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Groups Recover Together This week I am talking to Gus Crothers, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Groups Recover Together (find out more here) who have focused on solving the Opiod Use Disorder (OUD). Gus’ journey to this role is interesting as he described his ‘beginner’s mindset’ that allowed him to see the opioid epidemic with fresh eyes […]
Market Based Medication Pricing Interacting with the healthcare system does nothing for my health and renewing a prescription is yet another painful experience. What about you? What stands in the way of a positive health experience Getting a prescription from the gatekeeper – your overworked primary care physician Insurance who impose arbitrary rules limiting how much […]
This week I am talking to David Hunt, Founder & President of the Cosán Group – which is Gaelic for path, a path that David has been on since growing up in the Boston area with a tight knit family. His career started out in the Medicare world which provided some early insights into the challenges […]
Supporting a Caring Health System This week I am talking to Collin O’Neill, the CEO of Pilleve (@Pilleve1) and Gautam Chebrolu, the Founder and CTO of Pilleve a company addressing the devastating effects of the opioid crisis with innovative technology built to work within the existing pharmaceutical distribution systems. The company’s early roots came from personal experiences bound […]
Tracking my Vitals I recently was sent wearable device that is now recording a wide range of metrics about me – all at a fraction of the cost of some of the devices on the market. Expect more news on this in the future. In fact I am now able to track on a regular basis […]
This week we Fred and I discuss the long tail of COVID19 that is impacting many people with “Long COVID” discussing some of the theories, what symptoms people see with Long COVID which was characterized by symptoms of fatigue, headache, dyspnea and anosmia and was more likely with increasing age and body mass index and […]
This week I am talking to James Mault, MD, CEO of BioIntelliSense (@BioIntelliSense), who started out as a Cardiopulmonary technician and found his path and career by way of a mentor, Bob Bartlett with the father of ECMO to become a Cardiothoracic surgeon. His early experiences drove his desire for more complete monitoring, closer to the experience […]
Fixing Healthcare This week I am talking to Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, (@sacjai) President and CEO of the SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan that is focused on keeping seniors healthy and Independent. Sachin is a physician by training, but has had tours of duty in the federal government, pharma industry, managed care and care delivery and as a result has […]
This week I am talking to Ron Chiarello, PhD (@roncphd) CEO and founder of Alveo Technologies, bringing diagnostic testing into the home: Everyone, Anytime, Everywhere Ron started his career in physics where he was involved in low temperature technology and testing for contamination using high intensity x-rays. Like me he was influenced by the original Star Trek […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Winter Weather What? There is no doubting the challenges over the last several months with the COVID19 pandemic that has affected so much of our work and lives. Many have struggled with the changing advice around face coverings which in the very early days of the pandemic were discouraged as seen in this transcript from […]
This week’s discussion centers on the latest trend of “Vaccine Shopping”. What’s that you ask – I had the same question. For some who are struggling with accessing appointments, worried that their appointment might be canceled, or even thinking they want to pick and choose the vaccine they get, they are booking multiple appointments. While […]
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 […]
Looking Back at 2020 This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December and a look back at the 2020 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovation in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on […]
To close out the year Fred Goldstein and I review the things that took place in 2020 in healthcare generally that includes: A renewed focus on “Surprise billing” Getting everyone including patients seamless health data access Drug pricing transparency and why the US pays so much more The FDA warns Vaping is bad for your […]
This week I am talking to Dr. Zoë McLaren, Ph.D. (@ZoeMcLaren) Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Zoë has a broad and deep set of experiences when it comes to effectively gathering data to combat infectious disease, especially in resource-limited countries, and has commented and written on […]
Airflow in South Korean Restaurant Two studies recently released build on earlier work to inform our understanding of airflow and how it spreads the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Fred reviews the airflow in cars and highlights important actionable information on optimum means of diminishing the risk of spreading the disease to other passengers in the car and […]
Inspiration Exchange This week I am talking to Adam Gonzalez, Ph.D., Director of Behavioral Health at Stony Brook Medicine (@StonyBrookMed) and the work they have done to mitigate ether enormous strains placed on healthcare workers dealing with the COVID19 pandemic. Building on the creation of the Mind-Body Clinical Research Center that was created back in […]
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 […]
