Healthcare Reimagined

On June 22nd, 2020, I spoke with Israel (Srulik) Dvorsky , CEO and founder of TailorMed . After 6 members of Srulik's family were diagnosed with cancer, his frustrations with payment issues around their treatment, his passion for helping people, and his love for and experience with technology led him to create an end-to-end solution for patient financial navigation services via a comprehensiv...

Last week we spoke with Dr. Richard Zane , Chief Innovation Officer of UCHealth .  He was not only incredibly informative and insightful, but a great sport when we told him we would be recording a video even though we didn't warn him in advance or give him time to change! Dr. Zane spent 14 years at Brigham and Women's, where he served as the Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medi...

On May 20th I interviewed Dr. Meena Seshamani, who as VP of Clinical Care Transformation at Medstar Health , leads value-based care initiatives across the 10-hospital, 300-outpatient clinic health system. Prior to her work at Medstar, Dr. Seshamani was the Director of the Office of Health Reform at the DOHHS, where she drove strategy and managed the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. We di...

I interviewed Stephen Dansiger on May 15th, 2020. Stephen is the CEO of StartAgain and the founder of the MET(T)A Protocol . The protocol Stephen developed is based in the idea that integrating mindfulness and EMDR therapy represents best practice for providing trauma resolution, and trauma resolution represents the best outcome for people suffering from addiction and other mental and emotional he...

I spoke with Danish Nagda on April 29th, 2020. Speaking with Dr. Nagda gave me a glimpse into the future. His company, Rezilient, can perform 4 of the 5 components of the traditional physical exam using a robot, and they expect to have the ability to perform palpation when the launch of 5G becomes more ubiquitous late next year. By allowing doctors to examine patients as though they were right in...

On April 24th,  I interviewed Dr. Jennifer Meller, a practicing NYC Physician and the CEO of Navimize. Navimize integrates into EMR's and utilizing proprietary algorithms, measures clicks as a means of determining how far behind doctors are running. Navimize can set up automatic alerts to patients via text to ensure that they are not showing up too early for delayed appointments. Even before...

In this episode, recorded on April 13th, 2020, I interviewed Trevor Price , CEO, founder & GP of Oxeon Holdings and Town Hall Ventures. Oxeon is a specialized professional services and investments firm that builds and accelerates the growth of impactful healthcare technology and services businesses. Their executive search firm interviews nearly 25,000 top executives in the healthcare technolog...

This episode with Dr. Kris Laudanski was recorded on April 10th, 2020. Kris is board certified in anesthesiology and critical care, and splits his time between his practice as an intensive care doctor at Penn Health, research, teaching, and innovation. He is also the President of SHCI.  In this episode, Kris and I spoke about the emotional weight of serving as a front-lines physician during a Pand...

This conversation with Dr. Patrick Kim was recorded on March 26th of 2020, and was the first episode of the "Healthcare Reimagined" podcast. Dr. Kim spoke about his work as an attending surgeon at Penn Medicine in the divisions of trauma, critical care, and emergency general surgery.  As the division Vice Chief, Dr. Kim is able to provide a unique perspective both as a practicing physici...