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Behavioral healthcare should work for everyone, but too often it’s inaccessible, stigmatized, unreimbursed, and disconnected from physical healthcare. Today’s guests Kyle Talcott and Missy Krasner from Uplift and Redesign Health respectively are on a mission to change that reality for the better.

So is the behavioral health system doomed to be in crisis forever? Or can technology, better business models and entrepreneurs make the difference?

TOPICS
(1:30) Innovations and progress in behavioral healthcare
(7:00) Is there a severe provider shortage in behavioral health?
(10:13) The imbalance in behavioral healthcare
(14:30) Measuring value and improvement in mental health
(20:47) The role of big tech companies in healthcare
(24:44) The need for affordable behavioral healthcare

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CareTalk is a weekly podcast that provides an incisive, no B.S. view of the US healthcare industry. Join co-hosts John Driscoll (President U.S. Healthcare and EVP, Walgreens Boots Alliance) and David Williams (President, Health Business Group) as they debate the latest in US healthcare news, business and policy.

🎙️⚕️ABOUT KYLE TALCOTT
Kyle Talcott is a Co-Founder of UpLift Health Technologies. Kyle served as Chief Financial Officer at Ingenios Health Holdings. He served as vice president of finance, planning, and corporate development. He helped grow Audax Health to more than 60 employees in less than 24 months while raising more than $30 million in private debt and equity.

Prior to Audax, Kyle served in various entrepreneurial roles for startup companies in industries ranging from energy to social development. He earned a bachelor's degree in management and a master's in entrepreneurship from the University of Florida.

🎙️⚕️ABOUT DOUG MISSY KRASNER
Missy is a seasoned healthcare operator with 30+ years in the healthcare and digital health industry. She has worked at large technology companies (Amazon, Google, Box), startups, foundations, the U.S. government, and venture capital. She is currently a Venture Chair at Redesign Health. Prior to Redesign, she led various healthcare initiatives at Amazon, working across PillPack/Amazon Pharmacy, Amazon Care, AWS and most recently the Alexa Health & Wellness team. She served as Vice President and Managing Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at Box, a publicly traded cloud collaboration company.

Missy led policy and communications at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a healthcare policy think tank, and worked at Aetna where she led provider marketing during two corporate mergers. Missy has an M.A. from Stanford University in healthcare policy, communications, and business administration, as well as a B.A. in English Literature and Theater from UCLA.

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Matt Hollingsworth (Co-Founder, Carta Healthcare) discusses how his company is dedicated to harnessing the combined strength of people, technology, and data to improve healthcare outcomes

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🎙️⚕️ABOUT MATT HOLLINGSWORTH
Matt, the current CEO of Carta Healthcare, leads initiatives aimed at enhancing patient care through data insights derived from provider IT systems. Holding an MBA from Stanford, Matt's academic background also encompasses high-energy physics, with research conducted at CERN as part of the team credited with discovering the Higgs boson.

 He co-founded Global Dressage Analytics, secured and managed projects for the Department of Defense, provided technical guidance for a telecom analytics startup (Deepfield), and undertook product management roles for diverse Internet of Things applications at Samsung.

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The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos, created for in-vitro fertilization –are children. The immediate result is to stop IVF in Alabama and put Republicans, who worked to overturn Roe v Wade on the defensive.

What are the broader implications of this ruling? And what does it mean to be pro-life but anti-IVF?

TOPICS
(1:09) What is IVF?
(3:12) What happened with the IVF ruling in Alabama?
(4:41) Would this have happened if Roe v Wade was not overturned?
(7:00) What are the broader implications of the IVF ruling?
(11:58) The political complexity surrounding the ruling
(16:28) How will this impact cancer patients?
(20:13) Short and long-term effects

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Brian Lobley(CEO, tango) discusses how his company provides post-acute management services, enabling payer and provider strategies to ensure patients receive high-quality care at home.

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Brian Lobley brings over 20 years of experience leading healthcare businesses, operations, and strategy. Before joining tango, he served as the executive vice president, chief operating officer, and president of Health Markets at Independence Health Group, the parent company of Independence Blue Cross, LLC.

He was responsible for leading Commercial, Consumer, and Medicare lines of business and the company’s group pharmacy business and Operations, Business Technology Services, Informatics, and Innovation departments. He provided oversight for the company’s subsidiaries: AmeriHealth New Jersey, and AmeriHealth Administrators. He has also served on numerous boards across non-profit and for-profit sectors. Brian earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering at Lehigh University.

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Everyone wants care tailored specifically to them, and that’s the promise of personalized medicine. Technologies like genomic sequencing, bioinformatics, gene editing and AI are making personalized medicine possible, but we’re still in the early innings.

So what is the potential of personalized medicine? And how soon will we see the results?

TOPICS
(0:51) What is personalized medicine?
(2:02) The promise of genomic understanding
(4:46) The benefits of personalized medicine
(7:16) What are some of the concerns with personalized medicine?
(14:06) Progress and potential risks of personalized medicine

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Chris Tackaberry (Co-Founder & CEO, Clinithink) discusses how his company's AI technology delivers rapid intelligence from unstructured healthcare data, empowering pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations to focus their time, money, and resources more effectively.

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Chris is a qualified physician and MSc Computer Science graduate who spent nine years in clinical practice in anaesthesiology and intensive care before embarking on a career in healthcare IT. His combined expertise in medicine, computer science and leadership has been the foundation for his stewardship of Clinithink’s strategic direction and growth.

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Does American society simply not care about old people? That’s the argument put forth by elder advocates who cite indifference toward COVID-19 deaths and poor nursing home care to make their point. But if we take a step back, maybe it’s actually children who are getting short shrift.

So, are baby boomers starting to sow what they reaped with their glorification of youth culture? Or is society really not to blame after all?

TOPICS
(1:00) Covid’s impact on seniors
(2:57) Do we have a healthcare system designed to protect the most medically vulnerable?
(5:08) Why is the older generation being looked down upon?
(8:40) Do healthcare spending metrics need an ROI analysis?
(13:41) Are the Baby Boomer’s to blame for youth idolization?

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Dan Caron (Founder & CEO, Health Universe) discusses how his company created a collaborative platform that brings together data scientists and clinicians to develop and mature AI algorithms for healthcare.

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🎙️⚕️ABOUT DAN CARON
Dan lives on the edge of computer science and marketing. He blends deep technical knowledge with creativity and strategy to create results. Dan Founded three companies that have done tens of millions of dollars in sales and co-founded a healthcare company that raised 32M and has 300,000 physician users per month doing 100,000,000 drug transactions per year. He focuses on building products and services that improve the world.

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The financial crisis at Steward Health Care is shaking up the Massachusetts healthcare system. Steward’s 9 Massachusetts hospitals with 16,000 employees serving 200,000 patients are in danger of closing. The company blames low reimbursement while critics cite the evils of private equity and for-profit ownership.

So, will the hospitals stay open in the short term? And will Massachusetts take the opportunity presented by this crisis to restructure its healthcare industry to improve access, lower costs, and align incentives?

TOPICS
(04:02) The failure of the Stuart healthcare system in Massachusetts
(07:50) The Difference Between For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Hospitals
(11:23) The struggles of community-based hospitals in managing patient care
(14:34) Redeploying Hospital Expenses to Primary Care
(18:18) The Future of Community Hospitals

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David West (Co-Founder & CEO, Proscia) discusses how his company uses AI to accelerate breakthroughs in pathology.

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🎙️⚕️ABOUT DAVID WEST
David West is an entrepreneur and technologist with a background in computational biology. He co-founded Proscia in 2014, inspired by research at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Under David’s leadership, Proscia has earned recognition as a market category leader, raising a total of $35M in funding to date and securing customers including Johns Hopkins, Joint Pathology Center, and LabPON. 

David has been recognized by EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 Program, Forbes 30 Under 30, and Inc. Magazine as one of the top 50 Global Entrepreneurs Under 25. He has a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

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