2:07 - 2:13 Scott: “It was originally sort of a hobby and a marketing effort to develop a brand in health care.” 16:22 - 16:25 Scott: “So I understood the niche marketing concept, being in a niche within health care.” 19:10 - 19:18 Scott: “It wasn’t until 7-8 years ago when we started, you know, really thinking about this as a serious business, where somebody said, ‘Oh, you’re in business-to-business media.’” 24:28 - 24:51 John: “I just get the sense that there’s still this antagonistic relation...
Mar 05, 2021•40 min•Ep. 125
Kevin Hrusovsky, Precision Health Visionary, Chairman & CEO, Quanterix Kevin Hrusovsky is a biotech entrepreneur and healthcare visionary who has dedicated his career to transforming medicine into preventative and personalized healthcare. Hrusovsky currently serves as the President, Chairman and CEO of Quanterix, a company digitizing biomarker analysis to advance Precision Health, and is the founder of Powering Precision Health (PPH). He holds an M.B.A. from Ohio University and a B.S. in Mec...
Feb 26, 2021•38 min•Ep. 124
Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., is director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice and Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine and Health Policy at Dartmouth University’s Geisel School of Medicine. As a recognized leading health care researcher and advocate for improving health system performance, Dr. Fisher previously contributed to the concept of the “accountable care organizations” (ACOs) and has influenced research within the development of the Aff...
Nov 13, 2020•58 min•Ep. 123
John Gorman is the founder and Chairman of Nightingale Partners, the first Opportunity Zone fund to invest in social determinants of health interventions with health insurers, states, and provider organizations. He is the Founder and former Executive Chairman of Gorman Health Group. John’s work focuses on Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act strategy, governance, and turnaround of distressed health plans. Prior to founding his firm, John served as Assistant to the Director of Health Care ...
Oct 30, 2020•35 min•Ep. 122
William B. Weeks, MD, PhD, MBA, is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Healthcare NExT. Dr. Weeks has published a book and over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts examining economic and business aspects of health care services utilization and delivery, physicians’ return on educational investment, health care delivery science, and healthcare value. Dr. Weeks has been honored with the 2009 National Rural Health Association Outstanding Researcher Award, the 2016 Jerome F McAndrews award for excellence ...
Oct 23, 2020•33 min•Ep. 121
Dan Pelino is an innovator, thought leader and author. He is a regular contributor to the discussion on healthcare, citizen-based services and Smarter Cities having appeared on CNN, Bloomberg, the BBC and other media outlets. He serves as a moderator and host to the current healthcare debate and is an adjunct professor lecturing on Leadership at Western Kentucky University. He has worked for IBM for 36 years, leading its global Healthcare and Life Sciences Business for 10 years. On behalf of IBM...
Oct 16, 2020•41 min•Ep. 120
Eric Levin is CEO of Scripta Insights. Eric is a seasoned executive and serial entrepreneur who has created and managed products that have sold well in excess of $5 billion. He has been involved in more than 32 mergers and acquisitions and helped to grow several companies from startup through large-scale global success. After beginning his career at a market-leading consumer electronics retailer, Eric joined Kevin O’Leary (of TV’s Shark Tank fame) in the consumer technology business as part of t...
Oct 09, 2020•48 min•Ep. 119
John Sory is the President of Vohra Wound Physicians . Sory has been an integral part of Vohra since March 2018 and brings 25 years of extensive expertise in healthcare management. Today, he is responsible for managing Vohra’s core operations and key strategic initiatives. Formerly, he served as the Chief Executive, UHealth Regional Alliance for the University of Miami Health System (UHealth) where he oversaw affiliations and expansion, health plan relationships, and new reimbursement models. He...
Oct 02, 2020•32 min•Ep. 118
David Contorno is a nationally recognized thought leader and author on disrupting health care and delivering better care at lower costs for employers and their employees. David spends much of his time educating the industry, including his competition, on how to bring these cost-effective healthcare solutions to the masses. In 2016, Forbes named David as “One of America’s Most Innovative Benefits Leaders. John Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a health...
Sep 25, 2020•37 min•Ep. 117
Stewart Gandolf, MBA Stewart Gandolf, is Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Success, one of the nation’s leading healthcare and digital marketing agencies. Over the past 20 years, Stewart has marketed and consulted for over 1,000 healthcare clients, ranging from practices and hospitals to multi-billion dollar corporations. A frequent speaker, Stewart has shared his expertise at over 200 venues nationwide. As an author and expert resource, Stewart has also written for many leading industry pub...
Sep 18, 2020•41 min•Ep. 116
Karthik Ganesh is the CEO at EmpiRx Health, the industry’s only value-based PBM, with a clinically- focused and tech-enabled approach to bending the Rx cost curve. Prior to EmpiRx Health, Karthik was the founding operations leader of CareAllies. Karthik is a senior health care executive with a solid track record of comprehensively scaling, transforming and maximizing value at tech-enabled health service companies while driving dramatic before-and-after results across all facets of the organizati...
Sep 11, 2020•43 min•Ep. 115
Stefan Behrens the CEO and co-founder of GYANT. GYANT creates digital assistant for healthcare – the software helps triage, navigate, and inform patients along the continuum of care. Prior to GYANT, Stefan has had great success as an entrepreneur. As Co-Founder and COO of Invincible Brands, he oversaw the launch and development of two lifestyle brands (Natural Mojo and Hello Body) in the healthy living space. Stefan also spent a decade in strategy consulting, driving large-scale transformation p...
Sep 04, 2020•30 min•Ep. 114
Twila Brase is President and Co-Founder of Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), a national patient-centered nonprofit established 25 years ago in Minnesota to support health care choices, individualized patient care and medical and genetic privacy. She is author of the eight-time award-winning book Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth About Electronic Health Records, which was published in July 2018. Modern Healthcare named her #75 on their 2009 “100 Most Powerful People in ...
Aug 28, 2020•44 min•Ep. 113
Ameet Wattamwar, PharmD, is the Director of Specialty Pharmacy for the NYU Langone Hospitals System. Prior to this role, he was Vice President of Client Strategies for PHS, AmerisourceBergen’s health system facing consulting arm where he specialized in specialty & ambulatory pharmacy development, 340b optimization, and other pharmacy centric cost savings, and efficiency-focused initiatives. Ameet has also consulted for pharmaceutical manufacturers in addition to practicing pharmacy across va...
Aug 21, 2020•36 min•Ep. 112
Brian Paradis is a senior partner with CSuite Solutions, a national strategic advisory firm. CSuite Solutions is led by former healthcare industry CEOs focused on the transition and practical strategies to move healthcare industry from “volume to value.” Previously, Paradis was president of Florida Hospital’s Central Region, a $4billion enterprise with over 25,000 employees and 2,000 physicians. Under his leadership, Florida Hospital was the #1 ranked hospital in Florida by the US News and World...
Aug 14, 2020•50 min•Ep. 111
Neil Meltzer, President and CEO of LifeBridge Health since 2013. Meltzer joined Sinai Hospital of Baltimore as Vice President of Operations in 1988, and a decade later became Sinai’s President and Chief Operating Officer. Meltzer has a background in public health and brings a community-focused approach to every health care decision. He serves on the boards of the Greater Baltimore Committee, Notre Dame of Maryland University, the Maryland Hospital Association, the Hippodrome Foundation and Every...
Aug 07, 2020•30 min•Ep. 110
Dr. David S. Hong is deputy chair of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He also serves as associate vice president for Clinical Research and clinical medical director of the Clinical Center for Targeted Therapy. Dr. Hong received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Yale University and a medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then completed an internship and residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and a medical ...
Jul 31, 2020•53 min•Ep. 109
Bob Roth founded Cypress with his family in 1994 and has been at the helm as Managing Partner since December 2003. Experienced in consumer products, healthcare and software since 1984, Bob is considered an innovator of technologies used to enhance communication and effectively support customers and peers in the health and home care industries. Bob was a finalist for the 2015 Phoenix Business Journal’s prestigious Healthcare Heroes award. In 2013 Cypress was awarded the Better Business Bureau’s B...
Jul 24, 2020•46 min•Ep. 108
David Radley David Radley is a senior scientist for The Commonwealth Fund’s Tracking Health System Performance program. Dr. Radley and his team develop national, state, and substate regional analyses on health care system performance and related insurance and care system market structure analyses. He is also a senior study director at Westat, a research firm that supports the Scorecard project. He joined the Commonwealth Fund in July 2010 from Abt Associates where he was associate in Domestic He...
Jul 17, 2020•46 min•Ep. 107
Dr. Allen Weiss graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and is board certified in Rheumatology, Internal Medicine, and Geriatrics. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology. In 2017, Dr. Weiss became an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and was also elected to the American Hospital Association Board. He’s been named to Becker’s Top 100 Outstanding Physician leaders of healthcar...
Jul 10, 2020•28 min•Ep. 106
Scott Hylla, Director; Health Systems Scott Hylla is the Director of Health Systems for Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. He has served in various roles spanning a 28 year career in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently in leading the Sunovion Health Systems team in the development and execution of collaborative strategies in the transformational IDN marketplace. Scott has a BS in Biology from St. John’s University and an MBA in Healthcare Management from the Opus College of Business, Universit...
Jun 26, 2020•30 min•Ep. 105
Dr. Curtis Page is quite invested in health care reform and currently serves as the CEO & president of the Commonwealth Primary Care Accountable Care Association, an entity that represents over 50 primary care practices in Maricopa County and Flagstaff. The Commonwealth ACO is primarily focused on redesigning the healthcare delivery system to place primary care and their patients at the center of the healthcare paradigm. Dr. Page went to Harvard Medical School and is double board certified i...
Jun 19, 2020•35 min•Ep. 104
Sean Sullivan, JD Sean Sullivan is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of the Institute for Health and Productivity Management, as well as the WorkPlace Wellness Alliance which was created by the World Economic Forum, now managed and sustained by the Institute. Founded in 1997, the Institute is a global enterprise that serves as a catalyst and champion for a growing international movement to establish health as the new “human capital asset” and source of competitive workforce advantage for the 21s...
Jun 12, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 103
Joshua Lenchus, DO, RPh, FACP, SFHM Joshua Lenchus holds a pharmacy degree from the University of Florida, and graduated from Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2000. He currently works as a hospitalist at Jackson Memorial Hospital for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. In 2012, was elected as the youngest and the first osteopathic President of the Jackson Health System medical staff and chairman of its medical executive committee. He was subsequently...
Jun 05, 2020•31 min•Ep. 102
About Darwin Research Group Darwin Research Group Inc. provides advanced market intelligence and in-depth customer insights to health care executives, with a strategic focus on health care delivery systems and the global shift toward value-based care. Darwin’s client list includes forward-thinking biopharmaceutical and medical device companies, as well as health care providers, private equity, and venture capital firms. The company was founded in 2010 as Darwin Advisory Partners, LLC and is head...
May 29, 2020•33 min•Ep. 101
This week on Health Care Rounds, as we wrap up our third season, we are celebrating our 100th episode! Tune in as John and podcast producer Kim Ascuitto share highlights from some of our best episodes, covering topics like Big Pharma, our aging population, care management, value-based care, and the changing health care delivery environment. In this episode, we include clips from the following guests: Ramon Soto, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Northwell Health Dr. Curtis Page, CEO, C...
May 08, 2020•54 min•Ep. 100
This week, John speaks with Debbie Welle-Powell, Chief Population Health Officer with Essentia Health. They discuss what it means to be a value-based organization and what services bring value to patients. They also identify opportunities for bending the cost curve for future value-based contracts and recognizing the need for coordinated care. Debbie shares some of her experiences in managing provider value to patients as well as maintaining patient engagement. She also touches on the positive i...
May 01, 2020•51 min•Ep. 99
Today on Health Care Rounds, John speaks with Kyle Swarts and Dr. Matt Lambert. They discuss their journey to simplify value-based care with Curation Health, an advanced clinical decision support platform serving the health care community in improving overall performance. In this episode, Swarts and Dr. Lambert emphasize their aim to navigate a strategy to close care gaps between providers and patients while maintaining overall satisfaction. They also discuss the high demand of value-based care ...
Apr 24, 2020•36 min•Ep. 98
Today on Health Care Rounds, John sits down with Rosemarie Day, founder and CEO of Day Health Strategies. Rosemarie talks about her passion for health care reform and introduces her new book, Marching Toward Coverage : How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare. Rosemarie emphasizes the power that women bring to the health care reform movement and why women need to be at the forefront of change. CONNECT WITH US: 🌐 Visit us on the web 🌐 Follow Health Care Rounds on LinkedIn 🌐 Follow...
Apr 17, 2020•36 min•Ep. 97
This week, Health Care Rounds welcomes Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of Catalyst for Payment Reform. Suzanne shares her experiences in improving the health care system and gives an outlook on payment reform and thought leadership. In this episode, Suzanne notes that employers and other health care purchasers focus on the importance of integrated care, overall value, and the main cost drivers in health care. Suzanne reveals the relevance in addressing social determinants of health and seek...
Apr 10, 2020•37 min•Ep. 96
