Off the Chart: A Business of Medicine Podcast

Jaime Bland, DNP, RN, CEO of CyncHealth, explains how doctors in Nebraska and Iowa now are able to exchange certain types of social health data on their states' HIEs, and what it could mean for improving patient outcomes.  

 Sanjay Rajagopalan, M.D., the Herman K. Hellerstein, MD, chair in cardiovascular research at University Hospitals, Cleveland, discusses the  evidence linking pollution to cardiovascular disease and strategies doctors can use for disease prevention. 

Asset protection attorney and regular Physicians Practice contributor Ike Devji and Anthony Williams, an investment advisor representative and the founder and president of Mosaic Financial Associates, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on high-earner assets and financial planning, impending tax changes, common asset protection and wealth preservation mistakes high earners make, and more.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Fernando Mendoza, MD, FAAP, FACEP, the founder and CEO of Scrivas, LLC, about the rising rates of reported burnout among physicians and how medical scribes might be able to alleviate some pressures from physicians.

The Information Blocking Rule, which took effect in April 2021, was supposed to make it easier for Americans to get access to their health data. But many still find the process time-consuming and expensive. Deven McGraw, co-founder of the health data platform Ciitizen, sits down with Medical Economics to explain why, and why it matters to doctors. 

Physicians Practice® spoke with Kristina Hutson, a product line developer at Availity, about surprise billing events in independent healthcare practices and what owners and administrators can do to reduce the likelihood of their occurrence.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Rachael Sauceman, the head of strategic initiatives for Full Media—a digital marketing agency based in Chattanooga, Tennessee—about how practices can best market their services in the digital realm.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Hari Prasad, CEO of Yosi Health, about how what practices need to know about setting up and making the most of their virtual waiting rooms.

How can medical practices reduce the chance of employees resisting, or successfully suing over, vaccine mandates? Health care attorney Michelle Greenberg explains. 

Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Nada Elbuluk, practicing dermatologist and director of clinical impact at VisialDx, about how congestive biases present themselves in care strategies and how the industry can begin to work to overcome these biases.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Reena Pande, chief medical officer of AbleTo, about the current standards and challenges physicals are facing with standards of care.

Shawn Purifoy, MD, a family doctor in rural Arkansas, says hearing the facts from trusted sources is key to dispelling patients' fears about vaccination.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Michael Morgan, at the time the CEO of Updox and a contributor to Physicians Practice, to discuss the new technologies that you should consider implementing in your practice and why implementing a virtual care strategy will be so important post COVID.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Nick Cherukrui, the CEO and Founder of ThirdEye Gen, to discuss the potential new application of a visual technology to the world of healthcare.

Samuel Edwards, M.D., discusses his recent study in Health Affairs of  why burnout levels differ among primary care practices and what practices can do to reduce burnout among doctors and staff. 

Physicians Practice® spoke with Victor Bornstein, CEO and founder of JustPoint, a new firm powered by artificial intelligence, about how they are analyzing malpractice claims and pairing up prosecutors and defendants with the best counsel possible.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Michael Parisi, Vice President of assurance strategy and Community Development at high trust Alliance, about how physicians and practice owners can discern whether or not communications technology they are interested in integrating into their practice is certified secure.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Terry Blessing III, Senior Vice President of Client Development at VisiQuate, about how practices can work to reduce the likelihood of encountering denied claims.

Micky Tripathi, the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, discusses his office's role in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, improving EHR interoperability, and more. 

Physicians Practice® spoke with John Harrison, CCO of Concord Technologies, about how documentation technologies can improve workflows in practices.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Scott LaRoque, CEO of MPOWERHealth, about why some physicians may be hesitant to adopt value-based care models and how they can overcome these hesitations.

Physicians Practice® spoke with Chuck Lee, MD, about the complications of low patient health literacy levels and how physicians can improve these levels through communications, partnerships, and outreach.

Tim Sullivan, Pharm. D., director of pharmacy market solutions for UnitedHealth Group, describes the EHR-embedded tool UnitedHealth has developed to ease the prior authorization process for prescription medications. 

Physicians Practice® spoke with Colin Carr, CEO of Carr Realty, to find out what physicians and practice owners should know about real estate trends in early 2021 and the best practices in making commercial healthcare real estate purchases.

Dr. Gidi Stein, cofounder of the Israeli company MedAware, talks about the growing potential of artificial intelligence in medicine, and how it can be used to help avoid diagnostic and prescribing errors.