The Business of Healthcare Podcast

Dave Terry, CEO of Boston-based Archway Health, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser, director of the master’s degree program in healthcare leadership and management for professionals at the Naveen Jindal School of Management. They discuss how healthcare payment reforms such as the bundled payment initiatives found in Medicare can fit into the commercial healthcare market to drive down costs while improving patient outcomes. Archway Health recently published a white paper in partnership with the Health Care Transformation Taskforce that explains the 10 elements essential to a bundled payment contract.

Dr. Robert Kaiser, director of the master’s degree program in healthcare leadership and management for professionals at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, interviews Leslie D. Michelson, chairman and CEO of Private Health Management. They discuss key points from Michelson’s book, The Patient’s Playbook, in which he outlines how patients can best navigate today’s complex and expensive healthcare system by taking matters into their own hands and becoming more effective healthcare consumers.

Host Dr. Bob Kaiser converses with guest Dr. Rita Numerof, founder and CEO of St. Louis-based Numerof and Associates, about the transition from fee-for-service to market-based models in healthcare. They also discuss healthcare disruptors such as the partnerships between Amazon- JPMorgan Chase-Berkshire Hathaway, CVS-Aetna and Walgreens Humana.

In this episode, Dr. C. Adam Probst, Director of Human Factors Clinical Operations for the Baylor Scott & White Health Corporate Office of Patient Safety in Dallas, joins Dr. Bob Kaiser, director of the master’s degree program in healthcare leadership and management for professionals at the Naveen Jindal School of Management to discuss how cognitive engineering is used in in healthcare.

The way people arrive at and use health processes, procedures and results are key components of cognitive engineering, the “human factors” approach, to medicine. Probst and Kaiser discuss how Probst analyzes and acts on human factors to improve the design of healthcare delivery.

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser, director of the master’s degree program in healthcare leadership and management for professionals at the Naveen Jindal School of Management chats with Joan Butters, co-founder and CEO of Xsolis, a healthcare technology firm based in Nashville, Tenn. 

Inefficiencies in information sharing between healthcare providers and payers are one of the major problems driving high costs in the industry. Butters and Kaiser discuss the roles that high-tech tools such as cognitive computing, artificial intelligence and data analytics can play in breaking down those silos.

In Part One of this two-part series about spiraling healthcare costs, Dr. Britt Berrett and Den Bishop, president of Holmes Murphy, discussed ways to get a handle on spiraling healthcare costs from the perspective of the healthcare insurance industry. In Part Two, they tackle Medicare and consider the idea of a single-payer-for-all system.

Dr. Britt Berrett speaks with Den Bishop, president of Holmes Murphy, for a two-part series on spiraling healthcare costs. Bishop leads a Dallas-based consulting firm that connects employers with cost-effective, custom-built health insurance plans. In part one, Berrett and Bishop discuss ways to get a handle on spiraling healthcare costs from the perspective of the healthcare insurance industry.

Dr. Robert Kaiser, director of the MS is Healthcare Leadership and Management program for professionals at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, joins Dr. Britt Berrett for a discussion about the chaotic and complex healthcare insurance industry. Kaiser recently joined the Jindal School faculty after 12 years as Senior Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He co-founded the company’s Health Benefit Solutions division, an integrated offering within Merrill Lynch retirement services that is focused on healthcare and longevity. In this episode, he offers a look at that industry from an insider’s perspective.

Dr. Britt Berrett discusses whether we have reached that critical juncture in healthcare at which rationing is now a necessity. If so, how do we make the tough decisions to implement such a drastic measure?

In this episode, Bob Collins, managing partner of The Medicus Firm, joins host Jimmie Markham and co-host Dr. Britt Berrett to discuss the challenges associated with the increasing physician shortage and the strategies recruiting companies use to hire and retain top healthcare talent.