Dr. Kyra Bobinet has five words of advice on engaging people in health: be caring, authentic, and useful. As a national speaker, bestselling author and CEO-founder of engagedIN, a neuroscience behavior design firm, Kyra devotes her life to cracking the code of WHY we engage in our health. Everyday, she and her team use neuroscience to make products and communications more engaging. For this work, Kyra received the 2015 Innovator Award from Harvard where she received her Masters in Public Health....
Jan 04, 2018•35 min•Ep. 164
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, specializing in helping employer, pharmaceutical, device, and pharmacy clients by creating partnerships with other health care organizations. For 20 years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all, the patient. 00:00 The state of health care is fragile. 00:45 Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas 02:20 How easy it is for healthcare systems to break down. 02:40 “Y...
Dec 21, 2017•21 min
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. “Alithias” means “the truth” in Greek and currently has >60,000 lives with access to the platform. Ross has held senior management positions in the health care industry, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, and medical devices. Prior to Alithias, Ross served as the CEO of DDN, a leading bus...
Dec 14, 2017•32 min•Ep. 163
Pramod John is team leader of Vivio Health, a company that is reinventing the therapeutic use and supply chain for the specialty drug space. The Vivio Health plan solution is challenging the current framework of efficacy and extending it to true effectiveness in the real world. It also offers significant drug acquisition savings and simplicity for the patient by integrating the supply chain into a unified and data driven process. Prior to Vivio Health, Pramod was founder of Oration PBC (acquired...
Dec 07, 2017•24 min•Ep. 162
Erik serves as a Managing Director in the Accenture Health Client Service Group where he manages a large team of healthcare professionals within the Clinical and Health Management Services team. He serves as the Managing Director for Healthcare Provider Technology Consulting in North America, as well as Accenture's Blockchain lead across the healthcare service line and as a co-lead of Accenture's Value Based Care practice in North America. In his role, he partners with senior client executives t...
Nov 30, 2017•25 min•Ep. 161
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, specializing in helping employer, pharmaceutical, device, and pharmacy clients by creating partnerships with other healthcare organizations. For 20 years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all, the patient. 00:00 The largest healthcare payers in the country. 01:45 Asking Patients to be good Healthcare Consumers. 03:30 Labeling Healthcare Consumers. 04:10 “A significant portion of the ...
Nov 23, 2017•17 min
Gidi Stein, MD, PhD. A practicing physician, researcher and serial entrepreneur. Co-founder and CEO of MedAware, dedicated to eliminate prescription errors and promote patient safety, using big-data analytics and machine-learning algorithms. Gidi also teaches medicine in Tel Aviv Medical School and treats complex patients in Rabin Medical Center, Israel. You can learn more by visiting medaware.com.
Nov 16, 2017•34 min•Ep. 160
Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. is a physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and a researcher at the Weill Cornell Department of Healthcare Policy and Research. He is also a contributor at the New York Times, where he explores the intersection of medicine, health policy, and economics. He recently worked in the ABC News Medical Unit, helping to curate and communicate evolving health stories, and was previously at the White House Office of Management and Budget (O.M.B.), focusing on Affordable Car...
Nov 09, 2017•35 min•Ep. 159
Pramod John is team leader of VIVIO Health, a company that is reinventing the therapeutic use and supply chain for the specialty drug space. VIVIO Health’s solution is challenging the current framework of efficacy and extending it to true effectiveness in the real world. It also offers significant drug acquisition savings and simplicity for the patient by integrating the supply chain into a unified and data driven process. Prior to VIVIO Health, Pramod was founder of Oration PBC (acquired by Pok...
Nov 02, 2017•30 min•Ep. 158
Ethan Basch, MD talks today about a randomized clinical trial where 766 patients used a web-based system to self-report symptoms, triggering alerts to clinicians. The results were impressive. There are learnings and inspiration in this episode for anyone pursuing better patient outcomes, with special relevance for organizations rolling with a value-based care model. Dr. Ethan Basch is an oncologist and Director of Cancer Outcomes Research at the University of North Carolina. His research group e...
Oct 26, 2017•33 min•Ep. 157
It’s rare you read an article about health tech and not see the word "interoperability" at some point, probably more than once. If that were a drinking game, we’d all be really drunk by now. Today I speak with Don Lee, a fellow podcast host about how Health Information Exchanges, otherwise known as HIEs, can assist us in the short term to get our data integration act together. This is a little bit of a reality check— blockchain and more elegant solutions might be coming, but today, right now, we...
Oct 19, 2017•31 min•Ep. 156
I talk with Scott Barclay today. Scott is a partner at Data Collective (DCVC), an early-stage fund that makes venture capital investments in data scientists and entrepreneurs working on hard big data problems. We discuss what it takes for an entrepreneur to succeed in the healthcare ecosystem today, including an essential ingredient: Empathy. Data Collective is a $1bn+ venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in deep tech and data compute, based in Palo Alto and San Francisco but in...
Oct 12, 2017•36 min•Ep. 155
Alex Akers is Vice President for Business Development with HealthCatalyst, a Utah-based, next-generation data, analytics, and decision-support company, committed to being a catalyst for massive, sustained improvements in healthcare outcomes. He has been with HealthCatalyst since 2015, primarily focusing on clients in the southeast. Alex began his career in healthcare consulting, working for KPMG and Accenture in their healthcare strategy practices, and then shifting to revenue cycle reengineerin...
Oct 05, 2017•31 min•Ep. 154
Sep 28, 2017•32 min•Ep. 153
Leela Barham is a Health Economist by training with an MSc Health Economics from the University of York and BSc Economics from the University of Nottingham. Leela has over a decade of experience in consulting, working with clients from across the world. Leela focuses on policy and health economic issues from pharmaceutical pricing to Health Technology Assessment and more. Leela has worked with patient organizations, the NHS, a health insurer, think tanks, the pharmaceutical industry, and the med...
Sep 21, 2017•26 min•Ep. 152
Mike Dendy is Vice Chairman & CEO of Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions (AMPS), an Atlanta, GA-based health care cost management company, serving the self-funded (ERISA) payer community. Since joining the Company in 2005, Mike has overseen all aspects of AMPS management, ranging from sales and marketing, to finance and client relations. AMPS has seen organic growth of over 300% over the last 5 years and has continued to increase its offerings in the health care cost containment space. AMPS c...
Sep 14, 2017•31 min•Ep. 151
Lisa R. Erwin is President of The E2 Group, LLC a managed markets consulting company that specializes in Medicare Part D clinical program strategic and operational expertise with a strong focus on Quality and Star Ratings. She also serves as VP of Clinical Strategies for Aventria/Pinnacle Health Communications, a managed market agency. A common theme of Ms. Erwin’s 30-year pharmacy career encompassing long-term care, managed-care and hospital pharmacy has been a focus on improving the quality of...
Sep 07, 2017•32 min•Ep. 150
In April 2013, Dr. Hunt was appointed CPHO (Chief Population Health Officer [CMO/CMIO]) for St. Vincent’s Health Partners, Inc., a Physician Hospital Organization with more than 400 providers, and St. Vincent’s Medical Center. Dr. Hunt provides physician leadership and direction for the planning, design and implementation of clinical information systems at St. Vincent’s Health Partners, Inc. and oversees quality and utilization for its provider network. Under the leadership of Dr. Hunt, St. Vinc...
Sep 05, 2017•4 min
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, specializing in helping employer, pharmaceutical, device and pharmacy clients by creating 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 Incrementalism - Worth it? 01:51 “The CEO’s Guide to Restoring the American Dream: How to Deliver World-Class Healthcare to Your Employees at Half the Cost,” by Dave Chas...
Aug 31, 2017•25 min
Mr. Steinhart has had a distinguished career as an entrepreneur, investor and executive in the healthcare industry. He has been instrumental in starting or investing in many technology-based companies, several of which have developed products that have become the standard of care in their respective markets. Currently Mr. Steinhart sits on the Board of Directors of Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a New York-based biopharmaceutical company developing innovative targeted therapies for patients wit...
Aug 24, 2017•33 min•Ep. 149
Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the NYU School of Medicine and President of the nonprofit, Bioethics International . She is also the Creator of the Good Pharma Scorecard , an index that ranks all new drugs and large pharmaceutical companies on their ethics and public health performance to help recognize good practices in companies, improve trustworthiness, and incentivize change where needed. Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Miller was based at Harvard University. Dr. Miller curre...
Aug 17, 2017•34 min•Ep. 148
Founder and CEO of Fit4D, David Weingard David is a diabetes patient who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 36 while training for a survival race. A veteran of numerous running and triathlon races (including Ironman triathlons consisting of a 2.4M swim, 112M bike and 26.2M run), David committed to rebuild his life and provide positive energy to the diabetes community while coping with the condition on a 24/7 basis. Beginning with shorter races, he gradually learned how to successfu...
Aug 10, 2017•34 min•Ep. 147
Tom Kottler is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of HealthPrize Technologies, which uses gamification, behavioral economics and consumer marketing concepts to engage and motivate patients. HealthPrize works with top and emerging life science companies to inspire patient loyalty, maximize medication adherence and improve health literacy. Kottler has led multiple high-growth organizations during his career, including Advanced BioHealing, which was acquired by Shire for $750 million, and MedAp...
Aug 03, 2017•32 min•Ep. 146
Andrew Schorr is a medical journalist who was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 1996 and has remained in remission since then. He is the founder of HealthTalk.com, PatientPower.info and PatientPower.eu. He is board chair of the Patient Empowerment Foundation in Europe. He is also the author of The Web-Savvy Patient: An Insider's Guide to Navigating the Internet When Facing Medical Crisis, which was published in 2011. Andrew is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and holds a master's...
Jul 27, 2017•34 min•Ep. 145
Julie is an executive pharmaceutical leader with over 20 years of experience across all phases of development both on the commercial and research sides of the organization. She leverages her Masters in Business Administration and Doctorate of Pharmacy to develop and deliver strategic patient-centric value propositions to optimize patient access and improve outcomes in patients with difficult to treat diseases leading to longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Her years of experience in glo...
Jul 20, 2017•32 min•Ep. 144
Dr. Nick is a leader in Digital Healthcare and Innovation, and former Chief Medical Officer for Dell. He provides strategic insights and guidance to support healthcare organizations, medical professionals and patients through information-enabled healthcare. He brings an incremental approach to developing successful strategies and applying technology to achieve a technology environment that is interconnected, efficient and patient-focused. He is a highly sought out speaker on the practical and fu...
Jul 13, 2017•35 min•Ep. 143
Brian Yarnell is President and Founder of Bluestream Health, a New York-based healthtech startup delivering an on-demand platform for remote medical expertise. Prior to launching Bluestream Health, he founded, grew and sold StarlingHealth, a startup that replaced nurse call systems with multilingual touchscreen interfaces and a clinical workflow platform. Brian is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience creating and commercializing enterprise software platforms across multiple vert...
Jul 06, 2017•33 min•Ep. 142
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marcomm agency helping employers, payers, pharma and pharmacies develop and leverage partnerships with other health care organizations. For twenty years, Stacey has used her expertise to innovate inspiring collaborative health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all the patient. 00:00 Elisabeth Rosenthal, “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business.” 02:25 Look at the bills your insurance company is paying. 02:45 “Al...
Jun 29, 2017•17 min
Lorrie Carr joined ZappRx in April 2016 as Chief Commercial Officer. She has over 20 years’ experience in the health care industry – primarily focused in the pharma/biotech and specialty pharmacy industries. Just prior to joining ZappRx, Ms. Carr was the Divisional VP of Enterprise Specialty Sales and Product Management for Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy. Ms. Carr transformed the strategy, operations and deployment of the over 300-person Specialty and Infusion sales teams resulting in consistent d...
Jun 22, 2017•31 min•Ep. 141
Sajid Ahmed is the Chief Information and Innovation Officer of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles. He is leading the new hospital’s $70 million health information technology initiative and launching an innovation hub on the 42-acre MLK Medical Center Campus. Mr. Ahmed is a true innovator and pioneer in healthcare information systems. He has unparalleled experience in all aspects of using computer technology and web-based applications to deliver the best quality of me...
Jun 15, 2017•27 min•Ep. 140
