Creating a New Healthcare

By Zeev Neuwirth

Business Medicine

What's Creating a New Healthcare about?

Introduction to Creating a New Healthcare. A podcast series for healthcare leaders who are looking for fresh perpsectives, bold solutions and inspiration in their journey to advance value based care.

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Episode #158: How CMS is Tr...

09.20.2023

Friends, The central role that Medicare, and CMS, play in our healthcare system can not be overstated. There are approximately 64 million Americans in the Medicare program, with annual payments ...

Creating a New Healthcare episodes:

09.20.2023 Episode #158: How CMS is Transforming American Healthcare – with Dr. Meena Seshamani, Deputy Administrator & Director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Friends, The central role that Medicare, and CMS, play in our healthcare system can not be overstated. There are approximately 64 million Americans in the Medicare program, with annual payments ...
08.23.2023 Episode #157: The role of Digital Health with Dr. Eve Cunningham, Chief of Virtual Care & Digital Health for Providence Friends, There is no question that digital health is a critical part of the future of healthcare delivery. It is what I term ‘the great enabler’. And in this interview ...
08.09.2023 Episode #156: A novel virtual care platform supporting patient access and population health – with Lyle Berkowitz MD, CEO & founder, KeyCare Friends, In my upcoming book, Beyond The Walls, I spend an entire chapter discussing how platforms have revolutionized other industries and how they’re about to do the same in healthcare. ...
07.12.2023 Episode #155: New competencies in healthcare leadership – with Rishi Sikka MD, Venture Partner, Lifeforce Capital Friends, This week’s interview is nothing less than awesome, and it’s awesome for three reasons. First, Dr. Rishi Sikka is a brilliant and accomplished physician executive with an incredibly diverse ...
06.28.2023 Episode #154: Who’s going to care for the 53 million family caregivers in the US – with Professor Laura Mauldin, PhD [In order to provide accessible content, here is a full transcript of this interview] Friends, The topic this week is caregiving and caregivers – an issue that is so much ...
06.14.2023 Episode #153: A Blueprint for Better Employee Health Plans – with Dave Chase, co-founder and CEO of Health Rosetta Friends, This is a super interesting and fast paced dialogue about a topic that is poorly understood by most, including healthcare executives and policy experts. The topic is employee health ...
05.31.2023 Episode #152: The failing health of Primary Care in the U.S. – with Barbra Rabson MPH and Katherine Gergen Barnett MD Friends, I began this interview in a fairly calm state of mind, but I was shaken by the end. Throughout our dialogue, I could not help repeating the word ‘startling’ ...
05.17.2023 Episode #151: A high-acuity solution to the youth mental health crisis – with Carter Barnhart, co-founder & CEO of Charlie Health Friends, The day after we recorded this interview, I picked up the May 2nd 2023 issue of JAMA and discovered that one of the leading research studies was about the ...
05.03.2023 Episode #150: An Existential Threat in US Healthcare, with Don Berwick MD, President Emeritus & Senior Fellow at the IHI Friends, This was the most challenging interview I’ve conducted and posted, in the nearly 6 years that I’ve been hosting the ‘Creating a New Healthcare’ podcast. I spent weeks listening ...
04.19.2023 Episode #149: The Platform Revolution in Healthcare – with Vince Kuraitis and Randy Williams MD Friends, The topic of this episode is about an emerging healthcare marketplace transformation, which is the introduction of platforms into healthcare. What surprised me about this movement is how many ...
03.22.2023 Episode #148: Removing the pains and improving the gains in Primary Care – with Steve Sell, CEO of agilon health Folks, We recorded this interview in February – the dead of winter – and I have to admit that I needed some sunshine and positivity. Steve Sell supplied it with ...
03.08.2023 Episode #147: Addressing the crisis of rural healthcare in America – with Dr. Jennifer Schneider, CEO & Co-founder of Homeward Health Friends, Let’s start with a statistic. I suspect that many of you consider rural healthcare a somewhat esoteric or niche market. Let’s correct that misconception right up front. There are ...
02.23.2023 Episode #146: Addressing our national healthcare needs at scale – with Dr. Patrick Conway, CEO of Care Solutions at Optum Healthcare Friends, I have to tell you that each time I have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Patrick Conway, it’s a treat. He is an erudite and accomplished healthcare executive ...
02.08.2023 Episode #145: An anatomy of transformative leadership, with Robert Pearl MD (former CEO of The Permanente Group) Friends, It’s always enlightening and inspiring to hear from Dr. Robert Pearl, our guest this episode. He tackles critical issues in healthcare head on and with unabashed honesty and unfiltered ...
01.25.2023 Episode #144: Why you should care about platforms and flywheels in healthcare – with Sara Vaezy, Chief Strategy & Digital Officer at Providence Health Friends, In this episode, we have the unique opportunity of being introduced to two critical components in the future of healthcare delivery: platforms and flywheels. We also have the great ...
11.16.2022 Episode #143: Solving a Healthcare Inequity for 57 Million Women – with Joanna Strober, CEO & Co-founder of Midi Health Friends, The problem of inequity in women’s health is a hugely disturbing one, particularly in American healthcare. For example – the disparity in maternal-fetal mortality & outcomes among Black women ...
10.26.2022 Episode #142: How a small group of people are rehumanizing Primary Care, with Dr. Chris Chen, CEO & Cofounder of ChenMed Friends, Our dialogue this episode centers on one of the most transformative and divergent clinical care models that I have come across. People throw around phrases like relationship-centered, patient-centered, preventive, ...
10.13.2022 Episode #141: Completely Rethinking the Way Healthcare Happens – with Dr. Roy Schoenberg, CEO & Cofounder of Amwell Friends, This is one of a series of interviews I conducted to better understand the role of platforms in healthcare delivery. Our guest today, Dr. Roy Schoenberg, is one of ...
09.28.2022 Episode #140: The Uberization of Healthcare – with Caitlin Donovan, Global Head of Uber Health & Michael Cantor MD, Chief Medical Officer of Uber Health Friends, Many of us think of Uber as simply a much more convenient and comfortable alternative to taxi cabs, or as another great app on our smartphones. Underlying that reality ...
09.14.2022 Episode #139: Customized healthcare that actually cares for seniors – with William Shrank MD, Senior Advisor & former Chief Medical Officer at Humana Friends, Whether you’re 25 years old or 75 years old, when you walk into primary care providers’ offices in most places across the country, the care you’ll receive is pretty ...
08.17.2022 Episode #138: Reflections on five years of producing the ‘Creating a New Healthcare’ podcast, with Dr. Zeev Neuwirth – and special guest interviewer, Scott Becker This is a singularly unusual and unprecedented episode. Aug 17th 2022, which is the day of the posting of this episode, is the 5th anniversary of the ‘Creating a New ...
08.03.2022 Episode #137: The quiet revolution that is changing the healthcare landscape – with Mark Prather MD, co-founder & CEO, Dispatch Health Friends, There is a quiet, maybe not so quiet, revolution happening in healthcare delivery. The transposition of healthcare out of the legacy bricks & mortar sites and into the home. ...
07.14.2022 Episode #136: ‘Creating a healthcare system based on ‘what matters most to you’ – with Dr. Benjamin Kligler, Veterans Health Administration Friends, The first interview we conducted with Ben Kligler (see episode #130) was an introduction to a game-changing humanistic inflection in healthcare delivery called ‘Whole Health’. If you haven’t listened ...
06.09.2022 Episode #135: Contextualizing Care – a divergent, humanistic deployment of healthcare delivery – with Saul J. Weiner MD, Alan Schwartz PhD, Alan Spiro MD & Yoni Shtein, CEO of Laguna Health Friends, I’ve listened to this podcast multiple times, in preparation for this write-up. Each time I listen, I learn something new and continue to be blown away by what the ...
05.19.2022 Episode #134: A New Standard of Care: Comprehensive, Concierge-like Home-based Care for Seniors with Complex Chronic Conditions – with Michael Le MD, Co-founder of Landmark Health & Chief Medical Offi Friends, Our topic today is nothing less than a new standard of care for a vulnerable segment of the population that has been subjected to highly fragmented, uncoordinated and grossly ...
05.04.2022 Episode #133: An ethical perspective on healthcare in America as a human right and public good – with Don Berwick MD, President Emeritus & Senior Fellow at the IHI Friends, Our topic today is an overview of some of the most serious and consequential challenges facing our healthcare system and our public health, as shared with us by one ...
04.21.2022 Episode #132: Beyond the Digital Front Door – a tech-enabled, comprehensive, concierge-like, health-navigator solution – with Alex Harb Founder & CEO of Lena Health Friends, The topic today is one that is near and dear to my heart, and what I spend a fair share of my time working on. We’ll be focusing on ...
04.06.2022 Episode #131: Solving the ‘last mile of care’ problem with a personalized care concierge platform that delivers whole person care, with Renee Dua MD & Nick Desai, co founders of Heal & Hey Renee Friends, The focus of this interview is on recognizing and addressing one of the most ubiquitous barriers to healthcare. I’ve heard it labeled as “the last mile of care”. What ...
03.23.2022 Episode #130: Whole Health – ‘Changing the Conversation’ in Healthcare with Dr. Benjamin Kligler, Executive Director of the Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, Veterans Healt Friends, We open up this podcast talking about a yearning on the part of people for a different type of dialogue, interaction & relationship in the delivery of healthcare. In ...
03.03.2022 Episode #129: The Redistribution of Healthcare through Technology with Dr. Roy Schoenberg, CEO & Cofounder of Amwell Friends, Our guest today, Dr. Roy Schoenberg, is one of the most significant contributors and accomplished entrepreneurs in the domain of telehealth & virtual healthcare. In this episode, he’ll share ...
02.16.2022 Episode #128: Helping healthcare systems & providers enter the digital era, with Ries Robinson MD, CEO of Graphite Health Friends, Just about every major industry, with the exception of healthcare, has moved into the digital era. This is not my opinion alone. It is the collective perspective of the ...
02.02.2022 Episode #127: Creating ‘competition-for-value’ in employer-based healthcare and breaking the tyranny of fee-for-service payment, with Francois de Brantes, SVP at Signify Health Friends, I’ve heard back from a few of you recently about some of the episodes we’ve had around employer health insurance & benefits. In fact, I was just speaking this ...
12.02.2021 Episode #126: Advanced Primary Care For All – a Healthcare Moonshot Mission – with Dr. Chris Crow, CEO & Founder of Catalyst Health Network Friends, The focus of this interview is an approach to primary care that is divergent from the mainstream approach. It’s different in a number of ways and it’s creating outstanding outcomes for patients, payers, and providers. Our guest today, Dr. ...
11.18.2021 Episode #125: Building high-quality, cost-effective employer healthcare benefits – with David Contorno, CEO & Founder of E Powered Benefits Friends, Our topic this week is employer-based healthcare, which accounts for nearly 50% of all the healthcare spend in the US. We’ll kick off the episode dispelling some surprising misconceptions about how healthcare insurance actually works; which explains, in large ...
11.03.2021 Episode #124: Reframing the dialogue from readmissions to recovery, with Yoni Shtein, CEO & Co-Founder of Laguna Health Friends, This episode is about a domain of healthcare delivery that will undergo a fundamental transformation over the next 3 - 5 years. It is the most precarious and fragmented stage of care - post-hospital discharge and post-acute care transitions. ...
10.21.2021 Episode #123: A Radical Departure – Transforming Healthcare Delivery into Outcomes via a Value-based Vertical Integration – with Ken Silverstein MD Friends, There are numerous critical healthcare reframes in this week’s episode. First, what Dr. Silverstein makes abundantly clear is that the senior leadership team at ChristianaCare is fully comitted to accelerating the shift to value based payment. Second, they are ...
10.06.2021 Episode #122: The Home is where Healthcare is Heading, with Raphael Rakowski – Founder & Executive Chairman, Medically Home Friends, With the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic, numerous hospital systems across the country rapidly adopted the hospital at home model in an effort to deal with overcapacity. Many systems are planning to continue this service - even after the ...
09.22.2021 Episode #121: A ‘Master Class’ in building a healthcare consumer experience company – with Glen Tullman, Executive Chairman & CEO of Transcarent Friends, This interview is about an organization that is creating a new healthcare category, and whose purpose is to solve the employer healthcare dilemma. But even more fundamental than that, they’re attempting to solve the core struggles that all healthcare ...
09.08.2021 Episode #120: A clarion call to eliminate disparities & inequities in healthcare – with Michellene Davis, CEO of the National Medical Fellowship, Inc. Friends, Welcome back to the first episode of the 2021 Fall season. We are embarking upon the 5th year of the ‘Creating a New Healthcare’ podcast - and we have an amazing line-up of courageous, bold, entrepreneurial individuals that we’ll ...
06.02.2021 Episode #119: Curating the Collaboration between Employers & Providers – with Steven Nelson, President of Contigo Friends, Our guest this week, Steve Nelson, takes us on a journey into a new category of company that is curating the collaboration between employers and providers. It’s an incredibly exciting adventure - actually a leap into the world of ...
05.19.2021 Episode #118: Creating a Mindset Shift in Healthcare with Dr. Shantanu Nundy Friends, In this episode, Dr. Shantanu Nundy shares with us his thoughtful reframing of healthcare. His book, Care After Covid, is a practical exposé on the misalignment of healthcare - offering a guideline for how to reframe the healthcare system ...
05.05.2021 Episode #117: Transforming the Culture of Healthcare – with Robert Pearl, MD Friends, Our guest this week, Dr. Robert Pearl, introduces a fundamental reframe in our understanding of healthcare transformation with his second book, 'Uncaring - How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients'. He convincingly argues that addressing the systemic ...
04.21.2021 Episode #116: Project Fulcrum – a serious commitment to Humanizing Healthcare – with Nicholas Archer of AdventHealth Friends, The focus of this interview is on a 'greenfield' project that was under wraps for the past three years, and has only recently been revealed. Project Fulcrum was launched in the spring of 2018 by the CEO and senior ...
04.07.2021 Episode #115: The Tangelo Park Program – A Model for Breaking the Cycle of Educational Inequity & Transforming Our Country One Community at a Time Friends, You are going to hear a remarkable case study about a successful and sustained philanthropic initiative focused on educating disadvantaged youth. Although outside of the strict domain of healthcare delivery, this initiative is actually about the health & well-being ...
03.24.2021 Episode #114: Reducing the Costs of American Healthcare – One Percent at a Time, with Zack Cooper, PhD Friends, The focus of this interview is on a solution created by Yale Economists to address the rising & unsustainable costs of healthcare in our country. Most of us are aware that healthcare costs are a problem, but our guest ...
03.10.2021 Episode #113: RosenCare – “The Real Affordable Care Act” with Harris Rosen, Ashley Bacot & Kenneth Aldridge Friends, What if I told you that I just learned of a completely doable and replicable approach to reducing the costs of healthcare by 30 - 50% while increasing quality outcomes simultaneously? In this interview we’ll be speaking with an ...
02.24.2021 Episode #112: What healthcare leaders need to understand about Public Health, with Dr. Tony Slonim, CEO of Renown Healthcare There aren’t many people who have the breadth of perspective and the depth of accomplishment that this week’s guest brings to the table. Dr. Tony Slonim doesn’t just wear multiple hats. He has lived in multiple healthcare worlds - having ...
02.10.2021 Episode #111: Reclaiming the American Dream through Reframing Employer-based Healthcare, with Dave Chase Friends, Our topic this episode may be one of the most misunderstood and challenging issues in healthcare delivery - with significant potential for lowering costs and improving outcomes. The topic is employer-based healthcare; and as many of you know, employers ...
01.27.2021 Episode #110 – Straight Talk on Virtual Care, with Tom Hale MD Friends & Colleagues, There are a few healthcare delivery enablers which will catalyze the transformation of healthcare delivery over the coming years. In our dialogue today, we’ll be focusing on one of them - virtual care. Our guest this week ...
01.13.2021 Episode #109: Threading the Needle of Disruptive Transformation – with Dr. Roger Ray Friends, Welcome to the first ‘Creating a New Healthcare’ podcast episode of 2021. The major themes we’ll explore in this episode are two sides of the same coin: the strategic, market-driven imperative for transformation in healthcare; and the financial and ...

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Creating a New Healthcare episodes:

Episode #158: How CMS is Transforming American Healthcare – with Dr. Meena Seshamani, Deputy Administrator & Director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Episode #157: The role of Digital Health with Dr. Eve Cunningham, Chief of Virtual Care & Digital Health for Providence

Episode #156: A novel virtual care platform supporting patient access and population health – with Lyle Berkowitz MD, CEO & founder, KeyCare

Episode #155: New competencies in healthcare leadership – with Rishi Sikka MD, Venture Partner, Lifeforce Capital

Episode #154: Who’s going to care for the 53 million family caregivers in the US – with Professor Laura Mauldin, PhD

Episode #153: A Blueprint for Better Employee Health Plans – with Dave Chase, co-founder and CEO of Health Rosetta

Episode #152: The failing health of Primary Care in the U.S. – with Barbra Rabson MPH and Katherine Gergen Barnett MD

Episode #151: A high-acuity solution to the youth mental health crisis – with Carter Barnhart, co-founder & CEO of Charlie Health

Episode #150: An Existential Threat in US Healthcare, with Don Berwick MD, President Emeritus & Senior Fellow at the IHI

Episode #149: The Platform Revolution in Healthcare – with Vince Kuraitis and Randy Williams MD

Episode #148: Removing the pains and improving the gains in Primary Care – with Steve Sell, CEO of agilon health

Episode #147: Addressing the crisis of rural healthcare in America – with Dr. Jennifer Schneider, CEO & Co-founder of Homeward Health

Episode #146: Addressing our national healthcare needs at scale – with Dr. Patrick Conway, CEO of Care Solutions at Optum Healthcare

Episode #145: An anatomy of transformative leadership, with Robert Pearl MD (former CEO of The Permanente Group)

Episode #144: Why you should care about platforms and flywheels in healthcare – with Sara Vaezy, Chief Strategy & Digital Officer at Providence Health

Episode #143: Solving a Healthcare Inequity for 57 Million Women – with Joanna Strober, CEO & Co-founder of Midi Health

Episode #142: How a small group of people are rehumanizing Primary Care, with Dr. Chris Chen, CEO & Cofounder of ChenMed

Episode #141: Completely Rethinking the Way Healthcare Happens – with Dr. Roy Schoenberg, CEO & Cofounder of Amwell

Episode #140: The Uberization of Healthcare – with Caitlin Donovan, Global Head of Uber Health & Michael Cantor MD, Chief Medical Officer of Uber Health

Episode #139: Customized healthcare that actually cares for seniors – with William Shrank MD, Senior Advisor & former Chief Medical Officer at Humana

Episode #138: Reflections on five years of producing the ‘Creating a New Healthcare’ podcast, with Dr. Zeev Neuwirth – and special guest interviewer, Scott Becker

Episode #137: The quiet revolution that is changing the healthcare landscape – with Mark Prather MD, co-founder & CEO, Dispatch Health

Episode #136: ‘Creating a healthcare system based on ‘what matters most to you’ – with Dr. Benjamin Kligler, Veterans Health Administration

Episode #135: Contextualizing Care – a divergent, humanistic deployment of healthcare delivery – with Saul J. Weiner MD, Alan Schwartz PhD, Alan Spiro MD & Yoni Shtein, CEO of Laguna Health

Episode #134: A New Standard of Care: Comprehensive, Concierge-like Home-based Care for Seniors with Complex Chronic Conditions – with Michael Le MD, Co-founder of Landmark Health & Chief Medical Offi

Episode #133: An ethical perspective on healthcare in America as a human right and public good – with Don Berwick MD, President Emeritus & Senior Fellow at the IHI

Episode #132: Beyond the Digital Front Door – a tech-enabled, comprehensive, concierge-like, health-navigator solution – with Alex Harb Founder & CEO of Lena Health

Episode #131: Solving the ‘last mile of care’ problem with a personalized care concierge platform that delivers whole person care, with Renee Dua MD & Nick Desai, co founders of Heal & Hey Renee

Episode #130: Whole Health – ‘Changing the Conversation’ in Healthcare with Dr. Benjamin Kligler, Executive Director of the Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, Veterans Healt

Episode #129: The Redistribution of Healthcare through Technology with Dr. Roy Schoenberg, CEO & Cofounder of Amwell

Episode #128: Helping healthcare systems & providers enter the digital era, with Ries Robinson MD, CEO of Graphite Health

Episode #127: Creating ‘competition-for-value’ in employer-based healthcare and breaking the tyranny of fee-for-service payment, with Francois de Brantes, SVP at Signify Health

Episode #126: Advanced Primary Care For All – a Healthcare Moonshot Mission – with Dr. Chris Crow, CEO & Founder of Catalyst Health Network

Episode #125: Building high-quality, cost-effective employer healthcare benefits – with David Contorno, CEO & Founder of E Powered Benefits

Episode #124: Reframing the dialogue from readmissions to recovery, with Yoni Shtein, CEO & Co-Founder of Laguna Health

Episode #123: A Radical Departure – Transforming Healthcare Delivery into Outcomes via a Value-based Vertical Integration – with Ken Silverstein MD

Episode #122: The Home is where Healthcare is Heading, with Raphael Rakowski – Founder & Executive Chairman, Medically Home

Episode #121: A ‘Master Class’ in building a healthcare consumer experience company – with Glen Tullman, Executive Chairman & CEO of Transcarent

Episode #120: A clarion call to eliminate disparities & inequities in healthcare – with Michellene Davis, CEO of the National Medical Fellowship, Inc.

Episode #119: Curating the Collaboration between Employers & Providers – with Steven Nelson, President of Contigo

Episode #118: Creating a Mindset Shift in Healthcare with Dr. Shantanu Nundy

Episode #117: Transforming the Culture of Healthcare – with Robert Pearl, MD

Episode #116: Project Fulcrum – a serious commitment to Humanizing Healthcare – with Nicholas Archer of AdventHealth

Episode #115: The Tangelo Park Program – A Model for Breaking the Cycle of Educational Inequity & Transforming Our Country One Community at a Time

Episode #114: Reducing the Costs of American Healthcare – One Percent at a Time, with Zack Cooper, PhD

Episode #113: RosenCare – “The Real Affordable Care Act” with Harris Rosen, Ashley Bacot & Kenneth Aldridge

Episode #112: What healthcare leaders need to understand about Public Health, with Dr. Tony Slonim, CEO of Renown Healthcare

Episode #111: Reclaiming the American Dream through Reframing Employer-based Healthcare, with Dave Chase

Episode #110 – Straight Talk on Virtual Care, with Tom Hale MD

Episode #109: Threading the Needle of Disruptive Transformation – with Dr. Roger Ray