Creating a New Healthcare

The rapidly escalating impact of chronic disease is devastating populations, employers, payers & economies - both in the U.S. and across the globe.  The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that, by 2025, chronic disease will make up over 70% of all illness.  At the present time, preventable chronic disease is responsible for over 40 million of the 56 million annual deaths worldwide. The WHO h...

It’s been said that our zip codes impact our health more than our genetic codes.  How do the social determinants of health -- education, employment, public transportation, safe housing and neighborhoods, access to healthy food... -- so profoundly affect healthcare utilization and health outcomes? In this interview, you’ll hear an emerging story of how the leadership of a healthcare system in New J...

Friends & colleagues, The care of patients with chronic medical conditions represents a significant dilemma in healthcare today. How do we optimize cost effectiveness while achieving good health outcomes? In today’s interview, we learn how ChenMed empowers primary care physicians to deploy a VIP concierge experience that delivers affordability and outstanding health outcomes for seniors. My esteem...

Human behavior is, by far, the single biggest lever we have to impact our health outcomes. Yet, despite the profound impact our behaviors have on health outcomes, as well as on our national & global economic health; we continue to see adherence rates to appropriate treatment and medication taking hover between 40 to 50%!  These incredibly low adherence rates exist in chronic issues such as diabete...

Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a model healthcare system?  In this interview, Dr. Mark Briesacher provides us with profound insight into how Intermountain Healthcare consistently maintains its position at the forefront of clinical outcomes, improvement & innovation.  Mark informs us that the organization's original charge was to create “a Model Healthcare System.” What you'll discover...

Al Lewis may be one of the most controversial, and respected, figures in the employee health & wellness industry.  His insight and candor have earned him various labels and epithets including, “the founding father” of disease management and alternatively, the “troublemaker-in-chief” of the wellness industry.  Whether you like him or not, I doubt that anyone can challenge his integrity, or the rigo...

Given the rapid, tumultuous, and unprecedented changes in healthcare these days, there are very few things that are as important to a hospital system or integrated delivery network as developing and deploying a sound and forward-thinking strategy.    In this interview we have the amazing good fortune and unusual opportunity of picking the brain of the senior strategy executive for one of the most...

Friends & colleagues, This week’s podcast episode is unusual in a number of ways.  First, we’re posting a bit earlier in the week than usual - to coincide with the Becker’s Hospital Review 9th Annual Conference.  Second, the topics covered are exciting, enlightening and relevant; but definitely different for this podcast series.  Third, we have a unique guest on this week’s episode - someone who b...

Episode #32  - Reframing How Doctors Make Clinical Decisions - an interview with Dave Slawson MD, Professor of Family Medicine & Internationally Renowned Lecturer in Evidence-Informed Decision Making & Information Mastery. The literature would suggest that a significant percentage of clinical decision making is not well supported by evidence-based literature. Given the vastness of the emerging lit...

The problem we’ll be addressing in this episode - which is of critical national significance - is the unsustainable burden of healthcare costs.   We’ll cover two major issues: (1) tactics employers can take to avoid unnecessary healthcare costs; and (2) an approach to understanding and addressing a long-standing challenge in healthcare delivery - post acute care. You should listen to this intervie...

How many of us can define ‘well-being’?  How many of us understand the factors that enhance it?  How many of us think about the issue of ‘well-being’ or do anything about it in the context of ourselves, our employees or the patients that we provide care for? Dr. O’Day and her multi-disciplinary team have spent years not just defining ‘well-being’, but also learning how to improve it.* If you have...

If you have not been following the great leap forward that the American Medical Association (AMA) has made over the past 5 years, then you’ve been missing out on something quite spectacular.  It’s phenomenal, and phenomenally told to us by the President-elect of the AMA, Dr Barbara McAneny. What you’ll discover in this interview is that the current AMA is not your father’s or mother’s AMA.  This i...

Our guest this week, Glenn Steele MD PhD , is one of the most trailblazing, impactful and enduring healthcare leaders of our time.  He is a distinguished surgeon, researcher and executive.  Dr. Steele served as past Chairman of the American Board of Surgery, past president of the Society of Surgical Oncology, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.  He has been named consecutive times to...

This week’s episode, on employer-based healthcare, deals with one of the most critically important & rapidly advancing issues in American healthcare today.   Our guest this week is Dave Chase . He is a highly successful serial entrepreneur - who, among numerous other accomplishments, played a leadership role in launching Microsoft’s $2B healthcare platform. Dave has been named as one of the most i...

This week’s interview is an expose in modern medical professionalism and perspectives on what will be required for the next era.  Our guest this week, Richard Baron, is a physician grounded in nearly three decades of direct hands-on clinical care and enlightened by his experience of participating on numerous national level workgroups such as at the National Quality Forum, the National Committee on...

On the surface of it, this week’s podcast is about a new migraine solution.  But, the bigger story here is really about reframing how we think about chronic disease management and rethinking the importance of self-reported patient health data.  This story is also about the power and elegance of simplicity; the value of customer discovery and agile prototyping; and the absolute primacy of paying at...

This week's podcast is about the critically important issue of patient suffering & professional caregiver suffering.  This particular episode will speak to you, not only from a professional perspective, but also from a deeply personal one.  If you have ever been a hospitalized patient, or a family member of a patient; or, think that you might someday be a hospitalized patient or family member of a...

This episode is about nothing less than elevating the human condition at the forefront of healthcare delivery.  It is about enriching and empowering professional caregivers through real-time written feedback from the patients they care for, so that they can, in turn, create a sustained culture of caring, comfort, compassion, trust and safety for patients and patients’ families.   The solution we’l...

In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Kyra Bobinet MD, CEO & founder of engagedIN - a healthcare behavior design firm which uses neuroscience and state-of-the-art design techniques that make products and communications more engaging for consumers.  Kyra has an impressive background in developing health apps, blockbuster products, and evidence-based programs in...

In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Len D’Avolio, CEO and founder of Cyft - an organization that uses data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) I to make value-based care wildly successful.  Dr. Len D’Avolio has spent the past 13 years - in government, academia, philanthropy and industry -  attempting to transform healthcare into a “learning healthcare system”.  ...

In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare , Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Roy Rosin, the Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine - the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.  Roy distills the “essence” of his two decades of success in customer behavior change & reveals some of the most critical ingredients. He has spent the past 5 years at PennMed - initiating over one hundred...

In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare , Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Mike McSherry, CEO of Xealth.  Mike represents a new breed of highly accomplished digital tech entrepreneurs who have spent the past decade or two reshaping the landscape of digital tech; and who are now entering healthcare, ushering in a new era of healthcare delivery - an era that this interview will offer you a glimpse...

In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare , Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Sami Inkinen, founder & CEO of Virta Health.  Sami’s story is remarkable, and remarkably disruptive to healthcare. There are actually 3 stories rolled up into this podcast: (1) the story of Sami Inkinen, (2) the story of the ketogenic nutritional approach (low carb/high fat diet), and (3) most importantly, from our perspec...

In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare , Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Robert Andrews,  CEO of Health Transformation Alliance (HTA).  HTA is a non-profit alliance of nearly 45 Corporations who are working to improve the outcomes of healthcare and reduce the costs of medical care.  The Alliance includes such names as: IBM, Coca-Cola, 3M, Walgreens, Marriott, Pitney Bowes, Verizon, Dupont, Shel...

This is the second of two inspiring interviews featuring the integration of digital health into one of the largest integrated delivery networks in the country.  In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare , Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Aaron Martin, who came to Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) directly from spending nearly a decade at Amazon, where he was an executive - the North American dire...