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 whe...
Jul 19, 2018•32 min•Ep. 190
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...
Jul 12, 2018•31 min•Ep. 189
Sean Erreger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, MSW) in New York State with an undergraduate degree in psychology. Sean has over a decade of practice experience in a variety of settings, including foster care prevention, psychiatric emergency room, adolescent day treatment, and adult inpatient. Currently, he is a clinical case manager for children and adolescents at risk of inpatient psychiatric hospitalization and/or out-of-home placement. Alex Akers is vice president for business deve...
Jul 05, 2018•23 min
An experienced senior executive with several years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, Will has held key positions where he was instrumental in launching a variety of innovative platforms in medical affairs. He speaks frequently regarding the ever-changing role of medical affairs at most major medical affairs conferences and is currently president and CEO of the ACMA, whose primary mission is to create industry standards and goals for medical affairs professionals. Wi...
Jun 28, 2018•34 min•Ep. 188
Sandra is the chief operating officer at SinfoníaRx. SinfoníaRx is a leading provider of MTM services. Through a comprehensive suite of innovative health care solutions, SinfoníaRx provides direct support to health plans, health systems, provider organizations, and pharmacies. SinfoníaRx’s team works directly with patients, caregivers, and providers to ensure the most effective and safest medication therapy possible. Todd started his professional career in telecommunications and spent 8 years in...
Jun 21, 2018•35 min•Ep. 187
David is a nationally recognized thought leader, speaker, and author on disrupting health care and delivering better care at lower costs for employers and their employees. He spends much of his time educating the industry, including his competition, on how to bring these powerful solutions to the masses. The rest of his time is working directly with employers to improve benefits and improve overall company profitability. You can learn more by finding David on LinkedIn.
Jun 14, 2018•35 min•Ep. 186
Since 2010, under Pablo's leadership, Antidote has raised $26 million in venture capital and grown to become a leading player within the digital health sector, empowering thousands of patients worldwide to discover and access potential new treatment options through clinical trials. Pablo is a seasoned entrepreneur and manager of internet companies. He’s been building high-scale businesses in online retail, travel, mobile, media, and now health sectors since the late 1990s, including firms such a...
Jun 07, 2018•32 min•Ep. 185
Alex Lickerman, MD is a primary care physician, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of ImagineMD, a direct primary care medical practice headquartered in Chicago. ImagineMD works with self-insured and fully-insured businesses and their benefits consultants to help lower health care costs and improve the access to—and quality of—health care for their employees. This enables businesses to attract and retain top talent, as well as increase productivity and reduce absenteeism—all to increase ...
May 31, 2018•33 min•Ep. 184
This podcast inbetweenisode is mostly dedicated to Pharma teams who have determined that EHRs and Health Information Technologies are here to stay, and that it's a business imperative to develop initiatives that suit a digitized health care ecosystem. However, this info also has relevance to startups or other entrepreneurs looking to work with Pharma. Take this as a word of advice... if you are working with a Pharma team and you're noticing that they are not doing the things that I'm going to ta...
May 24, 2018•15 min
I was thinking about this when reading that Forbes article that came out the other day that 44% of Americans skip doctor visits or medical care due to cost. Here's my point: There could be 2 prongs to this. One of them is that the costs are too high. And yep, they are. Even more distressing when you consider that only a dime on every dollar spent on health care goes to the physician or nurse or person actually providing the care. So much is chewed up by invisible middle people adding questionabl...
May 17, 2018•32 min•Ep. 183
Renya is a Partner in the New York City office of Mercer Health & Benefits and leads the Center for Health Innovation (CHI). CHI is a national team, which includes Mercer LABS, focused on driving market change via collaboration with our clients, our colleagues, and thought leaders across the ecosystem to generate unbiased solutions that translate health innovations into relevant and actionable opportunities for employers. In addition, Renya continues to actively participate and lead consulti...
May 10, 2018•34 min•Ep. 182
Dr. Lipi Roy is an internal medicine physician board certified in addiction medicine as well as clinical assistant professor at the NYU School of Medicine, Department of Population Health. She is currently the medical director of an addiction treatment center in New York City. In her previous role as Chief of Addiction Medicine for NYC jails including Rikers Island, Dr. Roy oversaw substance use treatment and recovery efforts for nearly 10,000 incarcerated men and women at the nation's second-la...
May 03, 2018•31 min•Ep. 181
Tatyana Kanzaveli has gone from a programmer to senior executive at Big 5 to founder and CEO of a startup company along her 20-year career. She is recognized as a thought leader and mentor for her ability to guide Fortune 500 and startup companies through business challenges. She’s worked for major companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Fujitsu and startups in the early days of the Web. Tatyana has personally helped companies jump from 0 to millions in revenue, even during the toughest econom...
Apr 26, 2018•30 min•Ep. 180
Anne C. Beal, MD, MPH, is dedicated to improving health care in the United States, particularly for vulnerable patient groups. Her career is devoted to providing access to high quality health care and has included delivering health care services, teaching, research, public health, and philanthropy. Dr. Beal is Senior Vice President and Head of Global Patient Solutions for Sanofi, an integrated, global health care company focused on patient needs and engaged in the research, development, manufact...
Apr 19, 2018•33 min•Ep. 179
Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are not just "the computer people" anymore. Technology is no longer relegated to the category of operational overhead. Technology is a strategic imperative. It's a competitive differentiator, it's a driver of success in today's connected era, an era increasingly dependent on outcomes-based revenue. On the other hand, when something goes wrong, technology gets blamed even if the real problem is a shabby process or insufficient training. Today, I have a candid con...
Apr 12, 2018•33 min•Ep. 178
Cyrus Maaghul is a serial entrepreneur currently applying distributed systems, blockchain, and cryptocurrency technology to the health care industry as founder and CEO of HealthCombix and Co-founder/Board Member at PointNurse. Cyrus' health care blockchain thought-leadership has appeared in articles on CoinDesk, Nasdaq, Distributed, and other media outlets. His experience as a payments technology entrepreneur and working inside world-class organizations like Fidelity Investments' Blockchain Incu...
Apr 05, 2018•31 min•Ep. 177
Roy 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 4 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, Roy ser...
Apr 03, 2018•4 min
Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of the Permanente Medical Group (1999-2017), the nation’s largest medical group, and former president of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (2009-2017). In these roles, he led 9,000 physicians, 35,000 staff, and was responsible for the nationally recognized medical care of 4 million Kaiser Permanente members on the west and east coasts. Recently named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders, Robert is an advocate for the power of...
Mar 29, 2018•36 min•Ep. 176
Prior to Aventria, David held several commercial leadership roles, including Head of Oncology Marketing at Genentech and VP Strategic Marketing at Schering AG, specializing in commercializing oncology and specialty products. He was also instrumental in the commercialization of Taxotere, Fludara, Herceptin, and Rituxan. Paul has extensive experience leading successful market access commercialization strategies of specialty pharmaceuticals throughout their life cycles, including several landmark o...
Mar 22, 2018•36 min•Ep. 175
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...
Mar 15, 2018•34 min•Ep. 174
Wayne Crandall is the president and CEO of NoteSwift. Crandall's career in technology spans sales, marketing, product management, strategic development, and operations. Prior to joining the NoteSwift team, Crandall was president and CEO of CYA Technologies, and then took over as president of enChoice, which specialized in ECM systems and services, when they purchased CYA. Crandall was a co-founder, executive officer, and senior vice president of sales, marketing, and business development at Nuan...
Mar 08, 2018•28 min•Ep. 173
Moore, is CEO of the health care IT analyst firm, Chilmark Research, which he founded in 2007. Chilmark Research was founded on the simple premise of conducting the best research possible that will ultimately lead to improvements in the quality of care a patient receives. Having spent many years in other industry sectors, Moore has seen the dramatic improvements possible through effective adoption and use of IT and is convinced that the same can occur in health care. A core thesis for Chilmark R...
Mar 01, 2018•34 min•Ep. 172
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 have been viewed over 18 million times. John also manages HealthcareITCentral.com and HealthcareITToday.com, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. He also organized the first of its kind conference and community focused on marketing to healthcare: Health...
Feb 22, 2018•33 min•Ep. 171
Eric Haberichter is the co-founder, chairman & CEO of Access Healthnet. He has more than 25 years of health care, management and entrepreneurial experience as a highly motivated, mission-driven innovator and problem solver focused on improving the delivery and sustainability of health businesses. Early in his career, he worked as a radiation therapist and multi-modality radiographer. For 15 years, he worked within a major Wisconsin-based health care system, and in 2004, left system-based hea...
Feb 15, 2018•34 min•Ep. 170
Darren is Chief Executive Officer at Aduro, Inc., a human performance company that delivers habit change programs that empower people and organizations to reach their full potential. He brings a unique outlook to the health care sector, combining his experience with the intricacies of the industry with potential he sees in groundbreaking technologies, human analytics and personalized well-being. With more than 15 years of expertise in demonstrated return on population health, Darren helps compan...
Feb 08, 2018•32 min•Ep. 169
Gary is a disrupter and founder of OM Healthcare, Inc. a health care technology startup established in 2015. He has over 18 years of business development experience and over 13 years of executive-level hospital and health system strategy expertise. Gary is a thought leader in the new frontier of health care technology, innovation, and strategy. Over the years Mr. Frazier's leadership and expertise has been sought after for strategic business planning, financial planning, growth strategy, integra...
Feb 01, 2018•28 min•Ep. 168
Stacey is co-president/CEO 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. Dave is co-president/CEO of Aventria Health Group and president/CEO of Pinnacle Health Communications. He is a 27-year veteran of managed-markets marketing. After working in c...
Jan 25, 2018•35 min•Ep. 167
Tim Thomas, RPh president, Crystal Clear Rx Mr. Thomas is a graduate of the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, and has 38 years' experience as a pharmacist. His management background includes residency training and being a Director of Pharmacy at both a hospital and an HMO. For the last 25 years Mr. Thomas has been involved in managed care pharmacy with expertise in formulary, benefit design, and creating value in the pharmacy benefit. He developed a PBM in the 1990’s and has held...
Jan 18, 2018•33 min•Ep. 166
Juan Pablo founded Babyscripts in 2014 with the vision that internet - enabled medical devices would transform the delivery of pregnancy care. Since 2014, Juan Pablo has been named a Healthcare Transformer by the Startup Health Academy in New York and a Wireless Lifechanger by CTIA for his work in detecting problems in pregnancy faster. Juan Pablo is also the architect of the first "Prenatal Care Moonshot" focused on eliminating preterm birth by 2027 through mobile/digital technology and Babyscr...
Jan 11, 2018•33 min•Ep. 165
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...
Jan 09, 2018•4 min
