The Business of Healthcare Podcast

Dr. Phillip Alvelda, CEO of Brainworks, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about artificial intelligence and how the healthcare industry can use it to improve patient outcomes.

Benjamin Isgur, who leads the PwC. Health Research Institute, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss the forces that will most powerfully affect the healthcare industry in 2020 and beyond, including truly disruptive medical treatments such as gene and cell therapies and genome editing. Links: Top health industry issues of 2020: Will digital start to show an ROI? (PDF) Beyond the hype: Gene therapies require advanced capabilities to succeed after approval (PDF)

Dr. Pardeep Shori, MS'19, a family medicine physician who serves as a medical director in post-acute care management at a post-acute care management company, and regional physician consultant for a national retail pharmacy chain, visits with Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss how the expansion of CVS HealthHUBS — store-based health services and wellness products for everyday care and chronic conditions — is transforming the healthcare landscape for consumers.

Don Taylor joins Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how the healthcare industry could better serve society if it focused more on health rather than business outcomes. A retired U.S. Air Force colonel who led a trauma hospital in Iraq in 2006, Taylor coaches, consults, teaches and speaks on leadership, healthcare policy and emerging healthcare industry disruptors. A former hospital CEO and COO, he has nearly 40 years of operational and leadership experience in the healthcare and engineering industries.

Don Woodlock, vice president at InterSystems and head of its HealthShare business unit, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a look at the healthcare industry's current state of digital transformation and what to expect in 2020 and beyond. Relevant links: If Air Travel Worked Like Healthcare Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

The Business of Healthcare Podcast welcomes back Den Bishop, president of Holmes Murphy & Associates, an independent risk management and insurance brokerage firm. Bishop first appeared on the show in 2018 to discuss health insurance costs. In this episode, Bishop and host Dr. Bob Kaiser discuss the tensions found within the current healthcare coverage landscape against the backdrop of the 2020 presidential election cycle as well as disruptive innovation in the industry. They also discuss the consumer's role in improving health outcomes.

Physician-turned-entrepreneur Dr. Eric Bricker joins Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about healthcare reform through a financial lens. Bricker is a former internal medicine physician who co-founded Compass Professional Health Services. He sold the company to Blackstone-owned Alight Solutions then started AHealthcareZ, a healthcare finance video journal, to educate employers about the factors affecting their healthcare costs and quality. Bricker also discusses his new book, Healthcare Money Campfire Stories, which addresses in storyteller fashion how money influences healthcare and the practice of medicine.

Anthony Iacovone, CEO of BioSymetrics, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about what biomedical artificial intelligence and machine learning are and how they can be used to improve outcomes in the areas of drug discovery, clinical diagnostics and value-based care as well as reduce healthcare costs.

Dr. Paul Convery, a clinical professor of healthcare leadership and management in the Executive Education Area at the Naveen Jindal School of Management joins Dr. Robert Kaiser for a discussion about the various "Medicare for All" bills that have been introduced in the 116th U.S. Congress. Convery also discussed this topic as a panelist at a recent seminar — "Medicare for All: What Does it Really Mean? — presented by the Jindal School's Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management.

In this episode, ConnectRN executives Mike Wood and Idriz Limaj join host Dr. Bob Kaiser remotely from Boston to discuss how they are helping to solve the nursing shortage by streamlining how nurses connect with healthcare facilities to fill open shifts.