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Easing Frustration I get frustrated even though I try hard to not. Most of the day I amble along quietly absorbing the ups and downs, but that all comes to a screeching halt when I interact with some telephone systems and support. Not all are bad but some are so bad that by the time […]
There Is No Simple Solution to Healthcare Costs This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2019 and closes out the year You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your […]
Detecting Undiagnosed Silent Killers This week I am talking to Prof. Arik Eisenkraft, MD, MHA, the Chief Medical Officer for BioBeats – a new step in continuous monitoring for blood pressure with a wearable device (watch or patch) that does not use an inflatable cuff for measuring your blood pressure. The journey to this point […]
This week I am talking to Lawrence Kosinski, MD, MBA, the Founder and CMO of SonarMD (@SonarMD) a company offering a pathway to optimizing the treatment of patients with complex chronic conditions to improve outcomes and decrease costs. Dr Kosinski’s journey started when he took on the role of chairman of the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) […]
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 […]
Open Clinical Systems This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2019 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 […]
This week we take a look at mind-body therapies to reduce our need for medication in particular Opioids. JAMA published a Meta-Analysis study (A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis) this month. The researchers reviewed evidence from over 60 studies with more than 6000 people looking at a range of therapies including meditation, guided imagery, hypnosis, and cognitive-behavioral […]
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 […]
Data Sharing and Clinical Sleuthing This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2019 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. […]
This months episode of “News you can use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2019 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 […]
This week I am talking to Allen Waziri, MD, Neurosurgeon and Translational Neuroscientist, CEO & Founder – iCE Neurosystems offering “Better Data to Save the Brain”. They have created some transformative EEG technology that derives from a different way of thinking about both data acquisition and what that means for the processing of that data. We discuss the current […]
Keeping Up With Innovation in Healthcare Starting this month I will be running a monthly review of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio You can listen in to the first episode and read more about it here where I discuss topics ranging from Healthcare insurance and surprise billing, […]
Moneyball for Medicine This week I am talking to Richard Milani, MD, (@rvmilani) Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Ochsner Health System and Preventative Medicine and Clinical Epidemiologist and Cardiovascular specialist. We met at the HIMSS 2019 AMDIS Pre-Conference: Reengineering Healthcare Delivery through Innovation. His presentation resonated with me as he focused on the importance of the underlying […]
Supporting the Healthcare Consumer Incrementally This week I am talking to David Nichols, the Patient and Family Communications Product Leader for PerfectServe (@PerfectServe) and former Founder and COO of Carewire. They are focused on achieving the vision of a care platform of the future and using Nudges – or as I call it Incrementalism. Carewire […]
Temperature and Sleep Do you struggle to get to sleep or find yourself waking up too hot or too cold? Some people need to warm up and then cool down to fall asleep. This is the principle underlying the long-held method of a warm bath before bedtime to help you sleep which is counterintuitive in […]
Design Thinking for Healthcare and Medical School This week I am talking to Dr. Clay Johnston, MD, PhD (@ClayDellMed), Dean, Dell Medical School and Vice President for Medical Affairs, UT Austin. Dr. Johnston has been the inaugural dean of Dell Medical School and is working towards a vision to create a new model for academic medicine that accelerates […]
Applying AI in Healthcare for Iterative Efficiencies This week I am talking to Dr. Falgun Chokshi, MD (@FalgunChokshiMD), a Neuroradiologist and host of the podcast “Looking Around the Corner”. Falgun’s vision is to connect a healthcare innovation ecosystem that creates collaboration and focuses on a novel but importantly practical solutions. He has experience in bioinformatics (machine learning/AI) and advanced […]
Keys to Successful Conferences How do you describe the CNS Summit and what it offers – the word impossible springs to mind? Even the name can be a little misleading especially for medical folks who might look at that and think “Central Nervous System” but actually its stands for Collaborating for Novel Solutions This coming […]
It was with interest I read a recent Viewpoint article in the Journal of American Medical Associations (JAMA) titled: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) in the Digital Age, Determining the Source Code for Nurture authored by Dr. Freddy Abnousi, the head of healthcare research at Facebook, along with a couple of other authors, Dr. John Rumsfeld, Chief Innovation Officer […]
Getting to Nationwide Interoperability Unfortunately, the existing healthcare system incentives behavior that is in opposition to the goal of scalable, nationwide, vendor-neutral interoperability. Our model has multiple groups who have a vested interest in the control and ownership of data (for example Payors, Providers, Patients). Each has their own economic and commercial drivers and in […]
The answer to that question is complex and individual and before thinking about that you should have a basic understanding of cholesterol in your body. You can learn about this from my video and blog post Statins In the previous episode, I talked about Cholesterol in your body. This week as a follow up […]
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 […]
Delivering the Care Patients Want This week I am talking to Dr. Jay Mathur, Associate Regional Medical Director for Caremore Health Systems in Connecticut. A program that started 25 years ago in California and has now expanded to multiple states and has been in Connecticut for a little over a year. This is the medicine […]
The Challenge of Security for Humans In the lead up to BlackHat and DefCon conferences I am talking to one of the leaders in that space and especially Social Engineering Chris Hadnagy (@HumanHacker), CEO & Co-Founder of Social-Engineering.com (@SocEngineerInc) and author of several books on the topic including a new one due out this summer ”Social […]
Healthcare and Travel A recent trip to the Emerald Isles to visit family and friends found us in another country and short on medication. The discovery came late on Saturday evening which could have meant another 36 hours before we could speak to a clinician during normal working hours, obtain a replacement prescription and fill […]
