Thought Leadership from the Business Side of Healthcare
The Business of Healthcare Podcast is presented by the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management. It brings together business leaders and other forward thinkers to discuss how best to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing, increasingly complex healthcare industry. The center is based at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas.
Episodes
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
Episode 65: Smart Telemedicine
Host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with telemedicine pioneer Dr. Dan Carlin, founder and CEO of WorldClinic, for a discussion about how virtual healthcare delivery has evolved and what the future holds for it in the age of COVID-19 and smart technology.
Links Discussed in Episode:
Jun 19, 2020
Episode 64: Dr. Vivian Lee Discusses Her New Book The Long Fix
Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about her new book, The Long Fix, out May 26. Lee, a magnetic resonance imaging radiologist, is president of Health Platforms at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company. Discussion topics include moving the healthcare paradigm from paying for action, also known as fee-based care, to paying for results, also known as value-based care, and how the patient can play a role as co-producer.
May 28, 2020
Episode 63: Transformational Leadership for Physicians
Dr. Christopher Hutson, EMBA’20, a graduate of the Alliance for Physician Leadership’s Healthcare Management Executive MBA program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about why he decided to return to school after successful careers as a military officer in the United States Army and a clinical anesthesiologist. They also discuss why transformation leadership skills for physicians are more important now than ever.
May 13, 2020
Episode 62: Taking the Helm of a Major Pediatric Healthcare Organization
In this episode, Dr. Thomas Shanley, president and CEO of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, speaks with host Dr. Bob Kaiser about taking the organization’s helm in December 2019. Other topics include Lurie’s vision and strategy going forward, its philanthropic efforts and how the hospital is able to maintain high standards across a wide range of pediatric specialties.
Apr 28, 2020
Episode 61: The Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Revenue Cycles
Daniel Karnuta, a senior lecturer in the Organizations, Strategy and International Management Area at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser and co-host Dr. Britt Berrett to discuss how hospitals and other healthcare organizations are adjusting to the negative impacts related to their revenue cycles during the shutdowns necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apr 22, 2020
Episode 60: Telemedicine during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dr. Pardeep Shori, MS’19, Dr. Pardeep Shori, a family medicine physician who serves as a medical director in post-acute care management at a post-acute care management company, and regional physician consultant for a national retail pharmacy chain, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for an in-depth look at how telemedicine is being used during the COVID-19 pandemic and what implications its current use may hold for the future.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- American Telemedicine Association
- Alliance for Connected Care
- Center of Telehealth and e-Health Law
- Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Apr 15, 2020
Episode 59: Hospitals Are Community Pillars During Pandemic
Dan Springer, CEO of Lea Regional Medical Center (part of Community Health Systems) in Hobbs, New Mexico, joins Dr. Bob Kaiser and Britt Berrett in this special, supplemental episode. They discuss what LRMC and other hospitals have been doing to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic, the lessons they have learned during the crisis and what their leaders will be doing differently after it is over.
Apr 7, 2020
Episode 58: Forget Business as Usual — a Hospital Adapts to COVID-19
In this special supplemental episode, Matthew Troup, president and CEO of Conway (Arkansas) Regional Health System joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser and co-host . They discuss how CRHS has prepared for special emergencies, what he and his staff are learning day by day as they adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic and how these hard-earned lessons will benefit the hospital’s future.
Apr 1, 2020
Episode 57: Podcast Pivots to the Pandemic
In this special, supplemental episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser brings back former host Dr. Britt Berrett, director of the Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas to discuss immediate plans for The Business of Healthcare Podcast. Berrett will be joining Kaiser as co-host. In future episodes, they will bring on guests to discuss how the healthcare industry is adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mar 27, 2020
Episode 56: An Interview with Dr. Pat Basu, CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Pat A. Basu, MD, MBA, a board-certified radiologist and president and CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser. They discuss, among other things, CTCA’s “Mother Standard” of care, the importance of interdisciplinary education and training in tackling complex healthcare problems, virtual health, how to simplify the healthcare industry, and maintaining high clinical standard while elevating standards related to the patient experience.
Mar 18, 2020
Episode 55: Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
Dr. Phillip Alvelda, CEO of Brainworks, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about artificial intelligence and how the healthcare industry can use it to improve patient outcomes.
Mar 12, 2020
Episode 54: How Will Gene Therapy and Editing Affect the Healthcare Industry?
Benjamin Isgur, who leads the PwC. Health Research Institute, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss the forces that will most powerfully affect the healthcare industry in 2020 and beyond, including truly disruptive medical treatments such as gene and cell therapies and genome editing.
Links:
- Top health industry issues of 2020: Will digital start to show an ROI? (PDF)
- Beyond the hype: Gene therapies require advanced capabilities to succeed after approval (PDF)
Feb 25, 2020
Episode 53: The Promise of Health Hubs
Dr. Pardeep Shori, MS’19, a family medicine physician who serves as a medical director in post-acute care management at a post-acute care management company, and regional physician consultant for a national retail pharmacy chain, visits with Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss how the expansion of CVS HealthHUBS — store-based health services and wellness products for everyday care and chronic conditions — is transforming the healthcare landscape for consumers.
Feb 5, 2020
Disclaimer
The views expressed by the hosts and guests on these podcasts do not necessarily reflect the views of The University of Texas at Dallas or the Naveen Jindal School of Management.