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This week I am talking to Sajad Zalzala, MD, the co-founder of Qalytude a new company featured in a story on CNBC by Chrissy Farr. They are focusing on the longevity and some of the medications that are currently being studied with some intriguing data points to suggest they may be useful in extending lives. He started […]
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 […]
Staying Relevant In 2009 we watched and were entertained by The Repair of the Hubble Space Telescope We were still knee-deep in the Financial Crisis that began in 2007 The Icelandic banking system collapsed taking the government with it Michael Jackson died The NY Yankees won the World Series (Go Nats!) Mobile Phone Technology use […]
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, […]
Your Hospital Bill is How Much? I’d like to tell you this is an unusual occurrence but this sorry tale is so common that I’ve come to expect these stories to emerge on a regular basis. This one striking just a little bit closer to home when a friend reached out for help. They were […]
The benefits of Fasting Intermittent fasting (IF) continues to be of major interest as evidenced by the number of views and comments. So to follow up on my original vlog on intermittent fasting, I wanted to offer some additional data on this area and the fancy name of Time-Restricted Fasting First off, like all things […]
Do You Need to Take Supplements A recent editorial in the Annals of Medicine by my friend Dr. Eric Topol and his colleague Dr. Pandey caught my eye. Dispense With Supplements for Improving Heart Outcomes. In the United states, nearly 75% of people are taking some supplement or another with the supplement market set to […]
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 […]
What is Cinnamon You might have heard of Cinnamon – no not Cinnamon the dog in the Big Bang Theory and the only non-human semi-regular cast member but rather the spice and more importantly something you need to be taking for its amazing health benefits. But should you be adding this to your daily collection […]
Medication Adherence This week I am talking to Tom Kottler, CEO fo HealthPrize (@HealthPrize) focused on improving the patient experience and using behavioral techniques to induce better healthier behavior. Tom has been an entrepreneur in healthcare for more than 20 years and has launched 4 successful companies. He came to Healthprize as he discovered the terrifying statistics […]
Is Turmeric a Wonder Drug Thanks to one of my viewers for the request to cover the spice Turmeric. There’s certainly plenty of interest in the compound with 100’s of registered trials consuming large amounts of investigational resources with claims of reducing inflammation, dementia and Alzheimer’s, heart disease, depression, and cancer. Wow! But should you […]
Aspirin is in the news again with the latest article published in JAMA this past week: A Practical Approach to Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention. Building on the ASPREE, ASCEND and ARRIVE trials and a recent meta-analysis: Association of Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention With Cardiovascular Events and Bleeding Events: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, […]
This week I am talking to Vikas Shah MBE (@MrVikas), a successful entrepreneur from the age of 14 and investor. I met him at the World Health Congress for Europe that took place in Manchester where his presentation “How to Save Your Own Life” which touched a raw and emotional part of our world that […]
Gaming Medical Education This week I am talking to Eric Gantwerker, MD (@DrEricGant) a pediatric ENT-otolaryngologist and also a Vice President, Medical Director at Level Ex – a gaming company focused on tapping into gaming technology for medicine and healthcare. You can get a sense of the technology from their introductory video for CardioEx which […]
No More Sneakernet This week I am talking to Kevin McGrail (@KAMcGrail), Director of Business Growth at Infrashield and one of a few patients suffering from a rare disease “Anti DPPx Paraneoplastic Neurological Disorder” (you can read more about these diseases here) – one of only a handful of patients diagnosed with this. Kevin is […]
I spoke with Tim Eggena, Chief Strategy Officer for Diasyst at the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) Connected Health Demo & Reception at the Rayburn House Office Building Diasyst has a unique approach to Diabetes management. They allow patients to manually report their sugar results via a smartphone app, but for those that don’t have a […]
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 […]
I spoke with Kent Dicks, CEO for Life365 at the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) Connected Health Demo & Reception at the Rayburn House Office Building Life365 is a solution agnostic Digital Health as a Service (DHaaS) software platform that integrates devices, systems, applications, education and incentives to align with specific user needs to enable maximum patient […]
The Morass of Healthcare in the United States Reading through the litany of challenges in healthcare on a daily basis is depressing. That is unless you are in one of the fortunate groups that have healthcare coverage that actually pays those bills and doesn’t cost so much to be unaffordable. So who manages to get […]
Imagination from InspiRen This week I am talking to Mike Wang, CEO and Founder of Inspiren and Paul Coyne, Co-Founder, and President. In case you are wondering about the company name Inspiren is a combination of Inspiration and the Chinese word ren a Confucian virtue denoting the good feeling a virtuous human experiences when being altruistic […]
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 […]
I managed to catch David Mitchell (@DavidP4AD) after his presentation at the Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit, put on by West Health, that took place today at the Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC. David has Multiple Myeloma – an incurable drug cancer that is treatable by very expensive drugs. Drugs that cost […]
Dementia and How to Reimagine Life With It This week I am talking to Dr Tia Powell, (@tiapowell) the Director for the Center for Bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center (@MontefioreNYC) and an expert in Dementia and author of the book: Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End. We talk about […]
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 […]
