Jan Oldenburg, FHIMSS, is passionate about using digital tools to build a healthcare system where patients and caregivers participate as partners. She currently advises and mentors startups and consults with organizations who want to understand the evolving digital health landscape as the Principal in Participatory Health Consulting. Ms. Oldenburg has broad experience within all aspects of the healthcare ecosystem, including payers, providers, and integrated delivery systems. Most recently she w...
Nov 03, 2016•29 min•Ep. 113
Mr. Sinsheimer is the founder of Medtech Catalyst, which has founded or co-founded several medical device companies. Mike is the co-founder of the Charleston Medical Device Initiative a joint venture between MedTech Catalyst and the Medical University of South Carolina Foundation for Research Development. He is co-founder and Chairman of Mobius Imaging, LLC as well as co-founder and CEO of LifeHealth, LLC. Prior to that, Mr. Sinsheimer has had various key management roles as President of Integra...
Oct 27, 2016•23 min•Ep. 112
Currently SVP of Oncology and Specialty Market Programs at Aventria Health Group. Formerly was CCO at Favrille, VP Strategic Marketing at Schering AG and Head of Oncology Marketing at Genentech; was instrumental in the commercialization of Taxotere, Fludara, Herceptin, and Rituxan 00:00 New Oncology Breakthroughs. 02:35 Extending survival time to stabilizing curves that could extend to future cures. 03:50 The average cost of a new Oncology product is more than $100,000 for annual cost of treatme...
Oct 20, 2016•20 min•Ep. 111
Richard Lipeles joined PacifiCare in July 1979, and in 1987 he became President of PacifiCare of California. In 1993 he was promoted to Executive Vice President of PacifiCare Health Systems. As Executive Vice President of PacifiCare Health Systems, Lipeles oversaw the corporation’s managed health care division, which included health plans in California, Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. Lipeles retired from PacifiCare September 1995. As of June 2002, Lipeles joined the management...
Oct 13, 2016•27 min•Ep. 110
Vincent Esposito, COO Vincent (‘Vinny’) Esposito joined Endeavor Plus, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer in 2014 after a decade of diversified experience working as a financial investment analyst. Prior to joining Endeavor Plus, Vinny was a Senior Analyst with Wexford Capital of Greenwich, CT. The firm managed $6 billion in assets, invested globally and approached the market through a thematic lens. Wexford coupled this perspective with fundamental analysis to identify trends across sectors, and i...
Oct 06, 2016•28 min•Ep. 109
Chris is the CEO of Collective Medical Technologies, a Salt Lake City-based health technology company which helps providers and payers to take better care of their patients and members using real-time risk identification, stakeholder notifications, and collaborative care planning tools. CMT is obsessively focused on eliminating avoidable patient risk by designing simple yet highly-effective technology-driven clinical solutions. Chris was previously a vice president at Bain Capital and an associa...
Sep 29, 2016•31 min•Ep. 108
Here's a description of the film: The Big Heist is a satirical, follow-the-money film on the destruction created by healthcare’s status quo…. And the redemption that’s coming. It will create hope and catalyze action to thwart the greatest immediate and future threat to our country. We’ve gone to war for less than what the healthcare status quo has done and is still doing to our country. The Big Heist = The Big Short + An Inconvenient Truth for our broken healthcare system. The problem: We all kn...
Sep 22, 2016•29 min•Ep. 107
Eric Levin is a Strategic Services Director for McKesson’s Business Performance Services division, which provides value-based care solutions to both hospitals and physician groups. In this role, Eric focuses on comprehensive and strategic healthcare sales and business development. Eric has over 15 years of healthcare experience specializing in value-based reimbursement, technology and primary care strategy. With McKesson, Eric led the advanced primary care team in creating payer and provider col...
Sep 15, 2016•29 min•Ep. 106
In a career, being new to any industry especially healthcare isn't easy. In June of 2004 Todd Eury left an eight year career in the telecommunications industry and entered the pharmacy technology sector as SoftWriter's (FrameworkLTC pharmacy software for institutional pharmacies) first business development oriented employee. "It was a gamble for me", Eury recounts, "being part of a national fortune 500 company like AT&T Business felt comfortable and making the jump to pharmacy software sales...
Sep 08, 2016•26 min•Ep. 105
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 What makes a problem an excellent problem. 00:45 Two Case Studies: The Luggage Conundrum & The Smart Phone Problem 02:1...
Sep 01, 2016•17 min
Dr. Fahrni has been a licensed pharmacist in California since obtaining his Pharm.D. degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy in 1997. Jerry has a diverse background and has served in a variety of pharmacy roles during that time, including more than a decade of experience as a clinical pharmacist in various acute care settings, as well as spending time as a pharmacy technology industry insider. He currently works as an independent pharmacist consultant where he ...
Aug 25, 2016•27 min•Ep. 104
Jonathan is a product designer, software engineer, team builder and mobile technology evangelist who enjoys contributing to the growth of the Chicago startup community. His consumer-facing mobile apps have reached hundreds of thousands of users and have been featured by Apple in their App Store as well as on devices in their retail stores. His enterprise-facing web platforms and mobile apps have made an impact on a number of industries and have been used by tens of thousands of business users sp...
Aug 18, 2016•29 min•Ep. 103
Anand is a respected global digital health leader—most known for his insights on and experience with technology, strategy and regulatory policy. Anand has been instrumental in WellDoc’s success and the development of BlueStar®, the first FDA-cleared mobile prescription therapy for adults with type 2 diabetes. Since joining WellDoc in 2008, he has held core leadership positions that included Chief Data Science Officer, President and Chief Operations Officer. In 2013, Anand was named “Maryland Hea...
Aug 11, 2016•29 min•Ep. 102
Dr. Arlen Meyers is a professor emeritus of otolaryngology, dentistry, and engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Colorado School of Public Health and President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs at www.sopenet.org . He has created several medical device companies. His primary research centers around biomedical and health innovation and entrepreneurship and life science technology commercialization. He consults for and speaks to companies, governments...
Aug 04, 2016•28 min•Ep. 101
Blair Green Thielemier, PharmD is an independent consultant pharmacist living in Arkansas with her husband and daughter. She is the founder of Pharmapreneur Academy, an online teaching platform where she guides pharmacist-entrepreneurs through the process and barriers of building a pharmacy consulting business. She is the author of How to Build a Pharmacy Consulting Business, a contributing author for Pharmacy Times and guest host on the Pharmacy Podcast. More information about Dr. Thielemier ca...
Jul 28, 2016•31 min•Ep. 100
As Vice President of Case Management & Family Services, Lauren manages the virtual and in-person case management team at Mindoula Health ( www.mindoula.com ), a technology-enabled case management company at the forefront of the transformation of behavioral healthcare. The first employee hired by Mindoula's Founder & CEO, Steve Sidel, Lauren ensures that the Mindoula case management team delivers market leading behavioral health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs as it innovates in the...
Jul 21, 2016•27 min•Ep. 99
Cindy Munn has 25+ years of experience in health care leadership and operations management. As CEO of the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, Munn oversees development of the organization’s strategic roadmap supporting an integrated approach to transforming health care. She has oversight responsibility for initiatives including health information technology, practice transformation assistance and analytics support for community/state-based QI projects. She serves on boards of the Network for Re...
Jul 14, 2016•27 min•Ep. 98
Renee helps customers apply DatStat technology solutions across health research and patient-centered population health management. Before joining DatStat, she spent 17 years in working at nationally recognized academic research centers. While at University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group (SDRG), she set the standard for maximizing engagement and retention in landmark longitudinal studies. Renee now combines her practical research experience and a fascination with technology to ...
Jul 07, 2016•29 min•Ep. 97
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. 02:15 Tip #1: Think ahead of time about what unique expertise listeners want to hear from you. 03:00 “People like to buy, but the...
Jun 30, 2016•29 min
Dr. Sanders received his undergraduate degree and his M.D. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After completing his internship and residency at Boston University, he completed a Fellowship in Cardiology at Harvard University. Dr. Sanders is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography and Nuclear Cardiology. He is a designated Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC). He has been recognized as one of Phoenix Magazine's TOP DOCs. He practices a...
Jun 23, 2016•27 min•Ep. 96
Jason Rose is Chief Strategic Development Officer for Inovalon , a leading technology company providing advanced, cloud-based analytics and data-driven intervention platforms to the healthcare industry. Since joining the company in 2008, he has led a wide range of health-focused initiatives aimed at driving improvements in quality and financial outcomes through advanced data-analytics and technology platforms. In his current position, he is responsible for all aspects of introducing, launching, ...
Jun 16, 2016•30 min•Ep. 95
Noah Weiner is the CEO/Cofounder of Avhana Health. Started because the lack of clinical decision support (CDS) functionality that exist in modern electronic health records. Avhana Health has developed a cloud based CDS platform that helps care providers do the right thing to improve quality and increase reimbursements. Before founding Avhana Health, Noah researched patient safety at the Armstrong Institute of Patient Safety and was part of the innovation and the transformation team of the Epic P...
Jun 09, 2016•32 min•Ep. 94
Ted Spooner’s 22 years of broad experience in financial services, technology, digital entertainment and healthcare IT led him to co-found RespondWell in 2003. As Chairman and CEO, Ted led the company’s initial strategy for development of a new game category - fitness gaming, selling more than $80 million at retail in the global consumer fitness game category. Ted led the company’s transformation of the business, utilizing its assets for development of a Microsoft Kinect-based solution for physic...
Jun 02, 2016•28 min•Ep. 93
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...
May 26, 2016•27 min
Eric is the CEO and founder of NextHealth. Previously, Eric was the Vice President and General Manager of TriZetto's Consumerism and Analytics business unit. As Vice President of Enterprise Strategy, Eric formed and managed a committee of 25 health plan executives to shape TriZetto's operational and strategic direction. As an outcome, he chartered a client-funded, 12-month project to evaluate the analytics market and develop a go-to-market strategy. Prior to TriZetto, Eric was the founder and CE...
May 19, 2016•26 min•Ep. 92
Matthew Darling is a Vice President at ideas42 and Teaching Fellow in Economic Design at Harvard University. He has contributed to ideas42 projects in poverty, health care, early childhood education, financial literacy, mortgage default reduction, climate change, and labor economics. Like all humans, Matt has a limited memory – he might be forgetting a few project domains. Matt graduated from Hampshire College with a self-designed concentration in economics and cognitive science, and from Tufts ...
May 12, 2016•29 min•Ep. 91
Dr. Soheil Saadat, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GenieMD, is responsible for charting the company’s global course. He founded GenieMD in 2012 with more than 25 years of technology and executive management experience. In 2005 he founded Prodiance Corporation a global leader in enterprise Risk Management Solutions. Prodiance was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in 2011. Prior to Prodiance he founded Scientific Software, Inc., (SSI). Under his direction, SSI became a world leader in the c...
May 05, 2016•28 min•Ep. 90
Maxwell Stroud, MSW is a Lead Consultant in healthcare IT at with a professional background in both healthcare and social work. Max has been consulting in Health IT for over 8 years, primarily in the ambulatory space. She has worked with every aspect of health IT in ambulatory care including facilitating clinics through the transition from paper to electronic formats,supporting teams through major system-wide upgrades as well as add-on implementations and integration projects. Max has a passion ...
Apr 28, 2016•27 min•Ep. 89
Dr. Simpson is the president and chief executive officer of AcademyHealth. A nationally recognized health policy researcher and pediatrician, she is a passionate advocate for the translation of research into policy and practice. Her research focused on improving the performance of the health care system and included studies of the quality and safety of care, health and health care disparities and the health policy and system response to childhood obesity. Before joining AcademyHealth, Dr. Simpso...
Apr 21, 2016•31 min•Ep. 88
James Grant, a founding member of CareSync and “recovering attorney”, currently serves as the Director of National Markets for CareSync. In addition to his role at CareSync, James is a member of the Florida House of Representatives. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Auburn University and received his law degree from the Stetson University College of Law. You can find out more at Caresync.com, on Facebook and/or Twitter @Caresync.
Apr 14, 2016•30 min•Ep. 87
