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 […]
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 […]
Updated Wednesday, Nov 13, 2020 This resource was first created by me in response to what I saw as growing demand for reliable information. I continue to update the page with new links and resources keeping up with the rapidly changing knowledge we have on the SARS-CoV-2 infection and the disease COVID19. I will continue […]
Can Sleep Really Help me Lose Weight It may seem odd to think that getting more sleep might help you lose weight but there are some good reasons why this might be the case. But first, let’s talk about sleep and how to get enough of it The Basics of Sleep First off let’s cover […]
This week I am talking with Jacob Reider, MD (@JacobR), CEO of Alliance For Better Health (@Alliance_PPS), a New York Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) care transformation initiative. Dr. Reider is a family physician who wants the world to be more healthy – a man after my own heart! He previously served as the Deputy National […]
Consumer Patient Centricity This week I am talking to Sameer Badlani, MD (@SameerBadlaniMD) an Internist and the CIO for Fairview Health Services We explore his journey to becoming a CIO that started at the University fo Chicago where he was involved in teaching and started exploring his passion around informatics and its ability to bring […]
Fitness While Travelling Talking with Taylor Newcomb from Zeamo at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). Zeamo is a digital fitness platform allowing access to 1,300 gyms across the nation and world. No more lock into a single gym and their contract but rather access to multiple gyms all under one system, account and cost. They […]
This week I’m talking about Cholesterol. What it is, where does it come from (hint your diet is only a small part) and what does your body use it for It’s interesting that when you search for cholesterol the recurring image is of Eggs which have been closely linked with Cholesterol and to some […]
Rethinking Wellness in the Wearable Age This past week I had the privilege of joining ~30 or so people from around the country in Los Angeles to hear about the work Aetna and Apple have been doing as part of their partnership announced last Fall (Aetna to Transform Members’ Consumer Health Experience Using iPhone, iPad and […]
