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 […]
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 […]
Snooze or Lose The latest pick-up in the press with a clickable link from Axios is How to get more sleep (Americans need it), which frustratingly fails to include a proper reference to the actual source paper or data. The notation “Data: Apple Heart and Movement Study” suggests the data came from this study group […]
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 […]
This week I am talking to Hal Baker, MD Senior Vice President & Chief Digital & Chief Information Officer at WellSpan Health that continues to be named one of the nation’s “Digital Health Most Wired” health systems by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), underscoring WellSpan’s efforts to lean into innovative technological advances to improve […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
This week I am talking to Louis Mendiola, Director of Provider Partnerships at MedArrive (@medarrive) who are mobile-integrated care management solution provider. Louis shares his origin story growing up in rural Nevada in a town called Winnemucca which provided him with great insight into the challenges of delivering local care We talk about the last mile of health care […]
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 […]
This week I am talking to Joshua Titus, CEO of Gozio (@GozioHealth) a company who have an unwavering focus on customer experience and healthcare consumer engagement. We dive into Joshua’s early work with nVidea and first-person gaming (do you remember the regional MS-DOS First person Shooter game Doom) that allowed him to build a portfolio […]
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 […]
“Just $5 for those drugs” Something eventually catches you with your health. There are some segments of our world that enjoy some incredible longevity and health into old age – the so-called Blue Zones that are populated by elderly people living full and healthy lives into their 90s and 100s and even beyond. But […]
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 […]
2 hits, 0 starter, 2 Misses and 3 Maybe’s 2 Hits Speech enablement, despite the experience of Amazon and the losses it has from the Alexa solution, remains a central solution and capability that continues to offer new and exciting capabilities. It’s not just navigation and clinical documentation but is increasingly showing promise for clinical […]
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 […]
HLTH is an integrated show, When I say integrated I am not talking about virtual and in-person integration but rather a different approach and style of a conference setup. In the case of HLTH they have a large floor setting with stages in the four corners and the main stage that is situated just off […]
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 […]
Making Routine Healthcare Safer and More Efficient This week I am talking to Robbie Hughes (@rbbhghs), Founder & CEO of Lumeon (@Lumeon_) who started out his career as an aerospace engineer but found his path in healthcare as he worked to bring some of the process and data analysis rigors to healthcare systems. Their approach to care […]
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 Andrew Mellin, MD, VP, Chief Medical Information Officer at Surescripts (@surescripts). Andrew is an Internist and Hospitalist who has spent the last 20 years focused on technology innovation in healthcare and is now working to deliver trusted information into the healthcare system and close the loop on medications. From the beginning […]
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 […]
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 […]
