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The Regulatory Whisperer This week I am talking to Michael Hufford the CEO and Co-Founder of Lygensis a company that is breaking the mold of organ replacement and enabling organ regeneration. They recently received FDA 2A clearance and additional funding and will be starting their first human trials shortly. Michaels background has helped him master the […]
Carin Alliance This week I am talking to Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners and a Healthcare technology specialist and focus on the and also the program manager of the Carin Alliance that is trying to get more data into the hands of patients and building on a multitude of interoperability programs. We discuss the early challenges […]
Money Games in Healthcare and How To Solve them This week I am talking to Marty Makary, MD, MPH, (@MartyMakary) Professor Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & Bloomberg School of Public Health Editor of Medpage, and author of The Price We Pay – What Broke American Healthcare – and How to Fix It (released Jun 8, 2021) and Unaccountable […]
Masks Mandates and Conference Vaccine Requirements This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of June. 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 […]
This week I am talking to James Lu, M.D. Ph.D., President, co-founder of Helix (@my_Helix), an end-to-end population genomics platform. Dr Lu has an interesting background with a PhD in genomics working with Robert Gibbs from Baylor College of Medicine and worked in the Machine learning laboratory at Duke. Even in the early days of sequencing […]
Affordable Equitable Healthcare for Everyone This week I am talking to Miles Romney, CTO and co-founder of eVisit (@eVisit). Miles has an unusual and interesting background, he is a health IT expert who also produces Broadway musicals and has even won a Tony Award. His diversity brings some unique insights to the world of healthcare where […]
Space Exploration This week I am talking to Colonel (retired) (Dr.) Walter “Sparky” Matthews, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor in the Honors Program and Honors College Pre-Medical Advisor at Baylor college and recently retired as the Surgeon General of the United States Space Force (USSF), and Command Surgeon for US Space Command (USSPACECOM) (@US_SpaceCom). Sparky as he is known, is an […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May. 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 out direct via the contact […]
This week I am talking to Abboud Chaballout, founder/CEO of Diagnoss, the medical coding “whisperer” company. Like many of my guests Abboud has an interesting journey, in his case through law school developing experience founding and building companies as an entrepreneur and working in the medical coding and billing world where he learnt about money flow […]
Clincal Data from the Home This week I am talking to Arvind Thiagaraja, founder and CEO of HD Medical (@HDMedicalGroup) that is saving patient lives through early diagnosis. Arvind’s journey into healthcare started from a young age when he was diagnosed with a heart murmur and he and his family went through an extended period waiting to […]
Monitoring in the Medical Home This week I am talking to Tom Hale, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer at VirtuSense a company providing monitoring in healthcare settings for automated fall detection and is now adding biometrics sensors for broader insights and opportunities for intervention in the medical home. Tom’s early work found him heading up Mercy […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of April. 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 out direct via […]
Health Information Exchanges This week I am talking to Lisa Bari, Interim CEO for the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC). Lisa started her career in the Bay area in digital marketing for Practice Fusion, and winding through CMS where she worked on the interoperability rules. Along the way discovering the incremental insight that for policy changes you […]
Shared Care Solutions This week I am talking to Dr Chris Hobson, Chief Medical Officer, Orion Health (@OrionHealth), a population health and precision medicine company focused on data to support the delivery of the best possible care. Chris started out working in hospitals medicine for 6 years and spent time in primary care in New Zealand before […]
Stemming the Loss of Clinical Expertise This week I am talking to Hass Saad MD, Founder & CEO of Detroit Medical Informatics (DMI) a unique organization offering a highly successful elbow side clinician support, training and technology implementation in hospitals and healthcare settings. Hass grew up as a digital native and was entirely comfortable using the technology […]
Perhaps this interview might be a tipping point for change? One outcome from this interview was the realization for people outside the US and inside that drug advertising was unique to this country. Many watched the interview online to discover that it was filled with adverts for drugs, the news even for Americans who did […]
The First in the Breech This week I am talking to Luis Saldana, MD (@lsaldanamd), an Emergency room physician and CMIO Clinical Informaticist who was at the center of the first Ebola case that reached US shores in 2014. He is a clinician first but like many in the profession went through a period of […]
This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of February where we saw a reduction in the number of cases of COVID19 occurring but still crossing a somber milestone of 500,000 people dying from COVID19 in the United States You can read more […]
Accurate Tracking This week I am talking to Mehdi Bentanfous, CEO of Kinexon (@kinexon) a company providing real-time intelligence and automation with precise localization and edge analytics and underlying technology used by the NFL for their successful COVID19 mitigation program that was featured in this published paper: Implementation and Evolution of Mitigation Measures, Testing, and […]
The COVID Czar This week I am talking to Peter Granick, Associate Vice President Business Services and Chief Procurement Officer for Baylor University (@Baylor), and for the last several months COVID19 czar for Baylor University coordinating their response. Peter was excited to join the Baylor community on their procurement process but found his role changed in the early […]
Your Stress Pal This week I am talking to Pennie Sempell, JD, CEO for StressPal (@Stress_Pal) that is working to build better resilience in healthcare communities to stress and burn out. Pennie started out in Psychology, graduated from law school, and worked in mediation that led to a career focused on stress reduction. Pennie has […]
Vaccine Logistics This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of January You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovation in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach […]
Soundcloud Meets Rap Genius This week I am talking to Shiv Rao, MD (@ShivdevRao) is the co-founder and CEO of Abridge (@ABridgeHQ), which uses groundbreaking machine learning to help people understand the details of their care and follow through on their doctors’ advice. He is also a faculty member and practicing cardiologist at UPMC’s Heart and Vascular Institute. Shiv […]
Returning Ultimate Control of Care to the Patient This week I am talking to Rob Kowal, MD, PhD Chief Medical Officer, of Medtronic (@Medtronic/@MDT_Cardiac) and a cardiac electrophysiologist who has been part of the incredible progress and innovation that have taken place in implantable cardiac devices. He talks about the progress from the early days of external pacing […]
The History of US Healthcare This week I am talking with Dr. Christy Ford Chapin, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (@UMBC) and author of Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System that dives deep into the US Health care system tracing the […]
