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Adnan Iqbal, CEO & co-founder, and Dr. Tashfeen Ekram, MD, CMO & co-founder of Luma Health (@lumahealthhq) that is helping solve capacity and scheduling problems and creating a single solution for connection and connectivity for the patient journey. They came together to solve the problem after Adnan tore his ACL and couldn’t get in for a scan […]
This week’s episode is all about #COVID19 and the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday that has always been about bringing family and friends together, but this year needs to be different for everyone’s sake. Everyone will have different circumstances and demands to cope with but to reduce risk we should 💨Fresh Air Rules 📉Decrease number of visitors […]
The Breakfast Club How 1 small group helped save the Fall Semester. Over the last several months I have worked with my colleagues and a number of clients on plans to safely re-open businesses and school. Along the way, we have gathered some insights that are worth sharing with others. Do you want to exit […]
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 […]
Election Results This month’s episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of November – presidential election month. 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 […]
As we move into the winter, cases continue to rise here in the US and also around the world. What does that mean for you, your business and how should you handle this troubling increase in cases? It starts and continues with limiting the spread of the disease following all the guidance that everyone is […]
Healthcare and Data Need to Get Along This week I am talking to Caesar Djavaherian, MD (@Caesardjava), and Emergency room physician and Medical Director and Co-Founder of Carbon Health (@CarbonHealth). Carbon Health is a modern, tech-enabled vertically integrated healthcare system designed from the ground up to put patient care first. Caesar’s path through medicine like many […]
Virtual Education This week I am talking to Sandra Humbles (@sandrahumbles), VP of the Global Education Solutions Group at Johnson and Johnson Institute. The institute has been working on educational tools and solutions for clinicians that are using technology to augment and accelerate learning. They have partnered with Oculus and Osso VR to use virtual reality to […]
Treatment Options The treatment and management of COVID-19 patients are evolving rapidly. There is a global effort to discover novel treatments and test existing therapies that are safe and effective. This week Fred Goldstein and I discuss what medical treatments are available for patients who contract SARS-CoV-2 and develop symptoms of COVID19 and discuss the […]
Rising Cases As we move into the winter, we are seeing a rise in cases here in the US and also around the world. We don’t know why exactly but some of this may be because of the re-opening that has taken place compounded by the move indoor We know that the shutdown is having […]
In this week’s episode, Fred Goldstein and I discuss transformative technologies from the 2 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry this year, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing” – aka CRISPR. A technology that is revolutionizing medicine in general but also part of another initiative to detect […]
Addressing Health Inequity This week I am talking with Lucie Ide, MD, PhD, founder of Rimidi, one of HIMSS’ Most Influential Women in Health IT, and one of Healthcare Global’s Top 10 Influential Women in Healthcare Technology. Lucie had an interesting background in physics and signal analysis prior to entering a career track in medicine. […]
What does quarantine mean? Who goes into isolation versus quarantine? This week I review the difference between quarantine and isolation, why someone would be placed in quarantine not isolation and importantly what are the steps required to exit and allow a return to normal activities of daily living. What part does testing play in this […]
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 […]
We Might Already Have had a Solution to COVID19 This week I am talking with Dr Jake Reder, PhD the CEO of CeldaraMedical – am innovation incubator and accelerator focused on transforming academic innovations into medicines that cure the world’s most challenging diseases. The company was originally launched during the financial crisis and as Jake […]
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 […]
Breaking News…….is it though? The problem of constant alerts and flood of information and attempts at grabbing our attention was a problem long before the COVID19 pandemic swept across our world. But add in what has now been months of the flood of news and data, much of which is tagged as “breaking” and you […]
What We’ve Been Missing This week I am talking to Tom Goodmanson CEO of Calabrio (@Calabrio), a customer focused contact tracing solution provider that has been workmen with state and local health and government technology leaders to rapidly build out contact tracing operations and manage the agent workforce. Tom has a very personal connection to contact […]
This week I discuss the “hold” on the Astrazeneca Oxford SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, AZD1222, Phase 3 vaccine trial. History is replete with learning opportunities and thankfully science is always trying to use these insights for their benefit of the advancement of our understanding. Case in point we have learned much about vaccine safety and how-to bring vaccines […]
This week I explore the success of one country that ranks second in the world for their response to COVID19. Can you guess who it is? They spend 2.4% of their GDP on health or approximately $72 per person They have 6 doctors per 100,000 people They have around 14,000 cases of COVID19 infection 284 […]
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 […]
The challenge of the ever-changing landscape we live in is planning. This is especially true in the COVID19 era as we continue to chase information that is moving in real-time and make judgments and decisions based on the best available data, today From a business, college, and school planning standpoint how do you approach this […]
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 […]
The Learning Healthcare System This week I am talking to Vivian Lee, MD PhD MBA, (@vivianleemd) President Verily Health Platforms (@verilylifesci) and author of “The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone” (W.W. Norton) and a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Dr Lee started out like many doctors do with a […]
Tomato Canning and COVID19 Looking back at history offers some insights into how we approach the current COVID19 pandemic. When the food industry moved from manual preparation and canning of tomatoes to an automated system, we increased production dramatically. The change was significant adding to the availability of cheaper more available foods to more people. […]
