The Business of Healthcare Podcast

Episode 85: Using Machine Learning to Gain Insight Into Medical Symptoms

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser chats with Dr. Andrew Le, founder and CEO of Buoy Health. Le explains why and how he and his team use machine learning to create a web-based tool that helps site visitors gain clinical insight into their symptoms and points them toward various treatment options.

May 18, 2021

Episode 84: An Introduction to Healthcare-Related Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Analytics

This episode of The Business of Healthcare Podcast kicks off a series of discussions related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics. Host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with Dr. Ashwin Prakash, chief data scientist at Post Acute Analytics, a North Texas-based company that uses real-time data to monitor the progress of patients who have been released from acute-care facilities. They discuss the basics of AI, machine learning and data analytics and explain how these technologies can be used within a healthcare context to drive innovation, reduce costs and improve health outcomes. Prakash earned a Global Leadership Executive MBA from The University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management in 2020.

Apr 28, 2021

Episode 83: Better Health through Data-Driven Navigation Tools

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser welcomes Dr. Dena Bravata, chief medical officer of Castlight Health, a health navigation platform, for a discussion about how data-driven comparison tools can reduce costs and improve outcomes for patients.

White Paper: Castlight’s Approach to Quality: Curate, Customize, Communicate

Apr 20, 2021

Episode 82: Technology As Positive Healthcare Disruptor

Dr. Esteban López, the market lead at Google Cloud’s Healthcare and Life Sciences for the Americas division, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how technology is disrupting the healthcare industry for the better. Lopez, a 2007 graduate of the Alliance for Physician Leadership Executive MBA program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, also discussed how to solve healthcare disparities caused by systemic racism.

Mar 25, 2021

Episode 81: Healthcare 2.0: A Case Study

Dr. Bob Kaiser visits with Dr. Scott Shreeve, founder, CEO and board member of Crossover Health. Shreeve, an emergency medicine physician, explains how he found a way to scale his vision for a new primary-care model that utilizes technology — an approach often dubbed healthcare 2.0 — to improve access for patients and enhances their quality of life. The company Shreeve founded now counts Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Facebook LinkedIn and other large employers among his customers.

Mar 12, 2021

Episode 80: What is Population Health?

Dr. Naveen Raja, a board-certified rheumatologist and director of population health at UCLA Health, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about population health: what it means, what the implications are for its use in the transition from fee-based to value-based care and how healthcare practitioners’ roles are balanced against patients’ role in its implementation.

Feb 24, 2021

Episode 79: An Overview of Health Savings Accounts

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with J. Kevin A. McKechnie, executive director, Health Savings Account Council at the American Bankers Association. They discuss what HSAs are and how they can help consumers with qualifying high-deductible health plans better manage their medical expenses.

Jan 29, 2021

Episode 78: What Mission-Driven Valued-Based Care Looks Like

Dr. Gordon Chen, chief medical officer at ChenMed, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how a company turns fee-based care on its head by delivering mission-driven, value-based care to its patients.

Jan 13, 2021

Episode 77: 5G Networks in Healthcare

Martyn Crew joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about 5G — the latest technology standard for broadband cellular networks — and its implication for the healthcare industry. Crew is director of solutions marketing for Gigamon, a Silicon Valley-based technology vendor that counts healthcare providers among its clients.

Dec 23, 2020

Episode 76: Healthcare from the Millennial Perspective

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser has a conversation with Erin Burns Freeman, vice president with Ackermann Marketing & PR, a firm that specializes in consumer research related to millennial preferences that shape the patient experience in healthcare. Freeman explains how millennials behave more as consumers than as patients in making healthcare choices and what providers must do to adjust to these preferences.

How Millennials are Changing the What, When & Where of Healthcare (PDF)

Dec 10, 2020

Episode 75: The Johnny Appleseed of Healthcare Fixes

Dave Chase, creator and co-founder of Health Rosetta, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss what has happened since his last appearance on The Business of Healthcare Podcast. Chase provides a refresher on the Health Rosetta, a blueprint for massively replicating fixes he says exist for the healthcare industry but have met with resistance from those who want to maintain the status quo. Chase also explains the organization’s new initiative, the Health Rosetta Employer Program, and discusses his new book, Relocalizing Health: The Future of Health Care is Local, Open and Independent (Seattle: Health Rosetta Media, 2020).

Nov 24, 2020

Episode 74: Modernizing Clinical Trials

UT Dallas alumnus Vrunjal (Veer) Mehta, BS’01 Computer Science, MS’03 Software Engineering, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how the company he founded — Halo Health Systems — is helping to modernize the clinical trial industry. The company’s technological focus reduces patient burden and helps clinicians use workflow automation, thus accelerating the drug-development process.

Nov 16, 2020

Episode 73: Transforming the Patient Experience in the Digital Realm

Host Dr. Bob Kaiser is joined by Jonathon Hensley, author, speaker, co-founder and CEO of Emerge Interactive, a Portland, Oregon-based digital product agency focused on the healthcare industry. They discuss how leadership can transform the healthcare industry in the digital space by focusing on the patient experience.

Oct 28, 2020

Episode 72: New Approaches to Kidney Care

Misha Palecek, chief development officer at DaVita Kidney Care, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss the transition from fee-based to value-based healthcare through the lens of kidney disease. DaVita is a company that provides kidney care and dialysis services both in the U.S. and internationally.

Oct 8, 2020

Episode 71: An Inside Look at an Organ Procurement Organization

Patti Niles, president and CEO of Dallas-based Southwest Transplant Alliance, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a look into how organ procurement organizations operate.

Links discussed:

• Donate Life Texas: https://www.donatelifetexas.org/
• The Joint Commission: https://www.jointcommission.org/

Sep 25, 2020

Episode 70: Fee-For-Service — The Accidental Healthcare System

 Dr. Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer at LAC+USC Medical Center and medical director of biosciences for Los Angeles County, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about Spellberg’s new book, Broken, Bankrupt, and Dying: How to Solve the Great American Healthcare Rip-off. They discuss how U.S. healthcare evolved into a fee-for-service system and how to change it for the better.

Sep 22, 2020

Episode 69: Agile in Healthcare

Arti Pullins, CEO of Pundit Consultantz, a healthcare innovation and creative services design consultancy, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss how the healthcare industry can use Agile iterative principles commonly found in software development to become more nimble so that they can more quickly improve their quality of patient care one step at a time.

Aug 26, 2020

Episode 68: Contact Tracing and Other Pandemic Data

Dr. Jonathan Teich, chief medical information officer at Boston-based InterSystems, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about data related to the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss how contact tracing and syndromic surveillance can help ameliorate the effects of the pandemic and ultimately help control it. They also discuss how streamlining the sharing of electronic health records will help improve industry efficiencies and health outcomes.

Aug 6, 2020

Episode 67: Brain Health

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser discusses brain health with Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas and co-founder of The BrainHealth Project. They discuss the center’s signature program, the BrainHealth® Index, as well as the healthcare industry’s imperative to transition from looking at the brain as a problem that needs fixing to looking  at it as a solution that can help answer all other human problems.

Jul 20, 2020

Episode 66: Can Medical Debt be Abolished?

Craig Antico, co-founder and COO of RIP Medical Debt, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about medical debt — its root causes, what his nonprofit does to help people who are burdened with it and solutions for fixing the problems that cause it.

Links Discussed in Episode:

• RIP Medical Debt’s End-of-Year Report
• End Medical Debt Book

Jun 25, 2020