Patient Safety

This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of February 2024 The show that gives you a quick insight into the latest news, twists, turns and debacles going on in healthcare withmy friend and co-host Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners and myself, where every diagnosis […]

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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 David Nash, MD (@nashpophealth) the founding Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy at Jefferson College of Population Health. David like me have family working in front-line healthcare and struggled through the pandemic response and the enormous challenges this placed on our healthcare system and the staff who work in healthcare. We […]

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This week I am talking to Chris O’Brien, CEO at AdhereTech (@AdhereTech) who is working to solve medication adherence challenges with innovative simple connected technology. Chris started out life in software development and video technology but shifted into the world of DigitalHealth where he had success building healthcare information solutions At AdhereTech they have created a simple Internet […]

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Moving Quickly and Safely in Pharma and BioTech This week I am talking to Robert Fenton (@robpfenton), the CEO and founder of Qualio (@Qualiohq). Robert is a pharmacist by training. He was born and raised in Ireland and worked with a range of pharmaceutical companies working in quality and drug development roles. It was this early work focused […]

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Month before This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This month we discuss the shortage of clinical professionals in particular nurses that was temporarily ‘solved’ (this […]

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This week I am talking to Phil Curtis (@philtalks), Director at First–Thirty (@1stThirty) who is merging his knowledge and experience in the space industry together with personal experiences in healthcare to help ideas become solutions and businesses. Phil developed Type 1 Diabetes early in life following a bout of Measles that left his insulin production […]

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This months episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of April 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This week top of mind is the big increase in travel and the recently renewed Mask Mandate till May […]

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This months episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of March 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. We review the recent in person events we both attended in Florida this past month, both coming away with […]

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Groups Recover Together This week I am talking to Gus Crothers, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Groups Recover Together (find out more here) who have focused on solving the Opiod Use Disorder (OUD). Gus’ journey to this role is interesting as he described his ‘beginner’s mindset’ that allowed him to see the opioid epidemic with fresh eyes […]

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This week I am talking to Rachael Grimaldi, MD (@cardmedic), Founder and CEO of CardMedic and an Anesthetist working in the NHS who founded the company while stranded out of her home country at the height of the pandemic on maternity leave. Born from a desire to help and long term desire to improve health literacy […]

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Supporting a Caring Health System This week I am talking to Collin O’Neill, the CEO of Pilleve (@Pilleve1) and Gautam Chebrolu, the Founder and CTO of Pilleve a company addressing the devastating effects of the opioid crisis with innovative technology built to work within the existing pharmaceutical distribution systems. The company’s early roots came from personal experiences bound […]

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National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) This week I am talking to Kelvin Coleman, Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) (@StaySafeOnline) that is building lasting public/private partnerships to create and implement broad-reaching education and awareness efforts to help enable us all to be cyber aware and cybersafe Kelvin describe himself as the Forest Gump […]

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Monitoring in the Medical Home This week I am talking to Tom Hale, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer at VirtuSense a company providing monitoring in healthcare settings for automated fall detection and is now adding biometrics sensors for broader insights and opportunities for intervention in the medical home. Tom’s early work found him heading up Mercy […]

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Vaccine Logistics This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of January You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovation in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach […]

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Which COVID19 Test Leading up to the Thanksgiving break there was a challenge getting tested. What unfolded for some people was getting a test that provided little useful information. Sadly, with the constantly changing landscape of COVID19 determining what test you should be getting and what the results mean can be difficult. This week Fred […]

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The Cohort of Missing Care and Vaccination This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see […]

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Neuromodulation Treatment for COVID19 This week I am talking to Peter Staats, MD, MPH,  CMO for electroCore, CMO for National Spine and Pain Center, and President-Elect of the World Institute of Pain. Peter started his career as an anesthesiologist and founder of the division of Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine […]

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Testing, Testing, Testing, 1,2,3 This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September. You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach […]

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Vaccines Work and Twice Over This week I am talking to Dr. Richard Pan, MD, MPH, (@DrPanMD) a pediatrician and California State Senator. He has been a leading advocate of increasing the health of everyone and raising California’s vaccination rates, sadly making him a target for online harassment and in-person assaults by conspiracy theorists and […]

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Hungry to Learn This week I am talking to Spencer Jones, RN Founder and CTO of Lineus Medical, maker of the SafeBreak Vascular device. Spencer started his journey as a Nurse but was frustrated with technology and solutions that were not delivering the best possible care. There is likely no clinician that is not familiar […]

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This week I discuss reopening in the context of the recent antibody testing and immunity passports. If you are tested and found to have Antibodies to COVID19 what does that mean for you and your risk of getting the disease. And, are there other possible causes of COVID19? No matter what the guidance remains the […]

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May 27, 2020

Screening

Screening for Businesses This week I discuss the challenges of screening and how companies and businesses need to approach this area. How you screen, who you screen and what screening are complex issues that are dependent on your specific business its risk profile, your employee risk profiles and of course what the latest science is on the virus There […]

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This week I am talking to Deanna Parker, Assistant VP of Emergency Services at Hardin Memorial that is located in Elizabethtown Kentucky – the heart of Bourbon Whiskey production – more on that later. The area is still in the early stages of the pandemic crisis with a limited number of cases but as Deanna points […]

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Track my Solutions This week I am talking to Jeremy Elias, Founder and Chief Executive Officer – TrackMy Solutions, a company taking on the challenge of keeping track of all the devices and technology that is in use in healthcare but like all other technology solutions sometimes requires updates or changes to fix newly discovered […]

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