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New Obesity Medications Offer Hope But Not a Panacea This week I am talking to Carolyn Jasik, MD, (@DrJasik) CMO for Omada Health, a virtual-first chronic care provider helping members make lasting changes to improve health and reduce care costs for organizations Excitement is growing around new GLP-1 receptor agonist medications for treating obesity, with […]

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This week I am talking to Avantika Waring, MD, Chief Medical Officer at 9amHealth who focuses on hands-on, everyday help with diabetes, weight loss, and heart health. Avantika shares her career journey into health tech and the virtual diabetes care program at 9 am Health. She explained how they provide comprehensive wraparound care including physicians, nutritionists, health coaches, and […]

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One of Michael Crichton’s early successes was the movie “Coma” which came out in 1978. A movie based on the book of the same name by Robin Cook, MD. The book was his first break-out hit featuring corporate malfeasance and greed taken to extremes in a hospital to create a ready supply of donor organs. […]

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The Comedy Show of Patient Payment (Price Transparency in Healthcare: A Stand-Up Comedy Special) This week I am talking to Ryne Natzke, Chief Revenue Officer, at TrustCommerce, a Sphere company (@SphereCommerce), a cloud-based, software and payments technology company. Ryne and I met some years back and he was kind enough to share some of the details […]

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How to Outsmart Your Hungry Inner Couch Potato This week I am talking to Dr. Tim Church, Chief Medical Officer for Wondr Health (@WondrHealth) a company focused on Digital Behavior change especially focused on the obesity epidemic. Tim has spent a large part of his career focused on this area and as he puts it “bringing the […]

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How Healthcare Charges Drive Us Crazy and What It Means for Your Health Many years back I was part of a team that built a hospital in Glasgow Scotland. It was the product of US and UK innovation built on a contaminated site used for shipbuilding in past decades. The project was a lot of […]

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How Cannabis Saved My Son This week I am talking to Annabelle Manalo-Morgan, Ph.D., Founder, and Chief Scientific Officer for Masaya Medical that is focused on education and the formulation of high-quality, pharmaceutical-grade cannabis products, and author of Mighty Flower: How Cannabis Saved My Son and married to Grammy Award-winning reggae artist Gramps Morgan (If You’re […]

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This week I am talking to Sadé Osotimehin, an Advanced Practice Pharmacist at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (@umsop). Sade found her passion in chemistry and developed her career around this following a path into pharmacy school and beyond. Sade discusses her journey into the field of pharmacy and her passion for chemistry and explains how she […]

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This week I am talking to Sanjula Jain, PhD (@sanjula_jain), SVP Market Strategy & Chief Research Officer at Trilliant Health (@TrilliantHealth), a company focused on healthcare industry expertise, market research, and predictive analytics to create evidence-based direction for Healthcare. Sanjula has like many of my guests an interesting background and origin story but in her case set […]

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This week I am talking to Bob Booth MD, Chief Care Officer at TimelyCare (@TimelyMD) a company offering a student-centered platform that is designed for digital natives of on-demand access to mental health and medical care. Bob’s path informed his role and focus starting out in education, training to be a doctor and anesthesiologist and ultimately ending […]

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A Recap of May’s Healthcare News This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May 2023 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. Trillion Dollar Chips This month ChatGPT continues to be a focus and trending […]

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This week I am talking to Frank Veith, MD, Surgeon, Professor, and author of “The Medical Jungle” where he lays out the six pillars of his pioneering tenure as a vascular surgeon in some of the most prestigious vascular programs in the country and the groundbreaking—and at times controversial—advancements for which he tirelessly advocates. He started out in […]

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When the Titanic Goes Down, All Ships Sink This week I am talking to Julien Pham, MD, Managing Partner of Third Culture Capital, an immigrant-founded, physician-led, seed-stage VC firm focused on emerging health tech and techbio companies that are revolutionizing modern care delivery while optimizing and reshaping the experience of care for both patients and […]

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This week I am talking to Vittoria Lecomte (@VittoriaLecomte), CEO of Sesh (@seshgroups) a virtual group support platform that is helping address the mental health crisis and shortage of therapists. Vittoria shares her own personal struggles with an eating disorder and the difficulty in obtaining therapy that worked and how she found group therapy and how difficult finding […]

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This week I am talking to Alex Jahangir, MD, (@alexjahangir) Vice president for business development, vice-chair of orthopedic surgery, and director of the division of orthopedic trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, (@VanderbiltUP) as well as the executive medical director of the Vanderbilt Trauma, Burn, and Emergency Surgery Patient Care Center. He is the author […]

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January 30, 2023

Rain Man Treatment

This week I am talking to Jamie Pagliaro, EVP and Chief Learning Officer at RethinkFirst (@Rethink_First), a software and solutions provider in behavioral health that offers evidence-based treatment tools, training, and clinical support. Jaimie has an interesting origin story that set him on the path of treating autism and spectrum disorders leading to creating the ReThink First Company […]

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Conference Season Opens This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of November 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This week we discuss the recent spate of conferences and some of the highlights and positives […]

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Popular Demand Driving Telehealth to New Heights This week I am talking to Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH (@RoySchoenberg), President and CEO at Amwell (@Amwell) a telemedicine company based out of Boston with one of the largest telehealth ecosystems in the world. Like me, Roy found his path through medicine and into technology launching a series of companies […]

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This week I am talking to Ankit Rohatagi, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, AssureCare (@AssureCareLLC) an innovative, patient-centered, connected care platform that is trying to increase access to care while reducing cost. We dive into Ankit’s background traversing multiple clinical systems and countries providing him with useful and important insights into what works for healthcare and what […]

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This week I am talking to Jeff Ruby, Founder Newtopia (@newtopia), a company using a combination of genetic testing, nutrition, and personal, technology-enabled coaching can change habits that modify life-impacting behavior as a critical part of the solution Jeff shares his origin story of when his father was diagnosed with abdominal cancer and how this […]

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3 Minutes to Financial Ruin     This past week I found myself subject to a SIM Jacking attack. A reasonably sophisticated attempt to wrestle control of someone’s life, typically for money, although in some cases it can be for high-value digital assets (like a Twitter handle back in 2012). But even in those cases […]

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This week I am talking to Mark Dorner, Co-Founder and CEO PreciseMDx, a company that is rethinking the diagnostic testing journey for patients and working to create the best and most efficient diagnostic service for everyone. The company was founded right at the beginning of the pandemic based on personal experiences with testing for cancer which had […]

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This week I am talking to Sherie Friedrich, Chief Psychology Officer at MediTelecare a company delivering Telehealth behavioral services to skilled nursing and assisted living facilities. An often overlooked component of post-discharge patient care is behavioral health, although 20% of people over the age of 55 have some form of mental health condition and this impacts readmission rates […]

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Shifting Intelligence Has the internet shifted our ability to learn and understand our world? And I don’t mean in a good way. The ready access to information has changed our access to knowledge and opened the doors for many. For many in my generation, they talk about the collection of the Encyclopedia Britannica (ironically the […]

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This week I am talking to Steve Wigginton, CEO, Icario (@icariohealth) who are creating truly personalized and incremental ways to help the world a healthier place, one person at a time. Steve has a long career in healthcare and prior to iCario came from Sutter Health/Aetna where he was responsible for launching an innovative health insurance […]

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