HealthBiz with David E. Williams

As of March 2025, HealthBiz has moved to CareTalk: Healthecare Unfiltered and can be accessed on:

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The HealthBiz podcast features in-depth interviews on healthcare business, technology and policy with entrepreneurs and CEOs. Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting boutique, Health Business Group https://healthbusinessgroup.com/ a board member and investor in private healthcare companies, and author of the Health Business Blog. His strategic and humorous approach to healthcare provides a refreshing break from the usual BS. Connect with David on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/davideugenewilliams

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ICER’s Dr. Steve Pearson and the COVID drug pricing model

Drug pricing is the hottest topic in healthcare, and ICER founder Dr. Steve Pearson is the coolest person to discuss it with. In this episode of the HealthBiz podcast, Steve describes how ICER compiles and analyzes clinical evidence to estimate the fair value of treatments for COVID-19 and other serious illnesses. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https...

Nov 12, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 8

Jean Mixer: Boston Children’s digital health maven

Jean Mixer is Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital. She discusses digital health, the pandemic, and what she'd do if she had a time machine. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website ht...

Nov 05, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 7

Friends do business together: Clerio Vision’s Totterman and Zapesochny

Mike Totterman and Alex Zapesochny are childhood friends who've started two successful healthcare technology companies together. Listen to their latest plans to upend the LASIK and contact lens markets. Show notes: Mike’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/totterman/ Alex’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/zapesochny/ iCardiac Technologies (now part of ERT) https://www.ert.com/icardiac/ Clerio Vision https://www.cleriovision.com/ The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horo...

Oct 29, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 6

The 30 Years’ War for value-based care: Archway’s Dave Terry

When Dave Terry started his career in healthcare three decades ago, he noticed something odd and disturbing. The fee-for-service model meant doctors were paid for quantity, not for quality or cost effectiveness. Since then he’s been working to do something about it: for the first twenty years at American Practice Management, then Partners Healthcare and Harborside Healthcare. He made progress, but also learned the limitations of acting against entrenched interests. For the last decade he’s gotte...

Oct 22, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Pharma jumps into digital health: Medullan’s Ahmed Albaiti

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the last to be transformed by the digital revolution. But companies like Roche and Novartis have been experimenting for a long while, and the fruits are finally ripening. Medullan CEO Ahmed Albaiti is a digital health pioneer. In this episode of the HealthBiz podcast, he takes us on a trip down the memory lane of digital health, sharing pharma’s successes and failures. We discuss the shock brought on by COVID-19 and why software is often classified as a medi...

Oct 15, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 4

iPhone and iPad in healthcare: DrChrono's Daniel Kivatinos

Like many healthcare entrepreneurs, Daniel Kivatinos was a tech guy whose bad personal experience with the healthcare system led him to try to make things better. The founding of DrChrono a decade ago coincided with the birth of the iPad and iPhone, and the company has been closely linked to Apple hardware ever since. In fact, Daniel is such a hardcore Apple guy that he recommends buying two Apple watches so you can wear one while the other is charging! In this edition of the HealthBiz podcast, ...

Oct 08, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Remdesivir powers, activate! Surya Singh

Wouldn’t it be great if remdesivir magically cured COVID-19? Too bad it doesn’t. So what should we be willing to pay for a drug that shortens hospital stays and might reduce mortality? In this episode of HealthBiz, physician and healthcare executive Surya Singh shares his take on drug pricing, ICER and the future of the pandemic. Check out the links. Surya’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/surya-singh-8540032/ Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) remdesivir pricing mode...

Oct 01, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Data will eat public health: Shahir Kassam-Adams

Shahir Kassam-Adams is one of the most knowledgeable and outspoken people in healthcare. In this episode, Shahir shares his initially unsettling but ultimately reassuring view that "data will eat public health." He opines on interoperability and explains how his company, Datavant has promoted data sharing on COVID-19, leading to a plethora of interesting and potentially useful projects, including one that models the tradeoffs for specific American cities to reopen. Check out the links: Shahir’s ...

Sep 23, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 1

HealthBiz Trailer

In-depth interviews with leaders in healthcare business and policy. Hosted by David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group. Find David on LinkedIn , The Health Business Blog , and Twitter . As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTal...

Sep 22, 2020•2 min

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