Healthcare Americana

Dr. Eric Inman and Dr. Ron Piniecki , Co-Founders of WellBridge Surgical , are expanding the hub of healthcare innovation in Central Indiana.  Dr. Inman and Dr. Piniecki are empowering patients and buyers of surgical services to take back control and get a fair price for high quality care. The two share how Wellbridge Surgical is the first of its kind to combine quality, transparency, and value in...

Folia Health is on a mission to ensure that each individual person gets the care that's suited to their specific situation. Folia Health believes that great care must be individualized, and not focused on broad concepts of "average patients". Nell Luo , Founder and CEO of Folia Health, spoke about the need for better information to drive truly precise care for each individual patien...

Direct primary care physician Dr. Clara Krebs was once employed by a big hospital. While employed, she became inspired by her patients. They inspired her to want to educate them, as well as to connect with them. Eventually, she had to choose between the matrix and her patients. She chose her patients. Now, she is a direct primary care physician at Clear Medical Clinic . Support the show (https://h...

Doug Geinzer , Founder and President of High Performance Providers , specializes in high-cost, steerable surgeries. During the episode, Geinzer and host Chris Habig discuss the direct alignment between the specialty care community and the direct primary care community, as well as Geinzer ’s job as a consultant to surgeons.  Support the show (https://healthcareamericana.com/sponsors/)

Joseph Templin , Author of Every Day Excellence , dives into the mental health crisis in the United States. He opens up about how his divorce and speaking career disappeared because of the pandemic, and how those situations impacted his mental health.    He shares advice on how little changes on a daily basis can create big results.  Support the show (https://healthcareamericana.com/sponsors/)

Healthcare is about 20 years behind other industries when it comes to utilizing technology effectively and intelligently. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the healthcare industry has learned that not keeping up with artificial intelligence or utilizing it properly, has hurt not only the industry as a whole but society. Sachin Patel , CEO of Apixio , explains how AI could’ve improved the pandem...

Dr. James Hawkes grew up in a large family. His father was a U.S. diplomat, which exposed him to different models of healthcare. In addition to exposure, his grandmother encouraged him to become a doctor. He followed her recommendation, but to his surprise the definition of a good doctor wasn’t about improving patients’ quality of life, it was about hierarchies, documentation, administrative requi...

Since 2020, the healthcare industry has lost half a million workers. The stress and burnout of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused workers to flee the industry, leaving physicians short-staffed and scrambling.  Hadi Chaudhry , CEO of CareCloud , shares how medical practices are managing employee turnover, especially small businesses trying to stay afloat amidst COVID and the labor shortage.  Support...

Susan Conover , Co-Founder and CEO of Piction Health, is helping physicians better address skin conditions through computer vision and AI, which is resulting in the empowerment of patients with skin disease.  Conover shares her personal story of how her diagnosis of Melanoma while in school resulted in the creation of  Piction Health . Listen to her unique story. Support the show (https://healthca...

Dr. Roxie Mooney , Healthcare Commercialization Strategist & Fractional CMO at Legacy DNA: Strategy for Health Innovators , shares how research indicates that 95% of innovations brought to the healthcare market fail. To lower the percentage of innovations that fail in healthcare, she invented COIQ™ . It is an evidence-based framework that takes healthcare innovation from an idea to full market...

Sonia Hunt , food allergy activist, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author , is a first-generation Indian-American, who healed a lifetime of severe food allergies by reclaiming her native foodways and exploring Ayurveda and functional medicine as alternative paths to healing. After hundreds of visits to the ER, including four that nearly took her life, Sonia spent ten years examining the root cause...

Steve Nevral , Director of Business Development at DisclosedRx , and Zack Robinson, Managing Partner at DisclosedRx, discuss how the company is the first fully disclosed PBM. The fully disclosed model prohibits them from receiving revenue from any source other than their clients. The company’s goal is to return trust between the advisor, TPA, and PBM relationship.  Nevral and Robinson break down t...

Josh Itano , CEO and Co-Founder of CareCar , discusses a problem in the healthcare system that his company is solving.  Some seniors or patients with physical limitations find transportation a barrier when they have a doctor’s appointment. CareCar is solving the problem by providing transportation for those who simply need a ride! Support the show (https://healthcareamericana.com/sponsors/)

Bettina Hein , CEO of Juli , is a serial tech entrepreneur who has founded several successful companies. One of her most recent companies is Juli , which is an AI powered health app and startup that helps people with chronic health conditions.  Typically, it takes people years to learn how to manage and understand their condition, but with Juli, people are able to look at a dashboard and analyze t...

To all of our supporters, listeners, sponsors and guests, we'd just like to say thank you for a great 2021. We hope you enjoy this time with your friends, family and loved ones, and we'll be back with more Healthcare Americana in January 2022.  Happy holidays from all of us at Healthcare Americana! Support the show (https://healthcareamericana.com/sponsors/)

Panna Sharma , CEO of Lantern Pharma , discusses how his company is bringing cancer therapies to the market faster, cheaper and at a lower cost than other biotechs through artificial intelligence, machine learning and genomic data. He emphasizes that it shouldn’t cost $2 billion to make medicine. He shares it costs this much because Big Pharma is artificially inflating pricing.  Lantern Pharma is...

Dr. Fasiha Kanwal , Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Baylor College of Medicine , has assisted in developing a new clinical care pathway for PCPs to easily identify and manage patients at risk of NASH. Dr. Kanwal is on a mission to raise awareness and improve understanding among physicians. She wants physicians to understand the importance of what it is and how together through proper e...

Andrew Richburg , CEO at C3LX, Inc. , shares how his company has developed an advanced remote monitoring and patient engagement solution for value-based care. The technology platform provides physicians data to fully understand patient behavior outside of the doctors office. Some of the data includes food, mood, activity, weight, sleep and remote monitoring data like blood pressure. The data is th...

In this episode Chris talks with Mark Pinsley , Lehigh County Controller and Candidate for Pennsylvania State Senate. Mark's role as a controller in Lehigh County is to look at all of the money his county spends and receives. He essentially audits payroll to make sure people are getting paid properly and that there is nobody on the payroll that shouldn’t be on the payroll. During an audit, he...

This episode is a Veterans Day 2021 special that features Dr. Isaac Engholm , Medical Director of Magnus Veterans Wellness Campus , and CEO/Physician of Deploy Health Family Practice , Brad Nylin , Executive Director of the Magnus Veterans Foundation , and Dr. Shawn Alderman , Founder and President of the Magnus Veterans Foundation .  The three discuss the Magnus Veterans Foundation and how it is...

Matt Ohrt , the Director of Administration and Organizational Efficiency at Team Schierl Companies , believes to achieve high quality and low cost care, consumers must be careful to not sign away their ability to shop. He shares how his company reshaped their benefits plan design to support the concept of shopping effectively for healthcare. Support the show (https://healthcareamericana.com/sponso...

Mark Burt , the Director of Finance for GableGotwals , breaks down how his company implemented an innovative alternative benefit program. He answers the why and how through an analogy that most of us can relate to! This may be a benefit program you want to implement at your business. Listen now! Support the show (https://healthcareamericana.com/sponsors/)

Dr. Francisco Gutierrez , Physician and Owner at Solymar Direct Health , was once the medical director for a hospital in Rhode Island. After spending the majority of his career in the traditional system, he was forced to take a hard look at where he was in his career and where he wanted to be. In 2020, the pandemic forced him to evaluate his career. He came to the conclusion that if he is not a pa...

Dr. Edward Williams , owner and physician at Foundation Direct Primary Care , opened a DPC practice almost immediately out of residency after experiencing how unethical the traditional healthcare system was. There were many reasons as to what drove him away, but what really bothered him was the concept of the healthcare system owning patients and viewing them as “products” instead of as people.  S...

Carm Huntress , Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at RX Review , discusses how his company is helping physicians make the most clinically effective and cost effective decisions for patients. How is RX Review supporting 200,000 doctors in the United States? Listen to this week’s episode to find out! Support the show (https://healthcareamericana.com/sponsors/)