A Radical Approach to Cutting Costs and Empowering Employees In this week’s special edition of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio I sat down with Adam Russo, CEO and Founder of Phia, to explore the company and its benefits program and rethinking the way you offer benefits to your employees. This is part 1 […]
The stream of news, articles, and commentary on AI has not let up for months, and if, like me, you are wondering what it all means to you, you are not alone. You are probably having a hard time deciding on the personal impact and depending but no matter where you fall on the spectrum […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of March 2026 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 […]
The TSA PreCheck for Your Doctor’s Office If you have flown commercially in the last decade, you know the exact moment the frustration sets in, and if you are flying now, all I can say is good luck. 🙁 It isn’t when the middle seat reclines into your knees. It isn’t even the turbulence. It […]
Every kitchen has one. The junk drawer. It’s where everything ends up that doesn’t quite belong anywhere else, spare batteries, random keys, rubber bands, a half-used roll of tape, mysterious cables from devices you no longer own. Somewhere in that chaotic mix is a tool you actually need. Maybe a tiny screwdriver. But when you […]
I love people watching, and airports are a perfect space and excellent laboratories of human behavior. We’re tired, stressed, hungry, and operating on partial information, and that’s before you even get through the security obstacle course. It is basically the same conditions that define much of our healthcare system. On a recent trip, I […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of February 2026 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 […]
In this special edition of News You Can Use on HealthcareNOWRadio, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Adolph V. Lombardi, Jr., MD, FACS an orthopedic surgeon based in New Albany, Ohio, who has performed more than 38,000 joint replacements over nearly four decades. We explored why total hip replacement, once called the “operation […]
Years ago, I was driving across states with a good friend and colleague from Spain. We stopped in at a gas station that had a Subway restaurant on the side. When my Spanish colleague was asked if he wanted his sandwich “To Go,” he looked at me quizzically and asked what they meant (he spoke […]
Sit at a busy café in Paris long enough and something unsettling happens: nothing. The waiter doesn’t sprint. No one is shouting about table turnover. There’s no laminated sign behind the counter promising a “Server of the Month” bonus for fastest espresso delivery. And yet, miracle of miracles, the place runs smoothly. Orders arrive. Coffee […]
I sat down with Dr. Chris Olson, Vice President of Design Impact at Mass General Brigham, and was struck by how his journey through medicine and global health has shaped his work today. From refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border to post-tsunami recovery in Aceh, Chris learned firsthand that healthcare innovation doesn’t come from […]
In this week’s special edition of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio I sat down with John Bou, President of Modio Health (a CHG company), to explore the company’s remarkable journey from a garage startup to a NASDAQ-listed pioneer in Edge AI. Healthcare’s Worst Escape Room John Bou is the co-founder and President of Modio […]
In this week’s special edition of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio I sat down with Dinakar Munagala, CEO of Blaze, to explore the company’s remarkable journey from a garage startup to a NASDAQ-listed pioneer in Edge AI. Dinakar shares his background in chip design at Intel, where he contributed to graphics processors for Apple […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2024 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 […]
This month’s episode of “News You Can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of July 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 […]
This week I am talking to Avantika Waring, MD, Chief Medical Officer at 9amHealth who focuses on hands-on, everyday help with diabetes, weight loss, and heart health. Avantika shares her career journey into health tech and the virtual diabetes care program at 9 am Health. She explained how they provide comprehensive wraparound care including physicians, nutritionists, health coaches, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
