Jan 30, 2020
In this health care podcast, seven thought leaders talk about the areas of promise they see in health care in 2020. Seven thought leaders include:
Kimberly Noel, MD, from Stony Brook Medicine
Eric Weaver, from Innovista Health Solutions
Suzanne Delbanco, from Catalyst for Payment Reform
Sue Schade, from StarBridge...
Jan 23, 2020
In this health care podcast, I talk with Karl Bilimoria, MD. Dr. Bilimoria is a surgical oncologist and a VP of quality over at Northwestern Medicine. Plus, he is also a John B. Murphy professor of surgery. The second I heard that Dr. Bilimoria and his colleagues had worked on an initiative to “rate the raters”...
Jan 16, 2020
You know how in JAMA recently it said that 25% or more of health care spending is frittered away wastefully? Some of that wasteful spending comes from unnecessary care. And some of that unnecessary care happens when a patient is misdiagnosed and then, based on that misdiagnosis, gets care for the wrong thing....
Jan 9, 2020
Dr. Richard Zane is the chief innovation officer at UCHealth. He’s also the executive director of emergency services there. Besides that, he chairs emergency medicine at the medical school and he’s a professor at the business school and at the medical school.
At the recent NODE Digital Medicine Conference, I asked...
Jan 2, 2020
Everybody knows about evidence-based medicine, especially evidence-based medicine around the use of pharmaceuticals—and especially in oncology. Provider and payer organizations, many of them, strive to standardize care pathways around that evidence-based medicine. Here is the thing: I’ve heard it said that doctors...