This Week In Health Innovation

Today’s show is sponsored by the Population Health Colloquium which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. For more information including the power packed faculty and impressive agenda - or to register go to www.populationhealthcolloquium.com David B. Nash MD MBA, is arguably the ‘dean of population health’ and since June 2019 'founding dean emeritus' at the Jefferson College of Population Health. He is making an encore appearance on the show. We discuss population health in the age of COVID-19 and the many systemic gaps the pandemic has exposed given our aging and predominantly RVU driven healthcare economy. Dr. Nash also previews the upcoming virtual 20th Anniversary Edition of the Population Health Colloquium and the 'Hearst Health Prize for Excellence in Population Health' scheduled for October 5th, 6th and 7th. ==##==  

In the second installment of PopHealth Week's Covid-19 update (listen to first here), my guests included Nick van Terheyden, MD (@drnic1), Fred Goldstein, MS (@fsgoldstein) and Gregg Masters MPH (@2healthguru). We provide an update on the Covid-19 pandemic including a novel approach to safe re-opens for business and educational institutions. We also discuss the global and US specific stats including confirmed cases, deaths and where we stand on regional and national geo-cluster containment, and mitigation efforts including an update on the treatment and prevention (vaccine) horizon. Dashboard via Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University: Global Total Confirmed (as of 8/11/20) Cases: 18,585,774  Deaths: 701,665 United States Total Confirmed Cases: 4,775,621 25.6% share Deaths: 156,906 22.3% share This amidst a Covid-19 ‘balancing act’ factoring in the opposing forces of: Outcome 1: Stop the pandemic (get R0 below 1.0 via usual public health measures to contain or miti

My guest is Bob Matthews President and CEO of MediSync a leading management and solutions provider building an engaged network of medical group senior leadership pursuing better outcomes via analytics, planning and sustainable solutions. We get his take on the impact of Covid-19 on U.S. healthcare operations and insights into the advancement of value based healthcare..   Bob is a veteran healthcare executive with extensive experience as Executive Director of three medical groups for over 13 years. During his tenure, the groups expanded physicians three fold, increased payer contracts by more than 45%, and developed and deployed chronic disease management programs that led the nation in outcome results. He helped to greatly enhance medical group financial performance, resulting in increased physician compensation. Prior to MediSync, Bob had a national healthcare consultation practice with leading medical groups, hospitals and insurance companies, focused upon medical group formation, development, and perfo

On This Wek in Health Innovation my guest is Don Crane, President & CEO of America’s Physician Groups aka APG, the nation’s leading professional association representing medical groups and independent practice associations practicing and advancing the art of coordinated care. APG is the nation’s largest trade association that explicitly promotes capitation as the payment model for its members, all of whom accept various forms of risk-based capitation or other population-based payment. These groups are in the forefront of the healthcare reform and represent the care model and payment methodologies adopted by federal legislation for the entire nation. For more information on Don and APGs work in the value based healthcare economy space, do follow them on twitter via @DonCRane and @AmerPhysGrps respectively. And for more information including a rich library of thought leadership resources and member benefits, go to: www.apg.org Enjoy! ==##==  

On PopHealth Week our guest is. We discuss a range of topics in the social determinants of health domain from implicit bias in healthcare decisions to empowerment and shared decision making. Kistein Monkhouse, MPA is the CEO & founder of Patient Orator, a digital health startup empowering chronically ill underserved patients with effective communication tools and healthcare resources. She is a former healthcare frontline worker who saw an urgent need to build bridges across communities in healthcare. Her work is at the intersection of public and private health using stories to bring awareness to the importance of improving the health of people and communities with a focus on catalyzing storytelling to address social determinants of health.   Kistein is a 2019 SIMA Studios fiscal sponsorship award recipient for her short film Humanizing Health Care, a narrative driven emotionally paced documentary about healthcare experiences in the United States. She sits on the advisory board of We The Patients NY, an

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick is a CDC-trained medical epidemiologist and board-certified infectious diseases physician with both domestic and global experience in public health. She was recently named as a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Health Literacy.  

On PopHealth Week our guest is Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv. Dr. Bruce Directs the Program for Research on Faith, Health & Justice in the Department of Population Health Science at University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is a social and behavioral scientist with interests in the integration of the full range of health determinants specifically for young African American males and their risk factors for chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. His current research explores the intersection of race, gender, spirituality, religiosity, and behavior and their implications for social and health outcomes among African-American male boys, adolescents and emerging adults. Dr. Bruce is also a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and an ordained Baptist Minister and leverages the strengths of research-, community-, and faith-based communities toward efforts to improve the health of disadvantaged and disenfranchised males, their families, and their communities. Enjoy! ==##==  

On PopHealrth Week our guests are Stephen J. Spann, MD, MBA. the founding Dean at the University of Houston's College of Medicine who also serves as Vice-President for Medical Affairs, and is the Humana Endowed Dean's Chair in Medicine at the University of Houston Tray Cockerell is Strategic Relationship Executive, Office of Chief Medfical Officer at Humana. We discuss the launch of the nation's newest medical school, the unique mission of the college and the important collaboration between of the the nation's most successful health plans serving bith the Medicare and commercial populations via a variety of value based health benefit plan arrangements. For more information on the UH College of Medicine, click here, and for more information on Humana, click here. ==##==  

On PopHealth Week our guest is C Dr. Chima is Director of Graduate Education and Assistant Professor, Population Health at the Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). About Dr. Chima: Dr. Charles Chima, MBBS, MSc, DrPH, trained as a physician at the University of Nigeria and worked in primary care for two years. He obtained a master of science in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. He subsequently obtained a doctor of public health degree in health services research and global health and further training in health informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Chima is a population health scientist who seeks innovative ways to improve health outcomes and reduce waste in health care using the population health approach. He has led large-scale chronic disease population health initiatives in Houston, and provided advisory services as a consultant to state governments in Nig

On PopHealth Week our guest is Mark Mitchnick, MD, the CEO of Mindsciences a company founded by neuroscientist, addiction psychiatrist and director of research & innovation at Brown University's mindfulness center Jud Brewer MD PhD.. We discuss mindfulness and the neuroscience to postively impact addictions including smoking cessation, weight loss and the anxiety or helplessness many of us are feeling during the COVID-19 pandemic. About Dr. Mitchnick: A seasoned life sciences executive with extensive global health experience, Dr. Mitchnick founded and run several companies that have been acquired by multinationals such as Lubrizol and BASF. He trained as a pediatrician and have worked as a physician in the US and multiple developing countries. More about Mindsciences: For more information or to contact Mindsciences checkout their YouTube channel which includes the timely 'Office Hours with Dr. Jud' on Mondays for timely, science based virtual support join 'Dr. Jud Brewer for Office Hours with Dr. Jud

On this special Coronavirus edition of This Week in Health Innovation on HealthcareNOW Radio, my guests are: Dr. Phil Marshall, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer andMurray Brozinsky, CEO of Conversa Health. Today's episode is titled: 'Flattening the COVID19 curve: One company's contribution to mitigate demand for acute healthcare services'. To learn more about Conversa's Coronavirus Health Chats, you can head to coronavirushealthchats.com. For more about Conversa, head to conversahealth.comor shoot an email tohello@conversahealth.com   ==##==  

On This Week in Health Innovation our guest isMark Punyanita, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, atPhenoMx. PhenoMx is transforming global healthcare delivery by leveraging the full potential of MRI. By promoting an upstream, quantitative imaging solution, PhenoMx technology can monitor and measure organ-specific, regional, or whole-body phenotypic changes to an individual's body, over time. On the broadcast, I'm joined by my co-host, Douglas Goldstein, aka 'eFuturist'. Given the massive confusion on the federal level to proactively manage the now global pandemic of COVID-19, Mark offers a global perspective on the value proposition of deploying CT scanning as a viable screening tool to detect and mitigate the community spread of the coronavirus in the US and beyond. Listen and learn what we can proactively do to stem the exponential increase of this global pandemic. ==##==  

ONC has proposed regulations to open APIs to EHRs as a means to 1) promote interoperability, and 2) improve patient access to their health data. · What’s this issue about? What are differing points of view? · What’s your personal POV? What do you recommend? Congress has been considering enacting federal privacy legislation. · What’s the status of possible federal legislation? Of possible state legislation (e.g., CCPA) ·  Is consensus emerging? Is it bipartisan? What are remaining sticking points? ·  What’s your prognosis? Personal health information is emerging as an area of great sensitivity for consumers/patients. A recent example is the uproar created by the partnership between Google and Ascension health system. Yet, the deal between Google and Mayo did not attract a lot of attention. · Why is personal health data unique and sensitive? · What’s your take on the Ascension/Google and Mayo/Google deals? Join us!   ==##==    

On this episode of Valid Points, our guest is Kristin Begley, PharmD, the Chief Commercial Officer of Wildflower Health, a health IT company committed to “Growing healthy families” that has developed an enterprise platform for user personalization allowing healthcare to feed the same way Netflix delivers spot on recommendations or how Pinterest helps you find your next great purchase.   Wildflower Health was born from the experiences of the founder and CEO Leah Sparks, who struggled with two high-risk pregnancies and has expanded the mission from pregnancy alone to now supporting women in all life stages of family life with personalized education, tracking and calls to action for kids, dads and aging parents.   Wildflower does this by combining information from demographics, EMR data, and a host of tools/trackers, to customize individual experiences while amplifying the impact of health plans, providers and employer procured vendors. Allowing us to bring employer, payer and provider resources together in

On this episode of Valid Points, our guest is Nelson L. Griswold President of BottomLine Solutions a Nashville based NexTGen Benefits Consulting and Advisory firm. You can follow Nelson's work on the web via www.insurancebottomline.com and on twitter @nelsongriswold Do mark your calendars for the ASCEND's'Agency Growth & Leadership Summit'January 9-12th, 2020 - Dallas, TX where top benefit firm leaders discover innovative strategies and industry solutions to grow their business. Details on Ascend can be found at www.attendascend.com Finally, for more cutting edge insights into the emerging value based health benefits advisory space be sure to subscribe to the ‘Valid Points’ newsletter; and this Valid Points podcast for an informative series featuring top industry talent. Go to www.validationinstitue.com/validpointspodcast and follow Validation Institute’s work on twitter via @valid_institute.   ==##==                  

The Health Innovation Media and HealthcareNOW Radio pop-up studio team covered the second HLTH - that's HLTH - conference in Las Vegas Nevada. The combined team included Nick van Terheyden MD aka Dr. Nick, Douglas Goldstein the 'eFuturist', Roberta Mullin, Partner, Answers Media Network and station manager at HealthcareNOW Radio, Carol Flagg, Partner and Director of Marketing, Answers Media Network and Jane Boque, Chief Revenue Officer at Xtelligent Healthcare Media. The conversation was recorded live in the exhibition hall at HLTH, so enjoy the exchange! For more information or to listen/view the posted interviews see out pop-up studio showcase. Guests include Patrice Harris, MD, President of the American Medical Association, Daniel Kraft, MD, Physician, Scientist and Innovator and curator of Exponential Medicine, former AthenaHealth co-founder and CEO, Jonathan Bush, now executive chairman at Firefly Health, a direct primary care start-up, and Daniel Durand, MD, Chief Innovation Officer at Lifebridge He

Recorded live from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) annual conference 2019, principals from Health Innovation Media Gregg Masters and Fred Goldstein team up with principals from HealthcareNOW Radio Roberta Mullin and Carol Flagg to discuss their key takeaways from MGMA's annual conference 2019 held in New Orleans. For a recap of the conference, see: Recap: Wednesday, Oct. 16 at MGMA19 | The Annual Conference. For more information on the gathering checkout the program agenda and faculty, click here. Enjoy! ==##==  

Health Innovation Media covered the Health2con 2019 fall conference in Santa Clara, In this interview Douglas Goldstein, @eFuturist engages Elevation Health Consulting principals Jamie Skipper, RN, PhD and and Damon Davis, MBA, Vice President. More TBA. ==##==  

David Nace, MD Chief Medical Officer of Innovaccer chats with Fred Goldstein, President of Accountable Health, LLC and co-host, Health Innovation Media at the Florida Association of Accountable Care Organizations.  

At PopHealth Week on HealthcareNOW RadioGregg Masters managing director of health innovation media, publisher of ACO Watch and your PopHealth Week co-host with partner co-founder Fred Goldstein, President of Accountable Health, LLC a Jacksonville Florida based consulting firm engage the visionary Clay Johnston, MD, PhD on his plans for academic medicine and their evolving role in the volume to value transformation. Since March 2014, Dr. Clay Johnston has served as the inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School and as vice president for medical affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Johnston's vision is to create a new model for academic medicine that accelerates innovation to improve health and reduce inefficiencies in health care. In 2016, Johnston was named "Austinite of the Year" by the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce for his leadership in transforming health and health care in Austin. Previously, Johnston was associate vice chancellor for research at the University of California, San Francisco