Relentless Health Value

Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. is a physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and a researcher at the Weill Cornell Department of Healthcare Policy and Research. He is also a contributor at the New York Times, where he explores the intersection of medicine, health policy, and economics. He recently worked in the ABC News Medical Unit, helping to curate and communicate evolving health stories, and wa...

Pramod John is team leader of VIVIO Health, a company that is reinventing the therapeutic use and supply chain for the specialty drug space. VIVIO Health's solution is challenging the current framework of efficacy and extending it to true effectiveness in the real world. It also offers significant drug acquisition savings and simplicity for the patient by integrating the supply chain into a unifie...

Ethan Basch, MD talks today about a randomized clinical trial where 766 patients used a web-based system to self-report symptoms, triggering alerts to clinicians. The results were impressive. There are learnings and inspiration in this episode for anyone pursuing better patient outcomes, with special relevance for organizations rolling with a value-based care model. Dr. Ethan Basch is an oncologis...

It's rare you read an article about health tech and not see the word "interoperability" at some point, probably more than once. If that were a drinking game, we'd all be really drunk by now. Today I speak with Don Lee, a fellow podcast host about how Health Information Exchanges, otherwise known as HIEs, can assist us in the short term to get our data integration act together. This is a little bit...

I talk with Scott Barclay today. Scott is a partner at Data Collective (DCVC), an early-stage fund that makes venture capital investments in data scientists and entrepreneurs working on hard big data problems. We discuss what it takes for an entrepreneur to succeed in the healthcare ecosystem today, including an essential ingredient: Empathy. Data Collective is a $1bn+ venture capital firm focused...

Alex Akers is Vice President for Business Development with HealthCatalyst, a Utah-based, next-generation data, analytics, and decision-support company, committed to being a catalyst for massive, sustained improvements in healthcare outcomes. He has been with HealthCatalyst since 2015, primarily focusing on clients in the southeast. Alex began his career in healthcare consulting, working for KPMG a...

Leela Barham is a Health Economist by training with an MSc Health Economics from the University of York and BSc Economics from the University of Nottingham. Leela has over a decade of experience in consulting, working with clients from across the world. Leela focuses on policy and health economic issues from pharmaceutical pricing to Health Technology Assessment and more. Leela has worked with pat...

Mike Dendy is Vice Chairman & CEO of  Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions (AMPS), an Atlanta, GA-based health care cost management company, serving the self-funded (ERISA) payer community. Since joining the Company in 2005, Mike has overseen all aspects of AMPS management, ranging from sales and marketing, to finance and client relations. AMPS has seen organic growth of over 300% over the last 5 ye...

Lisa R. Erwin is President of The E2 Group, LLC a managed markets consulting company that specializes in Medicare Part D clinical program strategic and operational expertise with a strong focus on Quality and Star Ratings.  She also serves as VP of Clinical Strategies for Aventria/Pinnacle Health Communications, a managed market agency. A common theme of Ms. Erwin's 30-year pharmacy career encompa...

In April 2013, Dr. Hunt was appointed CPHO (Chief Population Health Officer [CMO/CMIO]) for St. Vincent's Health Partners, Inc., a Physician Hospital Organization with more than 400 providers, and St. Vincent's Medical Center. Dr. Hunt provides physician leadership and direction for the planning, design and implementation of clinical information systems at St. Vincent's Health Partners, Inc. and o...

Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, specializing in helping employer, pharmaceutical, device and pharmacy clients by creating partnerships with other health care organizations. For twenty years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all, the patient. 00:00 Incrementalism - Worth it? 01:51 "The CEO's Guide to Restoring the Ame...

Mr. Steinhart has had a distinguished career as an entrepreneur, investor and executive in the healthcare industry. He has been instrumental in starting or investing in many technology-based companies, several of which have developed products that have become the standard of care in their respective markets. Currently Mr. Steinhart sits on the Board of Directors of Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,...

Jennifer E. Miller , PhD , is an Assistant Professor at the  NYU School of Medicine and President of the nonprofit, Bioethics International . She is also the Creator of the Good Pharma Scorecard , an index that ranks all new drugs and large pharmaceutical companies on their ethics and public health performance to help recognize good practices in companies, improve trustworthiness, and incentivize...

Founder and CEO of Fit4D, David Weingard David is a diabetes patient who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 36 while training for a survival race. A veteran of numerous running and triathlon races (including Ironman triathlons consisting of a 2.4M swim, 112M bike and 26.2M run), David committed to rebuild his life and provide positive energy to the diabetes community while coping wit...

Tom Kottler is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of HealthPrize Technologies, which uses gamification, behavioral economics and consumer marketing concepts to engage and motivate patients. HealthPrize works with top and emerging life science companies to inspire patient loyalty, maximize medication adherence and improve health literacy. Kottler has led multiple high-growth organizations durin...

Andrew Schorr is a medical journalist who was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 1996 and has remained in remission since then. He is the founder of HealthTalk.com, PatientPower.info and PatientPower.eu. He is board chair of the Patient Empowerment Foundation in Europe. He is also the author of The Web-Savvy Patient: An Insider's Guide to Navigating the Internet When Facing Medic...

Julie is an executive pharmaceutical leader with over 20 years of experience across all phases of development both on the commercial and research sides of the organization. She leverages her Masters in Business Administration and Doctorate of Pharmacy to develop and deliver strategic patient-centric value propositions to optimize patient access and improve outcomes in patients with difficult to tr...

Dr. Nick is a leader in Digital Healthcare and Innovation, and former Chief Medical Officer for Dell. He provides strategic insights and guidance to support healthcare organizations, medical professionals and patients through information-enabled healthcare. He brings an incremental approach to developing successful strategies and applying technology to achieve a technology environment that is inte...

Brian Yarnell is President and Founder of Bluestream Health, a New York-based healthtech startup delivering an on-demand platform for remote medical expertise. Prior to launching Bluestream Health, he founded, grew and sold StarlingHealth, a startup that replaced nurse call systems with multilingual touchscreen interfaces and a clinical workflow platform. Brian is an entrepreneur with more than 15...

Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marcomm agency helping employers, payers, pharma and pharmacies develop and leverage partnerships with other health care organizations. For twenty years, Stacey has used her expertise to innovate inspiring collaborative health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all the patient. 00:00 Elisabeth Rosenthal, "An American Sickness: How...

Lorrie Carr joined ZappRx in April 2016 as Chief Commercial Officer. She has over 20 years' experience in the health care industry – primarily focused in the pharma/biotech and specialty pharmacy industries. Just prior to joining ZappRx, Ms. Carr was the Divisional VP of Enterprise Specialty Sales and Product Management for Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy. Ms. Carr transformed the strategy, operation...

Sajid Ahmed is the Chief Information and Innovation Officer of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles. He is leading the new hospital's $70 million health information technology initiative and launching an innovation hub on the 42-acre MLK Medical Center Campus. Mr. Ahmed is a true innovator and pioneer in healthcare information systems. He has unparalleled experience in a...

Roy Rosin is Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine, working to rapidly design, test and implement high impact health care delivery practices. His team crafts interventions to achieve dramatically improved patient outcomes, experience and high value care. In the past four years they have driven measurable progress in readmission rates, frequent use of the ER, medication adherence, screening rat...

Dr LaFountain is a healthcare strategist, neuroscientist and author of " How Patients Think: A science-based strategy for patient engagement and population health ." She is the CEO of Mind Field Solutions Corporation, a firm specializing in the application of cognitive neuroscience to health behavior and patient engagement. The Cleveland Clinic has described her neuroscience approach to patient en...