Healthy Conversations

Healthy Conversations

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Healthy Conversations episodes

  • Making the Most of Data

    Listening to Brad Bostic, founder, chairman, and CEO of HC1 -- and Daniel’s latest guest -- you can’t help but be excited about the future: “We've got this incredible opportunity that's once in multiple generations to advance the ball, and it's because you've got access to medical information that's digital unlike you've ever had, and you've got this access to compute, and you have a collection of really intelligent, committed people working on these different areas of innovation. You put all those things together and there could not be a better time to accelerate in healthcare.”  He explains how the use of digital twins, and being able to be predictive sooner, can help.

    26 min
  • Making the Most of Data
    Listening to Brad Bostic, founder, chairman, and CEO of HC1 -- and Daniel’s latest guest -- you can’t help but be excited about the future: “We've got this incredible opportunity that's once in multiple generations to advance the ball, and it's because you've got access to medical information that's digital unlike you've ever had, and you've got this access to compute, and you have a collection of really intelligent, committed people working on these different areas of innovation. You put all those things together and there could not be a better time to accelerate in healthcare.” He explains how the use of digital twins, and being able to be predictive sooner, can help.
    26 min
  • The Power of Community Medicine
    This episode features Dr. James Allen, the founder and CEO of Health Systems Thinkers. Dr. Allen went from being a small-town physician in upstate New York, to working for a company in Borneo and later Bangladesh. In the process, he became one of the foremost authorities on community medicine. Being in a remote small town made him see the workplace as part of the community.
    16 min
  • REPRISED -- Treating SCD before it hurts
    In this episode, first released in the fall of 2021, Daniel sits down with Dr. Patrick Hines, the founder and CEO at Functional Fluidics and the leading Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he set up a transformational study on defining the health of red blood cells. Dr. Hines also introduces us to exciting new therapies — recently approved — and the importance of being proactive with SCD.
    21 min
  • Tapping into the Potential of Digital Health
    Tim Blake, the founder and managing director of Semantic Consulting, helps organizations grapple with digital change and digital disruption. And he talks with Daniel about the challenges and potential of digital healthcare – as well as what he learned as the chief information officer of the Tasmanian Health System, such as, “Sometimes problems can be far simpler than we think they are when you ask the communities that really genuinely own those problems.”
    24 min
  • When Emotional Intelligence Means Higher Performance
    Dr. James Stoller is the Chairman of the Education Institute at Cleveland Clinic, a pulmonary critical care physician, and author of Exception to the Rule. Daniel and James sat down to discuss deficit-based thinking, medicine being a team sport, and the simple fact that "doctors, like everyone else that join organizations, expect to grow over the course of their career."
    18 min
  • Why Our Emotions Matter
    In clinical settings, we often suppress our emotions, ignoring what is now considered a valuable professional dataset – yet harnessing the power of our emotional life helps improve so many aspects of our work from job satisfaction to patient outcomes. It’s only a matter of time until the industry pivots away from this seemingly learned habit. Dr. Marc Brackett, Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of 'Permission to Feel,' explains how to tap into the crucial ability to use our emotions wisely. And the very real price we pay when we don’t.
    25 min
  • The emergent genetic future of Parkinson's
    Dr. James Beck, Chief Scientific Officer at the Parkinson’s Foundation, talks with Daniel about the role genetics can play with Parkinson’s, a progressive neurologic disorder with no known cause, and which affects nearly one million people in America.
    27 min
  • Wearables: The Empowering Uses of Data
    As Daniel Shaw, VP, Consumer Innovation Products at CVS Health tells us, "At the end of the day it's how you use this data. How are you looking at this data? In what ways are you interpreting it? And then ultimately getting to a place where you can make actual decisions on it.” He also explains how the voice-activated Symphony ecosystem and the Attain app can help encourage both proactive and preventative behaviors.
    20 min

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Healthy Conversations brings together leaders and innovators in health care to talk about the biggest issues facing patients and providers today. Every month, we explore new topics to help uncover the…