Creating a New Healthcare

Certified Nursing Assistants. They are the lifeblood of so much of what we do in healthcare, particularly in elder care, and yet they rarely share the limelight with the doctors, surgeons, and specialists.  Our guest today, Peter Murphy Lewis, is a documentary film maker who started out just trying to educate the Nebraska government on the shortage of CNAs in their state. What started as a single,...

We know that healthcare is broken, but how, exactly? And why is it that nothing seems to be helping? Well, as Chris Deacon says in this honest, open interview, “Until the chassis of healthcare is rebuilt…what we put on top of it is always going to be fundamentally broken.”  Chris Deacon is a legal expert, a healthcare activist, and an author. Her most recent book, The Great American Healthcare Hei...

See, Believe, Create. Could it be so simple? Our guest today believes so. Dr. Tom Frieden has spent his entire career working public health, and in his estimation, these three words hold the key to better health for our communities, our world, and ourselves. It’s, as he says, a formula. In our conversation, Dr. Frieden shares tangible examples of how this formula has been applied successfully, and...

As an industry, we’ve been circling around the idea of value-based care for the past decade. But, did it ever occur to anyone to ask real people, the recipients of said care, what they thought or felt about that term? Turns out, they hate it.  Through focus groups and a step-by-step methodology, Natalie Davis and her team at United States of Care are redefining value-based care and many other crit...

Do you have an Apple watch? Fitbit? Oura ring? Woop? Wearables have taken over in the past decade with claims that by constantly monitoring our heart rate, sleep, respiration, and activity, they can provide health data that can change your life. But is that really possible? Or even plausible? Marco Benitez, former professional athlete, and the Founder and CEO of ROOK joins us on the Living Well se...

The only device we’re with every day, all the time is our phones. And yet, we often travel to outpatient clinics, pay significant copays, and engage physicians once or twice a year to run tests on our bodies. What if we could do all of that with our phone? Jason Moore, Founder and CEO of Spren, joins us on the podcast to talk about the premise behind Spren , a company that helps you turn your phon...

It’s always interesting when your podcast producer comes to you and says she thinks the innovations we’re featuring are sort of boring. Not exactly what you want to hear, but smart leaders take feedback like that and ask the question “Why is that?”  On today’s episode of Creating a New Healthcare, I invite that same producer, Jess Greenwood, who has herself worked in and around healthcare for over...

On average, employers are unnecessarily wasting $4,000 per employee per year on healthcare benefits and associated costs. For a mid-size company of 100 employees, that’s $400,000! EACH YEAR! Our guest today sat on the broker side of the business and saw the waste, fraud, and abuse at every level. As he says, “It’s like working with a CPA that gets paid by the IRS.” After getting fired for being to...

A Zen practice is not something we typically associate with a Washington insider and healthcare lobbyist. But, our guest today has not only made that his personal mission, but his new book, The Zen Lobbyist , makes the argument that mindfulness might be the way we truly transform healthcare.  Despite the division that’s pervasive in American politics today, Gary maintains that what he calls the “m...

Despite the almost universal agreement that the United States healthcare system needs to move to value-based care, forward progress on that movement has all but stalled. Why? A big driver…no surprise…are the contracts. Brian Overstreet, the Co-Founder of Arbital Health , has built an impressive AI-powered platform that combines both an unprecedented depth of data with actuarial expertise to provid...

How many grams of protein do you need to be healthy? What about fiber? Supplements? It feels like we’re changing our diets daily to adhere to constantly shifting recommendations and none of it is really working to optimize our health. Christopher Gardner, Professor of Medicine in Nutrition Science at Stanford University, and featured advisor on the Netflix show, “You Are What You Eat: A Twin Exper...

Opioid overdose is the #1 killer of 18-45 year olds in America. The crisis is not over, and we are still prescribing these addictive substances for pain management at an alarming rate with little support or anything else in the arsenal to offer.  Until now… Cammie Wolf Rice, the Founder and CEO of the CWC Alliance , has pioneered a new role on the hospital healthcare team, a LifeCare Specialist. T...

Guest: Steve Brown, Founder and CEO, CureWise Can ChatGPT cure cancer? If you listen to the news, you would think it’s close. But ChatGPT, just like any data repository, is just one source of information. What if patients could harness the power of many of the AI engines all at once to help them ask better questions, know about the latest treatments, and become a more active player in their treatm...

Guest: Neal Shah, Co-Founder, Counterforce Health Have you ever had a medical claim denied for a procedure or service that should have been covered by your insurance? You are not alone. Yet, 99% of people choose not to appeal that denial because of the laborious, manual process required. After going through this dehumanizing experience with his wife, Neal Shah decided to bring the power of automat...

Deborah Ault, known to most as “Nurse Deb”, has been a Registered Nurse for over 30 years. Before getting into Care Management, her bedside nursing experience included ER, ICU, Doctor’s Office, Home Health, and Telephone Triage. Now she is the President of Ault International Medical Management (AIMM). AIMM’s team of nurses and physicians help patients navigate both the health delivery and th...

Obesity in America. Is there any other diagnosis as relevant, timely, or important when we think about the impact on our healthcare system? I doubt it. So, today we are talking with Dr. Meghan Garcia-Webb, who is triple board-certified in internal medicine, lifestyle medicine, and obesity medicine. Her weekly YouTube series, “ Weight Medicine with Dr. Meghan ,” aims to provide audiences with medic...

Chelsea Ryckis is the award winning founder and president of Ethos Benefits, a firm dedicated to advancing health insurance strategies for employers nationwide. Their approach effectively eliminates fraud, waste and abuse from employer healthcare plans while increasing savings for both employers and their employees. Chelsea is the co-host of the Ethos Effect Podcast with her husband, Donovan, and...

On the show today, we are honored to have Dr. John Halamka, the Dwight and Dian Diercks president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, a digital initiative that brings together solution developers, data partners and healthcare service providers to transform healthcare. Trained in emergency medicine and medical informatics, Dr. Halamka has been developing and implementing healthcare information strategy an...

Our guest today is Jasmine Bhatti, the founder and CEO of Navi Nurses, a rapidly growing, private-duty nursing company that’s redefining at-home care. Navi Nurses has been recognized as one of the top startups to watch in Arizona. Jasmine herself was named Phoenix Female Founder of The Year, a Healthcare Hero of Nursing by the Phoenix Business Journal, and was the recipient of the prestigious Jean...

Rob Andrews currently serves as the CEO of the Health Transformation Alliance (HTA). The HTA member companies collectively are responsible for more than 8 million employees, dependents, and retirees with an annual healthcare spend of $30+ billion. Through Andrews’ leadership, the HTA has launched value-driven solutions specifically designed to improve patient care and add economic value through wo...

Susannah Fox is a highly accomplished health strategist and technologist. . Her book, Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care , was recently published by MIT Press. She is a former Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she led an open data and innovation lab. She has served as the entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robe...

Dr. Farzad Mostashari is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aledade. He has spent his career at the forefront of healthcare policy and health information technology. Dr. Mostashari is the former National Coordinator for Health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services, and served as a distinguished expert at the Brookings Institute’s Engelberg Center for HealthCare Reform. In addition to his work a...

With years of experience as a PR strategist for healthcare technology companies, Erica Olenski has spent her career working at the intersection of innovation and care. From guiding early-stage startups to consulting with multinational organizations, she developed a unique understanding of how to best use technology to improve healthcare. Her expertise in healthcare, however, extends far beyond her...

Our guest today is David Johnson, CEO of 4sight Health and author of the new book, The Coming Healthcare Revolution: 10 Forces that Will Cure America’s Health Crisis . Prior to starting 4sight, a think tank promoting market-driven healthcare reform, Dave spent 28 years of his career in healthcare investment banking. This background and his Harvard public policy experience give him the unique...

This is the last episode of our Fall 2024 Season, and it’s a powerful one. On the show today is Andrew Molosky, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chapters Health System. Under Andrew’s leadership, Chapters has redefined its position to become the nation’s largest not-for-profit, end-of-life care organization and a leading community-based, population-health organization. Andrew has...