HealthCare Focus

HealthCare Focus episodes:

• 07.01.2023

  Random Acts of Medicine, with Freakonomics MD Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD and Christopher Worsham, MD, MPH

  Guests: Freakonomics, MD host, UChicago-trained economist, and Harvard medical school physician Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, and Harvard physician, Mass General critical care doctor, and healthcare policy researcher Christopher Worsham, MD, MPH on their singular work of popular science, RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE (published by Random House), on...

  
• 07.01.2023

  AI, Nurse Burn-Out & the Silent ICU with Ophir Ronen, CalmWave

  Ophir Ronen is a serial tech entrepreneur, having begun his career as a co-founder of Internap Network Services, one of the first commercial Internet backbones which IPO'd in 1999. He has started six companies and achieved three successful outcomes, the last...

  
• 07.01.2023

  [Rerun] Dan Pelino - Equitable Healthcare Access for All

  Dan Pelino has worked for IBM for 36 years leading its global Healthcare and Life Sciences Business for 10 years. Most recently he wrote 'Trusted Healers'. The book takes the reader on a journey on the future of healthcare, and...

  
• 05.14.2023

  New Podcast Announcement: Different by Design

  More analysis and interviews on the healthcare industry coming up. If you've enjoyed these episodes on citizen journalism, you can find expert interviews on the future of journalism as the first episode on my new podcast, Different by Design (by...

  
• 05.12.2023

  COVID in Israel - Now Edited!

  Clarisse Behar Molad (PhD) shares her point of view on COVID in Isreal. This episode was recorded in October 2022.

  
• 05.11.2023

  COVID in Spain & Mexico - Now Edited!

  Maria Canadas, remote worker, shares her point of view on COVID in Mexico and Spain. This episode was recorded in 2022.

  
• 05.11.2023

  COVID in South Africa - Now Edited!

  Chris Metcalfe, a designer from Capetown, shares his point of view on how COVID affected South Africa. This episode was recorded in October 2022.

  
• 05.11.2023

  COVID in Germany - Now Edited!

  Felicitas Steinhoff, clinical psychologist in Germany, shares her view point on the pandemic in her country. This episode was recorded in October 2022.

  
• 05.11.2023

  This podcast show got hacked + Upcoming Episodes

  The episodes were reverted to drafts and shall be published again soon, once edited.

  
• 05.10.2023

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• 01.07.2021

  Inclusive Healthcare Access with Dan Pelino

  Dan Pelino takes us into a journey exploring equitable health access and leadership in healthcare.   Dan is the author of Trusted Healers, the book ranked number one in Healthcare Policy by Amazon, founder of Everyone Matters and past executive of...

  
• 01.07.2021

  Gamification in Healthcare with Alexis Miller

  Alexis Miller has one of the rarest backgrounds I've met in the industry - in her past life, she worked for UPMC, a large healthcare insurance and healthcare provider, and in her new role, she works at Schell Games, an...

  
• 01.07.2021

  Changing Behaviours With Amy Bucher, PhD

  Amy is author, academic and professional - making her a wealth of knowledge when it comes to healthcare changes!  Her work has taken her to various organizations and countries, including Mad*Pow (current work), CVS Health, Johnson & Johnson Health and...

  
• 11.09.2020

  Government, Employers & SDOH with Jay Srini

  How does innovation happen in a system with multiple payers - and the government as active stakeholder?  Chief Strategist Jay Srini takes us behind the scenes with important debates regarding healthcare.  This episode was recorded prior to COVID. Host: Corina Paraschiv https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinamihaelaparaschiv/ https://atdesignresearch.com/ Guest...

  
• 11.09.2020

  Disney, Design Thinking & Black Markets with Joe Marks

  What do these three topics have in common?  In this episode, we invite you on an exploratory tour, as we dip our toes into healthcare innovation. Host: Corina Paraschiv https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinamihaelaparaschiv/ https://atdesignresearch.com/ Guest Bio: I am currently the Executive Director of the Center for Machine...

  
• 11.09.2020

  Aging and Public Policy with Dr. Steven Albert

  In this episode, we explore how our healthcare system prepares itself for an ageing population, with guest Dr. Steven Albert. Host: Corina Paraschiv https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinamihaelaparaschiv/ https://atdesignresearch.com/ Guest Bio: Steven Albert is Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh,...

  
• 06.09.2020

  Financing SDOH with Guest John Gorman

  SDOH have been front and center for America's healthcare for some time now, often highlighting the needs.  But what are ways which can help us find the funds necessary to run the community programs that make a difference?  In this...

  
• 04.30.2020

  Re-Imagining End of Life Care with guest Dr. Bob Uslander

  Dr. Bob Uslander talks about the human experience behind terminal diagnosis and how care is slowly evolving to make endings more humane and gentle.

  
• 02.19.2020

  Including Children in End-of-Life Decisions with Guest Dr. Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant

  Special Guest Dr. Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant shares her work with research on children, families and end of life decisions. As we soon find out, research in this field is anything requires a lot of ingenuity!

  
• 02.09.2020

  Simulation Centers with Thomas Dongilli

  What makes a good medical simulation?  And what does the range of technology look like when we think of simulation centers?  Special guest Thomas Dongilli takes us behind the scenes of the WISER Simulation Center.   

  
• 02.09.2020

  Epidemiology Simulators with Guest John Cordier

  To kick off our special on simulations, we had a chat with guest John Cordier, from the FRED Epidemic Simulator.   John eloquently shares with us the underlying principles and use cases for epidemic simulators - touching on epidemiology, technology and...

  
• 02.09.2020

  Student Special : Medical Ethics with Sarah Morgan

  We take informed consent as a given in today's healthcare system, but it was not always so.  Sarah Morgan, host of the "Bad Medicine" podcast, walks us through a brief history of medical ethics.

  
• 09.23.2019

  Student Special : Social Determinants of Health & Social Work with Kyla Christensen

  In a recent JAMA Review, Dr. Davidson and his colleague Thomas McGinn, MD, MPH, raised this issue: while we know the social determinants of health have an impact on health, the field is still unclear on whose job it is...

  
• 09.18.2019

  Student Special : Behavioral Health with Elizabeth Balskus

  From early intervention for first episode psychosis to the opioid abuse crisis, Elizabeth gives us a unique perspective on behavioral health - also called mental health.   In this episode: resource allocation across multi-disciplinary teams, replicability of care models across other...

  
• 01.12.2019

  Health Consumerism, IOT, and Data with guest Peter Weeks

  Health consumerism brings healthcare design outside of hospitals, and into the community.  Special guest Peter Weeks, healthcare designer at Philips Design, shares his perspective on the Internet of Things, Data and what it means to design for human beings. Interesting links...

  
• 01.12.2019

  Challenges in Healthcare Design with guests Bob Groeneveld, Tessa Dekkers and Patrizia D’Olivo

  Designing for clinicians and patients brings challenges that are surprisingly universal across healthcare designers and design researchers.   Special guests : Bob Groeneveld, Tessa Dekkers and Patrizia D’Olivo, design researchers and PhD candidates at Delft University of Technology guide us through...

  
• 01.12.2019

  Big Data and Genomics Ethics with guest James Hughes

  Our third episode in the genomic medicine series explores the ethical and policy implications of big data and genomic research.  Accompanied by special guest James Hugh, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and associate provost of...

  
• 01.12.2019

  Bio-Banking, Genomic Research & ISO Standards with guest Stella Somiari

  Bio-Banking is the starting point of genomic research.  As part of our three-part series, special guest Stella Somiari gives us a behind the scenes tour of genomic research.

  
• 01.12.2019

  Precision Medicine : Ripe for Investment? with guest Nick Jacobs

  How mature is genomic medicine? What are the factors for its adoption? Special guest Nick Jacobs, former hospital administrator and founder of two research institutes helps us navigate precision medicine.

  
• 10.21.2018

  Problem-Owners for Healthcare Innovation

  Innovation from the entrepreneur and researcher’s point of view often lacks an important perspective : the problem-owner. Problem-owners, AI data access and data biases are our focus on today’s episode. Thrival Festival : https://thrivalfestival.com/ Machine Learning - Fairness (Google Training) :...

  
• 10.21.2018

  Efficient Resource Allocation in Healthcare using AI

  Artificial Intelligence represents a potential $ 300 Billion in savings for Healthcare. The future of AI in HC and how it will affect insurers, policies and public health : this week, on HealthCare Focus. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/2CW9DM9 Thrival Festival : https://thrivalfestival.com/

  
• 10.19.2018

  The False Dichotomy of Paternalistic and Participative Care

  The 2018 edition of the Thrival Festival explored the interesting question of ethics in healthcare. Part of that discussion centers around the shift from paternalistic to participative, patient-centered care. It turns out these two dichotomies may best coexist. Show Notes:...

  
• 10.14.2018

  Precision Medicine : Today’s Challenges

  From physicians to pharma and governments, we take a deep dive into one of the most promising medical technologies.

  
• 09.16.2018

  The Debate around the Affordable Care Act

  The roots of discontent around the Affordable Care Act be traced back to 1942. We follow the story of President Roosevelt to better seize the debate on Obamacare.

  
• 09.01.2018

  Strategic Altruism in the Healthcare Ecosystem.

  Kaiser Permanente’s strategic investment in low-income housing and Grand Junction’s surprising success story in inclusive healthcare. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/2x2p3Kj.