see in the clinic, so they can come in organized and empowered to actually share their results with their doctor. And their doctors love it because it's all organized in a doctor format and it's adjusted to clinicians. The gamification people love that. So our product team about half of them came from the gaming industry and that's very intentional. We wanted people to really enjoy using Hello Heart, so there's like badges and rewards and little emojis and celebrations every time you track your blood pressure or you do things in a streak. So you check your blood pressure every day for a few days and you get a badge. So people start to enjoy it and almost get, in the most positive way possible, addicted to track their blood pressure. And we use the power of the gaming industry and social media industry skill sets for good for you to take care of your heart health.
Speaker 2:I love that there's so many ways that phones draw us in. I think that are not healthy Addiction to social media and there's all kinds of things that I feel like we are using phones that are not healthy. But to take that and flip it and use it for something that is good is amazing. I like there's so many great health technologies coming out that I think can help improve our lives.
Speaker 1:So wait, I have a question for you. Do you know how much time do people stare at their phones these days? On average phones?
Speaker 2:these days, on average, I am going to say I'm going to say it's four to six hours a day.
Speaker 1:That is very accurate. It's now five and a half hours and it's insane Like we stare at these devices for five and a half hours. It's about half of our waking time. So what we did in Hello Heart is put all of the things you need to learn and understand and all the even the reminders to take your meds, to track your blood pressure, to go see your PCP on your phone in an app that's super accessible. So if you're already there, we're already staring at our phone. Why don't we use it for good?
Speaker 2:Do something good, take care of ourselves, and I feel like I remember you saying that you use the research of Dr BJ Fogg out of Stanford. Is that true? The power of habit, the tiny habits habits.
Speaker 1:There's another Stanford professor called Nir Eyal that talked about the hook model of how do you get people to do things repeatedly? So you have to get them to have a trigger, that, for example, a reminder to track your blood pressure. You have to get them to get a reward. So that's the badge that we have. And then the investment accumulates over time and people get more excited to do it again and again. And Facebook, for example, it's our Facebook feed. We have more and more photos and friends and things in our feed. That gets us to feel like we are already invested in that.
Speaker 1:In Hello Heart, it's tracking your blood pressure, it's connecting your clinic and looking at your labs, it's taking your medication on time every day and having that streak.
Speaker 1:So the investment encourages us to continue to use things. So both of these studies, together with a lot of other behavioral studies, is what we base our product on. These are core principles. We use a lot of behavioral science and positive psychology in building Hello Heart and then we experiment. We basically that's the beauty of a digital solution you throw a hundred different tips that the team developed that are based on behavioral science into our user community and then you see what sticks, and then sometimes you find out that you know very random things that the design team decided to try are the tips that get people most engaged and excited and improve their heart health, and sometimes the clinical team are actually in the back of the bus in terms of their ability to impact our users, and sometimes it's the other way around, but it's very data driven. So it's behavioral science principles that are all in the heart of how we build the solution, and then it's the reality of just looking at the data of what works.
Speaker 2:I love it, yeah, even that confetti, you know, and I'm using hands and not that anyone can see me right now, but you know that makes you feel like it's just a little burst of happiness that triggers, that's a reward in your brain and it makes you want to go back and do it again. So very, very cool how you're using that science and technology of human behavior to help people actually take their blood pressure and give them recommendations for how to improve health.
Speaker 2:Do you have any success stories from people who have been using your device and the app, maybe who've seen significant improvements in their heart health?
Speaker 1:Of course there's many, and that's probably the best part of my job to get the thank you notes from the users that either tell us how we were able to change your life and reduce their heart risk significantly or even catch risk in time, which is by far the most satisfying thing that I can do as an entrepreneur. So Jimmy is one of my favorite stories. Jimmy Ramos was part of a mailman group that we work with and Jimmy tracked his blood pressure for six months, did great, reduced his blood pressure, lost some weight. Fantastic. What Hello Heart does is it doesn't actually get you to reduce your blood pressure or reduce your weight. It gives you the tools to do it yourself and need education, and that's how you can see it in all of our published clinical studies how impactful that can be.
Speaker 1:But basically, Jimmy was tracking his blood pressure. Everything was fine. Six months later he was randomly checking his blood pressure and the app told him that he has an irregular heartbeat, which is one of our newer features back in the day and he was puzzled by it. The app told him to check again, because you always have to make sure a couple of times that you know if there is a risk flag that it's real, so you won't be sent to the ER for no reason. He checked it again and he had an irregular heartbeat detection and the app told him okay, it happened two times in a row. Are you experiencing any of these symptoms? He didn't have any symptoms, so we told him okay, you need to go see a clinician as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1:He went to the doctor. The doctor asked him why are you here? And he said the app told me to come. And he showed him the app. The doctor was like okay, he didn't have any history no palpitation, no signs that you can actually see. But because he was tracking his blood pressure and his pulse, they ran tests and he did have a very severe arrhythmia. And he did have a very severe arrhythmia and he was put into surgery a day later. And, as he says, I promised my granddaughter that I'm going to be at her wedding. I don't know if I wouldn't be, you know, tracking my blood pressure and my pulse, if I would make it. So he had a life threatening condition that he was able to catch because he was tracking.
Speaker 1:And again, it's the monitor our monitors are FDA approved that can flag these types of risk situations, but I think that shows all of us how important it is to really track your heart health at home, because that's kind of the missing gap in heart health. The tracking capabilities exist, Clinicians know how to diagnose. We as patients or as people, are not using them often enough and don't have the education to use them at home, and that's something we need to change. We need to get everyone to track their heart health at home as a prevention tool, just like we get everybody to do mammograms to prevent breast cancer. So my goal beyond Hello Heart is to get everybody to start tracking their heart health at home and create a movement of people taking care of their heart health on a regular basis, because we can change the statistics of it being the number one cause of death.
Speaker 2:What a great story. And, yeah, just this idea, that space between doctor's visits. What are we doing? I think, yeah, it's a very powerful tool. How has Hello Heart been received in the healthcare community? What kind of partnerships have you formed with groups to support this?
Speaker 1:mission? Great question. So, basically the way I view ourselves, we're a tool that is designated for the patient or the person managing their own health and we work in adjacent to the clinical community. The clinical community, since they don't have the presence and it is a white space, loves Hello Heart. We work with several PBMs and health plans and we're very proud to be working with a select group of health plans and be offered to their clients as part of how we commercially distribute Hello Heart and we publish studies with leading clinicians from UCLA. We just published another study with 100,000 patients with John Hopkins. So we work together with leading researchers from the best facilities in the US to publish our outcomes and continue to.
Speaker 1:We work very closely with the American Heart Association. First, we have a joint cause of eradicating heart disease as much as we can. Definitely is a cause of death, but in general we do heart walks with them. We do joint education seminars with them. We recently launched a new initiative for women's heart health more than men during heart attacks, because we have a knowledge gap because women were not included in clinical research until 1993. We have a huge gap in education for the public and we have a huge gap in education for clinicians.
Speaker 1:So in many cases women's heart attack symptoms are being dismissed by the women themselves. First and foremost. We don't understand our own symptoms and it's not typical. It's not just the left side chest pain. It could be extreme fatigue and it could be stomach discomfort and nausea. It could be feeling lightheaded and dizzy and things that you won't necessarily. It can feel like a stomach bug almost, or like a severe flu that came out of nowhere, but you feel something is wrong.
Speaker 1:You don't always connect these symptoms to a heart attack, but they are very common symptoms for a heart attack for women.
Speaker 1:So women wait 37 minutes longer than men before they even get to care and when they get to care they're being dismissed a lot more often than men during a heart attack because the doctors are not fully educated.
Speaker 1:They have good intentions but they're not fully educated around symptoms and we can close this gap. We're very proud to be recognized as a best in class solution by the American Heart Association. We're partners with them in studies we publish in the American Heart Association Journal often and we're part of their innovation network. So we work with the American Heart Association together to promote women's heart health and hopefully reduce the mortality of women during heart attacks and strokes, and it's so important. It's not we're both female leaders, but it's our mothers, it's our sisters, it's our colleagues. It's the number one cause of death for women and we have so many things that we can do to close the gap, because women are not just small men. They have their own unique characteristics. They have different cholesterol levels, they go through menopause. There's so many risk factors that need to be addressed for women's heart health that we can address as a society and we should, because we want women to live longer.
Speaker 2:That is very well said and I learned a lot about women's heart health in a presentation I went to where you were the speaker, so that's a great I love, and I've envisioned us having a second podcast specifically on women's health women's heart health in the future. So it's fascinating and I do love the work that you're doing to just bring awareness to such an interesting topic that people have no idea right, and the fact that the research was not even done on women you know we're comparing women to men. It's fascinating. So thank you for your efforts to get that education out and save women's lives. I mean it's amazing. What's on your roadmap, mayan? What's coming up over the next few years with Hello Heart?
Speaker 1:So we continue to embrace the newest technologies and I think, first, our team is very, very mission driven, and that's why I'm so excited about working with ERS, because I think your members are all mission driven people. All the state employees are waking up every day to do such an important job and save people's lives in many cases as well, or change people's life for the good and that's how our team is as well, but with a different cause of helping them hopefully live a better life and get educated on their own health. Our team is very creative. Our roadmap keeps changing because new ideas keep popping up, so it's very exciting. In the future, we want to get as close as possible to catching risk closer in time, predicting risk and having a better connection with the clinical community to really refer patients not to just any care, as we do today, but to the right clinician at the right time and create a closer community around that moment with our patients and their clinicians.
Speaker 1:But if you take it down to today, we just added menopause as a key feature to our solution. So menopause support for women that are going through that period, and guess what? A hundred percent of women will go through menopause, so it's a very important time in life Someday but but, like heart, heart risk spikes around that time because estrogen protects our heart. So you need to get educated and start tracking your heart health around that time. So that just came up. We're adding support for high blood pressure during pregnancy for women that experience hypertension during pregnancy. That's another feature that's coming up and can protect women and their unborn children during pregnancy, which is very, very important. So that's coming up next year.
Speaker 1:And now we're very focused on medication, adherence Medication again, because you can't see or feel hypertension, hyperlipidemia, people tend to not take their meds because it doesn't matter, because you feel the same before with or without it, right? So 60% of people don't take their medication as prescribed when it comes to hypertension and hyperlipidemia. So we're giving people more tools and a lot of, as you said, like the fun banners and, you know, confetti and and badges and making it fun to take take your blood pressure medication as you use Hello Heart. So that's that's the key focus of the team these days.
Speaker 2:That's incredible. I look forward to seeing you know the evolution of this product and just to hear from our participants that are using it in the near future. A little personal story about the medication adherence. My grandmother when the week I was born because she was so stressed out because my mom was late having me this is what she says. Anyways, she did not take her medicine. Mom was late having me this is what she says. Anyways, she did not take her medicine. She was 50 years old and had a stroke because she was not taking her medicine. A week before I was born she ended up. It was a mild stroke and she lived many years after that and had no really complications from that, but she sure, sure started taking her medicine after that.
Speaker 2:But, like you said a lot of times, people just think, oh, I'm fine, but she sure sure started taking her medicine after that. But, like you said a lot of times, people just think, oh, I'm fine, but it's super important, if you do have hypertension, to take that medicine, and I love that your device is helping people to track, rewarding that behavior. It's just amazing. So if it is after September 1st, this product is out and available, if you're listening to this. After September 1st it's out and available and you can actually go ahead and order a Hello Heart monitor and you can get enrolled in this program. So I'm going to be sharing the link for how to do that in the show notes and so you can just go ahead and order a kit and start tracking your blood pressure. And we would love to hear as well and I know Maya and you'd love to hear from people and how that's going. And, yeah, keep in, keep in touch A hundred percent.
Speaker 1:I always love to hear how it's going and hear feedback and hear ideas. A lot of the ideas that end up in our roadmap and innovation comes from our users, so please share feedback as much as possible. And you're right, if we are after September 1st and you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, approaching menopause age or have family history of heart disease, you're welcome to log in to Google helloheartcom slash ERS. You'll find the link there as well.
Speaker 2:Perfect, mayan. I'm always a little starstruck to get to talk to you because you are just such an incredible leader and you built this incredible thing as the founder and CEO of a major healthcare initiative. It's really great to sit down and have a conversation with you. We appreciate your time and all that your team is doing to support our ERS health plan participants, and we're really looking forward to great things in the future.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, lacey, and I'm as starstruck as you are every time I talk to you as well. You have such an important role shaping our state employees' health care and well-being, so thank you for everything you're doing. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:All right, everybody get out there and check out Hello Heart and we look forward to hearing your feedback.
Speaker 1:Great Thank you, Lacey. Thank you.
Speaker 2:All right, everybody. That wraps up another episode of the ERS Walk and Talk podcast. I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Mayim. If you are interested in learning more about Hello Heart, you can find the link where you can find all kinds of information in our show notes. Please like and subscribe the podcast so you receive future updates and share with someone that you think may benefit from this information. Thanks so much and have a wonderful rest of your day. Take care everyone.