This Week In Health Innovation

On PopHealth Week our special guest making an encore appearance is Nicole Bradberry, Chief Executive Officer of theFlorida Association of Accountable Care Organizations (FLAACOs). Nicole provides both a regional and national update on the status and performance of ACOs. In addition, Nicole previews the upcoming annual FLAACOs conference in Orlando, Florida on November 7th and 8th 2019. For more information on the agenda, speaker line-up and key themes featured at the conference, clik here. Join your peers at this crucial time for ACOs and related value based healthcare initiatives. ==##==

On this episode of Valid Points, our guest is Brian Klepper PhD, Principal at Worksite Health Advisors. Brian also serves as Executive Vice President at Validation Institute. The mission of Validation Institute is: "to deliver better health value and stronger outcomes than conventional health care." Brian is interviewed by Fred Goldstein, President of Accountable Health, LLC. Validation Institute is a network of trusted healthcare vendors, health benefits advisors and purchaser benefit managers focusing on delivering better health value and stronger outcomes than conventional healthcare.   For more information or to learn how you can move the needle towards a sustainable, value oriented healthcare economy go to Validation Institute. Be sure to subscribe to the ‘Valid Points’ newsletter; and this Valid Points podcast for an informative series featuring top industry talent.   Follow Validation Institute’s work on twitter via @valid_institute. ==##==        

On PopHealth Week, our guest is Daren Anderson, MD, who serves as Chief Quality Officer for Community Health Center, Inc.  Dr. Daren Anderson is a general internist and has worked in safety net practices for his entire career. Community Health Center, Inc., is a large, multisite community health center providing primary care to over 145,000 medically underserved patients across Connecticut. In addition, Dr. Anderson is the Director of Community Health Center’sWeitzman Institute, a research and innovations center dedicated to improving primary care for underserved populations.  The Weitzman Institute leads a range of initiatives focused on practice transformation and workforce development and has created an eConsult process that is now being used across Connecticut and in ten additional states. In addition, Weitzman researchers are engaged in a range of research projects focused on health disparities, telehealth, and pain and opioid abuse treatment in primary care. Follow Dr. Anderson's work on the web vi

On This Week in Health Innovation, we dive into the AMGA's 4th Annual Risk Survey. Our guests include: Jerry Penso, MD, MBA, President/CEO at the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), a trade association that represents medical groups and other organized systems of care, including some of the nation’s largest, most influential integrated healthcare delivery systems. Dr. Penso previously served as chief medical and quality officer for AMGA and president of AMGA Foundation. Under his leadership, the impact of AMGA’s quality programs grew to improve care for 26 million patients. Chet Speed, JD, LLM,Chief Policy Officer at AMGA. Previously, Mr. Speed served as the Executive Director for Federal Government Relations for the Cleveland Clinic, where he represented the clinic before Congress and the Executive branch.  Mr. Speed also served as a Senior Counsel to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Counsel to the Inspector General in Washington, D.C. In this role, he negotiated corpo

On This Week in Health Innovation our special guest is Lawton R. Burns, PhD, MBA, The James Joo-Jin Kim Professor, Chair, Healthcare Management Department and Director, Center for Health Management and Economics at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvannia. Lawton R. Burns is an American business theorist, Professor of Management and the Chairperson of the Health Care Management Department of The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, and a Faculty Co-Director for the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management. We'll get Dr. Burn's take on a range of health policy and reform issues from his observations on 'BS in healthcare' to the CVS Health acquisitionof Aetna. Join us!

On Valid Points our guest is Linda RIddell, MS, VP, Strategic Solutions, Validation Institute. Valid Points is a podcast series of Validation Institute (VI). A membership organization, Validation Institute is a trusted independent, third-party resource for healthcare purchasers, vendors and benefits advisors. The mission of VI is to deliver better health value and stronger outcomes than conventional healthcare. Today’s episode features data scientist and practical epidemiologist Linda Riddell, MS, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, who’s role at Validation Institute is the objective review of third party company claims ranging from ad copy to the value proposition of promised outcomes or results. Join us for an informative chat! ==##==

On This Week in Health Innovation Jane Sarasohn-Kahn weighs in on the Democratic Debate vetting signal from noise post debate - nights one and two. For context see Health Populi posts Part 1 and Part 2. More about Jane: TBA  ==##==  

Our special guest on Validation Institute's series Valid Points is Al Lewis, the CEO of Quizzify.com. Quizzify teaches client company employees how to get the care they need while avoiding the "care"? they don't...and does it all in a user-friendly fashion.  Imagine Jeopardy-meets-health benefit education-meets-Comedy Central. Listen in as a thoughtful and evidence based practitioner shares his insights in the health benefits space and beyond. For more information or to subscribe to the podcast or 'Valid Points' newsletter, visit Validation Institute. ==##== 

On the inaugural launch of the Validation Institute podcast series 'Validation Matters", my colleague Fred Goldstein chats with RD Whitney, CEO of Validation Institute. More about RD: 'With 29 years in leadership at 15 companies building professional communities in 23 industries, I am putting my skills, passions and networking connections to work in a venture that can truly make a difference in the nation’s competitiveness and in people’s lives. Warren Buffett called heath care the “tapeworm” of the US economy. This is all about to change through the power of a new community! There is a movement of very smart and passionate leaders and conscious capital investors poised to fix healthcare through the Validation Institute (www.ValidationInstitute.com ) which I have been given the privilege to head up as CEO. The Validation Institute advocates for organizations and approaches that deliver better health value - stronger health outcomes at lower cost. We connect, train and certify health care purchasers, and

At PopHealth Week on Wednesday, May 15th at 12 Noon Pacific/3PM Eastern our special guest was Rita Numerof, PhD, President and Co-founder at Numerof & Associates. More about RIta: "Her dedication, leadership, and passion have guided Numerof into its third decade of continuous growth and success. From the firm’s inception, Rita has focused on developing new business models for companies in industries undergoing major market changes. Her work has spanned industries that are critical to global economic growth – financial services, healthcare delivery, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, telecommunications, and major industrial manufacturing. Bringing experience, style, and boundless energy, Rita has applied her expertise to help organizations create and execute successful new strategies in the face of fundamental market shifts." "Rita has a deep understanding of the challenges executives face in sustaining growth and profitability in increasingly fluid markets. As a result, she’s become a trusted advisor to

On This Week in Health Innovation my guest is Charles Gaba the publisher of 'ACA Sign-Ups' a go to blog tracking the launch and continued operations of health plan offerings associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Charles weighs in on the current stat of the ACA and re-emerging conversations on single payer as well as the general climate for health policies driving U.S. healthcare reform. For his latest, check out: 'A REALLY DEEP DIVE into the updated "Medicare for America" bill'. In 2013, when neither the government nor the mainstream media provided consistent, reliable reporting of enrollment data for the Affordable Care Act, Charles Gaba launched ACASignups.net  as a hobby, using crowdsourcing to track enrollments in real time. His work soon caught the attention of major media outlets, and has been cited and used as a media resource ever since spanning the ideological spectrum including the Washington Post, Forbes, Bloomberg News, Vox.com, MSNBC, the New Republic, USA Today, the CATO Institute, Na

On This Week in Health Innovation, Thursday, May 2nd 2019 my very special guest is health economist, published author, popular keynote speaker and consumer health vvangelist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. In this episode Jane reveals the insights reflected in her new book 'HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen' and unbundles the seemingly subtle but profound difference between 'consumption' and prident navigation and access of the health system as a 'citizen' with rights and obligations. We'll discuss Jane's thesis of how health consumers in the U.S. might or can emerge as 'health citizens' where healthcare is a civil right, with privacy protections for personal health information (PHI), and the digital health innovations supporting a healthcare everywhere (and for everyone) model. Join us!    

This is PopHealth Week on HealthcareNOW Radio recorded LIVE from HIMSS 2019.  Produced by Gregg Masters also known on twitter as @2healthguru, the managing director of health innovaton media as well as co-host of pophealth week. In this "LIVE From HIMSS 2019 segment", my colleague and co-host Nick van Terheyden, MD aka 'Dr Nick' chats with two giants in the healthIT and healthcare transformational space. First up is the former CTO of the U.S. under President Obama, and currently the President at Care Journey, Aneesh Chopra, followed by Assistent Medical Director Emeritus at Kaiser Permanente Southern California, John Mattison, MD. Enjoy the insights of these two dynamic thought leaders!

On PopHealth Week, Wednesday, April 17th, 2019  entrepreneur, author and innovator Dave Chase weighs in on community health plans and shared savings. "Dave Chase is the creator of the Health Rosetta and cofounder of the Health Rosetta Institute and Health Rosetta Group. He was also CEO/Co-founder of Avado, a digital health company acquired by & integrated into WebMD & Medscape. The Health Rosetta is the blueprint for purchasing healthcare wisely, sourced from real life experience implementing practical, non-partisan solutions. His work applies the Health Rosetta in two areas. The Health Rosetta Institute creates LEED-like certifications for better purchasing healthcare benefits. It's primary current focus is the U.S. employer healthcare market, but the Health Rosetta isn't inherently employer or U.S. specific. The Health Rosetta Group is a holding company and investment group that drives healthcare's transformation. It uses innovative approaches to build and fund the next generation of healthcare te

Innovators and seasoned industry thought leaders Drs. Robert Pearl, Elisabeth Rosenthal and Archelle Georgiou MD weigh in on a range of issues from patient empowerment to health system innovation imperatives. This episode is an audio mashup of top talent in the health innovation imperative was sourced from the 19th Population Health Colloquium curated by David B. Nash, MD, MBA, founding and current serving Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health. In this broadcast, my colleague and co-host Fred Goldstein engages with Robert Pearl, MD, best selling author of Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Health Care—And Why We’re Usually Wrong and former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group (1999-2017), the nation’s largest medical group, with 9,000 physicians and 35,000 staff. Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD Editor-in-Chief, at Kaiser Health News and author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School a

At the Annual 'go-to' gathering of leaders in the health information technology space, of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Health Innovation Media is streaming LIVE From @HIMSS 2019 from the Nuance Communications booth #3345. Day one broadcast is Tuesday, February 12th from 11AM to 1PM, Eastern. Day two is Wednesday, February 13th, from 1PM - 3PM, Eastern. Join Nick van Terheyden, MD "Dr Nick", Fred Goldstein, MS (@fsgoldstein) as we engage top talent in conversational AI, digital health, analytics, the triple aim and the pursuit of a technology enabled patient centric, sustainable healthcare ecosystem.   For more information on Nuance Communications, click here, here and here. For the schedule of guests see: 'LIVE From HIMSS 2019'.

At the Annual 'go-to' gathering of leaders in the health information technology space, of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Health Innovation Media is streaming LIVE From @HIMSS 2019 from the Nuance Communications booth #3345. Day one broadcast is Tuesday, February 12th from 11AM to 1PM, Eastern. Day two is Wednesday, February 13th, from 1PM - 3PM, Eastern. Join Nick van Terheyden, MD "Dr Nick", Fred Goldstein, MS (@fsgoldstein) as we engage top talent in conversational AI, digital health, analytics, the triple aim and the pursuit of a technology enabled patient centric, sustainable healthcare ecosystem.   For more information on Nuance Communications, click here, here and here. For the schedule of guests see: 'LIVE From HIMSS 2019'.

On PopHealth Week, Health Innovation Media principals provide a @HIMSS 2019 Preview with @DrNic1, @fsgoldstein and @2healthguru. For more on LIVE From @HIMSS 2019 broadcast from Nuance Communications, check out the schedule here. We're live streaming during HIMSS from HealthcareNOW Radio. Tune in!  

On PopHealth Week our guest on PopHealth Week is David Klebonis, Chief Operating Officer of Palm Beach ACO. High performing and low revenue ACO Chief Operating Office David Klebonis weighs in on accountable care and Palm Beach ACOs strategic glidepath David Klebonis serves as Chief Operating Officer, for both the Palm Beach Accountable Care Organization and the South Florida Accountable Care Organization'.  'Recruited as part of the original executive team, David helped lead PBACO and its affiliates to save Medicare $45.2M in performance year 1. In performance year 2, PBACO increased savings by an additional 9.8% per beneficiary while improving quality by an average of 13.5% per measure. He currently leads ACO operations including government rules and opportunities, network development, clinical programs and outcome based contracts. Prior to joining PBACO, David was president of Medical Insight Partners, an EHR reseller and healthcare business and technology consulting company. His team specialized in help

Welcome to classic rewind on This Week in Health Innovation. On June 9, 2011 at The then newly launched Kaiser Center for Total Health in Washington, D.C., KP co-hosted an event bringing together health innovators for collaboration with intent to transform health care through knowledge sharing.  Titled the Health Innovation Summit was part of the Washington DC Health Innovation Week, a week of activities that brought together government agencies with academia and the health care and technology industries to spur new thinking in health. At the Summit, leaders from the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center, along with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Kaiser Permanente and Vangent and 100 other national leaders in innovation gathered to share knowlege, best practices and a vision for the future of the American healthcare system. This was promoted to "convene a growing community of innovatio