Episode #166: From Casualty to Courageous Leader – with Todd Otten MD
Friends, This is a remarkable journey – of a physician who has gone from burnout to creating positive ‘ripples of change’ in our healthcare system. He went from being a …
Episode #165: The VA as a “test kitchen” for care transformation in US healthcare – with Dr. Cole Zanetti
Friends, This dialogue is a Master Class in Care Transformation – likely owing to our guest’s unique background, which includes preventive medicine, public health, and clinical informatics. It should …
Episode #164: Part 2 – The On-Going Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement – with Meir Kryger MD, Professor Emeritus, Yale School of Medicine
Friends, This is Part 2 of an interview that is one of the most startling I’ve posted over the past 8 years. The revelation here is that the pulse oximeters …
Episode #163: A Strategy to Provide Personalized Primary Care for Seniors – with Vivek Garg, MD, the Chief Medical Officer at Humana’s Primary Care Organization
Friends, Primary care for seniors is different from care for younger patients. Yet, very few providers across the country have a different and distinct strategy to care for their aging …
Episode #162: Addressing Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement – with Neil Friedman, COO & Co-Founder of BodiMetrics
Friends, This interview is one of the most startling I’ve posted to date. In this episode, we discover that pulse oximeters – which measure blood oxygen levels – are not …
Episode #161: Advanced Primary Care – with Neil Wagle, Chief Medical Officer at Devoted Health
Friends, As we’ve described and discussed before in this podcast, Primary Care in the US is on life-support and the prognosis does not look good. The implications for all of …
Episode #160: Widening the aperture from a ‘sick-care’ to a ‘health-care’ industry – Neal Batra, Principal in Deloitte’s Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice
Friends, In this episode we’re going to discuss the opportunity we have, collectively, to live longer and healthier lives – and the underlying transition that’s required in the healthcare industry …
Episode #159: A Master Class (part 2) in Consumer Centric Care – with Glen Tullman, Founder & CEO of Transcarent
Friends, I’ve had the great privilege of interviewing and interacting with Glen Tullman a number of times over the past few years. The last time we spoke in a formal …
Episode #158: How CMS is Transforming American Healthcare – with Dr. Meena Seshamani, Deputy Administrator & Director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Friends, The central role that Medicare, and CMS, play in our healthcare system can not be overstated. There are approximately 64 million Americans in the Medicare program, with annual payments …
Episode #157: The role of Digital Health with Dr. Eve Cunningham, Chief of Virtual Care & Digital Health for Providence
Friends, There is no question that digital health is a critical part of the future of healthcare delivery. It is what I term ‘the great enabler’. And in this interview …