This week I am talking to Sanjula Jain, PhD (@sanjula_jain), SVP Market Strategy & Chief Research Officer at Trilliant Health (@TrilliantHealth), a company focused on healthcare industry expertise, market research, and predictive analytics to create evidence-based direction for Healthcare. Sanjula has like many of my guests an interesting background and origin story but in her case set […]
This week I am talking to Jamie Pagliaro, EVP and Chief Learning Officer at RethinkFirst (@Rethink_First), a software and solutions provider in behavioral health that offers evidence-based treatment tools, training, and clinical support. Jaimie has an interesting origin story that set him on the path of treating autism and spectrum disorders leading to creating the ReThink First Company […]
This week I am talking to Tom Stanis (@TomStanis), CEO of StoryHealth (@StoryHealthAI), a company that combines virtual care, remote monitoring, and AI to bridge the data gap between health system specialists, primary care doctors, and patients to extend care for patients with severe conditions with their first focus around heart failure, as they return […]
For memorial weekend Fred and I discuss the challenge of vaccine resistance in the US and around the world, some of the history behind the myths, snake-oil, mis and dis-information that circulates misleading people. We address the safety concerns that some have and highlight the long scientific foundation of the vaccines (On the Shoulders of […]
This week I discuss the “hold” on the Astrazeneca Oxford SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, AZD1222, Phase 3 vaccine trial. History is replete with learning opportunities and thankfully science is always trying to use these insights for their benefit of the advancement of our understanding. Case in point we have learned much about vaccine safety and how-to bring vaccines […]
Vaccines Work and Twice Over This week I am talking to Dr. Richard Pan, MD, MPH, (@DrPanMD) a pediatrician and California State Senator. He has been a leading advocate of increasing the health of everyone and raising California’s vaccination rates, sadly making him a target for online harassment and in-person assaults by conspiracy theorists and […]
Coronavirus The statistics are jarring – as of the latest update from WHO of 77,794 confirmed (599 new) cases globally with the majority coming from China with 2,348 deaths in China and 11 outside of China. The fatality rate in the point of origin (Wuhan China) is between 2-4% but outside of this region fatality […]
Connecting the Dots This week I am talking to Matthew Michela, President, and CEO of Life Image a company trying to navigate the deluge of information and connecting the dots in the data-rich world of healthcare that remains knowledge poor. Matthew has been in the healthcare industry for an extended period of time and shares […]
This week I am talking to Brian Powers, MD, (@brianwpowers) resident physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. As you will hear he has already achieved a great deal as an emerging voice in Amerian Medicine but we focused on the recently published paper “Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health […]
Personal Medical Consultant I was lucky to catch up with Doug Lindsay, an expert patient and now working to offer his special skills and experience to other patients in need of help navigating the healthcare system. He was part of the panel at Health Datapalooza: Taking Charge of Your Own Health – Insights and stories from patients/caregivers […]
Personal Medical Consultant I was lucky to catch up with Doug Lindsay, an expert patient and now working to offer his special skills and experience to other patients in need of help navigating the healthcare system. He was part of the panel at Health Datapalooza: Taking Charge of Your Own Health – Insights and stories from patients/caregivers […]
The crown jewels of British society The NHS was the crown jewels of British society providing healthcare to every member of society no matter who they were, where they came from and what personal resources they had. It was the great leveler of society creating a single standard of care and service that was accessible […]
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 […]
Preventative Health for Everyone This week I am talking Joshua Scalar, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer for BioIQ where they are working to seamlessly connect people to preventative health testing by removing the friction from the system and allowing as many people as possible to access essential, cost-effective life saving preventative testing services. Josh […]
Medical School Candidate Selection Are we are selecting the wrong candidates for medical school and not teaching them the skills they really need to be good doctors? I’m a doctor first – anytime anyone asks me what I do the first words out of my mouth are “I’m a Doctor”, followed by a follow-up explanation […]
The Fake Science Factory In hindsight, the Waset publishing organization (I’m not linking to it so as not to help their SEO – waset DOT org) should have refunded Chris (Suggy) Sumner’s money when he asked for it, but the rest of Science thanks them for not doing that. So launched a year-long deep dive into […]
Including SDoH in Healthcare More than ever before, the social determinants of health (SDOH) are getting some well-deserved attention when it comes to their role in impacting an individual’s relative health status. Here at BaseHealth, seeing as we’re in the business of predicting health status, we’ve focused significant time and effort on understanding how SDOH […]
Many patients have underlying issues with their health. Oftentimes, these issues can be identified by certain markers, like a patient’s speech pattern, gait or by looking at vital signs including blood pressure, heart rate, and weight. To an untrained eye, it might be unnoticeable, but physicians are trained to look for these patterns as […]
Hurry up and Implement Innovation has had a tendency to move at glacial pace and history is littered with scientific discoveries that took a long time to reach our world and have an impact on our lives. So many areas in our lives – math and complex numbers discovered in the 16th Century that were originally […]
The Great Healthcare Debate Healthcare is personal and front and center in our minds not just because we all intersect with it in some way but it employs 1 in 9 people in the United States. With the current state of our media and political system with polarized debates, he said she said talking heads […]
Like many I was saddened to hear the loss of one of my heroes growing up – Leonard Nimoy was Spock to me as he was to many others. He epitomized the value of science and logic in the resolution of problems As my good Friend Jane Sarasohn-Kahn highlighted in her tribute on Healthpopuli: Learning from […]
The Physician (#DrHIT) Symposium at #HIMSS14Opening session was eloquently covered by Robert Wah, MD (@RobertWahMD) detailing the spectrum of issues ranging from the new Healthcare System: The challenge of SGR “fix(es)” and the evolution of the systems we are implementing and the value proposition. As he put it Quality of care is improved with better information — […]
It can be frustrating to be a clinician in the era of the internet and instantaneous availability of data especially when the reliability and accuracy is variable. But this is the world we live in and there is plenty of data showing that patients are accessing information in ever increasing numbers. The challenge has been […]
This recent post on the Atlantic: How CPR Became So Popular reminded me of a piece I wrote some time back – Doctors Die Differently. As I said then: Its not that doctors don’t want to die, its just that they knwo they know enough about modern medicine to know its limits, importantly they have […]
A recent article on the The Difference between Science and Technology in Birth on the AMA site demonstrates the challenges we still face in getting clicnal practice influenced by science and data. Studies and data may show the path for best clinical practice but as the authors note there are multiple instances of the clinical community […]
