Healthcare Reimagined

On Episode 3 of Season 4 of the Healthcare Reimagined podcast, I spoke for a second time with Srulik Dvorsky, co-founder and CEO of TailorMed , which helps remove financial barriers to healthcare by connecting patients with public funding sources for expensive treatments. The scale of the problem is staggering - only 55% of US adults can afford needed care, with over 100 million Americans in medic...

On Episode 2 of Season 4, Vanessa Moldovan interviewed me on her podcast, For the Love Of Revenue Cycle , which I am excited to share. Since starting the Healthcare Reimagined podcast, I founded a healthcare company, Covered Health , and Vanessa interviewed me about what we're doing and why we're doing it. At Covered, we are automating the most challenging and time consuming elements of...

On Episode 1 of Season 4 of the Healthcare Reimagined podcast, I spoke with Manav Sevak . Manav is the founder and CEO of Memora Health , which helps healthcare organizations digitize and automate care journeys, and make complex care delivery simple for patients and clinicians to navigate.  Manav's journey to building Memora health began with a personal story - a close friend with a chronic d...

On Episode 10 of Season 3 , I spoke with my grandmother, Sydell Aaron. Ultimately, we all become consumers of Healthcare, like it or not. On Healthcare Reimagined, I typically showcase healthcare innovation - the truth is that innovations are only interesting in so far as they are making life  better for patients. Last week I spoke with my grandmother about her experience as a consumer of U.S. hea...

On Episode 9 , I spoke with Shiv Rao . Dr. Rao is the founder and CEO of Abridge , which uses ambient AI to summarize conversations into clinical documentation. He is also a practicing cardiologist, and previously led the provider-facing investment portfolio for UPMC. “What did the doctor say?" is inevitably the first question we ask a loved one who has just been to see a clinician. But how o...

Dylan Beynon is the founder and CEO of Mindbloom , an at-home psychedelic therapy startup. Dylan has been named a top 25 consumer healthtech executive and one of the 100 most influential people in psychedelics. Mindbloom has facilitated 100,000+ psychedelic therapy sessions since launching in 2019, and is now the largest provider of ketamine therapy in the U.S. Increasing access to Ketamine therap...

Dr. Groves is the Chief Medical officer of Banner Aetna, an independently licensed insurance company with a 50/50 ownership split between Banner and Aetna. "We have taken two elite athletes, put them together and said 'who is best at what, and let's leverage their respective strengths going forward.'" Banner Aetna has  tried to be strategic about what services that are cur...

On episode 6 of season 3, I continued my conversation with Dr. Stephen Klasko , who was the president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health from 2013-2021. Under his leadership, Jefferson expanded from 3 hospitals to 18, and saw its revenue grow from $1.8 to $9 billion. Dr. Klasko was #2 on Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Influential Individuals”. He is also the co-author of 202...

On episode 5 of season 3, the first of this two-part episode, I spoke with Dr. Stephen Klasko about his unlikely journey from OBGYN to the president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO of Jefferson Health from 2013-2021. Under his leadership, Jefferson expanded from 3 hospitals to 18, and saw its revenue grow from $1.8 to $9 billion. Dr. Klasko was #2 on Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Influentia...

Yuri Sudhakar is the CEO and founder of Nudj Health , which integrates lifestyle medicine into provider care by using a combination of human engagement and technology.  Providers working with Nudj can prescribe lifestyle medicine. From there, Nudj steps in using technology, coaches, and more to help patients make the lifestyle changes that improve their physical and behavioral health. 80% of chron...

Laura Purdy was an active-duty Physician prior to entering the civilian sector. She joined the military because of her sense of patriotism, and because she wanted to focus on patient-care. When she joined in 2005, the Army allowed physicians to just be physicians, and focus on their medical skills before all else. As that culture shifted, Laura decided to leave when her contract ended and explore...

In 2019, we lost more than 14,000 Americans to firearm homicide and more than 36,000 to car accidents . As a point of comparison, every year, diet contributes to approximately 678,000 deaths in the U.S., due to nutrition- and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. In the last 30 years, obesity rates have doubled in adults, tripled in children, and quadrupled...

It is often stated that the average American fears spiders more than death. We can probably add sharks to that list too (did you know that the risk of being attacked, not dying, is 1 in 5 million?). After Jaws came out many Americans canceled their beach vacations. But what are Americans doing about the fact that 1 in 7 of us ultimately die of cancer? The popular narrative is that it runs in your...

Imagine if your employer gave you the choice between paying 20% out of pocket for your surgery/specialist visit/X-ray at the local name brand hospital, and having the same service done at a different location where care quality was higher for $0 out of pocket. For employees of companies that work with David Contorno and E Powered Benefits , this is a reality. 50% of Americans get health insurance...

Bettina Hein is the co-founder and CEO of Juli  (www.juli.co), Pixability and SVOX. She is a serial tech entrepreneur and has built successful tech companies in Europe and the U.S.  She is a global leader at the World Economic Forum and a judge on the Swiss version of Shark Tank. Juli is a chronic condition management platform that was developed to help people use their healthcare data to nurse th...

For 37 years, Dr. Nate Link has worked as a doctor, and now as the Chief Medical Officer of Bellevue, the oldest (and one of the largest) hospitals in America. Bellevue can trace its roots back to 1736.  In one of my favorite episodes to date, I interviewed Dr. Link about his new book, The Ailing Nation: Lessons from the Bedside for America's Leaders, which can be found here on Amazon . Dr. L...

Dr. Sanjay Subramanian is the founder of OmnicureMD . Omnicure is a mobile first Tele-ICU platform that allows remote specialist to connect to connect with onsite healthcare providers without excessive costs.  Dr. Subramanian started the company to address the inefficiencies he observed over his 25 year career as a critical care doctor.  Omnicure makes it easy for specialists to connect with patie...

A month before the start of the Pandemic, Dr. Pate stepped into a new role at Lifebridge . As the Chairman of the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at LifeBridge Health, he was charged with uniting the behavioral health leadership of the 5 hospitals for psychiatry. We touched on a number of interesting topics throughout our discussion.  Cost of care: Maryland has a total cost of care mo...

On March 2nd, I spoke with Alon Joffe , CEO and founder of Eleos Health . Alon served for 6 years in an elite combat search and rescue unit of the air force, and left the military as a second lieutenant.  During his military service, Alon was heavily involved in developing a mental health first aid program to deal with PTSD, which is what ultimately motivated him to start Eleos Health.   The preva...

If this Pandemic has taught us anything, it is that nothing is more important than health. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “It is health that is the real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver.” And yet, they are more related than Gandhi insinuated. Healthcare innovation, and particularly advances in vaccine development, has been on the forefront of the world stage over the past year. As we begin 202...

The fourth episode of season two of Healthcare Reimagined was recorded on December 28th, 2020.  I interviewed Yoav Fisher, head of technological innovation and digital health for a nonprofit called HealthIL . Yoav and his team work with companies (both Healthcare providers and large companies) that are in need of technology to help them solve problems. Yoav helps them define their needs and challe...

The third episode of season two of Healthcare Reimagined was recorded on December 3d, 2020.  I interviewed Zack Gray , the Co-Founder and CEO of Ophelia , which is addressing the opioid epidemic by making medication-assisted treatment (MAT) private, convenient, and affordable for patients.  Zack studied Astrophysics and Philosophy at Columbia, and received his MBA from Wharton. Zack spoke about ho...

The second episode of season two of Healthcare Reimagined was recorded on November 17th, 2020. I had a chance to speak with Dr. Edmondo Robinson , who is the Chief Digital Innovation officer for the Moffitt Cancer Center.   In his last role, he served as the Chief Transformation Officer and Senior VP of Consumerism at ChristianaCare, one of the largest health care providers in the mid-Atlantic. Dr...

The first episode of season two of Healthcare Reimagined was recorded on October 5th, 2020. I had a chance to speak with Meghna Patel , who is the Deputy Secretary for Health Innovation at the Pennsylvania Department of Health. We began with a discussion on Pennsylvania's prescription drug monitoring program, which Meghna and her team launched in a five month time-frame as a means of addressi...

Ruth Krystopolski has spent the last 30 years in Healthcare. Over the past 5 years, she has been deeply focused on population health within her present role as the Senior VP of Population Health at Atrium Health , as well as her previous role as the Senior VP of Population Health at CHRISTUS Health . Atrium Health encompasses over 40 hospitals, and 900 post-acute care locations, and Ruth and I spo...