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 […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of March 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 […]
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 […]
Healthcare Realities: Beyond the Headlines This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of January 2024 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 […]
New Obesity Medications Offer Hope But Not a Panacea This week I am talking to Carolyn Jasik, MD, (@DrJasik) CMO for Omada Health, a virtual-first chronic care provider helping members make lasting changes to improve health and reduce care costs for organizations Excitement is growing around new GLP-1 receptor agonist medications for treating obesity, with […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2023 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 […]
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 month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of October 2023 The show 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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
A Mother’s Heartache This week I am talking to Kelley Howard, Founder, Strategist at DigiVidBIO.com and extraordinary mother to Rachel Rigali who was featured on an earlier show (podcast and the associated blog post) with me and has now sadly died from her cancer. While both Kelley and I are working in healthcare as she describes navigating the system […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of Aug 2023 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 […]
The Comedy Show of Patient Payment (Price Transparency in Healthcare: A Stand-Up Comedy Special) This week I am talking to Ryne Natzke, Chief Revenue Officer, at TrustCommerce, a Sphere company (@SphereCommerce), a cloud-based, software and payments technology company. Ryne and I met some years back and he was kind enough to share some of the details […]
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 […]
This week I am talking to Jennifer Danielson, Chief Growth Officer at Collective Health an integrated third-party administration and navigation company delivering health benefits. Jennifer describes herself as a recovering attorney who has ‘followed the money in healthcare to understand the workings of healthcare and bring about some positive change. By now I think most of […]
This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of June 2023 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. The Dis-Information Dozen We kick off this month’s discussion. touching on the recent drivel emerging from Robert Kennedy, one […]
This week I am talking to Dominique Wells, Chief Operating Officer at Conduit Health Partners, a remote virtualization company to extend the healthcare team. Dominique started out her career in the housekeeping staff and progressed through various roles, qualifying as a nurse and through each step learning to experience and understand healthcare from the bottom up. […]
