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 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. […]
This week I am talking to Sanjula Jain, PhD (@sanjula_jain), SVP Market Strategy & Chief Research Officer at Trilliant Health (@TrilliantHealth), a company focused on healthcare industry expertise, market research, and predictive analytics to create evidence-based direction for Healthcare. Sanjula has like many of my guests an interesting background and origin story but in her case set […]
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 week I am talking to Joshua Titus, CEO of Gozio (@GozioHealth) a company who have an unwavering focus on customer experience and healthcare consumer engagement. We dive into Joshua’s early work with nVidea and first-person gaming (do you remember the regional MS-DOS First person Shooter game Doom) that allowed him to build a portfolio […]
This week I am talking to Alex Jahangir, MD, (@alexjahangir) Vice president for business development, vice-chair of orthopedic surgery, and director of the division of orthopedic trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, (@VanderbiltUP) as well as the executive medical director of the Vanderbilt Trauma, Burn, and Emergency Surgery Patient Care Center. He is the author […]
This month is our final episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2022 and a close-out to the year As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. We discuss the latest news out of China which is grappling with […]
This week I am talking to Kim Biddings, VP of Product for BIO-key (@BIOkeyIntl) a company focused on providing tools to uniquely and securely identify individuals to allow secure access. Kim is an expert in cybersecurity, biometric identification, and Identity and Access Management, and also a pastry chef in the making. We talk about the importance of security in […]
Month before This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of May 2022 As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners. This month we discuss the shortage of clinical professionals in particular nurses that was temporarily ‘solved’ (this […]
This week I am talking to Darin Vercillo, MD, chief medical officer and co-founder of ABOUT Healthcare, Inc (@ABOUT_est2005) who offer intelligent access and coordination across healthcare networks. Darin is a board-certified and practicing hospitalist who describes sitting in an ER department with a colleague, where as usual the hospital was full with patients backing up […]
This week I am talking to Jeff Fallon, (@IamJeffFallon) Chairman and CEO of eVideon (@evideonhealth) who are delivering solutions to engage with patients using one of the few patient facing tools to be found in hospital rooms. Jeff spent the early part of his career in the medical device and pharmaceutical space but like myself […]
Healthcare Data Finally Freed This week I am talking to Jay Sultan, Vice President of Strategy, Healthcare, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, who arrived into healthcare as a technologists and software. His intersection with healthcare started out with personal frustration and disbelief of the lack of sharing of information and systems thinking that was pervasive. The great news […]
This week we discuss the importance of mask wearing which as one observer noted When the CDC issued its mask guidance two months ago, it got the science right, but the policy and communication wrong…..the backsliding of the United States’ pandemic progress necessitated the return of indoor masking. This has happened because of those who […]
The latest data is creating additional concerns with the rising incidence of the Delta variant that is running through communities, especially those that are unvaccinated. There are a number of factors at play with increased transmissibility that appears to be attributable to the virus shedding in infected individuals earlier and at high rates (Viral infection […]
