This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of August 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 […]
Each and every year there’s a rush for predictions for the coming year and 2024 is no different The year Skynet/Mednet became active – not really but that was the fear with everyone calling it the Year of AI. For the rest of us, it was not so much the year of AI but rather […]
This week I am talking to Michael Racke, MD Medical Director of Neurology at Quest Diagnostics. Michael is a board-certified neurologist and formerly editor-in-chief of the Journal of Neuroimmunology, an expert in dementia and brain disorders who has authored/co-authored 200 peer-reviewed studies, book chapters, and reviews on neuroimmunologic diseases, including dementia. Michael discusses promising advancements in our […]
Breaking the Data Stratosphere This week I am talking to Timothy Chou, PhD Board Member, Stanford Cloud Computing Lecturer and Founder of Bevel Cloud, a Pediatric Moonshot to reduce healthcare inequity, lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes for children – locally and globally by creating privacy-preserving real-time applications based on access to data in all 1,000,000 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of April 2023 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. With the recent announcement “Risant Health launches with Geisinger” with Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Geisinger Health joining forces we discuss what […]
ChatGPT Breakout Technology This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of March 2023 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. With the big news of the release of ChatGPT4 and the progress made with this model, […]
This week I am talking to Maneesh Jain, PhD CEO of Mirvie (@mirviedx) that is bringing a level of personalization and safety to pregnancy with a revolutionary approach. Maneesh has an interesting back story that started as we unraveled the human genome and shares some important insights about that early work and the over-promised potential that was […]
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 […]
This week is a special week to celebrate the New Year and I am talking to some of my fellow show hosts to get their take on what to expect in the coming year in healthcare. In alphabetical order, I was joined by Matt Fisher (@Matt_R_Fisher), General Counsel at Carium and Host of Healthcare de Jure […]
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 […]
This week I am talking to Tom Stanis (@TomStanis), CEO of StoryHealth (@StoryHealthAI), a company that combines virtual care, remote monitoring, and AI to bridge the data gap between health system specialists, primary care doctors, and patients to extend care for patients with severe conditions with their first focus around heart failure, as they return […]
This week I am talking to Randy Hawkins, MD Chief Medical Officer of Carrum Health (@CarrumHealth). Randy is an anesthesiologist who practiced medicine in the Navy and has a long career in digital enablement, electronic medical records, and meaningful use. He is focused on delivering the triad of healthcare to everyone that brings the appropriate […]
This week I am talking to Mark Menton, General Manager for HealthSparq (@HealthSparq) who are focused on Helping people make smarter healthcare choices. Mark started his journey in healthcare back in 2002 creating paper based directories of physicians to help patients select a doctor for their care. We talk about the progression into the digital […]
Intelligent Scheduling This week I am talking to Jennifer Meller, MD (@drjen_Navimize), CEO & Founder, Navimize (@navimize )that is focusing on solving the problem of dissatisfaction for patients stuck in waiting rooms around the country. The problem sounds simple but in healthcare as usual the devil is in the detail. Part of the key ingredients Jennifer found […]
Data Transparency This week I am talking to Morgane Mouslim, PhD (@MorganeMouslim) a Policy analyst at the Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and Morgan Henderson, PhD, (@morghend) a Data Scientist at the Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (@UMBC). Together with Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) and Josh Katz (@jshkatz) from the NY Times […]
Medical Data Navigator This week I am talking to Maneesh Juneja, (@ManeeshJuneja) Digital Health Futurist who has been exploring the future and how emerging technologies can make the world a healthier and happier place. We share some common interests and passions around sensors, wearables and even intermittent fasting (IF) aka Time Restricted Feeding/Fasting (TRF) He was […]
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 […]
Designing a Resilient Healthcare System This week I am talking to Margaret Lozovatsky, MD (@DoctorLozo), SVP and Chief Health Informatics Officer at Novant Health (@NovantHealth). Margaret came into medicine with a computer science degree right at the time Electronic Health Records were being rolled out giving her an edge in both understanding as well as seeing the […]
This week I am talking to Emad Rizk, MD President and CEO of Cotiviti (@Cotiviti) who are providing analytics reshaping the economics of healthcare. Emad has had extensive experience working with payers, hospital systems, government, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies, that offers a unique lens to help solve some of the hard problems in healthcare. We discuss the […]
This week I am talking to Ron Chiarello, PhD (@roncphd) CEO and founder of Alveo Technologies, bringing diagnostic testing into the home: Everyone, Anytime, Everywhere Ron started his career in physics where he was involved in low temperature technology and testing for contamination using high intensity x-rays. Like me he was influenced by the original Star Trek […]
This week I am talking to James Lu, M.D. Ph.D., President, co-founder of Helix (@my_Helix), an end-to-end population genomics platform. Dr Lu has an interesting background with a PhD in genomics working with Robert Gibbs from Baylor College of Medicine and worked in the Machine learning laboratory at Duke. Even in the early days of sequencing […]
Shared Care Solutions This week I am talking to Dr Chris Hobson, Chief Medical Officer, Orion Health (@OrionHealth), a population health and precision medicine company focused on data to support the delivery of the best possible care. Chris started out working in hospitals medicine for 6 years and spent time in primary care in New Zealand before […]
Accurate Tracking This week I am talking to Mehdi Bentanfous, CEO of Kinexon (@kinexon) a company providing real-time intelligence and automation with precise localization and edge analytics and underlying technology used by the NFL for their successful COVID19 mitigation program that was featured in this published paper: Implementation and Evolution of Mitigation Measures, Testing, and […]
