The continued onslaught of cybersecurity attacks which if anything are only getting worse have impacted the healthcare system in dramatic fashion with the payment network brought down by the attack on Change Healthcare. I keep hoping that we all get better at combatting these attempts to breach our data and that overall vigilance rises as we […]
The Last Spin I am going to date myself a little here as I reminisce about my old music collection accumulated over many years. In this case, we are talking Vinyl records (link included for those who are wondering what I am talking about!). I can remember buying my first album and playing it repeatedly […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of February 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 […]
Lessons from a Chief Wellness Officer This week I am talking to Richard Safeer MD, Chief Medical Director Employee Health & Well-Being at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Richard is a Family Doctor who has focused his career on building culturally sound and caring organizations. Employee health and well-being has become a top priority for organizations in the […]
This week I am talking to Hal Baker, MD Senior Vice President & Chief Digital & Chief Information Officer at WellSpan Health that continues to be named one of the nation’s “Digital Health Most Wired” health systems by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), underscoring WellSpan’s efforts to lean into innovative technological advances to improve […]
One of Michael Crichton’s early successes was the movie “Coma” which came out in 1978. A movie based on the book of the same name by Robin Cook, MD. The book was his first break-out hit featuring corporate malfeasance and greed taken to extremes in a hospital to create a ready supply of donor organs. […]
This week I am talking to John Martin, MD, Chief Medical Officer, at Butterfly Network, Inc.(@ButterflyNetInc). John shares his personal interactions with the world of medicine both as a vascular surgeon but also as a patient. The Magic Wand of Medicine We dive into the world of healthcare innovation and technology, focusing on ultrasound imaging and […]
AI in Healthcare This week I am talking to Rob Brisk, MBChb PhD Chief Scientific Officer for Eolas Medical (@EolasMedical). Rob has a fascinating background with experience in both healthcare and machine learning and artificial intelligence. Robe shares his journey from being a physician to venturing into the world of AI and emphasizes the importance of […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2023 The show that gives you a quick insight into the latest news, twists, turns and debacles going on in healthcare with my friend and co-host Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners and myself, where every […]
This week I am talking to Dror Zur, CEO at Magentiq Eye where they are bringing the new field of deep learning and AI to the reading and processing of Colonoscopy screening. Magentiq Innovation Magentiq has developed an add-on system that enhances the efficiency of colonoscopies by aiding physicians in detecting polyps and adenomas. This technology […]
23From Chart Chaos to AI Symphony in Healthcare This week I am talking to CT Lin, MD, (@ctlin) System CMIO at UC Health who tells the story of his early entry into the world of healthcare informaticists as the “Chief Complainer”. CT delves into the complexities of electronic health records (EHRs), the pressing cybersecurity concerns, and […]
Healthcare’s Digital Dilemma This week I am talking to Don Rucker, MD (@donrucker), Chief Strategy Officer, 1upHealth (@1up_health) who is working to solve the interoperability problem in healthcare Don shared his journey from being a medical student to a physician with a keen interest in data and computers. What he saw was healthcare’s inefficiency is often due […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of Aug 2023 I am joined by The show that gives you a quick insight into the latest news, twists, turns, and debacles going on in healthcare with my friend and co-host Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners, […]
Breaking the Data Stratosphere This week I am talking to Timothy Chou, PhD Board Member, Stanford Cloud Computing Lecturer and Founder of Bevel Cloud, a Pediatric Moonshot to reduce healthcare inequity, lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes for children – locally and globally by creating privacy-preserving real-time applications based on access to data in all 1,000,000 […]
Reviving Healthcare This week I am talking to John Fryer Chief Revenue Officer Lumeris. John discusses his journey in healthcare, starting with his entry into the finance world before being influenced by innovator Neil Patterson to focus on healthcare and ended up joining and cutting his teeth at Cerner Corporation with health systems and technology, and the […]
The Tale of Prompt Engineering Gone Wild! This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of July 2023 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This month we open with a detailed discussion of the recently published […]
This week I am talking to Sadé Osotimehin, an Advanced Practice Pharmacist at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (@umsop). Sade found her passion in chemistry and developed her career around this following a path into pharmacy school and beyond. Sade discusses her journey into the field of pharmacy and her passion for chemistry and explains how she […]
This week I am talking to Benjamin Zaniello, MD MPH, the Chief Medical Officer for PointClickCare, a healthcare data integration and management company. Ben is a practicing Infectious Disease doctor who has struggled with the challenge of finding useful information in the burgeoning Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Ben is an infectious disease doctor, who has done his […]
A Recap of May’s Healthcare News This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May 2023 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. Trillion Dollar Chips This month ChatGPT continues to be a focus and trending […]
This week I am talking to Louis Mendiola, Director of Provider Partnerships at MedArrive (@medarrive) who are mobile-integrated care management solution provider. Louis shares his origin story growing up in rural Nevada in a town called Winnemucca which provided him with great insight into the challenges of delivering local care We talk about the last mile of health care […]
This week I am talking to David Nash, MD (@nashpophealth) the founding Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy at Jefferson College of Population Health. David like me have family working in front-line healthcare and struggled through the pandemic response and the enormous challenges this placed on our healthcare system and the staff who work in healthcare. We […]
This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of April 2023 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. With the recent announcement “Risant Health launches with Geisinger” with Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Geisinger Health joining forces we discuss what […]
When the Titanic Goes Down, All Ships Sink This week I am talking to Julien Pham, MD, Managing Partner of Third Culture Capital, an immigrant-founded, physician-led, seed-stage VC firm focused on emerging health tech and techbio companies that are revolutionizing modern care delivery while optimizing and reshaping the experience of care for both patients and […]
The Journey of a Tech-Savvy Doctor Who Won’t Let Chat GPT Make His Bed (Yet) This week I am talking to, Justin Norden, MD (@JustinNordenMD), Partner at GSR Ventures (@GSRVentures) who is a digital health investor and educator at Stanford Medicine. Like so many of my guests, Justin’s career start was different and interesting leading […]
Vive Wrap Up This week I am talking to Gautam Gulati, MD (aka DrG @drgautamgulati) and HealthcareNowRadio’s very own Editor in Chief Roberta Mullin (@mssoftware) to take a look back at the Vive event that took place in Nashville at the end of March. There were some well-received presentations and stand-out content and direction from […]
