The Healthcare Podcast

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Healthcare has changed and continues to change, everyday. In this podcast we bring you the topics, insights, thought leaders, and discussions that may change the way you think about healthcare. This podcast is for doctors interested in growing their practice, hospital administrators looking for ways to improve leadership in their organizations, patients trying to learn more about the healthcare system, and everyone in between. So lets talk about healthcare.

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Ep. 09 How the skills gap in healthcare is leaving patients behind

It is no secret that organizations are struggling across the board. For temporal context the date is December 3rd, 2021. We have been dealing with the ups and downs of the Coronavirus for 2 years. While the economy has been hit hard, we seem to be in a new territory, faced with something many did not see coming. The great resignation. With millions of workers quitting, carrying the brunt of an exiting workforce are hospitals and healthcare settings that cannot stay fully staffed. Despite our des...

Jan 17, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 9

Ep. 08. Philosophy, public utility, and why healthcare is much easier to save than we think

How do we define Healthcare? Is it defined as a set of moral imperatives that each person operating in a symbiotic system prescribes to in order to enable the care-taking of individuals in need of caring? Or is it more of a web of self-interested parties working to maximize their economic slice of the pie on the back of one of the most inelastic services there is? Maybe somewhere in between. Regardless, I think it’s easy to agree that something or many things are not right in our healthcare syst...

Dec 07, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 8

Ep. 07. Is Digital Health The Answer?

We have all heard the buzzwords. AI, blockchain, tele-everything, tech enabled, robotics, IoT, remote monitoring, wearables, machine learning, BIG DATA… DIGITAL HEALTH. There are probably some that I have missed. But what does it all mean? What do all these buzzwords amount to? Are they bringing the revolution that many herald as their promise? Do they mean anything to the average patient? To help us make sense of the emerging world of Digital Health, I am joined today by Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, ...

Nov 16, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 7

6. Is there a doctor in the house? A looming epidemic that’s already here.

As it stands 42% of physician report being burned out, 80% of those noted burnout began pre-pandemic. Not to mention a projected physician shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2034. Nursing in hospitals is seeing the highest turnover rates in years, 19%. And some figures put nursing burnout as high as 70%. What’s going on? What can be done about it? And why does it matter? To talk about this and so much more, we have Dr. Hieu Bui. Dr. Bui has been in the healthcare industry for close to 15 ye...

Nov 01, 2021•51 min•Ep. 6

5. Your people and your hospital. How you can decrease turnover, increase engagement, maximize your earning potential, and reduce your costs

The healthcare industry has become notoriously complex. As a patient, navigating the system can be overwhelming. The same is true as a clinician or healthcare administrator. There are mountains of bureaucracy and administrative paperwork. But if you ask anyone why they became a doctor or got into healthcare in the first place, the likely response would be – to help people. Any business, any organization is about people. Made up of people, run by people, serving people. That people service is esp...

Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 5

4. The Telehealth Revolution: How you can get on board and transform your practice, your business, and your patients’ lives

Telehealth got its start in the 1950’s when a psychiatric hospital created a video link with an acute care hospital to treat a patient 112 miles away. Flash forward 70 years and we are witnessing the explosion of Telehealth into the mainstream. Largely driven by the global Coronavirus pandemic, As Seema Verma, the administrator of CMS, said in April of 2020, "the genie's out of the bottle on this one… there's absolutely no going back." However, there is a lot of work to be done in order to insti...

Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 4

3. Why your hospital should be on TikTok

Today’s episode is a deep dive into social media and a look at why your hospital, or infusion center, or private practice, or physical therapy office should be on social media. Not only why, but what to do to get started and some best practices for increasing your presence and engagement. Over 200 million people are on social media at least 3 hours every day. So, if you are not taking full advantage you are missing out on a lot of community engagement and business opportunity. Not only that, but...

May 15, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 3

2. Identifying opportunity in the middle of a crisis

On this episode we will be discussing how hospitals and other care delivery organizations can respond to the crisis in the short term from a business and financial perspective and identify and capitalize on opportunities to become stronger institutions once we emerge from the crisis. Today’s guest is Dr. Timothy Mescon an expert in business, leadership, and responding to adversity. Tim Mescon, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is executive vice president and chief officer for Europe, the Midd...

Apr 23, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 2

1. An introduction to The Healthcare Podcast

Hello and welcome to The Healthcare Podcast. In this episode you will hear what this podcast is all about. Meet the host, and see where this podcast will take us.

Apr 08, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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