From Childhood Tinker to Certified Thinker I love learning. I know my perspective dates back to my childhood and many years and long before I became a physician. My parents would remember the challenge of dealing with my learning when I was younger which included taking things apart and not always knowing how to put […]
Drugs, IV Shortages, and AI Shenanigans This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2024 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 […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2024 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 […]
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 […]
Blue Screen of Health 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 […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of July 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 […]
Health Tech Havoc This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May 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, […]
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 […]
The continued onslaught of cybersecurity attacks which if anything are only getting worse have impacted the healthcare system in dramatic fashion with the payment network brought down by the attack on Change Healthcare. I keep hoping that we all get better at combatting these attempts to breach our data and that overall vigilance rises as we […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of March 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 […]
The Last Spin I am going to date myself a little here as I reminisce about my old music collection accumulated over many years. In this case, we are talking Vinyl records (link included for those who are wondering what I am talking about!). I can remember buying my first album and playing it repeatedly […]
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 […]
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 Avantika Waring, MD, Chief Medical Officer at 9amHealth who focuses on hands-on, everyday help with diabetes, weight loss, and heart health. Avantika shares her career journey into health tech and the virtual diabetes care program at 9 am Health. She explained how they provide comprehensive wraparound care including physicians, nutritionists, health coaches, and […]
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 […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2023 The show 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 […]
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 […]
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 week I am talking to John Martin, MD, Chief Medical Officer, at Butterfly Network, Inc.(@ButterflyNetInc). John shares his personal interactions with the world of medicine both as a vascular surgeon but also as a patient. The Magic Wand of Medicine We dive into the world of healthcare innovation and technology, focusing on ultrasound imaging and […]
AI in Healthcare This week I am talking to Rob Brisk, MBChb PhD Chief Scientific Officer for Eolas Medical (@EolasMedical). Rob has a fascinating background with experience in both healthcare and machine learning and artificial intelligence. Robe shares his journey from being a physician to venturing into the world of AI and emphasizes the importance of […]
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 […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of Aug 2023 I am joined by 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, […]
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 […]
