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In this episode Ron talks to Dr. Keith Smith. Keith is a board certified anesthesiologist in private practice since 1990. In 1997, he co-founded The Surgery Center of Oklahoma, an outpatient surgery center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, owned by over 90 of the top physicians and surgeons in central Oklahoma. Dr. Smith serves as the medical director, CEO and managing partner while maintaining an active anesthesia practice.

In 2009, Dr. Smith launched a website displaying all-inclusive pricing for various surgical procedures, a move that has gained him and the facility, national and even international attention. Many Canadians and uninsured Americans have been treated at his facility, taking advantage of the low and transparent pricing available. His most recent effort is the launch of the Free Market Medical Association which provides a platform where those seeking to obtain high quality and affordable health care can find free market-minded providers, both physicians and facilities.

He has made appearances on the John Stossel Show, CNBC, Huffington Post, The O’Reilly Factor, Capital Account, The Ron Paul Channel, NBC Nightly News and has been featured by Reason Magazine’s TV division. The New York Times, Time Magazine, ABC news, Forbes and many others have written articles featuring Dr. Smith’s revolutionary approach to the pricing of health care and uncompromising free market principles.

What total transparency looks like. Two fine examples:

#SurgeryCentersofOklahoma A to Z pricing. Literally.

#AtlasMD PCP test ,procedure and exam fees. Pharma pricing.

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In this episode Ron talks to Ronald Riewold. Mr. Riewold has extensive experience in operating and developing both public (Amex and NASDAQ) and private companies. Specifically, his expertise is in field or practice-level health care company operations. He was a top executive of six companies since 1978, three in the finance and real estate sector, and three in the health care and technology arena. Mr. Riewold has completed over fifty mergers in the health care industry.

After successfully growing a financial services company and real estate development company as CEO, Riewold entered the healthcare arena full time in 1996, as vice president of corporate development with Heart Labs of America, which became Medical Industries of America and later Cyber Care.

Upon leaving Cyber Care Riewold became a consultant for American Enterprise Solutions, Inc. a healthcare delivery system and Internet utility focusing on connectivity in the healthcare industry from 1999 – 2001. Vice President to President and then Chief Executive Officer in a short ten-month period.

In 2001, Mr. Riewold joined Pain Care Holdings as one of its original investors, President, Co-Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors. Riewold helped Pain Care rise from a start-up to an $80 million-dollar company that developed a process that protects by monitors patient including residents in nursing home/rehabilitation facilities or hospitals.

In 2008, he started Dynamic Real Estate Development as CEO focusing on development of medical buildings while partnering with physician groups and/or providing his expertise as a fee developer. His firm’s projects included surgery suites, urgent care facilities, and orthopedic offices.

From 2011 and to the present, Mr. Riewold founded and is President and CEO of Averlent Corporation, a national medication management initiative. In a few short months after its founding the company added several new clients including Accountable Care Organizations, larger group practices and over 500 Independent Physician Associations.

Mr. Riewold earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University 1970, and a Master of Business Administration from Temple University, 1972.

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In this episode Ron talks to the President and CEO of Paul Johnson Drywall, Inc., Cole Johnson. Here they discuss how the use of Redirect Health helped Paul Johnson Drywall recruit and retain top talent. Paul Johnson Drywall, Inc. is a 50-year-old specialty trade contractor. Although Paul Johnson Drywall previously offered health insurance – an anomaly in the construction industry – participation was low. The majority of the workforce viewed the previous health insurance plans as unnecessary, confusing and outrageously expensive. The labor force sought out quick-fix healthcare solutions, such as visiting hospital emergency departments for non-emergency injuries or illnesses. Since implementing Redirect Health, employee retention and satisfaction increased, as did company profits.

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In this episode Ron chats with Dr. Paul DeChant, MD, MBA. Paul is an experienced physician executive, C-suite coach, and expert on physician burnout. He has years of experience as a practicing family physician and a physician executive leader in large healthcare systems. He was the CEO of the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation and he now works as a senior advisor with Simpler Healthcare, an IBM Watson Health affiliate, providing executive coaching to health care leaders pursuing Lean transformations in their organizations and providing thought leadership on clinical operations and innovation.

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In this episode Ron talks to Jeroen Tas, the Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer of Royal Philips. Jeroen is an experienced global executive and entrepreneur with a track record of leading innovation in the healthcare, information technology and financial services industries. He clearly sees the tremendous value that information technology and data can add to managing health.

Leading the company’s global Innovation & Strategy organization, he is responsible for M&A strategy planning, R&D, solutions design, medical affairs, sustainability, technology platforms, ventures and emerging businesses. Creating a pipeline of innovative business propositions Jeroen will leverage emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, sensing technologies and the Internet of Things to reinforce the company’s health propositions aimed at supporting consumers, care professionals and health systems with personalized connected health solutions. Solutions that can deliver on the “quadruple aim”: improving health outcomes, improving patient experience, improving staff satisfaction and lowering the cost of care.

A respected thought leader, Jeroen was responsible for turning around Philips’ healthcare IT business and has been instrumental in establishing HealthSuite as the new open industry standard for the ‘Healthcare Internet of Things’ Cloud platform.

Jeroen joined Philips in 2011, leading IT worldwide as Group Chief Information Officer (CIO). In 2014 he became CEO of Philips Healthcare, Informatics Solutions & Services, overseeing digital health and clinical informatics. From 2016, Jeroen led the company’s Connected Care and Informatics businesses, demonstrating a passion to create new models of people-centric healthcare, based on the power of information technology.

Before joining Philips, Jeroen co-founded and served as President, COO and Vice-Chairman of the board for MphasiS, an IT and Business Process Outsourcing company, which was acquired by HP in 2006. Prior to MphasiS, he was the head of Transaction Technology, Inc., Citigroup’s tech lab, responsible for the innovation and development of the bank’s customer-facing systems, including Internet banking and self-service devices. From 2007-8, he was Vice President and General Manager at EDS, responsible for the company’s global competency centers.

Jeroen is the 2004 winner of the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Information Technology category for the New York region. He also won the Dutch CIO of the year 2013 Award, NASSCOM Global CIO Award 2014, the World Innovation Congress 2014 CIO Leadership Award, CIO Net European CIO of 2014 Award, the IT Executive 2014 Award and the Accenture 2015 Innovator of the Year award. He holds a Master’s Degree in computer science and business administration from VU University, Amsterdam.

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