Speaking Of Show & Making Healthcare Work for You

Dr. Kimberly Butler Willis and her partners at Goodstock Consulting are working to create health equity by taking a strategic approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion that starts with humanity and common ground.  Dr. Willis is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Goodstock Consulting, which she was inspired to create after losing a family member in Charleston’s Emanuel Nine shooting in 2015...

Dr. Connie Guille, Professor and Director of Women’s Reproductive Behavioral Health Division at the Medical University of South Carolina, is supporting women with perinatal psychiatry.    From an upcoming program that will allow patients to call and speak with a provider within 30 minutes, to a text messaging system designed to detect women struggling with substance abuse and domestic violence, Dr...

Kyle Kiser, CEO of RxRevu is passionate about giving providers real-time data so they can prescribe the most cost-effective prescription to patients.    Sometimes changing the quantity of pills or looking at different formularies means hundreds of dollars in savings to the patient.    By finding the most economical option, that’s one less barrier to medication compliance.    The mission-driven tea...

Dr. Mary O’Connor is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vori Health, and she’s working to transform delivery of musculoskeletal care using a holistic, integrated approach.   Dr. O’Connor says according to The WHO, musculoskeletal conditions are the number one global cause of disability. That also obviously has a huge impact on the workforce.    The Vori team sees a huge opportunity for th...

Dr. Jennifer Potter, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavior Science, and VP for Research at UT Health San Antonio is working to overhaul the treatment approach and culture around substance use.    She’s on a mission to provide compassionate, evidence-based treatment using a rational and scientific approach to reduce morbidity and mortality, while increasing access and equity.   With funding from a lar...

Dr. Besim Ogretmen of the Medical University of South Carolina recently discovered a Covid Biomarker through lipid research.    Dr. Ogretmen and his team typically focuses on cancer research, but they pivoted their efforts during the pandemic.    They discovered that a person’s level of lipid biomarker sphingosine had more than a 90% accuracy rate of determining if the person would have an asympto...

Minal Patel is the mission-driven CEO & Founder of Abacus Insights, a company that enables data by breaking down data silos to help health plans make sense of their data. As a former physician, Minal says the driving reason behind great, connected data is ultimately about people and their health. Minal knows first hand how the insights revealed through data analysis can be used to help patients ge...

Driven by a personal passion to change healthcare and “the obligation to do the right thing for the good of every American,” Pramod John, CEO of Vivio Health, is on a mission to overhaul the specialty drug market. He and the team at Vivio - founded by a leaders previously working in Pharma - want to use data to help people get the right drug, at the right time.  Pramod says medications are the mos...

For two years, the teams at Gallup and Hologic worked in partnership to develop the Hologic Global Women’s Health Index.  We talked to Priscilla Standridge, Research Director for the Global Women’s Health Index at Gallup, and she shared the fascinating details about: The index-creation process How they decided what was areas to measure Considerations while collecting the data What the data reveale...

For decades, Leon Evans has been a relentless champion of mental health improvement.    He is the former President of the Center for Healthcare Services, has received the American Psychiatric Assoc. Gold Award, was named a CNN Mental Health Warrior, and has testified before Congress.   Thanks to his innovative, mission-driven, and hope-based, bottom-up approach, Leon has made incredible strides in...

Since the early 2000s, Dr. Danny Sands and his patient, Dave deBronkart have been working collaboratively on Dave’s care - breaking boundaries of the old standard of care and communication between doctor and patient.  Together they co-founded the Society for Participatory Medicine. Dr. Sands is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at The Harvard Medical School, and practices primary care at Beth Isr...

Dalia Haroune is the President of Intersect Health. Intersect Health helps healthcare systems improve prevention, early intervention and access to care. Dalia says Intersect approaches transformational change through a physician-led approach.  She says more than 40% of physicians are burned out, and to make change, it’s imperative to have a clear strategy, physician buy-in, and aligned incentives....

CareRev is focused on unique labor marketplace technology solutions to connect health systems with healthcare providers, helping their customers engage people who never would have considered working on demand before.   This solution creates a flexible and resilient workforce. In this interview, Craig Allan Ahrens, SVP of Growth & Strategy at CareRev, shares details about how CareRev uses technolog...

Dr. Rebecca Wineland, Medical Director of Labor and Delivery & Associate Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina has a stark warning for pregnant women: get vaccinated or risk serious consequences from covid-19.    Dr. Wineland says that just 23% of pregnant women in the US are vaccinated, and yet even healthy pregnant women who get covid are much more line...

If you have any questions about the Exchanges, how they work, what the patient experience is like, or how the exchange might impact the future of employer insurance plans, you can’t miss this interview!    We talked to Shandon Fowler, who is the Founder of Four8 Insights, a policy expert in the ACA, and benefits, and he is also a user of the Exchanges.    He shared so many amazing insights about h...

Credited with a *1.6 Billion-dollar savings* over a 3-year period, Christin Deacon, Assistant Director of the Division of Pension and Benefits for the State of New Jersey, certainly knows a thing or two about how to make an impact on medical pricing!    Even more impressive is that the plans she handles cover more than 820,000 people on plans classified as Cadillac++.    She says shifting costs to...

For more than a year, Dr. Bruce Crookes, Division Chief of the Division of General Surgery & Charles F. Crews Professor of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina has been expanding the use of their surgical robot.    Once only for elective procedures, Dr. Crookes and his team have found the robot to be a valuable tool to use in emergency situations, after hours, and in community hospi...

Check out the Speaking Of, Founder’s Mission with Jaclyn Wainwright, CEO of AiRCare Health.  Jaclyn and her team are on a mission to remove barriers to mental health care, connect people to the services and experts they need, and destigmatize mental health concerns.  AiRCare Health offers “Next-generation behavioral health and wellbeing” through a model that uses data and strives to “predict and p...

Pyx Health Founder and CEO, Cindy Jordan, is on mission to help move people move through loneliness. Driven by her stepdaughter’s loneliness, Cindy has dedicated her life to helping solve this condition.   At Pyx Health they believe in “human connection first,” and live that value.    Partnering with health insurance plans and employers, Pyx Health uses AI and a bot to identify intermittently and...

Dr. Mark Scheurer, Chief of Children’s and Women’s at the Medical University of South Carolina, shares an inside look at the innovation and patient-centered approach at the new Children’s Hospital.   They took nothing for granted during the 4-5 year planning/building. The story is impressive and moving.   Hospital leadership “expected innovation,” and the planning team started from a point of deco...

Don’t miss this amazing interview with Dr. Sanjiv Chopra. Want to live a happier life? Find your purpose.  Want to live longer? Drink coffee. Exercise. Get Vitamin D. Want to lower your risk of cancer, Alzheimer’s and more? Drink more coffee. Want to be a better leader? Lead by example. Want to know what’s next in medicine and biology? Dr. Sanjiv Chopra shares the top 4 things on his radar. Our ch...

Leadership is something that so few people do well, yet Corey Towe seems to have figured it out! Corey has lead teams in various fields, building more and more wisdom along the way. Now he uses those experiences as a leadership entrepreneur to share the lessons of leadership with others.  Corey’s genuine and relatable management style allow him to lead his teams with passion, purpose, and where ev...

We had a wonderful & insightful interview with Chase Glenn, Director of LGBTQ+ Health Services & Enterprise Resources at the Medical University of South Carolina.  Chase is proud to fill this newly created role at MUSC, and he draws upon his own experiences as a transgendered man and his work at a non-profit serving the LGBTQ+ community to help guide his work. In this interview Chase shares some c...

UpHealth is a healthcare platform that is on a mission to reshape the healthcare industry.    Co-founder and Co-Chairman, Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria says the company is focused on outcomes, quality, access, cost, mental health, and value-based care.    He says the healthcare vertical is the last to go through a digital transformation. Kathuria says UpHealth is the leader in the 4-fastest growing area...

In this episode of Speaking Of, Founder’s Mission, I talked to Michael Don Ham, President of Pure365 and Wild Orchard Tea.  I learned so much from Michael! We talked about why the work  Pure365 does to ensure people live in a healthy home is so important, and then talked about the lifestyle components that impact health.  Michael shared tips & facts, including: The 4 core areas of indoor air quali...