This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of April 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 […]
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 […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2023 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 […]
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 […]
Lessons from a Chief Wellness Officer This week I am talking to Richard Safeer MD, Chief Medical Director Employee Health & Well-Being at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Richard is a Family Doctor who has focused his career on building culturally sound and caring organizations. Employee health and well-being has become a top priority for organizations in the […]
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. […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2023 The show that gives you a quick insight into the latest news, twists, turns and debacles going on in healthcare with my friend and co-host Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners and myself, where every […]
A Physician’s Take on HLTH 2023 October has been and still is the “busy” conference season. Some might consider this the second year of a return to the conference activity post-pandemic but even last year things were still a little muted and not quite there. This year conferences have come roaring back and HLTH was […]
Healthcare’s Digital Dilemma This week I am talking to Don Rucker, MD (@donrucker), Chief Strategy Officer, 1upHealth (@1up_health) who is working to solve the interoperability problem in healthcare Don shared his journey from being a medical student to a physician with a keen interest in data and computers. What he saw was healthcare’s inefficiency is often due […]
Reviving Healthcare This week I am talking to John Fryer Chief Revenue Officer Lumeris. John discusses his journey in healthcare, starting with his entry into the finance world before being influenced by innovator Neil Patterson to focus on healthcare and ended up joining and cutting his teeth at Cerner Corporation with health systems and technology, and the […]
A Mother’s Heartache This week I am talking to Kelley Howard, Founder, Strategist at DigiVidBIO.com and extraordinary mother to Rachel Rigali who was featured on an earlier show (podcast and the associated blog post) with me and has now sadly died from her cancer. While both Kelley and I are working in healthcare as she describes navigating the system […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of Aug 2023 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 […]
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 […]
This week I am talking to Jennifer Danielson, Chief Growth Officer at Collective Health an integrated third-party administration and navigation company delivering health benefits. Jennifer describes herself as a recovering attorney who has ‘followed the money in healthcare to understand the workings of healthcare and bring about some positive change. By now I think most of […]
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 […]
Vive Wrap Up This week I am talking to Gautam Gulati, MD (aka DrG @drgautamgulati) and HealthcareNowRadio’s very own Editor in Chief Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) to take a look back at the Vive event that took place in Nashville at the end of March. There were some well-received presentations and stand-out content and direction from […]
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 month is our final episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2022 and a close-out to the year As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. We discuss the latest news out of China which is grappling with […]
Its the end of the year In the artificially created system of healthcare, thousands if not tens of thousands of people are scurrying to get as much of their healthcare crammed into the last few days left in the year. Is this because they need healthcare and there is some seasonal need? Sadly not – […]
Vaccination for This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of June This month’s episode of News You Can Use for Jun 2022 with Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners features discussions on the recent approval for COVID19 vaccination for infants and younger children, the Facebook […]
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 […]
This week I am talking to Colin Banas, MD Chief Medical Officer of DrFirst (@DrFirst) a company looking to unite the “Healthiverse” and shatter the silos in our healthcare data. Colin started out as a hospitalist working at VCU but quickly became involved in healthcare technology working alongside others to develop early implementations of electronic medical […]
On the second day of HIMSS 2022, the halls were open and in full swing. It was good to see a vibrant community of people all smiling and looking happy. It was hard to walk around and miss the delighted voices, comments, and pictures being taken of people seeing each other in person for the […]
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 […]
Market Based Medication Pricing Interacting with the healthcare system does nothing for my health and renewing a prescription is yet another painful experience. What about you? What stands in the way of a positive health experience Getting a prescription from the gatekeeper – your overworked primary care physician Insurance who impose arbitrary rules limiting how much […]
