The Business of Healthcare Podcast

Dr. David Fajgenbaum joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about innovative solutions for accelerating disease research and discovering treatments for those diseases. Fajgenbaum, an immunologist and an assistant professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network while urgently searching for a cure to a disease...

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser and Lorna Borenstein , CEO/founder of Grokker , discuss how employers can get a return on their investment in healthcare benefits by providing their employees with wellness programs. They also discuss her book, It's Personal: The Business Case for Caring .

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser chats with Dr. Andrew Le , founder and CEO of Buoy Health . Le explains why and how he and his team use machine learning to create a web-based tool that helps site visitors gain clinical insight into their symptoms and points them toward various treatment options.

This episode of The Business of Healthcare Podcast kicks off a series of discussions related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics. Host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with Dr. Ashwin Prakash , chief data scientist at Post Acute Analytics , a North Texas-based company that uses real-time data to monitor the progress of patients who have been released from acute-care facilities. Th...

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser welcomes Dr. Dena Bravata , chief medical officer of Castlight Health , a health navigation platform, for a discussion about how data-driven comparison tools can reduce costs and improve outcomes for patients. White Paper: Castlight's Approach to Quality: Curate, Customize, Communicate

  Dr. Esteban López , the market lead at Google Cloud's Healthcare and Life Sciences for the Americas division, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how technology is disrupting the healthcare industry for the better. Lopez, a 2007 graduate of the Alliance for Physician Leadership Executive MBA program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas , als...

Dr. Bob Kaiser visits with Dr. Scott Shreeve , founder, CEO and board member of Crossover Health . Shreeve, an emergency medicine physician, explains how he found a way to scale his vision for a new primary-care model that utilizes technology — an approach often dubbed healthcare 2.0 — to improve access for patients and enhances their quality of life. The company Shreeve founded now counts Apple,...

Dr. Naveen Raja , a board-certified rheumatologist and director of population health at UCLA Health, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about population health: what it means, what the implications are for its use in the transition from fee-based to value-based care and how healthcare practitioners' roles are balanced against patients' role in its implementation.

  In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with J. Kevin A. McKechnie, executive director, Health Savings Account Council at the American Bankers Association. They discuss what HSAs are and how they can help consumers with qualifying high-deductible health plans better manage their medical expenses.

Dr. Gordon Chen , chief medical officer at ChenMed , joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how a company turns fee-based care on its head by delivering mission-driven, value-based care to its patients.

Martyn Crew joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about 5G — the latest technology standard for broadband cellular networks — and its implication for the healthcare industry. Crew is director of solutions marketing for Gigamon , a Silicon Valley-based technology vendor that counts healthcare providers among its clients.

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser has a conversation with Erin Burns Freeman , vice president with Ackermann Marketing & PR , a firm that specializes in consumer research related to millennial preferences that shape the patient experience in healthcare. Freeman explains how millennials behave more as consumers than as patients in making healthcare choices and what providers must do to adjust to...

Dave Chase , creator and co-founder of Health Rosetta , joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss what has happened since his last appearance on The Business of Healthcare Podcast . Chase provides a refresher on the Health Rosetta , a blueprint for massively replicating fixes he says exist for the healthcare industry but have met with resistance from those who want to maintain the status quo. Chase als...

UT Dallas alumnus Vrunjal (Veer) Mehta , BS'01 Computer Science, MS'03 Software Engineering, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how the company he founded — Halo Health Systems — is helping to modernize the clinical trial industry. The company's technological focus reduces patient burden and helps clinicians use workflow automation, thus accelerating the drug-development process.

  Host Dr. Bob Kaiser is joined by Jonathon Hensley , author, speaker, co-founder and CEO of Emerge Interactive , a Portland, Oregon-based digital product agency focused on the healthcare industry. They discuss how leadership can transform the healthcare industry in the digital space by focusing on the patient experience.

Misha Palecek , chief development officer at DaVita Kidney Care , joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss the transition from fee-based to value-based healthcare through the lens of kidney disease. DaVita is a company that provides kidney care and dialysis services both in the U.S. and internationally.

Patti Niles , president and CEO of Dallas-based Southwest Transplant Alliance , joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a look into how organ procurement organizations operate. Links discussed: Donate Life Texas: https://www.donatelifetexas.org/ The Joint Commission: https://www.jointcommission.org/

  Dr. Brad Spellberg , chief medical officer at LAC+USC Medical Center and medical director of biosciences for Los Angeles County, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about Spellberg's new book, Broken, Bankrupt, and Dying: How to Solve the Great American Healthcare Rip-off . They discuss how U.S. healthcare evolved into a fee-for-service system and how to change it for the better.

Arti Pullins , CEO of Pundit Consultantz , a healthcare innovation and creative services design consultancy , joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss how the healthcare industry can use Agile iterative principles commonly found in software development to become more nimble so that they can more quickly improve their quality of patient care one step at a time.

  Dr. Jonathan Teich, chief medical information officer at Boston-based InterSystems, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about data related to the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss how contact tracing and syndromic surveillance can help ameliorate the effects of the pandemic and ultimately help control it. They also discuss how streamlining the sharing of electronic health records will help...

  In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser discusses brain health with Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman , founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas and co-founder of The BrainHealth Project . They discuss the center's signature program, the BrainHealth® Index , as well as the healthcare industry's imperative to transition from looking at the brain as a proble...

  Craig Antico, co-founder and COO of RIP Medical Debt , joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about medical debt — its root causes, what his nonprofit does to help people who are burdened with it and solutions for fixing the problems that cause it. Links discussed in this episode: RIP Medical Debt's End-of-Year Report End Medical Debt Book  

Host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with telemedicine pioneer Dr. Dan Carlin , founder and CEO of WorldClinic , for a discussion about how virtual healthcare delivery has evolved and what the future holds for it in the age of COVID-19 and smart technology.   Links Discussed in Episode: McKinsey Telehealth Report Dan Carlin "Profiles in Success" Biography

Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA , joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about her new book, The Long Fix , out May 26. Lee, a magnetic resonance imaging radiologist, is president of Health Platforms at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company. Discussion topics include moving the healthcare paradigm from paying for action, also known as fee-based care, to paying for results, also known as value-...

Dr. Christopher Hutson , EMBA'20, a graduate of the Alliance for Physician Leadership's Healthcare Management Executive MBA program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management , joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about why he decided to return to school after successful careers as a military officer in the United States Army and a clinical anesthesiologist. They also discuss why transformati...