This Week In Health Innovation

On the Wednesday, October 16th 2013 at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern my special guest is Dr. Pat Salber. We turn the tables on Pat today and rather than put her in the moderator's seat, she the subject of today's discussion. Pat's entry into social media and the broader digital domain was launched via the blog 'the doctor weighs in' (TDWI). A clincally vs. health policy focused place to discuss initially weight management issues, trends and development it quickly grew in both visibility and reach via a broader lens on medicine and the healthcare world at large albeit principally through the eyes of physicians. Pat took somewhat of a sabbatical from her curation and writing duties at TDWI circa the 2011 timeframe to focus on the soon to emerge theater of crowd funding startups in the healthcare space via the platform HealtTech Hatch. Today we get to learn more about this woman, her interests, vision and passion for emerging digitally enabled technologies and the people who write the code, invent the business mod

On the Wednesday, October 9th 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our guest is Michael Millenson, President, Health Quality Advisors, LLC. You can follow Michael on Twitter via the handle @MLMillenson. Michael is a friend of this broadcast, a prolific and thoughtful writer, blogger and consultant and has recently penned the title: Still Demanding Medical Excellence posted on The Healthcare Blog and Health Affairs which is somewhat of a pulse check on the status of the quality movement since the IOM's landmark publication "Crossing the Quality Chasm" release in 2001.   He describes himself as a 'Quality-of-care evangelis't via his consulting, writing and speaking, and is an early, vocal and loud advocate for better, safer, patient-centered care.   Join us for an encore chat with this talented and thoughtful voice in the health innovation conversation.    

On the Wednesday, October 2nd 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our very special guest is Dr. Reed Tuckson, '..a health professional engaged in enhancing the quality and effectiveness of care delivery; an innovator in mobile and telehealth applications;  a person interested in clinical science and its responsible translation into new health interventions; or as a health policy maker or implementer.' His bio further notes: '...in nearly every sector of health and medical care, including serving  as the Commissioner of Public Health for the District of Columbia; the Senior Vice President for Programs of the March of Dimes Foundation; the President of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; the Senior Vice President for Professional Standards of the AMA; the Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs for UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune 25 Health and Wellbeing Company; and now as the Managing Partner of Tuckson Health Connections.' Please join us for an informative chat from

On the Friday September 27th 2013 at 1PM Pacific/4PM Eastern broadcast of this week in health innovation we're continuing our countdown to health 2.0 silicon valley aka 'the fall classic' series with a very special guest with an encore performnance see 'Lounging with Lygeia'.  Lygeia Riccardi aka @lygeia on twitter is the Director, Office of Consumer eHealth, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT at HHS. We'll hear from this standard bearer and superb spokesperson for patient centered healthcare and the empowerment of those who interact with the health system either directly or indirectly through access to personal health information. On Lygeia plate is the broader message of the 'epatient' movement as well as related key initiatives including Blue Button Plus. We'll get Lygeia view on health reform, patient engagement and the ONC including what's in her line of sight at the Health 2.0 Fall Classic. Join us!  

On the continuation of the nimble yet mobile 'Health 2.0 Silicon Valley Countdown series' on Thursday September 26th 2013 at 12PM Pacific and 3PM Eastern our special guests are @RohitBhargava, author of @likeonomics and Fard Johnmar, founder of Enspektos. Join Dr Pat Salber @docweighsin and me @2healthguru to meet these two innovators and learn what's behind the genesis of the to be released book 'ePatient 2015; 15 Digital Health Trends That Define The Connected Patient of the Future'. As well as whats on their radar for the upcoming 'fall classic'. For an overview of Health 2.0 Silicon Valley 2013 by no other than @boltyboy himself, check out 'the health 2.0 countdown with Matt Holt'. Also on the record to date: a chat with Akhila Satish, CEO of @MyCyberDoctor, and Scott Brown President of @MyDirectives. Join us!

On the Wednesday September 25th, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Scott Brown aka @l_scott_brownPresident and Co-Founder ofMyDirectives.com follow on Twitter via @MyDirectives. More about 'My Directives': 'ADVault, Inc. is a privately held U.S. corporation dedicated to bringing clarity and compassion to issues associated with critical care and end-of-life medical treatment planning. ADVault offers its web-based system MyDirectives® as a free service to consumers. MyDirectives allows enrollees to create and update their advance medical directive; documents are stored in a secure database that is available to enrollees and their medical treatment providers (usually emergency first responders, hospital admissions staff, emergency room nurses, and doctors) 24 hours a day, seven days a week, anywhere in the world.' 'MyDirectives features the first global advance medical directive - the Universal Advance Digital Directive™ or uADD™ - allowing people around the world to documen

On a special edition of this week in health innovation, we continue our countdown to health 2.0 series. At 6PM Eastern/3PM Pacific we chat with Akhila Satish of MyCyberDoctor aka @MyCyberDoctor. Join Dr Pat Salber and me for a fun preview of MyCyberDoctor at Health 2.0 Silicon Valley.  

On Monday, September 23rd, 2013 at 11AM Pacific/2PM Eastern, we kick off the 'health 2.0 countdown' series with Matt Holt aka @boltyboy. Join Dr. Pat Salber @docweighsin and me @2healthguru for a preview of this year's Bay Area extravaganza and showcare for digital health entrepreneurs and the ecosystem of those that love, follow, analyze, report, fund or sell to them. The countdown series continues through the week at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern from Tuesday September 24th through Friday 27th, with select faculty, sponsors and/or exhibitors participating in this year's gathering. Join us!  

On a special edition of this week in health innovation at 11AM Pacific/2PM eastern on Saturday, September 21st, 2013 our guest is Nirinjan Yee of BreathResearch a company that 'creates technologies and techniques to improve respiratory health and wellness.' 'Nirinjan Yee, Founder and President of Breath Research is a visionary and leader with 30 years of experience in the health and fitness ecosystem dedicated to improving and transforming health on an individual and global level. Breath research is a member app in the Aetna CarePass platform and a recent add to the PhilipsHealth 'Innovation fellows' competition. We'll here from Nirinjan about her company and it's future in the health, and fitness markets via the @BreathAcoustics 'all-in-one' headset. For a recent write-up in GigaOm see:Could a breath-monitoring headset improve your health? Join Dr. Pat Salber and me for an informative chat.  

On the Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET our special guest is the insightful, articulate, always entertaining and recently published authorLisa Suennen aka on twitter @venturevalkyrie. Lisa Suennen is a co-founder and Managing Member of the Psilos Group, a healthcare-focused venture capital firm, expert in:  '...identifying and investing in healthcare services, healthcare information technology and medical technology companies geared toward improving the competitiveness, quality, accountability and productivity of the healthcare economy. With three funds and over $580 million under management, we have deployed a consistent healthcare investment model since our founding. This has resulted in a markedly distinguished portfolio of companies and enabled us to deliver superior returns to our investors.'  Lisa has led Psilos' West Coast office since the firm's founding in 1998. She currently serves as a Director on the Board of several Psilos portfolio companies, including AngioScore, PatientSafe

On the Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Dr Daniel Kraft, the Director of FutureMed and Founder of IntelliMedicine. Daniel is a fixture in the health innovation conversation, from TED to CES he provides both context and insight into the future of medicine and health. More about Daniel: 'Daniel Kraft is Stanford and Harvard trained physician with over 20 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation. Following undergraduate degrees at Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Dr. Kraft was board certified in the Harvard combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital. He went on to complete Stanford fellowships in hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation, as well as conduct extensive research in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Through faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine

On the Wednesday September 4th, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific 1PM Eastern our special guest is visionary Dave Albert, MD, the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Alivecor. According to the Doctors Channel: 'Mobile phones and diagnostic devices are merging to provide quality ?clinical measurements from anywhere. David Albert, MD, Founder & Chief Medical Officer, AliveCor, demonstrates the AliveCor ?ECG, an iPhone accessory that will allow both physicians and patients to ?capture and transmit clinical quality heart ECG data using their smart phones'. Per their website the Alivcor Heart Monitor is a  '..quality, single-channel ECG recorder that leverages the power, display, and communication capabilities of the iPhone 4, 4S and 5. ' 'The Heart Monitor does not use power from the iPhone, but utilizes a 3.0V coin cell battery that will take up to roughly 10,000, 30-second ECGs before needing replacement. The Heart Monitor also uses AliveCor’s proprietary wireless communication protocol to communicate with

On the Wednesday, August 28th 2013 at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Monica Stynchula, MPH, MSW, CEO of Dovetail Care, who's mission is fostering Conversation, Communication and Engagement for the welfare of others. We'll discuss cover a range of topics including patient engagement, activation and empowerment. More about Monica: "Monica combines her education in fields of public health, social work and health information technology with her passion helping others.  Monica founded Dovetail Care, Inc. in 2012 that combines her passion for public health and health information to extend the benefits of the electronic health record principals to a person’s entire life. Her years as a medical social worker spanned inpatient, outpatient and home health programs with extensive experience with elderly patients. She has provided extensive consultation services to individuals instituting nontraditional and cost-effective education programs, creating innovative curriculum using software, text and self-d

On the Wednesday, August 21st broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Jody Singleton, the CEO of Advantage Electronic Product Development, Inc. Our topic is 'making dumb things smart.' We'll discuss the expanding, future role of medical devices as well as mobile technologies in health information exchange, such as Google Glass and an emerging porfolio of 'smart biometric tracking devices'. More about Jody Singleton from the company's website:   "Advantage Electronic Product Development CEO Jody Singleton and her team have developed cutting edge medical devices ranging from an intra-abdominal monitor used for patient safety during surgery and in ICU to smart-prosthetics worn daily by amputees. With an emphasis on innovation from the product technology to user experience, these devices have successfully received 510K FDA approvals. Bringing strengths from her background in aerospace to the medical devices community, she has been a featured speaker at The Institute of Electrical and Electron

On the Wednesday August 14th, 2013 broadcast we're thrilled to talk to The Doctor Weighs In contributor Dike Drummond, MD who is also known on Twitter via @TheHappyMD moniker. Dike is a physician coach and healthcare speaker who trained in Family Practice at the Mayo Clinic. A Physician with a unique combination of ground level experience in medicine, coaching and personal and business development. His expertise in personal change was developed through a combination of 11 years as a family practice doctor and 10 years as a business coach working with physicians and startup entrepreneurs; he has also developed his own unique, interactive guided imagery practice.   Join us for an informative chat with an insightful, witty and dedicated physician.    

On the Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern, we chat with James R Kean, CEO, WellnessFXa San Francisco based entrepreneur 'interconnecting health and sustainability.'  We'll discuss WellnessFX, an award winning company that:  '...empowers people to live better, healthier lives with actionable insights about their personal health.   Jim is no stranger to the health innovation universe. He founded Sapient Health Network in 1995 which became the foundation of WebMD’s consumer health business. More recently, Jim founded Wellness FX, an award winning Consumer Health 2.0 company. The company provides a personalized web-based nutrition, cutting-edge diagnostic, and lifestyle platform that optimizes health care for individuals and their employers.   For more information on WellnessFX and their value proposition including process, click here.   For one view on Jim's company consider what Mike Maples of Floodgate Ventures has to say:  'WellnessFX is like Google Analytics for your own body.

On a special edition of this week in health innovation at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern on August 1st, 2013 it is our privilege to once again speak with Rebecca (Mitchell) Coelius, MD, the Medical Officer for Innovation at Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Office of Science and Technology aka @ONC_HealthIT For a prior chat with Dr. Coelius  from the Health Datapalooza IV 2013 see: 'The Blue Button Co-design Challenge'. Our chat with Dr. Coelius will address the genesis, history and context for ONC's 'Data Access Framewok' (DAF) initiative. For more details see 'ONC Launches Initiative To Boost EHR Data Access, Interoperability.' Join us for an informative chat with the ONC's medical officer for innovation!  

On the Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Dr. Dan Riskin.   Dan RIskin, MD is a Board certified surgeon and CEO of Health Fidelity, Inc.:   "a leading healthcare big data company. REVEAL, our breakthrough clinical NLP platform, built around the world’s most accurate, reliable and studied NLP technology, enables real-time extraction, normalization, structuring and coding of unstructured information for a multitude of healthcare applications such as quality measurement and analytics, electronic health record, clinical decision support, medical transcription, and revenue cycle management. These applications rely upon the power of REVEAL to enable end users to make more accurate, timely and evidence-based clinical decisions, monitor and improve care quality, drive operational efficiency and accelerate healthcare transformation."    Dr. Riskin, Anand Shroff and Dr. Yan Chow conceived Health Fidelity in 2008. Having served in leadership roles in healthcare technolo

On the Wednesday July 24th broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is physician, entrepreneur, consultant and executive coach Margaret (Maggi) Cary, MBA, MPH. For an introductory piece on Dr Cary click here. Meanwhile an overview from Dr. Cary's profile: 'Maggi is a DC based Executive and Leadership Coach and Consultant who works with both corporate and physician executives. Clients include physicians and healthcare executives at University of Maryland School of Medicine, The Mayo Clinic, University of South Florida, University of Massachusetts Medical School, University of South Florida. SupporTED coach and TEDMED Great Challenge facilitator. Maggi is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Director, Physician Leadership Development at the Veterans Health Administration.' We'll discuss Dr. Cary's interest in executive coaching and the important role she sees it playing in the healthcare transformational process. Given the centrality of physician

On the Wednesday July 17th 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific and 1PM Eastern our special guest is quality of care evangelist, insighful blogger, author and advocate for participatory medicine Michael Millenson, follow him @MLMillenson on Twitter. Our topic today is ACOs and the quality movement. Michael describes himself as follows: I’m a consultant specializing in quality of care, patient empowerment and web-based health. I also serve on the boards of a medical journal and of two health care-related foundations and hold an adjunct appoint as the Mervin Shalowitz, M.D. Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Earlier in my career, I was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where I was nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize. I left to write what would become the critically acclaimed book, Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age, then went to work for a large consulting firm before heading out on my own. You can find Michael on the