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 […]
Solving Problems with Clinical Data This week I am talking to Richard Schreiber, MD, FACP, Associated CMIO at Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center at Penn State Health. Dick is a professor in Internal medicine, a career choice made in his 4th year of medical school as he was looking to solve the mystery […]
This week I am talking to Matt Seefeld, EVP at MedEvolve (@MedEvolve). He spent his career in healthcare focused practices and specialty practices and has been developing IT teams who are using analytics and machine learning to manage revenue cycle more efficiently. We talk about the path to this point that was driven by the ever evolving […]
Your Hospital Bill is How Much? I’d like to tell you this is an unusual occurrence but this sorry tale is so common that I’ve come to expect these stories to emerge on a regular basis. This one striking just a little bit closer to home when a friend reached out for help. They were […]
The VA Healthcare System Model Talking with David Shulkin, MD – the former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs serving under President Donald Trump at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). He shares the early drivers to his long career in medicine that centered on informing and educating patients which permeates throughout his career as […]
The Price We Pay Talking with Marty Makary, MD, Professor of Surgery and Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author of “The Price we Pay – What Broke American Healthcare and How to Fix It” at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). As he puts it the two main issues in our healthcare […]
It was a real privilege to catch Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, (@RosenthalHealth, author of “An American Sickness”) after her presentation at the Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit, put on by West Health, that took place today at the Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC. I asked her what the average consumer should be […]
Am I the only one frustrated with a health system that allows for bills to show up not only as a slow trickle but also an avalanche if you have been unlucky to intersect with a hospital system for anything. But as if that was not bad enough there is no of limitations for medical […]
