Roy Rosin is Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine, working to rapidly design, test and implement high impact health care delivery practices. His team crafts interventions to achieve dramatically improved patient outcomes, experience and high value care. In the past four years they have driven measurable progress in readmission rates, frequent use of the ER, medication adherence, screening rates, antibiotic stewardship and making a population normotensive, among other advances. Previously, R...
Jun 08, 2017•42 min•Ep. 139
Dr LaFountain is a healthcare strategist, neuroscientist and author of “ How Patients Think: A science-based strategy for patient engagement and population health .” She is the CEO of Mind Field Solutions Corporation, a firm specializing in the application of cognitive neuroscience to health behavior and patient engagement. The Cleveland Clinic has described her neuroscience approach to patient engagement as “ a stunning innovation in healthcare, ” and “ a pathway for transformation.” Harvard Me...
Jun 01, 2017•30 min•Ep. 138
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency specializing in helping pharmaceutical, device and pharmacy clients gain access to patients by creating and leveraging partnerships with other health care organizations. For twenty years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all, the patient. This episode compares how six authors approach the topics of Healthcare, Business, Medicine, Aging Populations, and Digital Heal...
May 25, 2017•31 min
Dr. Josh Luke, FACHE Adjunct Faculty, University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy Founder, National Readmission Prevention Collaborative & National Bundled Payment Collaborative Author: Ex-Acute: A former hospital CEO tells all about what’s wrong with American healthcare Author: Readmission Prevention: Solutions Across the Provider Continuum Chief Strategy Officer, Compliagent/Nelson Hardiman Healthcare Law Dr. Josh Luke, The Voice of American Healthcare, is a best-s...
May 18, 2017•29 min•Ep. 137
David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners HealthCare Dr. Bates is an internationally renowned expert in patient safety, using information technology to improve care, quality-of-care, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes assessment in medical practice. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of P...
May 11, 2017•33 min•Ep. 136
David is the Chief Development Officer where he is responsible for expanding the firm’s influence in the health care market. Since joining Leavitt Partners, David has advised clients in areas of government activity, insurance market reforms, economic changes to the health care payment system, and alliances. He specifically helped establish the Private Exchange Coalition and has led multiple other collaboratives that aggregate parties with common interests to achieve statutory, regulatory, or mar...
May 04, 2017•31 min•Ep. 135
Melissa McCool is the co-founder and CEO of Stellicare Corporation. In 2009, Melissa developed Symptom Targeted Intervention (STI), a clinical program used in thousands of US medical clinics to improve the behavioral determinants of health. Since then, she has written and produced numerous articles, videos, and books and has trained thousands of clinicians around the US and Canada on how to implement STI into clinical practice. Melissa is also an EMDR-trained psychotherapist with a specializatio...
Apr 27, 2017•31 min•Ep. 134
Dr. Hunt graduated from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa and completed his residency in Pediatrics. During his military service, Dr. Hunt’s held key leadership positions. As Chief Medical Information Officer, he has implemented ‘Epic’ and ‘Cerner’ EMRs. He is Board Certified in pediatrics and received a Master of Science in Medical Informatics. In April 2013, Dr. Hunt was appointed CPHO (Chief Population Health Officer [CMO/CMIO]) for St. Vincent’s Hea...
Apr 20, 2017•34 min•Ep. 133
Darren Pearce serves as the Chief Administrative Officer for Ambulatory & Retail Services for Navicent Health, an academic medical system including a Level 1 Trauma center, multiple rural acute outposts and post-acute offerings located in Central Georgia. A proud Navy veteran, Darren Pearce started his early career as a Registered Nurse and went on to complete his MBA as he transitioned from direct clinical work into the business of healthcare. Working for Navicent for close to 10 years, he ...
Apr 13, 2017•29 min•Ep. 132
Bringing over ten years of experience as an entrepreneur and consultant to CipherHealth, Zach Silverzweig works with hospitals to achieve patient-centered care through the elegant application of innovative and forward-thinking solutions. He leads CipherHealth's product and development teams, managing the solution lifecycle from concept to napkin to prototype to launch to profitability. Zach also plays a key role in managing the company's financial operations and helping to shape CipherHealth’s c...
Apr 06, 2017•30 min•Ep. 131
Jonathan Hirsch is the Founder and President of Syapse, a market leader in precision oncology solutions. Jonathan is dedicated to the Syapse vision of transforming healthcare through precision medicine. As President, he works closely with healthcare providers to create a robust software platform that brings together previously fragmented clinical, molecular, and outcomes data to help physicians make better decisions for their cancer patients. Jonathan works on catalyzing national cancer data sha...
Mar 30, 2017•26 min•Ep. 130
Troy Trygstad, PharmD, MBA, PhD Troy Trygstad is a community pharmacist, a health economist, and a pharmacy visionary who continues to encourage pharmacy industry leaders into new and innovative ways of thinking. Troy is the Executive Director of CPESN USA, a clinically integrated network of community-based pharmacy networks that endeavors to improve the quality and effectiveness of enhanced services provided by participating pharmacies and align them with the workflows and payment reform incent...
Mar 23, 2017•32 min•Ep. 129
Mike Rea has worked in global pharma strategy for over 25 years, working with the world’s top 30 pharmaceutical companies. Regarded as an industry thought leader in innovation, Mike helped lead the strategic direction of over 100 pharmaceutical brands, and created the industry standard annual Productive Innovation Index, a ranking of top 30 pharma by their ability to launch innovation. Mike’s passion for industry change has inspired those around him, and IDEA Pharma’s clients, to think different...
Mar 16, 2017•29 min•Ep. 128
As Senior Vice President in the Office of Population Health Management, Dr. Smith provides clinical leadership for all of Northwell’s population health activities. He is also the Medical Director for Health Solutions, Northwell’s care management organization and is the Chief Medical Officer for CareConnect, Northwell’s insurance company. Prior to these responsibilities he led system-wide care continuum initiatives in the post-acute setting as medical director for Post-Acute Care Services. Dr. Sm...
Mar 09, 2017•30 min•Ep. 127
Eric Rosow serves as CEO of Diameter Health. He has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare technology, new venture creation and executive management. Prior to co-founding Diameter Health, Eric served as the VP and General Manager of the Patient Flow business unit for Eclipsys and Allscripts. Preceding that, Eric was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Premise, a company he co-founded and led through its sale to Eclipsys. Before founding Premise, Eric was the Director of Biomedica...
Mar 02, 2017•29 min•Ep. 126
As Chief Strategy and Chief Innovation Officer, Christopher Cornue leads Navicent Health's efforts to plan for the future and meet the organization's mission, vision and values. He collaborates with the organization's leaders, caregivers, physicians and community and other key stakeholders to establish and execute on strategy, operations and innovation across the system. Christopher has more than 20 years of professional healthcare experience. He leverages his expertise in leadership, operations...
Feb 23, 2017•31 min•Ep. 125
John Lynn is the Founder of Healthcare Scene . Healthcare Scene is a unique healthcare IT network which consists of 10 EHR and Healthcare IT blogs containing over 11,000 articles published over 11 years. Of those articles, John has written over 5500 of the articles himself. These EMR & Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 18 million times and John has over 80k social media followers & 53k email subscribers who follow him as a thought leader in the EHR & Healthcare IT ...
Feb 16, 2017•30 min•Ep. 124
Mark Tomaino is an Operating Partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a New York City based private equity firm that invests, principally, in two markets, healthcare and information/business services. Mark’s focus is exclusively on healthcare technology investment opportunities, including deal generation, due diligence, execution and portfolio company monitoring. Mark has served on the board of directors of Matrix Medical Network and GetWellNetwork. Prior to September 2010, Mark served as...
Feb 09, 2017•31 min•Ep. 123
A 27-year veteran of managed-markets marketing, David is the President/CEO of Pinnacle Health Communications. After working in consumer marketing with AT&T and healthcare publishing with Elsevier, David made the move to medical advertising and communications at K.I. Lipton, Inc. Subsequently, he became a cofounder of Pinnacle. David is an accomplished strategist, providing innovative customer marketing, access, quality, and health intervention solutions for large clients and has directed the...
Feb 02, 2017•23 min•Ep. 122
Sherri Douville brings over a decade in healthcare consulting, sales, marketing, and entrepreneurial experience to her leadership at Medigram. She now serves as a frequent moderator and panel coach at Health IT conferences. Prior to this, she founded a healthcare technology consulting practice. Medigram is a mobile, intelligent enterprise solution for healthcare that enables clinicians to communicate securely and efficiently, with intelligent context and images wherever they are, via the Medigra...
Jan 26, 2017•30 min•Ep. 121
Dr. Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained Family Practice doctor, burnout survivor, author, executive coach and consultant to individual physicians and healthcare organizations across the USA. He teaches simple methods to lower stress, build more life balance and prevent burnout. Dr. Drummond has over 2000 hours of one on one physician coaching experience where the concepts and techniques you are about to learn were developed and tested in the real world. Dr. Drummond is the CEO of TheHappyMD.com with...
Jan 19, 2017•28 min•Ep. 120
Jamie Davis, RN, NRP, B.A., A.S., host of the Nursing Show is a nationally recognized medical educator and author who began educating new emergency responders as a training officer for his local EMS program. As a media producer, he has been recognized for the MedicCast Podcast , a weekly program for emergency medical providers like EMTs and paramedics, and the Nursing Show a similar program for nurses and nursing students. His programs and resources have been downloaded over 6 million times by l...
Jan 12, 2017•32 min•Ep. 119
Rick is CEO of Wellville, a 10-year initiative founded by angel investor Esther Dyson to improve health and financial outcomes in five U.S. communities. In addition to overseeing the national project, Rick leads the Wellville effort in North Hartford, CT, working with Community Solutions and a multi-sector collaborative focused on achieving the Neighborhood Triple Aim: improved population health, wellbeing, and investment. Rick is also founder & CEO of Collective Health, which developed the ...
Jan 05, 2017•34 min•Ep. 118
Fred is an inveterate traveler. He has bicycled, walked, hiked or run in all 50 US states, all 10 Canadian provinces, and on every continent but Antartica. Along the way, he spent time backpacking on some of the world’s most renown trails and so far has hiked (some are drive-ups) to the summit of 38 state high points. This year he has biked over 5000 miles and is on course to run/walk/hike 1000 miles. Traveling around the world, he pays close attention to the accommodations offered to active roa...
Dec 22, 2016•26 min
Billy Wynne Managing Partner, TRP Health Policy Phone: (202) 309-0796 Email: bwynne@thornrun.com www.thornrun.com/health-policy www.mypolicyhub.com www.linkedin.com/in/billywynne www.healthaffairs.org/blog/author/wynne @billywynne77 @trphealthpolicy @thorn_run Billy Wynne is nationally respected health policy consultant, advocate, speaker, and entrepreneur. He possesses a wealth of government and private sector experience in developing and implementing federal healthcare policy and achieving leg...
Dec 15, 2016•36 min
Michelle Snyder leads all corporate marketing, brand development, marketing communications and public relations activities for Welltok. She is recognized as a marketing and strategy leader in the digital health space. She was most recently an Executive-in-Residence at InterWest Partners, investing in digital health companies and serving as an advisor to InterWest portfolio companies. She was also one of the early executives at Epocrates and worked for over a decade to build the company into one ...
Dec 08, 2016•33 min•Ep. 117
Laurance Stuntz is the Director of the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech, or MeHI. He is an experienced and passionate leader working to help Massachusetts leverage digital health innovation for better economic and care delivery outcomes. MeHI is a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a unique state agency working to support innovation economy growth. MeHI is the Commonwealth’s entity for health care innovation, technology, and competitiveness, and partners with indu...
Dec 01, 2016•27 min•Ep. 116
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency specializing in helping pharmaceutical, device and pharmacy clients gain access to patients by creating and leveraging partnerships with other health care organizations. For twenty years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all the patient. 00:00 David Goldhill “Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It” 01:00 Health Insurance...
Nov 24, 2016•20 min
Lonnie Hirsch enjoys a reputation as one of the premier marketing consultants and strategists for helping healthcare provider organizations, including medical practices and hospitals across the U.S. and in other countries achieve profitable growth. Over a career spanning 30 years, Lonnie has worked with literally thousands of medical practices as well as hospitals , health systems, medical device companies, medical software companies and other health businesses. In 2006, Lonnie co-founded a full...
Nov 17, 2016•28 min•Ep. 115
Paul Rosen, MD, MPH, MMM http://www.paulrosenmd.com/ , was named ‘One of the First 100 Innovators’ by the U.S Federal Government Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for his work on patient-physician communication. He blogs for NEJM Catalyst, http://catalyst.nejm.org/posts?q=rosen Healthcare Success, the Healthcare Guys and Health Tap. He co-hosts Pediatric Chat, http://pediatricchat.org/ , a podcast that offers pediatric information to families across the globe. He is a TEDx speaker https...
Nov 10, 2016•30 min•Ep. 114
