SDoH

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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This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 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 out direct via […]

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  This week I find myself in Las Vegas to attend the HIMSS 2021 conference that was postponed from the beginning of the pandemic and it has been an interesting experience. There are so many elements of deja vu in the run-up arriving at the 2020 conference that I had advice to offer for those […]

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Carin Alliance This week I am talking to Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners and a Healthcare technology specialist and focus on the and also the program manager of the Carin Alliance that is trying to get more data into the hands of patients and building on a multitude of interoperability programs. We discuss the early challenges […]

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This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May. 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 out direct via the contact […]

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This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of April. 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 out direct via […]

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Health Information Exchanges This week I am talking to Lisa Bari, Interim CEO for the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC). Lisa started her career in the Bay area in digital marketing for Practice Fusion, and winding through CMS where she worked on the interoperability rules. Along the way discovering the incremental insight that for policy changes you […]

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Haircut, and Would you Like Heart Checkup To? This week I am talking to Andrew Suggs, Co-Founder of Live-Chair (@livechairinc) – addressing healthcare disparities through the community of trusted barbers and barbershops (long the center of medicine and in particular surgery). The company started out providing scheduling and customer management tools to the many barbershops […]

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Data Sharing is Data Caring This week I am talking to Sita Kapoor, CIO, and Co-Founder of HealthEC a data company that is connecting the dots in healthcare. As you will hear Sita has a fascinating background that started in the aeronautics sector as part of an engineering team that programmed the navigational backup system […]

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Building Lasting Change in Healthcare This week I am talking to Stacey Chang, Executive Director and Founder, Design Institute for Health and a Professor, Dell Medical School and College of Fine Arts. They have recently announced a First-of-Its-Kind Master’s in Design in Health Launches at UT Austin that is taking applications for Fall 2020 course that is the only […]

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This week I am talking with Jacob Reider, MD (@JacobR), CEO of Alliance For Better Health (@Alliance_PPS), a New York Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) care transformation initiative. Dr. Reider is a family physician who wants the world to be more healthy – a man after my own heart! He previously served as the Deputy National […]

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Thanks to Daryl Carr who suggested this in his comment on my Vlog on Cholesterol and Health. This episode kicks off a series of videos that will focus on aging and how we can age healthily. For those of you who think you are not old and don’t need to watch this, and perhaps that’s everyone as they say […]

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December 14, 2018

The NHS at 70

Healthcare, NHS

The crown jewels of British society The NHS was the crown jewels of British society providing healthcare to every member of society no matter who they were, where they came from and what personal resources they had. It was the great leveler of society creating a single standard of care and service that was accessible […]

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Behavioral Health for Positive Impact This week I am talking to Matt Wallaert (@mattwallaert), Chief Behavioral Officer at Clover Health. I have listened to Matt on a few occasions, most recently at the FitBit Captivate event in Chicago so I was excited to get to talk to him one on one. Matt plays an unusual […]

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How Much you Travel Can Predict Your Health-Related Behavior This weeks interview was an opportunity to catch up with Dr Won Chung – an Emergency Room doctor and co-founder of Carrot Health – a company focusing on bringing consumer level insights, data and analysis to medicine His clinical career has been centered on the Emergency […]

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Including SDoH in Healthcare More than ever before, the social determinants of health (SDOH) are getting some well-deserved attention when it comes to their role in impacting an individual’s relative health status. Here at BaseHealth, seeing as we’re in the business of predicting health status, we’ve focused significant time and effort on understanding how SDOH […]

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