Kathy Lokay is general manager, as well as chief cheerleader and idea generator, for Via Oncology. Kathy joined UPMC in 2008 to launch the Via Oncology product that UPMC CancerCenter started in 2004. Her background as a CPA combined with her 20 years of experience in oncology have been a great foundation to help her lead Via’s overall strategy and execution. She is passionate about driving the volume to value transition in oncology and has made clinical pathways her personal mission for the past...
Jan 24, 2019•28 min•Ep. 212
If I was going to sum up the summaries, I might put it this way, liberally co-opting the words and sentiments of my articulate guests: The intent here is to help doctors care for patients, patients care for themselves, and all of us care for each other (thanks for that concise statement, Jim Barr). If we want to do this well, we want to and need to standardize the way that digital medicine suppliers express their value so that providers and other purchasers can make informed choices not derailed...
Jan 22, 2019•19 min
Brian Van Winkle, MBA, focuses on transforming health care by accelerating the adoption of digital technologies throughout the ecosystem. He is the executive director for NODE.Health, a nonprofit with a mission to combine the rigor of evidence-based medicine with emerging health care technologies to help create evidence-based digital medicine. Brian also runs an innovation center for Johns Hopkins focused on connecting physicians with promising technologies and solutions to solve real problems. ...
Jan 17, 2019•33 min•Ep. 211
Today, I talk to Jonathan Singer, host of The Social Work Podcast as well as associate professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work. I asked Jonathan to come on the podcast today because I’ve had this growing sense of disconnect between all the talk about social determinants of health, all the talk about how clinical care has a relatively small impact on patient outcomes compared to environmental factors, how the most important number in health care is someone’s zip code. All thi...
Jan 10, 2019•36 min•Ep. 210
Jed Constantz, DBA As a Healthcare Finance and Delivery Strategic Consultant, Dr. Constantz ensures existing and prospective clients receive maximum value from current and future strategies and initiatives. In previous roles, Jed advised employers on measures to develop regional and community-based physician accountability and commitment through means of enhanced benefits and reduced costs; with the significant benefit of creating sustained loyalty between providers, patients and payers. He has ...
Jan 03, 2019•33 min•Ep. 209
Today’s episode features the following guests: Ross Bjella, MBA, is the founder and CEO of Alithias, a patient advocacy and population health analytics company serving self-insured employers, insurance companies, networks, and third-party administrators. (EP163) John Lynn is the founder of the HealthcareScene.com network, which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 11,000 articles, with John having written over half of the articles himself. These EMR and health care IT-related articles ...
Dec 20, 2018•28 min
Eric Weaver, DHA, MHA, is nationally recognized for his work in primary care transformation and value-based care. As a corporate vice president for Innovista Health Solutions, he oversees enterprise strategy and technology adoption for a fast-growing population health management services organization. Dr. Weaver has been recognized for his contribution to the health care industry by receiving the ACHE Robert S. Hudgens Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year and the Modern Healthcare “U...
Dec 13, 2018•29 min•Ep. 208
A.G. is a partner at Optum Ventures. She was most recently the co-founder and chief product officer at Humedica, one of the earliest big-data analytics companies in health care. Following its acquisition by Optum, she became chief product officer at Optum Analytics. She began her career as an attorney, founding a non-profit aimed at helping homeless youth at high-risk for HIV infection. A.G. expanded her mission by obtaining a degree in public health from Harvard. She is a mission-driven leader ...
Dec 06, 2018•29 min•Ep. 207
Ashok founded Centivo in 2017 after observing the inefficiency in the health care system and the pain that has resulted for employers and employees. Prior to Centivo, Ashok co-founded Liazon, operator of the nation’s industry-leading private benefits exchange for active employees. Liazon was acquired by Willis Towers Watson in 2013, and after the acquisition, Ashok served as managing director for Willis Towers Watson’s Group Exchange business. Prior to Liazon, Ashok was an associate principal at...
Nov 29, 2018•37 min•Ep. 206
TJ is a designer at heart and a pharmacist by training. He started his career at his family’s long-term care pharmacy in 2004 and has worked at Target pharmacy, a local community pharmacy, and Massive Health (acquired by Jawbone). He holds a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. In 2015, Forbes named TJ to its 30 under 30 List in Healthcare. In 2018, PillPack was acquired by Amazon. 02:20 TJ talks about his origin story with PillPack. 04:1...
Nov 22, 2018•38 min
When not hosting the show, Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency and consultancy. Aventria specializes in helping pharmaceutical, employer, pharmacy, and health system clients improve patient outcomes by creating and leveraging collaborations with other health care organizations. For more than 20 years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders and, most of all, the patient. Dave is a 30-year veteran of managed-markets mark...
Nov 15, 2018•33 min
Maya Dusenbery is a journalist, editor, and the author of Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick . She is editorial director of Feministing.com and has previously been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard . Her work has appeared in publications like Slate , Cosmopolitan.com, HuffPost, TheAtlantic.com, Popular Science , and Teen Vogue , among others....
Nov 08, 2018•33 min•Ep. 205
Virginia Gurley, MD, MPH, is the senior vice president and chief medical officer at AxisPoint Health, responsible for leading all clinical content development and analytics activities for the company, as well as providing strategic clinical oversight for delivery of population health management services. Dr. Gurley brings with her more than 30 years of experience in preventive medicine, clinical programs and systems design, analytics, and health education. Prior to this role, Dr. Gurley held lea...
Nov 01, 2018•31 min•Ep. 204
Gregory Makoul, PhD, MS Greg is founder and CEO of PatientWisdom, Inc. He is internationally recognized for expertise in physician-patient communication and shared decision making as well as a radical commonsense, person-centered approach to health care innovation. He started PatientWisdom because professional and personal experience made it clear that listening to patients—individually and at scale—is the real key to improving health and care.
Oct 25, 2018•33 min•Ep. 203
Frazer Buntin has worked in strategic and operations leadership positions for the past 17 years and currently serves as the president of value-based services for Evolent Health. Evolent Health partners with leading provider organizations to achieve superior clinical and financial results in value-based care, actively managing care across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial and self-funded adult and pediatric populations. Frazer is responsible for managing the operational performance of Evolent He...
Oct 18, 2018•34 min•Ep. 202
Clinton Phillips is the founder of Medici, a platform that allows doctors and patients to connect securely from their mobile phones. He launched the company in early 2017 with a vision to create technology that would revolutionize the way doctors provide care to their patients. As a serial-entrepreneur, Clinton previously founded 2nd.MD in response to frustrations he had experienced when seeking medical care for his daughter, Gabi, who had suffered a stroke shortly after birth. 2nd.MD has since ...
Oct 11, 2018•31 min•Ep. 201
Stacey L. Worthy, Esq, is a partner at DCBA Law & Policy, where she counsels members of the health care industry, including nonprofit patient advocacy organizations, treatment programs and providers, recovery residences, urine drug testing laboratories, and pharmaceutical companies. As counsel to the nonprofit Aimed Alliance, Stacey provides legal insights that drive the organization’s education, advocacy, and policy initiatives. Based on her extensive research and analysis of federal and st...
Oct 04, 2018•36 min•Ep. 200
James is the founder and managing director of Fitzroy Health, a leading international health care investment and commercialization firm. He has served as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor in health care firms across numerous international markets. James sits on the boards of RJ Health Systems, DosedDaily, Salute Safety, and Flex Health. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year at The Wharton School 2009 WEC Expo and has been profiled by the Financial Times . James holds a BA from The Unive...
Oct 02, 2018•9 min
James is the founder and managing director of Fitzroy Health, a leading international health care investment and commercialization firm. He has served as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor in health care firms across numerous international markets. James sits on the boards of RJ Health Systems, DosedDaily, Salute Safety, and Flex Health. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year at The Wharton School 2009 WEC Expo and has been profiled by the Financial Times . James holds a BA from The Unive...
Sep 27, 2018•29 min•Ep. 199
Eric is established as a national expert on the impact of health care reform on health care providers and is a respected thought leader in the hospital health system industry. A consultant with deep experience in health plan strategy, design, prevention care, and productivity and behavioral economics, Eric serves as the national leader of direct provider solutions for Collective Health. A former executive at Evolent Health and principal with Towers Watson, he has worked in the employee benefits ...
Sep 20, 2018•34 min•Ep. 198
Brian is an innovator in digital life science technology, launching 15 brands across biotech, pharmaceuticals, and technology. Most recently he was the vice president of strategy at Alere, where he led efforts in point-of-care commercial implementation and business process design. In his current role, Brian leads the effort to create and launch cutting-edge VR and AR experiences in health care as well as the evolution of MediSolutions into an industry game changer. You can learn more at medisolu...
Sep 13, 2018•30 min•Ep. 197
Kelly Close founded Close Concerns in 2002; its mission is to make everyone smarter about diabetes. At Close Concerns, Kelly and her team write approximately three million words each year on diabetes, prediabetes, obesity, and digital health for Closer Look, a highly praised service covering the goings-on in the field. Kelly's passion for the field comes from her extensive professional work as well as from her personal experience, having had diabetes for over 30 years. Kelly is the author of mor...
Sep 06, 2018•34 min•Ep. 196
I'm a creative and detail-oriented professional gardener with many years of hands-on experience in addition to attending ongoing college courses at Edmonds Community College in their highly regarded Horticulture program. In my previous career, I spent a lot of time working with clients on innovative ways to deliver the results they wanted while keeping an eye on the big picture. Oddly, garden design is quite similar. I always have to keep a budget and overall objectives in mind while developing ...
Aug 30, 2018•31 min
Seth PainterSeth is a senior-level business development, sales, and marketing professional at IQVIA, a leading global provider of information, innovative technology solutions, and contract research services focused on using data and science to help health care clients find better solutions for their patients. Seth’s background is unique, having sold for and to pharmaceutical companies in addition to having extensive hospital sales experience. As a health care and marketing expert who specializes...
Aug 23, 2018•24 min•Ep. 195
Dyan is the owner of a patient-focused consultancy, Inspired Health Strategies, LLC (IHS). After spending 20+ years in Big Pharma in traditional sales and marketing roles, in 2007 Dyan began working as a contractor with Sanofi. She was brought in to develop a multi-cultural marketing initiative and Dyan had little hope of making much of an impact until she realized that Sanofi was serious as evidenced by their commitment to a hefty budget and an enterprise-wide effort. She knew that, given her p...
Aug 16, 2018•31 min•Ep. 194
Edith Peterson Mitchell, MD, FACP, FCCP, is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology and is clinical professor, Department of Medicine and Medical Oncology, at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and associate director for diversity programs and director of the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities for the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Mitchell’s research in breast, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers and other GI malign...
Aug 09, 2018•28 min•Ep. 193
Alex is a partner/managing director in Parthenon-EY, where she works primarily on growth strategy projects. She helps clients define and implement their strategy and build organizational capabilities to deliver sustainable business results through both organic and inorganic approaches. She is a thought leader in the industry and specializes in asset repurposing and optimizing value propositions. Prior to joining EY, she was the senior vice president of Walgreens Corporate Strategy. Alex has over...
Aug 07, 2018•8 min
Don is an accomplished Health IT expert with a 20-year track record of driving value with technology. Don began his career as a custom software developer and eventually built and lead a team of more than 30 engineers. Later he was a subject matter expert, product manager and head of sales and marketing for a digital health startup that launched a SaaS-platform focused on administrative simplification in health care. Today, Don is president of Glide Health IT, LLC, a consulting firm that helps fo...
Aug 02, 2018•57 min•Ep. 192
John Gorman is founder and executive chairman at Gorman Health Group (GHG). In this role, he has led the development of the industry’s leading consulting practice and several entrepreneurial ventures in government health programs. John’s work focuses on Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act strategy, governance, and turnaround of distressed health plans. Prior to founding the firm, John served as assistant to the director of Health Care Financing Administration’s Office of Managed Care, wh...
Jul 31, 2018•7 min
Nathaniel (Nate) Lacktman is a partner with the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is the chair of the firm’s Telemedicine Industry Team. He advises health care providers and technology companies on business arrangements, compliance, and corporate matters, with particular attention to telehealth, digital health, virtual care, and health innovation. Working with hospitals, entrepreneurs, and start-ups to build telemedicine arrangements across the United States and internationally, his pra...
Jul 26, 2018•36 min•Ep. 191
