Doug Geinzer, Founder and President of High Performance Providers, specializes in high-cost, steerable surgeries. During the episode, Geinzer and host Chris Habig discuss the direct alignment between the specialty care community and the direct primary care community, as well as Geinzer’s job as a consultant to surgeons. 

Joseph Templin, Author of Every Day Excellence, dives into the mental health crisis in the United States. He opens up about how his divorce and speaking career disappeared because of the pandemic, and how those situations impacted his mental health. 

He shares advice on how little changes on a daily basis can create big results. 

Healthcare is about 20 years behind other industries when it comes to utilizing technology effectively and intelligently. Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the healthcare industry has learned that not keeping up with artificial intelligence or utilizing it properly, has hurt not only the industry as a whole but society. Sachin Patel, CEO of Apixio, explains how AI could’ve improved the pandemic response.

Dr. James Hawkes grew up in a large family. His father was a U.S. diplomat, which exposed him to different models of healthcare. In addition to exposure, his grandmother encouraged him to become a doctor. He followed her recommendation, but to his surprise the definition of a good doctor wasn’t about improving patients’ quality of life, it was about hierarchies, documentation, administrative requirements, and quality measures. 

Shortly after saying goodbye to the traditional healthcare model, he launched his own direct care practice. Fast forward to today, he is a 100% debt free direct care physician. He shares his story of how it’s possible to achieve this goal.

Since 2020, the healthcare industry has lost half a million workers. The stress and burnout of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused workers to flee the industry, leaving physicians short-staffed and scrambling. 

Hadi Chaudhry, CEO of CareCloud, shares how medical practices are managing employee turnover, especially small businesses trying to stay afloat amidst COVID and the labor shortage. 

Susan Conover, Co-Founder and CEO of Piction Health, is helping physicians better address skin conditions through computer vision and AI, which is resulting in the empowerment of patients with skin disease. 

Conover shares her personal story of how her diagnosis of Melanoma while in school resulted in the creation of  Piction Health. Listen to her unique story.

Dr. Roxie Mooney, Healthcare Commercialization Strategist & Fractional CMO at Legacy DNA: Strategy for Health Innovators, shares how research indicates that 95% of innovations brought to the healthcare market fail. To lower the percentage of innovations that fail in healthcare, she invented COIQ™. It is an evidence-based framework that takes healthcare innovation from an idea to full market adoption. Dr. Mooney says the key ingredient to success is to create new value for customers within an ecosystem. 

Sonia Hunt, food allergy activist, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author, is a first-generation Indian-American, who healed a lifetime of severe food allergies by reclaiming her native foodways and exploring Ayurveda and functional medicine as alternative paths to healing. After hundreds of visits to the ER, including four that nearly took her life, Sonia spent ten years examining the root cause of her allergies, and in 2020 was proclaimed in remission by her doctors, which is virtually unheard of among the 32 million food allergy sufferers today. 

Steve Nevral, Director of Business Development at DisclosedRx, and Zack Robinson, Managing Partner at DisclosedRx, discuss how the company is the first fully disclosed PBM. The fully disclosed model prohibits them from receiving revenue from any source other than their clients. The company’s goal is to return trust between the advisor, TPA, and PBM relationship. 

Nevral and Robinson break down their model and explain how it’s possible to become a fully disclosed PBM.

Josh Itano, CEO and Co-Founder of CareCar, discusses a problem in the healthcare system that his company is solving. 

Some seniors or patients with physical limitations find transportation a barrier when they have a doctor’s appointment. CareCar is solving the problem by providing transportation for those who simply need a ride!