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Jun 25, 2020

In the April issue of Value-Based Cancer Care (that’s a journal), there’s an article talking about a keynote presentation and a study highlighting a big problem for patients with cancer: toxicity. It’s a fact that some chemo agents are pretty toxic, but in this health care podcast I am talking about financial...


Jun 18, 2020

You know what the second biggest cost line item is on most health systems’ profit and loss report: supplies—buying things like artificial knees, stents, service contracts. It’s estimated that an average hospital can save more than $12 million a year if they manage their supply chain better. And interestingly,...


Jun 11, 2020

In this health care podcast, I am talking with Yauheni Solad, MD. Dr. Solad is one of the top minds in data and data exchange. He’s medical director of digital health and telemedicine at Yale New Haven Health, and he has a mission to lead digital transformation toward accessible and affordable high-quality...


Jun 4, 2020

Let me explicitly state an implicit theme that’s been running through a bunch of the latest Relentless Health Value podcasts talking about if and how the COVID-19 pandemic could possibly serve as a flash point in the health care industry—a flash point where egregious and self-interested financial pursuits take such...