Stacey Richter
Relentless Health Value
Welcome to Relentless Health Value, the podcast for those working in the belly of the beast to fix our fundamentally broken healthcare system. If you are a self-insured employer, plan sponsor, benefits consultant, clinician, a C-suite executive or anyone in the business of healthcare tired of the "transformational theater" and marketing fluff, you have found your tribe. The U.S. healthcare system isn't a rational market; it's a game of Pachinko where perverse incentives reign, and as we always say, where there's mystery, there's margin. Hosted by Stacey Richter, we relentlessly hunt down the a...
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Jul 8, 2026
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Episodes
INBW 12: Single Payer vs Consumerism, Healthcare Costs vs Insurance Costs - A Book Report (Inbetweenisode) 25.05.2017 30:33
Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency specializing in helping pharmaceutical, device and pharmacy clients gain access to patients by creating and leveraging 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. This episode compares how si...
EP137: Rethinking Hospital Discharge Planning in a Value-Based Model with Josh Luke, FACHE- The Voice of American Healthcare, Healthcare Futurist 18.05.2017 29:18
Dr. Josh Luke, FACHE Adjunct Faculty, University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy Founder, National Readmission Prevention Collaborative & National Bundled Payment Collaborative Author: Ex-Acute: A former hospital CEO tells all about what's wrong with American healthcare Author: Readmission Prevention: Solutions Across the Provider Continuum Chief Strategy Officer, Complia...
Episode 136: Innovating to Reduce Costs with David Westfall Bates, MD from Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston) 11.05.2017 32:45
David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners HealthCare Dr. Bates is an internationally renowned expert in patient safety, using information technology to improve care, quality-of-care, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes assessment in medical practice. He is a Professor of Medicine a...
Episode 135: Get Future-Proof, What You Need to be Doing Now with David Smith, Chief Development Officer of Leavitt Partners 04.05.2017 31:07
David is the Chief Development Officer where he is responsible for expanding the firm's influence in the health care market. Since joining Leavitt Partners, David has advised clients in areas of government activity, insurance market reforms, economic changes to the health care payment system, and alliances. He specifically helped establish the Private Exchange Coalition and has led multiple other...
Episode 134: Stepwise Behavior Change with Melissa McCool, Co-founder and CEO of StelliCare 27.04.2017 30:55
Melissa McCool is the co-founder and CEO of Stellicare Corporation. In 2009, Melissa developed Symptom Targeted Intervention (STI), a clinical program used in thousands of US medical clinics to improve the behavioral determinants of health. Since then, she has written and produced numerous articles, videos, and books and has trained thousands of clinicians around the US and Canada on how to implem...
Episode 133: A Primer in Taking on Risk with Michael Hunt, DO, CEO & President of St. Vincent Health Partners, Inc, Chief Information Officer for St. Vincent Medical Center 20.04.2017 34:04
Dr. Hunt graduated from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa and completed his residency in Pediatrics. During his military service, Dr. Hunt's held key leadership positions. As Chief Medical Information Officer, he has implemented 'Epic' and 'Cerner' EMRs. He is Board Certified in pediatrics and received a Master of Science in Medical Informatics. In April...
Episode 132: How A Hospital Can Succeed in Rural America with Darren Pearce, MBA, BSN, Vice President of Ambulatory Services at Navicent Health 13.04.2017 29:15
Darren Pearce serves as the Chief Administrative Officer for Ambulatory & Retail Services for Navicent Health, an academic medical system including a Level 1 Trauma center, multiple rural acute outposts and post-acute offerings located in Central Georgia. A proud Navy veteran, Darren Pearce started his early career as a Registered Nurse and went on to complete his MBA as he transitioned from dir...
Episode 131: The Challenge of Reaching Patients with Zach Silverzweig from CipherHealth 06.04.2017 29:42
Bringing over ten years of experience as an entrepreneur and consultant to CipherHealth, Zach Silverzweig works with hospitals to achieve patient-centered care through the elegant application of innovative and forward-thinking solutions. He leads CipherHealth's product and development teams, managing the solution lifecycle from concept to napkin to prototype to launch to profitability. Zach also p...
Episode 130: A How to Guide to Precision Medicine with Jonathan Hirsch of Syapse 30.03.2017 26:23
Jonathan Hirsch is the Founder and President of Syapse, a market leader in precision oncology solutions. Jonathan is dedicated to the Syapse vision of transforming healthcare through precision medicine. As President, he works closely with healthcare providers to create a robust software platform that brings together previously fragmented clinical, molecular, and outcomes data to help physicians ma...
Episode 129: Integrating Pharmacists into Medical Homes with Troy Trygstad of Community Care of North Carolina, CCNC 23.03.2017 32:22
Troy Trygstad, PharmD, MBA, PhD Troy Trygstad is a community pharmacist, a health economist, and a pharmacy visionary who continues to encourage pharmacy industry leaders into new and innovative ways of thinking. Troy is the Executive Director of CPESN USA, a clinically integrated network of community-based pharmacy networks that endeavors to improve the quality and effectiveness of enhanced servi...
Episode 128: Enabling Pharmaceutical Innovation with Mike Rea from IDEA Pharma 16.03.2017 29:11
Mike Rea has worked in global pharma strategy for over 25 years, working with the world's top 30 pharmaceutical companies. Regarded as an industry thought leader in innovation, Mike helped lead the strategic direction of over 100 pharmaceutical brands, and created the industry standard annual Productive Innovation Index, a ranking of top 30 pharma by their ability to launch innovation. Mike's pass...
Episode 127: The ins and outs of Providers becoming Payer/Providers with Kris Smith, MD MPP and Chief Medical Officer of CareConnect, Sr VP of PHM, and Medical Director of Northwell Health 09.03.2017 30:05
As Senior Vice President in the Office of Population Health Management, Dr. Smith provides clinical leadership for all of Northwell's population health activities. He is also the Medical Director for Health Solutions, Northwell's care management organization and is the Chief Medical Officer for CareConnect, Northwell's insurance company. Prior to these responsibilities he led system-wide care cont...
Episode 126: Cleaning Up Dirty Data, with Eric Rosow from Diameter Health 02.03.2017 28:53
Eric Rosow serves as CEO of Diameter Health. He has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare technology, new venture creation and executive management. Prior to co-founding Diameter Health, Eric served as the VP and General Manager of the Patient Flow business unit for Eclipsys and Allscripts. Preceding that, Eric was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Premise, a company he co-foun...
Episode 125: Linking Healthcare Innovation and Organizational Strategy, with Chris Cornue from Navicent Health 23.02.2017 31:10
As Chief Strategy and Chief Innovation Officer, Christopher Cornue leads Navicent Health's efforts to plan for the future and meet the organization's mission, vision and values. He collaborates with the organization's leaders, caregivers, physicians and community and other key stakeholders to establish and execute on strategy, operations and innovation across the system. Christopher has more than...
Episode 124: Why EHR Systems Have Failed Us and How Innovations Can Enable a Better Healthcare Future, with John Lynn, founder of Healthcare Scene 16.02.2017 30:19
John Lynn is the Founder of Healthcare Scene . Healthcare Scene is a unique healthcare IT network which consists of 10 EHR and Healthcare IT blogs containing over 11,000 articles published over 11 years. Of those articles, John has written over 5500 of the articles himself. These EMR & Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 18 million times and John has over 80k social media followe...
Episode 123: The Secret to Healthcare Business Success is Collaboration, with Mark Tomaino of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe 09.02.2017 31:06
Mark Tomaino is an Operating Partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a New York City based private equity firm that invests, principally, in two markets, healthcare and information/business services. Mark's focus is exclusively on healthcare technology investment opportunities, including deal generation, due diligence, execution and portfolio company monitoring. Mark has served on the board...
Episode 122: The Pathway to Sustainable Market Share for Pharma, and Other Life Sciences Companies with Dave Dierk of Aventria Health Group 02.02.2017 23:24
A 27-year veteran of managed-markets marketing, David is the President/CEO of Pinnacle Health Communications. After working in consumer marketing with AT&T and healthcare publishing with Elsevier, David made the move to medical advertising and communications at K.I. Lipton, Inc. Subsequently, he became a cofounder of Pinnacle. David is an accomplished strategist, providing innovative customer mark...
Episode 121: How to Manage Safe Bets in a Time of Uncertainty and Complexity with Sherri Douville from Medigram 26.01.2017 30:13
Sherri Douville brings over a decade in healthcare consulting, sales, marketing, and entrepreneurial experience to her leadership at Medigram. She now serves as a frequent moderator and panel coach at Health IT conferences. Prior to this, she founded a healthcare technology consulting practice. Medigram is a mobile, intelligent enterprise solution for healthcare that enables clinicians to commu...
Episode 120: The Invisible Destroyer of Value & Quality with Dr. Dike Drummond, MD - The Happy MD 19.01.2017 28:15
Dr. Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained Family Practice doctor, burnout survivor, author, executive coach and consultant to individual physicians and healthcare organizations across the USA. He teaches simple methods to lower stress, build more life balance and prevent burnout. Dr. Drummond has over 2000 hours of one on one physician coaching experience where the concepts and techniques you are about...
Episode 119: Fostering Problem-Solver Nurses and Maker Nurses w/Jamie Davis of NursingShow.com 12.01.2017 32:03
Jamie Davis, RN, NRP, B.A., A.S., host of the Nursing Show is a nationally recognized medical educator and author who began educating new emergency responders as a training officer for his local EMS program. As a media producer, he has been recognized for the MedicCast Podcast , a weekly program for emergency medical providers like EMTs and paramedics, and the Nursing Show a similar program...
Episode 118: Improving Health in Healthy Communities with Rick Brush of Wellville 05.01.2017 33:58
Rick is CEO of Wellville, a 10-year initiative founded by angel investor Esther Dyson to improve health and financial outcomes in five U.S. communities. In addition to overseeing the national project, Rick leads the Wellville effort in North Hartford, CT, working with Community Solutions and a multi-sector collaborative focused on achieving the Neighborhood Triple Aim: improved population health,...
Inbetweenisode 11: Motivating Walking - The More You Drive, the More Obese You Are w/Fred Richter 22.12.2016 25:30
Fred is an inveterate traveler. He has bicycled, walked, hiked or run in all 50 US states, all 10 Canadian provinces, and on every continent but Antartica. Along the way, he spent time backpacking on some of the world's most renown trails and so far has hiked (some are drive-ups) to the summit of 38 state high points. This year he has biked over 5000 miles and is on course to run/walk/hike 1000 mi...
Special Edition: Five Reasons the ACA Won't Be Repealed with Billy Wynne of Thorne Run Partners 15.12.2016 36:08
Billy Wynne Managing Partner, TRP Health Policy Phone: (202) 309-0796 Email: bwynne@thornrun.com www.thornrun.com/health-policy www.mypolicyhub.com www.linkedin.com/in/billywynne www.healthaffairs.org/blog/author/wynne @billywynne77 @trphealthpolicy @thorn_run Billy Wynne is nationally respected health policy consultant, advocate, speaker, and ent...
Michelle Snyder leads all corporate marketing, brand development, marketing communications and public relations activities for Welltok. She is recognized as a marketing and strategy leader in the digital health space. 08.12.2016 32:32
Michelle Snyder leads all corporate marketing, brand development, marketing communications and public relations activities for Welltok. She is recognized as a marketing and strategy leader in the digital health space. She was most recently an Executive-in-Residence at InterWest Partners, investing in digital health companies and serving as an advisor to InterWest portfolio companies. She was also...
Episode 116: Hooking Up Healthcare Innovators and Customers with Laurance Stuntz from the Massachusetts eHealth Institute 01.12.2016 27:09
Laurance Stuntz is the Director of the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech, or MeHI. He is an experienced and passionate leader working to help Massachusetts leverage digital health innovation for better economic and care delivery outcomes. MeHI is a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a unique state agency working to support innovation economy growth. MeHI is the Commo...
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